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Pebble smartwatch — the $10M Kickstarter hit
(Wired) — In the big scheme of consumer electronics, smartwatches can’t match smartphones, tablets, or even ultrabooks in piquing public curiosity.
And glancing at a photo of the Pebble smartwatch, you wouldn’t notice anything too different or special about it — it looks like an understated digital watch.
But this particular smartwatch has captured the public’s attention to the tune of $10 million in Kickstarter funding, making it the most-financed project in Kickstarter history.
Pebble, a smartwatch that wirelessly connects with your smartphone to alert you of incoming calls and messages, blew past the previous Kickstarter record of $3.3 million only five days after launching its crowdsourced funding effort. It’s an amazing feat when you
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‘Call of Duty: Black Ops II’ melds gaming, geopolitics
Call of Duty: Black Ops II, due Nov. 13 for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PCs, continues the story of Special Forces operator Alex Mason, who helped thwart Soviet plans to attack the USA in the late ’60s in 2010′s Black Ops. But the new game takes players to the future, in the shoes of Mason’s son, David Mason, who in the year 2025 is assigned to protect the president.
That takes Black Ops into territory usually trod only by the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare series, which sets its action in the near future. In the past, the Call of Duty games developed by the studio Treyarch have been set in World Article source: http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/usatoday-TechTopStories/~3/5NuK3HxIxTc/1
Apple trumps earnings expectations
Apple says it sold 35 million iPhones in the January-to-March quarter, almost twice as many as it sold a year ago and above analyst expectations.
Apple’s stock was down 2% at the close of regular trading, as investors believed phone companies had reined in iPhone sales. In extended trading, the stock rallied $38.34, or 6.8%, to $598.62.
Net income in the company’s fiscal second quarter was $11.6 billion, or $12.30 per share. That was nearly double the net income of $6 billion, or $6.40 per share, a year ago.
Analysts polled by FactSet were expecting earnings of $10.07 per share for the latest quarter, Apple’s fiscal second.
Revenue was $39.2 billion, up 59% from a year ago. Analysts were expecting $37 billion.
IPad sales came in below analyst expectations, at 11.8 million units. But that was still two and a half times as many as it sold in the
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iSmell? Fragrance mimics scent of new MacBook
Three artists from Australia decided purchasing and using Apple products wasn’t enough. They wanted to smell like one.
The trio were planning an art exhibition, and reached out to “scent solutions company” (no, really) Air Aroma — based in Australia — to re-create the scene of a newly opened MacBook Pro laptop.
Air Aroma has full details of the endeavor on their blog.
“The scent … encompasses the smell of the plastic wrap covering the box, printed ink on the cardboard, the smell of paper and plastic components within the box and of course the aluminum laptop which has come straight from the factory where it was assembled in China,” says Alex Cosic of Air Aroma in the post.
Intoxicating, huh?
Cosic says an unopened MacBook was sent to their lab in France, where they broke down samples into the final fragrance.
Many readers are well aware
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Brin: China, Facebook threaten ‘open Web’
(Wired) — Google’s search engine was created when most of the Web’s information was open and available to anyone willing to capture it. In today’s more restrictive environment, Google co-founder Sergey Brin and CEO Larry Page may not have even tried to start the company.
“The kind of environment that we developed Google in, the reason that we were able to develop a search engine, is the Web was so open,” Brin told The Guardian. “Once you get too many rules, that will stifle innovation.”
In an interview published Sunday, Google’s co-founder cited a wide range of attacks on “the open Internet,” including government censorship and interception of data, overzealous attempts to protect intellectual property, and new communication portals that use web technologies and the internet, but under restrictive corporate control.
There
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