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Microsoft Brings Together 25 Partners For The Cloud OS Network To Drive More Windows Azure Use

By admin | December 12, 2013 by admin

As reported on TechCrunch. by Ingrid Lunden Microsoft has been adding firepower to its Windows Azure cloud platform to compete against the likes of Google, Amazon and Dropbox and Box to attract enterprise users to create, host and distribute data around the world. In the latest development, it is launching theCloud OS Network, a group of some 25 service providers and system integrators that offer services on Windows Azure. The list includes household names in the…

Google

Google brings flight, hotel and restaurant reservations to Maps for iOS

By admin | December 12, 2013 by admin

As reported on Engadget. BY TIMOTHY J. SEPPALA If you fancy yourself a jetsetter, fine-diner, or, er, traveling salesman and happen to use an iDevice, Google has some good news for you. The latest update to Maps on iOS brings some of Google Now’s functionality into the company’s navigation app. Search for your restaurant, departing airport or hotel, and the application will auto-populate with your plans — so long as the confirmations were sent to your linked Gmail account. Sure, it’s similar to…

Culture

Your Essential Tips for Safe Winter Driving

By admin | December 11, 2013 by admin

As reported on Wired. BY DAMON LAVRINC If the 70-plus-car pileup near Germantown, Wisconsin has taught us anything — again — people don’t know how to drive in the snow. Every year reduced grip, high speed, and general asshattery conspires to create hundreds of thousands of accidents and injuries, along with thousands of deaths. We don’t know everything, so we asked for your tips. And among the smart-ass comments, you gave us some gems. Check Your Car If…

Engineering

World’s thinnest mechanical watch will cost over $20,000

By admin | December 11, 2013 by admin

As reported on The Verge. By Rich McCormick Piaget’s Altiplano 900P is 3.65mm thick A reported price of between $20,000 and $30,000 will buy you the world’s thinnest mechanical watch when it goes on sale. The Piaget Altiplano 900P is 3.65mm thick, a crucial 0.4mm thinner than the previous record holder, the Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Ultra-Thin Jubilee. As befitting a watch fancier than something called the Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Ultra-Thin Jubilee, Piaget’s new Altiplano 900P will be available in 18-karat white…

Space

Water on the red planet: more findings point to flowing liquid on Mars

By admin | December 11, 2013 by admin

As reported on The Verge. By Alexander Thompson Is water seeping out of Martian soil? Dark streaks in images from Mars, seen above, suggest flowing water. (NASA) During spring months on Earth, the ground thaws and new life abounds. On Mars, scientists have observed activity of a different sort — water that seems to bleed from the ground. Mars is thought to have been much wetter in the past with oceans, rivers, and even lakes that could…

Engineering Mobile

ASUS CEO: The PadFone is coming to America in Q2 2014

By admin | December 11, 2013 by admin

As reported on Engadget. BY RICHARD LAI ASUS has big ambitions with its PadFones, a unique phone-to-tablet convertible concept that was first introduced back at Computex 2011. While these devices are barely nibbling on the global mobile market (let alone entering the US), the company still stands by its “N+1” philosophy: “to add on a simple change which allows the product to evolve beyond its current capability.” This is evidenced by its five iterations of transformable phones, including the new…

Google Security

NSA reportedly leveraging Google cookies and leaked mobile location data to identify hacking targets

By admin | December 11, 2013 by admin

As reported on Engadget. BY TIMOTHY J. SEPPALA You know those cookies web services use to track your history and serve up personalized ads? It appears that the government is using them too. The National Security Agency is apparently leveraging a Google-specific cookie to tap into the computers of suspicious users, according to presentation slides Edward Snowdenleaked to The Washington Post. With an assist from Mountain View’s “PREF” file, the NSA can track a target’s web visits, then identify the computer…

Entertainment Film

First Trailer for the Wachowskis’ Jupiter Ascending Looks Good

By admin | December 10, 2013 by admin

As reported on Wired. BY ANGELA WATERCUTTER First Trailer for the Wachowskis’ Jupiter Ascending Looks Good In the future, Mila Kunis is a janitor who might hold the key to the universe. And Channing Tatum is a genetically engineered former soldier tasked with coming to Earth to save her. That’s the general run-down of Jupiter Ascending, the latest sci-fi brain-buster from Lana and Andy Wachowski. And even though it sounds nuts, based on this first trailer it looks like…

Application Culture

ZeroPoint is the malware cure that could be worse than the disease

By admin | December 10, 2013 by admin

As reported on The Verge. By Russell Brandom SecDev’s new project could stop botnet-powered fraud for good. Should we let it? The internet is, on balance, a very hostile place. More than 70 percent of all email traffic is spam, and a fair portion of that is malware and phishing attempts. One 2012 censuscounted 1.5 billion browser-based malware attacks. A recent Team Cymru map of globally compromised computers showed nearly all of Italy lit up, with southeastern Europe glowing from the…

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