Amazon , having extended far beyond the realm of book selling into the world of tablets and online marketplaces, is reaching ever further in its latest effort: “Login and Pay with Amazon.” The new service does exactly what it sounds like, allowing online businesses to implement a login/pay system using existing Amazon accounts. For Amazon, that means a (unknown) cut in the sales margin by acting as middleman. For businesses, it means an easy implementation of a widely used system (a “set of widgets and APIs” are all that’s needed to get the pay service running on your site). And for customers — all 215 million active Amazon account holders — it means their Amazon login will now work across the web (where implemented, that is). Interested parties can head right here to get started, and readers looking for the dirt straight from Amazon can head below the official PR. Filed under: Misc , Internet , Software , Amazon Comments

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Things are changing at Intel. In the desktop world, the company is used to staggering its efforts with a “tick-tock” product cycle. First it manufacturers an existing chip design at a smaller size of transistor (“tick”) and then, usually a year later, it improves the architecture while sticking to the same transistor size (“tock”). Bay Trail , by contrast, is a mobile class chip that represents both a tick and a tock. It makes major changes on previous Clover Trail design, while also shifting from 32nm to 22nm transistors. A jump like that holds major promise, so we were keen to benchmark Bay Trail at the earliest opportunity. Intel allowed us into a hotel room in central London to do just that, using the highest-spec quad-core Z3770 chip inside a reference tablet, and the results look impressive. Read on for the stats and a quick assessment of what they mean. Filed under: Gaming , Tablets , Mobile , Intel Comments

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Intel Bay Trail benchmarks show big boost for Windows 8.1 and Android tablets

It’s been a long time coming, but LG’s foray into elastic smartphone displays is finally going mainstream. The company has confirmed that it will begin mass-producing a new lightweight 6-inch panel that, it claims, is the world’s first flexible OLED panel for smartphones. The display is built from plastic substrates that give it bendable properties, allowing it to be fixed inside devices with curved (but likely rigid) designs. Reports suggest LG could include its first flexible screen inside the G Flex , a new 6-inch smartphone set to be announced next month, but the company points to new products with “enhanced performance and differentiated designs” coming next year. Something tells us LG may move quickly to announce its first such product, with Samsung strongly tipped to unveil its own exotically-shaped smartphone next month. It’s probable that both devices will be artistically bent to achieve their form, so we’ll probably have to wait a little longer for something that actually bends into our jean pockets . Filed under: LG Comments Source: LG Display

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AT&T is ahead of schedule in bringing live U-Verse TV streaming to mobile devices: it just updated the service’s iPhone app several days earlier than promised. As on the iPad, U-Verse subscribers with iPhones can now watch up to 108 live channels while at home, and as many as 25 when they’re away. They also get improved remote controls, new parental tools and a fresher-looking interface. Viewers can grab the iPhone app through the App Store today. There’s no surprise upgrade for Android users, however; they’ll just have to wait until October 21st. Filed under: Cellphones , Home Entertainment , HD , AT&T Comments Source: App Store

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You won’t be using a DualShock 4 on an Xbox come November 15th , but that doesn’t mean it won’t work on any of Microsoft’s platforms. Sony’s Shuhei Yoshida recently confirmed via Twitter that the PS4’s gamepad will be compatible with Windows for “basic functions.” In response to inquiries about said functionality, he specifically pointed out that “the buttons and joysticks will work just fine.” There’s no word on whether the drivers will allow PC games to automatically see it as a DS4 on their own, though; Yoshida replied in the thread further, stating that folks will have to “wait for [a] field report after the launch.” As Joystiq points out, third-party controllers show up as Xbox controllers on Windows thanks to the XInput API — something that’s non-existent in the PS3’s DualShock 3. And with that, we’re left to wait and see what PS4 insights Yoshida will reveal next . Filed under: Gaming , Sony Comments Via: Joystiq Source: Twitter (@yosp)

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Many gaming PC builders stock both AMD and NVIDIA video hardware to guarantee that they always have the fastest graphics . Not Origin PC , however — it has had enough trouble with AMD that it’s dropping all Radeon GPUs from its lineup. The company tells Engadget that it’s responding to “customer experiences, ” support team demands and problems with both performance and stability. While there are still plenty of vendors that carry Radeon graphics, Origin PC’s move is a blow to AMD’s image; it suggests that the chip designer needs more than just advanced silicon to please gamers. Check out the full statement after the break. Filed under: Desktops , Gaming , Laptops Comments Source: Origin PC

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Less than a month after announcing its plans for an IPO, Twitter has today made its S-1 filing with the SEC public, offering the most detailed look yet at at the inner workings of the company. With the IPO, Twitter is looking to raise $1 billion on 472, 613, 753 shares of common stock, trading under the stock symbol TWTR. In the filing, the company also confirmed that it now has 218.3 million monthly active users (or MAUs) according to its most recent numbers, and that it pulled in $253.6 million in revenue for the six months ending June 30th, 2013, an increase of 107 percent from a year earlier. According to the company, mobile users unsurprisingly account for a particularly big chunk of its business, with 75 percent of its average MAUs accessing Twitter from a mobile device in the three months ending June 30, 2013, and mobile use accounting for 65 percent of its advertising revenue. It still isn’t making a profit, though, with the company seeing a net loss of $69.3 million for the aforementioned six month period. That’s compared to $316.9 million in revenue for all of 2012, and a net loss of $79.4 million. Of those 215 million MAUs, 49.2 million are in the United States, while 169.1 million are international, representing an increase of 35% and 47%, respectively, from the same period a year ago. Beyond those numbers, the company has also revealed the number of Timeline views for the first time; they stood at 150.9 billion for the three months ending June 30th, and 287.2 billion for six months prior (up 69% and 79% from a year earlier). On average, that translates to 691 timeline views per MAU for the same three month period, although that number jumps a fair bit looking just at US Twitter users — they rack up 825 timeline views on average. In a brief letter to shareholders included in the filing, the company says “Twitter represents a service shaped by the people, for the people, ” and that “the mission we serve as Twitter, Inc. is to give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly without barriers, ” adding, “our business and revenue will always follow that mission in ways that improve-and do not detract from-a free and global conversation.” Those interested in digging into all of the numbers can find the full filing on the SEC’s website . Filed under: Internet Comments Source: SEC

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Netflix brought 1080p streaming to Android 4.3 this summer, and now iOS users can experience HD streams as well, provided they’ve updated to iOS 7. Another new feature in the latest update is support for AirPlay streaming (if you prefer that to using the Apple TV’s built-in app, we guess), along with other miscellaneous fixes. Hit the link below to grab version 5.0 right away, unless you’re still busy testing out the just-released Chromecast support from Hulu Plus. Filed under: Cellphones , Home Entertainment , Tablets , Internet , HD , Mobile , Apple Comments Source: iTunes

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Notice how so many maker projects require open-source hardware like Arduino and Raspberry Pi to function? Intel has , and the company is leaping into bed with the former to produce the Galileo development board. Galileo is the first product packing Intel’s Quark X1000 system-on-chip, Santa Clara’s new low-power gear for wearables and “internet of things” devices. Don’t imagine, however, that Intel is abandoning its X86 roots, as Quark’s beating heart is a single-thread Pentium-based 400MHz CPU. As part of the new project, Intel will be handing out 50, 000 of the boards to 1, 000 universities over the next 18 months — a move which we’re sure will make Eben Upton and Co. delighted and nervous at the same time. Filed under: Misc , Wireless , Intel Comments

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