Randi Zuckerberg believes that the future of content production is not in Hollywood but in Silicon Valley. Her ‘Zuckerberg Media’ studios aims to lead the charge on this transition by becoming one of the first production houses in the region. And Zuckerberg has big plans with the new startup.
If you have been waiting for Samsung’s Windows Phone 8 entry in the U.S., then you don’t need to wait anymore. Verizon has announced that Samsung’s 4-inch Windows Phone handset Ativ Odyssey will be available from January 24.
Mid and high-level employees, often experts in their respective fields, are a key asset for different tech companies. When the competition is fierce, employees are given fair benefits to retain them. But when companies sign a mutual agreement not to ‘steal’ each other’s employees, that disrupts fair market competition and is, thus, illegal. In the light of certain emails made public recently, Apple, Google, Adobe and many others indulged in such an agreement.
Yoichiro Kawaguchi, a professor of Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies at the University of Tokyo, has created a swimming Jellyfish robot based on a theme of “Space Jellyfish”. The robot is just an artistic interpretation of what a jellyfish in space might look like.
Software giant Microsoft announced the Surface product family last year in June and unveiled “Surface Pro Tablet” at the CES 2013. However, eight months later since its announcement, Microsoft has announced that it will start selling final version of fully-capable Surface Pro Tablet in the U.S. and Canada from February 9. Starting price $899.
The welcome page of Snip.it proudly announces, “We are excited to share some big news: Snip.it has been acquired by Yahoo!.” Yahoo’s Twitter account says, “We are thrilled at the opportunity to bring Snip.it’s vision to a larger scale at Yahoo!.”
Google co-founders have always come off as very humble fellows to me. We have often seen the duo mingling with fellow Googlers and sometimes, even with the users. A user recently snapped the photo of Sergey Brin taking a New York City subway while wearing Google glasses. Does he regularly take the route or was he testing out the gear?
CES 2013 ended few days ago. Now we are waiting for this year’s Mobile World Congress trade show which is going to be held in Barcelona, Spain, next month. Many companies are preparing to unveil some more products at that trade show like CSE 2013. Recently, South Korean tech giant Samsung has confirmed that it will unveil a smaller version of its Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet at the MWC 2013 which will have 8-inch screen.