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quinta-feira, 23 de outubro de 2014

Self-driving cars will be safer than us. How long until human...






Self-driving cars will be safer than us. How long until human drivers are banned?

Vivek Wadhwa, venturebeat.com


GUEST POST


My prediction is that in fewer than 15 years, we will be debating whether human beings should be allowed to drive on highways.


After all, we are prone to road rage; rush headlong into traffic jams; break rules; get distracted; and…



Apple has acquired 20 companies this year, including 7 purchased...






Apple has acquired 20 companies this year, including 7 purchased during Q4 FY2014

Aldrin Calimlim, appadvice.com


Apple has acquired 20 companies so far this year, including seven companies it purchased during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2014.As reported by MacRumors, the acquisition figure was announced by Apple at its Q4 FY2014 financial results conference…



Intel Capital puts $28M into Chinese Android, wearables,...






Intel Capital puts $28M into Chinese Android, wearables, biometrics and M2M firms

David Meyer, gigaom.com


Intel Capital, the U.S. chip firm’s venture capital arm, has invested $28 million into Chinese biometrics, internet of things, wearables and in-game communications firms – and also the developer of a major Chinese Android fork.


The company…



Mobile games to overtake console revenues in 2015 — and Apple’s...






Mobile games to overtake console revenues in 2015 — and Apple’s revenue could double Nintendo’s

Dean Takahashi, venturebeat.com


The console business has ruled gaming for years. But its reign may officially end next year.


The mobile game business is expected to surpass console games in revenue in 2015, according to Newzoo. The market-research firm said that mobile games w…



Using Google Inbox: this feels like the future of email By David...






Using Google Inbox: this feels like the future of email

By David Pierce, theverge.com


My favorite thing about Inbox, Google’s radical new email app for Android, iOS, and the web, is that it’s perfectly happy to have you use your email as a to-do list. Rather than try to turn your inbox into nothing more than a series of letters and…



Apple closes at a new all-time high of $104.83 BY PHILIP...






Apple closes at a new all-time high of $104.83

BY PHILIP ELMER-DEWITT, fortune.com


That’s $733.81 in pre-split shares. And it pushes Apple’s market cap to $614.9 billion.


It took a few days, but Apple’s blow-out quarterly earnings report — driven by strong iPhone and Mac sales and bolstered by the largest stock repurchase prog…



quarta-feira, 10 de setembro de 2014

Don’t act surprised: Google has a drone-delivery program Jordan...






Don’t act surprised: Google has a drone-delivery program

Jordan Novet, venturebeat.com


Amazon is building drones to deliver things consumers buy, and Facebook is building drones so more people can get Internet access. And naturally, Google has been tinkering with drones, too.


At first, the idea of 2-year-old Project Wing, as the…



Who Runs the Internet? A Freakonomics Radio...






Who Runs the Internet? A Freakonomics Radio Rebroadcast

Freakonomics, freakonomics.com


(Photo: James Cridland)This week’s podcast is a rebroadcast of our episode called “Who Runs the Internet?” (You can subscribe to the podcast at iTunes, get the RSS feed, or listen via the media player above. You can also read the transcript; it…



Dados Úteis sobre Perfil das Redes Sociaislinkedin.com

As empresas de mobile que entraram no clube dos bilhões de...






As empresas de mobile que entraram no clube dos bilhões de dólares

Startupi, startupi.com.br


Olhe bem para essa pirâmide. Veja cada uma das marcas aí e preste bastante atenção nelas. Todas têm algo em comum e que você, empreendedor, provavelmente também gostaria muito: valem mais de US$ 1 bilhão e são extremamente rápidas.Todas trabalham …



All you need to know from the Apple event: new iPhones, smartwatch and mobile payment

All you need to know from the Apple event: new iPhones, smartwatch and mobile payment:

Jay D, techwalls.com


At long last, after months of speculation and rumors Apple has finally unveiled the new iPhone model, not just one but two versions of the smartphone: the iPhone 6 and the bigger iPhone 6 Plus. And as if those were not enough, the Cupertino giant…



Look who’s now working for Apple Inc. BY PHILIP...






Look who’s now working for Apple Inc.

BY PHILIP ELMER-DEWITT, fortune.com


Industrial designer Marc Newson is the latest in a long list of high-profile hires.


This list below was posted Thursday on Investor Village’s AAPL Sanity board by “centex” under the heading “Food for Thought.”


It’s largely based on the reporti…



An Inside Look At The Starbucks App, The Most Successful Mobile Payments System In The US

An Inside Look At The Starbucks App, The Most Successful Mobile Payments System In The US:

John Heggestuen, businessinsider.com


At 6 million average weekly transactions in the U.S., it now accounts for a full 15% of transactions made at the U.S. Starbucks-operated stores.


In a new research note from BI Intelligence we take a deep dive into how the Starbucks app works, wh…



Mobile Apps Are Fueling Huge Growth In Time Spent On Digital...






Mobile Apps Are Fueling Huge Growth In Time Spent On Digital Media

Mark Hoelzel, businessinsider.com


Time spent on digital platforms, including desktop and mobile, saw massive gains over the last year. Digital time spent topped nearly 1.2 trillion minutes in June 2014, increasing by 24% over the same month last year, according to a report by…



domingo, 31 de agosto de 2014

Uber opens an API for third-party developers to integrate its...






Uber opens an API for third-party developers to integrate its on-demand transportation services

Nick Summers, thenextweb.com


As rumored, Uber is launching an API that will allow developers to integrate its on-demand transport services into their own applications.


A developer site is now live and lists 11 high-profile partners that Uber is already working with: Starbuc…



Uber opens an API for third-party developers to integrate its...






Uber opens an API for third-party developers to integrate its on-demand transportation services

Nick Summers, thenextweb.com


As rumored, Uber is launching an API that will allow developers to integrate its on-demand transport services into their own applications.


A developer site is now live and lists 11 high-profile partners that Uber is already working with: Starbuc…



Why Steve Jobs Set Such An Ambitious Goal For iAd — And Why He...






Why Steve Jobs Set Such An Ambitious Goal For iAd — And Why He Failed

Sam Colt, businessinsider.com


Jobs touted some of the brands that had committed to iAd: Nissan, Chanel, Best Buy, and others.


"We think we’re off to a pretty great start and we’ll report back to you on how we do," Jobs told the audience at Apple’s developer conference, WWDC,…



The Writers Workbench: Tablet Accessories Robert J. Elisberg,...






The Writers Workbench: Tablet Accessories

Robert J. Elisberg, huffingtonpost.com


The past two months, The Writers Workbench has reviewed a variety of tablets. In the course of all that, I’d been sent or just generally came across in the process a range of accessories to work along with tablets. It seemed like that would make a…



Why the Apple-IBM tie-up is doomed to fail, and how it could...






Why the Apple-IBM tie-up is doomed to fail, and how it could succeed

Jean-Louis Gassée, qz.com


Strategic alliances and other grandly named partnerships never seem to live up to their florid marriage announcements. Apple and IBM are it—again—but this time, Apple is the larger, more prosperous company, and IBM is trying the bad old recipe …



Permission-based tracking app Folr keeps tabs on your kids and...






Permission-based tracking app Folr keeps tabs on your kids and other family members

Jon Russell, thenextweb.com


The mainstream adoption of smartphones has brought with it many benefits. As well as putting the internet in your pocket, communicating with others has never been easier — that doesn’t just mean text messages and phone calls, but location sharing…



A nostalgic look at the Macintosh Portable, Apple’s first...






A nostalgic look at the Macintosh Portable, Apple’s first laptop

John-Michael Bond, tuaw.com


The Macintosh Portable, Apple’s first laptop and the first consumer laptop to travel into space, was released in 1989. Groundbreaking in its day, the laptop was still a bulky travel companion, roughly the size of the phone book at four inches at i…



Dropbox Pro Gives Subscribers 1TB of Storage as Cloud Wars Heat...






Dropbox Pro Gives Subscribers 1TB of Storage as Cloud Wars Heat Up

Christina Warren, mashable.com


The cloud wars just got even more serious. Dropbox on Wednesday announced big changes to its Dropbox Pro offering, including more storage space and better sharing options.


The company’s new pricing matches similar moves by Google and Microsoft a…



Don’t act surprised: Google has a drone-delivery program Jordan...






Don’t act surprised: Google has a drone-delivery program

Jordan Novet, venturebeat.com


Amazon is building drones to deliver things consumers buy, and Facebook is building drones so more people can get Internet access. And naturally, Google has been tinkering with drones, too.


At first, the idea of 2-year-old Project Wing, as the…



Who Runs the Internet? A Freakonomics Radio...






Who Runs the Internet? A Freakonomics Radio Rebroadcast

Freakonomics, freakonomics.com


(Photo: James Cridland)This week’s podcast is a rebroadcast of our episode called “Who Runs the Internet?” (You can subscribe to the podcast at iTunes, get the RSS feed, or listen via the media player above. You can also read the transcript; it…



segunda-feira, 23 de junho de 2014

Apple Might Finally Solve Photo Storage Hell Brenden Mulligan,...






Apple Might Finally Solve Photo Storage Hell

Brenden Mulligan, techcrunch.com


Edi­tors Note: Bren­den Mul­li­gan is a co-founder and design­er at Clus­ter, a web and mobile app which enables users to cre­ate pri­vate social net­works around inter­ests and expe­ri­ences.


We take a bazil­lion pho­tos with our…



Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Would Welcome More Appstore Deals Like...






Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Would Welcome More Appstore Deals Like BlackBerry’s

Ina Fried, recode.net


With all the news around Ama­zon’s phone on Wednes­day, less atten­tion was paid to the com­pa­ny’s deal with Black­Ber­ry, where it will become the Cana­di­an hand­set maker’s main source of con­sumer apps.


But Ama­zon CEO Jeff Bezos says the d…



Apple brings manual camera controls to iOS 8cnet.com Lim­it­ed...






Apple brings manual camera controls to iOS 8

cnet.com


Lim­it­ed cam­era con­trol has often been a source of frus­tra­tion for users and devel­op­ers who want to flex their mobile pho­tog­ra­phy mus­cles with­in iOS. The default cam­era app has a very lim­it­ed set of con­trols avail­able, with a sim­…



Editor’s desk: The biggest advantage iPhone and iPad have...






Editor’s desk: The biggest advantage iPhone and iPad have over Android and Amazon

Rene Ritchie, imore.com


You can pay with money. You can pay with time. You can pay with attention. You can pay with data. Depending on what you have the most of, and what holds the greatest value to you, there exists options to meet your price. Apple and Amazon want your…



10 Things In Tech You Need To Know This Morning Jay Yarow,...






10 Things In Tech You Need To Know This Morning

Jay Yarow, businessinsider.com


Good morn­ing! It’s a gor­geous, warm day here in New York City. Hope all is well where you are. Let’s tack­le the news:


1. Google paid $555 mil­lion to acquire Drop­cam, a com­pa­ny that video records your home for secu­ri­ty. Drop­cam w…



Sex and Silicon Valley: the veritable arms race of the dating...






Sex and Silicon Valley: the veritable arms race of the dating app industry

Rory Carroll in San Francisco, theguardian.com


The bay area tech boom has given many of the industry’s workers money, confidence and a hedonistic tinge, writes Rory Carroll from Silicon Valley


Silicon Valley has long attracted young entrepreneurs and software engineers with the promise of…



sábado, 24 de maio de 2014

5 formas de reduzir a chance de fraude nas compras pela internet...






5 formas de reduzir a chance de fraude nas compras pela internet - Meu Bolso - iG

ig.com.br


Só em 2013 foram feitas 300 mil tentativas de compras fraudulentas segundo a ClearSale


Especializada na prevenção de fraudes nas compras pela internet, a ClearSale foi responsável por 80% das análises …



How-to: Conserve battery power on your iOS devices Whitney...






How-to: Conserve battery power on your iOS devices

Whitney Marks, 9to5mac.com


Since the intro­duc­tion of smart devices, bat­tery power has been and still remains a pre­cious com­mod­i­ty. In this arti­cle we will review many of the fea­tures and set­tings of iOS devices that impact bat­tery life, and make rec­om­men­da­tio…



Legion Meter: Acessório para recarregar seu smartphone até 92%...






Legion Meter: Acessório para recarregar seu smartphone até 92% mais rápido

Rodrigo Toledo, rodrigostoledo.com


O Legion Meter é um acessório que deve ser conectado na porta USB para recarregar a bateria do seu smartphone ou tablet até 92% mais rápido do que uma conexão direta na porta USB. O acessório conta com dois modos otimizados para Android e iOS além…



Apple wants to ban past and future Samsung devices from being...






Apple wants to ban past and future Samsung devices from being sold in the US

Jonathan Kizer, 9to5mac.com


Based on the most recent ver­dict in Apple v. Sam­sung, Apple is attempt­ing to seek a per­ma­nent injunc­tion against any Sam­sung device that infringes upon its patents.


While this includes the devices that were at the cen­ter of the lat­est…



How Tech Companies Tricked A Generation Into Working For...






How Tech Companies Tricked A Generation Into Working For Free

Michael Thomsen, forbes.com


Last month Apple announced it would open beta test­ing access for its soon-to-be-revealed ver­sion of OS X to any­one with a com­pat­i­ble com­put­er. Once a process reserved for a lim­it­ed num­ber of devel­op­ers oper­at­ing under non-disclosure…



Apple v. Samsung, round 2 continues: Apple requests a retrial...






Apple v. Samsung, round 2 continues: Apple requests a retrial and Samsung product ban

Devindra Hardawar, venturebeat.com


Just like with its first Cal­i­for­nia trial against Sam­sung, Apple isn’t accept­ing the results of the lat­est trial with­out a fight.


Apple last night filed a motion to ban Sam­sung devices that infringe on its patents, and Apple also request…



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A forgotten Belgian genius dreamed up the internet over 100...






A forgotten Belgian genius dreamed up the internet over 100 years ago

Steve Dent, engadget.com


Though we’re pret­ty sure that time trav­el­ers don’t exist, peo­ple were work­ing on hyper­text — used by web browsers to retrieve con­nect­ed infor­ma­tion — long before com­put­ers. It even pre­dates the ideas of a cer­tain Van­nevar Bush, th…



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Ex-Yahoo CTO on the future of Hadoop and the evolution of...






Ex-Yahoo CTO on the future of Hadoop and the evolution of search

Derrick Harris, gigaom.com


Raymie Stata has been a cham­pi­on of Hadoop since its early days, help­ing to bring the tech­nol­o­gy into Yahoo and then drive its usage across the com­pa­ny. Now, Stata is co-founder and CEO of Altiscale, a start­up offer­ing Hadoop as a ser­vi…



Google aims for the heavens, might acquire satellite startup...






Google aims for the heavens, might acquire satellite startup Skybox

Edgar Cervantes, androidauthority.com


Google has been known to wan­der off its ter­ri­to­ry, ven­tur­ing into new mar­kets with lunatic ideas. In fact, their lat­est ven­ture may very well get them clos­er to the moon, with rumors of pos­si­ble satel­lite com­pa­ny invest­ments…



Giants behaving badly: Google, Facebook and Amazon show us the...






Giants behaving badly: Google, Facebook and Amazon show us the downside of monopolies and black-box algorithms

Mathew Ingram, gigaom.com


The inter­net is a won­drous thing — a lim­it­less uni­verse of con­tent and prod­ucts and infor­ma­tion, all of which can be sum­moned up from the com­fort of a chair or the palm of the hand, like some sort of science-fiction dream from cen­turie…



sábado, 19 de abril de 2014

Boo, o cão que ensina a construir uma marca Da redação de...






Boo, o cão que ensina a construir uma marca

Da redação de Pequenas Empresas e Grandes Negócios, globo.com


A vida de Boo inspirou até livro (Foto: Reprodução)Eu tenho cachorro. Provavelmente, você, leitor, ou alguém da sua família também tem um. O meu é lindo. Além do cão, tenho uma gata de 15 anos. Muito bonita também. Mas nunca me ocorreu fazer deles…



Dropbox Acquires Document Collaboration Service Hackpad

Dropbox Acquires Document Collaboration Service Hackpad:

Josh Ong, thenextweb.com


Fol­low­ing Drop­box’s acqui­si­tion of Loom, col­lab­o­ra­tive doc­u­ment edit­ing ser­vice Hack­pad has announced that it is join­ing the com­pa­ny.


Unlike Loom, how­ev­er, Hack­pad will con­tin­ue to sup­port its prod­uct, which enables users…



How to steal Bitcoin in three easy steps By Adrianne Jeffries,...






How to steal Bitcoin in three easy steps

By Adrianne Jeffries, theverge.com


And once you’ve stolen it, how do you unload it?


Ear­li­er this month, some­one pulled off the largest heist in the his­to­ry of Bit­coin, the vir­tu­al cur­ren­cy that approx­i­mates cash on the inter­net. The ille­gal drug bazaar Sheep…



Top 10 Predictions for Technology in 2014 Mark Anderson,...






Top 10 Predictions for Technology in 2014

Mark Anderson, thedailybeast.com


Microsoft may get its mojo back, smartphones will get cheap, and we’re about to enter the Year of Encryption. A look at what to expect in telecom and computing for the coming year.


How might 2014 play out in tech? Sil­i­con Val­ley may again nee…



terça-feira, 15 de abril de 2014

15 tech IPOs from Asia to watch out for in 2014 Jon Russell,...






15 tech IPOs from Asia to watch out for in 2014

Jon Russell, thenextweb.com


Box and Drop­box are among the star­tups cre­at­ing inter­est in US tech IPOs right now, but there are plen­ty of com­pa­nies from Asia bid­ding to join them and list pub­licly, both in and out­side of the US.


A num­ber of top Asian com­pa­nies …



The decline of the mobile webnonchalantrepreneur.com People are...






The decline of the mobile web

nonchalantrepreneur.com


People are spending more time on mobile vs desktop:And more of their mobile time using apps, not the web:This is a worrisome trend for the web. Mobile is the future. What wins mobile, wins the Internet. Right now, apps are winning and the web is…



Samsung’s Profit Growth Is About To Slip Again Steve...






Samsung’s Profit Growth Is About To Slip Again

Steve Kovach, businessinsider.com


Sam­sung and Apple are the only two com­pa­nies that make money in mobile. And both com­pa­nies are fac­ing sim­i­lar prob­lems as growth flat­tens in the space.


For Sam­sung, it saw its prof­it growth go neg­a­tive for the first time in sev­er­…



FTC Clears Facebook’s Purchase of...






FTC Clears Facebook’s Purchase of WhatsApp

nbcnews.com


from


Re/code


The Fed­er­al Trade Com­mis­sion also warned the two Inter­net com­pa­nies that they must not back­track on com­mit­ments to user pri­va­cy.


The Fed­er­al Trade Com­mis­sion also warned the two Inter­net com­pa­nies that they mu…



Amazon 3D smartphone to compete with Apple and Samsung –...






Amazon 3D smartphone to compete with Apple and Samsung – report

Rory Carroll in Los Angeles, theguardian.com


• Wall Street Journal says phones will ship in September • Report says phone will employ retina-tracking technology


Amazon is reportedly preparing to release a smartphone with 3D-type imagery which will compete against devices produced by Apple …



6 future Android phones to keep an eye on Robert Triggs,...






6 future Android phones to keep an eye on

Robert Triggs, androidauthority.com


Some would argue that it has been a bit of a slow start to the year for Android phones. New flag­ship hand­sets from HTC, Sam­sung, and Sony haven’t quite pro­duced the big tech­no­log­i­cal leaps that some were expect­ing, and over­all these lat­…



Car-hacking: A New Fear For Drivers of Tech-Loaded Vehicles By...






Car-hacking: A New Fear For Drivers of Tech-Loaded Vehicles

By Joseph Szczesny, The Detroit Bureau, nbcnews.com


Apple unveiled its CarPlay soft­ware sys­tem at the Gene­va Motor Show last month. The sys­tem allows dri­vers to con­trol their iPhones via touch and voice. A sur­vey shows that many dri­vers are con­cerned that new tech­nol­o­gy in cars could be…