Cook More Popular Than Jobs at Apple? So what!

Editorial: The implication of the following story is that popularity determines success, or is equal to effective "leadership." There is no such correlation in the real world despite the desires of journalists or employees. Cook, in particular, has already made a mistake by taking such high profile positions in the media (China trip etc.)--it may satisfy his ego, or be pleasing to his personal supporters, but he's no "Steve Jobs." In fact, the more he asserts his personality over the legacy of Jobs and the inherited culture of Apple, he damages the Apple brand. In the meantime, quality issues accompanying the release of the "new iPad" indicate a lack of both attention to detail and the quality of leadership that Jobs provided.  At some point, the pipeline of products that Apple built up under Jobs' leadership will end, then what will be the judgment of Cook? Remember, even Jobs knew that Cook is not a "product guy."

Cook More Popular Than Jobs At Apple
CIO
It hasn't taken long for Tim Cook to capture the hearts and minds of the Apple faithful. By John P. Mello Jr. TechBriefcase is a new, free service where IT Professionals can Search, Store and Share IT white papers and content like this.

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The Top 9 Tech CEOs Of 2012, As Rated By Employees: Glassdoor Survey
Huffington Post
Glassdoor.com, a career review and rating site, surveyed employees at the country's top techcompanies to determine the approval ratings of their respective chiefs. According to a press email, the site asked a simple question of employees working at ...

Google Launches Startup Base in London `Tech City'
Washington Post
30, 2012 - March 30 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg's Mark Barton reports on the launch of Google Inc.'s new technology hub in east London's "Tech City." He speaks on Bloomberg Television's on "First Look." (Source: Bloomberg) (/Bloomberg) Correction: ...

"MotionBEAT" to Exhibit at ad:tech SF April 2-4
MarketWatch (press release)
TOKYO, Mar 30, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- "MotionBEAT,Inc." will be exhibiting at ad:tech San Francisco ( http://na.ad-tech.com/sf/ ) next week in SF, April 3rd and 4th. We will be located on the first floor (booth# 1527). If you are attending, ...

Another Iconic Tech Player Throws In the Mobile Towel
DailyFinance
By Evan Niu (TMFNewCow), The Motley Fool Tech companies nowadays need a mobile strategy to stay relevant, especially if we're talking about a gadget maker. Unfortunately for one of the few remaining domestic PC makers, it's been grasping for a mobile ...

Tech Minute: Photo sharing now easier than ever
CNET
Install Flash now Video description: Smartphone cameras are a thriving phenomenon with improved technology, software features, lenses, and apps that rival the quality that was once only available in dedicated cameras. And thanks to a new photo-sharing ...

Tech review: How to watch March Madness on your mobile device
Fond du Lac Reporter
AP Photo/Turner Sports AP Technology Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Madness is one way to describe my experience with March Madness Live, a service for watching the annual college basketball tournament on computers and mobile devices. Don't get me wrong.

Some Technology You Might Find Very Useful For MMOs — MMO ...
By Hugh Hancock
Keyboard, two-button mouse, single monitor, webcam, headset, FRAPS. But there's an entire world of assistive tech out there – and some of it's. ... Some Technology You Might Find Very Useful For MMOs. by Hugh Hancock on March 29, 2012 ...
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New technology needs more assessment « SciDev.Net's Blog
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Net, the Science and Development Network, providing news and analysis from events relating to science, tech and development. ... While the zero draft of the outcome document for the upcoming UN Conference for Sustainable Development ( Rio+20) talks about the need fortechnology transfer and capacity building — it fails to mention the equally valuable need for impact assessment of those technologies before they are released, said Kathy Jo Wetter, a researcher at the Action ...
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Florida Laptop Program Brings Tech to Disadvantaged Students ...
It is funded by donations--Everest University Online gave $14000 to the foundation March 22, which will provide laptop, headset, AC adaptor, information technology support, and shipping to 20 students. "The Laptop for Learners program ...
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Google Campus opens in London's Tech City - ComputerworldUK.com
By cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Derek du Preez)
“The way that Google has engaged with the east London technology community, and designed this campus to meet the needs of local entrepreneurs and tech companies, is absolutely exemplary,” said Osborne. East London Tech City firms ...
Computerworld UK Public Sector

Top 4 NYSE Stocks In The Information Technology Services Industry ...
By Monica Gerson
Below are the top information technology services stocks on the NYSE in terms of cash. Accenture plc (NYSE: ACN) had $5.57 billion .... CNBC's Joe Terranova Bullish On Tech Sector Equities Google, IBM... What's Next in US Macro? Q4 GDP ...

When Office Technology Overwhelms, Get Organized - NYTimes.com
When Office Technology Overwhelms, Get Organized. Stuart Isett for The New York Times. The 21st-century workplace extols open space, not hierarchy. At the ...
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Apple Labor Pact Could Ripple Across China
Wall Street Journal
By LORETTA CHAO, JAMES T. AREDDY and ARIES POON Manufacturers grappling with rising labor costs and worker demands in China could face further pressure if a critical probe of a major Apple supplier sets a new standard for China's factory workers,...

Nano-SIM Battle Between Apple, Nokia Delayed
PC Magazine
By Chloe Albanesius The world will have to wait a bit longer for a new SIM card standard, as officials on Friday failed to adopt a proposal from Apple. The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) said in a statement today that its smart...

Verizon Talks Up Mobile Video Service
PC Magazine
By Mark Hachman The chief executive of Verizon Wireless said Friday that his company could have the beginnings of a wireless video network in place by the holidays. Speaking to The Wall Street Journal, Verizon chief executive Lowell McAdam said that ...

Microsoft Courier Lives On Via New iPad Apps
PC Magazine
By Angela Moscaritolo Microsoft's dual-screen Courier tablet may have never made it to market, but the innovative idea lives on in two, new content-creation apps just released for the iPad: Tapose and Paper. The Courier tablet, which first made ...

Why Windows 8 Will (and Won't) Matter to Enterprises
PC Magazine
By Michael J. Miller I've heard a lot of talk about Windows 8 in the enterprise lately. Some people say that the new "Metro" interface is so different that it will prevent enterprise customers from migrating to the new operating system.

Why Google's Tablet Store Isn't the Nexus One All Over Again
PC Magazine
By Sascha Segan The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that Google is starting a store to sell Android tablets online. This is an attempt to jumpstart the sales of tablets running Google-approved versions of Android, which haven't been doing well ...

'Speed of light' experiment professor resigns
msnbc.com
ROME — The Italian professor who led an experiment that initially appeared to challenge one of the fundaments of modern physics by showing particles moving faster than the speed of light has resigned after the finding was overturned earlier this month.

Compared to other groups, conservatives have least confidence in science
Ars Technica
By John Timmer | Published March 30, 2012 11:53 AM In the US, science has become a bit of a political punching bag, with a number of presidential candidates accusing climatologists of fraud, even as state legislators seek to inject phony controversies ...

Ars Technica

LG Intros 6-inch Flexible E-Paper Plastic Display
Tom's Guide
Soon you don't have to worry about breaking your new e-reader's display, as LG is now mass producing a flexible plastic version to replace the current glass-based e-paper. LG Display said on Thursday that it has begun mass producing the "world's first" ...

Will your next iPhone have a 3-D camera?
Los Angeles Times
By Michelle Maltais The cameras on generation after generation of iPhone have gotten increasingly better. So much so that it's often the only camera owners carry these days. What could Apple have in mind for the future? The next dimension in iPhone ...

Oracle, Micron settle lawsuit that alleged price-fixing
San Jose Mercury News
AP BOISE, Idaho -- Micron Technology has settled a lawsuit in which Oracle (ORCL) accused the Idaho memory chipmaker and other companies of artificially inflating prices for microchips. The 2010 lawsuit claimed that Micron and the other companies ...

Canada's Flaherty says RIM to set own fate
Reuters
| TORONTO, March 30 (Reuters) - Asked if the Canadian government would accept at takeover of Research In Motion, Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Friday that the BlackBerry maker would set its own fate. "RIM is a private company that ...

Nielsen: first time Smartphone and Feature Phone usage equal
SlashGear
It's the first time this has ever happened folks, so mark it on your calendar: Nielsen Wire has reported that they've found both Smartphones and Feature Phones (every kind of cell phone other than Smartphones) are being used an equal amount in the USA.

SlashGear

Siri pairs with MacBook Pro this summer
SlashGear
In a move that may well portend this summer (or winter) reveal of the iPhone 5, Apple has had a patent revealed which shows an iPhone connecting to a Desktop computer for the sharing of Siri. Since Siri became wildly popular and was picked up by Apple ...

SlashGear

Analyst: Next-gen consoles won't block used games
TG Daily
Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter says there's no way the PS4 or the Xbox 720 will ban used games. Both consoles have been rumored to incorporate technology that will be able to recognize whether or not a game disc has ever been put in another ...

TG Daily

Venus and Pleiades Star Cluster Shine in Celestial Show Tuesday
Space.com
by Joe Rao, SPACE.com Skywatching Columnist As the bright planets Venus and Jupiter go their own separate ways after their spectacular tryst in mid-March, Venus continues to grow ever-brighter as the northern spring evenings warm up.

Obsidian Gears Up For Wasteland 2
Escapist Magazine
Brian Fargo has added a huge incentive to drive Wasteland 2 Kickstarter funding to even higher levels: Obsidian Entertainment. I'll get right to the point. If the Wasteland 2 Kickstarter, currently sitting at $1.65 million in funding, can reach $2.1 ...

Getting Deep with Sylvia Earle
National Geographic
Driver training in a 1 person sub. My instructor was ocean scientist Dr. Sylvia Earle. I did this story several years ago but was reminded of the experience when James Cameron and National Geographic teamed up this week to dive the Mariana Trench, ...

Facebook Is Going After Google In Search, But That Doesn't Mean What You Think ...
San Francisco Chronicle
Yesterday we learned that Facebook has hired an ex-Google engineer and tasked him and two dozen other engineers with improving Facebook Search. Now Techmeme is full of people saying that Facebook is arming up to go after Google.

Yahoo Plans Support for 'Do Not Track' Web Privacy Tool
Wired News
By Scott Gilbertson Yahoo has announced it will soon support the Do Not Track privacy header across its sprawling network of websites. Supporting Do Not Track means you will soon be able to easily tell Yahoo to stop tracking your movements around the ...

New Evidence that Our Insecticides are Killing Off the Bees
io9
We've all heard that bee populations are dwindling. Far less clear, however, is what's actually causing the slump. Now, two studies have provided some of the most compelling evidence to date that a popular class of insecticides may be contributing ...

Cops: Blind man's trip in Google's self-driving car legal
Police News
By Mark Hachman Google's video showing a trip to a Taco Bell in a self-driving car was within the law, according to police who monitored the test drive. Google's video showing a blind man taking a ride to a Taco Bell in a self-driving car was legal, ...

Reports: Toshiba, Micron, Hynix to bid for Elpida
Power Management Design Line
SAN FRANCISCO—Micron Technology Inc., SK Hynix Inc. and Toshiba Corp. are all in the process of throwing their hats in the ring to acquire all or part of bankrupt Japanese DRAM vendor Elpida Memory Inc., according to media reports.

iPhone 4 Owners To Get $15 For Antennagate Issues
ITProPortal
The old time issue that plagued the iPhone 4 release, yes, we are talking about "antennagate" is concluded. The class-action lawsuit ended in favour of iPhone 4 owners who will get the compensation from Apple, of $15. Since the reception issues ...

Android To Surpass Windows by 2016
HispanicBusiness.com
Google's Android will surpass Microsoft's Windows as the most popular operating system in the world by 2016, research firm IDC predicted in a study released Thursday. The study, which combines usually disparate computer sectors such as PCs, ...

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LG Optimus Elite gets photographed, decked out in Sprint and Virgin livery
Engadget
By Edgar Alvarez posted Mar 30th 2012 1:09PM Not a fan of that 5-inch, IPS display on the Optimus Vu? Perhaps, you'd be more interested in a smaller, lesser-specced member of the family. According to PocketNow, the Optimus Elite is sprinting its way ...

Lucid by LG Review
SlashGear
We're taking a look at a smartphone being released by Verizon this week as the newest addition to their 4G LTE lineup: the inexpensive yet surprisingly powerful Lucid by LG. This device features a dual-core Qualcomm processor, a lovely IPS LCD display, ...

Tornado the size of 5 earths twists on Sun's surface
KSL-TV
By David Self Newlin SALT LAKE CITY -- There's tornadoes, like the one that hit downtown Salt Lake City in 1999, and then there's tornadoes, like the giant F5 that hit Manitoba in 2007. And then there's the great great granddaddy of all the vicious ...

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Google to Sell Tablets on Its Own This Year; BlackBerry maker to cede most consumer markets

Google to Sell Tablets on Its Own This Year
Wall Street Journal
By AMIR EFRATI Google Inc., undaunted by a short-lived attempt to market and sell smartphones on its own, is now trying the approach with tablet computers in a quest to capture market share from Apple Inc.'s iPad. The Internet search company will sell ...

BlackBerry maker to cede most consumer markets
BusinessWeek
By ROB GILLIES Struggling BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd. said Thursday that it will cede most consumer markets after failing to compete with flashier touch-screen phones such as Apple's iPhone and models that run Google's Android software.

Conflict Over How Open 'Do Not Track' Talks Will Be
New York Times
WASHINGTON — Technology companies want to talk with the government about protecting privacy on the Internet. They just want those talks to be private. Representatives of advertising companies, Internet sites and technology companies told a House ...

2 Studies Point to Common Pesticide as a Culprit in Declining Bee Colonies
New York Times
Scientists have been alarmed and puzzled by declines in bee populations in the United States and other parts of the world. They have suspected that pesticides are playing a part, but to date their experiments have yielded conflicting, ambiguous results ...

New York Times

Jeff Bezos Unveils Plan to Recover Apollo 11 Rocket Engines
PC Magazine
By Damon Poeter It's turning out to be a huge week for well-heeled amateur adventurers. Just days after filmmaker James Cameron took his one-person submersible down to the deepest point on Earth, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announced a plan to recover ...

Update: Apple supplier Foxconn hit on poor working conditions
Computerworld
By Agam Shah IDG News Service - An investigation by the Fair Labor Association into factories operated by Apple supplier Foxconn in China found poor working conditions and worker abuse, leading Foxconn to pledge it will make improvements.

New Zeus P2P bots: anonymous cyber-crime ready for mass market
Ars Technica
By Sean Gallagher | Published March 29, 2012 6:00 PM The recent resurgence of the Hlux/Kelihos botnet, taken down last week by a team of security companies, demonstrates how hard it is to detect and permanently shut down the latest generation of ...

Ars Technica

Will Flash's new 'premium features' drive game developers away?
Gamasutra
Adobe's recent decision to add "premium features" to Flash 11.2 has caused a bit of a stir within the game development community. With the company planning to charge royalty fees for its new high-end features, some developers are worried the platform ...

Gamasutra

Half of US households own at least one Apple product
CNN
By Peter Pachal, Mashable The overall ownership rate is 1.6 Apple products per American household, according to a new survey. (Mashable) -- Apple has taken firm root in America. Just over half of all households in the country own at least one Apple ...

Daimler opens first Mercedes plant in E. Europe
AFP
KECSKEMET, Hungary — German automaker Daimler opened its first Mercedes-Benz factory in eastern Europe here Thursday, a rare sign of foreign investor confidence in a country at odds with the European Union. "We are making history today: less than four ...

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Obama gets the big data bug
Register
By Richard Chirgwin • Get more from this author Six US federal government agencies are putting more than $US200 million to try and wrap their heads around the dizzying world of “big data”. The big-ticket buzzword hunt is being led by the White House ...

HTC One V video spotted in the wild
SlashGear
In the same breath as realizing that HTC's One X phone has been leaked, we have discovered a video of its brother, the One V. Both are set to make their official debuts shortly, but so far HTC has been rather mum on the new family of Android phones.

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Apple iPhone 4 owners can claim $15 in 'antennagate' settlement
Los Angeles Times
By Nathan Olivarez-Giles Apple's "antennagate" is finally coming to an end, with $15 going to each qualifying iPhone 4 owner who claims a share in a class-action lawsuit over the fourth-generation iPhone's infamous antenna problems.

Feds: Park recalled BMWs outside till fire risk fixed
USA TODAY
By Fred Meier, USA TODAY BMW and US safety regulators said today that owners of 5 and 6 Series cars recalled this week should park them outside until a battery cable fire risk in the trunk is checked and fixed. As we reported on Monday, BMW announced ...

USA TODAY

Google's self-driving car takes blind man to Taco Bell
USA TODAY
By Michael Winter, USA TODAY In another milestone in the development of self-driving cars, Google's robotic Toyota Prius has chauffeured a blind man to a Taco Bell and the dry cleaners, the tech company says. "Where this would change my life is to give ...

USA TODAY

Japan's People's New Party Leaves Coalition Over Sales Tax Bill
Bloomberg
Japan's People's New Party left the ruling coalition due to opposition over a planned bill to raise the country's consumption tax, party leader Shizuka Kamei said today. Kamei made the remarks after meeting with Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, ...

Google Now Comes With Monthly Statement
Discovery News
Wednesday morning, Google announced that users with a Google Account could sign up to get a monthly "Activity Report" itemizing their use of some of the Web giant's services. Opting into this takes all of one click after you sign into your account; ...

How did humans evolve to walk upright? Fossil discovery complicates the...
Christian Science Monitor
Foot bones unearthed recently in Ethiopia belonged to a contemporary of 'Lucy,' the 3.2-million-year-old early human discovered in 1974. But these bones seem to belong to a different species, one thought to have split its time between walking upright ...

Christian Science Monitor

Supercomputer To Be Faster Than 50 Million Laptops
Cleveland News - Fox 8
By Matthew Knight, CNN (CNN) — A new era in computing that will see machines perform at least 1000 times faster than today's most powerful supercomputers is almost upon us. By the end of the decade, exaFLOP computers are predicted to go online ...

Cleveland News - Fox 8

Facebook App Lets You Declare Enemies, Not Friends
PCWorld (blog)
By Ian Paul, PCWorld Mar 29, 2012 2:46 PM Facebook may not offer a dislike button, but a new app on the social network called EnemyGraph lets you publicly pour some hate on anything that raises your ire. EnemyGraph lets you declare any of your Facebook ...

iPhone closes in on Android in growing US smartphone market
Apple Insider
By AppleInsider Staff As of February, smartphone users accounted for nearly half of all wireless subscribers in the US, and Apple's iPhone adoption rate saw growth while Android handset activations slipped. According to new data from Nielsen published ...

Dell plans new smartphones in the US later this year
Computerworld
By Agam Shah IDG News Service - Dell plans to introduce new smartphone models in the US later this year, the company said on Thursday. The company has discontinued sales of all smartphones in the US, saying that Wednesday that its Venue and Venue Pro ...

The Next PlayStation is Called Orbis, Sources Say. Here are the Details.
Kotaku
While the official reveal of Sony's next home console could still be months away, if not longer, Kotaku has today learned some important details concerning the PlayStation 3's successor. For one, the console's name—or at least its codename/working ...

Researcher publishes specs for real Linux-powered Star Trek tricorder
Ars Technica
By Ryan Paul | Published March 28, 2012 10:45 PM The Star Trek tricorder has become a reality, thanks to the hobby project of a cognitive science researcher. Dr. Peter Jansen has developed a handheld mobile computing device that has a number of ...

Yahoo takes step to protect online privacy
abc7news.com
Internet giant Yahoo took a big step Thursday toward protecting your online privacy. This will give consumers much more control over who's spying on their Internet activity. Yahoo announced it will offer a do-not-track feature starting this summer.

Lumia 900 may not get next major Windows Phone update
IntoMobile
While the upcoming launch of the Nokia Lumia 900 will be AT&T's largest by far users may want to be wary about how future-proof the device will be. I visited Nokia's sparkling headquarters in Sunnyvale to discuss the upcoming launch of the Lumia 900 ...

NASA films Solar tornado, roughly equal to the size of five Earths
Knovel
NASA researchers recently identified a major event on the surface of the Sun, one that is so massive it was significantly larger than the size of the Earth. Scientists using NASA's Solar Dynamic Observatory satellite said recently they had detected ...

Cassini to Make Closest Pass Yet over Enceladus South Pole
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Artist's concept of the Mar. 27, 2012, flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA's Cassini spacecraft is preparing to make its lowest pass yet over the south polar region of Saturn's moon ...

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Amazon's Kindle Touch comes to Europe, but no Fire news
BBC News
Amazon is launching a touchscreen version of its Kindle e-reader in the UK, Germany, France, Spain and Italy. The Kindle Touch will be available for delivery from 27 April, five months after it went on sale in the US. Unlike in America, there will not ...

BBC News

Ubi-Camera makes your fingers the frame
SlashGear
Making a frame of your fingers, peering through it and telling pretty people “yeah baby, yeah, work it for the camera” may one day actually result in photographs rather than odd looks, if researchers at Japan's Institute of Advanced Media Arts and ...

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Apple's iPad 4G advertisements may create legal stir

Apple's iPad 4G advertisements may create legal stir in more countries
Washington Post
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission announced Tuesday that it was going to take legal action against Apple for allegedly “misleading'”consumers with the iPad's 4G label. Now it looks like Sweden and Britain want to do the same.

Why Apple Must Enable FaceTime On LTE
InformationWeek
Video calling is a sci-fi staple, from Star Trek to The Jetsons. But to bring it mainstream, Apple must allow FaceTime on LTE. Ever since Bell Labs unveiled its Picturephone 50 years ago, people have been captivated by the idea that calls would migrate ...

IE10 in Windows 8: Metro style vs. desktop style
CNET
Windows 8 packages Internet Explorer 10 in two different flavors--Metro and desktop, each with their own pros and cons. Which one is better, and how can you manage both? by Lance Whitney March 28, 2012 8:09 AM PDT Follow @lancewhit For better or worse,...

FBI, Army Tap Epic Games For Training Simulations
InformationWeek
Intelligence and military agencies license the game engine behind Gears of War and Mass Effect to simulate decision-making, medical, and crime-scene scenarios. By Elizabeth Montalbano InformationWeek The FBI and other federal agencies are leveraging a ...

Survey pegs Apple gear in half of US homes
CNET
A new survey says that Apple products can be found in half of US homes, and that many who have not purchased, intend to this year. by Josh Lowensohn March 28, 2012 12:04 PM PDT Follow @Josh San Francisco Apple store line-goers in the early morning on ...

Security researchers kill Kelihos again after Bitcoin crime spree
Ars Technica
By Jon Brodkin | Published March 28, 2012 1:45 PM Security researchers have disabled the latest botnet created with Kelihos malware, stopping a 116000-bot-strong operation devoted to Bitcoin hacking and other crimes. Announced today, the operation took ...

Ars Technica

Fossil foot poses human origins puzzle
USA TODAY
By Dan Vergano, USA TODAY Swinging from trees like an ape but sometimes ambling on the ground, the owner of a foot fossil some 3.4 million years old poses a puzzle for paleontologists over humanity's history of walking. Discovered in Ethiopia's Afar ...

Box Launches OneCloud for Enterprise Application Sharing
eWeek
Box OneCloud provides a suite of about 30 free business applications that enable workers to access, edit, and share content from their iPhones or iPads. Online storage and business application tools provider Box has opened a new section of its cloud ...

Microsoft: 10 Fascinating Facts About Windows, Other Products
eWeek
By Nicholas Kolakowski on 2012-03-28 Whether it's Windows on their office PC, an Xbox 360 powering their video games and entertainment, Hotmail for their email or some collaboration platform helping their work projects, Microsoft's software products ...

eWeek

How to watch HBO Go on your Apple TV, sort of
CNET
Apple TV doesn't directly support the channel, and the app version doesn't allow video out. But where there's a will (and a Comcast account), there's a way. by Rick Broida March 28, 2012 11:09 AM PDT Follow @cheapskateblog "Flight of the Conchords" ...

Challenger Deep as a tourist site? Modern-day Jules Verneses say 'yes.'
Christian Science Monitor
There's not much to see in the blackness seven miles below the surface of the Pacific Ocean. But enthusiasts can envision the day when citizen adventurers would descend to Challenger Deep and other deep-sea destinations.

Christian Science Monitor

Potential Mac-bound Intel Ivy Bridge chips to launch at end of April
Apple Insider
By Sam Oliver A slew of mobile and desktop CPUs from Intel's forthcoming Ivy Bridge lineup are set to launch on April 29, potentially signaling when Apple could refresh some of its Mac lineup. The new Ivy Bridge chips are due to be announced the fourth ...

Samsung Surprises Experts by Shipping 5 Million Galaxy Notes
PCWorld
By Mikael Ricknäs, IDG News Samsung Electronics has shipped 5 million units of its "smart notepad", the Galaxy Note, surpassing most expectations, according to analysts. When the Note was launched last year it was seen by many as a bit of an ugly ...

Astronomers say that there are billions of potentially habitable planets in ...
Christian Science Monitor
A team of European astronomers say that about 40 percent of red dwarf stars - the most common type of star in the Milky Way - have at least one planet whose temperatures would allow liquid water on the surface. By Ben Hirschler, Reuters / March 28, ...

Christian Science Monitor

LG Lucid Hands-on and Unboxing
SlashGear
This week LG and Verizon have announced a cute little addition to their 4G LTE lineup with the “Lucid by LG”, complete with a lovely 4-inch IPS LCD display and dual-core processor inside. This device fits rather nicely in the hand, is made to be a big ...

Cisco snarfs ClearAccess for remote broadband apps
Register
By Timothy Prickett Morgan • Get more from this author Networking giant Cisco Systems has added another arrow to its quiver and is aiming at the service provider market with the acquisition of ClearAccess, a maker of what is called TR-069 software.

EU takes summer bite out of mobile phone roaming charges
The Guardian
Cuts in mobile phone roaming charges are on the way this summer – the latest move by the European commission towards reducing the gap between domestic and foreign call rates almost to zero by 2015, with the rates protected until June 2017.

The Guardian

Big air: 'Sand Flea' robot jumps 30 feet high
msnbc.com
A four-wheeled robot that looks like a kid's geeky remote controlled car is making some impressive leaps that should make the military's top brass giddy with childlike joy. It can leap some 30 feet in the air, high enough to jump onto roofs and over ...

msnbc.com

Google's New Account Activity Feature Shows Your Shocking Addiction To Google ...
TechCrunch
Google is launching a new feature today called Account Activity that will help users gain more insight into their usage of Google services. Available to those who opt in, the utility will offer monthly reports detailing your account activity, ...

Amazon Releases Kindle Touch 3G in 175 Countries
ABC News
Amazon.com Inc. said Wednesday that it is releasing its Kindle Touch 3G e-reader in more countries and more languages worldwide. The touch-screen e-reader has been available in the US since last fall. The gadget is available for pre-orders and will be ...

Apple CEO Tim Cook meets with next Chinese leader
Los Angeles Times
By Salvador Rodriguez Li, who's expected to become China's next leader, and Cook discussed intellectual-property issues and greater cooperation between the country and the tech giant, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.

Apple's Siri might have been called something else
CNET
According to one of Siri's creators, late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was not initially enamored with the name. by Josh Lowensohn March 28, 2012 9:51 AM PDT Follow @Josh Apple's Siri. Sass comes at no extra charge. What's in a name?

CNET

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's reticence to meet with investors could hurt IPO ...
SiliconValley.com
By Alistair Barr and Alexei Oreskovic Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his girlfriend, Priscilla Chan, walk near Fuxing Road in Shanghai March 27, 2012. Zuckerberg and his girlfriend were visiting Shanghai, according to local media reports.

NTIA report identifies prime spectrum, advocates sharing
Communications, Engineering & Design Magazine
NTIA, along with various federal agencies, evaluated the potential of the 1755-1850 MHz band to accommodate commercial wireless broadband service. While the wireless industry has had its eye on the spectrum band for a long time, more than 20 federal ...

Is It Snowing Microbes on Enceladus?
Popular Science
By Rebecca Boyle Posted 03.28.2012 at 2:30 pm 0 Comments Enceladus Jets Dramatic plumes spray water ice from many locations near the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus. More than 30 individual jets of different sizes can be seen in this image ...

Popular Science

Newly Discovered Hammerhead Shark's 'Twin' Sparks Concern
LiveScience.com
Scientists recently confirmed that endangered scalloped hammerhead sharks have a fishy twin — a newfound species, still unnamed, that is distinct, yet very closely resembles the threatened sharks. The case of mistaken identity indicates that scalloped...

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Angry Birds Space hits 10 million downloads in 3 days

Hog Heaven: Angry Birds Space hits 10 million downloads in 3 days
Los Angeles Times
By Deborah Netburn If you spent a significant portion of your weekend hurling birds through space, you aren't alone: On Monday, Rovio tweeted that its new game Angry Birds Space has been downloaded 10 million times in just three days.

Netflix's Facebook app would be illegal
CNNMoney
By Julianne Pepitone @CNNMoneyTech March 27, 2012: 5:45 AM ET Netflix wants Congress to update the 1988 Video Privacy Protection Act. Lawmakers generally agree the law needs an update, but they're battling over how to do so.

'Thermal cloak' hides objects from heat
BBC News
The range of physical phenomena that scientists are trying to "cloak" objects from has a new entry - heat. French researchers have shown how to apply the ideas of "optical cloaking" - the endeavour to make a Harry Potter-style cloak - to the thermal ...

BBC News

Google I/O Sellout: Devs Cry Foul
InformationWeek
After 20-minute sellout, developers who didn't score tickets complain that Google's first-come, first-served system favors scalpers. By Thomas Claburn InformationWeek Google I/O, the company's annual developer conference, is a sellout.

'Temple Run' comes to Android devices
USA TODAY
By Mike Snider, USA TODAY Developer Imangi Studios has announced that the free-to-play game, which surpassed 45 million downloads in Apple's App Store, hit the Android Marketplace earlier today. Currently the game is compatible with more than 700 ...

USA TODAY

Feds Call on Agencies, Wireless Carriers to Share Airwaves
PC Magazine
By Chloe Albanesius Wireless carriers have long complained about a lack of available spectrum. With more and more data-intensive devices like smartphones and tablets coming online, it's only a matter of time before the network is overloaded by text ...

Will Google Drive launch next week?
Washington Post
Drive, Google's cloud storage service, may launch next week according to a report. VentureBeat.com reports: Google's long-awaited Drive cloud storage service might finally arrive during the first week of April, according to a thinly sourced GigaOM ...

Android Apps Can Run on Windows PCs With Bluestacks Emulator
PCWorld
By Agam Shah, IDG News Software company Bluestacks is trying to close the gap between Microsoft's Windows and Google's Android OS with its App Player application, which was released in beta on Tuesday. App Player is an emulator that allows Android...

Apple Calls iPad Battery Behavior 'Great Feature'
InformationWeek
Apple's response to user complaints about the new iPad's battery overcharging? It says there is no problem at all. By Eric Zeman InformationWeek No Apple device launch is free of controversy in one form or another. So it is with the new iPad, ...

Apple, RIM, Sony, Others Sued by What Is Left of Silicon Graphics
eWeek
Graphics Properties Holding, which is what's left of Silicon Graphics, is suing Apple, RIM, Sony, HTC, LG and Samsung for patent infringement. Apple, Sony, HTC and other mobile device makers reportedly are being sued for patent infringement by what ...

Plummeting to the ocean's lowest point
Washington Post
Explorer and filmmaker James Cameron on Sunday became the first solo explorer to reach the bottom of the Mariana Trench. Filmmaker and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence James Cameron is congratulated by ocean explorer and US Navy Capt.

FTC seeks law to shed more light on data brokers
The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Trade Commission is calling for a new law that would allow people to review the vast amounts of information being collected about them as the Internet, smartphones and other technology make it easier to create digital ...

Scientists found hammerhead sharks have twin cousin
Christian Science Monitor
The newly found scalloped hammerhead shark faces similar existential threats as its look-alike fishy cousin. By Michail Vafeiadis, Contributor / March 27, 2012 Researchers recently discovered a new species of scalloped hammerhead shark, yet unnamed, ...

AVG rolls out two types of 'Do Not Track' in latest antivirus service pack
BetaNews
By Tim Conneally Dutch security company AVG on Tuesday rolled out the 2012 service pack for all of its security products which adds the new "Do Not Track" and WiFi Guard features to the protections it offers users. The service pack includes both ...

BetaNews

Reborn LulzSec Hacks Military Dating Site
CRN
By Antone Gonsalves, CRN A group appearing to be the resurrection of LulzSec, an Anonymous-affiliated group whose alleged co-founders were arrested in an FBI sting operation, has claimed to have stolen personal information from 10s of thousands of ...

Facebook Passwords, Information Needs to Be Kept Private
eWeek
NEWS ANALYSIS: US Senators Charles Schumer and Richard Blumenthal say asking for social media passwords may be a violation of federal law. For job applicants and employers, this could open a potential legal minefield. The recent practice of employers...

Hasbro Fails to Prevent ASUS from Selling Transformer Prime Tablet in ...
DailyTech
It looks like ASUS' Transformer Prime tablet defeated Transformers' Optimus Prime in a name game battle. In December 2011, toy maker Hasbro filed a lawsuit against computer manufacturer ASUS claiming that the name of ASUS' Transformer Prime tablet was ...

DailyTech

Kinect for Windows 1.5 teased with “seated” tracking
SlashGear
The folks at Microsoft are bringing the next generation of Kinect for Windows to the forefront this week with a version 1.5 of the software that works with it. This release comes amid a much wider availability for the platform as a whole with 19 new ...

SlashGear

HBO Go, Comcast Now Available On Xbox Live
Forbes
Microsoft's XBox Live service is getting Go and Comcast's on-demand services starting today. [1] This update adds another strong distribution platform to Time Warner's HBO's online add-on service. This add-on service is available to subscribers who ...

Woman takes life while chatting on Facebook, no one calls police
msnbc.com
By Helen AS Popkin A woman described her final moments of purposely inhaling poisonous fumes on Facebook to nine friends, some of whom begged her stop, reports the Associated Press. Some of those friends attempted to track her down on their own,...

RIM delays analysts' meet till BlackBerry 10 launch
Reuters
| TORONTO (Reuters) - Research In Motion has delayed its annual presentation to financial analysts, usually held during the BlackBerry World conference in May, until it launches its next-generation smartphones. "We decided to make BlackBerry World more ...

Intel: 75 Ultrabook Designs on Track for 2012.
X-bit Labs
by Anton Shilov Intel Corp. said it expects 75 different ultrabook designs from various manufacturers to become available throughout 2012. At present there are 26 ultrabook models available and with that number growing to 75, it is likely that the ...

X-bit Labs

Facebook asks court to toss ownership suit
Columbia Daily Tribune
BUFFALO, NY (AP) — Attorneys for Facebook sought the dismissal yesterday of what they called an "opportunistic and fraudulent" lawsuit by a New York man claiming half-ownership of the social networking site. The attorneys asserted that Paul Ceglia of ...

The Verizon New iPad Lasts 25 Hours With LTE On And Display Off
ITProPortal
In addition to its impressive resolution, the new iPad has managed to gather some good reviews relating to its other features. The latest in a long series of features by the third generation iPad that has grabbed the tech writers' attention is the ...

Watch: Whale Dubbed 'Bart' Tangled in Fishing Net Off O.C. Coast Is Freed
Patch.com
The animal was first spotted Friday off the coast of Dana Point, dragging dead sharks and a sea lion in the net behind him. A California gray whale tangled in a huge fishing net off the Laguna Beach coastline swam free Monday after volunteers worked ...

Symantec Dissolves a Chinese Alliance
New York Times
SAN FRANCISCO — Less than four years after Huawei Technologies and Symantec teamed up to develop computer network security products, the joint venture is being dismantled because Symantec feared the alliance with the Chinese company would prevent it ...

Apple Plans Further Investment in China as Cook Visits
Bloomberg
Apple Inc. (AAPL) said it plans to make greater investment in China as Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook visited the world's most populous country, where store openings have trailed a forecast from the company two years ago. Cook had “great meetings” ...

Bloomberg

Activision Blizzard Considers Mobile To Boost World Of Warcraft Subscribers
Forbes
Activision Blizzard, the developer of world's biggest MMO World of Warcraft (WoW), has announced that it is looking at porting WoW to mobile devices. [1] The announcement has come at a time when WoW has been experiencing a continuous decline in subs ...

Forbes

Samsung offering free extended life battery with Galaxy Nexus
CNET
The phone maker is throwing in a free bundle with a longer-life battery and cover to protect it. by Lance Whitney March 27, 2012 7:39 AM PDT Follow @lancewhit Buyers of Samsung's 4G LTE Galaxy Nexus smartphone can now score a free extended life battery ...


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