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Comcast to launch Xfinity Streampix streaming video service, challenge Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon (update)
It was just a matter of time, right? The Wall Street Journal reports that Comcast is rolling out a VOD competitor for Amazon , Netflix and Hulu so it could grab a slice of the streaming video pie. …
WSJ: Safari loophole lets Google track Apple users through web ads
Stanford researcher Jonathan Mayer has discovered a curious Safari loophole that permits Google to trace a user’s browsing activity via cookie-laced web ads. Because it seems, Apple’s browser normally accepts cookies from sites that a user visits, but automatically blocks them from third-party advertisers. …
LightSqured grasps at straws, slams FCC in an announcement
To say it has been a bumpy road for LightSquared over recent months will be an underestimation. However, developments this week could see the beleaguered company reach a critical fork within the …
AT&T’s hungry eyes turning toward Leap, Dish or MetroPCS?
Publicly, a minimum of, AT&T is bursting on the seams because it runs out of space to position all of its customers. The failed $39 billion purchase of T-Mobile was all about looking to match (or better) Verizon’s reserves …
WSJ: Apple testing 8-inch iPad
The invites haven’t even been sent out and yet the frenzied speculation about what Tim Cook will whip out on stage at next month’s purported announcement has begun. The Wall Street Journal believes Cupertino’s planning to provide a smaller, 8-inch slate to partner …
WSJ: AT&T and Verizon will sell LTE iPads
Citing sources “acquainted with the problem,” the Wall Street Journal is now stating rather unequivocally that both AT&T and Verizon Wireless are set to start out selling LTE versions of Apple’s iPad. The most recent revelation is hardly a leap of religion, as rumors to this effect was …
Google makes ‘next gen personal communications device,’ is testing it in employee abodes
We first heard about Google’s foray into home-based hardware late last week , when it asked the FCC for Special Temporary Authority (STA) to have employees test an “entertainment device” of their homes (rather than a lab). Per the recent York Times and Wall Street …
Google reportedly engaged on wireless home entertainment system to be sold under its own brand
Details are still fairly light nowadays, however the Wall Street Journal is reporting today that Google may be about to make big push into the hardware business. Citing people briefed at the company’s plans, the WSJ says that Google is now developing a house entertainment system that might stream music wirelessly in …
Adafruit’s Internet of factors Printer combines your love of data, receiptsLove staying connected and using excess paper? Adafruit's got your back with its latest project. The net of items (IoT) printer goes online via an Ethernet jack, printing up data on 2.5 inch wide receipt paper. You may print such things as Twitter feeds, news briefs or sports scores using its open source software. Putting the box together requires some soldering and an Arduino, but
SanDisk makes 128-gigabit flash chip, crams three bits per cell, takes afternoon offSanDisk has developed a chip that earns it membership within the exclusive 128-gigabit club . Not content with simply matching the Micron / Intel effort, SanDisk and its partner Toshiba claim their new memory uses 19- rather then 20-nanometer cells within the production process. Shrinking the dimensions is something, but SanDisk's new chips also use its X3 / three-bit technology.