Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Skype Is Ditching Its Smart TV Apps Because People Prefer Mobile Even In The Living Room and other top stories.

  • Skype Is Ditching Its Smart TV Apps Because People Prefer Mobile Even In The Living Room

    Skype is dropping support for its Smart TV app. Beginning June this year, users may no longer have access to the app in their TV sets.(Photo : David Ramos I Getty Images) Skype will no longer support its Smart TV app starting in June this year. The app will stop receiving support and update, while TV manufacturers may decide to remove the app from some or all of their TV models. Skype launched its Smart TV app back in 2010. Some TV sets, such as those made by LG and Samsung, come preloaded wit..
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  • Coachella Adds Virtual Reality Experience for This Year's Music Festival

    Coachella Adds Virtual Reality Experience for This Year's Music Festival
    If you failed to snag tickets to this year’s Coachella music festival in Indio, Calif., or simply can’t afford to break the bank for it, you are in luck: a virtual reality version will be available. On Wednesday, the music festival announced its first virtual reality experience, in partnership with Vantage.tv, a company that lets event organizers provide VR content for their attendees. Every ticket-holder for this year’s festival will receive a VR headset to use with Coachella’s official VR app..
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  • Intel buys Israeli 3D firm Replay

    Intel buys Israeli 3D firm Replay
    Intel's drone-flying cage at Super Bowl City, San Francisco.(Photo: Intel)SAN FRANCISCO – Intel took another step into what CEO Brian Krzanich has called the digitization of sports with the purchase of Israeli 3-D video technology firm Replay Technologies on Wednesday.Intel has been focusing on finding new technologies that make use of its chips and has been working with Tel Aviv-based Replay since 2013 to optimize the company’s video content.Intel did not say how much it planned to pay for the ..
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  • Samsung Follows Apple In Debuting a Galaxy Upgrade Program

    Samsung Follows Apple In Debuting a Galaxy Upgrade Program
    Samsung has started a program for Galaxy smartphone owners that lets them upgrade to the latest device after 12 months, according to a recent report. Participants who lease a Galaxy smartphone over 24 months can get an upgrade after 12 months, at which point their monthly payment schedule is extended. Reuters reports the program is currently available in Samsung’s home country of South Korea. Last week, Android Central reported the program was live in the U.K. Get Data Sheet, Fortune’s technol..
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  • ​Android N: What developers need to know about Google's latest preview

    ​Android N: What developers need to know about Google's latest preview
    Android N is here and ready for your programming expertise to make the next generation of Android apps. Don't plan on releasing your new programs anytime too soon though.The latest version of Android is now developer ready. Google According to Dave Burke, Google's VP of Android Engineering, "We're doing something a little different this year by releasing the preview early... really early. By releasing a "work in..
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  • The Echo From Amazon Brims With Groundbreaking Promise

    The Echo From Amazon Brims With Groundbreaking Promise
    Photo Credit Stuart Goldenberg Many of the world’s largest technology companies have spent the last five years searching in vain for the holy grail, a machine to succeed the smartphone as the next must-have gadget. They have made digital watches and fitness trackers, all manner of computerized glasses and goggles, and more doodads to plug into your TV than there are shows to watch on it.Yet at the moment, the most promising candidate for the Next Great Gadget isn’t m..
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  • Google turns search into your personal travel agent

    Google turns search into your personal travel agent
    Google your bucket list on your phone now for hours of inspiration and fun. Katie Collins/CNET Armchair travelers, take note. Google would like to help you plan your dream vacation directly from within mobile search results.The tech giant announced Tuesday that it has created its own destination guides intended to make travel planning easier. Include the word "destination" in your Google search query on mobile an..
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  • Samsung Galaxy S7 excels in camera shootout with iPhone 6S Plus and Galaxy S6

    Samsung Galaxy S7 excels in camera shootout with iPhone 6S Plus and Galaxy S6
    Samsung's brand new Galaxy S7 boasts a bunch of new camera tweaks. Although it has a 12-megapixel sensor -- less than the S6's 16 megapixels -- those pixels are physically larger to allow it to capture more light. It has a wider f/1.2 aperture too to let more light in -- both of which are designed to make it a formidable low-light shooter. I've put the new Galaxy S7 against its older sibling, the Galaxy S6, and its great rival, Apple's iPhone 6S Plus. All shots are taken in fully automatic mode ..
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  • Obama Seeks Broadband for 20 Million More Subscribers

    Obama Seeks Broadband for 20 Million More Subscribers
    Photo Maria Ruiz helps her children Isabella and Tony with homework after school. Because they have no Internet at home, the children use a nearby school’s Wi-Fi to download assignments onto their smartphones. Credit Ilana Panich-Linsman for The New York Times WASHINGTON — President Obama, backing a plan to connect low-income families to more affordable broadband services, on Wednesday set a goal to get 20 million people subscribed to high-speed Internet by 2020.In a ..
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  • Look over here! Facebook acquires face-swapping app Masquerade

    Look over here! Facebook acquires face-swapping app Masquerade
    The Masquerade app lets you overlay your face with funny filters and put your face inside someone else's in real time. Masquerade via iTunes Not only has Facebook has bought Masquerade, a popular face-swapping video app, it's gained a new tool in its escalating rivalry with social network Snapchat.Facebook on Wednesday announced it's acquiring Masquerade, a startup founded just last year that makes what has quick..
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