American Express is tapping into Facebook “likes” and check-ins to send card owners relevant and local discounts based on their Facebook preferences. The coolest thing about these daily deals is that there is no need to pre-purchase any of them – the deal is activated when you swipe your AmEx credit card at the point [...]
OCZ Technology Unveils Indilinx Everest Series Solid State Drive Controller
OCZ Technology Group, Inc., a leading provider of high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs) for computing devices and systems, today unveiled the Indilinx Everest SATA 3.0 SSD platform. The Everest platform features support of 6Gbps interface speeds, high transactional performance that is optimized for compressed files, and maximum capacities up to 1TB. “The new Indilinx Everest platform [...]
Curing the âQuantum Bugâ
Quantum mechanics has many interesting phenomena in it, including one called superposition. The basic idea to superposition is a particle can exist in more than one place at a time, but really it allows for more than just multiple positions, such as multiple states. Imagine flipping a coin and it comes up both head and [...]
Report: Alibaba planning Android, iOS competitor
There might soon be another company competing in the mobile operating system market, The Wall Street Journal is reporting. China-based online-commerce company Alibaba is planning to launch a mobile operating system in the third quarter, the Journal says, citing someone “close to the situation.” The operating system will reportedly have cloud-based elements, including allowing users [...]