Flashback Malware Infections Still High

Contradicting Earlier Reports, Flashback Malware Infections Still High
PC Magazine
By David Murphy Here's the backstory: As we reported previously, Mac users have been hit with a nasty bit of malware that requires absolutely nothing on their part – save for visiting malicious websites – in order for Flashback to enter their systems.

How 'Liquidmetal' Could Give the Next iPhone Its Special Swagger
Wired News
By Christina Bonnington After releasing two generations of iPhones with exactly the same form factor, Apple is expected to show off a new chassis design — and possibly new materials — in its sixth-generation smartphone. And a little-known alloy that ...

Wired News

Mystery surrounds deaths of 877 dolphins washed ashore in Peru
CNN
By Marilia Brocchetto, CNN (CNN) -- Environmental authorities are investigating the deaths of more than 800 dolphins that have washed up on the northern coast of Peru this year. The dolphins may have died from an outbreak of Morbillivirus or Brucella ...

Asus Transformer Pad TF300 (32GB)
CNET
The good: The Asus Transformer Pad TF300's Tegra 3-induced performance more or less matches the Transformer Prime's and goes a step further with a better rear camera, faster Wi-Fi performance, a more responsive screen, and an actual (and official) GPS ...

How to Score a New Sprint Galaxy Nexus on the Cheap
PC Magazine
By David Murphy Happy Galaxy Nexus Day, Sprint fans! Or soon-to-be fans. While the good news is that you can finally get your hands on one of the more highly rated Android phones around, you won't be able to tap into the full capabilities of Samsung's ...

No Evacuation as Mexico's Popocatepetl Volcano Belches Ash
Fox News
A plume of ash and steam rise from the Popocatepetl volcano overshadowing the Catholic church Nuestra Señora de los Remedios or Our Lady of Remedies in Cholula, in the Mexican state of Puebla, early Sunday. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)AP2012 Officials do ...

Google Grows Earth Day Doodle
PC Magazine
By David Murphy As is tradition for Earth Day — and, really, just about any holiday or special event — Google's unveiled a new version of its logo to commemorate the special day. A "doodle," as it were. While today's Google logo isn't interactive like ...

Samsung Launches Teaser Countdown for "The Next Galaxy"
PC Magazine
By David Murphy If you haven't read enough rumors about about the next Galaxy-themed smartphone that Samsung's working on, you might want to skip this one. For the company is about to jump head-first into all the hype and speculation it previously...

Google founders, James Cameron, go asteroid mining
Register
By Natalie Apostolou • Get more from this author A powerful cabal of tech, media and aeronautics uber executives are set to reveal how their freshly launched company Planetary Resources, will scope for natural resources outside of planet earth.

Diablo 3 Stress Test Stresses Out Gamers, Tests Patience
Forbes
After the very large download, and probably some errors getting the launcher to work properly, and maybe a really long hang-time while it updated you may have reached the game itself only to have been met with an Error 37.

Forbes

Lyrid Meteor Shower Wows Skywatchers Around the World
Space.com
by Tariq Malik, SPACE.com Managing Editor The Lyrid meteor shower amazed some skywatchers around the world with bright celestial fireworks this weekend, thanks in part to the lack of a bright moon. The annual April "shooting star" display hit its peak ...

Andrew Short won his first-career Monster Energy AMA Supercross race Saturday ...
ESPN
By ESPN Action Sports Steve Cox Andrew Short got his first career win in the premier class on Saturday night in Seattle. At the 15th race of the 2012 Monster Energy AMA Supercross season, held in Seattle, Wash., Andrew Short won his first career win in ...

ESPN

Climate Change 'Swing Voters' Affected by Weather, Not Denialists, Says Analyst
ABC News (blog)
Just a quick note on an engaging video that can give you a glimpse of the new science on the jet stream… following a brief thought on public opinion and the worsening wild weather around the planet. Recent reports say public opinion is beginning to ...

ABC News (blog)

HTC One X Now Available For Pre-Order At AT&T, All Pricing Info Revealed
The Driod Guy
AT&T announced that they would be the US carrier for the highly anticipated HTC One X. The One X is the king of the three flagship Android devices that HTC announced at Mobile World Congress. At that time, and even at CES, HTC had announced that they...

The Upgrader's Lament: When to Buy Philips' New LED Bulb?
PC Magazine
By David Murphy Perhaps the biggest challenge facing Philips' new LED-based light bulb, released today in commemoration of Earth Day, is not a general acceptance that LED technology is superior to traditional incandescent lighting.

Apple, Google, Intel fail to dismiss staff-poaching lawsuit
Reuters
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - Apple Inc, Google Inc, Intel Corp and four other technology companies were ordered by a judge to face an antitrust lawsuit claiming they illegally conspired not to poach each other's employees. District Judge Lucy Koh in ...

Google's Schmidt Made $101M in 2011
Daily Beast
What a difference a year makes. After earning just $313219 in 2010, Google's Chairman Eric Schmidt raked in more than $101 million last year in salary, stock options, and other compensation. The former CEO received almost $94 million in shares and ...

Daily Beast

Facebook clarifies changes to its terms of use
CNN
By Doug Gross, CNN A post Friday by Facebook explained tweaks in its terms of use, and highlighted user-suggested changes. (CNN) -- Facebook unveiled changes to its terms-of-use document on Friday, tweaking earlier drafts in an apparent effort to ease...

Lamborghini CEO: SUV cool enough for us
CNNMoney
By Peter Valdes-Dapena @PeterDrivesApril 22, 2012: 4:59 PM ET The Urus SUV, billed as an 'everyday Lamborghini' is being unveiled at the Beijing Auto Show. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Lamborghini could have made a four door sedan instead of an SUV, ...

Sources: current Windows Phone devices will not get 'Apollo' upgrade
The Verge
By Dieter Bohn on April 17, 2012 11:09 pm 1012Comments Earlier today, a developer evangelist for Microsoft was quoted as saying that all Windows Phone devices would get an upgrade to the "next major version" of the operating system.

FBI: Web will go dark for 350000 infected Internet users starting July 9
Digitaltrends.com
For 350000 unsuspecting Internet users infected with the DNSChanger malware, the Web will cease to function on July 9. Here's why, and how to check your PC before zero hour. If you're one of an unlucky 350,0000 Internet users out there, your Internet...

2012 Beijing: Ford Announces EcoSport, Kuga, Edge and Explorer for Chinese Market
MotorTrend Magazine
As expected, Ford has introduced a quartet of its crossover models to the Chinese market at the 2012 Beijing Auto Show. Three of them are sold in the US market, and the fourth is the B-class sized compact EcoSport crossover model targeted specifically ...

MotorTrend Magazine

IBM speeds push for 500-mile EV battery
CNET
Big Blue signs on partners for its Battery 500 Project to design an "air-breathing" lithium air battery that would create a leap in energy density. by Martin LaMonica April 20, 2012 5:52 AM PDT Follow @mlamonica An air-breathing battery: the basic ...

Latest iPad Mini Rumor: Number 18 in a Tortured Chain of Speculation
Wired News
By Christina Bonnington Some speculated the third-generation iPad would be smaller than the traditional 9.7 inches. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired Rumormongers have been spreading tales of a miniature, 7-inch Apple tablet since before Apple even released ...

Wired News

Chip could let smartphones see through walls -- and clothes
Los Angeles Times
By Deborah Netburn In the not-too-distant future, your smartphone may be able to help you see through walls, cardboard boxes, paper and even clothing. Scientists from the University of Texas at Dallas have designed an imaging chipthat measures...

Cadillac Plans Semi-Self-Driving Car by Mid-Decade
PC Magazine
By Mark Hachman Cadillac is developing a semi-autonomous driving technology called "Super Cruise" that could be on the road by the middle of this decade, General Motors said Friday. In certain "optimal" conditions, the car would take over and drive ...

Last flight of shuttle Discovery
USA TODAY
A band marches past the space shuttle Enterprise, left, and Discovery during a ceremony at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va. The Discovery was officially received by the museum and will be placed on ...

5 Ways to Create Stunning iPad Applications
Mashable
The iPad has been on the market for two years now. With a second milestone of 200000 iPad applications on the App Store nearing, there's no better time than now to reassess how to approach the UX of iPad applications. Some of the ideas in this article ...

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Apple develops tool to 'detect and remove' Flashback

Apple releases Flashback malware removal tool
CNET
By Josh Lowensohn on Apr 13, 2012 Apple has released an integrated tool to remove Flashback, malware designed to steal user information that was found to be present in more than half a million machines just last week. The tool, which was made available ...

CNET

BBC News - Apple develops tool to 'detect and remove' Flashback ...
Apple's market value hits $600bn 10 APRIL 2012, BUSINESS; Thousands of Macs 'hit by Trojan' 05 APRIL 2012, TECHNOLOGY; Jailbreakers target crash ...
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Technology is Key to Unleashing Creativity in the Classroom (Adobe ...
By Jon Perera, Vice President of Worldwide Education Marketing
It's been a very interesting couple of weeks for Adobe on the Education front, and I wanted to share out some reflections on what we're hearing from education innovators around the world. Two weeks ago, I spent 6 days across Sydney, ...
Adobe Blogs 

BBCWW invests in mobile game tech firm Spaceport — paidContent
By Robert Andrews
BBC Worldwide is making a strategic investment in a company whose technology will let it port its games to any mobile platform. The BBC's commercial and overseas unit is investing an unspecified sum in Spaceport, whose technology ...
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Technology News and Insights
Wall Street Journal (blog)
... Connections and Commerce; Regions, targeting the emerging markets in Americas, Asia-Pacific, and Europe, the Middle East and Africa; and Technology, focused on the company's tech infrastructure such as advertising and “cloud” platforms.

Wall Street Journal (blog)

Gaikai Cloud Gaming Launches on Facebook

PC Magazine
By Mark Hachman Gaikai delivered on its promise on Wednesday, launching the beta of a service that will allow several popular PC games to be tried out via Facebook. Users who visit the Gaikai page on Facebook will be able to "try out" the games, ...

Apple Plays Two Ways on Patent-Fight Field
Wall Street Journal
Apple Inc. is waging a patent crusade against mobile-phone giants it believes ripped off the iPhone. But the company is playing an important game of defense, too, as it faces claims it has violated scores of patents that relate to how devices ...

NPD Says Retail Videogame Sales Fell 25% In March
Wall Street Journal
By Ian Sherr Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones)--US retail sales of new videogame titles, hardware and accessories fell 25% in February from a year earlier, continuing the downward sales trend that has persisted since the holiday shopping ...

Apple granted motion to intervene in Lodsys patent dispute
Apple Insider
By Mikey Campbell Ten months after filing for the motion, Apple has finally been granted the power to intervene on behalf of numerous iOS developers that have been hit with a slew of patent suits by Lodsys. Although the scope in which Apple can operate...

Hacker's NYC impersonation case set to be closed
The Associated Press
By JENNIFER PELTZ, AP – 40 minutes ago NEW YORK (AP) — An unemployed computer programmer gave a surprising answer when a police officer asked him for identification one night, authorities said: "Relax. I am a federal agent." He wasn't an agent.

Barnes & Noble Announces New Nook With Built-In Lights
Wired News
By Alexandra Chang The Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight makes makes it possible to read in the dark. Photo: Barnes & Noble Reading e-ink in broad daylight is easy. Fast forward twelve hours, and it's a different story. Just like with a paperback, ...

Wired News

Caine's Arcade: After viral video, boy has $100k toward his future
Los Angeles Times
By Deborah Netburn "Caine's Arcade," a short film about 9-year-old Caine Monroy and the cardboard arcade that he created in his dad's used auto parts store, went viral this week, getting 1 million views in just two days on Vimeo.

Intel Debuts First Enterprise PCIe SSD Adapter
InformationWeek
New 910 Series PCIe priced at less than $5 per gigabyte, about half the price of other enterprise-class PCIe products. By Deni Connor and James E. Bagley Intel announced Thursday its 910 series PCIe solid-state drive (SSD) adapter, a completely new SSD...

Boeing to make super secure Android phone
CNET
The "Boeing phone" would compete with both high-end proprietary devices and consumer phones like BlackBerries, with an expected release by the end of the year. by Eric Mack April 12, 2012 4:30 PM PDT Follow @ericcmack In a world full of cheap,...

Rule Is Proposed for New Cars to Have Brake Override Systems
New York Times
DETROIT — Federal safety regulators plan to require all new cars and trucks to have a brake-throttle override system, giving drivers the ability to step on the brake to stop the car if the accelerator pedal sticks or malfunctions.

Microsoft ends free Bing Search API, moves to paid service on Azure Marketplace
Ars Technica
By Peter Bright | Published April 12, 2012 4:27 PM Microsoft has announced that it's going to change its Bing Search API—a service offered to developers to allow them to integrate Web search capabilities into their applications and sites—from a free ...

Baboons can recognize written words, study finds
Los Angeles Times
The monkeys don't assign meaning to them, but learn what letter combinations are common to real words, the study authors say. A baboon from the study performs a word recognition task. (Joel Fagot / April 12, 2012) By Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times ...

Los Angeles Times

Rear Seats Impede Child Safety in Many Cars
Forbes
Anchors that secure child seats are often too difficult to reach in many vehicles and make installation unnecessarily complicated, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. The institute released a new study that found only 21 out of ...

Google may replace .com in the near future
SlashGear
Though of course .com and other Top Level Domains will continue to exist for a very long time, Google has noted today that they've applied for several TLDs ahead of ICANN's April 20 deadline for purchasing such rights. Google's domain name choices will ...

SlashGear

CREDIT: ESA/Herschel/PACS/Bram Acke, KU Leuven, Belgium
Space.com
A young star that is home to at least one alien planet is also ringed by a vast, dusty cloud of comets, like our own solar system. But there's a big difference: There may be as many as 83 trillion comets there, with collisions destroying thousands each ...

US Brings Case Against Apple and Five Book Publishers Over Electronic Books
Voice of America
12 April 2012 US Brings Case Against Apple and Five Book Publishers Over Electronic Books TO DOWNLOAD the MP3 of this story, click on the MP3 link in the upper right corner of the page. Double-click any word to find the definition in the ...

Why the age of quantum computing is nearer than you think
Christian Science Monitor
New research published out of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics is one of the best examples of quantum computing beginning to flirt with practical technology. By Trevor Quirk / April 12, 2012 Dell recently introduced three new XPS high ...

Christian Science Monitor

Facebook expands user access to downloadable data
Washington Post
Data liberation is an issue that comes up a lot in discussions about privacy. Facebook, which has provided a tool for users to download some of their information since 2010, announced it was expanding that archive of information.

LG Viper: First Impressions of Sprint's New LTE Phone
PCWorld
The LG Viper has a stylish, eco design and a wallet-friendly price, but you might not be able to utilize its 4G LTE speeds any time soon. By Ginny Mies, PCWorld The LG Viper has an eco-friendly design.Sprint's very first 4G LTE phone, the LG Viper, ...

Verizon Wireless to Start Charging for Phone Upgrade
WGRZ-TV
Ray Kruml and Brandon Laird each had two-run doubles to power the Yankees to a ... Joe Vitt will assume the day-to-day coaching duties for the New Orleans Saints ... BUFFALO, NY- If you're a Verizon Wireless customer looking to upgrade your phone,...

HTC Titan II review
Engadget
By Brad Molen posted Apr 12th 2012 3:30PM Titan. It's a ballistic missile and one of Saturn's moons. The word also plays a huge role in Greek mythology and in normal use refers to something of enormous power and influence. So it's understandable, then, ...

Facebook's latest acquisition makes sense
MSN Money
By Trefis 1 hour ago Facebook recently acquired a very popular mobile photo sharing service, Instagram, for more than $1 billion to bolster its position in the rapidly growing mobile photo-sharing space. (See our note, Facebook snaps up Instagram to ...

Hands On: Galaxy Tab 2 7.0, Samsung's New Ultra-Familiar Bargain Tablet
Wired News
By Nathan Olivarez-Giles Samsung's Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 may technically be a new tablet, but almost everything about the hardware is suspiciously familiar. I've been playing with the new 7.0 for almost a day now, and if not for the fact the tablet lacks an...

Is Pebble the smartwatch you've been waiting for?
PhoneDog
I had a notion that 2012 would be a year heavily laden with accessories for smartphones. In late 2012, we heard a report that Google and Apple had fueled quite a bit of money into R&D, researching wearable computing devices, such as smartwatches, ...

NASA Kind of, Sort of, Maybe Found Life on Mars 36 Years Ago
Geekosystem
by James Plafke | 7:00 pm, April 12th, 2012 An international team of scientists and mathematicians have concluded that new analysis of data from 36 years ago shows that NASA found life on Mars. But don't get too excited. The analysis was the result of...

Intel: 75 Ultrabook Designs on the Way, Prices to Reach $699
PCWorld
By Michael Kan, IDG News Intel said on Wednesday 75 ultrabook models are already in development and will include new form factors such as hybrids, which can switch from laptops to touchscreen tablets. The chip maker also expects ultrabooks will reach a ...

'Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim' comes to Kinect
CNN
By Larry Frum, Special to CNN The game offers many adventures and quests, and players are free to roam and accept challenges as they wish. (CNN) -- Game developer Bethesda Softworks is ready to take role playing to the next level by adding voice ...

Free Lumia 900 offer ends April 21
Computerworld
By Matt Hamblen Computerworld - Nokia's Lumia 900 won't be free much longer. A $100 discount being offered on the $99.99 smartphone (with two-year service contract required) will expire at the end of business on April 21, Nokia confirmed Thursday.

New Video Shows iPad Being Made at Foxconn Factory
PC Magazine
By Angela Moscaritolo After exposing storyteller Mike Daisey's fabrications about working conditions at Foxconn, NPR Marketplace reporter Rob Schmitz got a rare inside look inside the Apple supplier's Shenzhen plant to see an iPad being made.

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