Hands on with Microsoft's holographic goggles Project HoloLens
Our Exclusive Hands-On With Microsoft's Unbelievable New Holographic Goggles — It's the end of October, when the days have already grown short in Redmond, Washington, and gray sheets of rain are jus...
Twitter rolls out “While you were away” feature to iOS users, coming soon to Android and web
While you were away... Today we're introducing something new to your home timeline: a recap of some of the top Tweets you might have missed from accounts you follow.
The next generation of Windows: Windows 10
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BlackBerry CEO Wants Legislators To Make Developing BlackBerry Apps Mandatory
At this point, BlackBerry and Windows Phone fans are probably used to having a much smaller selection of apps than their counterparts on iOS and Android smartphones. After all, diehard devotees of Bl...
Sources: Google is preparing to sell wireless plans running on Sprint and T-Mobile networks
Google's Next Telecom Move: Becoming a Wireless Carrier — Google is preparing to sell mobile phone plans directly to customers and manage their calls and mobile data over a cellular network …
Windows Holographic will let NASA explore what Curiosity sees on Mars
Sean O'Kane / The Verge :
Microsoft reveals Windows Holographic augmented reality user interface and HoloLens headset
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch :
Backblaze: 4 TB HGST and Seagate hard drives are most reliable, 3 TB Seagate and WD drives fail often
What is the Best Hard Drive? — It was one year ago that I first blogged about the failure rates of specific models of hard drives, so now is a good time for an update.
Inside Nadella's plan to reinvent Microsoft, starting with HoloLens, a flatter org chart, and a willingness to forge new partnerships
Satya Nadella's Got a Plan to Make You Care About Microsoft. The First Step? Holograms … REDMOND MISSED MOBILE — The old Microsoft never gained turf in smartphone operating systems.
Kim Dotcom Launches Skype Competitor MegaChat
Kim Dotcom, the infamous entrepreneur behind Megaupload, has released his latest product. Currently in beta, MegaChat is a browser-based encrypted video calling and file-sharing platform that is bein...
Gift Card Marketplaces Raise Grabs $56 Million From NEA And Others
A company offering a marketplace where consumers can buy and sell their unused gift cards, Raise.com, announced this morning it has taken in a sizable $56 million round of Series B funding, led by New...
Tumblr's Creatrs Network connects Tumblr's top artists with brands to help make ads
Tumblr wants its best artists to create ads people actually like — Tumblr's beautiful, GIF-filled feed is what keeps bringing visitors back, and it wants to make sure the feed stays that way even as...
Illinois law says schools can ask for students' Facebook passwords if they violate policy
Illinois Says Rule-Breaking Students Must Give Teachers Their Facebook Passwords — School districts in Illinois are telling parents that a new law may require school officials to demand …
Microsoft announces Office 2016, slated for release in the second half of 2015
At its Windows 10 event yesterday, Microsoft unveiled more about the touch-optimized version of Office. Today, the company posted more details about that version, and then snuck in another announceme...
Hands-on with Windows 10 on a Surface Pro 3
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Button Raises $12 Million to Make the App World as Interconnected as the Web
Could 2015 be the year of “deep linking?” — One startup trying to ride that wave is Button, a New York City-based company which is today announcing a $12 million Series A investment less than a year...
In-flight Wi-Fi is getting slower, less reliable, and more expensive as demand increases
The Sorry State of In-Flight Wi-Fi — 35,000 FEET, SOMEWHERE OVER THE MIDWEST — I've finally found something on commercial flights that's worse than airplane food: the Wi-Fi.
eBay to Cut 2,400 Jobs and Explore Sale or IPO of Enterprise Unit
EBay said today that it would cut about seven percent of its workforce globally in the first quarter as it looks to reduce costs ahead of its planned spinoff of PayPal. The company also said it would...
Amazon launches Kindle Textbook Creator to help schools turn PDFs into digital books
Amazon has unveiled a new program designed to help educational establishments and authors produce ebooks for students. — With KDP EDU and the Kindle Textbook Creator, Amazon is expanding its Kindle ...
Amazon looking to buy datacenter tech startup Annapurna Labs for $350m
Summary:Amazon is reportedly in talks to buy a stealth-mode Israeli startup that could give its datacenters a boost. — After almost a year of searching, Amazon has found its Israel ‘soulmate,’ which...
Dropbox releases official Windows Phone app, features ability to pin folders to Start screen
Dropbox lets you bring your photos, docs … Brandon Chester / AnandTech : Dropbox Releases App for Windows Phone Kevin C. Tofel / Gigaom : Sync addicts rejoice: Dropbox for Windows Phone arrives Lance ...
Ex-Facebookers at Interana raise $20M for mass-scale event data
Interana, a Menlo Park, California, analytics startup that officially launched in October has closed a $20 million Series B round. Index Ventures led the round, which also included new investors AME ...
Verizon earnings meet estimates despite 4Q net loss
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Netflix says piracy is still a major competitor, cites Popcorn Time's rise in the Netherlands
Netflix CEO shows why piracy is a major threat again (in 3 charts) — Netflix had thought it beat back the threat of piracy. Back in 2011, when it popularized movie streaming …
The case for Marissa Mayer, as key metrics suggest the turnaround at Yahoo is on track
Marissa Mayer's Plan for Yahoo Takes Hold. The Question Now Is Time. — When Marissa Mayer was offered the chief executive job at Yahoo in the summer of 2012, she had a script for returning … Tweets...
Adobe investigating reported Flash zero-day vulnerability used by Angler exploit kit
Dennis Fisher / Threatpost :
WhatsApp launches a desktop web app to serve Android, Blackberry, and Windows Phone users
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eBay Q4: $4.9B in revenue, slightly beats Wall Street estimates with $0.90 EPS
Samantha Sharf / Forbes :
Court document for Silk Road 2 trial suggests investigators may have spent six months last year exploiting Tor anonymity bug
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica :
Uber raises $1.6B in convertible debt from Goldman Sachs' clients
Here Are The Numbers Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat : Inside Uber's staggering U.S. growth: 40,000 drivers joined in December and average $19 per hour Chris Johnston / Guardian : Uber raises another $1.6...
iPhone market share soars in South Asia, rises to 33% in South Korea, Samsung drops to 46% in its domestic market
Eric Pfanner / Wall Street Journal :
Oracle unveils X5 Engineered Systems with new datacenter strategy
Rachel King / ZDNet :
Google stops selling the last Google Play Edition device, the HTC One M8
Ryan Whitwam / Android Police :
Twitter launches its phone-number based login system, Digits for the web
Roberto Baldwin / The Next Web :
Pluribus Networks gets $50M to route traffic in the data center
Jonathan Vanian / Gigaom :
Ringly Raises $5.1 Million Led By Andreessen Horowitz To Expand Its Smart Jewelry Collection Beyond Rings
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Microsoft announces Surface Hub, an 84-inch 4K display with pen input, dual cameras, and microphone array
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat :
Wavelength, which let people stream their friends' movies bought through UltraViolet, is shelved less than two weeks after launch
Peter Kafka / Re/code :
Amazon pulls its diaper brand after 6 weeks, citing design flaws
Laura Hazard Owen / Gigaom :
Flipboard Introduces New Ad Unit: Promoted Items
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