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Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.
As Switched On discussed a few weeks ago, and as Microsoft noted in its recent 10-K filing, it is an unavoidable truth that the company getting into the hardware market will cause conflict with its partners. The extent of that conflict, though, depends on many variables and Microsoft can -- and must -- take steps to ameliorate it.
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Switched On: Surface damage originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 12 Aug 2012 17:30:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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How many debit, credit, loyalty or other magnetic strip cards do you have in your wallet? The Protean Echo is a concept designed to lighten your wallet, but in a good way. Due to be put up as a funding project on Kickstarter in Winter, the Echo system allows you to scan all your magnetic data from your cards into your smartphone and then sync any three cards to your Echo. By pressing one of the three buttons on the card, the Echo takes on the “personality” of that card. The Echo can then be swiped just like you would normally with your card. You can easily sync the Echo to your phone to change cards at any time.
To me, there’s still a number of security issues to take in to consideration here, but at an expected cost of between $80 – $100 it certainly looks like an interesting concept.
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Tagged: credit card, Smartphone, Wallet
Protean Echo Is the Last Payment Card You’ll Ever Need originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on August 13, 2012 at 8:00 am.
VMware adds Mozy to its cloud and virtualization empire originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 05 Apr 2011 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The Chamarel, a ship that’s responsible for laying and servicing undersea fiber-optic cables, caught fire and required evacuation while off of Namibia’s Skeleton Coast in the Atlantic Ocean. The fire started on Wednesday while the ship was returning from repairing a Sat3-Safe cable network that stretches from Portugal and Spain to West Africa, and then to India and finally Malaysia.
The Chamarel is one of six cable ships owned by France-Telecom Orange. It has been erecting and maintaining undersea cables since 1975, laying more than 100,000 kilometers (62,137 miles) of fiber-optic cables across the globe. The cables help form the backbone of international fiber-optic communications, and are used for transmitting internet traffic from continent to continent, and transmitting telephone and cable television signals.
Previously known as the Vercors, the Chamarel laid AT&T’s TAT 6 cables between Rhode Island and France back in 1976, and TAT 7 cables between New Jersey and England in 1983. More recently, the ship laid Sat-3/Safe cables between South Africa, India and Malaysia in 2002.
Since then, the Chamarel has helped to keep several countries connected. The ship has been responsible for repairing any breaks that occur along cables located in the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean. Cable breakages oftentimes occur in shallower waters, due to dropped ship anchors and fishing trawlers.
Of France-Telecom Orange’s six ships, four are dedicated to maintenance services in the Atlantic-Indian ocean nexus, as well as the Mediterranean basin. Two other vessels — the Rene Descartes and the Teliri — are responsible for laying down new telecommunications systems worldwide.
Though the Chamarel has suffered damages, none of the crew members suffered injuries. A Namibian fishing vessel was able to safely recover all of the ship’s 56 people on board. The cause of the fire has yet to be determined and is currently under investigation.
“This is a very serious incident, and I would like to express my sincere thanks to the crew members for their courage in managing the situation,” Theirry Bonhomme, the company’s senior executive vice president of networks and carriers and R&D, said in a statement. “The safety of our crew is our primary concern and we will look closely at the results of the investigation.”
So far, the only images available of Chamarel burning are coming from local paper Namib Times’ Facebook page.
Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/fiber-optic-cable-ship-burns-in-skeleton-coast/
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Scrabble Helper helps you improve your Words With Friends gameplay originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Apple is reportedly matching the close to $50 discount carriers and retailers have begun offering on the iPhone 4S. While carriers and retailers typically start discounting the current iPhone as it approaches the 1 year mark, and a next generation iPhone looms on the horizon, Apple matching them is somewhat surprising. Eric Slivka reports for MacRumors
A source has now revealed to MacRumors that Apple's retail stores have been given authorization to match these discounted prices from approved major retailers and carriers. In all cases, Apple will discount iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 models by $49.01 upon request.
Retail only, of course, not online. And bring the proof of the price you want them to match. Given Apple's stellar customer service, the extra hassle in getting the price match is worth it. All other things being equal, especially price, if you can't wait a month for an iPhone 5 and need a new phone now, now, now, go to Apple and save your $50 bucks there.
Anyone pulling the trigger?
Source: MacRumors
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Do I have facts to back up this incredible claim? Ummm… yeah, I do. I know that tea drinkers like myself are way more fun than stodgy coffee drinkers because we can use cute tea infusers like this one from Arta. Designed in Seattle, WA, this tea infuser features a flower pot shaped stainless steel perforated basket that can hold 2 or 3 teaspoons of loose leaf tea. Snap the seedling cap over the basket and you’re ready to brew a cup of your favorite tea. The plant stem serves as a handle when it’s time to remove the infuser from the cup. How’s that for instant fun? The Arta Tea Leaf Infuser is dish washer safe and can be purchased through Amazon for $12.99.
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People who Drink tea are more fun than People who Drink Coffee originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on August 12, 2012 at 10:00 am.
Mozilla publishes name and shame list of slow Firefox add-ons, cracks down on tardy devs originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 04 Apr 2011 05:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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