Jul 01
Jul 01
Vine graces Amazon Appstore, gives Kindle Fire HD’s front-facing cam a workout
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Sure, the Kindle Fire HD may only have a front-facing camera, but its solitary shooter is about to start flexing more than its video chat muscles. Vine has just arrived on Amazon’s Appstore, and it’s ready for owners to download and churn out as many six-second video clips as they please. Hit the source link below to grab ahold version 1.2 of the free app.
Filed under: Tablets
Via: The Next Web
Source: Amazon
Jul 01
Panasonic – Beauty equipment to reduce your eyestrain – Get rid of dark circle under your eyes!
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These days, many people use a PC and smartphone throughout the day and I guess that majority of them, including myself, are concerned about their eyestrain.
Don’t you want to get rid of dark circle under your eyes and look younger?
From the Panasonic’s popular beauty equipment series for eyes, new 2 models will be out on September 1. These 2 models are the second model of the series, and the original model released on September 2012 has been popular among both women and men.
These new models are called “Uruoi (moisture) Type” and “Refle (reflexology) Type”.
– Uruoi Type (EH-SW51):
After you soak the built-in feed-water plate in clean water and set the plate in the equipment, you are ready to use it. Once you turn it on, it stars warming up to 40℃ slowly and generating small amount of steam to moisturize around your eyes. It will help to release your dry eye problem.
Color: Pink
Size: 6 x 14.1 x 9.6cm
Weight: 180g
– Refle Type (EH-SW52):
It will provide you 2 kinds of healing massage while moisturizing your eyes with steam. It will relax muscles around your eyes and reduce your eyestrain.
Color: Gray
Size: 6 x 14.1 x 9.6cm
Weight: 180g
Both models have “Rhythm Mode” that will give you a short 6 minutes relaxing massage. Even if you are a busy person who doesn’t have much free time, this beauty equipment for eyes will heal you in a short time.
Jul 01
Egypt Protests: Demonstrators Overrun, Ransack Muslim Brotherhood Headquarters In Cairo (VIDEO/PHOTOS)
Posted in: Today's ChiliCAIRO, July 1 (Reuters) – The Cairo headquarters of Egypt’s ruling Muslim Brotherhood was overrun by youths who ransacked the building after those inside had been evacuated on Monday following a night of violence.
Security sources said five people were killed in hours of fighting around the besieged building. Medical sources said over 100 were wounded. Reuters journalists saw youths hurl petrol bombs and rocks at the offices. Guards inside opened fire.
By Monday morning, people inside were still firing on youths outside. Reuters journalists saw two men hit.
A Brotherhood spokesman later said that the movement had evacuated staff from inside. Live television pictures showed men inside, throwing equipment out of scorched windows. One flew an Egyptian flag from a balcony.
(Reporting by Asma Alsharif and Tom Perry; Editing by Alastair Macdonald)
Jul 01
If you’ve always fancied mapping out an obscure part of the globe, it could be your lucky day: you can now apply to use Google’s Street View backpack.
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Jul 01
Xbox Music web player launches
Posted in: Today's ChiliXbox Music has arrived on the web, with Microsoft launching the promised online music player today. Joining the existing Xbox Music apps for Windows Phone, Windows, and Xbox 360, the new web player supports synchronized playlists across each platform, with access for Xbox Music Pass subscribers and, albeit only for a 30 day trial, free
Jul 01
As teased by Microsoft last week, you can now get your Xbox Music fix on a browser (and non-MS hardware) starting today. The service has now gone live over at music.xbox.com, offering up a music interface similar to its recent Windows 8 app refresh. It’s also curiously able to play music across multiple devices at the same time — something that streaming rival Spotify doesn’t allow. The player itself adjusts to the size of your browser window, like this site, while your playlists can be edited and then synced with your Windows phone, Windows and Xbox 360. At the moment, the web version is for subscribers only. Not sure if it’s the music service for you? Don’t worry, Xbox Music has kept the 30-day trial it’s offered since it first launched on Microsoft’s game console. Sample it for yourself at the source link below.
Steve Dent contributed to this report.
Gallery: Xbox Music for web browsers gallery
Filed under: Gaming, Microsoft
Via: The Verge
Source: Xbox Music
Jul 01
Samsung will need to shift from relentlessly chasing Apple to simultaneously defending its smartphone userbase, analysts have warned, with the Korean company facing an unexpected challenge from Sony in what has so far been a European stronghold. Samsung devices now make up almost half of all smartphones sold in Europe, according to Kantar Worldpanel ComTech
Jul 01
BART Strike: San Francisco Bay Area Transit System Unions Approve Walk-Off After Talks Fail
Posted in: Today's ChiliOAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Two of San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit’s largest unions went on strike after weekend talks with management failed to produce a new contract, ensuring a nightmarish journey ahead for Monday commuters.
The strike was called as Service Employees International Union Local 1021 and Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555 workers’ contracts expired at midnight Sunday. Both the unions and management earlier in the day said they were far apart on key sticking points including salary, pensions, health care and safety.
“I’m deeply disappointed it has come to this,” SEIU negotiator Josie Mooney told reporters at a midnight news conference.
Jul 01
EU reduces roaming charges across Europe today, makes data 36 percent cheaper and teases further cuts
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Starting today, anyone hopping between EU member countries with their smartphone will see roaming charge caps substantially cut across networks and services. As promised by the EU Commission’s VP Neelie Kroes last week, new price caps will drop call charges by “at least 17 percent,” while receiving calls are reduced by 12 percent per minute starting today. Text message costs are down 11 percent, while (perhaps most importantly) data charges across networks in Europe have been cut by 36 percent, down to 45 Euro cents per MB — 91 percent cheaper than they were in 2007.
The commission says it has managed achieve price reductions of over 80 percent across mobile services in the last six years, but it isn’t done there. Further price caps are promised for the same time next year too, as you can see after the break, with roaming data charges set to be further halved (down to 20 cents) by July 2014, with voice calls and text charges also seeing further, admittedly less substantial, reductions. Now, let’s see how the EU fares on those ridding the old country of throttled data speeds.
Image credit: Die Bundeskanzlerin
Filed under: Cellphones, Wireless, Mobile
Source: Europa (EU), @NeelieKroesEU (Twitter)
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