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While I was sitting in the living room of my relatives' house in Toronto watching the Raptors game last month, I received a Facebook message from a friend. "What is the philosophy of design?" she asked. "I need to write an essay about it." Being in engineering and all, how to approach an essay question -- especially on an arts topic -- could not have been more different than my field of expertise. I had a pretty good chuckle, but being a helpful...

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When you think of car dealers and car salesmen, you usually do not have the best image in mind. I have been in the market for a car, and recently I had to deal with them. During one of my encounters, I worked with three different people at a certain dealership, which I will not name directly. What I will say is it is a Chevrolet dealer off Blackfoot Trail in SE Calgary, Alberta. If you really do not know, they rhyme with the word 'thaw', and...

Salesforce also bid for LinkedIn, but lost out to Microsoft

From PC World: Microsoft surprised everyone Monday when it announced plans to acquire LinkedIn for more than $26 billion. But it wasn’t the only suitor: Salesforce wanted in, too.

The San Francisco-based software-as-a-service vendor was interested in LinkedIn primarily for its recruiting business...

Google pays $550,000 to people who found security holes in Android

From CNET: Google paid 82 people a total of $550,000 in the last year for finding security vulnerabilities that could let hackers compromise phones, tablets, cars and other gadgets powered by the company's Android software.

The company launched the Android Security Rewards program in June 2015 in...

Microsoft buys Wand to improve chat capabilities

From InfoWorld: Satya Nadella wasn't kidding when he said earlier this year that he believed in using chat as a platform for computing. Microsoft just bought Wand, a chat app for iOS, to further that vision.

The Wand team will be joining Bing's engineering and platform group, Corporate Vice...

Samsung buys Joyent to build its a cloud of its own

From PC World: Samsung Electronics is acquiring U.S. cloud services company Joyent as it builds its services business around mobile devices and the Internet of Things.

The financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Joyent will operate as a standalone subsidiary under the new...

Clash of Clans maker Supercell could be bought by China web giant Tencent, report says

From CNET: Supercell, maker of the smash-hit mobile strategy game Clash of Clans, could soon be snapped up by a Chinese internet behemoth, according to new reports.

Web giant Tencent is close to a deal to buy Supercell, which also makes Boom Beach and farming sim Hay Day, according to the New York...

Windows 10 beta build 14366 features Edge extension

From InfoWorld: Last night, Microsoft released the latest Windows 10 beta build for Insiders in the Fast ring. Build 14366 has, to a first approximation, exactly nothing new -- except for an Edge extension. Yes, there are speed improvements to the Store. Yes, the Recently added list appears above...

Pokemon Go and 'Plus' wearable coming next month

From CNET: Pokemon Go could be the game that Pokemaniacs have dreamed of for years -- and it's coming out next month, reports Gamespot.

The iOS and Android title brings Pokemon into AR (augmented reality). Once the free app has been downloaded, your smartphone will buzz if one of the catchable...

Safari 10 to turn off Flash by default

From InfoWorld: Apple's Safari is driving another nail in the coffin of Adobe Flash by no longer telling websites that offer both Flash and HTML5 that the plug-in is installed on users' Macs.

The Mac maker is planning similar measures with other plug-ins like Java, Silverlight, and QuickTime. This...