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Professor Kamal Youcef from MIT on robotics- Talking Technology 2012 - Ep32
Category: Technology
Duration: 00:48:56
Publish Date: 2012-09-06 20:20:48
Description: Leon and Garry talk about issue including: After its court victory, Apple asking a federal court in a separate case to find that four additional Samsung products, including the Galaxy S III, infringe Apple's patents Apple launching the iPhone5 on September 12 Apple now engaged in secret talks with Google to broker an end to the patent wars Apple creating a new content dispute tool for the iTunes App store that encourages third-party developers to work out the problem amongst themselves. Macs now taking up more office space. Mac shipments grew faster than PC shipments for the 25th consecutive time during the June quarter. And while that growth was slower overall than it has been in the past, it continues to occur in areas like enterprise, where Apple has long been searching for inroads. Kantar Worldpanel ComTech’s latest study suggests that there's a reason why the trend is now for bigger smartphones and all that extra glass – people can do more with it The retail giant Tesco purchased digital bookseller Mobcast Lockheed Martin, the multinational security and aerospace conglomerate, developing solid oxide fuel cell generators that will replace reliance on traditional battlefield power solutions and potentially reduce the fuel required for tactical generation of electric power by half or more Facebook is cracking down on profiles that issue fake "Like" clicks on its site in an effort to reassure advertisers that its system works Twitter allowing advertisers to directly target users based on the interests they reveal in their tweets Amazon and Hollywood studio partnership Epix striking a deal that adds about 3,000 movies to Amazon's video streaming library, ramping up competition with the likes of Netflix and Apple The Google Nexus 7 going mobile. Asus is believed to be working on a 3G variant of the popular Android tablet, which is currently only offered in Wi-Fi form Twitter experiencing an extraordinary jump in engagement during this year's Republican National Convention. Over four million total tweets discussing Mitt Romney's big night were sent out, which already amounts to a massive increase over 2008: that year, Twitter activity for both conventions combined topped out around 360,000 Not to be outdone, President Barack Obama has been questions directly over social media he didn't turn to his 28 million Facebook fans, or his 19 million Twitter followers. Instead, he turned to a website called Reddit where popularity is measured, fittingly, in votes. Also, the Democratic National Committee doing its part to get people voting with a new open source web app that lets Americans register online Scientists from the University of California and the University of Oxford in Geneva working on developing technology that could hack or retrieve sensitive data from a person’s such as PIN numbers and place of birth, by using a low-cost device. Computer hackers operating under the name AntiSec reportedly leaking one million Apple device IDs that it says it extracted from the laptop of an FBI agent.
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