Sunday, January 12, 2014

CES 2014 live: Yahoo's Marissa Mayer touts new digital services

Source: Los Angeles Times
By: Salvador Rodriguez and Chris O'Brien
http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-ces-2014-live-updates-consumer-electronics-show-att-tmobile-20140107,0,2349490.story#axzz2qG9UaYqO

CES officially began on Tuesday January, 7 and had its viewers in store for many new gadgets and technological advancements. Samsung revealed their two brand new android tablets created for users who want to be able to get more work done on their devices. The tablets are the Samsung Galaxy TabPro and Galaxy NotePro. The two devices are said to resemble the design of Microsoft's Windows 8. The way they increase productivity, however, is by enabling the users to run four apps at once. Other than multitasking techniques Samsung designed the on-screen keyboards to match what looks like the physical keyboards that are used with Windows computers. They did this by now providing arrow keys to scroll up and down as well as sideways. Keys such as "control" and "c" for copy were also added to emphasize the design and easy access.

Yahoo's CEO used the CES keynote address as an opportunity to announce all the new additions for the company such as a new smartphone app and targeted ads on it's Tumblr. The new hit app, Yahoo News Digest, sends users two daily digests composed of personalized news stories. Mayer also unveiled Yahoo Food and Yahoo Tech, new websites that present news in a magazine type of design. David Karp, creator of Tumblr also announced that tumblr ads will now will now be powered by Yahoo advertising and this way will target to particular users more accurately.

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