Wednesday, March 19, 2014

IT News Head Lines (I4U News) 20/03/2014

I4U News



8GB version of Apple iPhone 5c Announced

We all know how unsuccessful the story of the iPhone 5c has been and while we were hearing news about the phone's units left in inventory, Apple devised a new way to handle the situation and improve...


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Google Is On a Mission

Despite appearances to the contrary, Google isn’t out to dominate the world – it only seeks to organize it.  Actually, the company states its mission is “to organize the world’s information and...


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Adobe Muse Makes It Simple To Create Professional Websites

When I think of Adobe, the first things that come to mind are Flash, and Acrobat—or more precisely the Reader utility used to view the PDF documents created by Acrobat. When I think of creating...


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Oracle Shares Slump On Slightly Weaker Than Anticipated Revenue

Weaker than anticipated third quarter earnings and revenue sent shares of Oracle down around 5% to below $36 in after hours trading. Tuesday Oracle reported $9.3 billion in third quarter revenue, up...


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Jesse Jackson to take on tech's lack of diversity

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Rev. Jesse Jackson plans to lead a delegation to the Hewlett Packard annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday to bring attention to Silicon Valley's poor record of including...


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Facebook's DeepFace Software Can Match Faces With 97.25% Accuracy

Have you noticed that Facebook is getting better at making suggestions for people to tag in the photos that you have uploaded? Facebook will only get better at identifying faces thanks to advances in...


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Google's First Android Smart Watches To Be Made By Motorola, LG

Two of Google's most successful hardware partners of late are also the first to unveil their latest collaborations with the Mountain View monolith — this time on their respective debut smart watches...


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Sony Announces Virtual Reality Headset For PS4

The VR wars are just getting started. Sony announced a virtual reality headset for the Playstation 4 at  the Game Developer’s Conference today, joining the Oculus Rift as a high-profile headset...


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Is The CDC Really Preparing For A Zombie Apocalypse? Yes And No

Are you prepared for a Walking Dead-style zombie apocalypse? The CDC hopes so. No, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) does not see a zombie invasion as a realistic future scenario. But the office...


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The Google Of Ed Search: Will Using Your Noodle Generate A Better College Fit?

In the world of search, there’s Google — 67% market share — and there’s everyone else. Bing (17.9%), Yahoo (11.3%) and Ask (2.7%) all lag badly. Due to the Mountain View behemoth’s undisputed search...


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NSA collects all phone calls in a foreign country

WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Security Agency has been recording all of a foreign country's phone calls, then listening to the conversations up to a month later, The Washington Post reported Tuesday...


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'Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes' Can Be Completed In Ten Minutes

Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes is getting generally positive reviews, though opinions tend to waver quite a bit based on one simple fact: The game is short. Some reviewers have beaten it in just...


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Negative SEO: Have Mercenaries Been Hired To Torpedo Your Search Rankings?

Recently, an individual contacted my company, threatening to build thousands of links to my website if we didn’t pay him $250. The questions you may be asking are: Why is that a bad thing? Why wouldn...


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Will Tesla's China Story Lose Its Charge?

When 35-year-old Eric Zhu deliberated to which car his family should upgrade, Tesla Motors didn’t stay long in the race. Zhu, who works as a senior manager at a Western industrial firm in Beijing, is...


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Get An Enduring Cloud With CloudEndure

One of the issues attendant with the wholesale rush into the cloud, is the concern around disaster recovery in situations where customers put all their eggs in one basket. Imagine you’re an...


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Global music revenue dips 3.9 pct on Japan decline

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Global music revenues fell 3.9 percent to $15 billion in 2013, pulled down by a sharp decline in compact disc sales in Japan, according to the International Federation of the...


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Crowdsourcing Feature Discovery

By Ben Lorica Data scientists were among the earliest and most enthusiastic users of crowdsourcing services. Lukas Biewald noted in a recent talk that one of the reasons he started CrowdFlower was...


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Hottest Tech Trends And Brands At SXSW: Flying Cars To 3-D Printed Candy:

3-D printed candy, flying cars, 3-D selfies, robots, and elaborate and fun marketing hoaxes that draw our attention: you can experience all that at South by Southwest (SXSW), one of the biggest and...


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Candy Blush: King.com Cofounder And Investor Gave Up Billions With Early Share Sale

Not everyone will be cashing in on King Digital Entertainment’s sweet initial public offering later this month. At least two individuals associated with the Candy Crush-maker’s early development will...


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Current HTC One to appear in super hero movie Captain America

Looks like HTC had been quite some attention with all the leaks flowing in for their upcoming flagship but the current flagship HTC One will also receive its own bit of popualrity because the phone...


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Google redesigns Android to power smartwatches

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google thinks it's time for an Internet-connected watch that performs many of the same tasks as a smartphone but with fewer distractions and rude interruptions. The Internet's...


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Latest Mac Pro Boot Camp only supports Windows 8

The new Mac Pro which was released by the end of the previous year was only supporting Windows 8 and above installation and that too only through the Boot camp. And now the Boot Camp requirements...


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Here Are 4 Industries About To Be Completely Disrupted By The Smart Home

While the Internet and computing has changed our lives in many ways over the past few decades, there are still many old-school consumer industries that have largely managed to stay the same. But all...


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Samsung teases a "new level" announcement on Twitter

Recently Twitter has been showing off a new phone by Samsung Russia and this is being tagged as the “device on a new level” and it is being unveiled tomorrow. From the image on Twitter we can only...


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iPad 4 replaces the iPad 2 with the same price tag

Apple has giving quite a lot of surprises in the recent few days time. First we heard about a low priced 8 GB version of the unsuccessful Apple iPhone 5c and now we are hearing about the iPad 2 being...


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