BMW reinvents the car with i8 model

The i8 shows off what may be a new trend in mass-produced carbon fiber vehicles.

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In the upper reaches of automotive performance, the hybrid sports car is becoming a real thing. Witness the Ferrari LaFerrari, Porsche 918 Spyder, and McLaren P1. Those examples seem like efforts to maintain the relevance of high-end performance in an oil-starved world.

The new look for iOS 7

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Apple's iOS 7 is coming Wednesday, September 18, featuring flattened icons and a more minimalist design, moving away from the three-dimensional candy-coated icons and skeuomorphic app treatments found in the OS since it came out in 2007. I like the new look, and with about a million third-party apps in the

Twitter vs. Facebook: A Tale of Two Sites

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All eyes are on Twitter as the company prepares for a highly anticipatedinitial public offering of stock. Twitter’s announcement on Thursday that the company had filed paperwork with regulators to eventually sell shares  immediately had analysts and potential shareholders wondering how the company would fare after Facebook’s public offering last year, which was turbulent, to say the least.

But how alike are the two social networks? Here’s a quick

DoCoMo ignites free iPhone 5S handset free-for-all in Japan

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NTT DoCoMo's entry into the iPhone fray in Japan is sparking fierce competition for customers, with all three carriers offering certain iPhone 5S models for free with a two-year contract.

DoCoMo, KDDI (au), and SoftBank will offer the 16GB versions of the iPhone 5S for effectively

Amazon: No smart phones from us this year

Before briefly some of the rumors that appeared to indicate that Amazon will be making smart phones from the end, this is not important, the important news is that Amazon will provide these phones free of charge to users.

Rumors have emerged that the phone will support three-dimensional technology without the need to wear special glasses and other follow-up of these technologies interesting.

Now Amazon has officially declare that it would not, you create a smart phone this year and the most important news that he and the making and one will not be free, but you pay for the phone.

"Facebook" "Mark Zuckerberg" the feet of the site on the closure of private conversations "chat"

Revealed the social networking site "Facebook", on Saturday morning, the existence of attempts by the governments of various countries to monitor the talks personal between users of the site, which is attributed to the founder of the site "Facebook" "Mark Zuckerberg" ft. Located on the closure of private conversations "chat."

The Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of "Facebook" in response to these attempts - during his post at his own expense - in which he said: The site has not and will never be allowed to be part of any way to give governments access to the information service.

Marc confirmed that the site has not received any request or order of the Court or from any government institution to request information or metadata about users, and if it is dealt with judicially and fight it vigorously.

Low price phone Lumia 1020 in the United States of America

One of the things that you do not admire people who wanted to get on the phone Lumia 1020 is its price which stood at $ 299 with a contract with one of the networks in the United States, now have been announced from Microsoft and Network AT & T's famous that the phone will be sold to $ 199 with contractfor two years with the network of AT & T.

Microsoft is working on a Surface Mini

In the middle of this week, we got a little bit of information about Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2, and we have seen some also information about Power Cover cover that will come along with these new screens.What we did not hear him before that Microsoft is also working to expand Teams Surface screens so that it intends to disclose Surface Mini, which will be launched along with the others.

To return to the past few months, there have been a lot of rumors reported that Microsoft Corp. is working on a tablet in size 7 or 8 inches because one of the well-known features in the Windows 8.1 update that will bring support screens. It was not clear whether Microsoft will oversee the manufacturing process of these devices on their own, but given that the company is looking to highlight its position in the hardware market, these new rumors seem very reasonable.

The U.S. National Security Agency used "Facebook

U.S. confirmed Edward Snowden, a former adviser to the U.S. intelligence service, the social networking site "Facebook" is used by the U.S. National Security Agency "NSA" for the purposes of targeting people who will be watched.

He explained Snowden, who last month revealed "Prism" is the largest U.S. program to spy on the Internet, and the National Security Agency monitors networking sites like "Facebook" and the letters "e-mail" in order to target people it considers a threat to national security.

The adviser added former U.S. intelligence in his interview to the magazine "Der Spiegel" that the National Security Agency allocates people to follow the target and monitor their movements on the Internet, and provide reports setting out the time between it and according to the seriousness of the person observer.

Google controls a third of Internet advertising revenues

A recent study signals that the company "Google" has become accounts for about one-third of Internet advertising market returns so far in 2013.

The study, carried out by research company emarketer that the share of "Google" Internet advertising revenues amounted to 32.84 percent of total revenues, to overtake a long lead over its nearest competitor network "Facebook" which accounted for only about 5.41 percent.

The study added that the company "Yahoo" comes in third share of an estimated 2.97% of the proceeds of online advertising, superior to the "Microsoft", which owns proportion of 2.49% of the proceeds and "Amazon", which owns proportion of 0.71% and the social networking site "Twitter", which reaps only about 0.50% of the proceeds.

The emarketer show that that percentage is Internet advertising revenues aimed at PC users, whether laptop or desktop or tablet alongside mobile phone users up to and including the month of August.