Samsung Teases Its New Smart TV Bound For CES 2013 In Video

We already know that Samsung is already set to launch its new TV at CES 2013 next month. But just to gain momentum, and to excite us a bit, the company is releasing a new teaser for everyone to see. The roughly one-minute video depicts TVs coming to life and leaving their owner’s homes and shopping malls. Where they are going remains a mystery. We follow the TVs riding buses, cars, and even skateboards, while some of them are crossing the streets – all headed to that one place that is the city of Las Vegas. It is during this time that we realize that the TVs are all going to CES 2013 to check out Samsung’s latest Smart TV. The video ends with a large device, a TV that is, on display covered by a white veil.

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Google Testing “Quick View” On Mobile Search Results

quick view Google Testing Quick View On Mobile Search ResultsGoogle appears to be testing a new feature on mobile search results. The yet to be announced feature is called “Quick View” and it basically allows users to open up a page from the main website easily and much faster. A Google+ user named Wissam Dandan was the first to spot the feature. He noticed a “Quick View” button beside a Wikipedia search result on Google when he typed the word “SEO” on his iPhone 5.  (more…)

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Google Used To Track Drug Trafficking Organizations

mexican drug war Google Used To Track Drug Trafficking OrganizationsAuthorities in the U.S. are already using the Internet and Social Media to fight gangs and crimes. Now, Mexico is doing the same, using what technology has to offer to help fight Mexican drug cartels and narco violence. Harvard University researcher Viridiana Rios is one if them. Rios uses Google to track down criminal activity. And when she does, she informs the Mexican authorities about the cartel data she uncovered. “Our criminals are noisy. They hold in blankets and scenic. Discuss their exploits in digital forums and blogs,” she writes.

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Astronaut Records First Original Song Composition In Space

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield is the first person to record an original song composition in space. Hadfield, who is currently training as the commander of Expedition 35, made a promise earlier this month on Reddit to record a song while on board the International Space Station. And just twelve days after his AMA session on the social news website, Hadfield has posted the historical video entitled “Jewel In The Night” on YouTube. (more…)

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Newsweek Says Goodbye With A Hashtagged Cover

 Newsweek Says Goodbye With A Hashtagged CoverAmerican weekly news magazine, Newsweek, already announced that it will be going digital next year. The company also added that its last print edition will be its December 31st issue. With only a few more days left before it bids goodbye to the series of good old print issues, the company has revealed what appears to be Newsweek’s most important cover page yet – a classic view of the old Newsweek Building in New York with a conflicting modern #lastprintissue hashtag on it. (more…)

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Instagram Faces Class Action Lawsuit

instagram sign1 Instagram Faces Class Action LawsuitInstagram’s mishap last week is finally taking its toll on the Facebook-owned online photo-sharing and social networking service. That’s because the service isn’t just facing the scorching hot backlashes. It now facing a class action lawsuit, which has been filed by the San Diego-based law firm Finkelstein & Krinsk. Instagram user Lucy Funes, on behalf of all others against Instagram, claimed breach of contract and other claims against the insanely popular service. (more…)

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Online retailers vary pricing based on user location and average income

Location data has been used by companies to help generate relevant ads and direct you to websites that are suited for your region, but interestingly Staples seems to have taken it one step further and now uses your location to help determine what kind of prices you will see on their website. According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, they have found that depending on where you live, and how close you are to a Staples competitor, the price reflected on its website will vary for a product viewed by someone else living in a different state or different suburb. The report from the Wall Street Journal has also found that areas in which the average household income is higher have prices which are more discounted versus areas in which average household income is lower, whereby prices are actually higher.

Staples isn’t the only retailer who engages in these practice and the Wall Street Journal also lists retailers such as Discover Financial Services, Rosetta Stone and Home Depot as being some of them. When asked about it, Staples acknowledged that “in-store and online prices do vary by geography due to a variety of factors, including rent, labor, distribution and other costs of doing business,” but declined to mention whether average household income was taken into account. Pretty interesting but what do you guys think? Price discrimination is definitely not something new where some countries actually pay more for a similar product compared to another, but do you think it’s fair that an item can be priced differently for someone who stays in the next neighborhood?

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New York Police Department Looks To The Internet For Answers

It is better to try to keep a bad thing from happening than to fix the bad thing once it has happened. The New York Police Department is on a quest to figure out ways to identify potential “deranged” gunmen on the Internet, in an effort to avoid hapless events, such as the tragic Connecticut school shooting, where in 26 people were killed, mostly children. (more…)

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NimbleTV Hopes To Deliver Cable TV Content Across All Devices

A new streaming video service called NimbleTV is currently being tested in New York. It’s still in beta, but NimbleTV offers something compelling – the capability to stream cable TV on any Internet-connected device, including phones, tablets, laptops, and connected televisions, without the need of an extra hardware. Apparently, the company behind NimbleTV has been working on the service since April. (more…)

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Twitter Rolls Out New Profile Updates To All Users On December 12

Twitter users who have been envious of their friends, family and others they choose to follow who have been able to further personalize their Twitter page by adding a header image will finally be able to starting on December 12.

The improved profile feature will allow all Twitter users to throw up any image they like as their header in order to add a little flare to their profile.

Up until now, Twitter users have only been able to customize their profile by uploading an image as their avatar and a background image for other Twitter users to see when visiting someone’s Twitter profile page.

Users who don’t partake in the header festivities will be left with a default grey image to go along with their default bird egg and their default background image.

Twitter went ahead and even put together a video to showcase what its users can expect on December 12th when the rollout begins, which you can view below. The header feature will be a simple and painless process to anyone who already knows how to upload a Twitter profile image.


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