Dish bids $25.5B for Sprint

Dish has the spectrum to make its offer a real win-win for Sprint and Sprint customers, notwithstanding the deep pockets of the other bidder SoftBank--

Wireless spectrum is the key to Dish's $25.5 B bid for Sprint
CNET
Dish and Sprint have complimentary spectrum holdings that would make a marriage of the two companies a match made in heaven. But there are obstacles to getting the deal done. Marguerite Reardon. by Marguerite Reardon....

Europeans Reach Deal With Google on Searches
New York Times
The investigation came about because of competitors like Microsoft and Foundem, a British comparison-shopping site, which complained about the way Google conducted its search and advertising businesses. In Europe, the agreement would be legally ...

Microsoft Working With Suppliers on Designs for Touch-Enabled Watch Device
Wall Street Journal
By LORRAINE LUK And SHIRA OVIDE. TAIPEI—Microsoft Corp. is working on designs for a touch-enabled watch device, executives at suppliers said, potentially joining rivals like Apple Inc. in working on a new class of computing products. Enlarge Image ...

Wall Street Journal

Drones should be banned from private use, says Google's Eric Schmidt
The Guardian
The use of cheap, miniature "everyman" drones needs to be banned by international treaties before such devices fall into the hands of private users including terrorists, the head of Google has said. In an extended interview with the Guardian, Eric ...

The Guardian

Boot up: Apple iWatch hints, mobile in China, PC slowdown explained and more
The Guardian (blog)
Noting that he was not at liberty to give away specific details on future Apple gizmos, [Apple board member Bill] Campbell did tell the audience to expect to see "a lot of things going on with the application of technology to really intimate things ...

The Guardian (blog)

Apple dominates best-paid list
Washington Post
The urgency has increased in recent months as Samsung Electronics Co. and Google Inc. challenge Apple. “It's a retention strategy to keep the key executives who were present in the Steve Jobs era,” said Greg Sterling, an analyst at San Francisco-based...

Washington Post

Microsoft, Intel Brave a Mobile World
Wall Street Journal
These days, another vibrant technology ecosystem has emerged around mobile devices and their software—particularly apps being developed around Google Inc.'s Android operating system, which runs on chip designs using technology from ARM Holdings PLC ...

Wall Street Journal

After Apple's App Store rejection, French minister wades into debate over apps ...
ZDNet
Summary: After Apple expelled French app AppGratis from its store, French minister Fleur Pellerin has expressed concern about the move - and its implications for net neutrality. Valéry Marchive. By Valéry Marchive for Vive la tech | April 15, 2013 ...

Revamped Google Play Store may bring operator billing for Indian telcos
NDTV
Google has updated the payment options to include an option for setting up operator billing for Indian operators in addition to the existing Debit and Credit card payment options. While the option doesn't work at the time of filing this report, the ...

NDTV

As PC sales tank, what's Microsoft's Plan B?
CNET (blog)
When market analyst IDC last week noted the sharp 13.9 percent quarterly drop in worldwide PC sales, it placed much of the blame on the "radical" user interface changes of Microsoft's new Windows 8 operating system. "Microsoft will have to make some ...

Google, CBA release conflicting research - Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning Herald
The results of Google's research contradict research conducted by the Commonwealth Bank. Its research shows 81 per cent of small businesses rate their knowledge of digital technologies as good or better. In contrast to Google's research, CBA's research ...

Sydney Morning Herald

Microsoft Reportedly Preparing To Jump On The Smartwatch ...
By Chris Velazco
Apple, Google, LG, and Samsung are all reportedly working on wrist-worn computing devices behind closed doors, and it seems like that little club of big compa..
TechCrunch

WSJ: Microsoft gathering parts for a watch-like device
By Jon Fingas
Hot on the heels of plans (official and otherwise) from Apple and Samsung, the Wall Street Journal reports that Microsoft has also been shopping around for parts to build a "watch-style device." While details are scarce as to what that would ...
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Microsoft Looking to Join the Smart Watch Race - Mac Rumors
By Eric Slivka
With rumors of an Apple smart watch ramping up over the past few months, a number of other companies have also reportedly been working on their own... ... Last month, both Samsung and Google were reported to be working on their own projects, and now The Wall Street Journal indicates that Microsoft is also exploring the possibility of a smart watch. Earlier this year, Microsoft asked suppliers in Asia to ship components for a potential watch-style device, the executives said.
MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors...

Microsoft Working With Suppliers on Designs for Touch-Enabled ...
By Lorraine Luk And Shira Ovide
Microsoft Corp. is working on designs for a touch-enabled watch device, executives at suppliers said, potentially joining rivals like Apple Inc. in working on a new class of computing products.
AllThingsD

Microsoft To Cut Windows XP - Business Insider
By The Economist
If they are predominantly consumers (rather than producers) of internet content, they can dump Windows altogether and rely on tablets with operating systems from Apple (iOS) or Google (Android). Alternatively, they can pay the Apple ...
SAI

Kobo unveils Aura 'high definition' ebook reader
BBC News
Ebook seller Kobo has released what it is describing as a "high definition" e-ink based device. The Aura HD's 6.8in (17.2cm) screen offers a resolution of 265 pixels per inch (ppi). That puts it ahead of Amazon's bestselling Kindle Paperwhite which offers ...

BBC News

Telenav Scout app getting 3D landmarks, traffic improvements
CNET
Telenav gives us an early peek at future updates to its mobile navigation app for Android and iPhone. Antuan Goodwin. by Antuan Goodwin. April 15, 2013 10:30 AM PDT Follow @antgoo. Telenav Scout for Phones. The updated version of Scout will ...

Foxconn Steps Up Hiring As Apple Readies Next iPhone
Wall Street Journal
TAIPEI—Foxconn Technology Group has resumed hiring assembly-line workers in China after a postholiday freeze, in the latest sign that customer Apple Inc. is gearing up for production of a new iPhone. Foxconn is the trade name for Taiwan-based Hon Hai ...

Wall Street Journal

Microsoft Working With Suppliers on Designs for Touch-Enabled Watch Device
Wall Street Journal
TAIPEI—Microsoft Corp. is working on designs for a touch-enabled watch device, executives at suppliers said, potentially joining rivals like Apple Inc. in working on a new class of computing products. Enlarge Image. image. Close. image. European ...

Wall Street Journal

Cutting CO2 too difficult? Try these 4 simple tricks instead
Register
Climate researchers - including one working for Wendy Schmidt, the campaigning wife of Google overlord Eric - have published research suggesting that there are other things apart from cutting CO2 emissions which would help to avoid disastrous rises in sea ...

Google boss: Entire world will be online by 2020
CNN
(CNN) -- Everybody in the world will be on the Internet within seven years. That's what Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said this weekend in public comments that inspired everything from excitement to incredulity. "For every person online, there are ...

Awesome Mars-Comet Impact Less Likely
Discovery News
For those of you rooting for the wellbeing of Mars, here's some good news: the probability of a massive comet impact next year has decreased. For those of you who wanted to see some planetary carnage, however, this news will likely be a major bummer.

Moore's Law and the Origin of Life | MIT Technology Review
As life has evolved, its complexity has increased exponentially, just like Moore's law. Now geneticists have extrapolated this trend backwards and found that by this measure, life is older than the Earth itself.
Technology Review blog

UK top 20 video games chart | Technology | guardian.co.uk
Bioshock Infinite holds on to the top spot for a third week, while Fifa 13 rises in a quiet week for new releases.
Technology: Games blog | guardian.co.uk

Hockey Goons Muscle Up with Fight Night Technology in NHL 14
By Owen Good
A fighting system backed by technology from Fight Night, plus off-the-ice role playing encounters in the Be a Pro career mode, are among the new features coming to NHL 14, EA Sports said today in offering the first look at the game.
Kotaku

50 Education Technology Tools You Can Start Using Today ...
By Jeff Dunn
Finding the best education technology tools is a time-consuming task. It may even be viewed as a chore (for some). Not with this fabulous list, though!
Edudemic

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Apple says goodbye to MacBook

Apple bids farewell to the MacBook Reuters By Erica Ogg at GigaOm We knew Apple was introducing something today, but what we didn't know was that it was going to be saying goodbye as well. In addition to Apple officially making OS X 10.7 available for download, it unleashed a fresh set of ...

Lenovo Unveils 3 New Tablets Wall Street Journal By OWEN FLETCHER BEIJING—Chinese computer-maker Lenovo Group Ltd. on Wednesday unveiled three tablet devices it will sell globally, expanding its tablet push beyond China and intensifying competition in a device category led by Apple Inc.'s iPad. ...

DISH Network Backs Opposition to AT&T/T-Mobile Merger Reuters By Jake Weinraub at TheWrap DISH Network spoke out Wednesday in support of Senator Herb Kohl's (D-WI) opposition to the AT&T/T-Mobile merger. As chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust, Kohl has been an impassioned advocate for net neutrality, ...

Roku hopes addition of 'Angry Birds' game spurs sales of its latest flock of ... Washington Post By AP, SAN FRANCISCO — Roku is ready to hatch the popular “Angry Birds” video game on a new version of its set-top box for streaming online entertainment to TVs. The addictive game and a controller will be included on a Roku box that will sell for $100 ...

Google to Shutter Google Labs in 'Streamlining' Effort PC Magazine By Damon Poeter Google is shutting down its Google Labs experimental project incubator as part of an effort at "simplifying and streamlining" the company's product lines, the search giant revealed on its official blog Wednesday. ...

Google refocusing on products: CFO AFP ASPEN, Colorado — Google co-founder Larry Page, who took over as chief executive in April, is refocusing the Internet giant on products and its "start-up philosophy," its chief financial officer said Wednesday. Patrick Pichette, speaking at the Fortune ...

Apollo's Lunar Modules (photos) CNET Forty-two years after the first moon landing, and with a new lunar X Prize looming, we take a look back at a few of the key Apollo missions, and specifically at the Lunar Modules that brought the astronauts to and from the surface of the moon. ...

T-Mobile focuses on value with new mobile plans Reuters By Kevin C. Tofel at GigaOm Starting on July 24, T-Mobile customers can take advantage of new plans that the carrier says offer a potential savings of $800 per year over service from rival carriers. The new Value plans offer both single and family line ...

Decoding DNA With Semiconductors New York Times By NICHOLAS WADE The inventor of a new machine that decodes DNA with semiconductors has used it to sequence the genome of Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, a leading chip maker. A wafer used in the process of reading genetic code. ...

Welcome to the Apple store that isn't CNET by Chris Matyszczyk They have iPods, iPads, and MacBook Pros on their tables and pristine white paint on their walls. But these are mere prestidigitators who want to press you into believing you are in a temple of the digital world. ...

Recommended: Everest pulled up for height check msnbc.com Quantum fluctuations in science, space and society, from quarks to Hubble and Mars. Served up by Alan Boyle, msnbc.com science editor. E-mail Alan, or connect via Facebook or Twitter. Everest, which straddles Nepal and China, is generally thought to ...

Daytona Project Will Help Researchers Crunch Data Sci-Tech Today By Adam Dickter Scientists who require large-scale data capabilities will benefit from Microsoft's Project Daytona, running in the cloud on Windows Azure. Project Daytona debuted at the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit. An analyst said Project Daytona ...

Google Search Gives Users a Heads-Up on Malware Infections TechNewsWorld By Erika Morphy Google is alerting users when it turns up evidence of a certain type of malware in their systems in the form of warnings delivered with search results. The service is meant to provide an extra layer of protection. ...

When Google Does Not Make Sense Tom's Guide I have been thinking about Google's most recent earnings call quite a bit and there were some thing I could not quite get my head around. Google had a stunning quarter result with $6.55 billion of revenue and $2.5 billion in net income. ...

Dell Said to Consider Brocade Before Purchasing Force10 Instead San Francisco Chronicle July 20 (Bloomberg) -- Dell Inc. is no longer interested in buying Brocade Communications Systems Inc. after announcing the acquisition today of Force10 Networks Inc., according to a person with knowledge of the situation. ...

Hitwise: Google+ Grows Fast, Still Minor Player PCWorld By Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News The new Google+ social networking site, out in limited beta release since late June, is growing its usage very quickly, but it remains far from a leadership position, according to Hitwise. For the week ending July 16, ...

West, Russia divided on U.N. council climate role Reuters By Patrick Worsnip UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Western nations clashed with Russia and developing countries on Wednesday over whether climate change was a security matter meriting the attention of the Security Council, the most powerful UN body. ...

Gregor Mendel's naughty peas and our GM future Washington Post (blog) By Alexandra Petri On Wednesday, Google celebrated the birthday of Gregor Mendel, the monk whose experimentation with peas resulted, indirectly, in the demonic genetically modified salmon that are currently terrorizing the French. ...

Updated Netflix app for Android unofficially supports some Honeycomb tablets IntoMobile Netflix recently updated it Android application to support a whopping 24 devices now. Oh, that's not that much. Still, the application that debuted with support of only five handsets is expanding its reach and you can stream video on some devices that ...

Former Harvard president goes off on Winklevoss twins Reuters Cameron Winklevoss (L) and twin brother Tyler Winklevoss are shown in this combination photo leaving the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals after a hearing on a settlement dispute with Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg in San Francisco, California January 11, 2011. ...

Tesla signed to build power train for electric Rav4 San Francisco Chronicle Rav4 EVs, targeted for release in 2012, feature an electric power train built by Tesla in Palo Alto. Tesla Motors has signed a $100 million deal to build the power train for Toyota's electric Rav4, the Palo Alto company reported Wednesday in a ...

Fermilab Scientists Discover New Particle ConceivablyTech Fermilab today announced that scientists working at the CDF (Collision Detector at Fermilab) experiment confirmed the observation of a new particle, the Xi-sub-b. The Xi-sub-b is categorized as are baryon, which are formed of three quarks. ...

Viber brings free text and VoIP calls to iPhone and Android SlashGear If you are a user of the iPhone or an Android smartphone there is a new app out that will let you text and call pals using VoIP for free. The app is called Viber. Obviously, you need some sort of data plan or access to a WiFi network for the app to ...

APNewsBreak: US mulls sanctions against Iceland The Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — The United States is set to announce possible trade and diplomatic sanctions against Iceland for ramping up its whale hunts despite an international moratorium on commercial whaling. The Obama administration on Wednesday will cite ...

Photo tour: Sprint Technology Integration Center By Zach Epstein And now comes the fun stuff. BGR on Wednesday toured a number of labs here at Sprint's Midwest headquarters in Overland Park, Kansas. Some we're able to. BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech

Slow crashes can be prevented with better technology | Ubergizmo By Edwin Kee Many vehicles these days provide decent or even above average protection for the driver and passengers, especially at high speeds [...] Ubergizmo

A Closer Look at Zeus Technology « Data Center Knowledge By Colleen Miller WAN optimization specialist Riverbed Technology (RVBD) is acquiring Zeus Technology, the companies said yesterday. Here's a video overview of Zeus Technology and its application development controller technology. Data Center Knowledge

Advanced Cell Technology Starts Human Trials of Embryonic Stem ... By Arlene Weintraub On July 14, Advanced Cell Technology (ACT)---a long-struggling developer of therapies derived from human embryonic stem cells---started its first human trials, Xconomy

Top Solar Stocks: New Leaps in Solar Technology By Kapitall "Alexie Kolpak and Jeffrey Grossman from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology propose a new type of solar thermal fuel that would be affordable, rechargeable, thermally stable, and more energy-dense than lithium-ion batteries. ... Business Insider

Nominate your Java Technology for Duke's Choice Awards at JavaOne ... By arungupta Does your Java technology usage out-compel, out-innovate, and outlast others ? Submit your nominations as this is your chance to be grab the bragging rights! The deadline for submission is Friday, Jul 29, 2011 at 5pm PT. ... Arun Gupta, Miles to go ...

Richard Scudamore: Premier League Goal-Line Technology In Place ... By Jack Atchinson Chief exec raises hope of introducing system. Join the FREE CaughtOffside Fantasy Football League and Win Big Prizes! to Malaysia XI v Chelsea with the. CaughtOffside

Desktop T-Shirt Creator - gHacks Technology News By Melanie Gross If you're looking for a quick and easy way to create your own t-shirt designs, you could do worse than trying out Desktop T-shirt Creator from Uzoom. It's. gHacks Technology News | Latest...

Technology to throw new light on ancient artefacts New technology which makes it possible to study the finer details of some of the world's greatest historical artefacts has been developed by computer scientists and archaeologists at the University of Southampton in conjunction with ... AlphaGalileo RSS Channel

Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Daily Education & Technology News for ... By coolcatteacher@gmail.com (Victoria A Davis, Cool Cat Teacher) Daily Education & Technology News for Schools 07/20/2011. Posted by Vicki A. Davis. Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz. Interview with DonTae‏ - YouTube. This amazing student in Evansville ... Cool Cat Teacher Blog

Green Car Congress: University of Illinois licenses StructurePore ... By Mike Millikin Xerion and the University believe that this technology, now called “StructurePore”, will enable Xerion to develop a rechargeable battery with significantly higher charging capacity than that which is presently available with ultra-fast ... Green Car Congress

Veronis Suhler Stevenson (VSS) Acquires Strata Decision Technology ... Maker of Web-Based Financial Tools for U.S. Hospitals and Healthcare Systems | Virtual Strategy Magazine is an online publication devoted entirely to virtualization technologies. Virtual-Strategy Magazine - Your.