Flipbooard today announced that it is acquiring social reading mobile magazine Zite from CNN. In addition, Flipboard has entered into a strategic partnership with the cable news giant, one of the largest TV and news publishers in the world owned by Time Warner. All of CNN's worldwide coverage wil...
http://readwrite.com/2014/03/05/flipboard-acquires-social-magazine-zite-from-cnn
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Finnish security company F-Secure published its Threat Report for the second half of 2013, which includes a section dedicated to mobile security issues. According to the company, threats in the mobile space are almost entirely surfacing within the Android ecosystem, with 97 percent of malware ide...
http://www.androidauthority.com/f-secure-malware-report-353918/
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The first generation of Toshiba's Kirabook was an ambitious shot at creating a high-end product with MacBook-like buzz. That slim 13-inch magnesium-alloy laptop was even the first post-Retina PC we'd seen with a better-than-HD screen resolution -- a feature now becoming increasingly common in the...
http://www.cnet.com/laptops/kirabook-13-i7s-touch/4505-3121_7-35835199.html?subj=cnet&tag=title
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0 by Bogdan Petrovan on March 6, 2014 8:33 am Opera for Android is receiving a sizeable update today, bringing support for WebRTC-based video chatting, new UI layouts, a redesigned speed dial page, and a smarter download manager. The new Opera for Android allows you to jump in video chat sessions...
http://www.androidauthority.com/opera-android-webrtc-layouts-354414/
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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2014/03/06/wello/
Designed to be both fast and simple to use, the prototype we tried out this week was ultra-light, and thinner than the Speck case on one of our iPhones. Readings are done with your hands in a comfortable position, and the health tracker was able to return our vital signs as well as a fancy ECG graph of our heart in just a few seconds. Out of the box, you'll be able to pair it with your Wi-Fi scale and fitness tracker, so you can keep an overall picture of your health in the same place. Over time, additional add-ons could become available for the case to test for other things like glucose. Everything you track can be viewed on a daily, weekly, or monthly scale so you can see at a glance if your health starts to change.
Founder and CEO Hamish Patel has been working on the technology behind Wello for two years. He told us that he sees the device not only being useful for people in the US, but even more so for people in developing countries where access to health services are limited. When the $199 device ships this fall (pending FDA approval) it will be available for the iPhone 4S, 5, and 5S in 35 countries. Android users can also use Wello, but as a standalone device rather than a case for their phone. All of the tech for Wello is contained in a removable card roughly the thickness of your average business card. Azio plans to make the card available for other manufacturers to include in cases, so you might ultimately see Wello come to a third-party Android case, or even a different iPhone case.
Wello is open for pre-orders today in United States as well as Canada, China, India, Hong Kong, Singapore, the United Kingdom and across the EU. Early buyers can earn $10 for each person they get to pre-order -- depending on how many people you refer, tracking your health could be not only easy, it could be free.
Filed under: Cellphones, Science, Mobile
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Leaked images and videos of the HTC One's successor are a dime a dozen, so we've already seen every possible nook and cranny of the device. Why, then, are we reporting on the latest find by @evleaks? It gives us the closest and clearest look of HTC's rumored dual-lens camera setup so far, which is shaping up to be one of the most intriguing features on the phone. It features a smaller lens just above HTC's standard lens and dual-LED flash, but the purpose of is still a complete mystery. Plenty of theories exist, and we reported on the most likely possibilities demoed at Mobile World Congress last week. Ideas include the ability to cleanly magnify distant subjects without using digital zoom, enhancing low-light performance (which was an area HTC focused on with the One), quicker autofocus and the ability to change a picture's depth of field. Whether or not these particular benefits show up, it's hard to dispute that a parallel-lens setup is indeed coming to HTC's new flagship smartphone
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2014/03/05/mirror-for-android-chromecast-support/
Cyanogen's Koushik Dutta has been teasing the prospect of mirroring your Android screen on Chromecast for a few weeks, and today you can finally try the feature -- if you have the right smartphone, that is. An updated version of the Mirror for Android beta includes early support for mirroring to either a Chrome browser or Chromecast, but only if you have a Nexus 5. Google's phone is the sole device with the hardware video decoder needed for this mirroring technique, Dutta says. You also have to get root-level access to the operating system with the current release, although that won't be necessary in the future. Provided you meet the app's exacting requirements, you can give mirroring a spin at the source link.
Filed under: Cellphones, Home Entertainment, Mobile
Source: Koushik Dutta (Google+)
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Source: http://gizmodo.com/a-coloring-book-that-puts-kid-designed-fashions-on-a-vi-1536251814
Right Said Fred knew the appeal of the catwalk, and now kids can get in on the glitz and glamor with this new coloring book from Crayola that lets them design custom clothes and then see their creations virtually modeled. And it goes without saying that an iOS tablet or smartphone is required, but not included.
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In early August 2012, OnLive employees told us that the cloud gaming company was close to falling apart. Despite creating an impressive service rooted in a futuristic idea -- playing bleeding edge PC games on the highest settings, remotely, streaming from the cloud to virtually any device -- a cocktail of financial issues all crested at once. The result was mass layoffs ("at least" 50 percent), including lead evangelist and company CEO Steve Perlman. OnLive had a new owner, venture capitalist Gary Lauder, and a renewed directive to become profitable. Then, the company went silent.
"My focus has been on turning this from proof of concept into a real business."- Gary Lauder
Its services continued operating -- business as usual, as it! were -- and as media, we didn't hear a peep. The usual trade show appearances and interview opportunities dried up. Our last post about OnLive before this was in February 2013. Today, that's changing: the company is re-opening the lines of communication, announcing two new initiatives in CloudLift and OnLive Go.
The first, CloudLift, takes the cloud streaming concept of OnLive and applies it to games you already own. By logging in with a Steam account (required, at least for now), games you've got attached will be "unlocked" in the cloud, playable using the OnLive client or Microconsole anywhere else (including save data that syncs between devices). Of course, not all games registered or bought through Steam will work with CloudLift; just 20 games are launching with the service today, with "dozens more planned." Lauder told us OnLive's game onboarding process has been streamlined significantly, specifically with the intent to bring more games, more rapidly to OnLive.
| Batman: Arkham Asylum GOTY | Batman: Arkham City GOTY |
| Batman: Arkham Origins | Darksiders II |
| Dead Island GOTY | Dead Island: Riptide |
| LEGO The Lord of the Rings | Metro 2033 |
| Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition | MX vs. ATV Reflex |
| Painkiller: Hell and Damnation | Red Faction: Armageddon |
| Saints Row IV | Scribblenauts Unlimited |
| Strike Suit Zero | The Book of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles |
| The LEGO Movie Videogame | The Raven: Legacy of a Master Thief |
| Truck Racer |
Interested? OnLive's hoping you're interested enough to drop $15 every month for the functionality (there's also a seven-day trial). It goes live today.
Here's some fun you can have at home with little to no effort: make a mini crossbow from a bottle cap, two popsicle sticks and a rubber band. You can fire off flaming arrows, toothpicks, skewers, Q-tips and more with just your thumb.
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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2014/03/05/chrome-34-beta-android/
Want to stream any web video from your smartphone to your Chromecast? Grab the beta release of Chrome 34 for Android. The browser includes experimental support for sending embedded clips to Google's media stick, saving you from launching a native app just to watch something on a TV. As you'd expect, there are some compatibility hiccups at this early stage. YouTube works well (surprise!), but other sites are hit and miss -- you're best off sticking to videos from major, HTML5-friendly hosts like Vimeo. If you're willing to live with some inconsistencies, though, you can try the streaming feature today.
[Image credit: WhyYouPaul, Reddit]
Filed under: Cellphones, Software, HD, Mobile, Google
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Source: Reddit, Google Chrome Releases
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Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/flexcoin-robbery-2014-3
Yesterday we wrote about Flexcoin, the latest Bitcoin site that had to shut down after a massive theft that wiped it clean of every single Bitcoin it held online.
The company has now posted an explanation of how it happened:
During the investigation into stolen funds we have determined that the extent of the theft was enabled by a flaw within the front-end.
The attacker logged into the flexcoin front end from IP address 207.12.89.117 under a newly created username and deposited to address 1DSD3B3uS2wGZjZAwa2dqQ7M9v7Ajw2iLy
The coins were then left to sit until they had reached 6 confirmations.
The attacker then successfully exploited a flaw in the code which allows transfers between flexcoin users. By sending thousands of simultaneous requests, the attacker was able to "move" coins from one user account to another until the sending account was overdrawn, before balances were updated.
This was then repeated through multiple accounts, snowballing the amount, until the attacker withdrew the coins. (Here and Here)
Flexcoin has made every attempt to keep our servers as secure as possible, including regular testing. In our ~3 years of existence we have successfully repelled thousands of attacks. But in the end, this was simply not enough.
Having this be the demise of our small company, after the endless hours of work we've put in, was never our intent. We've failed our customers, our business, and ultimately the Bitcoin community.
Please direct any and all questions to admin(at)flexcoin(dot)com and we will reply to you as soon as possible.
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Source: http://gizmodo.com/report-dish-is-working-on-a-web-based-tv-offering-for-1536422107
A day after Dish announced that it'll carry Disney
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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2014/03/04/stubilizer-go-pro-steadicam/
Though GoPro cameras excel at capturing your insane escapades, the resulting shaky footage is not what we'd call production-ready. Now an inventor named Stuart Smith is looking to smooth things out with his self-named Stubilizer, a kind of mini-Steadicam designed for the GoPro's mount. Thanks to the small size, you can attach it almost anywhere you'd normally put a GoPro -- like on a helmet or vehicle, for instance. Despite the size, it seems to excel at drastically improving shaky video (shown after the break) even when you're running. Smith has launched three versions on Kickstarter, the Solo, Duo and Pro, which run £149, £199 and £299 (about $250, $340 and $500), respectively. All three use gyroscopes and motors to steady footage, with the Solo helping roll only, the Duo adding the pitch axis and the Pro stabilizing all three: pitch, roll and yaw. If you're interested in pledging, you can hit the source -- just keep in mind the extra risk to your neck with such helmet-attached devices.
Filed under: Cameras
Source: Kickstarter
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Source: http://lifehacker.com/when-to-buy-your-plane-ticket-based-on-data-from-four-1536163030
When you're booking a flight, you don't want to buy too far in advance—and be the guy who lost out on a price drop; nor do you want to book too late—and pay hundreds more for the convenience. When's the best time to buy? CheapAir crunched the numbers from over four million tickets bought last year to offer some advice.
Those four million tickets add up to a database of 1.3 billion air fares. What they found, at least for domestic airfares, is there's a "prime booking window" of between 29 and 104 days in advance when the average fare is at its lowest (so, roughly a month to three months before the flight). Taken altogether, 54 days in advance is the best time to buy, based on this data.
As you can see from the chart above, the cost of waiting up to 13 days in advance is enormous.
These real-world findings back up one economist's calculation of the cheapest time to book a flight
CheapAir notes, however, that the exact 54 days in advance number isn't very important. Prices for each trip will rise and fall volatilely depending on the market and when you're flying. As a rule of thumb, you should still keep checking fares frequently and grab a good deal when you see one.
When should you buy your airline ticket? Here's what our data has to say | CheapAir
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