| Today's Top 3 Stories | | #1 | LG Announces Curved Screen Phones To Launch In 2014
| | | The South Korean firm said it hoped to start selling the first handsets to feature the tech next year. (BBC)
Why This Is Important: LG is joining Samsung in the curved-screen revolution.
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| | #2 | Former Apple Engineer Reveals Secrets Behind Jobs' First iPhone Presentation
| | | It's been exactly two years to the day since Apple co-founder Steve Jobs died. He was many things to many people at many different places but to most, he is known for creating the iPhone and jumpstarting a smartphone revolution that has forever changed how we communicate on the go. (TechSpot)
Why This Is Important: Jobs brought in a portable cell tower so that it appeared as if the buggy iPhone always had five bars of signal strength.
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| | #3 | Selling Secrets Of Phone Users To Advertisers
| | | Now, smartphones know everything — where people go, what they search for, what they buy, what they do for fun and when they go to bed. That is why advertisers, and tech companies like Google and Facebook, are finding new, sophisticated ways to track people on their phones and reach them with individualized, hypertargeted ads. (NYT)
Why This Is Important: This may be mutually beneficial. Ads are specifically geared towards ones interests, so your time is not wasted. As for advertisers, they are more likely to make a sale with said advertisements and less likely to bother the rest of us.- Everyone wins.
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"Here's the formula if you want to build a billion-dollar internet company," said Twitter founder Ev Williams. "Take a human desire, preferably one that has been around for a really long time…Identify that desire and use modern technology to take out steps."
| | | Blog Post of The Day | New York Fashion Week Powered By Technology
By Jamie Kim
Every September, fashionistas come together for the annual celebration of style in the world of haute couture. New colors, fabrics and designs attract people who love fashion. This fall at New York Fashion Week, technology was a rising star and ignited new ways to explore trends and create new styles. More » |
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