![]() ![]() And in other Microsoft news, the company announced that it was renaming its cloud storage service. Shifting gears to Gears of War, Microsoft has purchased the shoot ‘em up franchise from Epic Games, which means future installments will likely be Xbox-only. Samsung is rumored to be showing off its version this September at the annual IFA trade show in Berlin. The Korea Times is reporting that Samsung and Sony may be getting into the game. However, Google Glass may not be the only wearable face computers strutting around town. The provider VSP has made a deal with Google to subsidize prescription lenses and frames for the Internet-connected spendy spectacles. Google Glass may be getting a little more affordable for some, particularly those with optical health insurance. While replicants don’t seem to be in the near future, a DeepMind investor told the Re/Code website, “If anyone builds something remotely resembling artificial general intelligence, this will be the team. Google is still on its January shopping spree, buying up DeepMind, a privately held artificial intelligence company based in the United Kingdom. Just last week, the tech press was filled with stories about the 30 th anniversary of the Macintosh computer, which made its debut on January 24 th, 1984, and had a very memorable Super Bowl commercial that can still be found online. The tech press will now be filled with stories about how Apple needs to innovate again, although the company recently filed a patent for a solar-powered MacBook and seems to have new plans in the works for its Apple TV set-top streamer. Now, while Apple did set a record in the last quarter with 51 million iPhones sold, investors were hoping for 55 million iPhones out the door, so the company’s stock fell 8 percent. All three operating systems placed in the same order Stateside, but don’t even ask about BlackBerry (although BlackBerry OS 10 did get another update recently to make loading Android apps even easier). Windows Phone, showing some moxie, was able to claim 10.3 percent of the market. The little green robot snagged a 68.6 percent share of the European smartphone market, compared to Apple’s 18.5 percent. The Android operating system was tops in Europe in 2013, according to new numbers from research firm Kantar Worldpanel ComTech. Think of it, the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy in less time than it takes to sneeze and find a tissue.īut wait, this week had more reports to report. In theory, you could download an entire movie in one second on this mythical 5G network. As if to rub it in, the South Korean government is dropping $1.5 billion into upgrading its mobile communications network by 2020, and says this will make it a thousand times faster than it is now. Once again, South Korea leads the world in average global connection speed the United States ranks 8th. As the week winds down, the State of the Union address is history and cloud service provider Akamai has popped out its latest quarterly State of the Internet report. ![]()
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