Amazon is teaming up with HTC to build smartphones

HTC is helping another company jump into smartphone market – this time Amazon. The device is going to use Kindle OS, as opposed to Android, because HTC is banned from forking Android as per the rules of Open Headset Alliance. Amazon’s products generally force its users to use Amazon services,…

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Malaysian fund managers move servers to Russia to avoid NSA spying

In line with the trend of taking measures against american spying exposed by Edward Snowden, Malaysian fund managing firm moved their servers to Russia to avoid spying by usa. The firm manages multibillion dollar portfolios, and firm president Pascal Najadi says the move was based on logic than business interest….

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Nokia design guru says Apple should end cable chaos

Nokia’s ex design guru Frank Nuovo called on Apple to work with industry groups to end the mess it is contributing to by using differing connectors for its devices. Different connectors make life harder for mobile device users, forcing them to get different chargers, connection cables and the like for…

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Have a D-Link Router ? You may be compromised

D-Links with firmware numbers DIR-100, DI-524, DI-524UP, DI-604S, DI-604UP, DI-604+, TM-G5240 were found to contain a backdoor which allowed easy access to any person supplying a certain url to access the router from outside. The security problem also affects Planex routers with firmware numbers BRL-04UR, BRL-04CW. The problematic routers working…

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MIT’s ‘kinect of future’ sees through walls

The ‘kinect of the future’ developed by MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) uses radio signals to see through walls and predict the location and movements of someone with excellent precision. This goes far beyond what Microsoft’s Kinect does – being able to track the movements of someone standing directly in…

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Apple is planning new $5 billion Headquarters

Apple must be looking for places to spend their heaps of cash, it seems, since they are planning a whopping new $5 bn worth headquarters. Apple’s motives seem to be creating a workspace which will foster ‘innovation’ and ‘collaboration’ – two of the most widely used and abused terms in…

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Diaspora – a social network in which you make the rules

In case you havent heard until now, there is a big community project called Diaspora, which aims to decentralize social networking in order to make the users of a social network masters of their own contacts, data and privacy. The project succeeds at this by decentralizing the entire software that…

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Google may now put your photo in their ads

The new terms of service google has been pushing to users technically allows the company to put your photo up in the advertisements they are running. Google Plus – google’s competitor to Facebook will not be launching ads – however, google is tying Google Plus to Google Ads, which will…

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First Nano scale 3D printer is on sale

You probably know about 3D printers, right ? The printers which can print complex, 3d shapes. They are already revolutionizing manufacturing, and enabling ordinary people like us to be able to actually create complex products in their homes. They are perfectly capable of printing out very tough, usable and working…

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