Tesla Model A Alpha Electronics Version The blogosphere widely picked up Bloomberg’s story that electric car maker Tesla isn’t necessarily looking to sell itself right now and wants to remain an independent company. If you think about it, why would Tesla CEO Elon Musk actively try to sell Tesla now after working so hard...
Image: www.flickr.com There’s a report this morning that North Korea is building its own computers. It’s not. How do we know? Because—get this—totalitarian regimes lie. According to PC World, whence the story first came, the “report” was on North Korean TV’s 8pm evening news and showed a “factory” with 8 workers assembling computers, which...
Skype’s telephony service appears to be suffering a major outage, with many users all over the world unable to use the service using their desktop clients or not able to access the Skype website. At first it appeared that the issue would was just affecting Windows clients, but after tests at The Next Web,...
London-based design consultancy BERG is small — just 10 employees right now — but over the past couple of years, it has forged a strong reputation for coming up with innovative, artful ideas and technologies. Whether it’s stunning prototype work on iPad magazines for Bonnier, the publisher of Popular Science, or the hugely fun...
Image: www.forbes.com Alipay, the payments service of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, just got its licence to operate in China. Magically, this event which no doubt greatly increases the company’s value, happened right after Alipay was spun out of Alibaba, which includes Yahoo and Softbank as big shareholders, and given to an entity controlled...
Communications regulator Ofcom has banned three-year mobile phone and broadband contracts in the UK, with the maximum length of contract now set at two years. This is good news for consumers, who may otherwise have been lured into signing 36-month contracts, with the promise of one of the market’s top smartphones with less money...
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Earlier this week, Amazon offered the new album from superstar Lady Gaga, ‘Born This Way’, for a mere $0.99 in an effort to get people to discover its recently launched Cloud Drive / Player service. Only problem was that the offer was so good that it quickly put quite some strain on Amazon’s infrastructure....
Sheriff’s detectives arrested Robert Nicholas McGuire, a known sex offender, for logging onto Facebook at the Apple Store in downtown San Luis Obispo Wednesday afternoon. One of the detectives had recognized McGuire from a child pornography case. Apparently McGuire went into the California Apple Store to check his Facebook account. When the detective recognized...
If it weren’t for the abusive hours and punishments, it sounds like the way I’d like to spend my incarceration. The biggest motivator to remain a law-abiding citizen has to be that physical labor business. Article source: TNW http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheNextWeb/~3/zp-OGMTStmQ/