Salesforce buys mobile 2-factor authentication start-up, adds its tools to cloud platform

Salesforce.com Wednesday added mobile-based two-factor authentication to its stable of identity and access control technologies with the acquisition of Toopher, a start-up born from the Austin (Texas) Technology Incubator.

Toopher, which immediately stopped selling its products after the announcement, uses a smartphone's location-awareness capabilities to provide two-factor authentication. The capabilities will be folded into Salesforce's cloud platform, according to a statement left behind on the now barren Toopher Web site. Terms of the deal were not announced. Read More...

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6 facts about Americans and their smartphones

Smartphones have become an important way for Americans to communicate, go online, and access and share information.

A new Pew Research Center report analyzes smartphone ownership and the attitudes and behaviors of smartphone owners, as well as how these mobile devices have become a primary way for some users to access the internet. Read More...

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Acer Announces 21.5-Inch Chromebase All-in-One With Touch Display, NVIDIA Tegra K1 SoC

Chromebooks based on Google’s Chrome OS are making some inroads in the notebook market — especially in education — but the same can’t be said for two other form-factors of Chrome OS-based computers.

The focal point of the Acer Chromebase is of course its massive 21.5-inch display, which packs in Full HD resolution (1080p). Acer also says that this is the first Chromebase to come with a touch display (10-point multi-touch). Read More...

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Woolworths to launch shopping app for Apple Watch

Woolworths is releasing its Woolies Shop app this month, one of the first apps to be available on the Apple Watch, which has been designed to help customers find their nearest stores and navigate the aisles according to their shopping lists.

Woolworths has announced that it will be releasing its Woolies Shop app for the Apple Watch in Australia on April 24. Set to be one of the first apps available on the Apple Watch, the Woolies Shop app has been in development since early December 2014. It was developed in conjunction with Bilue and Neoteny. Read More...

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Review: Samsung Galaxy S6 A thing of beauty

The very best thing about the Samsung Galaxy S6 isn’t the new design or the gorgeous high-res screen. (Those are nice, though.)

It’s the fact that no matter what you’re doing, no matter where you are on the phone, all you have to do is click twice on the Home button and you’re immediately launched into the camera. There’s no journey to the home screen, no swiping through a control panel menu; you just click-click, and tap to shoot. Read More...

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12 companies leading the way in digital health

Digital health is one of the most popular verticals in tech right now. Here are 12 companies doing super innovative research and offering revolutionary services.

The healthcare system in the US moves extraordinarily slow, which, of course, can be frustrating for everyone involved -- doctors, patients, caregivers, and all those people caught in between. Read More...

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Top 10 mad scientists from movies

Christopher Lloyd essays the wild haired, wild eyed Dr. Emmett Brown, whose time traveling DeLorean sends Michael J. Fox's Marty McFly on more than a couple trips into the past and future. Read More...

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Magic Leap Allows a Peek Into Its Crazy-Cool AR World

Its 90-second promo video showcasing its augmented reality product got the Web talking, but Magic Leap itself isn't quite ready to discuss its AR headset.

 

Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz, who gave a TED talk in a mock spacesuit in 2012, was scheduled to present last week at another TED talk in Vancouver, where he was expected to reveal what his company has up its sleeve. Read More...

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Leap Motion Faceplate Lets OSVR Head Talk to the Hand

Open Source Virtual Reality, a platform that aims to unify virtual reality input devices, games and output, and Leap Motion, a company that has established itself in the development of motion-tracking hardware.

 

Despite spending years -- decades, in many cases -- navigating digital worlds with the "A, S, D, W" keys and computer mice, many in the video gaming community are wary of doing so when there are VR displays strapped to their faces. Read More...

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Twitter's Periscope Allows Live Stream Replays

Twitter on Thursday unveiled Periscope, the live-streaming app developed by a company it acquired earlier this year, reportedly for just under US$100 million.

It's a big bet for an app that's in a genre that already has matured, but Twitter is counting on the mobile world's appetite for more video. People who broadcast video can share to Twitter so that people who click on the link can either view from the Periscope app or in a Web viewer, depending on the device. Read More...

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