Mar 19
It seems like Microsoft has landed itself in some hot waters. According to the Wall Street Journal, the Redmond based company is under investigation by the Securities and Exchanges Commission as well as the Department of Justice over claims that it has taken part in bribery in foreign countries, which include China. As of now the investigation is thought to be in its initial stages. (more…)
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Microsoft Offering Windows Developers $100 In Cash For New Apps, Samsung VP Confirms Watch,
We all have heard of rumors concerning Apple moving into the timepiece category, which would definitely be strange to the ears just like how the iPhone rumors sparked off a “Huh?!” look from certain quarters when it started to make its rounds on the Internet. Perhaps an iWatch, as it has been called at the moment, might not be too crazy of an idea to implement, especially when you have Google and their Project Glass. Well, assuming Samsung is anticipating Apple’s future move, their mobile executive VP, Lee Young Hee, mentioned in a Bloomberg interview, “We are preparing products for the future, and the watch is definitely one of them.”
Has Christmas arrived early for new U-verse Internet customers of AT&T? Apparently, the correct answer would be a resounding, “Yes!”, where these new customers can pick from a bundle of services in addition to getting an early Christmas present in the form of a device for free. Never mind that there is no free lunch in this world, at the very least, you will be able to take your pick from the likes of an Xbox 360, SONOS PLAY:3, Kindle Fire or a Nexus 7 tablet, now how about that?
Ever heard of Defense Distributed before? No? Neither have we, and it is interesting to know that Defense Distributed is actually a project for open-sourced 3D-printable guns, and the “project” has actually picked up a federal license that allows them to not only manufacture, but to sell firearms as well. According to Defense Distributed’s Facebook page, they announced last Saturday alongside an image of the license and a caption that says, “The work begins!”
It seems that Verizon has every intention of shouldering even more channels on its FiOS TV service, but they only want to fork out money for what their customers are watching at that point in time. According to the good people over at The Wall Street Journal, Verizon intends to pay the individual channels based on the number of “unique views” in a span of five minutes or higher that they rack up on a monthly basis, as compared to the mandatory monthly fees that each subscriber forks out with the current business model. Apart from that, Verizon intends to make full use of their very own set-top box data instead of Nielsen ratings in order to calculate the views.
Japan is a certainly interesting country with its fair share of quirks and culture as well, and the roles are reversed during Valentine’s Day as that is when girls give the guys whom they are in love with or have a crush on, chocolate as well as gifts that come in other forms. It is not all one way though, as a month after that, there is “White Day,” where the guys have a chance to reciprocate by giving them girls their gifts. It was White Day in Japan recently, and FabCafe in Tokyo has conjured a rather unique gift idea for the men to surprise their sweethearts with.
While old school billboards that are set up with printed paper can be defaced via acts of vandalism in the physical sense, electronic billboards which require far less manpower to change the face of it as all you need to do is to flash a new image or file, are susceptible to the dark art of hacking. Yes sir, those in the advertising world who decided to make the move from printed billboards to those with LCD and LED units might have overlooked such a danger, as an example in Belgrade, Serbia recently demonstrated.
