Daily Archives: January 9, 2012

Samsung Doubles Down on TV at CES, Makes Smart TV an Internet Hub

January 9, 2012
Samsung Doubles Down on TV at CES, Makes Smart TV an Internet Hub

The official theme at Samsung’s CES event was “Pushing Boundaries.” Boo-Keun Yoon, president of the Samsung Consumer Electronics Division, told the CES crowd that Samsung aims to “break down the walls that exist between devices.” Yoon began by noting that Samsung is the world’s number 1 TV brand, for the sixth consecutive year. It...

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Samsung Doubles Down on TV at CES, Makes Smart TV an Internet Hub

January 9, 2012
Samsung Doubles Down on TV at CES, Makes Smart TV an Internet Hub

The official theme at Samsung’s CES event was “Pushing Boundaries.” Boo-Keun Yoon, president of the Samsung Consumer Electronics Division, told the CES crowd that Samsung aims to “break down the walls that exist between devices.” Yoon began by noting that Samsung is the world’s number 1 TV brand, for the sixth consecutive year. It...

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A Siri for other phones? Nuance brings Dragon Go to Android

January 9, 2012
A Siri for other phones? Nuance brings Dragon Go to Android

There are a lot of bad Siri imitators in the Android Market, but Monday night a pretty close approximation to Apple’s now-iconic personal assistant will be available. At CES, Nuance Communications is launching an Android version of Dragon Go, its voice-powered semantic search app. Nuance developed the speech recognition and natural language technology that...

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THE RAID ON AOL: How Vox Pillaged Engadget And Founded An Empire

January 9, 2012
THE RAID ON AOL: How Vox Pillaged Engadget And Founded An Empire

Engadget seemed healthy. Back at the beginning of February, AOL’s marquee technology blog was coming off its most trafficked month in site history. It had survived the reorganization that gutted many of AOL’s other verticals, including the similarly male-focused sports site FanHouse. And it had served as the “official blog” of the 2011 CES...

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THE RAID ON AOL: How Vox Pillaged Engadget And Founded An Empire

January 9, 2012
THE RAID ON AOL: How Vox Pillaged Engadget And Founded An Empire

Engadget seemed healthy. Back at the beginning of February, AOL’s marquee technology blog was coming off its most trafficked month in site history. It had survived the reorganization that gutted many of AOL’s other verticals, including the similarly male-focused sports site FanHouse. And it had served as the “official blog” of the 2011 CES...

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The Surprising Path Of Artificial Intelligence

January 9, 2012
The Surprising Path Of Artificial Intelligence

Editor’s note: This is Part I of a three-part guest post written by legendary Silicon Valley investor Vinod Khosla, the founder of Khosla Ventures. In Part II, he will describe how software and mobile technologies can augment and even replace doctors. In Part III, he will talk about how technology will sweep through education. I read...

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LIVE: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s Final CES Keynote (MSFT)

January 9, 2012
LIVE: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s Final CES Keynote (MSFT)

Ellis Hamburger, Business Insider See Also: Nokia And ATT Are About To Launch The Lumia 900, The First Windows Phone You’ll Be Dying To Get DREAM TEAM: How Microsoft, Nokia, HTC, And ATT Are Going To Rock Mobile In 2012 Nokia Unveils The Lumia 900, Its Plan To Supercharge Windows Phone In 2012 LAS...

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Daily Wrap: Developing Hybrid HTML5 Apps May Cost Less and More

January 9, 2012
Daily Wrap: Developing Hybrid HTML5 Apps May Cost Less and More

Hybrid HTML5 Apps Are Less Costly to Develop Than Native Should you develop a native app or an HTML5 app that will run on multiple platforms? A Forrester report aims to answer the question. For the cost-conscious developer, hybrid HTML5 apps provide more value than attempting to create native apps across the four major...

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Sony Keeps Concepts Alive At CES 2012

January 9, 2012
Sony Keeps Concepts Alive At CES 2012

Today at Sony’s CES 2012 press conference, the company unveiled several PC concepts that are, well, just concepts. Kazuo Hirai took to the massive Sony stage deep within the Las Vegas Convention center and talked about the convergence of TV and computers. But no one cares about that marketing nonsense. It was the concepts...

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Spanish food delivery site SinDelantal buys local startup to expand to Mexico

January 9, 2012
Spanish food delivery site SinDelantal buys local startup to expand to Mexico

The young Mexican food delivery platform MiOrden.com was acquired by its Spanish counterpart SinDelantal, the companies recently announced. MiOrden.com also informed it would stop to operate as such, and a new page has already been launched: SinDelantal.Mx. The deal was initiated and closed by Investomex, a new Mexican fund for startups which had partnered...

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