Nest to acquire Dropcam for $555 million

Today Nest announced that they would be purchasing IP camera company Dropcam for a whopping $555 million. The purchase of Dropcam is apparently happening without the assistance of Nest’s parent company, Google, and Dropcam will be incorporated into the Nest brand.

Dropcam has become known for creating WiFi surveillance cameras, and released a Pro version of their camera last year for $199. Dropcam also provides a service to allow users to see what their camera is seeing via the web or a mobile app. We don’t know just yet how the cameras will be incorporated into Nest, but it will surely be interesting!

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Whoa – Nest, And By Association Google, Is Acquiring Dropcam

Nest really is completely into this whole "home automation" thing, isn't it? The guys who put out the first smart thermostat and smoke detector have just entered into an agreement to buy Dropcam for $555 million monies. Oh, and in case you've forgotten, Google owns Nest. So, technically, Google is buying Dropcam. That's pretty sweet.

According to Nest's post on the acquisition, they'll begin working together to "reinvent product that will help shape the future of the conscious home and bring our shared vision to more and more people around the world," which sounds pretty exciting.

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Official: Google and Nest buy Dropcam for $555 million

And just like that, Google’s recently acquired Nest is now announcing that they’ve agreed to buy Dropcam for a whopping $555 million. The news comes after rumors of the acquisition a short time ago, bringing yet another hardware company into Google’s ever growing family. How long before we see Dropcams on the Play Store? We imagine it wont be long. You can find Nest’s full press release via the link below. You can learn more about Dropcam and the products they offer here .

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Samsung’s Galaxy F Gets Leaked Again In Image Render Sporting A “Glowing Gold” Trim

The long rumored more powerful version of the Samsung Galaxy S5 has yet to show its true face at the party, at least for markets other than the South Korean home base of the phones manufacturer. The Samsung Galaxy F as we’ve come to know it, has been talked about as the possible device coming from Samsung that would have the specs and features that loyal Sammy fans had been hoping for from this year’s flagship from the beginning. Although the Galaxy S5 is no phone to scoff at by any means, I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I wanted it to have some higher specs, and there are probably a good number of people that would agree. That isn’t to say that the current flagship S device is in bad shape. On the contrary it’s actually quite good, which is what both our reviewers found after having spent some time with it.

Back to the Galaxy F though. The more “premium” and high performance Galaxy S device has been known by a few different monikers, most recently it seems to have settled in as the Galaxy F. Until recently, we hadn’t really seen much of anything that showed off the design to give us a good idea of what the Galaxy F would look like, further more making it obvious that it was even real in the first place, that seems to potentially have changed with the leak from a few days ago, and again with this recent leak from evleaks just today. Pictured above is what he is calling the Galaxy F, with emphasis that it is also not the Samsung Galaxy S5 LTE-A that will be coming to the South Korean market soon.

There’s also a mention of the color which appears to be named “Glowing Gold”, that suggest it’s a different hue than the other Gold we have seen from the Galaxy S5 devices. As always we could be looking too much into it, but the date on the screen within this image leak points to September 12th, so perhaps we could be looking at a date for launch? IFA 14 is scheduled to happen in Berlin, Germany on September 5th through the 10th, which could be when we get a first look at the Galaxy F although that hasn’t been confirmed and we’re merely speculating on that. What do you think? Is this the Galxay F? If so what are your thoughts on the color?

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Mozilla Streaming Stick That Runs Firefox OS Gets Leaked, Aims To Compete With Chromecast

It seems that just about everyone has an answer to Google’s wildly popular streaming HDMI dongle. Yes, the Chromecast enjoyed its time in the limelight all by its lonesome but not soon after its release we saw other competition come to market. That isn’t a bad thing either, as competition forces the companies who are peddling their wares to update, innovate and otherwise improve their product in any way they can in an attempt to draw in more consumers over competitors. The latest addition to the streaming party looks to be this streaming stick from Mozilla that runs the Firefox OS, and we’d gather that it works in much the same way that the Chromecast does. It certainly has a similar design, albeit a couple of minor differences, nonetheless lets check out what sets it apart.

The device seems to have been leaked a few weeks prior to when it was supposed to be getting an official debut according to the source, which shouldn’t really surprise anyone since anything of this nature tends to make its way to the web and into the public eye before it’s supposed to. So what’s Mozilla’s streaming stick all about? Basically and in short, it’s a streaming stick that aims to offer a similar if not almost identical experience to Chromecast but running the Firefox OS instead. The rumor is that it will also be able to run some Chromecast applications, although at this time it isn’t known which ones those will be. We’d imagine they’re bigger, more well known apps though, and in the hands on video below from GIGAOM it appears that YouTube may be one of those.

There are truth be told many unknown variables in this equation, like price, and availability just to name off a couple big ones, and when we say availability we don’t just mean when, we also mean where. For all we know the Firefox streaming stick(as I’m calling it)could only see a lunch in a few markets, and it’s always possible that it could be limited to U.S. only in the end(at least in the beginning)like the Chromecast was. It’s also not known at this point who will produce the hardware for Mozilla, but it likely won’t be themselves as they aren’t a hardware company. When and if we eventually see this device, it’s said that it will have streaming capabilities from within the Firefox browser much like you can do with Chrome and the Chromecast dongle, which most of you probably already suspected. Whatever this device may cost, it’ll have to offer up a decent amount of functionality at a competitive enough price to beat out the likes of the Chromecast and the Roku 3500R streaming stick, both of which are doing fairly well and offer up some great features.

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Yo may be a joke, but its hacking incident isn’t

Yo took the industry by surprise with one of the simplest apps to appear in the Google Play Store. In essence, it’s nothing but a tool to send a message to your contacts, with a colorful and simple-to-use interface that will confuse no one. You can’t send any message, either… just “Yo”.

It somehow got a million dollars in funding and is constantly growing. As with any popular app, it is bound to get hackers’ attention, and that it did. Some amazing things can be accomplished from the comfort of a dorm room, Yo’s hack being the latest one.

Three Georgia Tech students have managed to tap into Yo’s systems and are able to take some crazy actions. For such a simple and single-purposed app, these hackers accomplished quite a bit. The hacker has contacted Tech Crunch with some revealing, and worrisome, information.

“We can get any Yo user’s phone number (I actually texted the founder, and he called me back). We can spoof Yos from any users, and we can spam any user with as many Yos as we want. We could also send any Yo user a push notification with any text we want (though we decided not to do that).” -Hacker

Some proof of hacks has shown up across the web; a Vine video and an Instagram post being the most popular.

Or Arbel, Yo’s founder, has gone on the record about this, simply saying the app has “security issues”. The company seems to be taking the matter rather seriously, as they should. The problem was said to be fixed very soon, so chances are you won’t be seeing these issues anymore. At least not for a while, that is.

Let’s hope this doesn’t happen again. Such an innocent and simple app can turn into a mess very soon.

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