Rockstar Games, Grand Theft Auto V, Pushing the Limits (video)

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Polygon Editor-In-Chief Christopher Grant and IGN C0-Founder Tal Blevins discuss the release of Rockstar Games Grand Theft Auto V. They speak on “Bloomberg West.” (Source: Bloomberg 11/19)

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Twine, the Video-Game Technology For All
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CNET
Firefox dumps Google for search, signs on with Yahoo
CNET
In another part of the deal, Yahoo will support the Do Not Track technology for Firefox ... "Google has been the Firefox global search default since 2004. ... "We are coming to the midpoint of the 10-year agreement" with Microsoft, Mayer said .... Apple said to be embedding Beats music service into iOS.
Yahoo Will Soon Become The Default Search Engine In Firefox - TechCrunch
Mozilla strikes Firefox search deal with Yahoo, ending long partnership with Google - ZDNet
Firefox Dumps Google For Yahoo - Business Insider


BBC News
BBC News - Microsoft Azure faults knock websites offline: "Microsoft Azure's status page says problems began at 00:52 GMT across the globe. Its European operations are taking the longest to fix. Access to Microsoft's Office 365 online suite of apps and its Xbox Live gaming facility are among services affected. The faults could set back the company's efforts to sell Azure. Microsoft is attempting to make gains on the market leader, Amazon Web Services, as well as IBM, Google and others offering rival products."


Wall Street Journal
Amazon Deploys Robot Army for the Holidays
Wall Street Journal
The robots are the fruits of Amazon's 2012 purchase of Kiva Systems Inc. for ... After the acquisition,Amazon stopped selling Kiva robots to other ... Kiva was founded in 2003 by Mick Mountz, a former executive at Apple Inc. and ...

Apple and Others Encrypt Phones, Fueling Government Standoff
Wall Street Journal
Apple and Others Encrypt Phones, Fueling Government Standoff. U.S. Says New Technology Will Hinder Police Investigations....



Christian Science Monitor
Apple Will Bundle Beats On iPhone As Google's Music Key Threatens
Forbes
The Financial Times is reporting that Apple plans to bundle its newly acquired Beats Music service into an upcoming version of iOS, making it instantly ...
Apple plans to push Beats to every iPhone - CNBC.com

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Google To Comply With EU Privacy Ruling (video)

Google Moves to Comply With EU Privacy Ruling: Video - Bloomberg:
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Google is moving to comply with a recent European Union court ruling that backs the right of citizens to be forgotten online. Caroline Hyde has more on Bloomberg Television's "Countdown." (Source: Bloomberg May 30)

HP announces new Chromebook and 14-inch Android laptop | The Verge: "Inside it comes with the Chromebook standard 16GB of storage and 2GB of RAM, which indicates the performance of the Chromebook PC won't be much improved over last year's Chromebook 11. HP is listing battery life at 6.25 hours, which is a bit less than we've seen from Chromebooks offered by Dell or Acer."

Should I get a Chromebook for a college student? | The Tech Guy: "Jay wants to know if a Chromebook is a good option for kids. Leo says absolutely. Great for school work because Google docs is all online. ...Chromebooks are getting better and better, though. We are now doing a lot of things online, and there are Chrome extensions for almost everything. But what about iTunes? Leo says he can upload everything to Google Music and then just stream from the Chrome browser. The new Chromebook 2's will be coming out soon and they're very nice. Leo says that Chromebooks are great for education. They're secure and if something goes wrong, it's easy to "powerwash" it, which restores it back to factory settings."

Myths | The Big Picture:Myths | The Big Picture:  MYTH -"Sound quality counts. If it did, no one would be wearing the execrable Beats headphones. They sell because they’re a fashion item. This is what is scary about Apple buying Beats. Sure, Apple products always looked cool, but they were also the best, that’s why the company often charged more. But by aligning with a laughable enterprise built on momentary hype they’re squandering brand equity just like Sony, which continued to charge premium prices for me-too products. If you don’t know who you are, how do you plan to succeed in the future? Apple doesn’t have to invent everything, but they ultimately have to do it better than everybody else. So they’re selling mediocre, overpriced headphones and a me-too streaming service that has problems scaling and it shows that the company is creatively bankrupt. Steve Jobs was all about breakthroughs, where’s the breakthrough here?"

WWDC 2014 Roundup: Enhanced iOS 8, redesigned OS X 10.10, new hardware (plus fresh details) | 9to5Mac: " . . . on Monday, June 2nd, Apple will make major announcements that will indicate the immediate future of its two major platforms: iOS and OS X. The Cupertino company will share details behind the changes in iOS 8, a redesigned Mac operating system, and perhaps even new hardware...."

Registry hack enables continued updates for Windows XP | ZDNet: "A single registry setting makes Windows Update think your XP system is Windows XP POSReady, which will receive updates for another five years...."

Google Stars Extension for Chrome Leaks: Hands On: "We’ve known for a while now that Google is testing a new favoriting service called Google Stars, aimed at helping users save, share, and organize Web content. This is largely due to multiple leaks, detailing features as well as showing off the interface in a video and screenshots. Today, Google+ user Florian Kiersch, who has done the majority of the digging behind the service, has leaked the Google Stars extension for Google Chrome...."

Powered by Pano, focused on gaming: Google to announce Android TV at Google I/O in June — Tech News and Analysis:  [Google tasted] "a success when it launched its Chromecast streaming stick last summer. Google still hasn’t provided any concrete numbers, but executives have said that the company has sold millions of Chromecasts, which is significantly more than Google TV’s hardware partners ever sold. Chromecast also has support from most major, and a growing number of smaller content publishers, and Google has said that it wants to get consumer electronics manufacturers to add cast capabilities to their own devices in the near future...."

Apple Monitors for Health and Home
New York Times
SAN FRANCISCO — Apple is unlikely to introduce new devices this week, ... Google's acquisition of Nest, the smart-appliance maker, for $3.2 billion ...

Apple's iPad Share Loss Not A Game Changer
Forbes
Apple saw a slight decline in its tablet market share from 33.8% in the ... Microsoft should increase its share due to its ties to corporations but if the ...

Apple's Beats Buy Is Two-Sided for Music Streaming
Top Tech News
Apple's $3 billion purchase of headphone maker and streaming music company Beats Electronics sheds light on a rarely recognized reality in the ...

Amazon delays book about CEO Bezos
CNNMoney
The feud between Amazon and the book publisher Hachette is dragging on, ... If you want to buy their books on Amazon (AMZN), expect big delays.

Google inundated with 'right to be forgotten' requests
Atlanta Journal Constitution
In just the first 24 hours claims could be filed, RT reports Google received 12,000 ... At this point, Google says Germans have filed the most requests. It comes after the EU's highest court ruled search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo must allow people to have the "right to be ... Trending on Facebook.

Google Glass Enters the Operating Room
New York Times (blog)
Dr. Christopher Kaeding, a surgeon at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Matthew Craig for The New York TimesDr. Christopher ...

Google Glasses: 'They Make Me Feel Powerful'
Forbes
Harvard Business School released a case study on Google Google Glass. ... MaybeFacebook or Tesla may have extra developers around, but most ... Apple made a quantum leap in technology when it essentially crammed the Mac ...

Report: Google Readying Android TV Debut for Late June
PC Magazine
While the core differences between the company's Google TV efforts and its ... That, or you could just check out Amazon's Fire TV — Pano is said to ...

Apple, Inc's WWDC is all about the D: Developers
Apple Insider
Editorial By Daniel Eran Dilger. Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference is the longest running developer confab in existence, dating back to 1986.

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Video Streaming Quality, YouTube now rating US ISPs

Transparency and Accountability -- YouTube keeping track of ISPs and letting you know:

YouTube starts rating US ISPs, puts its weight behind settlement-free peering — Tech News and Analysis: "Google wants you to know which ISPs provide the best streaming experience, and it wants ISPs to work with it to ensure HD-quality streams without buffering.... The report also shows which ISPs are capable of delivering SD quality video without buffering, and which ones deliver videos at a lower performance, or in other words will leave you completely frustrated. To get to these results, YouTube monitored streams over a 30 day period. Only ISPs that were capable of delivering HD at least 90 percent of the time are being called HD verified...."

for more info go to: Google Video Quality Report: "There are many factors that influence your video streaming quality, including your choice of Internet Service Provider (ISP). Learn how your ISP performs and understand your options."

Search for flair grows as gadgets become accessories
Boston Globe
Apple's $3 billion purchase of Beats Electronics, by far the company's ... The standard Google Glass product looks more like something out of Star Trek ...

Google steps up efforts for more racial diversity
Boston Globe
Google has had more trouble diversifying its workforce than its computer ... One year,Google says, there were just two black people in the United ... The company hired one of them, and Microsoft hired the other, according to ... to shareholder meetings this spring at such companies as Google, Facebook, ...

Google's Motorola Mobility to Close Factory in Texas
Wall Street Journal
Motorola, which Google plans to sell, opened the factory in May 2013. ... Apple's latest iPhone sells for $650 without a contract on the website of AT&T ...

Google now taking requests to censor results in Europe
San Jose Mercury News
SAN FRANCISCO -- Google is starting to accept requests from Europeans who want to erase unflattering information from the results produced by the ...

Apple hits new “Beats” ahead of WWDC
MarketWatch
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Well, now that you can scratch Apple Inc.'s acquisition of Beats Music and Beats Electronics off the list of things ...

Microsoft, Salesforce.com Make Nice, Marry Apps
InformationWeek
Salesforce apps will work with Office 365, Windows, Windows Phone. Microsoft keeps using ExactTarget. But don't expect Salesforce apps on Azure....

Google to test self-driving cars
Los Angeles Times
Self-driving prototypes will have manual controls to override the autonomous driving systems. But Google plans to build the bulk of the cars as fully ...

Microsoft Preparing To Jump Into The Wearables Market With Its Own Smartwatch
Forbes
A spokesman for Microsoft would not comment on the details. ... “Microsoft needs to run across Apple and Android platforms,” said a recent research ...

8 books Amazon is making it hard to buy
CNNMoney
Amazon has been pressuring Hachette to accept its terms -- consequently, ... Patterson wrote on his Facebook page: "What I don't understand about this particular battle tactic is how it is in the best interest of Amazon customers.

Apple is still an iPhone story, for now
MarketWatch
Last year, when Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) hosted its annual Worldwide Developer Conference, its shares were trading around $439. One year later ...

Surprise: Microsoft's working on a smartwatch of its own - Engadget
By Zach Honig
Apple's reportedly working on one, Google's developing an entire ecosystem and hundreds of smaller companies either have products already on the ...
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Apple Stock Rises iPhone 6 Rumors - Business Insider
By Jim Edwards
Apple Stock Is Going Through The Roof As People Figure Out Just How ... Yahoo Finance ... Login With Facebook Login With Twitter Login With Google .... Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer wins Clippers bidding war for $2 billion.
Markets

What's the Most Expensive Thing You Can Find on Amazon? - Gizmodo
By Eric Limer
This week, Amazon added (absurdly expensive) commemorative coins to the long list of ... Just a year after starting it up, Google's shutting down its Texas-. ... Beats by AppleMakes Monster's Big Mistake Even Bigger ... bHide; EShare to Kinja; jShare to Facebook· iShare to Twitter · rGo to permalink.
Gizmodo

Jimmy Iovine, David Geffen & Oprah Winfrey Outbid by Ex-Microsoft Exec for LA Clippers - Radio.com
By Brian Ives
Music industry mogul Jimmy Iovine is about to get a big payoff for selling Beats Audio toApple, but it looks like a bid he was involved with to purchase ...
Radio.com

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