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A Bandwidth Breakthrough
www.technologyreview.com
A dash of algebra on wireless networks promises to boost bandwidth tenfold, without new infrastructure. Academic researchers have improved wireless bandwidth by an order of magnitude--not by adding base stations, tapping more spectrum, or cranking up transmitter wattage, but by using algebra to banish the network-clogging task of resending dropped...
Huawei throws R&D dollars at gesture control, cloud storage, being more 'disruptive'
www.engadget.com
Undeterred by the fact that even humans struggle to interpret certain gestures, Huawei says it's allocating a chunk of its growing R&D budget to new motion-sensing technology for smartphones and tablets. The company's North American research chief, John Roese, told Computerworld that he wants to allow "three-dimensional interaction" with...
It’s Morning in Venture Capital
www.bothsidesofthetable.com
This article originally ran on PEHub. If you prefer the super short version – I’ve summarized the post in the final section. Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. They are frustrated by the past decade of subpar returns for the...
Epic’s Tim Sweeney predicts the next 20 years in gaming technology
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As chief executive of Gears of War developer Epic Games, Tim Sweeney has been on the forefront of video game graphics for a couple of decades. So the DICE Summit, which is giving him a high honor today, turned to him to explain how graphics technology for games will evolve...
Jibe Mobile Raises $8.3M To Grow Its Cloud-Based App Developer Platform -- Wants To Teach Carriers How To Win In An All-IP World
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Jibe Mobile has closed an $8.3 million funding round from investors including Vodafone Ventures, the VC arm of the telco, and Japanese mobile content provider MTI, plus other unnamed investors. You may recall Jibe from 2008 — when it was offering a mobile app for sharing content on social networking sites. Since then...
Jibe Mobile Raises $8.3M To Grow Its Cloud-Based App Developer Platform -- Wants To Teach Carriers How To Win In An All-IP World
How college towns could lead the way to gigabit broadband
arstechnica.com
But now, for the first time since the dawn of the commercial Internet, there are few plans in the works for major network upgrades. Most American households have no reason to expect that they'll see another order-of-magnitude increase in broadband speeds any time soon. Network of the future "For the...
Salesforce Adds Multilingual Features To Customer Support Service Desk.com
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Salesforce.com is working to make Desk.com, the customer service platform for small and medium businesses that it launched in January, more useful for global companies by announcing support for multiple languages. To be clear, Desk.com isn’t doing the translation for its customers. Instead, it’s adding features that take some of...
Myth Dispensing: The Whole 'Spotify Barely Pays Artists' Story Is Bunk
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One of the key talking points that we've heard from the "haters" of the new music business models is the claim that Spotify pays next-to-nothing to artists. This is really based on a few stories, taken totally out of context, concerning a few artists who received relatively small checks from...
Facebook, please don't become MySpace (and put too many ads on each page)
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Remember when Facebook only showed three ads on each page? And when the company moved to four in 2010? More recently the company has been at six, and I’m currently seeing seven, but Facebook is now testing up to ten ads per page … and I’m thinking of some ancient history....
DARPA launches first phase of "open source" vehicle design challenge
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A view of an engine model within VehicleForge, DARPA's answer to the stovepiped and broken defense procurement model based on collaborative software development. DARPA Today, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) opened up registration for the FANG Challenges, a set of three next-generation military vehicle design competitions that...
Yahoo vs Facebook: Not The Next Mobile Patent War?
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The lawsuit filed on Monday by Yahoo against Facebook over alleged infringements of certain “method” patents was a high profile step for Yahoo to take in the lead-up to Facebook’s IPO. But although Facebook has seen patent suits against it double in the last year, don’t necessarily take this as...
New manufacturing technology enables vertical 3D transistors, higher capacity SSDs
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Applied Materials has taken the wraps off a new etching system meant to turn vertically stacked, three-dimensional transistors from lab experiments into commercial reality. The new Centura Avatar solves multiple problems facing manufacturers who are interested in 3D NAND but find their current equipment not up to the task of...
Powerful iOS photography app Camera+ updated with front flash, horizon level, live exposure and more
thenextweb.com
Popular (and powerful) iOS photography app Camera+ has been updated with a number of powerful new features, adding flash support for the non-flash wielding front-facing camera, new levelling features, live exposure and other improvements. The update, which TapTapTap codenamed “Operation ÜberCam” internally, is focused on “making the best shooting experience even better,” bringing a...
Powerful iOS photography app Camera+ updated with front flash, horizon level, live exposure and more
Tesla will ship first Model S electric cars a month early
gigaom.com
The Model S Betas got buffed between rides. Electric car company Tesla Motors is continuing to spend heavily to get its second electric car the Model S out the door, but now says the first Model S shipments will happen in June, a month earlier than expected. Tesla detailed its...
[Infographic] Welcome To The, Um, Second Social Media Election
www.readwriteweb.com
The 2012 U.S. presidential election isn't the nation's first social media election. This time around, though, the contest is shaping up to be a newsfeeding frenzy. Four years ago, slightly more than 20 percent of U.S. citizens used social networks. That number has snowballed to 50. Since 2008, Facebook...
Is the Future of Tech in the Hands of the Extremely Young?
pandodaily.com
The Valley has long championed entrepreneurs in their early 20s…but what about a 20-year-old VC? Mike Hirshland– formerly of Polaris Ventures– is in the process of raising funds for his new firm Resolute Capital. He can’t (won’t) talk about that. But he can talk about hiring 20-year-old Irish phenom...
VMware CEO: We want to make you technologically hip
gigaom.com
NEWS FLASH: Your company’s IT practices are archaic, and young, talented employees want nothing to do with you! While VMware CEO Paul Maritz didn’t come out and say exactly that, his keynote Tuesday morning at EMC World did certainly did try to drive home that point. The “Facebook generation,” as Martiz...
Autodesk Uses Cloud Computing to "Fix" PLM
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PLM is far from the sexiest acronym floating around the Internet these days. Short for Product Lifecycle Management, PLM is often thought of as an esoteric offshoot of the equally obscure PDM, or Product Design Management - the way engineers track control technical data related to a particular product. PLM...
Data Centers: 'Titan' Supercomptuer Could be World's Most Powerful
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Oak Ridge National Labs’ Titan supercomputer Photo: Oak Ridge Is the new supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Labs the most powerful machine on earth? It might be. But we won’t know for a few more weeks. Uncloaked on Monday by Oak Ridge — a Tennessee lab run by the Department...
Dylan’s Desk: 4 signs we’re not in a tech bubble
venturebeat.com
Octopus ice sculpture: Awesome. But if you see it at a startup party, panic. For someone who’s lived through one tech bubble, it’s hard not to see signs of another one every time the market starts edging upward. Besides, no one wants to be the rube who’s the last one...
Moving data into Amazon's cloud is easy—getting it out, not so much
arstechnica.com
Moving large data volumes out of the Amazon storage cloud takes ten times as long as it does to move data into the Amazon service, according to a series of tests conducted by storage vendor Nasuni. Nasuni conducted five series of tests, in each case moving 12TB of data...
Jammie Thomas Asks Supreme Court: How Much Is Too Much For Copyright Infringement?
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Back in September, we wrote about the latest in the Jammie Thomas-Rasset saga, in which an appeals court had ruled that the original (of three) district court rulings in her case, in which she was told to pay $9,250 per song was perfectly reasonable. As we noted, this was more...
Storing big data in the cloud is easy -- getting it there is hard
gigaom.com
If there’s one thing the cloud is good at, it’s storing large quantities of data, and making that data available to companies so they can use it in various ways — but as the amount of data continues to explode, one big problem is getting those huge quantities of data...
Amazon launches RedShift for massive petabyte-scale data analysis in the cloud
venturebeat.com
Amazon launched RedShift, a new cloud-based service inside Amazon Web Services for analyzing massive petabyte-scale data sets in the cloud, today. The service, which has already been tested in beta by web startups such as Flipboard, big data stalwarts such as NASA, and massive streaming media service Netflix — an...
Newspapers Aren't Getting Much Out of Google+
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Even though social networks have begun to rival search in raw traffic-driving power, no one who wants to be visible online can ignore Google's influence. Google's new focus on Google+ social signals and fresh content means news organizations have to learn to understand those factors. How are they doing so...
It's Time To Re-Establish That If A Patent Blocks Progress, It's Unconstitutional
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Andy Kessler has one of his typically insightful Wall Street Journal opinion pieces in which he says it's time for real patent reform (rather than the joke of patent reform we had last year). His main concern is the toll that patent trolling is taking on innovation. He goes through...
For All The Talk From Hollywood About Making Sure People Get Paid, Why Doesn't It Pay Interns?
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We hear the refrain from the entertainment industry all the time, about how they are fighting against modern technology because without it, people don't get paid, and how unfair is that? The RIAA's Cary Sherman keeps talking about all those lost jobs (even though his math doesn't add up), and...
Cortex-A15 posts impressive performance, threatens Intel and AMD
www.extremetech.com
Samsung’s dual-core Exynos 5 broke cover with the launch of a new Chromebook a few weeks ago. Now, a full suite of Ubuntu benchmarks show the chip as a credible threat to Intel and AMD’s low-power x86 processors in the tablet and netbook space. Nvidia’s Tegra 3 was similarly abused,...
AMD awarded DoE grant to pursue exascale computing, but struggles to remain profitable
www.extremetech.com
AMD announced this morning that it’s been awarded $12.6 million by the Department of Energy for research into the DoE’s Extreme-Scale Computing Research and Development Program. The program — we’ve cheekily titled it ESC-R&D — is designed to outsource the creation of new solutions to the exascale computing problem. DARPA...
Thinking Too Big By An Order Of Magnitude
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Thinking Too Big By An Order Of Magnitude: Google planned to take 33% of the total tablet market in 2011. Yet they barely have 33% of just the Android tablet market....
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