Dropbox Acquires Social Reader Readmill

Dropbox Acquires Social Reader ReadmillSome view the reading of books are a private thing. After all not everyone enjoys a particular author’s work or a particular genre, not to mention reading is typically a quiet affair and creating a social settings could be distracting, unless you’re all gathered to discuss the book, of course.

However Readmill was looking to change that by introducing a social reading platform. For those unfamiliar, the service was launched about 3 years later and it basically allowed users to add notes in a book you shared to inform users of a special passage, a funny quote, or something to keep an eye out on because it might integral to the plot. (more…)

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    Switzerland Will Host Cybathlon, The World’s First Bionic Olympics, In 2016

    Cybathlon Olympic Games 2016A few years from now, traditional athletes won’t be the only ones competing for gold and glory. The Cybathlon – an Olympic competition designed for bionic athletes – is planned for 2016, and will include exoskeletons, prothestic limbs, and even a virtual-reality competition.

    Formula 1's Advanced Hybrid System Is Coming To Your Next Car

    Formula 1's Advanced Hybrid System Is Coming To Your Next Car

    That may look like an ordinary Volvo S60, but it’s far from it. Inside that handsome but inoffensive Swedish body is the same technology that helped make Formula One cars so fast in the last few years — the hybrid Kinetic Energy Recovery System . That’s good news if you like efficiency and speed.

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    Sony “Excited To Give Morpheus Units To Indie PlayStation 4 Devs”

    Sony To Provide Independent PS4 Developers With Virtual Reality HeadsetProject Morpheus – Sony’s upcoming virtual reality headset – won’t just change AAA gaming on the PlayStation 4. Sony today revealed that it intends to provide Morpheus headsets to pretty much any independent developer who’s the desire to work with the platform. There’s a very good reason for that.

    Turkish court rules tweets are free speech

    Turkey’s country-wide Twitter ban has already been temporarily lifted on a national level, but the stay-of-execution wasn’t completely universal. One of the three court orders that prompted the original ban forced Twitter to use its Country Withheld…

    Alleged iPhone 6 Schematics Spotted Online

    Alleged iPhone 6 Schematics Spotted OnlineAccording to an earlier report, it was suggested that Apple was working on new iPhones that would be released later this year. Given Apple’s schedule this is pretty much a given, except that the report claims that Apple will be releasing not just one, but two iPhones of the big screen variety which dredges up rumors from the past.

    Based on the rumors, it has been strongly suggested that Apple could be bumping the screen size on future iPhones to the 4.7-inch variety (the rumors suggests a 5.5-inch model could be in the works as well). (more…)

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    BlackBerry CEO Promises New High-End Handsets In The Next 18 Months

    BlackBerry CEO Promises New High End Handsets In The Next 18 MonthsGood news BlacKBerry users, if you’re looking forward to additional products from the company this year, you’re in luck. As it stands we know of two new BlackBerry devices that are in the works: the BlackBerry Z3 and the BlackBerry Q20.

    The BlackBerry Z3 is a full touchscreen handsets designed for emerging markets, while the BlackBerry Q20 will be a QWERTY smartphone that has been designed for old school BlackBerry users in mind who might still prefer a physical keyboard over a virtual one. (more…)

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    BlackBerry Boasts 85 Million Monthly Active BBM Users

    BlackBerry Boasts 85 Million Monthly Active BBM UsersBack in the day before WhatsApp became really popular and other instant messengers flooded the market, there was BBM. The app was available as an exclusive to BlackBerry devices back in the day, at least until last year when BlackBerry decided to open it up to Android and iOS users as well, potentially adding more users to its user base. (more…)

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    Fake Google Apps Hit The Windows Phone Store

    Fake Google Apps Hit The Windows Phone StoreHeads up Windows Phone users, it looks like you guys will have to keep an eye on what you’re downloading in the Windows Phone store because according to reports, it seems that there has been a recent flood of fake Google apps making their way onto the Windows Phone.

    The report claims that a developer has managed to register himself with the Windows Phone Store under the “Google Inc.” moniker and has since uploaded a bunch of fake Google apps like the ones you can see in the image above. (more…)

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    Office For iPad Could Get Print Functionality Later

    Office For iPad Could Get Print Functionality LaterOffice for iPad was launched yesterday. For the most part the apps function like its desktop counterpart, although there seems to be one noticeable difference and that is the inability to print. This isn’t because there is problems connecting to a printer or that there is a bug, it is simply because there is no print functionality included at the moment.

    This was noticed by the folks at PCWorld who discovered in a support document that there is currently no print feature for the iPad productivity suite. However the question is, will there be one added in the future? After all we’re sure many users would greatly appreciate such functionality, right? (more…)

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