Watch Mark Zuckerberg getting drenched in cold water while accepting the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge!

“Yesterday, Governor Chris Christie challenged me to do the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. I accepted his challenge, and now I’m challenging Bill Gates, Sheryl Sandberg and Reed Hastings next,” He added, “You guys have 24 hours to complete the challenge or you have to donate to the ALS foundation — or both.”

Post by Mark Zuckerberg.

The “Ice Bucket Challenge” is a public awareness campaign for the degenerative disease ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, in which people- including many politicians and celebrities, have soaked themselves with very cold water.

Christie, a Republican posted video on his Facebook page Tuesday evening , and he challenged Booker, late night TV show host Jimmy Fallon and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

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Apple introduced a new version of its mobile operating system, iOS 8, at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, June 2, 2014.

The new iOS 8 will include an interactive notification center, an improved email inbox, a revamped keyboard with predictive typing, healthkit, and a number of features for businesses.

Siri is also being updated, with 22 new dictation languages, and Shazam song recognition. Apple has introduced Family Sharing for iOS 8. You can set up your “family unit,” and then easily share photos, calendars, reminders.

Apple has also unveiled iCloud Drive and Mail Drop. These are basically the Apple equivalent of Dropbox and something like YouSendIt. Also extensive changes to Safari, including a Chrome-like Omnibox, and better sharing features.

The iOS 8 beta is available to WWDC developers starting today, Apple confirmed that iOS 8 will launch this September/October as a free upgrade for iPhone 4s, iPhone 5, iPhone 5c, iPhone 5s, iPod touch 5th generation, iPad 2, iPad with Retina display, iPad Air, iPad mini and iPad mini with Retina display.

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Cherry Mobile officially launched its new affordable 7-inch tablet with latest Android KitKat OS, the Cherry Mobile Fusion Aura.

Fusion Aura is powered by 1.5GHz dual core processor from MediaTek has a 512MB RAM. Internal storage is 4GB and is expandable up to 32GB via microSD card.



The device feature 7-inch display. It runs on Android 4.4 KitKat. It also comes with 2MP rear camera and 0.3mp front camera.

Cherry Mobile Fusion Aura also supports USB OTG, with this feature, you can use flash drives, USB keyboard, game controllers and other USB devices. As per Cherry mobile's Facebook post, the Fusion Aura has a “classic, textured design”, one of the devices that is known to this feature is the Samsung Galaxy Note 3.

Packed with 2600mAh battery, the Cherry Mobile Fusion Aura has a price tag of Php 2,299.

Cherry Mobile Fusion Aura specs:

• 7-inch display
• 1.5GHz dual-core CPU
• 512MB RAM
• 4GB internal storage
• up to 32GB via microSD
• 2 megapixel rear camera
• 0.3 megapixel front camera
• WiFi b/g/n
• USB OTG support
• Miracast support
• Android 4.4 KitKat
• 2,600mAh battery

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An American jury has ordered Samsung to pay $119.6m to Apple for smartphone patent violations, far less than Apple had sought and marking a big loss for the iPhone-maker in the latest round of the two companies’ worldwide litigation.

During the month-long trial in a San Jose, California, federal court, Apple accused Samsung of violating patents on smartphone features including universal search, while Samsung denied wrongdoing. According to an 8-person jury in the federal court, various Samsung phones and tablets, including the Galaxy S II and III, Galaxy Note, and Galaxy Nexus, infringed on three Apple patents. The jury awarded Apple $119.6 million USD in damages.

Meanwhile, the panel ruled that Apple violated one of two Samsung patents that the company had countersued over, but ruled the infringement was not willful and awarded only the $158,400.

Source: Recode

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Updated last Tuesday, the Field Trip app for Google Glass now features new voice commands and personalized function. This app first came to Google Glass last summer, is basically a virtual tour guide. Field Trip is available for iOS and Android devices.



With the app’s latest essential update, Google Glass explorers can now activate Field Trip by simply saying “Okay Glass, Explore Nearby.” The app also now lets users to personalize the cards that appear based on categories to include architecture, art, history, food and other cool stuff. For example, if you are interested in art, you may get a card alerting you that you are near the subject of a well-known painting.

Field Trip was Google's Niantic Labs team first project. Niantic's Leif Wilden, one of engineers who developed the Glass app said that the team is exploring possible integration of Field Trip into other wearable devices like the smartwatches or the rumored iWatch.
"The wearable devices like glass and the watch that's going to be coming out soon, they work really well with field trip. When we started Field Trip there was no Glass, this is something we're really excited about," Wilden told reporters.

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Senator Paolo Benigno “Bam” Aquino IV called for an investigation into the slow and expensive Internet service in the country.

The Senate should investigate why consumers are paying "steep" prices for "poor" Internet connectivity in the country, Aquino said Tuesday.

Aquino made the move after getting reports that the Philippines is lagging behind its Southeast Asian neighbors in terms of providing faster Internet connection. The reports cited an infographic from ASEAN DNA, which claimed that the Philippines (3.6 megabytes per second) lags behind Laos (4.0 Mbps), Indonesia (4.1 Mbps), Myanmar and Brunei (4.9 Mbps), Malaysia (5.5 Mbps) and Cambodia (5.7 Mbps).

The senator pointed out that on the average, local consumers spend around P1,000 a month for Internet service with speeds of up to two megabytes per second (MBPS) or about P2,000 for up to five MBPS.

But in Singapore, Aquino said the largest telecommunications company offers 15 Mbps of Internet speed for 36.90 Singapore dollars or around P1,312 a month. In Thailand, 799 baht or P1,100 could give consumers 12 Mbps of connection.

"This is expensive compared to Singapore and Thailand where we can find some of the fastest Internet connections in the world," Aquino said.

Aquino will file a Senate resolution next month to formalize his proposal, his office said.

A Senate investigation, he said, would also look into ways on how to improve the country’s poor Internet connection, which is crucial to the country’s economic growth.

“We have to find ways to improve the system and fast, especially with the ASEAN Economic Integration happenig a year from now,” Aquino said.

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Microsoft officially announced Microsoft Office for iPad on Thursday, March 27, 2014, pushing Microsoft’s office suite onto the most popular tablet in the market.

New Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella took the stage for the first time at a press event in San Francisco, saying Microsoft wanted to ”empower people to be productive and do more across all devices.. Office 365 will be everywhere from here on out.”

Today marks the "beginning of exploration for us," Nadella said in his opening remarks.

Microsoft Word for iPad, Excel for iPad, and PowerPoint for iPad will all be free to download from the iTunes App Store, executives said. However, users will be only able to view existing documents. To enable create, modify documents, Microsoft will ask users to sign up for an Office 365 $9.99 subscription per month for Office 365 Home Premium and $6.99 per month for the upcoming Personal plan.

Research firm Gartner predicts about 271 million tablets will be shipped in 2014 and Apple's iPad is currently the bestselling model.

To check Microsoft's Office for iPad, visit the Apple's AppStore website.

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US mobile advertising is certainly being dominated by two giants, Facebook and Google. eMarketer report describes that the two companies now control 66.8% of the U.S. mobile ad market.

Facebook, having more than three times its share of the market from 2012 to 2013, is about to monopolize the growth in the global mobile ad industry while Google remains the dominant force having under half of the mobile ad market.



On the other hand, Twitter is the only major player other than Facebook to post an increase in its share of the mobile ad market from 1.5% to 2.4%.

The social network's ability to quickly turn around from being a desktop-focused product to being the second-largest player has sent shares in the company of more than 150% in the past year. The income has also provided the opportunity to acquire the $16 billion worth WhatsApp, another major mobile player.

It can be noted however, that big companies such as Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL are missing in the eMarketer's study of global mobile ad share. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is very vocal about the company has to make inroads in the mobile market. Meanwhile AOL is now heavily investing in another fast-growing market in the digital ad industry, the online video advertising.

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A widespread outage in Gmail, Google+, Google Calendar, Google Drive, and other online services from Google was reported in the late morning/early afternoon US time January 24, 2014.

Google have already fixed the issue and Google's Vice President of Engineering Ben Treynor took to the company blog for both an explanation and an apology.

Earlier today, most Google users who use logged-in services like Gmail, Google+, Calendar and Documents found they were unable to access those services for approximately 25 minutes. For about 10 percent of users, the problem persisted for as much as 30 minutes longer. Whether the effect was brief or lasted the better part of an hour, please accept our apologies—we strive to make all of Google’s services available and fast for you, all the time, and we missed the mark today.

The issue has been resolved, and we’re now focused on correcting the bug that caused the outage, as well as putting more checks and monitors in place to ensure that this kind of problem doesn’t happen again.
While several people on Twitter claimed that they had access to Gmail during the outage, the social network was flooded with tweets about how the service was down.

By the way… my #Gmail is working. I must have the super duper access.
— Jeff Weisbein (@jeffweisbein) January 24, 2014

Can't access my work #gmail account. How am I supposed to know whether we have pastries in the workroom?!
— m3mo (@m3mo) May 29, 2012

#gmail goes down and @microsoft is all over it with ads! Haha awesome way to kick someone while they are down. pic.twitter.com/vJhgvXEwq9
— Raphael (@raphspeaks) January 24, 2014

#Gmail has been down longer than @KimKardashian in the locker room at NBA All-star weekend.
— Not Bill Walton (@NotBillWalton) January 24, 2014

#Gmail is down? DON'T PANIC. Here's a puppy to get you through: pic.twitter.com/xgfy332qfc
— Late Night (@LateNightJimmy) January 24, 2014

Dammit #gmail I'm waiting on confirmation of transfer of my funds from my Nigerian lottery win!
— Martyn Parker (@martynparker) January 24, 2014

EVERYONE PANIC! #Gmail is down! I repeat, Gmail is down! pic.twitter.com/aOStu3Rq2r
— ClotureClub.com (@ClotureClub) January 24, 2014

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Pebble is now at CES2014 in Las Vegas, showcasing its brand new, redesigned metal smartwatch, the Pebble Steel. This year, Pebble is also showing off Pebble 2.0 software and the Pebble app store. It was also at CES where Pebble debuted last year.



As the name says, Pebble Steel is made of stainless steel which comes in brushed stainless and black matte. Similar to the original Pebble, this smartwatch is waterproof and also with the same e-paper display. The difference now is it’s covered with Corning Gorilla Glass and it has twice the available memory than of the original. Battery life can last for 7 days. It also has RGB LED at the bottom corner that serves as charging status indicator.

Alongside with the Pebble Steel are new features from its upcoming Pebble 2.0 update, including the new Pebble app store. The app store and 2.0 updates will be available to Pebble users at the end of January. Demos of new Pebble apps from Yelp, Foursquare, Mercedes and Pandora are now available showcasing the real power of Pebble and smartwatches in general.

For instance, the Yelp app lets people find restaurants or bars nearby using the phone's GPS to pump to the watch. For Foursquare, the app lets users check in directly from the watch with just one touch. The Pandora app adds an expanded Pandora experience to Pebble. Users can skip tracks and change stations. The Mercedes app connects to the Mercedes smartphone apps, and let users get notifications on what's happening in-car on their wrist. ESPN also built a Pebble app that will let users pull in sports scores on the fly.

The Pebble Steel is now available for orders at getpebble.com for $249. Shipping starts on Jan. 28.

Learn more from the video below courtesy of C/Net.

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Google has just announced a massive update to Google Glass which adds a lock screen, Hangouts chat, direct YouTube uploading via a Glass app and a ‘wink to shoot a picture’ mode.



In the update (XE12), Google has finally brought support for sending and receiving messages via Hangouts to Glass as well as the ability to take a picture simply by winking your eye.

Uploading to YouTube straight from Glass is now also possible – once you’re done recording your video, either tap on the video and swipe to the YouTube share card, or say “ok glass, share with YouTube.”

A new lock screen mode will now clamp your headset down until you unlock it via taps and swipes in a pattern you set.

Google Glass is now iOS compatible

Highlighted in depth on the Google Glass support site, the XE12 update finally introduces iOS users to the MyGlass app (previously, an Android exclusive).

XE12 is currently rolling out to Google Glass headsets right now. Just make sure your Glass is connected to WiFi and charging to update as soon as XE12 is available for your device.

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American Idol host and serial reality TV producer Ryan Seacrest who is also known for using both an iPhone and a BlackBerry device is notorious to have invested $1 million in the Typo Keyboard, an iPhone accessory that makes typing easier. The case snaps on to the top of an iPhone and turns the touchscreen keypad into one that resembles the BlackBerry's QWERTY keyboard.

The $99 Typo Keyboard aims for those carrying two phones, one is for typing and correspondence and an iPhone for everything else. The concept is an advantage for BlackBerry users who resist switching to the iPhone probably because of loyalty to its QWERTY keyboard.



The Typo Keyboard is compatible for iPhone 5 and 5S only at this time. It works when Bluetooth is enabled. The accessory adds 1.4 inch in thickness and less than 1 inch to the iPhone's length. Reports said that it will be showcased at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Companies such as BoxWave and Dobi have already dabbled in the concept.

Typo keyboard is now ready for pre-orders which ships in January 2014.

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Twitter is becoming more convenient to some international mobile users as it is soon available even without accessing the internet. Reuters reported that Twitter has teamed up with the Singapore-based mobile applications provider U2opia to make Twitter service available to users with phones that are non-internet capable.

Reports also said that a Twitter spokesperson confirmed the partnership but no information yet on the coverage of international users to have access to the new service. But with this service, majority of tweets will not be viewable and users will have limited access to trending topics. Users will need to type in a short code and will then have access to trending topics on Twitter from their respective location.



Facebook and Google Talk have the similar partnership with U2opia. Fonetwish, the company's product allowing users to access Facebook without the Internet but is only working with text-based messages while images and videos won't be viewable. The company already claimed that each month, more than half a million users from around the world access Facebook without Internet. Currently, Twitter has more than 218 million users worldwide of which almost 80% resides outside the United States.

Meanwhile, Facebook is adding its next billion users from emerging markets like South America and Asia which Twitter targets to have the same. In November, Twitter has already highlighted Argentina and South Africa as targets for increased user growth. The company is also including the service available to users with older phones as a step toward accomplishing its goal. The new Internet-free version of Twitter will be available in the first quarter of 2014.

Source: Reuters

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Google is moving ahead with its online shopping as much as Amazon grows. In fact, the web giant is setting up an army of robots to oppose the latter’s company of drones for its product delivery.



The New York Times’ John Markoff reports that Android mobile operating system led by its former head, Google is now in silence buying up robotics start-ups for a project that apparently not just experimental. “If Amazon can imagine delivering books by drones,” Markoff writes, “is it too much to think that Google might be planning to one day have one of the robots hop off an automated Google Car and race to your doorstep to deliver a package?”

With Amazon’s recent release of, to some extent, unrealistic marketing video that has something to do with the whole process of product delivery by drones, Markoff’s sources say that Google is taking incremental steps to automate steps all along the consumer-product supply chain, from manufacturing to shipping. Delivery seems to be the process where Google has made the strongest points.

There are speculations that autonomous vehicles would power Google’s new same-day delivery online shopping service. In the process, from factory to fulfillment center, the attempt is to optimize the actions of human workers according to calculations made by computers.





Last year, Amazon spent $775 million for the purchase of warehouse ‘bot maker Kiva Systems. It simply implies the company’s serious move towards automation. With this in mind, Amazon still has to employ tens of thousands of people to pick and process orders in its massive distribution centers. And this gives a hint that the company’s robotic dream has a long way to go. And it only means more room and time for Google and Rubin to catch up to compete in this automation project.

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The 27-year old American pop singer Lady Gaga does several unusual projects for her newest album ARTPOP. Recently, Gaga teamed up with manufacturers in Japan to make GAGADOLL, a humanoid silicon doll that exactly looks like the singer and basically plays her music.



Made via bone conversion system, the GAGADOLL music player enables the user to listen to Lady Gaga's latest album by placing the ear close to the doll's heart. The lifelike listening stations were likewise crafted from the singer’s likeness with the help of special silicon which at the same time enables them to imitate some of the singer's facial expressions. And ultimately, the doll also bears her trademark shades and killer heels with all flexibility which allows the doll to move in several position.

As shown in the video, the guy places his head on the doll's chest while it plays "Applause." Though GAGADOLL site reads only in Japanese,reports say that the doll plays multiple tracks from ARTPOP. To add more fun, it also includes messages from the star, with her promotional campaign for ARTPOP. Enjoy watching how the doll is made to look, move and sing exactly the same with the unparalleled Lady Gaga.

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Considering tons of deals delivered right to your inboxes, shoppers need smarter ways to grab each special discount on Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

To go wireless using your smartphones is a great advantage. A survey of wireless subscribers found that smartphone owners have at least three shopping apps installed on their device intended to make holiday purchases.

And if you’re among this tech-savvy shoppers aiming to beat volume of deals, check out the following Apps:

Shopular’s technology. Available on both iOS and Android, this App automatically sends out alerts for coupons and deals when you are in a store or mall at over 40,000 locations around the country even without having to open the App.

Zoomingo is also available on both iOS and Android. This is a top ranked mobile shopping App that displays local sales and offers from over 100 national retailers at more than 70,000 retail outlets. There’s also a list of best deals highly rated by the very active Zoomingo community.

PoachIt is for iOS only which also offers price alerts and bills itself as “the largest coupon-validating database on the internet. PoachIt found that 80 percent of discount codes are invalid so it cuts through the clutter to deliver only active codes.

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Here’s a story of a lost phone which was luckily traced by its legitimate owner from the suspected thief. The thief took several “selfies” using the alleged stolen phone but unknowingly, the images taken were automatically uploaded to the owner’s Dropbox account linked to the phone.

Shortly thereafter, the person who took the pictures got traced and put himself in trouble. The alleged thief is now faced with complaint before the authorities. According to the owner, the first photos were taken around the time the phone was stolen. Good thing, for any reason, she was able to link the phone to her Dropbox account and probably this is the best thing she got from it.

For all gadget fanatics, there are several ways to protect your expensive gadgets. For Apple devices, iCloud can help you. Just sign in at iCloud.com or use the Find My iPhone app to see your missing iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac on a map. And with the Lost Mode feature you don’t just see where your device is, you can track where it’s been.

And for Android users, they can now lock their lost devices remotely. Google's Android Device Manager lets users remotely lock a lost or stolen device with a new password. On your Android device, open the Android Device Manager. Check the options to remotely locate your device and to allow remote lock and factory reset if not already checked.

Don’t panic. Technology works in many ways at times when it is badly needed.

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Google is opening up their Glass Explorer program to a new wave of users, it's inviting developers to purchase Google Glass.



Report says, Google is sending email invites for those who signed up on their website.

"When you asked us how to get Glass on this site, we told you there would be more chances to join the Explorer Program ... someday. Well, today's the day,"  stated in the email. "The sneak peek of the Glass Developer Kit (GDK) is available now, making it possible to build new and innovative kinds of Glassware. We're now inviting you, as a developer, to purchase Glass, become an Explorer and join us in taking the next step in developing for Glass."

The Google Glass Explorer for developers costs $1,500 and is currently not yet on the market. Reports also suggests that Google is gearing up for a 2014 launch of Google Glass.

Have something to add to this story? Are you excited on this wearable computer? Share it in the comments.

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A new British Airways advertising campaign uses billboards that interact with planes as they fly overhead.

The billboards use “custom-built surveillance technology” to track when British Airways planes fly over, which triggers an ad of a child pointing up at the plane next to information about the flight number and route. The “Magic of Flying” ad campaign was created by Ogilvy 12th Floor.




via The Drum

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LG released a video showcasing the “healing” properties of their new LG Flex device. 

Shown in the video are two backplates being continuously scratched, the left one being a normal back plate and the right one featuring LG’s new technology.

Watch the video to find out how long it takes to heal itself and how durable the LG G Flex is. Also LG G Flex's strong durability restores its original curved form even after it is pressed completely flat.

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