Catching Up (9/28)
Get flash to fully experience Pearltrees
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Army Tracking Plan: Drones That Never Forget a Face | Danger Room
Samsung and Microsoft settle Android licensing dispute | Technology
Samsung is to pay Microsoft licensing fees for sales of its smartphones and tablets such as the Galaxy Tab 10.1
A new report looking into online music consumption habits shows that since 2009 the number of people who pirate music has dropped by 25 percent in Sweden.
Music Piracy Continues to Decline Thanks to Spotify
Thoughts on the Amazon Kindle Fire
It was exactly one year ago that I received my first Kindle and fell in love with it. Why? They distilled the essence of a simple, superb reading experience into a lightweight, affordable and hassle-free device (as in WhisperSync and stellar battery life).
The "Silk" Browser
Today in New York, Amazon introduced Silk, an all-new web browser powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and available exclusively on the just announced Kindle Fire .
Amazon's Silk Web browser adds new twist to old idea
One of the headline features of Amazon's new Kindle Fire tablet is a completely new Web browser called Silk that is designed with a "split" architecture, allowing it to offload much of the heavy lifting to Amazon's cloud computing cluster for superior browsing performance.Amazon Silk: Bridging the gap between desktop and mobile web browsers
Along with three new e-ink readers (Kindle Classic, Kindle Touch, Kindle Touch 3G) and a new, 7-inch, Android-based Kindle Fire , Amazon has also announced the introduction of a web browser — Amazon Silk — that uses the power of Amazon’s Elastic Compute cloud to produce a desktop-like browsing experience on its Kindle Fire tablet. Silk is WebKit-based, uses Google’s SDPY HTTP-replacement protocol, supports Flash 10 — and no, despite what it sounds like, Silk is not comparable to Opera Mini.
Inside Google Plus
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Pricing your own product is always a tricky proposition, and the more critical the price is to your product’s success, the more difficult it is to set.Source: Google In Talks To Acquire Katango
We’re hearing that Google is in talks to acquire Katango , the Kleiner-backed startup that uses algorithms to automatically sort your friends into different groups, with very little effort required on the user’s part (see our full post on their launch here ). Katango would be a very obvious fit for Google (in fact, we hear that Google has been interested in the company since they launched in July). Why?VisionTech Components sold a large amount of semiconductor chips to more than 1,100 customers from its office in Clearwater, Fla. Unfortunately, federal prosecutors allege, the chips were counterfeits. In this case, the perpetrators were brought to justice when authorities uncovered the $16 million counterfeiting operation.