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while giving energy users access to all the familiar technology they want and need. How can it achieve this promise?

Already being used in LED light bulbs, television and computer displays, and mobile phones, Gan has efficient light emission capability,

something silicon cannot duplicate. But silicon remains the defacto material of choice semidconductors and transistors found in all the computing devices of our modern world.

CEI, through Gan, hopes to change because not only is the material more efficient in light emission,

faster computers, and smaller form factors. For example a Gan power adapter can be integrated into a laptop

and other electronic devices eliminating the clunky brick that is commonly comes with a device's power cord.

Massachusetts institute of technology, the brain trust from which CEI was hatched believes using Gan in data servers, electric vehicle inverters

The app lets users choose from some 30 types of investments a move Ronick says offers them choice without becoming overwhelming.

Users can buy fractional shares, which lets folks get started with just $5. Cofounder Brandon Krieg says Stash buys whole shares from the market,

which screens potential investments so they only see things they can reasonably take on. he user can override their risk profile,

Stash will also show users how others with similar risk profiles are investing through the app

its app is available on ios with Android to follow in a couple of months. Ronick says the team interviewed more than 100 other people who largely believed investing was confusing

#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.

Currently the Dash button is an invite-only offer to members of Amazon Prime, the two-day delivery service that in future Amazon wants to be powered by drones.

Amazon is also working with a handful of manufacturers to integrate Dash functionality into the hardware.

and printer firm Brother. The company is also on the hunt for all sorts of device makers that have goods to sell alongside their own devices.

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)."

Initially, in the first two or three years, a higher percentage of the applications were for launching ecommerce companies."

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.

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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.

But nowadays, there are many companies and startups that are focusing on other sectors: from gaming to software development and mobile applications."

"Most common companies we see are based internet ones that do need not to much initial funding to thrive.

A real issue in Turkey is having access to capital at an early stage. Seed money is almost nonexistent:

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

#Every company now a software company, continued In this space, we've talked about the great shift that has been taking place across the business landscape--that is, every company,

no matter how far from tech they may seem--is evolving into a software company, and by extension, a data company.

That widget manufacturer down the street likely has a data center and has developed and maintains a portfolio of its own custom software that keep evolving.

Now, it also may be employing services, with a layer of analytics on top, that extends out to its networks of supply chain vendors,

The company may even be renting out its software-based online services to others in its industry.

Press observes that while a few large vendors--IBM, Cisco, EMC, Oracle, HP, and a reinvigorated Dell--still dominate the IT sector,

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."

the lines between software providers and software consumers have blurred, almost to the point in which they are indistinguishable from one another.

#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,

Past complainants include Microsoft, Tripadvisor, and Yelp, as well several German and French publishers. The charges will bring to a head the EC's five-year investigation into Google's business practices in Europe

where it has a market share of over 90 percent share for search. The investigation has focused previously on

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.

One of the key reference points for the EC's actions against Microsoft in 2007, which ultimately saw the company fined hundreds of millions of euros.

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

#Samsung to launch fingerprint mobile payment service Samsung SDS, the IT service affiliate of Samsung Group, has announced that it is launching a new fingerprint mobile payment service with local payment gateway firms KG

Mobilians and KG Inicis within South korea, with global expansion planned for later. The South korean tech giant has signed also a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Korea Information Certificate Authority (KICA), a government-backed certificate licenser,

and will later launch other authentication services based on biometrics, the company said.""Going forward, we plan to not target hardware manufacturers that make smartphones,

but to instead provide our biometric solutions to online service and security companies,"said a Samsung SDS spokesperson."

"We plan to offer clients that need biometrics solution with various business models and offer differentiated authentication services."

"Samsung's self-developed biometrics authentication solution has received certification from the Fast IDENTITY Online (FIDO) Alliance, an international standard setter for online authentication,

the company said, which will allow it to expand the business globally. The certification is called FIDO Ready.

The FIDO Alliance has around 190 members, including Samsung, Google, Microsoft, Visa, and Paypal.""We expected previous authentication technology such as passwords, certificates,

and OTP will be replaced by FIDO-approved methods. FIDO-backed biometric authentications will become the de facto standard of the future,

"said the spokesman. The firm is forming a global integrated certification center, which it will start test running on its in-house intranet.

It will later expand it to Samsung affiliates and clients, so that all clients can use a unified certification platform.

Samsung SDS did not elaborate on how its biometrics solutions work, but said it includes the use of fingerprint-,iris,

-and voice-recognition technology for authentication. Security will be boosted by using biological information as a key

the company said. Meanwhile, Samsung last week announced that it aims to become one of the top 10 global IT service companies in the world,

The bundle, called Accu-Chek View, includes a blood glucose monitor, a wearable fitness tracker and an app developed by SAP that are integrated all together.

This Wednesday April 29th, Dr. Oliver Haferbeck, Head of Diabetes Care at Roche diagnostics will be part of a live panel on the Coffee break with Game Changers Radio.

and tune in live at 11 AM EST. You can also follow the conversation on Twitter via#SAPRADIO o

One example is Virginia Tech computer science professor Wu Feng and his team, who have developed tools to help other researchers

The resulting software, called Seqincloud, allows researchers to sequence and analyse a genomic data set in seconds.

And, by 2020, with the power of cloud and advanced computing, it may be a matter of pennies.

Feng and his team are part of a select group participating in a research programme called Computing in the Cloud (Cic),

The system would capture information from blood pressure monitors, activity monitors, and behavioural data shared by users.

The results would then be processed in the cloud. Use of the cloud is confined not just to the cutting-edge areas of healthcare

Arbor networks said the attack had traffic of up to 334 Gbps, accounting for tens of thousands of connections, targeting one Asian network operator.

activists and hackers often target a website or company with a flood of traffic, bringing their systems to a halt.

These attacks leverage a technique that amplifies the traffic attackers generate through hijacking computers'bandwidth,

During the three-month period there were just 25 attacks larger than 100 Gbps in size

"said Arbor networks'Darren Anstee in remarks s

#Google's Bigtable goes public as a cloud managed Nosql database Google is today opening up the Bigtable technology behind most of its flagship offerings,

as a fully-managed cloud Nosql database service. Set out by the search-to-cloud giant in an influential 2006 paper, Bigtable powers applications such as Gmail,

Google analytics and Google search and is described by the company as designed for large ingestion, analytics and data-heavy serving workloads.

which Google's schema-less Nosql Cloud Datastore is built. Now available in beta Google Cloud Bigtable is accessed through the open-source Apache HBASE API,

making it natively integrated with much of the existing big data and Hadoop ecosystem, the company said.

Cloud Bigtable integrates with other Google big data products, such as messaging tool Pub/Sub, pipeline-builder Dataflow and analytics software Bigquery."

Google says the new service offers twice the performance per dollar and half the total cost of ownership of its direct competitors."

"Creating or reconfiguring Cloud Bigtable is carried out through a simple user interface, with backing storage scaling automatically."

This is essentially an API that you provision with a guaranteed amount of server processor throughput behind it

deploying the software, configuring all the nodes-a ton of work going in there. For Bigtable you're literally going to pop into a website

and the UI and you're going to say, 'I want a new cluster, '"he said."

Google has 10 years of history managing Bigtable. We know very well how to manage it."

whether it's web data or sensor data. They have these instances, they have these databases

"The second area where Google expects Cloud Bigtable to find a role is in new projects in areas such as the internet of things, advertising, energy, financial services and telecoms.

the same price as Google Cloud platform object storage.""That's amazing because what you have is a very hot high-performance database running on a storage tier that's the same price as slower, colder, blob-based storage,

Data can be imported into the new service through an offline disk-based service or via an online transfer,

O'connor said the role of the HBASE API in Cloud Bigtable will help reassure companies over potential fears about finding themselves locked into Google."

"For security, Google is providing replicated storage and encryption of all data in flight and at rest.

The company has worked with a number of partners, from Sungard for financial data platforms, Pythian for monitoring, CCRI for real-time geospatial analysis, to Telit Wireless Solutions for data ingestion,

The beta is available initially in Google's central US region, Europe and APAC, with others geographies to follow."

But even after general availability, this is something that Google believes is tremendously valuable and the features will not stop before GA

the app asks users discrete and subtle psychological questions purposed to gather information to identify

and was built on the SAP Mobile Platform to provide Heidelberg University Hospital an intuitive interface to connect doctors with patients and vice versa.

Vodafone Italia's CEO Aldo Bisio has proposed a'newco'should be created, a private-public vehicle in

The government has dismissed also the rumour circulating recently that it would force Telecom italia to replace its copper network with fibre."

#Yahoo launches password-free logins Yahoo If remembering passwords is too much of a chore, Yahoo will make them for you.

During a session at the South by Southwest festival hosted in Austin, Texas, as reported by sister site CNET,

the tech giant launched"on-demand"passwords, which takes remembering your security password to access accounts of the equation.

Yahoo's vice president of product management for consumer platforms Dylan Casey said during the event that the service is the"first step to eliminating passwords."

"Available now in the US, on-demand passwords work by users first logging into their Yahoo accounts normally.

The next step is to register your phone and connect it to your account. When you next login,

A password containing four characters will then be sent to your phone, verifying your identity through the linked device

While Casey said the service was designed after Yahoo put itself"in the shoes of the people using our products"

which is slowly being adopted by web services worldwide. Two-step verification services rely not only on the traditional password--which is often easily crackable,

--but also often involves an additional code being sent to a linked mobile device to heighten account security.

which makes breaking into accounts far more difficult without an attacker having physical access to your mobile device.

While users may enjoy the convenience of on-demand passwords --as long as their devices are lost not

or stolen--Yahoo's new scheme could be viewed as a lax security protocol designed to appeal to the general public,

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Yahoo chief information security officer Alex Stamos confirmed that end-to-end encryption will be introduced to Yahoo Mail by the end of 2015.

Encryption will be offered via a plugin, developed by Yahoo and Google after the Edward Snowden US National security agency (NSA) revelations.

While Google has said previously it will include encryption services by default within the Android operation system,

the tech giant has been forced to backtrack on its decision across the board due to compatibility and performance issues in older devices.

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#Samsung, Dell, other OEMS to bundle Microsoft apps, services on Android tablets Microsoft has announced an expanded partnership with Samsung and new deals with Dell and other OEMS to preload Microsoft

mobile apps and services on Android tablets. The Android preload deals, announced March 23, cover both consumer and business Microsoft apps and services.

Samsung, for its part, will preinstall Microsoft services and apps on its"portfolio of Android devices.""Samsung committed to offering Microsoft office 365

and Samsung Knox Business Pack on Android tablets, as well. Samsung announced last month it would preinstall Onenote,

Onedrive and Skype on the Glaxy S6 and S6 Edge in the coming months--some time in the first half of calendar 2015,

Samsung also will preinstall Microsoft word, Excel, Powerpoint, Onenote, Onedrive and Skype on"select"Samsung Android tablets,

Samsung announced today. Users who purchase new Android tablets via Samsung's business-to-business sales channels will have the option of purchasing a bundle of one of three versions of Office 365--Businesss

Business Premium or Enterprise, coupled with Samsung's Knox security offering. Microsoft also announced today it has expanded bundling deals with Dell,

as well as regional OEMS including Trekstor of Germany, JP Sa Couto of Portugal, Datamatic of Italy, DEXP of Russia, Hipstreet of Canada, QMOBILE of Pakistan, Tecno of Africa,

and Casper of Turkey, and Pegatron. These hardware partners will preinstall Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Onenote, Onedrive and Skype on Android devices coming to market later this year.

Interestingly, Microsoft's blog post on the new bundling deals is authored by Peggy Johnson, Microsoft's Executive vice president of Global Business Development,

who reports directly to CEO Satya Nadella.)If the rumor mill is right, Android distribution startup Cyanogen might be next up to forge a similar bundling relationship with Microsoft.

A recent Forbes report claims Cyanogen is"close to finalizing a wide-ranging partnership to incorporate several of Microsoft's mobile services,

including Bing, the voice-powered Cortana digital assistant, the Onedrive cloud-storage system, Skype and Outlook, into Cyanogen's devices."

"Microsoft originally was rumored to be considering making a minority investment in Cyanogen, but supposedly the Redmondians have decided against that, at least for now

#Electronic voting will eventually replace postal ballots: NSWEC CIO The NSW Electoral Commission (NSWEC) is looking to replace postal votes,

and believes the solution is the ivote platform. NSW Electoral Commission CIO Ian Brightwell outlined during recent state elections 283,000 people relied on ivote to cast their votes, many of

"There was no fault on the computer systems per se; it was a human error in data entry,

TRU-D's system analyzes the variables of the room and floods the space (both line-of-site and shadowed spaces) with the proper dose of UV LIGHT energy.

The system also tracks infection control data and simultaneously uploads the information to the hospital's web portal,

meaning it integrates well into a new health care paradigm centering around data collection and analysis."With rising issues around health care-associated infections,

#Spain's 3d food printing lab: Bringing technology to the table Technology has been encroaching into the professional kitchen for years.

"Printing flat designs can be done, but 3d is said something else Castells as he demonstrated how layers of chocolate are used to build up three-dimensional structures,

and working on an open hardware basis, has been selling 3d printers since 1998, according to Felip Fonollosa, its director general.

It has incorporated recently a paste extruder system into its printers, using it to control the amount of material deposited by each layer through the pressure exerted by the piston of a syringe.

#Google shuffles leadership structure with new CEO, Alphabet company Google made waves on Monday afternoon with the surprise announcement of a new CEO and leadership structure.

First, Google's product chief Sundar Pichai has been promoted to the top gig at the Internet giant, replacing cofounder Larry page as CEO.

or a"collection of companies,"according to Page's blog post. Page specified Google will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Alphabet."

"We liked the name Alphabet because it means a collection of letters that represent language, one of humanity's most important innovations,

and is the core of how we index with Google search, "Page exclaimed.""We also like that it means alphabet (Alpha is investment return above benchmark),

"Google crafted Alphabet to both consolidate and scale its multiple businesses, according to the 8-K form.

Basically, the top leaders of Google have shifted over to the new Alphabet leadership structure, with some overlaps.

For example, the 8-K noted Porat will also be CFO at Google. Other product leadership roles will remain the same, such as Youtube CEO Susan Wojcicki.

Alphabet Inc. will replace Google Inc. as the publicly-traded entity. All Google shares will automatically convert into the same number of shares for Alphabet with all of the same rights.

However, both classes of shares will continue to trade on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the ticker symbols GOOGL and GOOG.

Pichai is slated to takeover the company when the deal goes through. Google plans to separate financial reporting from the rest of Alphabet businesses on the fourth quarter earnings report.

But the decision to promote Pichai is perhaps the least surprising bit of news in all of this as his status at the tech behemoth has risen dramatically in the last two years.

Pichai was appointed head of both of Google's operating systems in 2013, taking over Android from the unit's founder Andy Rubin,

who then moved elsewhere within Google to work on more innovative, moonshot-like projects. He was promoted eventually to oversee Google's entire product portfolio, encompassing Google maps, research, search, commerce and ads and infrastructure on top of his prior existing duties.

Page highlighted the recent launches of Google Now and Google Photos as examples of Pichai's success during his tenure thus far."

"I feel very fortunate to have talented someone as as he is to run the slightly slimmed down Google

and this frees up time for me to continue to scale our aspirations, "Page wrote.

As for those aspirations, Page dropped a few hints, highlighting some recent works from the secretive Google X lab, such as drone delivery dream Project Wing,

as well as incubators tied to Google Ventures and Capital. Acknowledging that the entire shift overall--let alone the new name--might be asserted puzzling,

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