Helping you live in a connected world.
Google has enhanced its search service to augment search results with sets of associated facts, an improvement that demonstrates greater understanding of queries. Google calls this innovation a Knowledge Graph.Just as Facebook’s social graph is a set of associated data about people and their friends, Google’s knowledge graph is a set of associated data about a specific search query. Read the full story at Information Week.
In just a few months, Pinterest has blossomed from a little-known Internet start-up into an online force, adding millions of users over the course of six months.Pinterest was created a little more than two years ago, but it is now one of the most popular and most addictive destinations for millions of people worldwide. Read the full story at the Indy Channel.
Nintendo
For some inexplicable reason, Nintendo and Toyota have teamed up to turn the Nintendo DS into a navigational remote control, thereby allowing drivers (although I hope passengers do most of the fiddling) to set their routes using their game consoles.The service, called Kuruma de DS lets you see map and destination info as well as tour information as you drive through town. Read the full story at Tech Crunch.
Verizon Wireless
Verizon Wireless subscribers who have held onto their $30-a-month unlimited data plans will soon be forced to upgrade to a new tiered offering the company plans to launch this summer, according to the Web site Fierce Wireless.Speaking at the J.P Morgan Technology Media and Telecom conference today, Verizon Communications CFO Fran Shammo told investors that the company’s 3G unlimited data plans that customers were allowed to hang onto last year when Verizon switched to a tiered offering will soon go away entirely. Read the full story at CNET.
iPhone
Apple plans to use a larger screen on the next-generation iPhone and has begun to place orders for the new displays from suppliers in South Korea and Japan, people familiar with the situation said on Wednesday. The new iPhone screens will measure 4 inches from corner to corner, one source said. Read the full story at MSN.
Microsoft
Microsoft will charge users who buy a new Windows 7 PC $14.99 for an upgrade to Windows 8, according to a report.The cost of the upgrade was revealed yesterday by Paul Thurrott, a popular blogger who writes SuperSite for Windows. Read the full story at Computer World.
This week Facebook has been announced as purchasing Lightbox, this purchase topping off their recent $1 billion dollar grab of Instagram and coming up right behind their summer IPO. This service purchase will have lightbox.com shutting down sign-ups immediately and will have current users given a final chance to download their current photo collection before June 15th. Read the full story at Slash Gear.
Google Chrome
Besides the usual bug fixes and performance improvements, the highlight of today’s Google Chrome release is the addition of tab syncing to Chrome. With this, Chrome users can now have their open tabs synced across all of their devices, including tablets and phones that run the Ice Cream Sandwich-only Chrome for Android beta. Read the full story at Tech Crunch.
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Lenovo announced a wave of notebook updates this morning, including new range of ultrabooks set to run Intel’s brand new third-generation Ivy Bridge processors. Among the models released is a new 14-inch ultrabook, the ThinkPad X1 carbon, which the Chinese firm claims is the “thinnest ultrabook in the world.” Read the full story at Tech Spot.
Virgin Atlantic
Talk about long distance. Virgin Atlantic has announced that it’s letting customers make calls with their own cellphones — provided they’re on the airline’s new Airbus A330 flying between London and New York.According to the Daily Mail, the service will expanded to about 20 planes in Virgin Atlantic’s fleet by the end of 2012. Read the full story at Techland.
Facebook is going public today. The share price is set at $38, which should put approximately $18.4 Billion dollars into Facebook’s treasury, and value the company somewhere in the $104 Billion neighborhood. No mater who you are, that’s big money. People have been asking me for guidance on this IPO for months. Is Facebook worth [...]
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10/24/2012
Shelly Palmer - Keynote Speaker
(Hartford, CT)
Private Event
11/06/2012
Shelly Palmer - Host
(New York, NY)
