Happy Halloween! I remember back when I was in elementary school, all my friends would dress up on the last day of the tenth month. They would don the mask from superheroes like Batman or Spiderman, or put on the furry paws of animals like cats or dogs. I even remember my friend making a Blastoise (The final evolution of the first generation water starter Pokemon, Squirtle) costume. I always remember Halloween as a good day of treats, and a day...
Is there any objective measurement to the quality of art? To illustrate this point, one of my professors displayed a piece of painting on the projector screen a few weeks ago, and asked the class if it was beautiful. Unsurprisingly, in this graduate-level engineering course, most students shouted "no". I was no exception -- I said I would pay $5 if it came with a frame. As it turned out, that piece of painting in question was sold for $150...
From PC World: Sony’s new mobile chief has a tough job ahead of him—convincing people to buy Xperia smartphones.
Hiroki Totoki will be in charge of a business that hasn’t yet had a winning product, and which is expected to post an operating loss of ¥204 billion (US$1.8 billion) for the year to...
From CNET: Samsung's Gear S smartwatch, which lets you to make calls, receive notifications and check emails when not tethered to a smartphone, is heading to US store shelves next week.
Samsung on Thursday said the Gear S will be available in the US starting on November 7. The smartwatch will be...
From DailyTech: The newest members of Samsung’s Galaxy Alpha lineup of smartphones were first revealed in early October via photo leaks, but the South Korean electronic giant is now ready to officially reveal its new 4.5” and 5” offerings.
Following its dreadful earnings report yesterday, Samsung...
From InfoWorld: At long last, HTML5 today reached the official Recommendation stage, meaning the World Wide Web Consortium finally endorsed it as an official standard, even as the technology already is in use in browsers. But there is more work to be done, with the "Open Web Platform" expected to...
From PC World: Phones from Xiaomi still haven’t arrived in the U.S., but the company’s booming sales in China have been enough to make it the third largest smartphone vendor in the world.
Xiaomi reached the ranking, behind Apple and Samsung, in the third quarter, said research firms IDC and...
From CNET: Samsung's third-quarter results were just as bad as the company warned, as tougher competition caused profits to tumble 74 percent year-over-year in its mobile business.
Overall, the South Korean electronics giant on Wednesday reported a 60 percent drop in company-wide operating profit -...
From DailyTech: Hewlett-Packard may be struggling to find its way as a company, but that isn’t stopping the it from thinking outside of the box when it comes to PCs. HP has just introduced its new Sprout PC which is unlike any other all-in-one desktop PC that you’ve seen before.
The device...
From InfoWorld: Microsoft will launch its next version of Office for Windows in the second half of 2015, according to an online report.
ZDNet blogger Mary Jo Foley first reported on comments made by Julia White, general manager of marketing for Office and Office 365, at Microsoft's Tech Ed Europe...
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