• How to really really make your naked Snapchat photos disappear

  App maker KS Mobile insists that its Clean Master can help all those who are concerned that their spontaneous naked Snapchat snaps might linger in some technological depths. At least it can help users on ...

• Silicon Valley-area hub becomes factory town

  FREMONT, Calif. -; In a busy factory, machinists move sheets of aluminum roll in the back door to be molded, stamped, twisted and notched into high-tech electric cars that sell for more than $60,000 ...

• Google Translate now serves 200 million people daily

  (Credit: Stephen Shankland/CNET) SAN FRANCISCO -- Google Translate provides a billion translations a day for 200 million users, the company revealed here Friday at ...

• Why this old-school Trekkie loves the Star Trek reboots

  Crave writer Amanda Kooser, a longtime Trekkie, looks at "Star Trek Into Darkness" through the lens of a long "Star Trek" history and (mostly) embraces the new ...

• Gallo Micro SE How can a speaker this small sound this good

  Micro SE speaker ($239) is a tiny steel sphere, just 4 inches in diameter -- that's the size of an orange. It's an audiophile quality performer, capable of delivering high-resolution sound and a big, downright spacious stereo image. In fact, the imaging of the Micro SE and the slightly ...

• New Xbox more than a game console for Microsoft

  Reuters © Visitors play with Microsoft's Xbox 360 consoles at the Tokyo Game Show in Chiba, east of Tokyo, September 15, 2011. REUTERS/Kim ...

• Google Glass cool or creepy

  Google Glass, a cross between a mobile computer and eyeglasses that can both record video and surf the Internet, is now available to a select few but is already among the year's most buzz-worthy new gadgets. The device has geeks all aflutter but is unnerving everyone from lawmakers to casino operators worried about the potential for hitherto unimagined privacy and policy violations."I ...

• Google Glass the futures in face recognition

  Google Glass, the total power of the web was literally within sight of every conversation. Using a screen positioned just above each wearer's right eye, Glass is able to offer, for now, directions, search results, information, reminders and emails without even the need to reach for a mobile phone. Thanks to its voice-activated camera, a photo or ten-second video is as easy as saying ...

• Could Tumblr turn into Yahoos MySpace

  Can Yahoo and Tumblr >>> (Credit: CNET screenshot) Marissa Mayer wants Yahoo to attract a younger, hipper and cooler audience for Yahoo. Its audience of 700 million is aging, and the 18-year-old brand that defined the first era of the web doesn't have a compelling entry point to attract the coveted 18-to-34 demographic. Speaking at the J.P. Morgan Global Technology conference ...

• Googles wearable Glass gadget cool or creepy

  By Alexei Oreskovic SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google staged four discussions expounding on the finer points of its "Glass" wearable computer during this week's developer conference. Missing from the agenda, however, was a session on etiquette ...

• Pixels camera failure only one of many

  Google Keep note-taking comes to Chrome Ian Ellison-Taylor, Director of Web Platform Product Management, agreed. "We have done a lot of work on performance per tab, and on our own apps, as well," he said. The first steps toward solving the virtual memory problem has been completed, Kay said. They've been able to get a tab to recognize when it's streaming audio. The ...

• Want a 10-foot-tall painting of Star Wars action figures

  (Credit: Kickstarter) Do you still have your original "Star Wars" action figures? Mine are tucked away in storage, but looking at Rob Burden's artwork makes me want to dig them out. The San Francisco artist is so obsessed with his old "Star Wars" figures that he does 10-foot-tall oil paintings of them, like "The Birth of a Jedi," above. The works ...

• Mobile malware increased 58 in 2012

  Symantec report found that 69% Indians connect to the internet with their mobile phones. As usage increases, so do threats. Last year, across the ...

• How devoted are Apple users

  The bar at top represents entire user population. The left pie chart shows the 6% who are "devoted" to a particular mobile ecosystem. The right pie chart shows the 9% who are merely "loyal." Source: Forrester Research Inc. Click to enlarge. FORTUNE -- According to ...

• Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg I cry at work

  women to cry at work, share emotions and be honest about their femininity. Sandberg shot to global fame after her the publication of her best-selling book "Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead" which talks about women's career struggles and advises women to "lean in" to reach their potential. It has drawn bouquets from admirers for articulating a new modern feminist ...

• Yahoo Japan suspects 22 million user IDs compromised

  Yahoo Japan said it suspected that up to 22 million of its user IDs may have been "leaked" and it detected an unauthorized attempt to access the administrative system of its web portal Yahoo Japan, ...

• Indian student wins $60000 at Dell Social Innovation Challenge

  A team of students from India became the winner of the 60,000-dollar-grand-prize at the Dell Social Innovation Challenge (DSIC 2013) for its project Solar Conduction ...

• How BlackBerry is fixing its once broken brand

  Chief Marketing Officer Frank Boulben is trying to re-energize the brand by focusing on the BlackBerry name, eschewing old standbys like Bold and ...

• Winklevoss twins on Bitcoin Time to work with the Feds

  Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, who parlayed Facebook cash into a multi-million dollar Bitcoin stake, say making money means working with the Feds. Meanwhile, the Bitcoin Foundation is about to hire its first D.C. ...

• Dinos Dancing Across Google Hangouts

  I/O conference , Google didn’t show off all the fun features of the company’s new multiplatform text and video chat service: Hangouts. If you’ve been thinking your chats have been a little too text-heavy, you can now decorate them with some animated animals. In the chat window, you can now punch in codes to add some fun animations. For instance, typing ...

• App of the Week Buycott

   Chances are you like to know what’s in the food you eat and where the money you pay to buy that food goes. For instance, those tomatoes from the grocery store may come from a manufacturer that supports genetically modified foods, and you may not want any part of that. Ivan Pardo, a 26-year-old Los Angeles-based developer, created Buycott, an app that helps consumers manage where ...

• Googles legal troubles in India A timeline

  Google Glass , the brainchild of co-founder Sergey Brin. ET pans the camera back home, and offers a timeline of Google's legal troubles in India, where its services are accessed by over 100 million ...

• Gates reclaims world’s richest person title from Carlos Slim

  Microsoft recaptured the title from Mexican investor Carlos Slim, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, as the software maker hit a five-year high. It is the first time Gates has held the mantle since 2007. His fortune is valued at $72.7 billion, up 16% year-to-date. Slim's America Movil, the largest mobile-phone operator in the Americas, has dropped 14% this year after ...

• Uninor named best place to work

  SA8000 certification for complying workplace standards based on International Labour Organisation and UN conventions. "The SA8000 is the world's first auditable social certification standard for decent workplaces. After an 8-month long process, that included an audit of Uninor's compliance to labour laws, ability of its employees to form unions...Uninor has been certified to have ...

• Hacking A growing threat to Indian IT

  NEW DELHI: The recent data theft by hackers from two Indian companies processing prepaid cards for several overseas banks, which led to a global fraud of 45 million dollars, has made India's 100 billion ...

• Googles legal woes in India

  Google Glass , the brainchild of co-founder Sergey Brin. ET pans the camera back home, and offers a timeline of Google's legal troubles in India, where its services are accessed by over 100 million ...

• Target bets big on Silicon Valley

  Silicon Valley for several years. "Partnership is in our DNA and early-stage companies can sense that and are proving to be very willing to partner and co-develop," said Newman. Many retailers are pouring money into new technology to help them catch up ...

• 5000 city users to put 4G services to the test

  Long-awaited 4G services, which provide mobile users with Internet access 20 to 50 times faster than 3G network, make their debut in Shanghai next month when China Mobile begins large-scale trials, the carrier said yesterday. The trial in the world's biggest mobile phone market indicates that the country is ready to adopt the most advanced mobile technology for more than a billion handset ...

• Huawei ZTE accused of dumping products in EU

  Karel De Gucht said he was prepared to launch a formal investigation into anti-competitive behaviour by these Chinese companies in order to protect a "strategic" sector of Europe's economy. "Huawei and ZTE are dumping their products on the European market," De Gucht told Reuters in an exclusive interview before engaging with US businesses as part of his preparations for ...

• Hacked RPG Groups Rs 2.4 crore gone in 3 hours

  cybercriminals hacked into the firm's Mumbai-based current account and siphoned off Rs 2.41 crore in three hours on May 11. The first of the 13 money transfers to accounts across India was made at 11.30am and the last at 2.30pm, before the bank got suspicious of the huge cash transfers and checked with the group confirming the fraud, the Worli police said. The largest transaction was of Rs ...

• Google Glass already gets thumbs down in US

  Google Glass, as some find it 'socially awkward' and others find it is 'too irritating to wear' according to a survey conducted by YouGov. The report, entitled the 'Google Glass Adoption Forecast' commissioned by BiTE Interactive, found that even ...

• ZTE India to launch 5 smartphones eyes No.3 spot

  "With our foray into the open handset market in India, we want to become a dominant player here and be among the top 3 in the next three years.handsets already contribute 10% of our revenues here," ...

• US visa fight muddled with contrasting studies

  WASHINGTON: The technology industry and organized labour are locked in a fight that threatens to complicate the US Senate's immigration bill. At the heart of the debate is whether there is a shortage of Americans with the math and science skills needed for work at technology firms like Facebook, Google and Microsoft. Labour is brandishing research that says the scarcity of workers is a myth ...

• Google rivals get more time to study antitrust offer

  BRUSSELS: EU antitrust regulators have given some of Google's rivals more time to study its proposals to settle anti-competitive complaints, which could provide more leverage to pry further concessions from the internet search giant. ...

• Yahoo announces May 20 event amid Tumblr buzz

  Tumblr about an acquisition or strategic alliance. The California tech giant offered no details of the event, set for New York, but invited reporters to "join us as we share something special." Tumblr, a fast-growing blogging platform popular with young internet users, is headquartered in New York. The Dow Jones-owned website AllThingsD reported on Friday that Yahoo is eyeing the move ...

• Just 10 Americans keen on Google Glass Survey

  Google Glass, as some find it 'socially awkward' and others find it is 'too irritating to wear' according to a survey conducted by YouGov. The report, entitled the 'Google Glass Adoption Forecast' commissioned by BiTE Interactive, found that even ...

• Apple losing innovation edge Poll

  NEW YORK: Apple, the world's most valuable technology company, has lost its edge among investors, according to the latest Bloomberg Global Poll. Hedge funds sold large stakes of ...

• Exclusive EU cites Chinese telecoms Huawei and ZTE for trade violations

  By Daniel BasesNEW YORK (Reuters) - Europe's top trade official for the first time late on Friday officially cited Chinese mobile telecommunications equipment makers Huawei and ZTE Corp for violating anti-dumping and anti-subsidy guidelines.European Union Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht said he was prepared to launch a formal investigation into anti-competitive behaviour by these Chinese ...

• Infosys unlikely to give salary hike to IT staff

  BPO revenues grew a healthy 17.8% in 2012-13, compared to IT services that grew sub-6%, which perhaps is the reason why the former is being treated differently. The BPO division has about 25,000 of Infosys’s 1.5 lakh employees. Infosys said it doesn’t comment on rumours and ...

• Report Yahoo nearing $1.1B acquisition of Tumblr

  NEW YORK (AP) - Yahoo may be on the verge of closing its biggest acquisition during the 10-month reign of CEO Marissa Mayer as she tries to attract more traffic and advertisers to the Internet company's website and mobile applications. The Sunnyvale, Calif., company's board of directors will meet Sunday evening to consider approving a $1.1 billion acquisition of online content-sharing ...

• DirecTV reportedly wants to buy Hulu again

  (Credit: Hulu) Satellite TV provider DirecTV is thinking about buying all or parts of streaming-video site Hulu, according to news reports Friday. An unnamed source ...

• Yahoo to consider $1.1B price tag for Tumblr this Sunday -- report

  AllThingsD reported Friday. Unnamed sources told ATD that the deal is entirely in cash, which means Yahoo isn't offering up any stock options for the hip blogging site. The sources also said Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer -- who has been trying to turn the large, struggling company around -- thinks buying Tumblr is key to her vision of a new Yahoo. Yahoo sent out ...

• Yahoo to vote on $1.1 billion Tumblr buy AllThingsD

  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc's board will meet on Sunday to vote on whether to offer $1.1 billion in cash for New York-based blogging service Tumblr, tech blog AllThingsD cited sources close to the situation as saying on ...

• Ready for Windows 8 Were just starting on Win 7 says Dell

  (Credit: Microsoft) Maybe everyone's focused on the wrong Microsoft operating system. Dell said during its earnings conference call on Thursday that "commercial" customers, meaning corporate customers, are just now transitioning ...

• Ex-Groupon CEO working 9 to 5 on business album

  Former Groupon CEO Andrew Mason is diving into several new ventures, including indulging his inner rock star with an album of "motivational business ...

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