Amazon's 3D Smartphone: Everything We Think We Know
Source: http://gizmodo.com/amazons-3d-smartphone-everything-we-think-we-know-1586225798
On June 18th, Amazon will announce
Wednesday, June 04, 2014
Amazon's 3D Smartphone Is Coming June 18 (AMZN)
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-event-2014-6
Amazon is holding a product announcement on June 18.
It's probably for the long-rumored Amazon smartphone. Amazon posted a video to YouTube that teases the device. The video shows a bunch of people moving their heads around and getting super excited.
That's likely because Amazon's smartphone is said to have several front-facing cameras that can track your head's movement and display images on the screen in such a way that they appear to pop out in 3D.
The phone will likely run a heavily modified version of Android, just like Amazon's line of Kindle Fire tablets. That means you'll have to get all your apps and services from Amazon's own app store.
According to BGR, the Amazon phone may take advantage of AT&T's sponsored data plan, meaning streaming content from Amazon's video or music products won't count against your monthly data allotment.
Amazon has made a big push in hardware recently. In addition to its Kindle Fire line of tablets, it now has Fire TV, a set-top box that lets you stream video from Amazon and other popular services like Netflix. Fire TV doubles as a gaming system for some Android games if you buy an extra controller.
The event will be held in Seattle and appears to be open to the public. If you want to go, you can sign up here.
And that page shows what appears to be the edge of a smartphone:
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The Most Popular Apps In The US Right Now
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-most-popular-apps-in-the-us-2014-6
With over 1.2 million apps in the Apple App Store and more than 1 million in Android's Google Play Store, apps are more popular than ever — but which ones are people using the most?
Internet-analytics company comScore just released the 15 most popular apps used in April in the U.S., for iOS and Android, and there are few surprises.
You can see the full list of rankings below.
Facebook is in the lead, reaching 74.1% of smartphone users, meaning 74.1% of people with smartphones used the app in April. Twitter clocked in with 20.4%, suggesting that only one in five smartphone users Tweet while nearly three of every four smartphone users surf Facebook.
YouTube leapfrogged Google Search for third place, coming in at nearly 50%.
Google Play and Apple Maps are, unsurprisingly, included in the rankings. Both are preinstalled on many Android devices and Apple phones. Smartphone users still prefer Google Maps to Apple Maps, however, though Android and Apple consumer can still choose between the two — both are available for both platforms.
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Someone Created A Program That Can Disable Google Glass From Recording You (GOOG)
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-stop-glass-wearers-from-recording-you-2014-6
Now that Google is selling Google Glass to anyone who wants to shell out $1,500 to buy one, there could be an increase in backlash from people creeped out by the device.
So privacy advocate Julian Oliver, member of a group called "Stop The Cyborgs," came up with a clever new way to stop Glass from doing things like secretly recording video without permission.
He's published a simple computer program that can detect when Glass is being used and stop it from connecting to a network. That in turn means that Glass can't access cloud servers and apps.
Oliver tells Wired's Andy Greenberg:
"To say ‘I don’t want to be filmed’ at a restaurant, at a party, or playing with your kids is perfectly OK. But how do you do that when you don’t even know if a device is recording? ... This steps up the game. It’s taking a jammer-like approach."
The program isn't a commercially available product, so using it would require a bit of tech skill. It would need to be installed on something like inexpensive Raspberry Pi computer that has been hooked up with a USB network antenna. Once installed, the program searches for the unique network address that Google Glass uses and, when detected, refuses to allow Glass to connect.
While anyone can post signs declaring a Glass-free zone, this uses technology to enforce the policy.
Oliver tells Wired that he's working on an even more aggressive version, one that can move around with you, disconnecting Glass from any network. The legality of that is questionable, Oliver admits, and he plans to warn people to use it only "in extreme circumstances.”
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Intel Wants to Make Your Office Entirely Cable-Free By 2016
Source: http://gizmodo.com/intel-wants-to-make-your-office-entirely-cable-free-by-1585879520
A rat's nest of cables at the back of a desk is truly the sign of the gadget-obsessed. But Intel plans to end all that, and soon: it wants your desk—hell, your entire digital life—to be completely wireless by 2016.
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