In the eyes of outspoken entrepreneur Mark Cuban, the battle for smartphone supremacy has been fought and won… by Nokia (NOK). While hosting an AMA session on Reddit — a series of posts where the original poster instructs Reddit users to “Ask Me Anything” — Cuban, who famously sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo (YHOO) for around $5 billion at the height of the dot-com boom, was asked what kind of laptop...
If Santa Were a Hipster
Labels: TechnologyShot like a twee Wes Anderson movie, Fourgrounds Media reimagines Santa as a black-bearded dude who looks more like he's from Williamsburg than the North Pole. This Santa plays Radiohead on his ukulele, is into both vinyl and Instagram, smoking and veganism. His idea of a good gift for a child is an iPod loaded with Arcade Fire selections and, of course, he keeps his tunes list in the cloud.[More...
The Problem With Windows 8
Labels: TechnologyWe now know what we've suspected for months: Windows 8 isn't selling very well. We've seen the pattern since Microsoft's big launch event in late October -- the mixed reviews, the cautionary words from hardware manufacturers, the desperate fast-tracking of plans to expand the retail availability of the Surface -- but now we've got numbers.[More from Mashable: How to Track Santa on Christmas Eve in...
Samsung expects to ship more than half a billion phones in 2013
Labels: TechnologySamsung (005930) had a big year and despite some legal setbacks, the company saw record profits led by its mobile division. In 2012, Samsung became the world’s largest cell phone vendor with shipments estimated to have reached about 420 million units. According to the Korea Times, the company expects to ship 510 million phones in 2013, an increase of 20% over this year. More than half, or 390 million,...
Review: Making Facebook a warmer, smaller space
Labels: Technology A woman I haven't spoken to in six years is pregnant with her second son. Another college acquaintance reads the Bible a lot. A high school classmate likes to rant about politics. A college dormmate thinks he works too much.On Facebook, I'm connected to a lot of people who are not my friends. Over the years, as my Facebook friend list grows, it's made me increasingly uncomfortable that I seem...
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Alexza's agitation drug gets FDA approval
Labels: Health Alexza Pharmaceuticals Inc said the U.S. health regulators approved Adasuve, making it the first treatment for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder that can be inhaled.Adasuve, which delivers an older antipsychotic drug called loxapine, passes through the lungs and into the bloodstream faster than a typical pill. Loxapine is available as an oral drug for schizophrenia.The company said the product...
Judge denies Texas request for feds to keep funding health program
Labels: WorldA judge on Friday denied a request by Texas for an order requiring the federal government to continue providing money for a state health program for low-income women.U.S. District Judge Walter Smith in Waco, Texas, denied the state's motion for a preliminary injunction that would have prevented the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services from cutting off Medicaid money for the Women's...
Lawmakers play waiting game with 'fiscal cliff' deadline in sight
Labels: Health With only a week left before a deadline for the United States to go over a "fiscal cliff," lawmakers played a waiting game on Monday in the hope that someone will produce a plan to avoid harsh budget cuts and higher taxes for most Americans from New Year's Day.Though Republicans and Democrats have spent the better part of a year describing a plunge off the cliff as a looming catastrophe, the...
UCB gets Japan clearance for two new drugs
Labels: HealthBelgian pharmaceutical company UCB has secured two regulatory clearances in Japan, further cementing its worldwide shift to a new generation of drugs.The company said in a statement on Tuesday that the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare had approved UCB's Neupro patch to treat Parkinson's disease and moderate-to-severe Restleg Legs Syndrome in adults.Otsuka Pharmaceutical has the exclusive...
One in 12 in military has clogged heart arteries
Labels: HealthJust over one in 12 U.S. service members who died in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars had plaque buildup in the arteries around their hearts - an early sign of heart disease, according to a new study.None of them had been diagnosed with heart disease before deployment, researchers said."This is a young, healthy, fit group," said the study's lead author, Dr. Bryant Webber, from the Uniformed Services...
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