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Amazon.com to open first physical store: report
Oct 09, 2014 (AFP)
Online retail colossus Amazon.com plans to open its first brick-and-mortar store in New York ahead of the year-end holiday season, The Wall Street Journal repor...
Icahn asks 'undervalued' Apple to boost share buybacks
Oct 09, 2014 (AFP)
Activist investor Carl Icahn urged Apple on Thursday to accelerate its share buybacks, saying the tech giant remains "dramatically undervalued" despite its rece...
Woman sues US federal agent over fake Facebook page
Oct 08, 2014 (AFP)
A woman is suing the United States and a federal agent who set up a fake Facebook page in her name with racy pictures from her cell phone in a bid to ensnare dr...
PC market steadies in third quarter: survey
Oct 08, 2014 (AFP)
The global market for personal computers showed signs of stabilizing in the third quarter as infatuation with tablets appeared to fade, a market tracker said We...
Multi-spectra glasses for scanning electron microscopy
Oct 07, 2014 (SPX)
Reflection zone plates produced by HZB enable lighter elements in material samples to be precisely detected using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) by providin...
Nokia suspends production at Indian handset factory
Oct 07, 2014 (AFP)
Finnish telecom equipment group Nokia said Tuesday it was halting production in its Indian factory near Chennai and that a dispute with local tax authorities wa...
Facebook opens ad targeting to outside applications
Oct 07, 2014 (AFP)
Facebook on Tuesday ramped up its "Audience Network" that mines what it knows about users to target ads in other applications on smartphones or tablet computers...
Facebook closes big-ticket buy of WhatsApp
Oct 06, 2014 (AFP)
Facebook on Monday completed its buy of mobile messaging application WhatsApp, with the mostly stock deal tallying nearly $22 billion. The acquisition was given...
Hewlett-Packard split aims to sharpen focus
Oct 06, 2014 (AFP)
Hewlett-Packard announced plans Monday to break itself into two companies, one with a focus on personal computers and printers, and the other on software and en...
Sounds of science: Japan leads push for high-res audio
Oct 05, 2014 (AFP)
A quarter of a century after the Walkman made music portable and turned Sony into a household name around the world, the company is hoping to set the agenda aga...
It's good to talk: app aims to spur voice renaissance
Oct 05, 2014 (AFP)
Two former Google employees are hoping an innovative new phone application will trigger a renaissance in an increasingly unfashionable method of human communica...
Hewlett-Packard to split business: report
Oct 05, 2014 (AFP)
Hewlett-Packard is poised to become the latest technology firm to split into two entities by separating its computer and printer businesses from its corporate h...
Yahoo wants to invest in Snapchat: report
Oct 04, 2014 (AFP)
Flush with cash from its investment in Alibaba, Yahoo is angling to buy into hot mobile messaging startup Snapchat, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. ...
New app for Google Glass can caption conversations
Oct 04, 2014 (UPI)
A new Google Glass app makes it easier for people with hearing impairments to understand what someone is saying by captioning the conversation. Georgia Institut...
Facebook steps up battle on 'fake likes'
Oct 03, 2014 (AFP)
Facebook said Friday it has stepped up its battle against spammers who promise to deliver "likes" to its members, and warned users on using such scams. The worl...
JPMorgan: info on 76 mn households hit in data breach
Oct 02, 2014 (AFP)
JPMorgan Chase said Thursday that information such as names and addresses for 76 million household customers and seven million businesses was compromised in a d...
Facebook tightens reins on research at social network
Oct 02, 2014 (AFP)
Facebook tightened the reins Thursday on its research methods in the wake of an outcry by members who felt manipulated by a secret study into how posts affect m...
Samsung rejects claims of Galaxy Note defect
Oct 01, 2014 (AFP)
Samsung on Wednesday rejected claims that its new oversized smartphone had a defect, after some customers posted pictures of a gap between the frame and display...
Microsoft gives peek at coming Windows 10 software
Sep 30, 2014 (AFP)
Microsoft on Tuesday offered its first glimpse of its Windows 10 software that it hopes delivers a winning formula for powering tablets and smartphones, along w...
Man charged with selling smartphone spying software
Sep 30, 2014 (AFP)
US prosecutors on Monday indicted a Pakistani man for marketing a StealthGenie application that could be used to secretly spy on calls, texts, and other activit...
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