Day: September 18, 2013

BlackBerry Messenger to launch on Android, iOS this weekend

Free downloads to open BBM to rival smartphone platforms……


DARPA fires up XS-1 space plane quest

The new XS-1 program wants designs for satellite-toting flying machines that are fast (hypersonic, even), cheap, and reusable — on a one-day turnaround, no less…….


Staples and RadioShack pull Amazon lockers from stores

The brick and mortar stores have removed the lockers used for temporarily storing purchases for Amazon customers, Bloomberg reports…….


Oracle execs drop hints about OpenWorld 2013 agenda

It looks like Oracle is taking on SAP (among others) with some big product announcements this weekend…….


Oracle revenues miss expectations – AGAIN

Hardware division sales continue to shrink……


Tesla Working On Autonomous Cars: Musk Wants Teslas With Auto-Pilot

cartechboy writes “Do you like driving? Well then, you’re going to hate the future, because automakers are racing to beat each other to the starting line of the self-driving car race. By 2020, autonomous vehicles may arrive from Cadillac, Nissan, Volvo, Mercedes, Audi, and even Google. But now Tesla wants to jump into the ring….


Synthetic APIs approach improves fragmented data acquisition for Thomson Reuters’ content sharing platform

Through the use of Synthetic APIs inventive companies are able to get the best information delivered to those who can act on it with speed and at massive scale…….


Fluorescent compounds shed light on Alzheimer’s disease

New class of imaging agents enables clinicians to watch the progression of Alzheimer’s disease in real time in the brains of living patients…….


Zuckerberg: Thanks NSA, now people trust Facebook even less

It’s not just Facebook. The trust metrics for all major Internet companies have gone down since the NSA scandal broke, the social network’s CEO said…….


Apple quietly doubles cellular app download limit to 100MB

Users can now download over the air iTunes and App Store content up to 100MB in size, up from the previous 50MB limit…….