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Ford Completes the Focus Electric Circle with MyFord Mobile App
Ford Motor Co., the American multinational automaker, announced the MyFord Mobile iPhone app and www.MyFordMobile.com to complete the circle of the Ford Focus Electric. At first, Ford was talking about giving consumers the option of having either a hybrid or electric vehicle, then they introduce the 100% electric powered car Ford Focus Electric. With the ...
Samsung Furthers NFC Campaign With Tec Tiles
Today’s mobile news round up features Siri getting behind the wheels of cars, Samsung’s new NFC stickers, Sony unveils new Xperia’s, and more. Siri to be integrated in cars At the WWDC, Apple announced that a number of vehicle manufacturing companies signed up to implement Siri’s Eyes Free feature into their vehicles. “To be able ...
Flame Malware Turns Unwitting Humans Into Data Mules
The cyberworld was shocked when it was reported that a certain malware was found which exceeded the prowess of the Stuxnet malware. The Flame malware is a sophisticated computer virus that targets computers in Iran and other Middle East countries designed to gather private data from the said computer systems. The virus is believed to ...
Can Emotions Make for Better Ads? Microsoft Thinks So
Microsoft is amping their ads offering by utilizing the power of Kinect – they want to offer ads based on users’ emotions or activities. Though nothing has yet been announced by Microsoft, the expectations came from the patent entitled “Targeting Advertisements Based on Emotion” Microsoft filed at the US Patent and Trademark Office. The patent ...
What Apple’s iOS 6 Means for Google and Microsoft
At the Worldwide Developers Conference that kicked off yesterday, Apple launched two versions of the MacBook Air and the MacBook Pro. The MacBooks sport Retina Display with an extremely high DPI and fidelity. They also have more ports for USB2, USB3, Firewire, and Thunderbolt I/O for high-speed data transfer. But there are more important things ...
Apple Updates Siri, Launches New Maps App
Today’s mobile news roundup features Apple’s new map and Siri update, while Intel claims Android is not ready for dual core. T-Mobile’s celebrating Father’s Day with a special offer and more. Apple launched Maps app and Siri update Apple is starting another battle with Google as they launched their new Maps app sans the power ...
A Series of Hacked Servers: From League of Legends to Last.fm
A series of data breaches have recently been reported. Last week, it was reported that LinkedIn and eHarmony were breached were in users’ password, and possibly usernames, were acquired by hackers. Over 6.5 million LinkedIn accounts and 1.5 million eHarmony accounts were said to be compromised. The two have already prompted their users to change ...
New OS Features, Macs and Adapters Expected at WWDC
The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference is set to begin any moment now at the Moscone West Center and speculation about what Apple is set to unveil is at the highest levels we’ve seen in recent weeks. Earlier we tackled some of the rumored announcements at the event, such as updated Mac lines, the announcement of ...
Samsung Denies Intent to Acquire Nokia
Today’s mobile news roundup features Android handset activations reaching over 300M in Q1 2012, while Samsung denies intent to acquire Nokia, and there’s also a new app that allows internet sharing and more. Android activations still growing According to the latest report from MarketResearch, provider of global market intelligence products and services, activation of Android ...
Fancy’s Edge over Pinterest is Mobile, Sales Analytics
In November of 2010 a little invitation-only photo blog, TheFancy.com, made its way to the heart of the elite. It was the first launched product of ThingD (which stands for Daemon – a computer program that runs as a background process) the parent company of Fancy. Last year, The Fancy secured a 10 million round of ...
