Amazon releases social gifting service
Posted by: Barry Eitel
Oakland :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-06-18 16:26:41 -0700 | technology-news
Amazon wants to crowdsource gift giving. On Tuesday, the company released Amazon Birthday Gift, a program that allows groups of people to pitch in on Amazon gift cards for a lucky someone. The new service requires connecting via Facebook. “Amazon...
Europeans closer to fulfilling ExoMars mission
Posted by: arkar
Paris :: France | updated 2013-06-18 18:34:36 -0700 | technology-news
The European Space Agency (ESA) has been working towards launching its own missions to the Red Planet, planning to send both an orbiter as well as a rover to the planet in the next couple of years. The mission, collectively...
Derailment Near Penn Station Snarls Train Travel
Source: The New York Times
Plainview :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-06-18 20:02:42 -0700 | technology-news
Occasionally they would say they were about to pull in or back up to a place that was safer, recalled Amy McIntosh, a senior fellow with the New York State Education Department, who was riding an Amtrak train from Albany...
Another Hidden Feature In Apple's New Mobile Operating System Involves LinkedIn (AAPL, LNKD)
Source: BusinessInsider
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-06-18 20:33:41 -0700 | technology-news
Apple is working on code that would make LinkedIn easier to use on iPhones and iPads, according to 9to5Mac's Mark Gurman . Software tester Hamza Sood spotted the unfinished code, and other disabled features like nesting folders and multitasking gestures,...
Special Report: Energy: Harnessing the Net to Power a Green Revolution
Source: The New York Times
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-06-18 20:41:33 -0700 | technology-news
As its backers define it, cleanweb is any software or Internet application that makes it easier to use resources like textiles or cars or electricity more efficiently. The label is applied to a diverse mix of companies, some of them...
Facebook Outage On Tuesday Causes Frenzy On Twitter (FB)
Source: BusinessInsider
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-06-18 20:33:42 -0700 | technology-news
People stampeded Twitter on Tuesday to laugh, joke and shake their fists at Facebook. Facebook suffered a mysterious outage that affected users all over the world for a few hours. People sent Tweets with the hashtags #facebookdown and #facebook to...
Outside View: America strikes out
Source: United Press International
Aleppo :: Syria | updated 2013-06-18 22:11:50 -0700 | technology-news
Using a baseball metaphor, in the field of national security, when the United States comes to bat, it often starts with 2 1/2 strikes against it. Strike 1 is the chronic tendency to misinterpret, distort and even invent threats often...
NASA's New Class of Astronauts Gives Parity to Men and Women
Source: The New York Times
Tafuna :: American Samoa | updated 2013-06-18 22:04:50 -0700 | technology-news
June 18, 2013 One flies a fighter jet for the Marines. Another is an assistant professor of anesthesiology at Harvard Medical School...And the fourth leads the station in American Samoa of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.
Video game sales slide as cellphones outgun consoles
Source: Boston Herald
Boston :: MA :: USA | updated 2013-06-18 21:13:59 -0700 | technology-news
Video game sales across the country plummeted 25 percent last month, as gamers bored by a lack of new software releases ditched their consoles for their cellphones, experts told the Herald. While one segment of the business of games is...
Saturn probe to acquire Earth image
Source: BBC
Boulder :: CO :: USA | updated 2013-06-18 21:30:46 -0700 | technology-news
Cassini probe to acquire distant Earth portrait Science correspondent, BBC News This favourite 2006 image of Saturn includes Earth as a speck just inside the G-ring at upper-left...Dr Porco hopes it will look even better Nasa's Cassini probe is going...
Indian firm enters Nigeria's mobile money sector
Source: Times of India
Lagos :: Nigeria | updated 2013-06-18 23:19:54 -0700 | technology-news
An Indian firm has entered into a partnership with a Nigerian company to introduce a platform meant to drive mobile money services in this oil rich African country. Chief executive officer of India-based Estel Technologies , Raj Hajela was quoted...
IHT Rendezvous: Sending a Signal, Philippines to Destroy Ivory Stock
Source: Newyork Times
Quezon :: Philippines | updated 2013-06-18 22:47:37 -0700 | technology-news
Romeo Ranoco/Reuters Workers arrange some of five tons of confiscated ivory at the Ninoy Aquino Parks and Wildlife center in Quezon city. This Friday officials in the Philippines will destroy five tons of ivory in public, crushing it beneath industrial...
Microsoft Sued For Allegedly Using Armed Cops In Software Piracy Raid (MSFT)
Source: BusinessInsider
Guatemala City :: Guatemala | updated 2013-06-18 19:00:37 -0700 | technology-news
An insurance company in Guatemala is suing Microsoft for allegedly raiding its offices with armed police officers to search for pirated software. Here's what the company, Seguros Universales SA of Guatemala City, claims happened during the April 2012 raid: "Microsoft...
Web Tools to Blur Your Digital Footprint
Source: Inc.
Pong :: Thailand | updated 2013-06-18 18:34:24 -0700 | technology-news
Shutterstock Revelations of NSA surveillance have shaken the nation , but while many of us would love nothing more than to toss our phones out the window and avoid well-trafficked search engines like Yahoo and Google altogether, the government seems...
University offers 'ignore context'
Source: BBC
Ács :: Hungary | updated 2013-06-18 18:16:02 -0700 | technology-news
More than three quarters (78%) of admissions tutors said they did not look at data on whether applicants' parents had been to university and only about a third (35%) considered that "evidence of success through a difficult start or background"...
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