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Leap 3D motion control system is 100 times more accurate than Kinect, will cost $69.99
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Motion control startup Leap Motion has demoed its Leap 3D motion control system, which can track motion to around 0.01mm accuracy — 100 times more accurate than the Kinect. Rather than taking Microsoft's approach, Leap Motion creates a personal 3D workspace of about four cubic feet. The Leap consists...
Tandem: Mobile Accelerator Unveils Inaugural Batch, Gives Sneak Peek At Round Two
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Tandem Entrepreneurs, for those unfamiliar, is a Silicon Valley-based accelerator and capital fund that focuses exclusively on early-stage mobile businesses. Like other accelerators, Tandem works hand-in-hand with its founders on everything from strategy and product design to user acquisition and employee recruiting. However, unlike others, it seeds each startup with...
The Game of Thrones theme played on floppy drives is better than the original
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Not to take anything away from Game of Thrones composer Ramin Djawadi, but there’s just something about this rendition of the show’s theme on floppy drives that really tickles my fancy. The video was created by perennial floppy disk wrangler Anand Jin, who has a YouTube channel full of these...
Sony opens up PSN to digital download pre-orders
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Pre-orders are nothing new in the realm of video gaming -- they're the requisite hype before the release day-storm. On the digital download front, however, that anticipatory frenzy hasn't gotten much major industry support, until now. Sony, purveyor of all things PlayStation, has just tossed a bone to its...
Sony PlayStation Wonderbook hands-on
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Last night, we caught a demo of PlayStation's new Wonderbook during the company's E3 press event. Today, we grabbed a few moments of hands-on time with the new PS Move peripheral at the Sony booth. As we learned last night, the first title for the new tech is a...
PlayStation 4 to have AMD A8-3850 processor and Radeon HD 7670 GPU?
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The only thing we actually know about Sony's PlayStation 4 is that we shouldn't expect it anytime soon, but rumors are starting to pop: one week ago, Kotaku heard that a "PlayStation Orbis" might include both an AMD processor and AMD graphics, and now IGN's trusted sources say that's...
Tandem raises $32M for second mobile accelerator fund
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Mobile fund seeks to invest $200k in mobile start-ups; applications are being accepted until July 1 Tandem, a mobile start-up accelerator based in Burlingame, Calif., announced Thursday morning that it's raised $32 million for its second fund. The funds, which have already been put to work in nine start-ups, will...
The power of two: Using your tablet as a second monitor
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Splashtop's XDisplay is one of several apps that will let you use your iPad as a second display. Andrew Cunningham For all the talk about a “post-PC” world, most people use smartphones or tablets as an addition to their existing technological arsenal, rather than a replacement for a standard...
IE 9, on most secure Windows yet, next browser to fall at hacker contest
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A fully patched version of Internet Explorer running on the most secure version of Windows yet... was the second browser to fall at an annual hacker competition designed to test resistance of internet software to real-world attacks. The attackers were able to take complete control of the underlying laptop...
Kinect and PlayStation Eye combined in 3D augmented reality coffee table
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Microsoft Surface is cool, sure, but it could be even cooler if it took inspiration from another division of the company. That's what we thought after seeing Bastian Broecker's amazing coffee table that uses Microsoft's Kinect sensor, infrared lasers, a PlayStation Eye, and head tracking software to create a...
Microsoft ties SkyDrive tightly to Windows 8
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Microsoft isn’t taking the cloud storage challenge lying down. The company plans to build in tight links from its upcoming Windows 8 client to its SkyDrive cloud storage, making it easy for users running Windows 8 on tablets, PCs or phones to store and access their digital stuff on SkyDrive...
Nokia Store has 120,00 apps, over 120 million users, foggy future
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As Nokia starts to roll out its latest slice of Symbian-powered hardware across Europe, the manufacturer has bundled up some upbeat usage statistics for its developers. It's a mixture of global clout, big user numbers and several mobile platforms, with Nokia declaring support from 145 operators, across 52 different...
A look at AT&T’s home of the future (pics)
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AT&T announced its new Digital Life home automation system this morning, but this afternoon we got to see the system in a real house in New Orleans in tandem with this week’s CTIA Wireless show. The solution will compete with Verizon’s Home Monitoring and Control system and Comcast’s Xfinity...
Banking on Windows tablets, Microsoft creates mobile add-ons
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With the first Windows 8 Surface tablets expected to go on sale October 26, Microsoft is wasting no time to introduce supporting Bluetooth accessories. On Monday, the company announced three new mice and two keyboards designed for Windows 8. All five products will soon be available at prices ranging from...
Adobe Shadow aims to ease mobile Web development headaches with simultaneous browsing
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The controlling Chrome instance on the left, multiple slaved mobile devices on the right. Further showing its commitment to HTML5 as the way of the future, Adobe has released a preview of a Shadow, a tool to allow developers to remotely control and inspect Web pages in multiple phones...
Office 2013 Web Apps: A step forward, but still dependent on the desktop
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Microsoft Office 2013, formally unveiled on Monday, embraces the cloud more fully than any previous version of the age-old productivity suite. We’ve already examined the desktop versions of the programs at some length, but they aren’t the only apps that picked up new features—Office Web Apps, the browser-based versions of Office’s...
Cloud meets hardware: The inevitable merger
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The evidence is piling up: Hardware systems will increasingly work in tandem with the cloud....
Pair of Apple patent applications set the stage for hearing aid-based social network
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If ever there were a purgatory for ideas, it'd be the USPTO's patent application database. That land of legal limbo plays host to a multitude of tech entries both bizarre and straightforward, much of which will never see the light of day. So, it's with a keen eye for...
The Good Ear wins our MobileBeat smartphone app competition
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The Good Ear, a company that has developed a smartphone app to help with hearing loss, has emerged triumphant in our smartphone app competition at MobileBeat 2012. For winning the competition, The Good Ear bagged our Tesla Prize, which is named after Nikola Tesla, the scientist who developed early mobile...
Microsoft’s Nadella: We will democratize big data
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Satya Nadella, President, Server and Tools Business, Microsoft(c)2012 Pinar Ozger pinar@pinarozger.com Microsoft plans to bring big data to the little guy, said Satya Nadella, president of the Microsoft Server and Tools group and the executive directing the company’s gigantic Windows Azure cloud effort. The company’s decision to make Hadoop a...
Fast Talk: Restaurant Software "By Waiters, For Waiters"
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Meet Ansar Khan, whose experience working at his family's restaurant informed the development of his software, Ambur.Ansar Khan (left, with cofounder James O'Leary) is one of the developers of Ambur, an iOS app that wants to cut through the clutter and poor design choices common in too much restaurant software....
It’s a twofer: Google releases I/O video and live-blog gadget
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In the lead up to Google I/O, the search giant’s sold-out developer conference, Google has released a live-blogging gadget that will let armchair quarterbacks everywhere toss up their commentary alongside a live stream of conference keynotes and sessions, and official show announcements. Google I/O, as you know, is the...
Samsung camera sensor captures image and depth information with a single piece of silicon
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By using an RGB camera in tandem with a depth sensor, Microsoft's Kinect has opened up a world of interactive possibilities, and now Samsung has announced a new camera sensor that melds the two elements into one. The CMOS sensor utilizes rows of depth-sensing z-pixels alternating with a traditional...
Files in the cloud: Feature, product or company?
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Box CEO Aaron LevieA few months ago, Bill Gurley wrote a post about Benchmark’s investment in Dropbox, and why Dropbox’s cloud-based file synchronization is a major disruptor. Many disagreed, quoting Steve Jobs’ assertion that file sync is a feature, not a product. As a feature, the assumption was that it...
Spotify’s Coke Partnership: ‘None of Us Love Ads’
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Spotify today announced a significant partnership with Coke in tandem with the opening of its app platform to brands like McDonald’s and AT&T. The soda brand will sponsor free listening as Spotify enters new markets globally, and it will have a larger presence within the Spotify app and Spotify...
Tracelytics Raises $5.2 Million From Bain Capital Ventures, Opens Boston Office
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Tracelytics has closed a Series A round of funding worth $5.2 million from Bain Capital Ventures with participation from existing investors Google Ventures, Battery Ventures and Flybridge Capital Partners. The Providence, Rhode Island-based startup makes performance and analytics tracking tools for web applications. It soft-launched in November in tandem with...
Tandem Raises $32 Million for Second Mobile-Only Fund
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Tandem, a Silicon Valley-based accelerator that works with small groups of early-stage startups building products for mobile devices, has raised $32 million for its second fund, including an undisclosed amount from Chinese gaming company The9. The firm is accepting startup applications until July 1. The accelerator offers six months of mentorship and...
Apple, Motorola both try for summary judgment in US lawsuit
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Apple and Motorola in near-tandem have motioned for summary judgment in Apple's Wisconsin-based lawsuit over alleged Motorola violations of patents. The actions, both filed on Friday, would have Apple try to have some of its patent claims validated while Motorola wanted the majority of Apple's patent arguments ruled invalid. Most...
Walking the Web 1.0 wasteland
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Interest in the aesthetics of the early web has surged in recent years, and it's not hard to see why: as the homogenized visual handiwork of professional web designers continues to dominate our day-to-day interactions on websites and social networks, we've realized a newfound appreciation for amateur user culture...
With New B Corp. Certification, Etsy Raises $40M for International Growth
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Mr. Dickerson (flickr.com/eschipul) DIY-ers, you may now begin crocheting celebratory pillows and other yarn finery: E-commerce site Etsy, also known as Amazon for Twee People, announced today that it has raised a $40 million Series F round from investors, including Union Square Ventures and Accel Partners. In a lengthy blog...
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