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Founder of near field communications, David Cunningham - Talking Technology 2012 - Ep16
Category: Technology
Duration: 00:36:09
Publish Date: 2012-05-18 00:38:08
Description: Interview with David Cunningham who founded near field communications company Tapit - http://www.tapit.com.au/ Leon and Garry discuss issues including - Yahoo! Chief Executive Officer Scott Thompson stepping down after his academic credentials were misrepresented and the company agreed to realign its board to end a proxy contest with shareholder Third Point.Ross Levinsohn, the web portal's head of global media, becomes interim CEO. - Facebook increasing the price range at which it plans to sell stock to the public. It now expects to sell its stock for between $34 and $38 per share, up from its previous range of $28 to $35. - Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin renouncing his US citizenship, according to an Internal Revenue Service report, days before the company's initial public offering. - A new survey showing that nearly half of Americans believe that popular social-networking site Facebook is merely a passing fad. - Diaspora, an alternative privacy-centric social network still in private beta, has reportedly joined start up accelerator programme Y Combinator and hopes to eventually launch sometime after this summer as a competitor to Facebook. - Apple is changing the way it’s marketing the iPad + 4G, dropping the 4G altogether and replacing it with the word “cellular.” - Amazon.com plans launch new versions of its Kindle e-reader and tablet, including a monochrome e-reader with front lighting in July. - Fujitsu is developing a smart dog collar and cloud-based monitoring service that will let you keep closer tabs on your animal's health. - Microsoft is planning to unveil a Windows 8 upgrade program for those who buy Windows 7 PCs starting in early June but the upgrade will cost $14.99. - Apple’s push into online services is about to gain some steam. The maker of the iPhone and iPad is preparing a big upgrade to its online service iCloud that includes new photo-sharing features. - Apple has been granted a second chance at getting Samsung's Galaxy Tab tablet. - Intel is releasing chips over the next two years based on new manufacturing processes that bring longer battery life and improve performance on smartphones. - Intel has also announced faster and more power-efficient Xeon server processors, including the low-power E3 chip that has 3D transistors and is the first server processor based on Ivy Bridge microarchitecture. - Microsoft’s move to boost Bing's social networking features could finally give it an opportunity to truly take on Google's dominant search engine. The updated Bing search engine can now include the user comments, likes and activities posted in popular social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Bing could revolutionize social search by tapping into Facebook's and Twitter's capabilities. - US regulators have thrown a spanner into the works of Facebook's drive into the mobile market. The Federal Trade Commission has launched a competition probe into the Instagram acquisition and has already begun collecting information from at least two of the social network's largest competitors: Google and Twitter. - Samsung Electronics to acquire mSpot, a US-based cloud music and media service provider.
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