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Apple's 'Macroscalar' Trademark Application Sparks Speculation on Processor Architecture Advances
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Patently Apple reports that Apple last week filed a curious new trademark application for the term "macroscalar". The company has typically quietly registered trademarks in countries such as Trinidad & Tobago, only to later apply for the marks in the United States and other major markets once the new products...
The economics of Google Fiber and what it means for U.S. broadband
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Google launched its fiber-to-the-home gigabit network Thursday in Kansas City, Kansas and it wants everyone to know that this network isn’t a charity case. Several Google executives at the event were very clear that delivering gigabit internet access over fiber for $70 a month (and even free 5 Mbps fiber)...
FACEBOOK'S WORST NIGHTMARE: After GM, Here's How The Other Dominoes Could Fall
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General Motors' decision to cancel the entirety of its $10 million Facebook ad budget is, arguably, the second major shoe to drop on the social network's ad budget. Back in January, Procter & Gamble CEO Bob McDonald told Wall Street he was scaling back his company's $10 billion annual ad...
Layoffs hit RIM
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Almost exactly one year ago, The Waterloo Record reported that struggling smartphone maker Research In Motion began laying off workers in an effort to cut costs. On Tuesday evening, 364 days later, the publication again reports that layoffs have begun to sweep RIM. Reports emerged last month suggesting that RIM...
Yahoo set to axe hundreds in Europe
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Internet giant to hold meetings with staff to inform them of plans to streamline company, which could lead to the loss of up to 2,000 jobsYahoo is set to make cutbacks at its European headquarters and devolve more power to individual country operations, with hundreds of jobs set to go...
Solar costs could fall below 50 cents a watt by 2017
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Solar panels are as cheap as they’ve ever been, and according to Lux Research the costs of producing solar modules, which make up solar panels, will also continue to fall. It needs to for some of the solar manufacturers to survive. By 2017, solar modules could cost below 50 cents...
How cloud computing can improve your charity's efficiency
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Cloud computing allows staff to access IT systems from remote locations and be more confident about data securityThe budget did little to alter the economic outlook and the sector is still facing very tough times. In NCVO's latest Charity Forecast survey, 90% of respondents claimed they expected the voluntary sector's...
Study: Enterprises Want More Marketing Data, But They Don’t Know What To Do With It
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Online marketers and advertising are getting access to more and more data, but that’s not enough, according to the 2012 Digital Marketing 2.0 Study commissioned by ad company DataXu. More than 350 “enterprise decision makers” in management, marketing, communications, digital, IT and social media were surveyed, and 75 percent of them...
Feature: Gamification: Green tech makes energy use a game—and we all win
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Whenever I start my Toyota Prius, I note one number above all else. It's not the time, not the odometer, not even the gas left in the tank. My eyes go straight to the car's average miles per gallon since last fill-up. If I don't exit our vehicle with...
How wireless charging works
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The fact that over 200,000 people have downloaded one of the various “shake to charge” apps, now available from Google Play, indicates our willingness to suspend any form of practical reasoning in pursuit of the dream of wireless charging. A quick investigation of the source code would likely reveal these...
Vinylmint Is A Jammin’ New Way For Pro Musicians To Collaborate
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Vinylmint is a Norfolk-based startup that aims to assist musicians in creating their music. It’s essentially a recording studio in the cloud. You record uncompressed audio right into the computer, the service uploads it to the cloud, and then you can listen to and edit tunes in your browser. Think...
Analyst: Apple to drop 17-inch MacBooks, slim down iPhone with in-cell tech
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You can read into these reports as much as you want from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities. Kuo claimed this morning that Apple is about to axe the 17-inch MacBook Pro line entirely while introducing a rumored all new MacBook design by Q3 2012 (via MacRumors). Kuo also thinks...
The LA Tech Scene Finally Moves Out of its Parents’ Basement
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As the second largest city in the United States and home to many of its finest universities, as well as the entertainment industry, many would argue that Los Angeles has long been an underachiever in the arena of technology and startups. If the events of the last twelve months are...
Rumor Patrol: How Apple Could Surprise Us With A New iPod Nano
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An overhauled iPod Nano could arrive in Apple's upcoming news event. And it could be an Apple secret weapon.I bet that when you picture an iPod you absolutely don't think of the current iPod Nano. You probably imagine a classic iPod or perhaps the new iPod Touch (which, by Apple's...
Sigma SD1 cut to a third of its original $9,700 price due to manufacturing efficiencies
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Things have just changed pretty dramatically for Sigma's flagship DSLR, the SD1; due to "new efficiencies in the camera's production" the camera's MSRP has been slashed down to $3,300 — over 50 percent less than what the camera was selling for yesterday. Imaging Resource reports that you might see...
How the LTE iPhone 5 will make mobile data cheaper
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After taking a pass with the iPhone 4S, Apple has finally welcomed LTE into its smartphone family. That means faster download and upload speeds to the iconic device, but the implications of a 4G iPhone on the wireless industry and on consumers are much greater than mere speed. LTE isn’t...
Retail: Gadgets Aren't Cheap, But Best Buy Is
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Photo: Ron Dauphin/Flickr Best Buy whiffed on Wall Street analysts’ expectations today, briefly sending shares plunging below the point where they bottomed out in the 2008 stock market crash. The once-mighty electronics retailer saw sales drop in several important categories, including televisions, laptops, and gaming, during the most recent quarter....
Sponsor post: The cloud, big data, networking and more – You’ll find it at Interop
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Best of Interop is an annual competition amongst Interop exhibitors that recognizes the sheer innovation occurring in an ever-changing market — showcasing the products believed to have the greatest potential to impact and advance business technology efficiencies, in hot topic areas such as cloud computing and virtualization, data center and...
Method corrects pitiful pore performance in nanostructured solar cells
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Electromicrograph of the surface (left) and nanowires (right) in a nanostructured photovoltaic cell. Energy Change Institute/Australian National University While the exact future of energy production is unclear, it's obvious that the role of solar power will continue to grow. Achieving higher efficiencies for each panel would help drop costs...
Amazon.com Lures Businesses to the Cloud With Rate Cut
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Amazon.com Inc. lowered rates on computer storage it rents over the Internet, as the company applies its strategy of aggressive pricing to cloud computing. The Seattle-based company cut its price plans by more than 10% for the first 500 terabytes of data that customers store in Amazon’s Internet-based S3 service,...
Real-time bidding is the next mobile ad breakthrough -- here's how you can profit
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Anyone involved within the online display advertising space during the past four years is likely be aware of the steady rise of Real-Time Bidding (RTB) and the emerging power of demand-side platforms (DSPs). Since RTB-oriented purchasing enables advertisers instant access to their desired audience, DSPs and other online ad...
Whoa: You might pay just a $1 for a daily gigabyte in 2020
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“By 2020 the average person will download one gigabyte of personalised data each day, and it will be delivered for less than $1 a day.” That’s a striking comment from Hossein Moiin, CTO of Nokia Siemens Networks. Not only does it speak to the enormous growth in our data needs through...
Youku And Tudou Merge To Create Chinese Online Video Powerhouse
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After threatening to sue each other for copyright infringement in December, the largest players in China’s fast-growing online video market have now emerged aiming to join forces to milk what could become a prosperous market sector. Youku has proposed buying all Tudou’s stock in a deal valuing it at...
The Axe Swings at RIM
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Layoffs have begun in earnest at Research In Motion. As AllThingsD reported in late May RIM had been furtively sacking small groups of employees in the hopes of keeping the cuts quiet. This week it dropped that pretense and began making larger cuts as it struggles to improve its lousy...
The iPhone 5 Event Was Really About The iPad Mini
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Right. Now what's next? Yesterday Apple revealed its iPhone 5, a slender metal-backed machine that, last year, was tipped as Steve Jobs' final close-held design project. It's a tech tour de force, and represents an upgrade of almost every iPhone system. It'll likely sell by the millions. But we're pretty...
Power matters: using ARM to reduce data center costs
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A consumer using a computer to shop, email, search or any of the other myriad tasks now possible usually measures power consumption by the dollar figure on the monthly electrical bill. But as two recent highly controversial articles in the New York Times reiterated, U.S. data centers backing up those...
How big data can be used to improve and predict sales
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Big data is being used everywhere to create efficiencies and to maximize sales. But how it’s applied can make all the difference. Thursday at GigaOM’s Structure:Data conference in New York, executives from Rocket Fuel, Trulia and Walmart Labs discussed what their companies and the companies they work with can learn...
See You in Coach, RIM!
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With its shares trading at eight-year lows amid dwindling sales and falling revenue, Research In Motion is getting creative with its cost-cutting measures. Really creative. It’s selling off a corporate jet to raise cash. The struggling BlackBerry maker has put its nine-passenger Dassault Falcon 50EX up for sale, people familiar...
The Road to IPO: New Opportunities and Market Trends
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Ticker image via AshDesignThe more things change, the more they stay the same. This French proverb predates the information age by more than a century, but it is a good mantra for today’s beleaguered IPO market. On the “change” side, the Internet has disrupted and transformed business and society at...
With $2M, Savveo wants to revamp traditional local ad buying
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When people talk about opportunities in local advertising, it’s usually digital advertising that they’re talking about. As more local ad dollars move from the Yellow pages and newspapers to mobile and web platforms, tech giants like Facebook and Google have started to up their efforts to lure small and medium-sized...
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