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01 / ESPN > > For integrating new tech like a startup. Sure, it's a behemoth, with a staggering 107 million weekly fans across seven cable networks, a magazine, radio network, podcasts, and various sites
Read More »iFive: Microsoft: Google Cheats, Amazon’s Cloud Music Deals, Fox Vs Time Warner’s App, Zite’s C&D, Apple Pays More in Japan
1. Today in Europe Microsoft will file an antitrust complaint against Google with the authorities
Read More »4 Tips for Conducting a Job Interview Using Skype
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Read More »iFive: Amazon Cloud Music Woes, Windows 8 Hints, Android Gets In-App Purchases, FBI Hunts Comodo Hacker, NFC in Win Phones
1. Amazon has just pulled the veil from its music locker-in-the-cloud system only to run into organizational and potential legal trouble. It's Sony Music this time , angry that Amazon's use of cloud streaming to clients is denying it potential royalty income.
Read More »Behind the Millionaire Crackdown
Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today. Watch your backs, millionaires.
Read More »Is Apple Pushing Back the iPhone 5 Release?
Despite its mysterious PR aura, Apple is generally pretty reliable when it comes to releasing new hardware at a particular time. But now there are rumors that its hardware release dates may be pushed back later than usual this year.
Read More »Microsoft Helping Break Ground on Cloud-Connected Homes in New Smart City
The home of the future will be bedecked with smart sensors that send their data to the cloud so you can manage the house from afar--yes, this is a story we've heard before. But now Microsoft has joined a plan to build a smart city jammed with exactly these smart homes in Portugal. Living PlanIT , which calls itself "one of the world's leading smart city and urban development technology providers" has been working on a plan for a smart city in northern Portugal for quite a while--currently a 2013 unveiling looks likely
Read More »Your Next Smartphone May Sport a See-Through Solar Power Screen
Now here's an incredible idea : A super-thin transparent screen coating for smartphones that could continuously top off your battery with solar power. The technology is coming out of a small company called Wysips , which has perfected a transparent coating less than 100 microns deep that captures enough energy from the sun to generate electrical power. It relies on the application of super-thin strips of photovoltaic cells laid down on a display screen, and then a precise layer of cylindrical lenticular lenses deposited on top
Read More »Wave-and-Pay NFC Credit Cards Are Definitely In-Bound
A number of moves by different companies and organizations around the world seem to be confirming a long - held rumor is true: Wireless credit card payments using NFC (Near Field wireless Communications) are coming. And (although we ourselves have wavered a bit ) they're coming soon. Verifone We knew Verifone , one of the biggest players in the handheld credit card processing unit market, was going to be adding NFC to all its new handsets, but the company has just set out exactly how and why it's making this move.
Read More »iFive: iPhone 5 NFC, Spacecraft Orbits Mercury, Microsoft Kills Spam, Friendfinder to IPO, Is Groupon Worth $25 Billion?
1. Reports of the demise of wireless payment NFC tech in the upcoming iPhone 5 may be exaggerated: A new rumor has surfaced , purporting to come from an entrepreneur working on a "secret" NFC project, that suggests Apple will indeed support the contact-free system in its new edition. This backs up moves by Apple in January to hire an NFC/RFID expert
Read More »iFive: YouTube Fixes Bad Videos, Kindles Sell Cell Phones, Flash Bugs Revealed, Nissan Leafs Conk Out, Google Stars Gone
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Read More »What Felicia Day Left Out of Her Web Video SXSW 2011 Keynote
Small announcements by online video players Rovi and Vimeo are harbingers of seismic shifts in the way we find TV shows we like. Here's a peek at the new plumbing pumping life into web TV recommendations
Read More »Controversial TSA Airport Body Scan Tech Reborn as Possible Skin Cancer Detector
Could that much-derided TSA body scan technology lead to a medical breakthrough we can all celebrate?
Read More »Waiting For iPad 3
I recently did something that will sound really stupid. I bought an iPad literally days before the release of the iPad 2. I have no regrets, however
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