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Sony confirms September 4 announcement date in teaser video for new Xperia smartphone 27 Aug 2013 | 06:30 pm
Apparently social media is the place to be if you want to get the latest in Sony smartphone leaks straight from the source. Last week the company posted images of an upcoming Xperia smartphone to its ...
Amazon will pay developers referral fees for selling products through their apps 27 Aug 2013 | 06:29 pm
Amazon has introduced a new way for app developers to make money: The Amazon Mobile Associates API for Android, which lets them sell both physical and digital products from Amazon’s catalog within the...
Sponsored post: Unconstrained data center networks for the cloud era 27 Aug 2013 | 05:55 pm
The value of cloud services lies in the rapid and cost-effective instantiation of applications that can be consumed by users anywhere. Enterprises expect cloud services to increase their agility in tu...
Akamai lands FedRAMP certification to ease its entry into government cloud work 27 Aug 2013 | 05:47 pm
Content Delivery Network kingpin Akamai now has its shiny new FedRAMP certification which means it should be easier for it to win government cloud contract work. The Federal Risk and Authorization Ma...
Barnes & Noble retail CEO Klipper just sold most of his stock in the company 27 Aug 2013 | 05:33 pm
Barnes & Noble’s retail CEO, Mitchell Klipper, has sold off a large portion of his stock in the company in the past few days, according to an SEC filing. Klipper sold about 400,000 shares from his 40...
Samsung to show Galaxy Gear smartwatch next week 27 Aug 2013 | 05:10 pm
After a season of speculation, Samsung has finally spoken up to The Korea Times about its Galaxy Gear smartwatch. The Korean company confirmed longstanding rumors that its foray into wearable technol...
Next-gen biofuel company KiOR hit by investor lawsuit, going concern 27 Aug 2013 | 03:49 pm
Following the news that next-gen biofuel company Kior failed to meet its biofuel production targets for last quarter, an investor in the company has filed a lawsuit (embedded below), and is seeking to...
ARM acquires Sensinode to build better protocols for the internet of things 27 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
ARM, the chip architecture licensing firm, has acquired a Finish software company called Sensinode that has been building software for the internet of things. The price of the deal wasn’t disclosed, b...
Vine gets better with age: How screens, speed and networks are changing the future of online video 27 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Earlier this morning when sitting in the San Diego Airport while waiting for my flight, I did what most people do these days in those situations — I peered into my phone and cycled through my various ...
Secretary of State cites citizen media reports from Syria in criticism of attack 27 Aug 2013 | 06:21 am
A large number of videos, photos and graphic descriptions of chemical-weapon attacks on civilians have been coming out of Syria over the past day, and it is clear they have made an impact not just on ...
