Google Translate mobile app auto-detects language in spoken conversations, adds instant translate in camera view
Hallo, hola, olá to the new, more powerful Google Translate app — Often the hardest part of traveling is navigating the local language.
Leaked Apple Watch iPhone “Companion” app reveals activity reminders, monograms on clock faces, watch passcode, and ability to unlock watch from phone
Apple Watch iPhone ‘Companion’ app revealed w/ new Watch features, monograms — Yesterday, we reported …
Apple sues Ericsson over LTE wireless telecom patents
(Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) sued Ericsson (ERICb.ST) alleging that the Swedish company's LTE wireless technology patents are not essential to industry cellular standards and that it is demanding ex...
Facebook launching “Facebook at Work” employee collaboration tool with a handful of test companies
Facebook Unveils Facebook At Work, Lets Businesses Create Their Own Social Networks — About six months ago, we reported that Facebook was working on a new product aimed squarely …
Obama calls for an end to 19 state laws that restrict the rights of cities and towns to build their own broadband networks
Obama calls for end to 19 state laws that harm community broadband — President Obama today called for an end to state laws that restrict the rights of cities and towns to build their own broadband n...
Samsung Launches Its First Tizen-Powered Phone, The Z1, In India For $92
After plenty of speculation and aborted launches last year, Samsung has finally outed its first phone powered by the Tizen operating system. The Samsung Z1 is coming to India initially, where it is a...
Etsy planning IPO as soon as this quarter, looking to raise $300M
Etsy Said to Target U.S. IPO of Craft Marketplace — Etsy Inc., the global marketplace for handmade and vintage goods — from knitted sweaters to soaps — is planning an initial public offering that co...
Revamped “New Nintendo 3DS XL” to launch in US on February 13
Sources inside Gamestop have confirmed to Ars Technica that the revamped “new Nintendo 3DS” hardware will be available in US stores on February 13 and that the retailer will begin taking pre-orders fo...
Apple, Google, Intel, and Adobe offer joint payment of $415M to settle US poaching lawsuit
Bigger Settlement Said to Be Reached in Silicon Valley Antitrust Case — SAN FRANCISCO — Silicon Valley companies have sweetened the pot to try to get rid of an embarrassing class-action antitrust su...
LinkedIn has plans for an app to connect co-workers and for another product to help companies share content with employees
Upcoming LinkedIn Products Connect Co-Workers — LinkedIn, long the place to hunt for a new job, plans to make it easier to connect with the colleagues you already have.
Vidyard Raises $18M for Enterprise Video After Long Dance With Bessemer
Deborah Gage / Wall Street Journal : … Vidyard has raised $18 million at a valuation of close to $100 million for software that helps companies use online video to boost sales, marking the end of fun...
Report: Google Play's App Store And Developer Community Grew Faster Than Apple's In 2014
According to a new report out this morning from appFigures, the Google Play mobile application market surpassed Apple for the number of new apps for the first time in 2014, and its developer community...
Microsoft pushes critical Windows 8.1 security fixes, patches vulnerability recently disclosed by Google
Today, as part of Update Tuesday … Ashley Carman / SC Magazine : Microsoft issues eight bulletins, one critical, in Patch Tuesday release Brian Prince / SecurityWeek : Microsoft Patches Critical Windo...
Ross Ulbricht admits he created Silk Road, but says he's not Dread Pirate Roberts
before it was an online drug marketplace Kari Paul / Motherboard : Here Is the Witness List for the Silk Road Trial Andy Greenberg / Slate : Why the Silk Road Trial Matters Nicole Arce / Tech Times : ...
Sony said to be open to a joint venture or sale of its TV and mobile phone operations, though no deals are currently on the table
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Gitrob Combs Github Repositories for Secret Company Data
Free online code repositories such as GitHub provide a valuable collaboration service for enterprise developers. But it's also a trove of potentially sensitive company and project information that's ...
Web TV Startup NimbleTV Goes Dark, Promises to Return
NimbleTV, a startup that let some cable TV customers stream their shows over the Web, shut down yesterday. It said it will re-launch later this year. — “We've decided to pause the NimbleTV service ...
IBM announces high-end z13 mainframe, able to handle 30,000 transactions per second, encrypt and analyze data in real time
Most Powerful and Secure System Ever Built Steve Lohr / New York Times : IBM Introduces z13, a Mainframe for the Smartphone Economy Ron Miller / TechCrunch : The New IBM z13 Is Not Your Father's Mainf...
Dailymotion launches live-streaming gaming platform to compete with Twitch
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Obama proposes legislation to protect firms that share cyberthreat data with the government, criminalize sale of botnets and stolen financial info, more
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Firefox 35 launches with simplified Hello video chat, Android download manager support, and MP4 playback on Mac
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Google opens Cloud Monitoring beta to all Cloud Platform customers, eight months after private beta launch
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GoPro stock drops over 12% after Apple is awarded patent for remote-control camera system
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On Macs, Apple's two-factor authentication still doesn't protect iMessage, iTunes, FaceTime, or the App Store
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How Bitcoin's Blockchain Could Power an Alternate Internet
“Sorry I haven't been blogging” posts are the worst. Tweets: Mary Branscombe / @marypcbuk : The blockchain literature is packed with graduate dissertations from the Rube Goldberg school of systems des...
Online Education Company Lynda.com Gets $186 Million For A Shopping Spree
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PayPal Here Adds Windows Support, Will Launch An EMV Card Reader Later This Year
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Big-5 publisher Macmillan adds its ebooks to Scribd and Oyster
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Clinkle Ditches Its Soured App Name For “Treats,” Refocuses On P2P Discounts
huh? Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal : High-Flying Startup Clinkle Turns Into ‘Treats,’ a Debit-Rewards Program Jillian D'Onfro / Business Insider : A Startup Founder Got $30 Million, Struggled,...
Ionic Security Raises $40 Million to Secure Data Against Cyberthieves
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