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Evernote acquires iPad app Penultimate to boost its handwriting recognition capabilities
thenextweb.com
Fresh from its $70m funding round last week, note-taking service Evernote is looking to expand its handwriting recognition capabilities with the announcement today that it has acquired San Francisco-based startup Cocoa Box Design‘s popular handwriting app for the iPad, Penultimate. More that simply bringing the app into the Evernote stable, the deal...
Kaggle is now crowdsourcing big data creativity
gigaom.com
In a move to expand its utility beyond simply finding better answers to known statistical problems, hot data-science startup Kaggle is now letting its stable of expert data scientists compete to tell companies how they can improve their businesses using machine learning. It’s part of a natural evolution of Kaggle...
Panasonic Toughpad A1 clashes with FCC, goes the distance
www.engadget.com
It's been a long time coming, but Panasonic's hardy, Honeycomb-decked tablet looks like it might be ready for butter-fingered customers. The FCC's stable of tests aren't revealing much we didn't already know about the Toughpad, but be assured that its WiFi and Bluetooth capabilities are both fit for use....
ASUS outs lower-end Transformer Pad 300 tablet with 16GB of storage and 1280 x 800 display
www.engadget.com
Remember when we said ASUS was adding another tablet to its stable? Let's bump that number to an even two. ASUS just announced the Transformer Pad 300, a lower-end match to the new Infinity Series (and also made a quick appearance earlier this month). Hilariously (if rapidly aging gadgets...
Google reportedly planning stable of Nexus devices with Android 5.0, will sell 'em direct
www.engadget.com
Hand firmly grasping hat? Good. The Wall Street Journal is reporting on quite the bombshell today, noting that Google is about to cause its carrier partners in the States all sorts of grief -- indirectly, of course. Just weeks after placing its heralded Galaxy Nexus on sale for $399...
Judge Koh stops US sales of Galaxy Tab 10.1, puts a smack down on Samsung
www.engadget.com
Thought Samsung was out of the woods when it defeated Apple's attempt to prevent it from selling the Galaxy Tab 10.1 stateside? Well, Apple appealed that decision and was given a second crack at banning Sammy's slate last month -- and it looks like Cupertino made the most of...
Microsoft Releases its Latest Non-Windows Phone App: OneNote for Android
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Microsoft on Tuesday released OneNote for Android, the latest in a string of app releases for non-Microsoft mobile operating systems. OneNote was one of Microsoft’s first iPhone releases and joins a growing stable of apps in the Android Market and iTunes App Store....
Logitech outs Apple-friendly Wireless Solar Keyboard K760, we go hands-on
www.engadget.com
Earlier this May, Logitech unveiled its Solar Keyboard Folio for the new iPad and iPad 2, and the accessory maker is rounding out the month by adding another sun-powered peripheral to its stable. Like the Keyboard Folio, the just-announced Wireless Solar Keyboard K760 works with iPads, but it's also...
Polyglot Path: Mobile Sharing App Adds 7 New Languages Including Traditional Chinese, UK English
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In response to Facebook’s ever-expanding social universe and the success of mobile-focused networks like Instagram, Dave Morin and company have turned Path into a more personal, mobile-centric social network. Most of the life-sharing that happens on Path takes place at home — among friends and close friends. And while some...
Google gives us some insight on the inner workings of Google Translate
www.engadget.com
Google may have started out as a search engine, but the scope of its services has grown considerably in the 20-plus years since its origin. Of the many products in its grand stable, Google Translate has become a workhorse platform, lending its multi-lingual chops to Chrome, Google +, Android,...
Cricket ships Huawei Ascend Q, offers Android chatting for $140 prepaid
www.engadget.com
Huawei had said it would deliver the Ascend Q in August, and it didn't waste a moment -- Cricket is selling the Android 2.3 messager as of today for $140 on its prepaid smartphone plans. While the OS, 800MHz processor, 3.2-inch display and fixed-focus 3.2-megapixel camera won't knock any...
Windows 8 Metro-style Firefox comes out of hiding, still a diamond in the rough
www.engadget.com
Defaults are king in the realm of tech. So forgive Mozilla for its naked ambition to be users' go-to browser of choice. The company, fully aware of Windows 8's slow, looming approach to market, has set its sights on that unclaimed slice of market pie, hunkering down into development...
Microsoft opens a second Azure-focused incubator, this time in India
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Microsoft has doubled the size of its stable of incubators, making it known that it intends to open a second location in India, giving its original location in Israel a brother. The incubator, like its sibling, is focused on bringing in startups that are focused on working with cloud computing,...
What Zynga really wants from OMGPOP’s Draw Something
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Zynga made a huge acquisition Wednesday, snapping up Draw Something producer OMGPOP for a reported $200 million-plus price tag. But let’s be clear: What Zynga is picking up isn’t just a hit game, the team that built it, or even the 35 other titles that OMGPOP has created over the last...
Amazon Prime Instant Video gets MGM Studios movies and TV shows, dances with a few wolves
www.engadget.com
Amazon is building steam on its Prime Instant Video additions, as it's following new Paramount content just a few weeks ago with video from the MGM Studios stable. The new movies and TV shows mostly reach deep into the back catalog with classics like Dances with Wolves or the...
HTC, Sprint Announce Evo 4G LTE Smartphone
www.pcworld.com
Sprint on Wednesday introduced the HTC Evo 4G LTE smartphone, adding a new phone to a stable of devices that will be compatible with the carrier's high-speed......
3 Ways That Google Is Searching To Secure Its Future
www.fastcompany.com
Google is apparently poised to launch its own third-party Net commenting platform in direct response to Facebook, which is increasingly being used as a commenting gateway on many sites. Meanwhile it's also moved to better promote its new consolidated app store "Play" and tie it to its social network Google+....
Microsoft adds Pegatron to its patent-licensing stable
www.zdnet.com
Add another patent-licensee to the pool of Android/Chrome-based device makers Microsoft is convincing to pay for its IP....
LuckyLabs takes on $3.5M more to grow its stable of mobile games
thenextweb.com
Yesterday, LuckyLabs filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it has raised a $3.5 million round of funding. If you want to check the raw filing, head here. TNW reached out to the company, which subsequently confirmed the round, and provided insight into why the company took on the...
Four Responsive Email Layouts
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Recognizing the industry needed a scalable design strategy that acknowledged the growing stable of web-enabled devices, Ethan Marcotte coined the term “responsive web design.” Designing responsively means planning for a site to span and appropriately adjust to a range of screens and resolutions,... Please visit Marketing Land for the full...
Chrome stable hits 21 with Retina fonts/graphics
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Chrome stable just hit v21 so that you can move back to stable from Canary if you have a Retina MacBook Pro. Other goodies: Chrome now includes the getUserMedia API, which lets you grant web apps access to your camera and microphone without a plug-in. The getUserMedia API is the...
Siri meets KITT: Nuance unveils in-car voice dictation platform
venturebeat.com
As the rise in texting-related car accidents has shown, there’s a big demand for technology that allows drivers to be connected without distracting them from the road. Nuance, makers of Dragon Naturally Speaking, may just have that solution. Its new Dragon Drive automotive platform offers drivers the ability to do anything from send...
Teso K116 Windows ultrabook / tablet hybrid surfaces with Ivy Bridge on board
www.theverge.com
We've already seen some of the Ivy Bridge laptops and ultrabooks we can expect when Intel's 22nm processors finally begins shipping, and now we're getting a glimpse at a hybrid with the Teso K116. Retailer Alibaba has a listing for the device, which consists of an 11.6-inch 1366 x...
HTC, Sprint announce Evo 4G LTE smartphone
www.computerworld.com
Sprint introduced the HTC Evo 4G LTE smartphone, adding a new phone to a stable of devices that will be compatible with the carrier's high-speed network when it launches soon in the U.S....
Zynga acquires OMGPop, maker of popular ‘Draw Something’ game
www.washingtonpost.com
Social gaming company Zynga announced on Wednesday that it would purchase online gaming firm OMGPop, a deal that adds the popular “Draw Something” game to Zynga’s stable of popular games such as “FarmVille” and “Words With Friends.” The companies did not disclose the financial terms of the deal. Read full...
How Tech's Wealthiest People Spend Their Vacations
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Everyone needs a place to escape when life gets a little too stressful. Tech giants are no exception, but they have taken the whole vacation-home-thing to the next level. These multi-millionaires spend their leisure time on golf courses, next to the ocean, and on islands they own.This past winter, Bill...
Studio-backed Epix TV and streaming service adds 'Avengers' and 'Hunger Games' to catalog
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Despite the growth of independent services like Netflix, movie studios are still working to develop their own content distribution channels. Epix, a joint venture between Paramount, MGM, and Lionsgate, has just announced that it will be adding The Avengers and The Hunger Games — two of the biggest films...
Good Deal: 50 percent off Criterion Collection films at Barnes & Noble
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From today until July 30th, Barnes & Noble is again running its 50 percent discount on Criterion Collection movies. Both DVDs and Blu-rays are a part of the deal, though the savings don't extend to pre-orders — sorry Royal Tenenbaums fans. Even so, it makes for a good time...
Windows Phone's big July: Market share ticks up 23.5% in Europe
thenextweb.com
Attempting to track the success of Windows Phone is a difficult endeavor, as Microsoft is determined to remain recalcitrant in regards to handsets sales for its mobile line. Nokia does release a figure quarterly, concerning the success of its Lumia line of Windows Phone devices, but the platform remains hard to track. Happily, services...
Better Late Than Never: Time Inc. Adds Subscriptions For Apple’s Newsstand
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The dead tree publishing division of Time Warner announced this morning that its stable of magazines will now be available for subscriptions through Apple’s Newsstand. That’s right. You can now digitally subscribe to People, Sports Illustrated, Entertainment Weekly and others in one place via iTunes. Print subscribers can access digital...
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