ca-hotdailynews: 2015-06-18 Canada English Technology

VR gamer headset 'tackles motion sickness'
BBC News
Oculus VR founder Brendan Iribe says the company has overcome motion sickness with Virtual Reality. He says even sensitive individuals like him are able to play games with the Rift VR headset for several hours on end. The Facebook-owned company ...

E3 2015: Virtual Reality Takes Center Stage at Convention   ABC News
Oculus out to let people touch virtual worlds   THE BUSINESS TIMES
Oculus Rift   Irish Times
Arizona Daily Sun
Reuters
Gizmodo
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Nadella shakes up Microsoft at top level
The Seattle Times
Sixteen months into his tenure as CEO, Microsoft's Satya Nadella shuffles the company's senior leadership, with four top execs leaving. One remaining leader, Terry Myerson, stands out in the added responsibility he has been handed. By Matt Day. Janet I. Tu.
Four top executives depart Microsoft in shake-up of management team   Washington Post
Former Nokia CEO Elop leaving Microsoft   The Australian
Nadella conducts biggest Microsoft revamp since taking over   The Australian Financial Review
Fox News Latino
The Age
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Apple loses anti-competitive practices case in Taiwan court
The Globe and Mail
Apple Inc. has lost a lawsuit in which it was accused of engaging in anti-competitive practices and will be fined 20 million Taiwanese dollars ($794,000), a Taiwan court said on Wednesday. The island's Fair Trade Commission had previously levied the fine ...

Apple fine upheld for violating Taiwan law on iPhone pricing   CNET
Taiwan fines Apple $647K for forcing carriers to seek iPhone pricing approval   Apple Insider
Apple loses Taiwan anti-competitive practices court case   ABS CBN News

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Vancouver wearables company Recon Instruments bought by Intel
Vancouver Sun
Recon Instruments, creator of smart sports glasses and Vancouver's answer to Google Glass, has been acquired by Intel. Terms were not disclosed on the deal, which was announced Wednesday. Recon was launched in 2008, successfully spinning off ...

Intel picks up Canadian wearables maker Recon Instruments   ZDNet
Intel Continues Its Wearables Push   Wall Street Journal (blog)
Intel invests in wearables, acquiring Google Glass rival Recon   SlashGear
PC Magazine
EE Times
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'Minecraft - Pocket Edition' top paid iPhone game app in Canada
Edmonton Journal
Top 10 free and paid game apps for the iPhone and iPad in Canada for the week ending June 14. Top Paid iPhone Game Apps. 1. Minecraft - Pocket Edition (Mojang). 2. Geometry Dash (RobTop Games AB). 3. Heads Up! (Warner Bros.) ...

Publishers Upset Over Apple's Opt-Out Terms for Inclusion in iOS 9 News App   Mac Rumors
ADEQ launches complaints app for Apple users   Arkansas News
Want to Create an App? Think Twice!   Pocket Gamer
AppAdvice
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CNET

Netflix revamps its website so it works more like an app
CNET
The new site promises a richer visual look and easier navigation. But some users won't see it for a couple of weeks. by Lance Whitney · @lancewhit; 17 June 2015, 2:29 am AEST. facebook. twitter. linkedin. googleplus. email. comments. more. reddit. pinterest.
Netflix Website Gets Long Overdue Makeover   PC Magazine
Netflix's Redesigned Website Makes Browsing Titles Easier   Tom's Guide
Netflix Has Redesigned To Pitch You Harder On "House Of Cards"   Co.Design
moviepilot.com
CyberShack
Tubefilter
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New Asigra appliance offers cloud backup and recovery in a box
IT World Canada
TORONTO – Cloud backup, recovery and restore software provider Asigra Inc. used its annual Summit conference Tuesday to launch a new data protection appliance with value-added distributor Avnet Inc. Asigra's Converged Data Protection Appliance for ...

Asigra Ventures into Backup Appliances for Cloud Storage Providers   Infostor magazine
Asigra puts its Cloud Backup software on appliance for SPs   TechTarget
Asigra, Avnet Partner on Converged Data Appliance for MSPs   The VAR Guy
Channel Partners
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Mobile app hacking alert with passwords and locations vulnerable
Daily Mail
A flaw in the way thousands of popular mobile applications store data online is leaving passwords, addresses, door codes and location data vulnerable to hackers, researchers claim. The German team of researchers found 56million items of unprotected data ...

'Billions' of records at risk from mobile app data flaw   The Globe and Mail

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A Billion Fingerprint Readers in Mobile Devices by 2021
Payment Week
According to Tractica, more than one-third of all mobile devices will have fingerprint readers installed by 2021. One billion mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, will be shipped globally in 2021. Of those billion devices, 34 percent will have ...

Over a Billion Biometric Mobile Devices Will Ship in 2021   Mobile ID World
Onboard fingerprint readers in mobile devices to exceed 1B shipments a year by ...   Biometric Update
Fingerprint Readers in Mobile Devices to Surpass 1 Billion Unit Shipments ...   Business Wire (press release)

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ZTE Aims to Boost Russia Sales with JD.com Partnership
Mobile ID World
Smartphone maker ZTE is expecting a big sales boost in Russia this year. Boosted by a newly-announced partnership with Chinese e-commerce platform JD.com, ZTE predicts that its sales in Russia will triple. ZTE is planning to release an upgraded version ...

ZTE Partners With JD.com To Sell More Smartphones In Russia   Forbes
ZTE Expects Smartphone Sales in Russia to Triple in 2015   Business Wire India (press release)
ZTE expects to triple smartphone sales in Russia   Telecompaper (subscription)

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