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Microsoft drops the Nokia moniker for the new Lumia 535 smartphone

Nov11
by on November 11, 2014 at 4:32 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, lumia, nokia, Smartphone

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Microsoft has just launched its first branded entry-level handset, dubbed the Microsoft Lumia 535, relinquishing the familiar Nokia logo, and establishing the new branding convention for future Lumia devices. The new Lumia 535 packs a 5-inch screen, 5-megapixel front- and rear-facing camera, a 1.2GHz quad-core processor, 1GB RAM, 8GB of storage with support for up to 128GB with a microSD card, and runs Windows Phone 8.1 OS. The Microsoft Lumia 535 with covers   It’s available in both 3G Single SIM and 3G Smart Dual SIM flavors, and comes in a range of six colors including cyan, bright green, bright…

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Reuters announces on-demand Reuters TV to launch in 2015

Nov11
by on November 11, 2014 at 12:38 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

International news agency Reuters just announced Reuters TV its on demand video news service coming in 2015. The new service and companion app expands the news agency’s reach beyond the written word with up-to-date news coverage in varying length Reuters Now video segments. Segments will last from 5 to 30 minutes. Reuters says that the shows will be tailored to viewers’ interests. In the teaser video for the upcoming app the news agency says that traditional TV news “got lost” and that it’s time for the news to catch up with viewers and be made to fit their day. Reuters has been…

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Watch Apple CEO Tim Cook’s entire WSJD Live interview

Nov11
by on November 11, 2014 at 12:09 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

The Wall Street Journal was able to get the CEO of one of the most powerful companies in the world to partake in a Q&A. Now you can finally watch the entire interview of Apple CEO Tim Cook from the comfort of your computer. At the WSJD Live conference, Apple CEO Tim Cook talked about the payment skirmish that reared its head after the launch of Apple Pay, the upcoming Apple Watch and Apple’s view on the future of TV. ➤ Tim Cook on Apple Watch, Payments and Getting TV Right [WSJ] Thumbnail image credit: The Wall Street Journal

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt to play Edward Snowden in upcoming Oliver Stone film

Nov10
by on November 10, 2014 at 10:13 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

Everybody’s favorite hipster Joseph Gordon-Levitt is officially confirmed to take on the role of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in a forthcoming film by Oliver Stone (previously of “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps” and “Savages”). The Guardian reports that filming will start in Munich in January. Stone says the screenplay was adapted from two books: “The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Wanted Man” by Luke Harding and “Time of the Octopus” by Anatoly Kucherena. This report comes a mere month after the US premiere of CITIZENFOUR, a documentary by Laura Poitras covering the NSA spying scandal. And now,…

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How to get your Product Hunted like a pro

Nov10
by on November 10, 2014 at 9:28 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur, How-To's

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Poornima Vijayashanker is the founder of Femgineer, helping entrepreneurs and tech professionals (especially women) level up their careers. This post originally appeared on the Femgineer blog. Back in 2007 I was working on my first startup, Mint.com, and in our efforts to be scrappy, we explored a variety of marketing platforms to acquire our first set of users. A few of the folks on our marketing team mentioned that they wanted to leverage the content from our blog on Digg. Instead of just putting it out there, they took the time to understand how to use Digg effectively, through a combination…

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