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Waze recruits Android users to test its new social navigation app
Waze, the Israel-based startup acquired by Google last year, is recruiting Android users for a beta program that will let them roadtest new features destined for the community navigation app. The...
Microsoft gives cloud server designs to Facebook’s Open Compute Project
Microsoft is contributing the designs of the cloud servers that run some of its services like Bing and Windows Azure to the Open Compute Project, in a bid to help...
Samsung is feeling the pressure despite the iPhone’s falling market share
Research firm Kantar Worldpanel has released a new report highlighting global smartphone sales over the October-December period, finding that while Apple's market share dip slightly in key markets, Google's Android devices increased...
Baidu begins testing search engines for Brazil, Egypt, and Thailand
Baidu is testing new search engines for users outside China that will target markets in Brazil, Egypt and Thailand to start with. The search pages for the three markets have appeared...
Wikipedia will begin storing celebrities’ voices on their pages
Imagine being able to hear a great historical figure's voice. It would add such richness to the facts and dates about her or his life. Starting today, Wikipedia will make that possible...
Tumblr updates its terms of service for the first time in two years
Tumblr has updated its terms of service for the first time in two years and released a draft of it on Github before they post it on the site. At the heart of the...
TV social network GetGlue gets rebranded as tvtag
Not so long ago, the GetGlue brand name and app was considered one of the most promising social TV platforms. Now, their new owners i.TV are continuing to announce radical changes to...
Lenovo to buy IBM’s low-end server business for $2.3 billion
Lenovo's much-anticipated deal for IBM's low-end server business was announced Thursday. Lenovo will pay $2 billion in cash and the rest in stock for the IBM x86 server business. IBM will continue...
Google Search now provides all the info you’ll ever need about a website
Google knows a lot, both about its users and about the internet in general. Today, the team in Mountain View has found a new way to share more of its vast knowledge...
Beats Music overwhelmed by excessive, day-one traffic
Overwhelming traffic on the fledgling Beats Music service has left many new users on the outside looking in. Excessive demand and use of the service, which became operational Tuesday, led to...
Google-acquired Nest CEO promises transparent policy changes
Nest CEO Tony Fadell promised in an interview that any privacy policy changes that could follow after Google purchased his company will be transparent and opt-in for users. The exec said in an...
Microsoft “smart elevator” predicts the floor you’re going to
Imagine you enter an elevator, and it automatically knew which floor you are heading to. That's what the engineers at Redmond are working on these days. Wearables are nice, but...
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