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  • Apple has bought WiFiSLAM, a startup that has been developing a way to use WiFi hotspots to help smartphones navigate large indoor spaces, like stores, airports and conference centers.

    Apple buys WiFi-location startup Mar 30, 2013 12:00 AM
    Apple has bought WiFiSLAM, a startup that has been developing a way to use WiFi hotspots to help smartphones navigate large indoor spaces, like stores, airports and conference centers.

     
  • This image released by the online Machinima network shows a scene from the Premium episodic series “Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn.” Machinima has grown into one of the most successful networks on YouTube, a gamer hub composed of a little expensively-produced original programming, and a whole lot of user-generated videos.

    ‘Premium’ is subjective for YouTube’s big networks Mar 18, 2013 12:00 AM
    While the land rush to stream "premium" original content is drawing an increasing number of video professionals to the Web, YouTube's swelling multi-channel networks are finding success — and enormous scale — with a more organic, bottom-up approach.

     
  • Twitter Inc., the Web-based social messaging service, is developing a mobile music application that will let its users play and share songs on Apple Inc. devices, people with knowledge of the matter said.

    Twitter plans mobile music app using SoundCloud service Mar 16, 2013 12:00 AM
    Twitter Inc., the Web-based social messaging service, is developing a mobile music application that will let its users play and share songs on Apple Inc. devices, people with knowledge of the matter said. The app will stream music from SoundCloud Ltd., a Berlin- based audio-sharing service, said one of the people, who asked not to be named because the plan hasn't been announced.

     

  • What to do with the world’s fastest Internet service Mar 16, 2013 12:00 AM
    oogle's gigabit initiative, called Google Fiber, has sparked a round of questions across the tech industry. Is Google looking to become an Internet service provider? Does it simply want to spur other ISPs into providing faster service? And, finally, why gigabit Internet — what does Google expect people to do with the world's fastest broadband service?

     

  • Wrapp CEO Winbladh talks gifts, Facebook and mobile payments Mar 16, 2013 12:00 AM
    Social girfting is a great proposition for retailers trying to get more customers into their physical stores. That's a main goal for Hjalmar Winbladh, chief executive of the social gifting service Wrapp, who saw his customers redeem more than 1 million digital gift cards in the 2012 holiday season alone. The company offers free and paid gift cards from partners such as Sephora, GameStop and Banana Republic to its customers.

     

  • Netflix’s US customers get Facebook-sharing tool Mar 16, 2013 12:00 AM
    A long-awaited coming attraction has finally arrived for Netflix's U.S. subscribers. They will now be able to automatically see what their Facebook friends have been watching on the Internet video service, as long as they are willing to open a peephole into their viewing habits, too. The sharing tool announced Wednesday is rolling out 18 months after Netflix Inc. introduced the feature to its international subscribers.

     
  • Actress Mila Kunis’ stardom and general idolization went up a notch last week, and you would think this is because she stars in the biggest movie of the year so far. But “Oz: The Great And Powerful,” which debuted with $79.1 million at the box office, had hardly anything to do with the sudden rush of adulation that engulfed Kunis. Instead, it was a seven-minute viral video that’s been watched more than 10 million times and blogged about the world over.

    Viral videos stoke celebrities’ images Mar 12, 2013 12:00 AM
    “Oz the Great and Powerful,” which debuted with $79.1 million at the box office, had little to do with the sudden rush of adulation that engulfed actress Mila Kunis. Instead, it was a seven-minute viral video that’s been watched more than 10 million times and blogged about the world over. It's proof that a new kind of stardom is emerging, propelled by glimpses of authenticity circulated on the Web like evidence of a star’s real nature: guileless snapshots of their innate coolness.

     
  • This image provided by Marvel Entertainment shows the cover of the first issue of “Uncanny Avengers.” Marvel, home to the Fantastic Four, the X-Men and the Avengers, among others, made more than 700 first issues available to digital readers on Sunday via its app and website.

    Marvel releasing some 700 No. 1 issues digitally Mar 10, 2013 12:00 AM
    Marvel Entertainment, home to the Fantastic Four, the X-Men and the Avengers, among others, is making more than 700 first issues available to digital readers starting Sunday for free through the Marvel app and the company's website. After Tuesday, they'll be sold for $1.99 to $3.99 per issue.

     
  • Chris Cox, vice president of product for Facebook Inc., speaks during an event at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, U.S., on Thursday, March 7, 2013. Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer and founder of Facebook Inc., discussed the social-network site's upgraded News Feed which includes bigger photos, information sorted into topics and a more consistent design across devices. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg *** Local Caption *** Chris Cox

    Facebook tries to stay hip with jazzier News FeedMar 9, 2013 12:00 AM

     
  • Tingo is one of a growing number of services that aim to save travelers money on their hotel stays. The site, which is owned by TripAdvisor, says that travelers have a 20-percent chance of getting at least some money back. The typical rebate is $50, according to the company, but occasionally travelers like Eisen get much more back.

    New technologies help travelers lower hotel prices Mar 9, 2013 12:00 AM
    When Amy Eisen originally booked a weeklong vacation to celebrate her 30th anniversary, she was looking at a $3,749 hotel bill. But Eisen reserved her room at the all-inclusive Sanctuary Cap Cana in the Dominican Republic through a new travel site, Tingo.com. Each day, the booking site automatically checked to see if the hotel lowered its price for the nights Eisen was staying there. Eventually, the price fell. Tingo canceled Eisen's original reservation and rebooked her at the new, lower rate. Her savings: $1,874.

     
  • South Korean Hwang Min-woo, the 7-year-old nicknamed “Little PSY,” performs during a concert in Seoul, South Korea in December. Hwang said that he wants to gain global fame like his “big brother,” PSY during a press conference.

    Little PSY goes solo after ‘Gangnam Style’ cameo Mar 7, 2013 12:00 AM
    The impish boy who showed off his dance moves alongside PSY in "Gangnam Style" is hoping to go viral, too. The 7-year-old nicknamed "Little PSY" is releasing an electro pop song next week through iTunes.

     
  • Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, ICANN, President and Chief Executive Rod Beckstrom, speaks on expanding the number of domain name suffixes during a news conference in London. Hundreds of Internet address suffixes to rival “.com” should be available for people and businesses to use by the end of the year, the head of an Internet oversight agency said Monday. The initial ones, expected in mid-2013, will likely be in Chinese and other languages besides English, said Fadi Chehade, CEO of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.

    Mid-2013 expansion for Internet names targeted Mar 2, 2013 12:00 AM
    Hundreds of Internet address suffixes to rival “.com” should be available for people and businesses to use by the end of the year, the head of an Internet oversight agency said Monday. The initial ones, expected in mid-2013, will likely be in Chinese and other languages besides English, said Fadi Chehade, CEO of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.

     
  • A man is pictured Wednesday inside of a Car Volvo V60 P-IH at the Mobile World Congress, the world’s largest mobile phone trade show, in Barcelona, Spain. The first wave of the wireless revolution was getting people to talk to each other through cellphones. The second, it seems, will be getting things to talk to each other, with no human intervention: cars that talk to your insurance company’s computers, bathroom scales that talk to your phone, and electric meters that talk to your air conditioners. So-called machine-to-machine technology all the buzz at this year’s largest wireless trade show, and some analysts believe these types of connection will outgrow the traditional phone business in less than a decade.

    Wireless connections creep into everyday things Mar 2, 2013 12:00 AM
    The first wave of wireless was all about getting people to talk to each other on cellphones. The second will be getting things to talk to each other, with no humans in between. So-called machine-to-machine communication is getting a lot of buzz at this year’s wireless trade show. Some experts believe these connections will outgrow the traditional phone business in less than a decade.

     
  • Google is adding a new touch to its line of Chrome laptops in an attempt to outshine personal computers running on software made by rivals Microsoft and Apple.

    Review: Google’s Chromebook Pixel is upscale overkill Mar 2, 2013 12:00 AM
    Google’s spent the last few years trying to establish its Chrome Operating System as a viable competitor to Windows and Apple’s OS X by partnering with manufacturers like Samsung, Acer and Hewlett-Packard to produce inexpensive laptops. But with the Pixel, it’s taken on the hardware responsibility itself and gone decidedly upscale in the process.

     
  • Tuesday’s release of Internet Explorer 10 is aimed at PCs running on Windows 7, the most used version of Microsoft Corp.’s flagship operating system for PCs. A preview version of Internet Explorer 10 has been available for Windows 7 machines since mid-November. The final version of Internet Explorer 10 will be automatically sent to all Windows 7 computers set up to get updates.

    Microsoft’s IE 10 browser coming to Windows 7 PCs Mar 2, 2013 12:00 AM
    Microsoft is escalating its efforts to bring the latest version of Internet Explorer to more than 700 million personal computers in an attempt to re-establish the software maker’s browser as the best way to surf the Web. Tuesday’s release of Internet Explorer 10 is aimed at PCs running on Windows 7, the most used version of Microsoft Corp.’s flagship operating system for PCs.

     
  • Stick-N-Find Technologies, wants to give people a way to find things, by using a new radio technology known as Bluetooth Low Energy, which drastically reduces the power consumption of a transmitting device.

    Smart ‘stickers’ let you find things by phone Mar 2, 2013 12:00 AM
    On the floor of the world’s largest cellphone trade show in Barcelona, Spain, Jimmy Buchheim is looking at the screen of his iPod Touch, taking a few steps, and then looking again. Now and then he backtracks or turns, and looks again. Slowly, he confines his movements to a smaller and smaller area. Then he drops to his knees, and checks the screen again. He scrabbles forward. “There we are!” he says.

     
  • Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer announced plans to force Yahoo’s few hundred remote workers to relocate to its offices.

    Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s misstep Mar 2, 2013 12:00 AM
    Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is going to regret this decision to ban working from home. It’s myopic, unfriendly and so boneheaded that I worry it’s the product of spending too much time at the office. (She did, after all, build a nursery next to her office to house her new baby). Numerous studies have found that people can be more productive when they’re allowed to work away from the office.

     
  • Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, right, is escorted out of a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md. The Army private charged in the largest leak of classified material in U.S. history said Thursday he sent the material to WikiLeaks to enlighten the public about American foreign and military policy.

    Army private says he leaked secrets to spark war debate Mar 1, 2013 12:00 AM

     
  • Karen Williams, who battled Facebook over the right to view her deceased son Loren’s Facebook page, has been urging lawmakers for years to do something to prevent others from losing photos, messages and other memories that otherwise could be accessed at the click of a mouse. This year the Oregon Legislature took up the cause, only to be turned back by pressure from the tech industry, which says they must abide by a 1986 federal law that prevents them from sharing such information.

    In death, Facebook photos could fade away forever Mar 1, 2013 12:00 AM
    A grieving Oregon mother who battled Facebook for full access to her deceased son’s account has been pushing for years for something that would prevent others from losing photos, messages and other memories — as she did. “Everybody’s going to face this kind of a situation at some point in their lives,” says Karen Williams, whose 22-year-old son died in a 2005 motorcycle accident. Lobbyists agree the Stored Communications Act is woefully out of date but say that until it’s changed, laws passed at the state level could be unconstitutional.

     
  • Groupon, the struggling online deals company, said Thursday after the market closed that it ousted Andrew Mason as CEO and will look for a new chief.

    Groupon fires CEO, still faces underlying problems Mar 1, 2013 12:00 AM
    Now that Groupon has gotten rid of its quirky founder and CEO, the chief question is whether the company’s underlying online deals business is promising enough to reverse its falling stock price, declining revenue growth and waning consumer interest. In a refreshingly candid memo to staff, Groupon CEO Andrew Mason admitted he “failed at this part of the journey” and said the company’s employees “deserve the outside world to give you a second chance.”

     
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