Samsung Clones Apple's Passbook

One of the solon headfirst cerebration additions to Apple's iOS has been the company's Record app, which allows consumers to make their coupons, going passes, event tickets and keep game and some title card functionality all in one residence on an iPhone. In the stylish in the ongoing fight between Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Samsung, the Southmost Asian multinational has announced Samsung Billfold, a quantity that offers users the power to compile coupons, body cards, tickets, and embarkation...

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Best 10 Nokia Lumia 520 and 720 Characteristics

BARCELONA: FINNISH PHONE Creator Nokia kicked off Nomadic Class Congress (MWC) in music on Weekday as the secure's CEO Writer Elop took the wraps off the complement's stylish Windows Sound roster - the Nokia Lumia 520 and 720. During the promulgation Stephen Elop wasn't terrified to tactfulness the fact that Nokia is struggling, a fact that has been comfortably registered in recent eld. Reliable, it's not struggling as untold as it was this second unalterable year, but with 4.4 1000000 Lumia...

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Heroku Admits To Performance Degradation Over The Past 3 Years After Criticism From Rap Genius

Heroku, the popular cloud application platform, may not be quite as fast today as it was three years ago. Yesterday, Rap Genius‘ James Somers , posted a widely read blog post, arguing that Heroku had quietly changed the way it distributes tasks from Ruby on Rails apps across the Amazon EC2 machines it makes available to its users at some point in the last few years without alerting developers of this change. Instead of intelligently routing requests to the next available server, as Heroku did...

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While Tesla Dukes It Out With The Times, SpaceX Gets The Go-Ahead For Next ISS Supply Mission

Tesla Motors has been getting plenty of attention lately because of its heated back-and-forth with New York Times writer John Broder, but that only helped to drown out news concerning founder Elon Musk’s other transport-related venture. NASA announced earlier today that SpaceX’s Dragon capsule would be sent into low Earth orbit for a second supply run to the International Space Station on March ...

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LG launches three L Series II devices, Optimus L7II to be released first

Ahead of the Mobile World Congress that begins later this month, LG Electronics has announced the launch of its new Optimus L SeriesII smartphones. The company is launching three smartphones in this series: the dual-SIM variant L7II, the L3II and the L5II. The L7II is the first device that will be launched. This has 4.3-inch touch screen, along with a 1GHz Dual-Core processor. It comes with 4GB space and 768 MB RAM and a space for micro-SD slot. The camera is 8.0 megapixel with LED Flash for the rear one and the front camera is VGA. The device runs Android 4.1 aka Jelly Bea...

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DISH’s Hopper With Sling Whole-Home DVR Now Available Nationwide, Following CES 2013 Awards Controversy

DISH today formally announced the nationwide launch of its Hopper with Sling DVR device, which allows users to record their favorite shows for later viewing, skip ads and also download DVR’d content to their iPad for offline viewing. The Hopper, which incorporates technology from partner Sling Media, Inc., was recently at the center of a controversy around the 2013 CES “Best of Show” Award...

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After Growing Revenue 270% Last Year, Personalization Startup Sailthru Raises $19M From Benchmark, Adds Bill Gurley To Board

 Personalization startup Sailthru has been growing rapidly, with revenues increasing 270 percent over the last year. With that in mind, the company has raised $19 million in new Series B financing led by Benchmark. Along with the funding, the company is adding Benchmark general partner Bill Gurley to its board of directors. The new funding round brings total financing to a total of $29 million, which included a $9 million Series A round raised in 2011 and a $1 million seed round in 2010....

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