Engadget says a new face recognition ad will only reveal its full contents to women. Clear Channel UK used a camera which measuring key facial features such as the distance between the eyes, nose width and cheekbone shape to determine gender. It uses a “high-definition” camera to scan people’s faces, detecting their gender with an [...]
The Verge says a 8GB Nook Tablet is expected to launch by Barnes and Noble on February 22nd. The Nook Tablet costs $50 more than Amazon’s $199 Kindle Fire. The new Nook looks the same as Barnes & Noble’s current $249 Android Tablet, but with less onboard storage (matching the Fire’s 8GB) with a correspondingly [...]
Om Malik says that, indeed, GigaOm is buying the assets of ContentNext Media from Guardian News & Media Limited. They are not disclosing the terms of the deal. They are buying the entire group of properties — paidContent.org, mocoNews.net, contentSutra and paidContent:UK. A representative of Guardian News & Media will join their board of directors [...]
Andrew Seybold, in a think piece posted on Fierce Wireless says it’s doubtful that the FCC could meet its five-year goal of freeing up 300 MHz of spectrum. “It takes months to prepare for such an auction, then it takes a few years to relocate those already on the spectrum, first finding a place to [...]
Audiobooks.com has announced unlimited access to its library of 11,000 audio books through its website and an HTML5 mobile app for $24.95 a month. Unlimited content downloads have been popular for movie and music sellers, now AudioBooks is trying unlimited, monthly audiobook access, says Mashable. Amazon-owned competitor Audible also has a monthly membership. But with [...]
The share of adults in the United States who own tablet computers nearly doubled from 10% to 19% between mid-December and early January and the same surge in growth also applied to e-book readers, reports a Pew Internet study. The number of Americans owning at least one of these digital reading devices jumped from 18% [...]
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