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...This enables iPhones to share anonymised device identifiers and wireless proximity data with iOS or Android phones, then alert users to potential exposure, says Venturebeat....
...For a retro look, HP showed off unusual leather-bound and wood-panelled laptops, as well as a VR backpack, as Venturebeat reports....
...“We believe we can solve the problem of the eyeglass that sits in front of your eyeball,” chief executive Ken Anderson told VentureBeat in a 2016 interview, saying it could develop a “thin, transparent eyepiece...
...(Venturebeat) Ransomware rising at ‘alarming rate’ There are now more than 120 separate families of the malicious software that scrambles the data on a victim’s PC and then asks for payment before restoring...
...(Venturebeat) Tech tools you can use – Google Motion Stills The Motion Stills app is incredible, says The Verge — it searches through your library of Live Photos (the pics with motion made possible on...
...Venturebeat has some educated guesses about what could be announced, including chatbots for Messenger, video improvements and a big push for Instant Articles....
...Venturebeat’s Dean Takahashi reports the ball-shaped device comes with 100 preloaded applications, like Wikipedia. Keyboard, mouse and a TV as a monitor are extra....
...(FT, Venturebeat) Flag as Important Must sell more fridges Preliminary figures for Samsung’s fourth quarter show an operating profit of $5.1bn for a full-year one of $22.3bn – up 7 per cent on the previous...
...(FT, RFM, Venturebeat, Business Insider) Flag as Important Sunny oil future Bill Gates has predicted oil made from sunlight could be available within a decade, under a multibillion-dollar drive to boost...
...Google confirmed to VentureBeat that the feature started rolling out to users this week....
...Google+ Sign-In saves users having to remember their logins for different services, similar to Facebook Connect, but the VentureBeat Mobile Summit was told it also is serving as a powerful tool to introduce...
...VentureBeat’s Matt Quinn declared that log data has “hit the mainstream consciousness and will be an expectation in the future”. “‘Where’s the log data?’...
...Jolie O’Dell of VentureBeat called this Kayak’s way to “avoid the ‘Facebook effect’”....
...VentureBeat has more Super Bowl stats, while Techmeme rounds up more tech coverage....
...VentureBeat has what it claims is a sneak peek at the BlackBerry ‘London’ – a touchscreen handset that will run on Research In Motion’s BBX mobile operating system....
...News of the appointment was broken on a Silicon Valley blog, VentureBeat, at the weekend and was confirmed by Google, though it would say nothing more....
...Google has acquired Dealmap, a startup that shows local deals on Google Maps, VentureBeat reports. VentureBeat says it’s the “missing link between Offers and Maps”....
...Commented Meghan Kelly at VentureBeat: “What a way to start off as chief executive.”...
...If this kind of technology takes off, VentureBeat says, it could mean the end of the fax machine and the paper contract....
...Tech news from around the web: Online game group Zynga has teamed up with Chinese social network Tencent to launch a version of its CityVille game for the mainland Chinese market, VentureBeat reports....
...Tech news from around the web: Facebook has launched Facebook Messenger, a mobile app of Facebook Chat and Facebook Message, VentureBeat reports....
...While they addressed similar audiences, the two rival conferences were quite different in style: Techcrunch Disrupt, now owned and run by AOL, was more geeky and chaotic while Demo, run by VentureBeat’s...
...Publishers signed up to have their content reproduced on the app include: the new York Times, Associated Press, Gawker Media, Business Insider, Gigaom, Mashable and VentureBeat....
...smaller wave of cuts will follow in the US and the total number of jobs cut will be close to 900.StumbleUpon, the social service for discovering content, has raised $17m in a new round of funding, says VentureBeat...
...From around the web: News Corp has launched its newspaper app for iPads, The Daily, which is available for download in the iTunes store now, VentureBeat reports....
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