#Tinder goes on Twitter rant over'Vanity fair'article Popular dating app Tinder erupted into a storm of angry,
#Twitter drops character limit for direct messages witter users will no longer be confined to 140 characters
The social network says it has removed limits on the length of a direct message, allowing users to send tweets at whatever length they choose.
However, Twitter says the standard public tweet will remain 140 characters.""Today change is another big step towards making the private side of Twitter even more powerful and fun,
says Twitter product manager Sachin Agarwal in a blog post detailing the changes. The change rolls out starting today across Twitter's mobile apps, desktop and web clients and Tweetdeck,
and continue rolling out globally over the next few weeks s
#Virtual reality comes into the store VENICE BEACH, Calif. elcome to this reality-a store where you can buy shoes, eyewear and coffee,
and also take a 360 degree immersive video trip to Peru. Shoppers at Toms flagship store here can don Samsung's Gear VR virtual reality goggles,
Facebook bought tech start-up Oculus, which works with Samsung on the Gear VR system, for $2 billion in 2014.
and when they take the headset off, your whole world is now upside down. he cost for the project wasn cheap.
and cites a comment from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg that VR will potentially be as disruptive as the smartphone.
Facebook bought tech start-up Oculus which works with Samsung on the Gear VR system, for $2 billion in 2014.
and when they take the headset off, your whole world is now upside down. he cost for the project wasn cheap.
and cites a comment from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg that VR will potentially be as disruptive as the smartphone.
Facebook and Google operate overseas. The European Court of Justice examined the case of an Austrian citizen who claimed that his data,
wasn't being protected adequately by Facebook. No appeal is possible as the European Court of Justice is the equivalent of the U s. Supreme court. The ruling comes as European leaders
when users post on social media, search the web, buy items online and other activities. Companies use this information to direct ads
and promote products. Without the Safe harbor rules, in place since 2000, each country in the European union could potentially set is own privacy rules
That could change because of the lawsuit brought last year against Facebook by Austrian law student and privacy advocate Max Schrems.
Schrems filed the case in Ireland, Facebook European headquarters. The irish court rejected the suit and Schrems appealed to the European high court."
"Schrems said in a statement posted on his Twitter account after Tuesday's ruling. In a statement, Facebook said Europe's Advocate General had been very clear the issue was not Facebook per se,
but the mechanisms that European law provides to enable essential transatlantic data flows. The company said it was imperative that the EU
driven by an increasingly powerful mobile technology that is making portable VR a near-term possibility.
I donned an Oculus headset and grabbed two joysticks that, when held, became my hands.
In the Oculus setup, a small black box from Sixense was attached to the top of the headset.
including Oculusparent Facebook, in envisioning VR for shopping. That vision is still fluid for vretail,
Venturebeat is studying email marketing tools. Chime in, and wel share the data with you. Physical stores have become the most exciting new dimension for digital marketing.
and data collection that optimizes customer flow in the store in a way similar to how Google analytics helps optimize visitor flow on a website.
ou could don a VR headset and youe in the Andes setting up camp. Cooking a meal/dining with Jefferson While such experiences would create new meanings for rying it on it remains to be seen
Sixense Rubin told me. very high-end smartphone sold from now on is a VR smartphone, he said, because of their very high resolution and processing power.
especially since Rubin expects that wireless companies like AT&T could start offering free or inexpensive goggles as incentives for longer contracts.
In fact, Rubin said he expects there could be tens of millions of smartphone-equipped VR headsets out there in the U s. within the next few years.
#Why Google Project Fi could be the beginning of the end for Verizon and AT&T Google made an exciting announcement Wednesday,
confirming plans to launch its own wireless service, Project Fi. The service will leverage existing Wi-fi networks
and switch to carrier networks (T-Mobile and Sprint) only when Wi-fi isn available. This approach to mobile communications is
what some are calling Wi-fi First. It an approach several companies are already pursuing, including Republic and Freedompop,
and my own company, Scratch Wireless. And Cablevision recently launched Freewheel provides a Wi-fi only service.
Google announcement is a great thing for the wireless industry the Wi-fi First industry and ultimately, a great thing for consumers.
Right now, with a cost of $10-20/GB for data in the U s.,traditional cell service is expensive (upwards of $140 per month, per subscriber),
and according to a 2013 study by Validas, smartphone users typically waste $28 each month on unused data.
But smartphone service doesn have to be so costly. According to Cisco, about half (46 percent) of total mobile data traffic was offloaded through Wi-fi in 2014,
and with the Wi-fi rollouts that are happening now that number could reach 90 percent. At $10/GB
if 90 percent of traffic went over Wi-fi instead of cellular, it could save consumers $700 billion each year.
Here where that hurts the AT&T and Verizons of the world: When implemented properly, a Wi-fi First model can relegate cellular networks to simply filling the gaps between hotspots.
A Wi-fi First model could save consumers literally trillions of dollars over the next decade if adopted in mass,
and Google is the company to pave the way (and do so quickly). Given its size and influence in the device space,
Google Project Fi could help accelerate the adoption of Wi-fi First through a couple of key moves.
The first is by requiring all Android devices to have Wi-fi First intelligence built in at the outset.
This would ensure that all phones use Wi-fi as the main communication method and only rely on cell service when absolutely necessary.
The second is Wi-fi connectivity. Wi-fi is nearly everywhere, but consumers don always take advantage of it in the capacity they could.
Google has the opportunity to speed up this adoption by creating standards and device requirements that would make Wi-fi connections more mainstream,
and a seamless, easy experience. So what does this mean for the big carriers? At the same time Google ushers in Wi-fi First to the masses, its wireless vision could fundamentally transform the role major carriers play in the market.
Let use Verizon as an example of a carrier that will be impacted. When you buy a phone through Google,
Google will manage the relationship with Verizon instead of you. When Wi-fi isn available, your device will automatically select which network it should connect to based on availability,
but similar to making calls while roaming, the device decides for you based on the network with the most availability that the least expensive.
Youe not tasked with deciding what network to connect to and there is little (if any) interaction between you and that cell brand.
Youe buying the phone from Google, youe paying Google, and youe calling Google support if you experience any issues.
If Google move means consumers now have billing relationships with only Google, Verizon brand (which the company spends more than a billion dollars promoting each year) is diminished.
This model commoditizes the wireless carriers while simultaneously putting downward pressure on their margins. As such, the Wi-fi First business model eliminates erizonfrom consumersvernacular,
the company influence over the subscriber is removed all but, and the $77 billion in gross profit it made in 2014 will also be a thing of the past.
It clear Wi-fi plays an integral role in the future of the industry. Based on Google track record,
if there is any player that can take down Verizon and AT&T, who have been upselling consumers on wireless service that isn efficient
or cost-effective for decades, it Google. And it only a matter of time before carriersrelevance to smartphone subscribers everywhere is diminished.
The end is near d
#Microsoft granted patent for glasses that detect wearer's emotions Put this one in the WTF file.
The United states Patent and Trademark Office granted Microsoft a patent today for a pair of glasses that can detect a wearer emotional response to what theye looking at.
In patent talk, the thing is called a wearable emotion detection and feedback system. If you are watching TV
and suddenly soccer comes on, your posture may change and you may smile. The system will be able to identify a change in your emotional state. uring interactions,
the device, recognizes emotional states in subjects by comparing detected sensor input against a database of human/primate gestures/expressions,
posture, and speech, the patent reads. eedback is provided to the wearer after interpretation of the sensor input.
Once the database determines the emotional response, various kinds of corresponding content can be pushed into the user view.
It can work the other way, too. If the wearer is looking at a person through the glasses,
the emotional state of that person can be detected, either by their posture or facial expression. So if the wearer is giving a speech,
say, and the glasses detect that audience members look bored, the specs my suggest a joke for the speaker to insert into the speech
Stratos will also have to contend with digital wallets like Google Wallet Apple Passbook, and Paypal,
Stratos enables you to compile all your credit cards on a single Bluetooth connected credit card that links up to a mobile app.
tap your Stratos card to your mobile phone screen twice to see options appear while your phone is locked still.
The idea is connected that one credit card is easier to manage and safer than a wallet full of credit cards.
#Google Alphabet: Where the brand vision? This week, Google grew up. Taking many in the business world by surprise,
the tech giant restructured itself under a new holding company, Alphabet. The shake-up means many of the oonshotprojects Google picked up over the years have been spun off into separate and independent companies,
while Google retains the most profitable side: search and advertising. To many, Alphabet will make a lot of sense.
Google had started to seem like a mega-conglomerate that was too powerful for its own good
and this will help change that. But there is a problem. Google is an exciting and innovative brand.
The company has spawned belief statements learned by heart by brand strategists and copied by businesses across the world.
more accountable and more management scalemakes Google sound more like a financial services firm than the innovative tech company we know and love.
Finally, Google vision, or the way it sees its position in the world, has always been core to its brand,
and increased Google market cap by $20 billion overnight, but how will Google employees, some of the brightest,
most creative people in the world, react to this new, corporate focus? After all, these are the same software engineers who are encouraged to design their own desks
People work for Google because it exciting, but the messaging wee heard this week has been anything but.
and could be a brilliant way of bringing order to Google complexity, the language surrounding the announcement also hints at new limitations,
Alphabet must still include the spirit of Google brand values within the new company and concede less to the financial markets
#Hackers dump data from cheating website Ashley Madison online: reports (Reuters) Hackers have followed through on a threat to release online a huge cache of data,
that was stolen a month ago from cheating spouses website Ashleymadison. com, several tech websites reported on Tuesday.
Reuters was not immediately able to confirm the authenticity of the posting. The data was posted onto the dark web,
meaning it is only accessible using a specialized browser, although lists of email addresses have sprouted
since up on other sites. A group calling itself Impact Team had leaked snippets of the compromised data in July
and threatened to publish names and salacious details about clients unless Ashley Madison and Establishedmen. com,
another site owned by Toronto-based parent company Avid Life Media, were taken down. Tech website Wired said 9. 7 gigabytes of data was posted,
and appeared to include member account and credit card details. vid Life Media has failed to take down Ashley Madison and Established Men,
have did an affair not immediately respond to emails and phone calls seeking comment s
#Google becomes part of a new company, Alphabet Google chief executive Larry page on Monday announced that the tech giant is undergoing a major restructuring
and will become a wholly owned subsidiary of a new conglomerate known as Alphabet. The move, Page said,
will allow Google to focus more on its core products, including its search engine, while Alphabet manages a variety of different businesses,
including driverless cars and drones.""What is Alphabet?""Page wrote.""Alphabet is mostly a collection of companies.
The largest of which, of course, is Google. This newer Google is slimmed a bit down, with the companies that are pretty far afield of our main Internet products contained in Alphabet instead."
"Other companies within Alphabet will include Calico and Life sciences, the parts of Google that focus on health products.
Page said the company's X lab, which focuses on moon-shot projects such as Google's drone delivery service,
also will be part of Alphabet, as will its investment arms, Ventures and Capital. The move comes as Google struggles to maintain focus as its portfolio grows
and its interests spread across various industries. That sprawl has attracted recently criticism from investors, who wondered whether the company could remain innovative with so many distractions.
Page will be chief executive of Alphabet while Google cofounder Sergey Brin will become president. Sundar Pichai, who is Google's senior vice president of Android,
Chrome and Apps, will become Google's chief executive. Page said, "Alphabet Inc. will replace Google Inc. as the publicly-traded entity
and all shares of Google will automatically convert into the same number of shares of Alphabet, with all of the same rights."
"The company's two classes of shares will continue to trade on the Nasdaq as GOOGL and GOOG,
he said. So what stays a part of the core Google business? According to the company's Securities and exchange commission filing, the main Google business will include"search, ads, maps, apps, Youtube and Android,
"as well as the technical infrastructure for those departments. Most of the top Google executives will become Alphabet executives,
the filing said. Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, Chief Financial officer Ruth Porat and chief legal officer David Drummond will take up corresponding positions within Alphabet.
Porat will also remain the CFO of Google. Google, one of the few companies to actually become a verb, hardly needs introduction.
The firm was started by Larry page and Sergey Brin in 1997 after the two met as students at Stanford university.
Before Google, the two worked together on a search engine called Backrub, which they operated on the servers at Stanford for more than a year.
The pair registered the domain name"Google. com"on Sept. 17,1998, with the mission to organize all of the world's information.
The company went public in 2004. It is worth $443. 9 billion and handles an estimated 67 percent of the country's desktop searches and 83 percent of its mobile searches, according to Comscore.
Internationally, Netmarketshare puts Google's global desktop search share at 70 percent. While the company has held always search at its core
it has expanded into several different areas. Investors and analysts have criticized Google in recent years for spending so much on these"side projects
"and have called repeatedly on Page to streamline Google's purpose. Google shares were up more than 5 percent in after-hours trading on the news, at $665. 99 per share. p
#Verizon new, experimental Fios service is 10 times faster than Google Fiber Verizon's Fios network is already capable of top speeds of 500 megabits per second,
which lets you download an HD movie in about 15 seconds. But the Fios of tomorrow could be as much as 20 times faster than even those blazing speeds.
Verizon has just finished testing a next-generation fiber-optic Internet technology that allows the company to transfer data at rates of 10 gigabits per second.
For those keeping track, that's 10 times faster than even Google Fiber, which offers some of the speediest fiber you can buy today.
Verizon believes its new technology called NG-PON2 hort for"next-generation passive optical network"ould eventually grow to support speeds of 80 Gbps. That's thousands of times faster than
what most average U s. households get today. Fiber-optic cables work by sending data that's been encoded as packets of light.
NG-PON2 transmits the data using certain wavelengths of light that can handle 10 Gbps of capacity each, according to a company release.
The company tested NG-PON2 at a customer's house three miles away from Verizon's central office in Framingham, Mass.
It also tried it out with a business customer. A burgeoning arms race is occurring in the broadband industry.
Comcast for instance, has been working on a 2 Gbps service that it recently said will cost $300 a month.
While this version of Fios probably won't be coming to your area anytime soon and would be insanely expensive
even if it did the demonstration shows just how fast the Internet will someday become. That capacity will be used to accommodate new technologies like driverless cars,
Here how much Comcast is charging for its answer to Google Fibercharlottesville is about to get oogle Fiber lite,
thanks to this small wireless carriergoogle ultra-fast Internet service expands to San Antoni p
What if Wifi could see through walls? Adib posed the question to his adviser, professor Dina Katabi.
In a new paper they describe a sensor that sends radio signals through a wall and can identify people.
The system works by sending a radio signal that will bounce off a person and back to the device.
These signals travel through walls just as Wireless internet signals do. Data from body parts that curve away from the device won be recognized
What if Wifi could see through walls? Adib posed the question to his adviser, professor Dina Katabi.
In a new paper out of MIT Computer science and Artificial intelligence Lab, the researchers describe a sensor that sends radio signals through a wall
The system works by sending a radio signal that will bounce off a person and back to the device.
These signals travel through walls just as Wireless internet signals do. Data from body parts that curve away from the device won be recognized
Alexandria University agricultural and biosystems engineering associate professor Ahmed El-Shafei was quoted by Yahoo News as saying:"
and mobile phones, Gan has efficient light emission capability, something silicon cannot duplicate. But silicon remains the defacto material of choice semidconductors
#Amazon wants you to stick Dash wi-fi'buy'buttons all over your home Amazon has released new wi-fi-connected Dash buttons for people who never want to run out of laundry detergent, coffee,
Once connected to the home wi-fi network, the buttons allow the user to click to order from a range of around 200 items supplied by Amazon.
an alert is delivered to the home owner's smartphone, which they can then cancel if needed.
and in which internet penetration while still low (46 percent) compared to Western europe standards (though ahead of many other countries in the MENA region)."
then, was following the footsteps of ebay and Amazon, with the hope of sooner or later being acquired by an established company.
In 2011, ebay bought auction marketplace Gittigidiyor, essentially a clone of the American multinational, for $22m.
and innovation is confined longer to auction sites, the wave of online retail websites is still rampant:
recently, celebrity-endorsed fashion shopping site Lydiana. com now serves over 90,000 customers per day,
while Yemeksepeti (also known as foodonclick), an online food delivery platform which employs more than 200 staff serving over 1. 2 million registered users in eight countries.
"Most common companies we see are based internet ones that do need not to much initial funding to thrive.
Not to mention the effect that bans on sites such as Twitter and Youtube have, like those repeatedly ensued by prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan,
have to rely on social media for their marketing efforts. Other common complaints concern the difficulties of securing work visas for international employees and some negative cultural aspects
, Google, Facebook, Amazon) Large, IT-intensive enterprises (e g.,, financial services companies) The emergence of financial services companies as IT providers is something that has been brewing for some time.
"and Bank of america planning"to have 80%of its workloads running on software-defined infrastructure inspired by Web companies."
#Europe to slug Google with antitrust charges and open Android probe The European commission today formally charged Google with violating EU competition law by abusing its dominance in search to gain an edge over specialist rivals.
The charges could force Google to change the way it does business and pay fines of up to $6. 4bn,
or approximately 10 percent of its global revenues last year. On Wednesday the European commission commissioner Margrethe Vestager said the EC had sent formally a statement of objections to Google.
The statement says Google"abused its dominant position in the markets for general internet search services in the European Economic Area (EEA) by systematically favouring its own comparison shopping product in its general search results pages"
breaching antitrust law, according to the EC.""In the case of Google I am concerned that the company has given an unfair advantage to its own comparison shopping service, in breach of EU antitrust rules.
Google now has the opportunity to convince the Commission to the contrary. However, if the investigation confirmed our concerns,
Google would have to face the legal consequences and change the way it does business in Europe,
"Vestager said in a statement. A fortnight ago, Vestager sought permission from complainants to publish their claims,
The charges will bring to a head the EC's five-year investigation into Google's business practices in Europe
whether Google used its dominance to give its own specialised searches in shopping, travel and other categories an edge over rivals,
'as well as claims Google reused content from rivals without authorisation, and forced publishers to use Google ads.
According to the FT, some of the 28 commissioners that will be shown the charges today are concerned that Vestager has narrowed the scope of the claims against Google.
ZDNET has sought also comment from Google and will update the story if it receives one.
Google has acknowledged however the charges in a letter to staff yesterday reprinted by Recode, noting that it was"obviously very disappointing news,
"warning staff to expect"tough"criticism. As Google points out though, the statement of objections is not a final finding
and it has the opportunity to respond and have modified the claims-a process that could take two years.
in its memo, Google told staff it has a"very strong case, "that competition was alive and well,
and noted that mobile and apps"has changed everything, "offering consumers a way to get information directly from a mobile app rather than via search."
People can use Bing, Yahoo, Quora, Duckduckgo, and a new wave of search assistants like Apple's Siri and Microsoft's Cortana,
as well as more specialized services like Amazon, Idealo, Le Guide, Expedia, or ebay. In addition, users increasingly turn to social networks like Facebook
and Twitter to find news and suggestions-where to eat or which movies to watch,
"Google said. The EC on Wednesday confirmed it was opening a probe into Android and whether Google has been breached antitrust law here too."
"The Commission will assess if, by entering into anticompetitive agreements and/or by abusing a possible dominant position,
Google has hindered illegally the development and market access of rival mobile operating systems, mobile communication applications and services in the European Economic Area,
"the EC said. There are three areas the Commission will investigate -whether Google hampered rivals by forcing OEMS to only use Google services;
whether it stopped those OEMS from using and marketing non-Google-controlled versions of Android;
and whether bundling its services with Android has hurt competition. Google also acknowledged the EC's investigation into Android in its memo.
Google has faced a number of complaints from rivals, including over its bundling of Google apps like Youtube
and Maps as well as complaints Google has blocked third-party app stores on Android. Here too, Google says it has a strong case,
since Android had lowered prices and increased choice for consumers and pointed out that Samsung's new Galaxy S6 included pre-installed apps from rivals."
"Consumers decide which apps they use and download on Android devices. Apps that compete directly with Google such as Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft office,
and Expedia are easily available to Android users; and"Many of these apps come pre-loaded onto Android devices.
Google apps, like Search, Maps, Gmail, and Google Play, are also available out of the box on many handsets.
The recent Samsung S6 is a great example of this-there are pre-installed Facebook, Microsoft,
and Google apps
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