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Read MoreHere’s an infographic from OnlineMBA showing the retails giants Amazon and Walmart head-to-head.
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Read MoreZoosh. That may or may not be what an ultrasonic payment sounds like to a dolphin, but it is definitely the name of a new mobile wallet technology developed by Silicon Valley start-up, Naratte. While Google and other major players have focused on traditional radio-based NFC, Naratte has been quietly testing its ultrasound system instead, motivated by the fact that it can work on ordinary handsets without the need for specialized NFC circuitry. Two phones can "zoosh" each other using nothing but their built-in microphones and speakers, so long as they're both running the necessary app. Zoosh operates across a
Read MoreYou’re living in the golden age of gadgets, at billions of price movements on hundreds of thousands of devices. Here is an infographic depicting the price chaos from Decide.
Consumer electronics are some of the most exciting products on the planet - rapid evolution of gadgets means that newer, better versions are launching as often as daily, with bang for the buck improving all the time. In 2010 a new laptop was released every four hours, a new TV every fifteen hours and a new camera every couple of days. Here is an insightful infographic from Decide.
There is a feature in Windows 7, that can come in quite handy in instances where you have multiple windows open and you want to minimize those windows with the exception of the one you are working in. It is called Aero Shake. Instead of minimizing each one separately, simply position the mouse pointer on the top of the Window pane which you dont want to minimize, hold down the left mouse button and give the mouse a shake. If you did this correctly, all the windows will minimize to the taskbar with the exception of your current window. Repeat
Read MoreConsumer electronics are some of the most exciting products on the planet rapid evolution of gadgets means that newer, better versions are launching as often as daily, with bang for the buck improving all the time. A revolutionary new shopping service that will bring unprecedented levels of transparency to electronics shopping Decide. Decide was conceived and founded by internet search pioneer Oren Etzioni and four talented computer science students from the University of Washington. Decide is solving the model chaos and price volatility consumer problems. To do this, it is utilizing a proprietary 60-terabyte database comprised of model lineages (hundreds of
Read MoreThe Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (or ICANN, for short) set to vote on expansion plans for domain names. It's expected to approve something substantial this week, however, with a new system enabling just about anything to trail the crux of the domain. Today, just 22 generic top-level domains (gTLDs) exist -- .com, .org and .info are a few examples plus about 250 country-level domains like .uk or .cn. After the change, several hundred new gTLDs are expected to come into existence. In other words, .com may soon be replaced by .Canon (for cameras), .eco (for green sites),
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