Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Top Stories of the Day // July 23, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // Jul 23, 2013

Facebook Remembers Its First Chef, Josef Desimone, After Tragic Motorcycle Accident

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Aiming For First-Time Smartphone Users, Nokia Unveils The Lumia 625, A $290 4G Windows Phone

After posting another quarterly decline in sales but steadily rising unit numbers for new-generation smartphones last week, today Nokia pressed ahead with yet... read more

How To Stop 3D Printing's Race To The Bottom

Today's big news, courtesy of Quartz, is about the expiration of laser sintering patents that will change the face of 3D printing in 2014. In short, the reason... read more

Apple Patents On-Hold Media Sharing, Dual-Sensor Imaging For iPhone, iPad And Mac

Apple has won a couple of patents today from the USPTO (via AppleInsider), and both are very practical advancements of tech that it's easy to imagine being... read more

Flipboard Brings Its Mobile Magazines To The Web

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30 Petabytes Later, Bitcasa Takes Infinite Storage To Version 2.0 With Revamped Android, iOS, Desktop Apps

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DingDong! Here's The New Craze In Photo Messaging Apps And It's Addictive

Lately I've been playing with a great little app called Povio. Not unlike Snapchat, you snap a picture and send to one or more people and the app prompts them... read more

This NFC Ring Puts Wireless Transfer Tech On Your Finger So You Can Fist-Bump Phones

The tech world may be hoping for Apple to unbox some wearable technology in the near future but who cares about the iWatch when an NFC ring is a thing? NFC fans... read more

Cisco Acquires Cybersecurity Company Sourcefire For $2.7B

Cisco has just announced the acquisition of Sourcefire, a company that creates cybersecurity products to protect companies from attacks. The purchase price is... read more

Stop Trying To Make Proximity-Based Social Networking Happen

Most people need to communicate at regular intervals -- which is the driving force behind the rise and rise of mobile messaging apps. Far fewer people feel a... read more



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