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An app created by a UK teenager has been acquired by web giant Yahoo in a deal the BBC understands to be worth “dozens of millions” of pounds. Seventeen-year-old Nick D’Aloisio’s Summly app summarises news stories from popular media companies.…

So You Think You Can Beat Samsung?

On March 19, 2013 in Cool Tech, Industry News, Mobile News.

Meet the tiny, Florida-based phone maker that thinks it can beat Samsung One cheap, high-end, unlocked smartphone at a time Sammy Ohev-Zion starts our chat with an economics lesson. It costs every company about the same amount to manufacture a phone,…

China Military Hacker – Not like the movie Hackers…at all!

On March 13, 2013 in Cool Tech, Just For Fun.

What It’s Like to Be a Chinese Military Hacker All-black stealth suits, fingers flying across keyboards, screams of unintelligible jargon at Matrix-style lines of code. These are the things that generally come to mind when you hear the phrase “foreign…

Optimization creates room for Innovation

On March 11, 2013 in Cool Tech.

New eBay Metrics Help Save Millions in Data Center Costs As part of its Digital Service Efficiency effort to reduce power consumption in its data centers, eBay slightly changed some of its software code so that the code would require…

Preemptive Google Glass Ban (only in Seattle)

On March 10, 2013 in Cool Tech, Just For Fun.

The Banning of Google Glass Begins (And They Aren’t Even Available Yet) A Seattle bar has declared that ‘Google Glass’ (aka Google Glasses)–not yet available to the public–are banned “in advance” from the establishment. Seattle’s 5 Point Cafe posted a…

You Just Gave Notice, Now What?

On March 10, 2013 in Career Assistance, Interview Assistance, Landing a Job.

So you just landed the perfect new job, have given your two-week notice, turned down their counteroffer and need to figure out what to do with yourself at work as you wind down. First of all, it’s very important that…