At its I/O developer conference in San Francisco, Google announced Google Play for Education: a version of the Play store that is aimed and curated for young kids. Google Play for Education will be organized by subject matter and grade level, making it easy for teachers to find exactly what they want to deploy. As part […]
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Apple Reaches 50 Billion App Downloads
Little less than five years after the launch of the App Store and Apple is now celebrating a new huge milestone! The iPhone and iPad maker on Thursday announced that its App Store officially hit the 50 billion app download mark. This number only includes unique downloads and not re-downloads or updates. When announcing this […]
INCEPTION DAYS
We are pleased to announce that we support Inception Days, which will take place from May 16th to May 18th in Thessaloniki, bringing together Iconoclastic “Doers” representing, Corporations, NGOs, Academia, Venture Capitalists, entrepreneurs, journalists and active citizens seeking to cultivate innovation. Inception Days seeks to discover, share, and implement solutions to grow innovation ecosystems, by […]
Foxconn to become major investor in fiber-optic venture
Taiwan-based fiber-optic cable maker Tai Tung Communication, the major shareholder of The Taiwan Intelligent Fiber Optic Network Consortium – Taifo -, has just announced it is giving purchasing priority of its paid-in capital increase to Hon Yun Development & Investment, a subsidiary of Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry). Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. will […]
Amazon Introduces Amazon Coins virtual currency
Amazon has officially launched its own virtual currency program, dubbed Amazon Coins dedicated to Kindle Fire owners. To kick it off all Kindle Fire owner, located in America, were given 500 free Amazon Coins in their account, which is worth $5. Even if free coins are only for US customers, anyone using Kindle fire can head […]
Trojan attempts to hack into Facebook accounts
Microsoft has recently warms Users of New Trojan Hijacking Facebook Account Access. The malware is a malicious browser extension specifically targeting Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. This relatively new Trojan horse, named Trojan:JS/Febipos.A, attempts to hijack Facebook accounts, and was first discovered in Brazil. In hijacking Facebook accounts, the cybercrooks behind the Trojan horse could gain […]
Viber Launches PC and Mac versions
Viber is basically a multi-platform application allowing users to chat and make calls between smartphones. Today, Viber has released its desktop version of App for PCs and Mac. Viber said that it has over 200 million users from various platforms, and this user-base is likely to grow exponentially after the introduction of desktop version and […]
A boy and his atom: the world’s smallest movie from IBM
IBM has just released the world’s smallest movie. It is called “A boy and his atom”, and was created by researchers at IBM moving thousands of single atoms on a copper surface. The film, A Boy and His Atom, is 60 seconds long and made of 242 individual stop-motion frames, with each frame being roughly […]
Alibaba buys 18% stake in China’s Twitter-type Weibo service
Chinese biggest e-commerce firm Alibaba Group, that is 23% owned by Yahoo, has just acquired an 18 percent stake in web portal Sina’s microblogging service Weibo. It is its first big move into selling advertising on China’s highly competitive social networks. Alibaba will pay $586m for the stake, valuing Weibo at more than $3 billion. It […]
Today is World Intellectual Property Day
Today is the World Intellectual Property (IP) Day which is observed on 26 April each year. It aims to promote discussion of the role of intellectual property in encouraging innovation and creativity worldwide. World Intellectual Property Organisation’s (WIPO) member states designated April 26, the day on which the WIPO Convention came into force in 1970, […]
