Posts Tagged ‘ major ’

Microsoft demos the eyes, ears and brains behind its next generation Kinect for Xbox One

May 24, 2013
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Microsoft demos the eyes, ears and brains behind its next generation Kinect for Xbox One

In case you’re still itching to learn more about how the Xbox One‘s upcoming Kinect sensor works, Microsoft’s Scott Evans and Kareem Choudhry have released two videos showing off what they call the eyes, ears and brains of the new Kinect. As you’ll see below, Evans and Choudhry show off a number of improvements coming…

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Flickr’s Fail Panda spotted as site suffers first outage 4 days after its revamp (Update: Now back online)

May 24, 2013
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Flickr’s Fail Panda spotted as site suffers first outage 4 days after its revamp (Update: Now back online)

Yahoo gave its photo hosting site Flickr a major revamp this past Monday, but already — four days later — the service has suffered its first significant outage after going down at 22:00 PDT, 06:00 BST (though one Twitter user suggests the site has been down for an additional two hours). UPDATE: Bye bye Panda, Flickr is…

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Nimble’s CRM platform gets more social with Linkedin-like ‘Today’ feature, filtering and more apps

May 21, 2013
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Nimble’s CRM platform gets more social with Linkedin-like ‘Today’ feature, filtering and more apps

Nimble, a social contact relationship management service, today launched a new version of its platform designed to help people keep in touch with their business connections in a “deeper and more personal” way. This new product offers a new ‘Today’ screen to display contact updates happening that day, smart filtering to help search for people,…

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Women have new options for breast cancer surgery

May 14, 2013
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Women have new options for breast cancer surgery

Buy AP Photo Reprints CHICAGO (AP) — Treating breast cancer almost always involves surgery, and for years the choice was just having the lump or the whole breast removed. Now, new approaches are dramatically changing the way these operations are done, giving women more options, faster treatment, smaller scars, fewer long-term side effects and better…

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GOP ready to push Benghazi case into 2014, beyond

May 11, 2013
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GOP ready to push Benghazi case into 2014, beyond

FILE - This June 7, 2012 file photo shows U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice listening during a news conference at the UN. Senior State Department officials pressed for changes in the talking points that U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice used after the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya last September, expressing…

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Tesla founder Elon Musk leaves Zuckerberg’s FWD.us advocacy group amid ‘green’ concerns

May 10, 2013
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Tesla founder Elon Musk leaves Zuckerberg’s FWD.us advocacy group amid ‘green’ concerns

Telsa Motor’s founder Elon Musk has left the advocacy group formed by Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Reuters reports that the serial entrepreneur departed but his company spokesperson did not elaborate about his departure, although it might be due to FWD.us (the name of the group) assistance to US senators who support oil pipeline…

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With 4M users, Hipstamatic unveils Oggl, a standalone iOS social networking app for your best photos

May 8, 2013
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With 4M users, Hipstamatic unveils Oggl, a standalone iOS social networking app for your best photos

Hipstamatic, the makers of a self-titled iOS photo app that competes against Instagram, is unveiling a brand new standalone app called Oggl. The company seeks to evolve its three year old service and provide a new experience that doesn’t center around adding more filters, but will help engage its 4 million users. Oggl is available…

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Opera Software partners with Indian mobile OEMs to get its Opera Mini browser pre-installed on Android devices

May 8, 2013
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Opera Software partners with Indian mobile OEMs to get its Opera Mini browser pre-installed on Android devices

Opera Software has partnered with seven smartphone and tablet manufacturers based in India to ensure that its Opera Mini browser comes pre-installed on a large number of future devices running Android. All devices built by Celkon, Karbonn, Lava and Intex – and which run Google’s mobile operating system – will have the mobile-optimized Web browser…

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A look at the missile reportedly targeted in Syria

May 5, 2013
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A look at the missile reportedly targeted in Syria

FILE -- This file photo released on Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010, by the Iranian Defense Ministry, claims to show the upgraded surface-to-surface Fateh-110 missile at an undisclosed location, in Tehran, Iran. Israel has carried out airstrikes against Syria twice in the past three days to target what officials say are shipments of highly accurate, Iranian-made…

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Eventbrite CEO Kevin Hartz shares how startups can make their own luck by watching for colossal shifts

May 3, 2013
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Eventbrite CEO Kevin Hartz shares how startups can make their own luck by watching for colossal shifts

Speaking on stage at The Next Web Conference 2013 in Amsterdam, Eventbrite co-founder and CEO Kevin Hartz gave a talk on finding luck through a combination of preparation and opportunity. Hartz, also an angel investor in major tech companies like PayPal, Airbnb and Pinterest, focused on both PayPal and YouTube as examples of startups that sought…

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