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Creator of the GoCatch taxi app, Andrew Campbell - Talking Technology 2012 - Ep44
Category: Technology
Duration: 00:34:18
Publish Date: 2012-11-22 16:59:59
Description: Interview with Andrew Campbell, creator of the GoCatch taxi app Leon and Garry discuss issues including: Apple applying to patent a new system to allow phones or other devices to recognise users by detecting skin tone, heartbeat, breath patterns or even recognising faces. The US International Trade Commission reviewing a judge's decision which found that Apple did not violate patents owned by Samsung Electronics in making the iPod touch, iPhone and iPad. Dell's profit falling 47 per cent, hurt by lower PC sales and weaker demand from large corporations HP alleging that the owners of Autonomy misrepresented their company's financial state prior to HP's $11.1 billion takeover. The PC giant is taking an "impairment charge" of $8.8 billion thanks to what it calls "serious accounting improprieties." The news comes at a terrible time for HP: its Q4 financial results showed sales were down across the board, with total hardware down 20 per cent and laptop / desktop sales down 12 per cent year-over-year A US Judge has approved a $22.5 million fine to penalize Google for an alleged privacy breach, rejecting a consumer-rights group's plea for tougher punishment Google reaching a licensing deal with representatives of European music publishers, artists and composers in which the US online giant and its customers will gain access to 5.5 million musical works across 35 countries from artists including Lady Gaga and Rihanna. The accord with Armonia, the alliance of French, Italian and Spanish licensing groups, is billed as the broadest of its kind. Facebook rolling out a new tool which will allow online retailers to track purchases  by members of the social network who have viewed their ads. Texas Instruments revealing it will cut 1700 jobs worldwide as part of a broader restructuring plan to refocus its chip business on embedded markets rather than the increasingly competitive mobile space. Australia's first online super sale site crashing within minutes of launching. The tablet boom driving Panasonic back to profit.  Panasonic's display business is on track for its first profit in five years in January-March, driven by stronger sales of liquid crystal display (LCD) panels for tablets and PCs Intel announcing that its president and CEO, Paul Otellini, 62, will step down from those roles in May of next year The monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, now owns a tablet. The Queen is getting the Note 10.1 as part of the Diamond (re)collection celebrations. Hacker group Anonymous is claiming to have successfully knocked offline and in some cases erased a number of prominent Israeli websites. The comprehensive attack, dubbed operation "OpIsrael," comes in direct retaliation to threats from Israel's government that it may shutter internet access to and from Gaza as violence between its Israel Defence Force (IDF) and Hamas continues to escalate. At the same time, both the Israel Defense Forces and the Palestinian group Hamas have taken to Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook to report their moves, explain their reasons, decry the alleged crimes of the other side, and call for support.
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