| Today's Top 3 Stories | | #1 | Apple Quietly Builds New Networks | | | Apple is stitching together a network of Internet infrastructure capable of delivering large amounts of content to customers, giving the company more control over the distribution of its online offerings while laying the groundwork for more traffic if it decides to move deeper into television. (WSJ)
Why This Is Important: With this move, Apple may be looking to bypass connective services provided by companies like AT&T, Verizon and Time Warner, which could provide lower prices and better quality control.
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| | #2 | Samsung To Offer 3 New Tablets Starting Feb. 13
| | | Samsung announced that three of its latest four Galaxy tablet models running Android 4.4 (KitKat) will go on sale at U.S. retailers starting Feb. 13, with online orders starting today. (Computerworld)
Why This Is Important: Analysts expect Samsung to downplay its new tile-minded user interface so as not to isolate itself from the Android ecosystem.
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| | #3 | There's A Rapid Push To Give Tech Something We're Born With: Senses
| | | Any product that can be connected to a network is also being given the ability to sense our environment. This kind of technology is increasingly aware of everything around us. It measures temperature, orientation and direction, light, pressure, vibrations, noise, and -- eventually -- it will be able to mimic the sense of smell. And, thanks to the Internet of Things, sensing technology will soon become pervasive at home and in the office. (Computerworld)
Why This Is Important: Developers hope that in the future MEMS will be able to feel differences in various fabrics remotely and become so sensitive as to detect illnesses by analyzing odors.
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"We still believe more transparency is needed so everyone can better understand how surveillance laws work and decide whether or not they serve the public interest," said Google's lawyer Richard Salgado. He called for Congress to pass laws allowing tech companies to reveal "the number and types of requests they receive, as well as the number of users affected in a timely way."
| | | Blog Post of The Day | Netflix And Google Books Are Blurring The Line Between Past And Present
By Paul Ford
"The past is a foreign country," novelist L. P. Hartley wrote. "They do things differently there." He penned that in 1953, but in the digital era the past is now present and all around us: Millions of out-of-print books and historical videoclips, black-and-white movies, nearly forgotten TV shows and pop songs are all available
with a credit card or in many cases for free. It used to be that, for economic and technological reasons, this cultural history was locked away. More » |
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