When Google Home was unveiled, many people immediately noted the smart speaker’s striking resemblance to a home fragrance diffuser. Now there’s a smart home fragrance diffuser that looks like a smart speaker. Pium, a self-described “next-generation smart diffuser,” is currently participating in Samsung Electronic’s Creative Square incubator program. Visitors to… Read More
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Guy makes a Polaroid camera which instantly ‘prints’ GIFs
Ever wished your Polaroid could print out GIFs instead of just photos? New York-based developer Abhishek Singh did. SEE ALSO: Turn your iPhone photos into polaroids instantly with this printer The “InstaGif NextStep” works similar to a Polaroid camera, simply power up your camera, press a button — and a “picture” pops out. Each snap…
Sony’s Xperia XZ1 will ship with Android Oreo and a camera that doubles as a 3D scanner
It’s hard to shake the feeling that Sony’s Xperia line exists primarily as a method for getting its camera technology out in the world. It’s not that they’re not solid phones, it’s just the company doesn’t seem particularly concerned with selling a lot of them, or doing much innovating outside of the imaging side of…
Nest Doesn’t Want You to Notice Its New Smart Thermostat
Alphabet’s Nest Labs has expanded its smart thermostat line with a new model designed to not be noticed in the home. The company on Thursday unveiled the Nest Thermostat E, the latest installment in its line of thermostats. Like its predecessors, the Thermostat E can be controlled via the company’s Nest smartphone app, but comes…
This Iconic Mobile Computing Brand Is Poised for a Comeback
Palm, one of the iconic brands in the development of what we today know as smartphones, is reportedly poised to make a comeback. There was a time–as in, two decades ago–when the Palm Pilot represented the cutting edge in mobile computing. The personal digital assistant (PDA) could help people manage their contacts and calendar items,…
Olympus makes a bid for beginners with the E-M10 Mark III
Olympus makes extremely good mirrorless cameras. I’ve been using a first-generation OM-D for a number of years now, and I know a couple of TechCrunch staff members who swear by theirs. Two years after releasing the last camera in the E-M10 line, the company is back with the Mark III, which brings a couple of…
Sony made the perfect wireless earbuds for all you crazy distracted music lovers
Wireless earbuds, like AirPods and Bragi Dash, are all the rage these days, but they all have one common problem: You can’t hear ambient sounSupportd around you. But with Sony’s Xperia Ear Open-style concept wireless earbuds, you can hear all the wonderful (and terrible) sounds around you while looking like someone straight out of a…
The 29 highest-paid MLB players of all time
Mark J. Terrill/AP Alex Rodriguez hasn’t played a game in a year and yet he will still be paid $21 million this season from the New York Yankees, adding to what is already his status as baseball’s highest-paid player of all time. Thanks to a pair of contracts worth more than $250 million, Rodriguez has made…
WALL STREET PAYDAY: Banks could reap $90 million in fees from the Gilead-Kite deal (GILD)
Henny Ray Abrams/AP Wall Street investment banks are set to make as much as $90 million in fees from Gilead Sciences’ $11.9 billion acquisition of Kite Pharma. Gilead, the maker of blockbuster hepatitis C and HIV treatments, announced Monday it had acquired the cancer-immunotherapy company at a 29% premium, breaking a long hiatus from major dealmaking….
Uber won’t snoop on your location anymore, but that doesn’t mean you should trust them
With a new CEO officially at the helm and a six-month PR blitz to win back drivers underway, it’s clearer than ever that Uber, which has been rocked by scandal after scandal, wants to change its image for the better. So when Uber announced earlier this week it was rolling back a controversial feature that…
Libratone update will add Amazon Alexa voice control to its speakers
Libratone, a Danish maker of snazzy high end wireless speakers, has announced its existing Zipp and Zipp Mini speakers will get support for Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant via a free app update, slated to arrive this fall. Read More
Gorgeous photos record idyllic country life in Victorian England
by inbusiness “Window Call.” These images of rural life in Victorian England were shot by William Morris Grundy, and acquired after his death by the London Stereoscopic Company. Born in Birmingham in 1806, Grundy took up photography in 1855 and made dozens of stereoscopic photos, primarily posed genre scenes of rustic pursuits such as hunting,…
How To Get Your Boss To Agree To Your New Idea
By Marilyn Vinch Success in business requires doing something a little bit different to everyone else. You can impress your boss with hard work and dedication, but all that’s likely to get you is more of the same; true progress requires fresh ideas and original thinking. Perhaps this is why management can be so reluctant…
Garmin debuts three new wearables and a mobile payment solution
Garmin has three new wearable devices it’s debuting at IFA 2017, including the vivosmart GPS-enabled activity tracker, the vivomove HR hybrid touchscreen smartwatch and the vivoactive 3, a smartwatch with Garmin Pay, which supports Visa and MasterCard credit and debit cards to enable mobile payments on the go. The Garmin vivoactive 3 includes GPS, a…
These are the leading credit card processing companies (JPM, BAC, C, WFC, VNTV, TSS, BCS, FDC, WPG)
BI Intelligence Credit card processors are mostly responsible for data transmission and security when you use your card at a store or online to make a purchase. There are two types of processors in the payment-card system. Front-end processors route transactions from merchants to the cardholder’s bank to gain authorization; that is, they make sure a customer has…
SD-WAN: An Agile Enabler of Enterprise Movement towards the Cloud – InBusiness
by inbusiness By Taj ElKhayat, Regional Vice President, Middle East and Africa, Riverbed Technology Gone is the time where IT assets were limited to a handful of data centers. Gone is the time where users and applications were all bound by one unified MPLS network. Gone is the time where the enterprise perimeter was limited…
17 photos show the meteoric rise and fall of Macy’s, JCPenney, and Sears
Seph Lawless; Skye Gould/Business Insider In the past year, department store chains have announced a wave of location closures across the United States. Macy’s recently revealed plans to shut down 100 stores. In July, Sears said it’s shuttering 43 US stores, in addition to the 265 closings it announced in early 2017. JCPenney released a list of 138 stores it…
New drone tracking system detects threats on Dubai air space
A live drone-intrusion warning system is now plugged in and on guard to alert Dubai Civil Aviation Authority when the safety of restricted air space above Dubai International Airport is threatened. The new system will track flying drones and signal a red alert when the proximity of planes and sensitive flight paths in and out…
Spectra Energy (SE) Earnings Beat, Revenues Miss in Q3
Premier natural gas company Spectra Energy Corp. SE reported third-quarter 2016 earnings per share from continuing operations of 31 cents, which beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 26 cents. The bottom line also improved from the year-ago quarter earnings of 23 cents per share. The company’s operating revenues of $1,075 million fell 2.5% from the…
Ukraine exhibition explores our "fragile state"
by inbusiness Kyiv is confirming its place on the world map of contemporary art with a new international exhibition. The double meaning of the show’s title, “Fragile State” – on at the PinchukArtCentre – is particularly relevant in Ukraine. Bjorn Geldhof, the artistic director, said: “The exhibition tries to tackle that notion, to make that…