S&P: Αναβάθμιση Ισπανίας, υποβάθμιση Ολλανδίας

Σε αναβάθμιση των προοπτικών του ισπανικού χρέους σε σταθερές από αρνητικές, προχώρησαν οι Standard & Poor’s επικαλούμενοι την επιστροφή στην οικονομική ανάπτυξη, περιορίζοντας τις πιθανότητες μείωσης της αξιολόγησης της χώρας σε επίπεδο junk από τον οίκο. 

Παράλληλα, σύμφωνα με σχετική ανακοίνωση του οίκου...

Apple's European Black Friday Sales Go Live with Discounted Prices, Not Gift Cards

Apple's online stores for a number of European countries have just come back online for Black Friday's one-day shopping event, and unlike in Australia and New Zealand where the company is using bonus gift cards rather than discounts as customer incentives, Apple's European stores are seeing the more traditional discounted pricing scheme...

Facebook tests Instapaper/Pocket-like ‘Save for Later’ feature app

Facebook is testing Instapaper/Pocket-like ‘Save for Later‘ feature as

an app which saves the links that are posted in Facebook for reading it later...

Αναβάθμιση από S&P

Την αναβάθμιση του μακροπρόθεσμου rating χρέους της Κύπρου κατά μία βαθμίδα σε Β- απόCCC+ ανακοίνωσε σήμερα ο οίκος αξιολόγησης Standard and Poor’s αναφέροντας ότι οι άμεσοι κίνδυνοι για την αποπληρωμή του χρέους της, φαίνεται να έχουν υποχωρήσει. 

Την ίδια ώρα, το βραχυπρόθεσμο rating αναβαθμίστηκε σε B από C. Παρά την...

'OK Google' Voice Search Lands on Chrome (video)

Google has released a Chrome extension that brings the voice-activated "OK Google" command to the browser.

The Google Voice Search Hotword (Beta) extensionis now available in the Chrome Web Store. When installed, it allows those on the desktop to speak their commands to the browser using the "OK Google" hotword...

Lamborghini Cabrera confirmed for 2014, preliminary details arriving before Christmas

A Lamborghini representative has announced a "Gallardo follower" will be launched in 2014.

Earlier this week Lamborghini released the first teaser for the Gallardo replacement and now they announced the car will go on sale in 2014...

Band to take the stage with 3D-printed instruments (pics & video)

3D-printed electric guitars and bass guitars are nothing new for Olaf Diegel, a design engineer and professor of mechatronics at Massey University in Auckland, New Zealand. 

Since 2011, he has been building gorgeously intricate custom electric instruments he calls ODD guitars using Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) printing to craft the bodies.

He then adds a mahogany or maple wood core, a wooden neck, tuning pegs, a bridge, pickups, and controls for a fully playable instrument...

50 Unfortunate Truths About Investing

1. Saying "I'll be greedy when others are fearful" is much easier than actually doing it.

2. The gulf between a great company and a great investment can be extraordinary.

3. Markets go through at least one big pullback every year, and one massive one every decade. Get used to it. It's just what they do...

Αυξήθηκαν οι καταθέσεις ξένων στο σύστημα

Τάσεις σταθεροποίησης άρχισε να παρουσιάζει το τραπεζικό σύστημα, με τις εκροές καταθέσεων να περιορίζονται στο χαμηλότερο επίπεδο από το 2012 και τις ξένες καταθέσεις να αυξάνονται. 

Τα νέα στοιχεία της κεντρικής τράπεζας δείχνουν βελτίωση της κατάστασης στο σύστημα σε σχέση με τους προηγούμενους μήνες, παρά τις προκλήσεις που εξακολουθούν να αντιμετωπίζουν οι τράπεζες...

When bitcoins go bad: 4 stories of fraud, hacking, and digital currencies.

With Bitcoin interest (and prices) spiking, you might be considering investing in your own little cache of digital currency. 

But before you set up a Bitcoin wallet, you should think long and hard about who will watch over your digital wealth.

 In its relatively short lifespan, Bitcoin wallets and processors have been a target for hackers -- and old-fashioned...

Household Download Index

Based on millions of recent test results from Speedtest.net, this index compares and ranks consumer download speeds around the globe...

Υπό διαχείριση και ο ΕLOMAS

Αυξάνονται τα προβλήματα στο χώρο του λιανικού εμπορίου λόγω της έλλειψης ρευστότητας που υπάρχει στην αγορά. Τελευταίο θύμα της κρίσης η εταιρεία ELOMAS, η οποία τέθηκε υπό καθεστώς διαχείρισης.

Η Mataco & Elomas Distributors Limited, όπως είναι το όνομα της εταιρείας άρχισε να αντιμετωπίζει προβλήματα μετά την κίνηση που έκανε στις αρχές του έτους για περαιτέρω επέκταση στη Λευκωσία μέσω της δημιουργία υπεραγοράς στο εμπορικό κέντρο Ορφανίδη...

Missing: hard drive containing Bitcoins worth £4m in Newport landfill site

Buried somewhere under four feet of mud and rubbish, in the Docksway landfill site near Newport, Wales, in a space about the size of a football pitch is a computer hard drive worth more than £4m.

It belonged to James Howells, who threw it out when he was clearing up his desk in mid-summer and discovered the part, rescued from a defunct Dell laptop. He found it in a drawer and put it in a bin...

Black Friday 2013: Best Deals on the iPad, iPad Air, and iPad mini

On Black Friday, multiple retailers will begin offering discounts on Apple's lineup of tablets, including the iPad Air, the original mini, and the iPad 2. Stores are heavily competing on price this year to get customers into their stores, which is a major win for consumers as prices have dropped to all time lows.

We've listed the best iPad deals from our Black Friday Roundup below, but many of these discounts will be popular so customers looking for a stellar price should aim to get to stores early. Prices and inventory can also change quickly, and...

Foxconn building 500K iPhone 5s units for Apple per day with nonstop production lines

In a bid to increase supply of Apple's flagship iPhone 5s, Foxconn — the company's largest manufacturing partner — has dedicated 100 assembly lines to the handset and is now operating 24-hours-per-day, according to...

Apple's iOS brings developers 5x more revenue per download than Android

Despite Android's significantly larger installed base, iOS continues to dominate in monetization with a five-times-greater return rate for developers — a sign that Cupertino's market segmentation strategy is paying dividends for application creators...

3 Killed in Collapse at Venue Hosting World Cup Opener (video)

Part of the stadium that will host the 2014 World Cup opener in Brazil collapsed on Wednesday, causing significant damage and killing three people, authorities said.

The accident could delay the delivery of the stadium in Sao Paulo by FIFA's December deadline to have all 12 venues ready. Work was immediately halted at the Itaquerao Stadium, which was practically completed before the collapse...

Apple Inc. beats Microsoft, Google to top valuable brands list: Forbes

Global technology major Apple is the world's most valuable brand followed by Microsoft, Coca-Cola, IBM and Google, according to Forbes magazine.

Apple has topped the World's Most Valuable List compiled by Forbes with a brand value of $104.3 billion, nearly double the other technology major,..

Αλλάζει η μετοχική σύνθεση cdb bank

Καταρχήν συμφωνία για απόκτηση σημαντικού ποσοστού στη cdb bank υπέγραψαν μεγαλομέτοχοι της τράπεζας με ρώσο επενδυτή. 

Σε δηλώσεις της στη StockWatch, η CEO της τράπεζας Άντρη Γεωργίου ανέφερε ότι η συμφωνία που υπεγράφη είναι προκαταρτική...

Ζημιές €1,8 δισ. για Tράπεζα Κύπρου

Ζημιές €1,8 δισ. κατέγραψε το πρώτο εξάμηνο του 2013 η Τράπεζα Κύπρου έναντι ζημιών €314 εκ. το πρώτο εξάμηνο του 2012, λόγω της πώλησης των εργασιών της στην Ελλάδα και των αυξημένων προβλέψεων 

Τα αποτελέσματα της Τράπεζας, που ανακοινώθηκαν αργά το απόγευμα της...

Το Χρηματιστήριο της Αθήνας "μεταμορφώθηκε" μέσα σε... 12 λεπτά - Aύριο στις αναδυόμενες αγορές

Ιστορική η συνεδρίαση της Τρίτης για το Ελληνικό Χρηματιστήριο, το οποίο από αύριο κατατάσσεται από την MSCI στις αναδυόμενες αγορές, ενώ κάνει “ντεμπούτο” ο δείκτης MSCI Greece Emerging. Η εικόνα στην κανονική διάρκεια της συνεδρίασης ήταν μάλλον ήπια, αν και με αυξημένο τζίρο κοντά στα 290 εκατ. ευρώ...

Birth of black hole witnessed, marking watershed moment for astronomy (video)

The virtual impossibility of observational astronomy has never been clearer. With astronomers having recorded so many events, now that they’ve used so many different instruments to wring all possible insight from what little information somehow makes it all the way to Earth, simply pointing telescopes at stars is providing diminishing returns...

Google brings Street View inside more than 65 airports and train stations, calls it a 'first effort'

Foreign airports and train stations can often be confusing places to find your way around. Perhaps with that in mind, Google today launched an interactive map featuring Street Views of over 65 mass transit hubs. 

The map features some locations you may...

Κύπρος: Πόσα στοιχίζει το εξώδικο για οδήγηση υπό την επήρεια αλκοόλ

Τελικός έλεγχος Αλκοτέστ:...

Apple's Plans to Enhance Touch ID with Trackpad Capabilities and Display Integration Revealed (pics)

Late last week, we highlighted a pair of Apple patent applications offering details on the company's implementation of its "Touch ID" fingerprint sensor in the iPhone 5s. The highly technical patent applications showed how the system works and revealed that Apple first moved to protect the ideas with the filing of several provisional patent applications in May 2012. 

A third Touch ID-related patent application filed by Apple also quietly surfaced...

How Facebook reveals your friends list even when it’s set to private

Facebook promises that you can control who sees your friends list. But that might not always be true.

Irene Abezgauz, a vice president of product management at Quotium, found a vulnerability in Facebook’s “People You May Know” feature.

In short, just about anyone on the Internet can find out who...

Apple Posts Black Friday 2013 'One-Day Shopping Event' Teaser

Apple has posted a teaser page on its Australian online Apple Store for a "one-day Apple shopping event" on Friday, November 29th...

NUS makes delicious discovery with virtual taste simulator (video)

In today's 'science comes up with really funny things' news of the day, a team from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has created a prototype interface that lets you taste virtual food.

Dubbed the 'Digital Taste Interface', it has so far managed to replicate four tastes: salty, sweet, sour and bitter...

Tests show iPhone 5s A7 chip is dual-core, still beats quad-core Android competitors (data)

When Apple announced the iPhone 5s last week, it made a lot of noise about the 64-bit architecture of the phone’s new A7 chip. 

But other than that it remained pretty tight-lipped, which is how Apple tends to handle the specific details of individual components. But we have a better...

Philadelphia becomes the first US city to ban 3D-printed guns

After the release of two 3D-printable firearms was met by warnings from lawmakers, Philadelphia has become the first US city to ban 3D-printed guns. 

The Philadelphia city council voted unanimously to pass a bill banning the practice on Thursday, reports Philly Magazine. 

The bill is presumably a response to the birth of weapons like the Lulz...

How To Fix Your PC, The Right Way

It’s happened to us all. You get home from a long day at work and you want to blow off some steam with an hour of gaming or maybe browsing the web, but when you tap your mouse button or punch the power switch, the unthinkable happens. You’re SOL...

Από δόξα σε δόξα ο Κοντίδης – Σήκωσε το αργυρό στο Παγκόσμιο

Τσινγκτάρ: Μετά το αργυρό μετάλλιο στην Ολυμπιάδα Λονδίνου, την άνοδο του στο δεύτερο σκαλί του βάθρου στο Παγκόσμιο Κύπελλο Διεθνούς Ομοσπονδίας Ιστιοπλοΐας (ISAF) στο Τσινγνκτάο της Κίνας, ο πρωταθλητής μας έβαλε στη συλλογή του ακόμη ένα αργυρό μετάλλιο.   

Πιο συγκεκριμένα, ο Κύπριος αθλητής σε μια νέα επίδειξη σταθερότητας, αγωνιστικής συνέπειας και θαυμαστής αυτοσυγκέντρωσης, πήρε τη δεύτερη θέση στο Παγκόσμιο πρωτάθλημα Laser Standard ανδρών 2013, που έγινε στο Ομάν και υπενθύμισε...

Apple starts selling unlocked, SIM-free iPhone 5s in the U.S.

Apple today released an unlocked GSM version of the iPhone 5s on its online store for the United States. 

This version of the iPhone 5s includes the same exact capabilities of the non-unlocked models, but does not include a SIM card... 

Circuit Scribe Lets You Prototype Electronics By Doodling On The Back Of An Envelope (video)

After the super slick Ex1 circuit board 3D printer, say hello to Circuit Scribe: another Kickstarter project aiming to make it easier to prototype electronics by doing away with breadboards and soldering...

Google launches physical debit card for Google Wallet

Google has rolled out a physical debit card linked to its digital wallet service that will allow users to buy goods at stores or withdraw cash from ATMs.

"Your roommate finally paid you back for dinner through Google Wallet, and you want to use that money right away to pay for groceries this week. Now, you can use the new Google Wallet Card to spend the money instantly," explained Sandra Mariano, product manager of Google Wallet, in ablog post...

Jury Rules Samsung Must Pay Apple $290 Million in Damages Retrial

The jury has reached a verdict in the damages retrial between Samsung and Apple thatbegan last week. The trial was to determine the amount of money Samsung must pay for copying key iPhone features and design elements after Samsung was found guilty in a jury trial last year...

London to have 24-hour Tube service at weekends

The London Underground is to run a regular 24-hour Tube service at weekends for the first time in the capital’s history, it was announced.

From 2015, passengers will be able to take the Tube home at any hour of the night on Fridays and Saturdays.

Weekend services will run through the night on core parts of the system,..

Bill Gates funds creation of thin, light, impenetrable graphene condoms

Graphene is incredibly thin and light, and prevents all but the smallest molecules from passing through it (it’s an excellent water filter, for example). Condoms, though an excellent barrier against unwanted contaminants, are neither thin nor light — which is why they reduce sensation, and why some people really don’t like wearing them...

Logitech's iPhone Game Controller Packs Extra Battery Power

Logitech unveiled a gaming case for the iPhone 5, iPhone 5S and fifth-generation iPod Touch running iOS 7 that will add external controls for compatible games, the company announced Wednesday.

The Logitech PowerShell Controller and Battery offers players a case with a directional pad, four face buttons and two...

The end of an era: Winamp's shutting down

After more than 15 years, the famous Winamp media player will shut down on December 20, its makers announced Wednesday.

The announcement itself was a whimper—a small banner notification on the Winamp website—rather than a bang, and the end seems sadly appropriate. The skinnable media player was all the rage at the turn of the century, but barely made a peep since being acquired by AOL in 1999...

4.4 Billion-Year-Old Meteorite And The Birth Of Mars

A research team has uncovered what may be the first recognized example of ancient Martian crust.

Lead author Munir Humayun, a Florida State University scientist,
and colleagues analyzed  a 4.4 billion-year-old Martian meteorite that was unearthed by Bedouin tribesmen in the Sahara desert. 

The rock - NWA 7533 - may be the first recognized sample of ancient...

Apple releases Apple Store app for iPad, with image-centric design and new trends section

For the first time, Apple has released an Apple Store app optimised for the iPad, via TechCrunch.  The app uses the now-standard iOS 7 colour scheme and design elements, focusing on white space and text.

The app is a separate download to the iPhone app, but offers all the same functionality you would expect, although some of the location-based features for retail are absent due to the different use cases of the devices...

Twitter for iOS and Android now let you search for news stories, pictures, and videos

Twitter is adding new search features to its Android and iOS app today that'll make it easier to discover just the type of content that you're looking for. 

Both apps will now offer the option to search for only...

JPMorgan Reaches $13 Billion Settlement With U.S. Government

JPMorgan Chase has reached a $13 billion agreement with the U.S. government settling claims that the nation's largest bank by assets misrepresented the quality of its mortgages in the lead up to the financial crisis, the New York Attorney General announced Tuesday...

Καιρός για… Ρίο! Η Ελλάδα πάει Μουντιάλ!

Η Ελλάδα πάει σε Μουντιάλ για τρίτη φορά στην ιστορία της. Το 1-1 κόντρα στη Ρουμανία, σε συνδυασμό με το 3-1 στο Φάληρο, «τσέκαρε» τα εισιτήρια των διεθνών μας για τη Βραζιλία...

PlayStation 4 review: Sony scores a direct hit in latest console war

If the PlayStation 4 is any indication of the quality of the next generation of gaming, then it was worth the wait after all. I’m writing this review seven years to the day after Sony brought the PlayStation 3 to the United States, a console I swore I would never buy after Sony revealed the ridiculous price tag at E3. Seven years later, the Japanese electronics giant has value in mind and the PlayStation 4 is a bargain at $399.99...

9 Things You Should Know Before Buying an Xbox One

Another next-generation release is about to rock the gaming world: The Xbox One debuts Nov. 22 in 13 countries, including the United States.

Microsoft hasn't released a game console since the Xbox 360 arrived in 2005, and a lot has changed in the world of gaming in the past eight years...

Rumor: Supplier now building 12.9-inch Apple iPad displays for early 2014 launch

A "first-tier display supplier" is building 12.9-inch Retina displays for use in a new jumbo-sized iPad set to launch in early 2014, a new report out of Korea claims...

First iOS 7 Game Controller 'MOGA Ace Power' Now Available

The first iOS 7 game controller launched today, with MOGA officially announcing its MOGA Ace Power controller for the iPhone 5/5c/5s and the fifth-generation iPod touch. The expandable controller is designed to plug into the Lightning port on Apple's newer devices and features dual analog sticks, a d-pad, action buttons, a headphone jack, and L1/R1 L2/R2 buttons...