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Yandex targets Google, Amazon with new Android app store

Google Play will soon have another competitor. Russian search engine Yandex announced today that it will soon launch an “alternative” application marketplace for Android users. Dubbed Yandex.Store, the marketplace will offer nearly 40,000 applications and allow vendors to bundle another app store into their devices. Yandex.Store is also a white-box offering, meaning vendors can place their own branding on top …

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Happy 87th birthday to the ‘television image’

On 2 October 1925, the first television picture with a greyscale image was successfully transmitted by John Logie Baird. John Logie Baird (Credit: bairdtelevision.com) Baird, a Scotsman living in England, had been experimenting with moving silhouette images since 1924, on a TV set that he had created using an old hatbox, a pair of scissors, some darning needles, a few …

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