Graphene smartphone to arrive soon

Graphene smartphone to arrive soon

Won Ho-sup, Kim Mi-yeon

2014.02.10 17:54:00

Samsung Techwin and researchers from the Seoul National University co-developed touch screen smartphone with a promising new material ‘graphene’ layer. They developed smartphones based on technology for mass production of graphene, paving the way for the commercial production of graphene, analysts said.  Read more of this post

Google and comScore, two leaders in online advertising, announce a partnership to help web advertisers figure out in real time who is looking at their ads.

FEBRUARY 10, 2014, 7:07 PM  2 Comments

Did Anyone Look at That Ad?

By VINDU GOEL

For years, the advertising industry has been struggling to address a nagging problem: Who is actually looking at those ads on a webpage or embedded in a video?

About 54 percent of ads on the web are not seen by users, according to estimates by comScore, a leading online measurement and analytics firm. Read more of this post

Attack of the Flappy Bird Clones

FEBRUARY 10, 2014, 6:02 PM  2 Comments

Attack of the Flappy Bird Clones

By NICK BILTON

Legend has it that Pablo Picasso once said, “Good artists borrow, great artists steal.”

In the case of Flappy Bird, the highly popular game that vanished from the Apple App Store over the weekend, it seems a lot of people are stealing. Read more of this post

Yes, You Can Make Six Figures As A YouTube Star … And Still End Up Poor

Yes, You Can Make Six Figures As A YouTube Star … And Still End Up Poor

JIM EDWARDS

FEB. 10, 2014, 5:39 PM 3,522 2

It’s the new American Dream: Quitting your job to become famous on YouTube.

Dozens, possibly hundreds of people, have built up huge audiences on Google’s video upload site, and the media is full of stories of their success. The archetype is Jenna Marbles, who has millions of fans and makes an estimated $350,000 a year from her self-deprecating takes on life as an American female. Read more of this post

Marc Andreessen Praises An App Called Slack: ‘I Have Never Seen’ A Business App Go Viral Like This

Marc Andreessen Praises An App Called Slack: ‘I Have Never Seen’ A Business App Go Viral Like This

JULIE BORT

FEB. 10, 2014, 3:41 PM 12,563 12

A new business app created by Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield is creating a ton of buzz in Silicon Valley right now.

It’s called Slack. Read more of this post

The Internet of Things must move beyond mere novelty

The Internet of Things must move beyond mere novelty

BY JAMES ROBINSON 
ON FEBRUARY 10, 2014

A plain old basketball with all the features – nice bounce, right size, appropriate color, light enough to be passed from person-to-person and thrown through a hoop – costs about 20 bucks.

InfoMotion Sports Technologies’ 94Fifty basketball, on retail since late last year and proudly on display at this year’s CES, goes for $295. It comes equipped with nine lightweight sensors and abluetooth chip to relay data back to an iPhone app. Set it on a charger for a couple of hours and you can play with it for about eight. Read more of this post

Will Amazon Destroy the Market for Quality Books?

Will Amazon Destroy the Market for Quality Books?

By Matthew Yglesias

George Packer has an elegant story in The New Yorker recounting the book publishing industry’s struggles with Amazon with nobody quite wanting to go on the record against the leviathan that dominates the book industry, but nobody pleased at the way Jeff Bezos seems to be inexorably squeezing everyone out. It’s great reporting, and the human story of people wrestling with a Seattle-based technology company that doesn’t particularly care about literature is fascinating.

I don’t, however, quite understand the conclusion: Read more of this post

We need a new Bismarck to tame the machines; The power of the new technology barons must be held in check

February 10, 2014 4:18 pm

We need a new Bismarck to tame the machines

By Michael Ignatieff

The power of the new technology barons must be held in check, says Michael Ignatieff

Aquestion haunting democratic politicseverywhere is whether elected governments can control the cyclone of technological change sweeping through their societies. Democracy comes under threat if technological disruption means that public policy no longer has any leverage on job creation. Democracy is also in danger if digital technologies give states powers of total surveillance. Read more of this post

DeepMind and NaturalMotion lead charge of London’s tech start-ups; Unlike in Silicon Valley, tech start-ups in the UK rarely ascend to the lofty heights of multibillion-dollar valuations

February 10, 2014 7:05 pm

DeepMind and NaturalMotion lead charge of London’s tech start-ups

By Sally Davies

Unlike in Silicon Valley, tech start-ups in the UK rarely ascend to the lofty heights of multibillion-dollar valuations. Read more of this post

Philippine TV networks to compete for airtime on smartphones

Philippine TV networks to compete for airtime on smartphones

February 10, 2014

by Phoebe Magdirila

Last December, Philippine television network ABS-CBN announced its foray into mobile. Through ABS-CBNmobile, the new telco has launched a live-streaming app for its customers, following a growing trend among Philippines TV networks. Read more of this post

Fragility Of Bitcoin Uncovered By Glitch; Problem is a Technical Issue Relating to Third-Party Transactions

Fragility Of Bitcoin Uncovered By Glitch

Problem is a Technical Issue Relating to Third-Party Transactions

ROBIN SIDEL And MICHAEL J. CASEY

Updated Feb. 10, 2014 7:44 p.m. ET

Prices of bitcoin

have recently fluctuated on factors ranging from government regulation to the virtual currency’s acceptance by real-world retailers. Now add another driver: perceived technical glitches. Read more of this post

What Bill Gates will do at Microsoft, in his own words

What Bill Gates will do at Microsoft, in his own words

Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images – Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates clarified more of what he’ll be doing. Above, Gates is pictured in a 2012 file photo at the Gaylord National Hotel & Convention Center in National Harbor, Md. Read more of this post

Bitcoin plunges after marketplace indefinitely halts withdrawals

Bitcoin plunges after marketplace indefinitely halts withdrawals

5:47pm EST

By Sam Forgione

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The price of the digital currency bitcoin slid to its lowest level in nearly two months on Monday after bitcoin digital marketplace Mt. Gox said a halt on withdrawals it announced on Friday would continue indefinitely after it detected “unusual activity.” Read more of this post

Online games go local for Southeast Asia’s booming market

Online games go local for Southeast Asia’s booming market

Sun, Feb 9 2014

By Brian Leonal

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – It was while hunting for monsters in a virtual cave that Bend Henmoko Madio met his community and realized why companies are adapting online video games to suit the different languages, tastes and mobile devices in Southeast Asia. Read more of this post

Wikipedia vs. the Small Screen; Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that depends on readers to create and edit its articles, is concerned about whether they will continue to do so on mobile devices

Wikipedia vs. the Small Screen

By NOAM COHEN

FEB. 9, 2014

The Wikipedia entry for the actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, who died this month, is edited on an iPhone. Wikipedia has been especially slow to adapt to a mobile world. Sara Krulwich/The New York Times Read more of this post

Intel wants to be inside mobile devices, too

Intel wants to be inside mobile devices, too

[CEO interview] ‘Nobody knows until a product is released to the market. Intel does hope to work with an influential customer, but nothing is confirmed so far.’

BY MOON GWANG-LIP [joe@joongang.co.kr]

Feb 10,2014

	Lee Hee-sung, Intel Korea’s country manager, shows the company’s latest products at his office in Yeouido, Seoul. By Park Sang-moon

The decline of the global personal computer market appears to be more rapid than its emergence. On Thursday, Sony announced the sale of its PC unit, led by the well-known Vaio brand, to an investment fund from Japan.  Read more of this post

Tackling 3D printing’s accessibility issue

Tackling 3D printing’s accessibility issue

BY JAMES ROBINSON 
ON FEBRUARY 7, 2014

3D printing – the process of making an object of any shape from a three-dimensional digital model – has come so far away from the realm of science fiction and toward the mainstream that even President Obama in his latest State of the Union address credited it as having the “potential to revolutionize the way we make almost everything.” Read more of this post

The Connected TV Landscape: Why Smart TVs And Streaming Gadgets Are Conquering The Living Room

The Connected TV Landscape: Why Smart TVs And Streaming Gadgets Are Conquering The Living Room

MARK HOELZEL FEB. 7, 2014, 10:31 PM 2,425 3

Connected TVs are on pace to take over the television viewing experience. There will be more than 759 million televisions connected to the Internet worldwide by 2018, more than double 2013’s number, according to Digital TV Research. Read more of this post

‘Flappy Bird’ Creator Dong Nguyen Says He’s Shutting The Game Down, Putting Us All Out Of Our Misery; The app is generating $50,000 in sales per day.

‘Flappy Bird’ Creator Says He’s Shutting The Game Down, Putting Us All Out Of Our Misery

NICHOLAS CARLSON

FEB. 8, 2014, 2:59 PM 33,718 3

Suddenly popular, super hard, super addictive smartphone game Flappy Bird is going away. Read more of this post

Technology v the BBC: Yesterday’s news; The licence fee is becoming ever harder to justify

Technology v the BBC: Yesterday’s news; The licence fee is becoming ever harder to justify

Feb 8th 2014 | From the print edition

EMILY CHAPMAN keeps her television under the bed. Two years ago the 27-year-old from London cancelled her TV licence in an effort to spend fewer hours in front of the box. Now she and her boyfriend watch DVDs on a laptop and BBC programmes through iPlayer, an online video service. That is more compelling than she expected: “Our screen time has probably gone up.” Read more of this post

New chief, another one-word slogan for Microsoft; Ballmer walking on stage at a conference in 2006, sweat staining his armpits and chest while he passionately bellowed, “Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers!”

New chief, another one-word slogan for Microsoft

Published 05 February 2014 18:04, Updated 06 February 2014 10:20

Nick Bilton

You might remember a now-famous scene with Steven A. Ballmer, then the chief executive of Microsoft, walking on stage at a conference in 2006, sweat staining his armpits and chest while he passionately bellowed, “Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers!” Read more of this post

A Netflix for Books?

A Netflix for Books?

By Peter Osnos

The Book-of-the-Month Club (BOMC) was founded in 1926. In the 1980s, it was one of publishing’s most formidable enterprises, with millions of members across the country. It had a panel of distinguished judges whose choice of main selections assured a book high visibility and a substantial payment to the author and publisher. The mail-order book club business and its subsidiaries still function, though on a much smaller scale, having been sold and consolidated over the years into gradual irrelevance. But the principle of subscribing for content is again a hot subject, as digital dominance expands from video and music on-demand to the possibilities for books.  Read more of this post

Refresh’s personal dossiers take the work out of small talk; If the future gets its way we may never have to remember anything about anyone ever again

Refresh’s personal dossiers take the work out of small talk

BY JAMES ROBINSON 
ON FEBRUARY 6, 2014

If the future gets its way we may never have to remember anything about anyone ever again.

Immediately after speaking with Bhavin Shah, co-founder of Refresh, I downloaded his startup’s app, billed to be the only mobile service that provides “dossiers” of information about the people you know, meet and run into. After giving it access to a not inconsiderable amount of my personal information – calendar, email accounts, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn – it whirred into life. Read more of this post

To go mainstream, Twitter needs to kill the stream

To go mainstream, Twitter needs to kill the stream

Matthew Braga | February 7, 2014 | Last Updated: Feb 7 4:27 PM ET
There are people that believe Twitter is all about the stream – that, if you just keep scrolling, the wonders of the world will coalesce into a single, hypnotic column. The stream is where bite-sized hits from Benghazi and the Grammy’s can exist side-by-side amidst tweets from friends on some movie you all saw last night. If that’s not the definition of information density, of how a new generation of internet-connected youth consume things we loosely term as “news,” I dare you to find me a better definition of what is. Read more of this post

How Intuit Innovates by Challenging Itself

How Intuit Innovates by Challenging Itself

by Hal Gregersen  |   12:00 PM February 6, 2014

We know that questioning can trigger innovative thinking. But the key—and challenge—to truly changing the status quo is identifying the right question. In a collaboration to determine just how disruptive leaders find these compelling questions, Professor Clayton Christensen and I conducted nearly 40 interviews with renowned global leaders. Read more of this post

It’s only a matter of time before Netflix tramples HBO globally

It’s only a matter of time before Netflix tramples HBO globally

By John McDuling @jmcduling February 7, 2014

We’ve long argued that Time Warner Inc doth protest too much in its attempts to distance HBO from comparisons to Netflix. But separating the premium channel’s earnings results from its other businesses, which the company did for the first time this week, seems to actively encourage it. Read more of this post

It’s a good thing Pandora didn’t listen to that nonsense about “failing fast”; the company built and serviced a 70 million-person monthly user base, grew to a half a billion in revenue, and went public

It’s a good thing Pandora didn’t listen to that nonsense about “failing fast”

By Max Nisen @MaxNisen February 7, 2014

Many entrepreneurs and tech companies laud the idea of rapidly trying new things and failing fast. But it’s a luxury that most companies can’t afford as well as a waste of time, according to Pandora CTO Tom Conrad. Read more of this post

‘Line’ ㅡ two-edged sword for Naver

2014-02-06 17:05

‘Line’ ㅡ two-edged sword for Naver

Firm hires Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan for IPO
By Kim Yoo-chul

Naver, Korea’s dominant web portal, has reported impressive earnings for 2013 thanks to robust performance of its free mobile messaging application ― Line. Read more of this post