We're learning that Microsoft will soon be losing another of its key players, as Research lead Craig Mundie has announced that he will retire from the company in 2014. Before he does that, though, he'll be stepping down from his current position at Microsoft to become an adviser to CEO Steve Ballmer. Previously, he served as the boss of Microsoft's R&D department and lead the charge for the company's security program.
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- Google Glass Original Prototype eyes-on with Isabelle Olsson
- Google Glass creators talk of final consumer device release
- Google I/O 2013 on-site Wrap-up: Glass, Developers, and Services on tap
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Archive for December, 2012
Microsoft research lead Craig Mundie announces 2014 retirement
Quentin Tarantino tips “Killer Crow” as 3rd in Historical Revenge trilogy
In an interview this week supporting his brand new release of the film Django Unchained, director Quentin Tarantino has revealed that he's already begun writing a third in a trilogy of films that continues the Historical Revenge theme he started with Inglourious Basterds. It's not unlike Tarantino to suggest films he might work on and deliver and not end up doing so - he's done such a thing several times over his illustrious career - but it does seem quite possible given the language!
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Samsung may face $15 billion fine for attempting to ban Apple products in Europe
Apple and Samsung have been raging a legal war against each other over the past several months, and while Samsung lost a $1 billion lawsuit earlier this year, the company may be in for even more hurt. Samsung might be facing a serious blow from the European commission for trying to get Apple products banned in Europe.
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Facebook tops list of most-viewed Wikipedia articles in 2012
We turned to our old pal Wikipedia a lot this year, but judging from a list of the most-viewed Wikipedia articles in 2012 put together by Johan Gunnarsson, some of the pages we visited most might surprise you. Wikipedia doesn't rank its pages at the end of the year like so many other sites do, so Gunnarsson put the 100-entry list together by looking at the service's log files. The page users visited most in 2012? Facebook, by a pretty significant amount.
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Developer releases dozens of fake apps in Google Play store, user beware
Malware in the Google Play store is nothing new, and Google does their best to sift out most of the crap that makes its way in, but sometimes some of it sneaks through. A Google Play developer account by the name of "apkdeveloper" has released a ton of fake apps and games that are essentially rip-offs of other popular apps.
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Samsung Galaxy Note II Black tipped for 2013
The Samsung Galaxy Note II has appeared in a bit of a leaked photo of a new color for the hardware this week - black! This version of the device will quite likely be appearing at Mobile World Congress 2013 along with additional tweaks and additions of greatness to the already-popular Samsung Galaxy Note II and Galaxy S III lineup out now across the globe. This device is currently available in what the manufacturer calls Pebble Blue as well as Marble White through several carriers and off-contract both domestically and internationally.
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Microsoft enticing iOS developers to build apps for Windows
Both iOS and Android have a ton of apps to choose from -- over 700,000 each, to be exact. However, Windows 8 and Windows RT aren't quite there yet as far as having a rounded out app store. The Windows Store only has 100,000 apps available so far, but Microsoft is working hard to raise that number, to the point where they're wooing iOS developers to build Windows apps.
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Instagram use surges on iOS and Android, falls 25% on Facebook
It would appear that the real impact of the Instagram Privacy Policy update (and subsequent revolt on the part of its users) has come to light - a relatively massive 25% decrease in daily users - but there's a catch. While the statistics given by AppData could very well be due in part to Christmas and the holidays in general, a decrease of over 3 million daily users is nothing to scoff at for one of the most-used apps on the market. According to AppData the amount of daily users Instagram is working with fell from 16.4 million to 12.4 million between the week the Privacy Policy changes occurred and now... on Facebook. Meanwhile the app has taken off in popularity in its original iPhone and Android form.
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Samsung Galaxy S IV rumored to arrive in April with S Pen functionality
We've been hearing a lot of buzz about Samsung's next flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S IV, and we don't expect it die down anytime soon. The latest rumor fresh out of South Korea is that Samsung is preparing the Galaxy S IV for an April 2013 launch, and it's said that the new handset will come with S Pen functionality right out of the box.
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SlashGear Morning Wrap-up: December 28th, 2012
This morning we're getting in deep with not just everything pre-CES 2013, but privacy, gaming, and acquisitions too! You'll be glad to know that we've got a whole new batch of photos of Mars from the Mars Express - hot and red as always! Barnes & Noble's NOOK business is about to get a massive amount of cash from Pearson in the very near future. LG has all but spilled the whole bucket of beans on their CES 2013 showings well before the show!
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Senate approves warrantless phone tapping until 2017
The US Senate has voted 73-23 to approve the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Amendments Reauthorization Act, which will authorize phone surveillance of Americans without a warrant for counter-terrorism purposes for the next five years. The bill extends the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Amendments Act of 2008, which granted immunity for wiretaps and email monitoring under the Bush Administration.
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Motorola DROID RAZR M HD leaked with details
A few details have been leaked by an anonymous tipster as to what the next-generation DROID RAZR M will be, building on the greatness of the already fabulous palm-sized beast. We had our first look at the original DROID RAZR M earlier this year in NYC, the reveal event also playing host to one of the first public showings of a newly minted Google-owned Motorola, complete with Google-minded software choices for Android - like on-screen buttons, for example. Here we're seeing the logical next step for the DROID RAZR M with an "HD" name addition, but the specifications we're seeing aren't quite as solid as we'd hope - not logically, that is.
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