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Sony quits selling e-readers

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by on August 5, 2014 at 4:12 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets

Sony has announced it’s to give up selling e-readers due to failing to compete within a crowded market. This follows the company’s decision earlier this year to stop selling e-books to customers, directing them to competing service Kobo. Today’s announcement means the Sony PRS-T3 has become its last e-reader model to be made. You can’t help but notice that as Sony quits the industry, Amazon’s Kindle remains on top with a 90 per cent market share. ➤ Sony gives up on selling e-readers [BBC, via Lesen]  

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Gmail gets support for addresses with accented or non-Latin characters, Google Calendar to follow ‘shortly’

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by on August 5, 2014 at 4:08 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Insider

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Google today added support for addresses that contain accented or non-Latin characters in Gmail, and promised that Google Calendar will get the same treatment “shortly.” This means Gmail users can send emails to, and receive emails from, people who have these characters in their email addresses. Google also plans to make it possible for its users to use these characters to create Gmail accounts, but wouldn’t say when that would happen aside from “in the future.” The company appears to be slowly adopting the standard created by Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in February 2012 to see how the rest…

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Navdy puts a smartphone-connected heads-up display in your car

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by on August 5, 2014 at 4:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Mobile

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While Apple and Google are making a push into the automobile with CarPlay and Android Auto, they both require use the center dashboard as the main display. Navdy wants you to keep an eye on the road at all times and while doing so, see exactly where you’re going. The Navdy HUD (Heads Up Display) system sits on your dashboard between your steering wheel and the windshield with a display that projects an image that appears to float six feet in front of the windshield. The projected display connects to your iPhone or Android phone via your favorite apps like Google…

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Office Lens for Windows Phone updated with improved document clean up and OneNote location picker

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by on August 5, 2014 at 3:30 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Mobile

Microsoft today updated its Office Lens app for Windows Phone with two new major improvements. You can download the new version now directly from the Windows Phone Store. First off, Office Lens has received a better document cleanup system, to the point where Microsoft claims you can now use the app “as you would a real document scanner.” Next, Office Lens now lets you choose where to save your images (notebook and section) in OneNote, rather than forcing you to stick with the default. Office Lens is part of Microsoft’s broader strategy to make OneNote the de facto digital note-taking…

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17 ways that drones are changing the world

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by on August 5, 2014 at 3:24 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Lists

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Drones are a truly exciting area right now and are constantly in the media, with so many interesting uses popping up on the Web. They’re certainly no longer just the domain of the military. Here are 17 things drones can do that prove this. You can view them all on one page here. 1. Delivering fast food, groceries and more   The easiest way to order the shopping is to simply load up a shopping app for next-day delivery, but drones mean you could end up having items the same day. Both Dominos and Amazon have seen potential here, demonstrating how…

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