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• Apple expects strong demand in smartwatch consumer debut

  09-04-2015 23:31
  
  By Noel Randewich SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc expects tremendous interest for its new smartwatch and demand to outstrip supply as consumers get an up-close look on Friday at CEO Tim Cook's first major product. The Apple Watch, which also marks the Cupertino, California company's debut in a fledgling wearable technology market, will be available for pre-order online and to try out in stores - but not take home. On April 24, consumers will be able to buy it online or by reservati
  
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• Review: Misfit Flash

  09-04-2015 20:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Introduction, display, design and comfort As wearables continue to become more commonplace, they're continuing to push forward in more spaces, including the fashion industry. Misfit was one of the first companies that 'got it' with the Misfit Shine. Although far from perfect, it's simple, sleek and above all, disguised as a simple fashion accessory; you wouldn't know the tech was inside unless someone told you.Now, Misfit has released a sportier and more affordable version known as the Misfit Fl
  
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• French media groups to hold emergency meeting after Isis cyber-attack

  09-04-2015 20:04
  
  Culture minister calls talks after television network TV5Monde is taken over by individuals claiming to belong to Islamic State Continue reading...
  
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• No one on the internet can figure out if this cat is going up or down these stairs

  09-04-2015 19:05
  
  Coming off the heels of the world’s most famous dress, a post on 9Gag of a cat walking on a set of stairs is going viral. 9gag.com Spotted on The Daily Mail, the 9Gag post asks readers if the cat is walking up or down the stairs. At the time of this post, almost 4,000 comments have been made arguing about the image. “Down because generally the wood would be flat on the horizontal portion of the stairs and the stone is on the back/vertical portion of the stairs,” said one commenter.  “I
  
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• Zynga founder's return as CEO drags down game maker's stock

  09-04-2015 18:56
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The return of Zynga founder Mark Pincus as the digital game maker's CEO is bring back bad memories about the problems that prompted him to step down as the company's leader nearly two years ago.
  
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• DJI: We don't see Amazon drone deliveries happening in the next 10 years

  09-04-2015 18:54
  
  DJI, the largest manufacturer of consumer multirotor drones in the world and a keen proponent of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) being used in industry, has said it does not believe Amazon's drone delivery dreams are feasible in the near future. "What a lot of people are asking themselves is 'will I look up and see a sky full of drones?' It's impossible to predict the future but the way we see the market moving right now, something like that is really unlikely in the near
  
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• LinkedIn to buy online education company lynda.com for $1.5 bln

  09-04-2015 18:16
  
  (Reuters) - Professional social network operator LinkedIn Corp said it would buy privately held online education company lynda.com in a cash-and-stock deal valued at about $1.5 billion (1.01 billion pounds). With the integration of lynda.com and LinkedIn, users will know what skills are needed for the available jobs in their desired city, Ryan Roslansky, LinkedIn's head of content, wrote in a blog. LinkedIn said it would pay about 52 percent in cash and about 48 percent in stock for the acq
  
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• 'Mystique-like' malware killed off

  09-04-2015 18:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Polymorphic malware that changes its identity up to 19 times a day to avoid detection while taking control of users' computers has been deactivated.
  
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• Massey University charts early shift to Skype for Business

  09-04-2015 18:05 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  The ability to deploy Skype for Business as a hybrid cloud system could help university to retire its legacy telephony systems.
  
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• ​How Apple's 12-inch MacBook could steal Apple Watch's thunder

  09-04-2015 18:03 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Once you start adding new bands to the Apple Watch the cost can rise enough to opt for a new MacBook, which is more refined, just as fashionable and features strong design.
  
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• Lego Dimensions to take on Skylanders in 'toy-to-life' genre

  09-04-2015 17:48
  
  Batman and Gandalf to star in latest Lego game, which comes with bricks and mini-figs that can interact with the onscreen actionWarner Bros has confirmed that its next Lego video game will be called Lego Dimensions and allow players to place real minifigs and blocks onto a special sensor pad so that they appear in the onscreen action.The game will feature multiple entertainment licenses, most of which have already featured in the best-selling Lego series of action adventure titles. Minifigs of B
  
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• Austria court ponders Facebook case

  09-04-2015 17:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A court in Austria will decide in the coming weeks whether it has jurisdiction to hear a class action privacy lawsuit brought against Facebook.
  
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• Can't afford an Apple Watch? Pick one up in Shenzhen for £37

  09-04-2015 16:38
  
  Are you thinking the Apple Watch is a bit pricey? Well head over to the Chinese city of Shenzhen and pick one up for £37 (after you fly there, of course). In the teeming electronics district Shenzhen, dozens of unofficial retailers are offering local replicas of the soon-to-be launched Apple Watch. The new Apple Watch will go on sale in China on 24 April, the same day as the United States - unlike the iPhone 6, which hit Chinese stores almost a month after the US.
  
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• A whole new ball game: how data and tech are changing sport

  09-04-2015 16:38
  
  Increased performance through data analysis is just one of the rewards tech can bring to sports. Fan engagement and commercial opportunities can also benefit Continue reading...
  
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• Intel said to drop Altera acquisition after talks failed

  09-04-2015 16:22 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  The little-known semiconductor and software company saw its share price rocket after news of the negotiations began. Now, according to sources, those talks are over.
  
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• AWS lands more enterprise software vendors building on its cloud

  09-04-2015 16:19 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  If AWS keeps landing independent software vendors such as Tibco, MicroStrategy, Infor and Informatica as all-in customers, most enterprises will be customers even if indirectly.
  
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• Apple expects smartwatch demand to exceed supply at launch

  09-04-2015 15:41
  
  (Reuters) - Apple Inc said on Thursday it expected the "tremendous interest" in its new smartwatch to result in demand outstripping supply when the gadget hits stores on April 24. Apple said it would take orders for the watch exclusively online during the initial launch period. Based on a survey in the United States on consumer interest in buying the Apple Watch, BMO Capital Markets has cut its estimate for sales to 39 million units though September 2016. Apple is among several compani
  
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• Awesome! 'Lego Dimensions' combining bricks and franchises

  09-04-2015 15:24
  
  BURBANK, Calif. (AP) — The creators of the "Lego" video games are building their own rendition of a toys-to-life franchise.
  
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• 5 things I learnt installing Windows 10 Technical Preview

  09-04-2015 15:19
  
  IntroductionI've probably installed Windows 10 Technical Preview (TP for short) about 20 times over the last few months on tablets, laptops and desktops, and in the process have learnt quite a few things about the all-important installation journey.The current iteration, 10049, is probably the most stable version to date and likely to be the penultimate one before the beta version is officially launched at Build 2015 in San Francisco later this month. Sandwiched between the two will be build 100
  
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• Microsoft's Lumia 640 and 640 XL are now on sale, and they're crazy cheap

  09-04-2015 15:18
  
  Low-end Lumia's have long proved popular and there are now two more impressively affordable options to choose from.Microsoft has confirmed that the Lumia 640 is out now and it will be followed by the Lumia 640 XL by the end of April.The Lumia 640 has a 5.0-inch 1280 x 720 display, a 1.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon 400 processor, 1GB of RAM, a 2500 mAh battery, an 8MP main camera, a 1MP front-facing snapper, 8GB of storage and a microSD card slot and it starts from just £99.99 SIM-free or £15.50 pe
  
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• ​IBM teams with TI on 'silicon tokens' to authenticate the Internet of Things

  09-04-2015 15:01 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  IBM has announced a new cloud-based 'silicon token' authentication service to manage the identity of embedded devices fro cradle to grave.
  
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• ​MariaDB Corp picks off speed bottlenecks and tightens anti-SQL injection measures

  09-04-2015 15:00 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  The company behind the open-source MariaDB MySQL branch has unveiled its spring release database offering, which it says is tuned for better performance.
  
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• LG will give you free Netflix to sweeten the deal on its TVs

  09-04-2015 14:55
  
  Starting today, if you buy one of LG's brand new 4K TVs you'll be handed six months free Netflix to enjoy on your cracking new TV. And let's be honest here, if you have a 4K TV then you're going to be forced to use Netflix for your 4K content, because there aren't many other ways to see ultra HD right now. That should change later on this year when the 4K Blu-ray format finally arrives, but there may still be very little material to watch on disc. Plus, who honestly wants discs in this day and a
  
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• Apple says smartwatch demand to exceed supply at launch

  09-04-2015 14:53
  
  (Reuters) - Apple Inc said on Thursday demand for its new smartwatch would exceed supply when the gadget hits stores on April 24. Apple said it saw "tremendous interest" for the watch from people visiting its stores and website. The Apple Watch could make life easier for people on the move, but the gadget got poor marks for battery life and slow-loading apps from reviewers.
  
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• Apple Watch options: 54 combinations of case, band, size

  09-04-2015 14:53
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Apple Watch comes with a choice of watch case, band and size — there are 54 possible configurations in all.
  
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• Real money trade starts in Warcraft

  09-04-2015 14:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The introduction of a way to use real money to buy virtual cash for World of Warcraft has prompted big changes in the value of game gold.
  
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• Your guide to trying on, ordering Apple Watch

  09-04-2015 14:52
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Buying an Apple Watch won't be as simple as walking into an Apple store and handing over your credit card.
  
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• LinkedIn to buy online education company lynda.com for $1.5 billion

  09-04-2015 14:32
  
  (Reuters) - Professional social network operator LinkedIn Corp said it would buy privately held online education company lynda.com in a cash-and-stock deal valued at about $1.5 billion (1.01 billion pounds). LinkedIn said it would pay about 52 percent in cash and about 48 percent in stock. (Reporting by Devika Krishna Kumar in Bengaluru; Editing by Ted Kerr)
  
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• Cybercrime fighting group takes down Beebone botnet

  09-04-2015 14:28
  
  LONDON (AP) — A new group of international cybercrime fighters claimed one of its first kills Thursday, pulling the plug on malicious servers that hijacked at least 12,000 machines, most of them in the United States.
  
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• Austrian student's lawsuit versus Facebook bogged down in procedure

  09-04-2015 14:17
  
  By Shadia Nasralla and Angelika Gruber VIENNA (Reuters) - Facebook presented a long list of procedural objections to an Austrian court on Thursday trying to halt a class action lawsuit for 25,000 users that accuses the social media giant of violating their privacy. The first day of hearings began with a four-hour session in which Facebook's lawyers tried to convince the judge not to admit the suit brought by law student Max Schrems, 27, who is claiming 500 euros (363 pounds) in damages for
  
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• Missing emojis we'd like to see

  09-04-2015 14:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  What's still absent from the expanded list of computer characters?
  
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• California: Inside Facebook's new Menlo Park HQ: Instagram users photograph Frank Gehry building

  09-04-2015 14:02
  
  Facebook employees have moved into a huge new building in Menlo Park, California, with about 430,000 square feet of interior space. The building was deigned by Frank Gehry, the architect best known for undulating titanium-clad masterpieces like the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. Mark Zuckerberg said: "Our goal was to create the perfect engineering space for our teams to work together.
  
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• Review: Apple Photos

  09-04-2015 14:00
  
  iPhoto, Aperture and Photos27 June 2014 is the date when everything changed. This is when Apple announced it was pulling the plug on its two photo-editing applications, iPhoto and Aperture and replacing them with a single new Photos app.To be fair, iPhoto was starting to show its age, so no-one was very worried about that. A new photo editing application was hardly likely to be dumbed down any further and a redesign and integration with Apple's new iCloud Photos could be just the thing to reinvi
  
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• Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge faces shortages as demand outstrips supply

  09-04-2015 13:49
  
  Higher than expected demand for difficult-to-manufacture curved screen smartphone means company is unlikely to be able to keep upSamsung won’t be able to keep up with unexpectedly high demand for its new curved screen Galaxy S6 Edge smartphone, the company has admitted.
  Head of mobile JK Shin told press on Thursday that because the curved screens of the S6 Edge, which roll over the left and right sides of the smartphones, are difficult to manufacture the Korean firm won’t be able to keep up
  
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• In Depth: OnePlus 2: What we want to see

  09-04-2015 13:18
  
  The OnePlus One came out of nowhere as the first product of a new company, but it didn't disappoint, thanks to high end specs and a surprisingly low price tag.One of the biggest complaints we could level at it was how hard it was to get hold of at launch and when that's the biggest problem a phone is facing you know you've got a winner on your hands.But while there were no expectations for the OnePlus One hopes are sky high for the OnePlus 2, so it's got a lot to live up to.News and rumorsWe don
  
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• Hands-on: BodyGuardz The Crown aluminum and glass screen protector for iPhone 6 Plus

  09-04-2015 13:10 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  It's a challenge to protect the curved glass display of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus. BodyGuardz just released a new two-piece solution that adds glass and aluminum.
  
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• Next generation bionic limbs will have eyes of their own

  09-04-2015 13:07 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Despite advances, bipedal walking is a white whale for developers of lower extremity bionics. Artificial vision might help. Here's why.
  
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• French broadcaster TV5Monde hit by Islamist hackers

  09-04-2015 13:07
  
  Hackers purporting to be supporters of Islamic State knocked out channels belonging to French public television station TV5Monde and posted material on its social media feeds to protest French military action in Iraq. President Francois Hollande's government branded the cyber attacks, which started late on Wednesday, a "vile and cowardly" affront to freedom of expression and began an investigation, promising to track down those responsible. Yves Bigot, head of the TV5Monde station
  
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• French network's broadcasts hacked by group claiming IS ties

  09-04-2015 13:01
  
  PARIS (AP) — Hackers claiming allegiance to the Islamic State group seized control of a global French television network, simultaneously blacking out 11 channels and taking over the network's website and social media accounts. The attack appeared to be an unprecedented step in the extremist group's information warfare tactics.
  
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• Beyond food, beyond fashion: Turkey's journey towards a new startup culture

  09-04-2015 12:48 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Turkey might not be the most obvious site for a tech hotspot, but the country is taking its first steps to growing its startup scene.
  
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• TV5Monde victim of ‘very powerful cyber attack’ – video

  09-04-2015 12:42
  
  Yves Bigot, the director-general of French TV network TV5Monde, says the company's firewalls were breached by people with a deep knowledge of security and possible links to Islamic State. TV5Monde's firewalls were hacked on Wednesday and pro-Isis messages were posted on the company's social media accounts. The network says it will take time for television broadcasts to return to normal Continue reading...
  
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• Class action privacy lawsuit filed against Facebook in Austria

  09-04-2015 12:37
  
  Case lead by privacy campaigner Max Schrems sees 25,000 users sue social network for alleged illegal tracking of their data and its involvement in the NSA’s surveillance programme Continue reading...
  
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• Updated: iPhone 7 release date, news and rumors

  09-04-2015 12:10
  
  iPhone 6S / 7 release date and rumorsThe iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus have been with us long enough now that we're getting a little tired of them. Fickle, we know. But the mooted specs and features of the new iPhone (probably called the iPhone 6S, with the iPhone 7 coming in 2016) are starting to trickle out.Latest update: We could see an iPhone 6c alongside the iPhone 6s. Plus Apple seems to be working hard on its batteries and Force Touch might be exclusive to the iPhone 6s Plus.
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• IBM and Fujifilm produce tape capable of storing 220TB of data

  09-04-2015 12:00
  
  IBM researchers and Fujifilm have outdone themselves again. In partnership, the companies have managed to cram 123 billion bits of data per square inch onto a tape storage device. In May, the two companies said they had figured out a way to store 85.9 billion bits per square inch, or 154 terabytes, onto a tape storage prototype. Today’s announcement introduces a unit that can hold 43% more data than the previous model. With the new standard, IBM can now squeeze 220 terabytes of data onto a car
  
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• Hands-on review: Office 2016

  09-04-2015 12:00
  
  Introduction(Note that this is our take on the preview of Office 2016. Although this is unfinished goods, it is likely that the final version won't be dramatically different from the one we reviewed)Microsoft is the productivity company, claims CEO Satya Nadella. While that includes a range of products from the Office 365 cloud services to the mobile apps for iOS and Android (along with Skype for Business, Dynamics and Power BI), for most people, Microsoft Office is "top-of-the-mind" f
  
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• DealsRadar: DealsRadar: Samsung Galaxy Tab, gizmos, gadgets and more!

  09-04-2015 12:00
  
  DealsRadarDealsRadar is the go-to destination for all the best prices on tech and games on the internet. We update daily with links to the best deals on miscellaneous tech and games, with dedicated sections for all your favourite products!Today we've got some great deals on a Lenovo S20, Harmon Kardon Soundsticks and lots more great tech bargains.If you're looking for a new phone why not check out our new phone store here.DealsRadar's Daily Deals:Laptop: Need a new laptop for checking emails, su
  
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• Dirty Harry: Daniel Radcliffe tipped for Grand Theft Auto movie

  09-04-2015 11:59
  
  The British actor/ex-wizard is in the running to play the creator of the controversial game Continue reading...
  
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• AT&T fined record $25m over breach

  09-04-2015 11:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  AT&T has been fined $25m (£17m) over breaches of customer data at call centres in Mexico, Colombia and the Philippines.
  
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• Samsung hopes to reverse dimming fortunes with Galaxy S6

  09-04-2015 11:22
  
  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — When Samsung dubbed development of its latest smartphones "Project Zero," it was sounding a note of desperation as sales tumbled and it lost pole position in the crucial Chinese market to rivals Xiaomi and Apple.
  
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