A rather standard how-to YouTube clip is causing a stir in Russia after becoming the focus of a dispute between the government and the video site. The three-minute clip, which provides instructions for applying scary Halloween makeup, was banned at...
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Are Phablets a Fad? Flurry Report Looks at Screen Size
Large-screen smartphones — often called phablets — have been getting a lot of attention lately. But so far, the devices make up only a tiny portion of the global mobile market, according to a new study. Flurry, a mobile analytics company,...
Read more »BlackBerry’s Lazaridis Says Board Wanted Him to Stay CEO
Mike Lazaridis, the inventor of the BlackBerry, announced plans today to leave the company’s board, severing the final ties to a business he founded nearly 30 years ago. Lazaridis had served as co-CEO until January 2012, when he and Jim...
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"Terry" Gou Tai-Ming, chairman and president of Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd., speaks in his office building at the Foxconn City complex in Shenzhen, China, in 2010.
Foxconn Doesn’t Want to Be Confused With Foxconn, So It’s Changing Its Name
For years, the world has had trouble wrapping its head around that behemoth known to us all as Foxconn. Not helping matters has been the fact that Taiwan-based Foxconn Technology Group is actually a name given to a collection of...
Read more »Cree’s Bright Idea for Home Lighting: Rich Jaroslovsky
A light bulb? Seriously? Well, yeah. But not just any old light bulb. A whiz-bang, low-energy, cool-to-the-touch, lives-practically-forever $10 light bulb. It’s from Cree, a big name in commercial and industrial lighting that uses light-emitting diodes, or LEDs — the...
Read more »Apple Just Hired One of its Outspoken Critics
It’s an old adage that Kevin Lynch can surely appreciate now: If you can’t beat them, join them. Lynch, who is leaving Adobe to work at Apple, spent the past eight years at the software company, including the last five...
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Samsung Braces for Next Battleground With Google
Samsung made itself the brand to beat in the crowded smartphone space by backing Google’s Android software –- 96 percent of the South Korean company’s shipments ran on the platform. Now, it’s planning a high-end smartphone powered by Intel-backed open-source...
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The Inner Balance app coaches you through breathing exercises designed to reduce stress.
Inner Balance Promises Stress Relief for IPhoners: Rich Jaroslovsky
In a classic “Seinfeld” episode, George’s father adopts what’s supposed to be a stress-reduction technique. Except that, instead of reciting it softly to himself, he bellows to the rafters: “Serenity now!” The Inner Balance Trainer is a $99 device from...
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The New York Times is hoping to attract young readers by meeting them where they hang out.
Hey Kids, Forget Netflix! Come Party With The New York Times
The New York Times has plenty of paying readers, about 1.61 million as of September. But if there’s something the Times wants more than paying readers, it’s young paying readers. It wants kids out of college willing to plunk down a few bucks...
Read more »Is IBM’s Watson a Woman?
Watson, the IBM computer that recorded and analyzed millions of pages of data to beat humans in “Jeopardy!,” may be female, judging by how IBM CEO Ginni Rometty reacted to a question from an audience member after giving a speech last...
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