8:13 PM
UK intelligence agencies will monitor British citizens and how they use Facebook, Twitter, Skype, etc. They plan to log nearly everything people in the UK do online:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/uk-wants-surveillance-devices-to-monitor-web-traffic-with-services-such-as-facebook-twitter/2013/02/05/c5a9bc12-6f96-11e2-b35a-0ee56f0518d2_story.html
UAV companies say that farmers are a bigger market for them in the U.S. than the law enforcement agencies:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/02/drone-farm/
Samsung is investing *$1 bil* through its VC fund and R&D centers around the world and $100 mil to fund development of components and subsystems...that type of R&D investment shows Samsung is committed to the mobile device market and they will have some impressive technology if they invest that money well:
http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/04/samsung-strategy-and-innovation-center/
Amazon is creating their own virtual currency that can be used to buy apps, games, and in-app content for Kindles. They plan to give away 10s of millions of virtual coins to Kindle owners soon, as an incentive to app makers who will get paid in real cash by Amazon for all of those virtual coins:
https://www.infoworld.com/t/applications/amazon-mint-virtual-coins-can-be-spent-only-kindle-apps-212295
Michael Dell and the Silver Lake investment firm is buying Dell for $24.4 bil and taking the company private:
https://www.infoworld.com/d/the-industry-standard/dell-goes-private-bought-michael-dell-and-silver-lake-212273
BlackBerry's CEO says that sales of their new BlackBerry 10 phones are beyond expectations. That is pretty impressive, especially considering that the devices won't be available in the US until late March:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/blackberrys-heins-initial-blackberry-10-response-beyond-expectations/2013-02-05
Best Buy is giving $50 gift cards to people who sign up (see the link below) this week and upgrade their phones sometime by the end of this year:
http://www.droid-life.com/2013/02/05/best-buy-offers-up-50-gift-card-for-anyone-who-upgrades-their-phone-in-2013/
Cable companies make a ***97%*** profit margin on their Internet services, and many people don't have any other choice for high-speed internet services in their home...so, the cable companies have no incentive to improve their product:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/02/cable-companies-make-97-margin-on.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/uk-wants-surveillance-devices-to-monitor-web-traffic-with-services-such-as-facebook-twitter/2013/02/05/c5a9bc12-6f96-11e2-b35a-0ee56f0518d2_story.html
UAV companies say that farmers are a bigger market for them in the U.S. than the law enforcement agencies:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/02/drone-farm/
Samsung is investing *$1 bil* through its VC fund and R&D centers around the world and $100 mil to fund development of components and subsystems...that type of R&D investment shows Samsung is committed to the mobile device market and they will have some impressive technology if they invest that money well:
http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/04/samsung-strategy-and-innovation-center/
Amazon is creating their own virtual currency that can be used to buy apps, games, and in-app content for Kindles. They plan to give away 10s of millions of virtual coins to Kindle owners soon, as an incentive to app makers who will get paid in real cash by Amazon for all of those virtual coins:
https://www.infoworld.com/t/applications/amazon-mint-virtual-coins-can-be-spent-only-kindle-apps-212295
Michael Dell and the Silver Lake investment firm is buying Dell for $24.4 bil and taking the company private:
https://www.infoworld.com/d/the-industry-standard/dell-goes-private-bought-michael-dell-and-silver-lake-212273
BlackBerry's CEO says that sales of their new BlackBerry 10 phones are beyond expectations. That is pretty impressive, especially considering that the devices won't be available in the US until late March:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/blackberrys-heins-initial-blackberry-10-response-beyond-expectations/2013-02-05
Best Buy is giving $50 gift cards to people who sign up (see the link below) this week and upgrade their phones sometime by the end of this year:
http://www.droid-life.com/2013/02/05/best-buy-offers-up-50-gift-card-for-anyone-who-upgrades-their-phone-in-2013/
Cable companies make a ***97%*** profit margin on their Internet services, and many people don't have any other choice for high-speed internet services in their home...so, the cable companies have no incentive to improve their product:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/02/cable-companies-make-97-margin-on.html