Intel is late to the smartphone game, sure, but its Medfield system-on-chip has been touted as the firm’s make-or-break venture into the market. Now the first working Intel phone is in the wild — and it seems promising. More »
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America’s biggest television event, the Super Bowl, is going to be streamed live to computers and mobile devices for the first time ever. Football! Everywhere! Yeah! U-S-A! Along with the Super Bowl, fans will get to peep NBC’s Wild Card playoff games and the Pro Bowl (snooze) online too. More »
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mikejuk writes “MIT has announced an online learning initiative that will offer its courses through a new interactive learning platform that will enable students to participate in simulated labs, interact with professors and other students and earn certificates. Is this just a reaction to the Stanford experiment in running courses complete with exams and informal statements of accomplishment? (The first AI course has just finished and the exam results are in.) If so let’s hope it spurs other educational establishments to do the same!”
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In a deal that ends concerns that Mozilla would lose its primary source of revenue, Mozilla and Google have signed a new agreement that will lock in Google’s role as Firefox’s default search engine for at least three more years. “We’re pleased to announce that we have negotiated a significant and mutually beneficial revenue agreement with Google,” Mozilla said in an announcement today. “This new agreement extends our long term search relationship with Google for at least three additional years.”
ZDNet’s Ed Bott noted earlier this month that the search deal was providing 84 percent of Mozilla’s revenue, but appeared to expire at the end of November with no official statement from the companies involved. This sparked some concern about Firefox’s future, given that it has already slid in market share compared to the fast-rising Google Chrome.
Mozilla put those fears to rest today, although specific financial terms of the deal are not being disclosed. While Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs said Google “will continue to be the default search provider” in Firefox, Mozilla also recently unveiled a custom version featuring Microsoft’s Bing. Mozilla is in a unique position, relying on its biggest rivals for revenue, and it’s trying to maintain relevance with a more rapid release schedule, with the beta version of Firefox 9 available now.
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Just two weeks after the confirmation of a planet that’s within the habitable zone of a distant star, the Kepler team is back with the discovery of two Earth-sized planets orbiting in what is now a five-planet system (three other planets orbiting the star, Kepler-20, had been spotted earlier). Although these planets are much too hot to support liquid water, one of them (Kepler-20e) is the smallest exoplanet yet detected.
Kepler-20 was already a busy star system, with three small planets orbiting close in to the star: Kepler-20b is about twice the size of Earth and orbits once every 3.7 days; Kepler-20c is three times Earth’s radius and orbits every 11 days; and Kepler-20d is 2.75 Earth radii with an orbit of 77.6 days. If that seems somewhat tightly packed, the new finds actually jam a couple more planets within the orbit of Kepler-20d. Kepler-20e has an orbit of six days, while Kepler-20f takes 19.6 days to orbit its host star.
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There can be no doubt that Japan is the country of vending machines, and this newest model is perhaps the most advanced yet. Developed by Japan-based tech companies Sanden and Okaya (and Intel), this “vending machine 2.0″ features a 65-inch see-through display with full HD resolution as the biggest selling point.
When there are no potential customers around, the display shows a digital clock and various animations to attract people. Once a person is standing in front of the machine, a facial recognition system determines the gender and approximate age and serves up personalized ads.
Maker Sanden says the machine’s display can produce text, pictures or animations in HD quality.
The company commands a 30% global market share for vending machines and is also active in the US, meaning this prototype could also make its way over to North America one day.
This video, provided by Diginfo TV, shows how the vending machine works (in English):
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We recently asked businesses and schools using Google Apps to rate Google’s customer support, and found that it often falls short of being business-worthy. But Google is trying to change its reputation with 24/7 phone support to all Google Apps customers for any issue, which should theoretically alleviate some problems.
So what about Google’s cloud competition over at Microsoft? The folks at Redmond continually trumpet their enterprise experience and scoff at Google’s supposedly immature products and support system. But at least on the one issue of phone support, Microsoft’s policies prevent most customers from reaching technical support by phone.
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How It’s Made is a TV program that shows us how common, everyday items like footballs and musical instruments go from raw materials to the finished product. More »
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