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If ever in doubt about your guy’s commitment to a relationship, ask him if he would commit to an app. A growing number of young couples in Asia are sharing special moments in the privacy of Between, a tight networking app that links only two people. In an age of social media overload where tweets, Instagram and Facebook postings can invite unwanted attention from parents and employers, Between feels like a digital safe haven that blocks outside noise and keeps memories just for two. Created by Seoul-based startup Value Creators & Company, Between hit 5 million downloads in two years. About two thirds of the users are in South Korea with their average age in the mid-20s. Between has attracted more than half a million users in Japan and is…

If you’ve been anywhere near the Apple website in recent days, you’re probably aware that the venerable Mac is now 30 years old. Why? Well, the Californian giant has left no stone unturned in celebrating the milestone, with a video summarizing just how much of an impact the landmark computer has made on the world since its early ‘80s launch. Said video features various creative types uttering such phrases as “There was a smiley face, there was a sense of humor somehow built in” and “Somehow it’s so transparent to an experience, that it just enlivens you”, the premier purveyor of ‘90s techno Moby also chipping in with his observation that “Now everyone uses this one piece of remarkable, ubiquitous technology,” The website also features an interactive timeline of the…

Afternoon Delight This comedy drama has been written and directed by Jill Soloway, who won a Directing Award for the feature at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. The movie tells the story of a stay-at-home mom called Rachel, played by Kathryn Hahn, who becomes frustrated with her sexless marriage and so visits a strip club to brighten up her life. There, she meets a stripper called McKenna, played by Juno Temple, who becomes Rachel’s live-in nanny. FIVE FACTS: 1. For this film, Soloway won the Directing Award (United States, Drama) at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, where the movie also had its premiere, on January 26 2013. 2. The movie also screened at other festivals, both national and international, and was nominated for several awards including a Gotham Award for…

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has been announced as the headline speaker at next week’s Apps World North America event in San Francisco. Apps World is returning to San Francisco with the two day event expecting to attract more than 8,000 attendees and is designed to deliver the latest insight into the multi-platform apps ecosystem. Keynote speaker Steve Wozniak will be sharing his experiences and insights into the industry with developers in the Developer World conference stream at 9.10 on February 5th, opening the two day show. Steve’s keynote address will be followed by a live Q. & A session with the audience. Wozniak said: “I’m delighted to be speaking at Apps World, sharing my experience of 30 years in the mobile and computing industry, as well as learning from and…

The worldwide smartphone market reached yet another milestone, having shipped one billion units in a single year for the first time. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors shipped a total of 1,004.2 million smartphones worldwide, up 38.4% from the 725.3 million units in 2012. This aligns with IDC’s most recent forecast of 1,010.4 million units, making for a difference of less than 1%. Smartphones accounted for 55.1% of all mobile phone shipments in 2013, up from the 41.7% of all mobile phone shipments in 2012. In the fourth quarter of 2013 (4Q13), vendors shipped a total of 284.4 million smartphones worldwide, up 24.2% from the 229.0 million units shipped in 4Q12. In the worldwide mobile phone market (inclusive of smartphones), vendors shipped 1,821.8…

Tony Kinneberg’s entire science class gathered around the computer’s glowing green screen. A junior in high school, Kinneberg had never seen or worked with a computer before going to class that day in 1983 at Richland No. 44, a small school district south of Fargo, N.D. Though it has been more than 20 years since that day, his recollections of seeing his first computer, a Tandy, are clear. At that time, it was the only computer at the school. “You’d spend the whole hour working on a program and spend so much time saving things,” said Kinneberg, now the technology coordinator at the Parkston School District. “It was so tedious and it took forever to run a program, but that was the only thing we had, so we didn’t know…

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Contact ATB Contact is the 9th studio album by German DJ and musician Andre“ATB”Tanneberger. ATB has an enviable reputation as a DJ; in DJ Magazine’s official world DJ rankings, he was ranked 11th in 2009 and 2010 and 15th in 2011. It was also in 2011 that he was rated the world’s best DJ in The DJ List. He is most famous for“9PM (Till I Come)”, the title song of the game FIFA Premier League All Stars 1999. FIVE FACTS: 1. Tanneberger has enthused:“Contact is a musical collection of my experiences and travels from roughly the last three years, since my last album Distant Earth”, adding: “I’ve covered a lot of miles again in this phase, sought out contact with fantastic, inspiring people, which made the choice of album title…

Apple Inc.’s experiment with rolling out two new iPhones at the same time backfired as weak demand for the cheaper version with a plastic case led the company to sell fewer smartphones than expected during the holiday quarter. Although Apple on Monday reported record revenue for its first quarter, which ended in December, the 51 million iPhones it sold fell short of the 55 million units that Wall Street analysts had expected. Those soft sales coupled with a surprisingly weaker outlook for the current quarter sent the company’s stock tumbling more than 8% in after-hours trading. For the first time in its history, Apple introduced two new iPhones in September: the pricier iPhone 5s that sported new features such as fingerprint ID and a more powerful camera; and the iPhone…

Apple reshaped technology and society when Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone seven years ago. * Now, the trend-setting company is losing ground to rivals that offer what Apple has stubbornly refused to make: smartphones with lower prices and larger screens than the iPhone. The void in Apple’s lineup is a major reason why the company’s quarterly revenue may be about to fall for the first time in more than a decade, much to the dismay of investors who are worried that Apple Inc. is losing its verve and vision. Wall Street vented its frustration after Apple reported late Monday that it sold fewer i Phones than analysts anticipated during the holiday season. Apple compounded that disappointment with a forecast raising the possibility of a sligbt revenue decline in the current…

Google is selling Motorola Mobility’s smartphone business to Lenovo Group for $2.9 billion. The deal announced Wednesday will rid Google Inc. of a financial headache that has plagued the company since buying Motorola Mobility for $12.4 billion in 2012. Motorola has lost nearly $2 billion since Google took over in May 2012 while trimming its workforce from 20,000 to 3,800. Google is retaining most of Motorola’s portfolio of mobile patents, providing the company with legal protection for its widely used Android software for smartphones and tablet computers. Gaining control of Motorola’s patents was the main reason Google CEO Larry Page decided to make the most expensive acquisition in the Internet company’s 15-year history. China’s Lenovo Group is picking up about 2,000 Motorola patents in addition to the phone manufacturing operations.…

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The U.S. government and leading Internet companies on Monday announced a compromise that will allow those companies to reveal more information about how often they are ordered to turn over customer information to the government in national security investigations. The Justice Department reached agreements with Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Yahoo Inc., Facebook Inc. and Linkedln Corp. that would resolve those companies’ legal challenges before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The companies had asked judges to allow them to disclose data on national security orders the companies have received under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The delivery of customer information to the government from Internet companies has been under examination in the United States following leaks about National Security Agency surveillance by former NSA systems analyst Edward Snowden. Some of those…

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Hotel guests may soon be able to bypass the check-in counter and unlock their rooms with digital keys sent to an app on their iPhones, one hotel chain says. The pilot program is being tested at two Aloft boutique hotels in the Starwood hospitality chain — one in Manhattan’s Harlem neighborhood and another in Apple’s native Cupertino in California, Applelnsider reported Monday. Room locks at the hotels will use Bluetooth proximity keys, similar to the Bluetoothbased consumer locksets that have appeared on the market. Starwood said the system would be compatible with Apple’s iPhones as well as recent Android devices. The chain believes smartphone-enabled self-service technology will be an important marketing weapon point for hotels in the future, Starwood head Frits van Paasschen told the Wall Street Journal. “We believe…