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Philips Partners with Apple on Smart LED Bulb - Yahoo! Small Business Advisor

This week, Philips introduced an intelligent LED light bulb that could transform the lighting and electronics industry.  The company calls its smart bulbs the Hue 1.1 which features several hi-tech features.

The geofencing feature enables users to program Hue to change colors, as well as, turn on or off when the user arrives.

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Where The iPhone 5 Still Bests The Samsung S4 - Forbes

Samsung have produced a great phone in the Galaxy S4 but there are reasons for saying the Apple iPhone is still the better product. Is that clutching at straws?

Possibly, but the research it is based on suggests something else – that Samsung are making elementary mistakes in their innovation strategy.

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Aston Martin celebrates 100th anniversary with CC100 Speedster Concept - Autoweek

Aston Martin continued its 100th birthday celebration May 19 in Germany, revealing of the gorgeous CC100 Speedster Concept. The one-off debuted at the ADAC Zurich 24 Hours of Nürburgring race.

Aston CEO Dr. Ulrich Bez piloted the concept around the full 15.7-mile circuit. Sir Stirling Moss followed him in a 1959 DBR1.

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Windows 8: 5 Hopeful Signs - Software - Windows 8 - Informationweek

Research firm Forrester says IT isn't interested in Windows 8, and that the platform's success relies on consumers and BYOD. Given that consumers aren't exactly embracing the new OS, Win8's prospects are easy to dismiss -- so much so that Frank X. Shaw, Redmond's VP of corporate communications, recently felt compelled to reprimand the media for its emphatically bleak appraisal of his company's plight.

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6 Ways Google Glass Can Supercharge Your Workflow - Terra USA

This is the second in a four-part weekly series as I test Google Glass for personal and business uses.

At $1,500, the developer edition of Google Glass might seem like an expensive but ultimately superfluous toy. At least that's how I felt when I first tried the device -- and it's not an uncommon sentiment.

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One issue holding up Apple iRadio: The economics of skipping songs | Apple - CNET News

Apple, which has been aiming for a summer rollout of a streaming music service, has hit a negotiating snag with Sony Music over some of the features that it is building into its product.

More specifically, Apple and Sony Music, the world's second-largest music label, are still trying to hammer out details over how much Apple would pay for songs that people listen to a fraction of and then skip, according to people familiar with the negotiations.

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Peep this: Google Glass for eyeglass wearers revealed | Fox News

Hey four eyes! How about a fifth?

A special, prototype version of Google Glass for eyeglass wearers was spied on the faces of at least three engineers and developers at the Google I/O conference, CNET’s Seth Rosenblatt reported

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Only 2 of 13 small SUVs do well in crash tests - Yahoo! Finance

DETROIT (AP) — Only two of 13 small SUVs performed well in front-end crash tests done by an insurance industry group, with several popular models faring poorly in the evaluations.

Subaru's 2014 Forester was the only vehicle to get the top "good" rating in the results released Thursday. The 2013 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport was rated as "acceptable."

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Are Beats by Dr. Dre headphones worth the price tag? - Yahoo!

Do you care whether your headphones look as good as they sound? If so, you might be considering a model in the Beats by Dr. Dre line. Developed in conjunction with Monster Cable, Beats helped usher in the era of higher-priced, logo-embossed headphones bearing a celebrity endorsement. Certainly, based on the number of people you now see wearing Beats models (with the distinctive lower-case "b" on the earcups) around their necks, they have an obvious appeal.

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