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- Google Glass porn in the works
- Schmidt defends Google's alleged UK tax dodge
- Chip development gets EU cash
- Microsoft and Google call YouTube app row ceasefire
- Researchers build bio-computer
- Microsoft leans on Xbox One domain squatter
- Lenovo plans to take on US smartphone market
- Samsung tipped to pick Intel for Galaxy Tab 3
- Java developer builds Office in 30 days
- Liberty Reserve founder arrested
| Google Glass porn in the works Posted: 27 May 2013 05:47 AM PDT Android adult app developer MiKandi is putting the finishing touches on the world’s first Google Glass porn app and it could hit the company’s app store this week. MiKandi told ZDnet that it is looking into new ways to deliver a more potent porn experience to Google Glass, thanks to its unique feature set. “Obviously, Glass is perfect for shooting POV video, so we’re experimenting with that first. But what’s really interesting about Glass is that it’s not just a hands free camera. It can receive and send data, so there are a lot of interesting interactions that we want to explore,” said MiKandi cofounder Jennifer McEwen, comparing the experience to a porn version of “Being John Malkovich”. Some in the porn industry believe that Google Glass has the potential to change the industry forever, both in terms of production and user, ahem, experience. While it might sound like a publicity stunt, if augmented reality porn takes off, it might take wearable smart devices to the next level. Developers are already working on porn for Oculus Rift, although a truly smart device with a camera, complete sensor array and proper OS such as Google Glass seems like a much more promising platform. Although many don’t like to admit it, porn tends to have a huge influence on tech trends. As much as 40 percent of the internet is porn and let’s not forget that pornographers played a crucial role in the video format wars. Back in the eighties they helped kill off Beta in favour of VHS and five years ago they helped bury HD DVD, making Blu Ray the only viable 1080p disc standard out there. |
| Schmidt defends Google's alleged UK tax dodge Posted: 27 May 2013 05:25 AM PDT Google's Eric Schmidt has said his company would pay more tax - if it were required to do so by UK law. However, Schmidt's argument says that it is up to legislators to close loopholes instead of scapegoating individual companies simply working within a system. The Coalition government blustered about closing loopholes but so far little action has been taken - except a recent campaign by HMRC that saw it naming and shaming small traders, while companies like Vodafone escape scrutiny. This has been the main focus of political action group UK Uncut. Last week an ex Google employee claimed that the company had managed to “pull the wool” over HMRC by diverting British profits through Ireland to a Bermuda tax haven. |
| Posted: 27 May 2013 05:04 AM PDT Intel might be shaking in its boots after the EU announced that it wanted to do to the chip industry what it did with airplane manufacturing. The European Commission has launched a campaign of public investment in micro- and nanoelectronics with the aim of doubling chip production on the continent to around 20 percent of global production. According to a statement from European Commission vice president Neelie Kroes the cunning plan is to put $6.4 billion of public authority money into research, development and innovation over the next seven years to match a similar amount of investment from EU companies, supported by the plan. European Commission vice president Neelie Kroes warned that other nations were investing in computer chips and Europe cannot be left behind. "We have to reinforce and connect our existing strongholds and develop new strengths. A rapid and strong coordination of public investment at EU, member state and regional level is needed to ensure that transformation," she said. Kroes has argued for several years that nanoelectronics are strategic to European wealth creation as at least 10 percent of GDP depends on electronic products and services. Under the plan, public authorities across Europe, at the Commission, member state and regional level should be able to channel more than about $6.4 billion into research, development an innovation over the next seven years. Kroes wants Europe to produce more chips than the United States produces domestically. The idea is to reinforce Europe's semiconductor centers in Dresden, Eindoven, Leuven and Grenoble and their connections to design clusters in such places as Cambridge and Milan. Kroes said that this sort of investment will allow the Europeans to repeat the success of Airbus in the chip sector. |
| Microsoft and Google call YouTube app row ceasefire Posted: 27 May 2013 03:59 AM PDT Google has decided to back down and build bridges with Microsoft following a spat over a YouTube app on Windows Phone. |
| Researchers build bio-computer Posted: 27 May 2013 03:55 AM PDT Israeli scientists have built a computer using only biomolecules such as DNA and enzymes. Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have created an advanced biological transducer. The machine can manipulate genetic codes, and use the output as new input for subsequent computations. The idea is that it will be used in gene therapy and cloning. Biomolecular computing devices could be crucial to developing computers that can interact directly with biological systems and even living organisms. We would have thought that the downside was the lack of a decent QWERTY keyboard but the researchers are quite excited by the fact that no interface is required. According to Science Daily, all components of molecular computers, including hardware, software, input and output, are molecules that interact in solution along a cascade of programmable chemical events. Ehud Keinan of the Technion Schulich Faculty of Chemistry said that the early results show a novel, synthetic designed computing machine that computes iteratively and produces biologically relevant results, In addition to enhanced computation power, this DNA-based transducer offers multiple benefits, including the ability to read and transform genetic information, miniaturisation to the molecular scale, and the aptitude to produce computational results that interact directly with living organisms. This particular transducer is designed to be used on genetic material to evaluate and detect specific sequences, and to alter and algorithmically process genetic code. Similar devices could be applied for other computational problems. It is probably only a matter of time before you can increase your computer power by sneezing on your PC. |
| Microsoft leans on Xbox One domain squatter Posted: 27 May 2013 03:51 AM PDT Software giant Microsoft is coming out as a bad guy after its legal eagles swooped on a bloke who it claimed cyber squatted its Xbox One trademark. While the world, plus dog, has no love for cyber squatters, it appears that Vole might have overstepped whatever it is that people over step in such cases. In December of 2011, UK resident Krasimir Ivanov registered the name XboxOne.com and XboxOne.net long before Microsoft itself even likely had a definitive name for its upcoming console. Microsoft has filed a complaint with the National Arbitration Forum (NAF) over the domain names XboxOne.com and XboxOne.net. The filing appeared online today, just days after the company announced its next-generation console the Xbox One. It is not as if Microsoft can claim that the "cyber squatter" had nicked the name before it got its paws on it. If he had guessed what Vole was doing, it was a damn lucky guess. Vole kept away from registering "Xbox One" domains that would have revealed what it was doing. Microsoft has done well at getting domain names and normally the cyber squatter does not have a bat's chance in hell. But in this case the guy has owned it for a jolly long time. Had he been using it, it could have meant that his business could have been hijacked by a big multinational company who decides unilaterally that it wants something and it will get it. Tragically, for the sake of a good story, Ivanov has parked both domain names and does not appear to be doing anything with them. |
| Lenovo plans to take on US smartphone market Posted: 27 May 2013 03:47 AM PDT Lenovo has already made significant inroads in the Chinese smartphone market, but it hasn’t done much to capture Western markets. This might be about to change over the next year or so. Lenovo CEO Yang Yuanqing told the Wall Street Journal that the company could enter the US market next year. He said smartphones are Lenovo’s new opportunity and that his company is serious about the market, as it is seen as a potential source of long-term growth. Capturing the US market won’t be easy, as it is a bit more competitive than China. However, Lenovo is planning to roll out new high-end phones in China, in an effort to break Samsung’s and Apple’s dominance in the 3,000+ yuan market. Its latest smartphone, the K900, sells at 3,299 yuan, or $538. The company is hoping to attract more affluent consumers who tend to buy Samsung and Apple phones. Lenovo senior vice president Liu Jun told China Daily that the company aims to become the top smartphone vendor in China within two years. We strongly suspect that it will not limit its high-end push to China, and would not be surprised if the first Lenovo high-end phones tip up in Europe and the US quite soon. |
| Samsung tipped to pick Intel for Galaxy Tab 3 Posted: 27 May 2013 03:45 AM PDT The rumour mill is buzzing with news of a partnership between Intel and Samsung that the former may stick its new Atom processor into the Galaxy Tab 3. Venture Beat reported over the weekend that the tablet will have Intel's Clover Trail Atom chip, which when launched last year was described as being perfect for low powered Windows 8 tablets. |
| Java developer builds Office in 30 days Posted: 27 May 2013 03:41 AM PDT Microsoft might be a little spooked after a Java developer announced that he knocked up a basic open source office suite that runs on multiple OSes in just 30 days. Anthony Goubard has created Joeffice which works on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux as well as in browsers. It is a basic package which includes a word processor, spreadsheet program, presentation program and database software. It was built using NetBeans and uses many popular open source Java libraries, Goubard said. He has been showing users how he did it on Youtube and he has released his alpha version already. His outfit, Japplis, launched the suite, which is available under an Apache 2.0 licence. This allows companies to change and redistribute the code internally without having to share the new code publicly, he said. Goubard hopes to make the suite available on mobile platforms and possibly the Raspberry Pi credit-card size PC. It is not really meant to be as advanced as Vole's office, or LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org but is designed for companies with specific needs such as obtaining data from a Java library, he said. If all goes well, Goubard aims to release a full version of the suite next year. You can download and play with Joeffice here. You need Java 7 to get it to run. |
| Liberty Reserve founder arrested Posted: 27 May 2013 03:25 AM PDT The chequered history of digital currency hit another black square after the website of Liberty Reserve was shut and its founder arrested. Inspector Knacker of the Barcelona Yard fingered the collar of Arthur Budovsky Belanchuk, 39 and shut down Libertyreserve.com. The coppers are investigating money laundering and the arrests were carried out by authorities in the US and Costa Rico. According to The Tico Times, US officials likely will seek Belanchuk's extradition so that they can try him on one of those quaint kangaroo courts they have in the land of the free. Belanchuk should have seen this one coming. His website has been under investigation since 2011 for money laundering. The outfit is an almost unregulated money transfer business where users can open accounts with as little as an email address. Its digital currency allegedly has a huge user base from underground economies and cybercrime. If you look at the Libertyreserve.com server it reveals entries of ns1.sinkhole.shadowserver.org and ns2.sinkhole.shadowserver.org, which were apparently changed sometime on Friday. Shadowserver is a non-profit which helps ISPs and web hosting firms eradicate botnets and malware infections on their servers. |
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