Nov 21
Acer Inc, former world’s no. 2 vendor has announced today that founder Stan Shih will become new chairman after disastrous financial results. The company made $446 million loss in third quarter of the year and this is the reason that company announced 7% reduction of its workforce and Continue reading »
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Acer,
Jim Wong,
Stan Shih
Nov 20
Apple’s new headquarters Apple Campus 2 were approved last month by city officials in the Cupertino. This site was once home to HP and Compaq, but now it will be 2.8-million-square-foot „spaceship“ campus in the middle of verdant man-made forest. It will have enough space for Continue reading »
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Apple,
Apple Campus 2,
Cupertino,
Steve Jobs
Nov 19
Valve has announced its Steam Dev Days conference, which will start on 15th January and will last 2 days. Visitors are allowed to attend sessions, participate in discussions and test Steam OS, Steam Controllers and Steam Machines. Michael Abrash (Valve R&D specialist for wearables) will introduce prototype Continue reading »
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Michael Abrash,
Steam,
Steam Controller,
Steam Dev Days,
Steam Machine,
Steam OS,
Valve
Nov 19
Twitter has released its emergency alert service for users in UK. Users who would like to receive alerts, need to go to each organization’s Twitter feed and sign up. When alert is issued, they will receive text message and notification in their Twitter timeline with orange bell. In this UK alert service are Continue reading »
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emergency alert service,
Foreign Office,
London Fire Brigade,
Twitter,
UK regional police force
Nov 18
BlackBerry has posted on Facebook that it’s looking for a help to design new BBM emoticons. If you want to help BlackBerry, you have time until 20th November 5PM EST. All you need to do is to log into Facebook and go to BlackBerry’s page and after that you leave Continue reading »
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BBM,
BlackBerry,
Facebook,
PG13
Nov 17
According to Reuters Apple has bought Israeli chip maker PrimeSense for $345 million. PrimeSense is making chips, which enable 3D machine vision and company’s technology is giving digital devices ability to Continue reading »
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Apple,
PrimeSense,
Xbox Kinect