Samsung Galaxy S6:
If Looks Could Kill
Samsung's upcoming
pair of flagship smartphones are distinguished by their form factors.
The Galaxy S6 edge
is almost identical to the US$650 Galaxy S6, but, for an additional
$100, users get a display that spills over its sides, allowing
notifications to appear along its marquee-like edges, without rousing
the handset's display in full.
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Amazon's Apple
Watch killer will be free and sell you everything
Yes, Fire Phone
failed. But an Amazon smartwatch could rule the wearables market,
leveraging the analytics power of AWS and the company's massive
ecommerce.
Yesterday, I
talked a bit about why I think the current generation of
smartwatches, the Apple Watch in particular, are ridiculously
overpriced.
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Microsoft brings
Office Lens scanning app to iOS, Android
Microsoft is
bringing its Office Lens scanning app to iOS and Android in a
continuation of its cross-platform productivity push.
On April 2,
Microsoft made available a preview of the Android version of Office
Lens in the Google Play Store. It also released to general
availability Office Lens for iOS in the Apple App Store.
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Industry Cloud:
Adoption, plans, decision factors, strategic results
Cloud computing is
a familiar phrase within the technology industry, but the diverse
amount of services it involves makes it something of a blanket term.
Like the general
field of medicine, there are subcategories of cloud functionality
such as Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS), Platform as a Service
(PAAS) and Software as a Service (SAAS). There are also different
blends of cloud computing such as private, public, and hybrid.
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Pinterest Debuts A
New “Pin It” Button Designed To Speed Up Bookmarking
Last summer,
Pinterest acquired a visual discovery site called Icebergs, and today
that team is showing off what it’s been up to, having since
relocated from Spain to San Francisco.
While over the
past several months, Pinterest’s focus has been on improving search
and discovery on its site, the former Iceberg team members have been
working to improve the process involved with saving pins themselves.
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