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Face To Face: How Airtime Will Re-Humanize The Internet
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One minute into using Airtime I was laughing with someone I’d never met. That’s something special when despite all the asynchronous connection, the Internet threatens to make us feel lonely. On Airtime, you experience together thanks to real-time video chat and video sharing. You’re both the performer and the audience. When...
Regenerative medicine pioneer continues changing lives with first successful laryngotracheal implants
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Dr. Paolo Macchiarini is no stranger to world firsts, and less than a year after performing a synthetic windpipe transplant, the Karolinska Institute Professor has coordinated no less than two successful transplants of synthetic sections of larynx. Amazingly, both patients were able to breathe and talk normally straight after...
Regenerative medicine pioneer continues changing lives with first successful laryngotracheal implants
Extole turns regular customers into brand ambassadors, raises $10M
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Nearly every company has a social presence these days, but personal recommendations are often a more powerful way to boost sales. If you’ve never heard about a company before, but your friend has, you’ll likely trust her opinion over that of a complete stranger. But keeping track of how much...
Google bringing extra bytes to Hawkeye State with $300 million data center
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You're a multinational search company that has just rolled out a new cloud storage offering. You've also just given your millions and millions email users and extra 2.5GB of storage, free of charge. What do you do next? Build another data center. The big G has announced its intentions...
Airtime Launches A Video Chat Network That’s The New Place To Hangout Online
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Ready your arsenal of funny viral videos, Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning have just launched their video chat and sharing network Airtime. Built on Facebook with a stunning $33.5 million in funding, Airtime puts you onstage with a friend or matches you with an interesting stranger. There’s no application to...
Visualized: Second-gen Samsung Series 9 gets torn down to its ultra-slim components
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Chances are you're no stranger to the Samsung Series 9 -- the first generation stood out for its slimness, and the most current version is an impressive 28 percent thinner. If you're wondering how those notebooks can be so dang skinny, your curiosity will be satisfied by Samsung's teardown...
Sony Rebrands Their PlayStation Suite, Reveals HTC As Their First Third-Party PlayStation Mobile Partner
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Sony is certainly no stranger to the mobile space — the recently-divorced Sony Mobile Communications branch has been announcing plenty of handsets lately, but the company has decided that their PlayStation-certified hardware efforts. Sony has just revealed that their first non-Sony hardware partner will be none other than HTC. Developing…...
Sony Rebrands Their PlayStation Suite, Reveals HTC As Their First Third-Party PlayStation Mobile Partner
Nokia Has Filed A Patent That Would Make Your Tattoo Vibrate Every Time Your Cell Phone Rings
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Hello, brave new world. Nokia may be working on an invention that would cause a tattoo to vibrate every time you get a call on your cell. The Finnish firm's filing with the US Patent Office describes tattooing, stamping, or spraying "ferromagnetic" material onto skin—or a fingernail—and linking it...
Google Drive Said To Launch Next Week, With 5GB Of Free Storage For All
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Rumors and reports of Google Drive’s imminent launch have been coming hard and fast lately, but this one may just take the cake. The folks at The Next Web managed to get their hands on a draft of Google’s official Drive announcement from one of the search giant’s partners, and...
'The Last of Us' E3 gameplay trailer blows our minds
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At Sony's E3 press conference this evening, Naughty Dog unveiled a new gameplay trailer for The Last of Us. The trailer follows protagonists Joel and Ellie through an abandoned hotel buried in overgrown weeds and a flooded first floor. Joel leads the way with Ellie on his heels, chattering...
Intel demos Bluetooth-based anti-theft alarm for Ultrabooks, we go hands-on (video)
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We interrupt our wall-to-wall laptop and Windows 8 coverage to bring you some news about... chips. Specifically, Intel's latest ultra low voltage chips, and new features they'll bring to Ultrabooks, in particular. Here at Chipzilla's Computex keynote, we just got a demo of a new security feature that causes...
Carl Icahn unloads his LightSquared debt, creditor talks trudge on
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Carl Icahn is no stranger in this field -- he's been caught tussling with Motorola and bidding Yahoo's board adieu in recent years -- and most recently, he's managed to get caught up in one of the bigger wireless whirlwinds this planet has ever seen. Just months after Icahn...
Google bringing extra bytes to Buckeye State with $300 million data center
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You're a multinational search company that has just rolled out a new cloud storage offering. You've also just given your 350 email users and extra 2.5GB of storage, free of charge. What do you do next? Build another data center. The big G has announced its intentions to raise...
Social Media Is Key for Marketers (But Not How You Might Think)
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NEW YORK — In the middle of the real social-media boom, advertisers and marketers are still getting a feel for how it can best be used to reach their audiences. Curtis Hougland, the CEO of the PR firm Attention, told Wired’s Disruptive by Design business conference Tuesday that much...
Apple selects TomTom as primary iOS 6 maps provider
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Been wondering exactly which data service is replacing Google as Apple's map provider? According to these leaked screenshots (shown above) from the iOS 6 developer beta running on an iPhone 4S, it appears to be TomTom. The company is no stranger to iOS, as its navigation app and car...
Nexus Q app throws in voice-powered Magic 8 Ball mode
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No stranger to throwing in some extra, if not-that-functional, additions to its products, Google's new audio orb packs its own Easter egg -- a Magic 8 Ball mode. Tapping the Nexus Q's image in its companion Android app will throw up a new screen, offering voice input to take...
Fashion-savvy Instagram users can turn their photos into a lookbook with 52Grams
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Instagram is certainly no stranger to the world of fashion. It’s been used by Burberry to unveil a new collection, it got a backstage pass to New York Fashion Week, and has even been used by a Brazilian designer for an entire fashion shoot. It comes as no surprise then, that...
Strange Bedfellows: Google, Paramount Ink Deal For New Digital Movie Rentals
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Good news, Godfather fans — Google has just recently announced on their official YouTube blog that they’ve inked a licensing deal with Viacom-owned Paramount to bring some 500 new titles to YouTube and the Google Play store over the coming weeks. Google first started toying with the notion of movie...
Frommees: This startup creates physical keepsakes for digital content
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“Is this the next Web?” asked Frommees self-proclaimed ‘Founding Father’ Martin Brouns, holding aloft a small, coin-shaped piece of recycled plastic. “Is this technologically anything? It doesn’t have a QR code on it. It doesn’t have a chip in it, it’s just a little piece of plastic. But still…I think it’s...
VIA ARTiGO A1200 lets you roll your own miniscule, fanless PC
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Most ultra-compact, fanless PCs are intended for the embedded market -- that is, not for the proletariat to tinker with directly. VIA's no stranger to serving that crowd, but it's making a point of addressing home users who want this class of PC for DIY projects, like home media...
Microsoft launches no holds barred anti-Google campaign [video]
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“What happens when the world’s largest advertising business tries to sell productivity software on the side?” Microsoft asks users in its new Googlighting video. “Beware the Googlighting Stranger.” In response to what is undoubtedly increased pressure from Google’s cloud-based productivity suite, Microsoft has launched an all-out assault on Google and its cloud-based...
TransferWise Raises $1.3M From Index, Others For The Next Disruption In Money Transfer: Crowdsourcing
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If you’ve ever had to transfer money from one currency to another, you know that it can be a frustratingly pricey business. Now a new company, TransferWise, has raised seed funding totaling $1.3 million to tackle that problem. TransferWise describes itself as the “Skype of money transfer” because it allows...
TransferWise Raises $1.3M From Index, Others For The Next Disruption In Money Transfer: Crowdsourcing
US Cellular, Alltel Wireless team up to launch 'U Prepaid' service in Walmart stores
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Good ol' Wally isn't a stranger when it comes to offering prepaid wireless goods within its shops, and now the retail giant's about to add yet another service to that carrier-packed inventory. Starting next month, US Cellular -- in partnership with Alltel Wireless -- will begin rolling out a...
Facebook starts App Center beta, readies itself for paid web apps
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Facebook is no stranger to letting members use real money in web apps, but only for in-app purchases. Its new App Center on the web and in mobile versions will let you buy web apps that have an up-front cost to use rather than shoehorning you into a freemium...
Layar lays the AR on thick with worldwide Stiktu app rollout
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Layar's no stranger to the AR game. The company's been acting as an enabler of sorts, putting its Player and Creator dev tools into the hands of the masses across iOS and Android for some time. Now, the outfit's making Stiktu -- a social app that attaches augmented reality...
Samsung Focus 2 for AT&T hands-on at CTIA 2012
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It's the first night of action at CTIA Wireless 2012, and we're not wasting any time finding the best of what New Orleans has to offer. To start things off properly, we got some time with the Samsung Focus 2, announced by AT&T earlier this morning as the latest...
Pirate Bay Simplifies Circumvention of ISP Blockades
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Within a few days, five of the largest UK Internet providers will all have to censor The Pirate Bay. Virgin and Orange have already implemented the block and the rest must follow before the end of May. The music companies who asked for the blockade hope it will decrease piracy...
Nokia’s Lumia 900 is the best $100 smartphone yet (review)
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Who would have thought that a Windows Phone — and one from Nokia, no less — would be one of the best alternatives to Apple’s iPhone that we’ve ever seen. And at $100, it’s a downright steal. Before Nokia announced the Lumia 900 at the Consumer Electronics Show in...
Tim Cook Is Doing What Steve Jobs Never Did -- Visiting China As Apple's CEO (AAPL)
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Tim Cook has been spotted in an Apple Store in Beijing's Xidan province, reports The Next Web. Cook isn't a stranger to the country -- Steve Jobs notably sent him there when trouble started brewing with Foxconn, but this marks the first time that an active Apple CEO has...
iKamasutra: A Tale Of Sex, Love, And Apple App Store Rejection
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I’ve seen plenty of apps get yanked from Apple’s App Store in my day, but the news of an app called iKamasutra getting that same treatment really has me scratching my head. I won’t rehash the entire story, but here’s the gist of what happened: Apple pulled the iKamasutra from...
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