Three Tech Companies Had a Bad Week (video)

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Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh discusses LinkedIn’s accounting woes, Groupon’s shift to e-commerce and 21st Century Fox withdrawing its offer for Time Warner. He speaks on "Bloomberg West.” (Source: Bloomberg August 7)

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Yahoo, Google Envision Spy-Free Emails
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Yahoo's move comes as large technology companies put increased emphasis ...Microsoft, which offers the free Web email service Outlook.com, has ...
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Google To Reward Sites With HTTPS Security In Search Rankings
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If you look at the web address of any financial site and most e-commerce sites, you'll find the letters “HTTPS” in front of the site name. HTTP, which is ...
Google To Factor Security In Search Results - InformationWeek
Google revises Internet search formula to prod other websites to strengthen their security - Fox News
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Plot Thickens as 900 Writers Battle Amazon
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Google and Barnes & Noble Unite to Take On Amazon AUG. ... Amazon, unsettled by the actions of a group that used to be among its biggest fans, ...

Why Is Yahoo Sports Hiding Its Best Asset In Woj?
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Yahoo still boasts over 800 million monthly active users on mobile and ... Before Yahoo, she was a product manager at Google and, before that, was a ...


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Samsung still tops in US smartphone market; Apple takes second
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That Apple and Samsung secure the top two spots is no surprise. ... The squabbles since (Samsung not paying Microsoft) have only reinforced it....


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Amazon Takes a Long View With $2 Billion India Investment
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Amazon said it will use the money to develop better websites, better mobile technologyand better logistics to reach the huge and growing Indian ...

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(MoneyWatch) COMMENTARY Groupon announced (GRPN) Friday that its sales were lower and losses greater last quarter than it had reported last month. What happened? The daily deal giant had to increase how much money it sets aside for refunds, particularly for pricier offerings. Auditor Ernst & Young also said the company has a material weakness in its financial controls. (Some shareholder lawyers are already considering suing Groupon over the accounting glitch.) The words "material weakness" obviously aren't ones that a public company likes to use or that investors want to hear. They mean that a firm's internal controls are inadequate to ensure accurate financial reporting. . . .Mixed in with the likes of Enron, Haliburton, and Bristol-Myers Squibb were Adelphia, WorldCom, AOL Time Warner, Homestore.com, Qwest, and Xerox -- all telecommunications and technology companies. More for investors to be wary of It's not that most or ...

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Joint entertainment-ISP effort unveils copyright center
CNET
Jill Lesser, an executive with experience with copyright, Internet and consumer issues, takes over center designed to help support graduated response. by Greg Sandoval April 2, 2012 11:40 AM PDT Follow @sandoCNET The country's top Internet service ...

Dell's Wyse Buy a Hedge Against Slowing PC Sales
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By Agam Shah, IDG News Dell's plan to buy Wyse Technology is an effort to boost its client hardware portfolio and protect the company from the effects of the recent slowdown in PC sales, analysts said on Monday. Wyse provides thin-client hardware and ...

Nokia Goes After iPhone With Lumia 900 Ad Campaign
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By Chloe Albanesius In advance of the Sunday release for the its new Windows Phone-based Lumia 900 smartphone, Nokia has kicked off an ad campaign that takes aim at Apple's iPhone. The smartphonebetatest.com website features 30 Rock actor Chris Parnell ...

Amazon's Dominates Google in App Revenue: Thank Apple?
PCWorld
By Ed Oswald, PCWorld Apr 2, 2012 1:23 PM Android fans love to criticize Apple's locked-down strategy when it comes to hardware, iTunes content, and the iOS platform. But a study from the mobile advertising firm Flurry suggests Apple is on to something ...

Oracle, Google fail to reach settlement in Android lawsuit
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iPhone Top Seller At AT&T, Sprint, And Verizon
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Apple's iPhone 4S is the number-one selling handset at the nation's three largest network operators, outselling all other smartphones combined. By Eric Zeman InformationWeek The Apple iPhone 4S is the undisputed smartphone champ, according to data ...

IBM Preps Hyper-Fast Computing System for World's Largest Radiotelescope
PC Magazine
By Tony Hoffman To handle the unprecedented—literally astronomical—amount of data expected from the world's largest radiotelescope when it becomes operational in 2024, IBM has teamed up with the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (Astron) in a ...

Terrafugia's Flying Car Prototype Completes Test Flight
PC Magazine
By Angela Moscaritolo Turns out, cars of the future won't only be able to drive themselves, they'll also be able to take off into the sky. Just days after Google announced that it gave a blind man a ride in its self-driving Toyota Prius, ...

Unpatched Java bug infects Macs with Flashback malware
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The Creepiest Apps and Sites
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Girls Around Me might be no more, but these apps and sites are just as scary. By Chandra Steele The Girls Around Me app might now be out of the App Store but the privacy concerns it raises aren't going away anytime soon. The app, which found a market ...

Fisker Completes Fund-Raising
Wall Street Journal
By YULIYA CHERNOVA Fisker Automotive Inc., a maker of plug-in hybrid sports cars, closed on a $392 million financing that the company hopes eventually will reach $500 million, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Jet-airliner-sized April Fools' Day asteroid buzzes Earth (+video)
Christian Science Monitor
About 150 feet wide, asteroid 2012 EG5 hurtled past our planet Sunday, passing closer than the moon. By Tariq Malik, SPACE.com / April 2, 2012 This graphic depicts the orbit of asteroid 2012 EG5 (in blue) during its April Fool's Day flyby of Earth.

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Fire Was Used a Million Years Ago, Study Finds
Wall Street Journal
AP NEW YORK—When our ancestors first used fire has been a long-running debate, and a new study concludes the earliest firm evidence comes from about one million years ago in a South African cave. The ash and burnt-bone samples found there suggest fires ...

What is new iPad's biggest benefit?
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By Joe Wilcox Apple started selling its newest tablet on March 8. Between the 22nd and 28th, ChangeWave surveyed new iPad buyers; 82 percent claim to be "very satisfied", which is up from February and 74 percent of iPad 2 owners.

Sony 'Confident' PlayStation 4 Will Hit Shelves Before Xbox 720
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An original Sony PlayStation controller. The first controller released for the PlayStation and packed in with the system until it was replaced by the DualShock. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) VG247 is reporting that sources have told them that PlayStation ...
 
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Microsoft Just Picked 11 Startups To Build Amazing Apps For Kinect (MSFT)
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Microsoft and TechStars have picked 11 startups out of 500 applicants to participate in Microsoft's Kinect Accelerator program. The accelerator is based in Seattle and will run from April to June. Startups get $20000, free office space for three months ...

Smart Sand Can Clone Objects, Says MIT
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Forget smart cars, smart appliances and smartphones. MIT researchers are taking intelligent inanimate objects to a more granular level: smart sand. The effect they're aiming for, as described on MIT's news site, is this: You would bury an object in ...

Microsoft Chrome Series Xbox 360 controllers wow for $54.99 each
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There's a new set of Xbox 360 controllers out there for the masses starting in May, each of them chromed-out so you can shine all the way to the speedway and back. There's nothing quite like winning a first-person shooter headshot challenge with an ...

Fuel efficiency drives car sales
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By Chris Isidore @CNNMoney April 2, 2012: 4:26 PM ET GM sold 100000 fuel-efficient cars in March -- a company record -- with the help of its high-mileage Chevy Cruze. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Demand for fuel-efficient cars shot higher in March, ...

IE market share slightly up after long downturn
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After more than a year of decline, Internet Explorer may be on the rise again: the Web browser showed a slight gain in users for the month of March, according to a Web metrics firm. IE, which had just over 60 percent of the browser market as of ...

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Pastebin Plans Staffers to Review, Delete Anonymous Data Dumps
PC Magazine
By Fahmida Y. Rashid Pastebin.com plans to police content posted on the site in order to quickly remove data dumps and other personal information. Pastebin will hire new staffers to actively monitor content being posted and remove sensitive data, ...

Microsoft Moves Logistics Out Of Germany Due To Lawsuit
Wall Street Journal
By HARRIET TORRY Microsoft Corp. is moving its European logistics operations, run by an outsourcing service provider, from Germany to the Netherlands due to its legal dispute with Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc., a spokesman said Monday.

Let 'forage fish' multiply, scientists say
Boston Herald
By Tony Barboza / Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — The catch of small, schooling fish such as sardines and anchovies should be cut in half globally and the amount left in the ocean doubled to protect the ecologically vital species from collapse, ...

Apple supplier Foxconn vows to boost salaries and cut hours
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Facing complaints about factory labor practices, Foxconn chairman Terry Gou is pledging more pay but fewer hours. by Lance Whitney April 2, 2012 10:53 AM PDT Follow @lancewhit Foxconn is promising to be more worker-friendly after finding itself once ...

Twitter Takes Tweetdeck Offline After Apparent Bug Opens Up Access To ...
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Twitter has taken its Tweetdeck app offline after an apparent bug has possibly given some Tweetdeck users access to others' accounts. A Sydney, Australia-based Tweetdeck user named Geoff Evason says he discovered today he was somehow able to access ...

Motorola MOTOACTV software update allows for pairing with non-Moto devices
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By Dana Wollman posted Apr 2nd 2012 4:29PM Good news for fitness junkies who like to mix and match their gadget brands: MotoACTV's accompanying application will now work on pretty much all Android phones, and not just those that happen to be made by...

Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G review
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By Zachary Lutz posted Apr 2nd 2012 2:00PM Maybe you've noticed, maybe you haven't, but the Galaxy S 4G no longer exists at T-Mobile. Just one year ago, it replaced the Vibrant -- the carrier's first Galaxy S handset -- and now the Galaxy S 4G has ...

Breaking: Philadelphia technology reporters to unionize across local ...
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A rogue group of Philadelphia technology reporters from a variety of the city's media outlets have announced their intentions to unionize against what one participant called “the oppressive regime of paternalistic publishers that plague digital ...
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U.S. Postal Service Launches Innovative Technology for Small ...
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The U.S. Postal Service wants the small business world to know about its direct mail shipping service for small businesses, called Every Door Direct.
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Tech Test Drive: Tablet alternatives to iPad
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By CNet.com The new iPad is upon us and is an excellent continuation of the line. It doesn't do everything, though, and what it lacks in features and affordability, these tablets attempt to make up. Though, yes, one of the best alternatives is the old ...

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Think Groupon is a technology company? Think again.

Think Groupon is a technology company? Think again. « reDesign By Rocky Agrawal Through much of its roadshow presentation, Groupon tries to make the claim that it's a technologycompany. At one point, CEO Andrew Mason bizarrely uses a cyborg to illustrate how much the company is about technology. From a company ... reDesign

New NFC Technology Delivers Fast Food Even Faster @PSFK Brand Table is a project that is designed for food courts in shopping malls to dramatically decrease wait times. PSFK Microsoft CRM update takes 'social' cue from Salesforce.com Computerworld By Chris Kanaracus IDG News Service - Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled the latest version of its Dynamics CRM software, which adds some social software functionality as well as closer ties to the Office 365 online productivity suite. ... Tracking Your Location ... With Skype? PC Magazine By Chloe Albanesius Location tracking has been a hot-button issue this year, starting with concerns about Apple's iOS in April before moving to Google, Microsoft, and now Skype. In a recent paper, researchers from the Polytechnic Institute of New York ... Tablet owners still won't pay to read the news CNET by Lance Whitney October 25, 2011 8:41 AM PDT Follow @lancewhit More than half of all tablet users consume the news on a daily basis but most are still unwilling to pay for it. A study commissioned by Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in ... Android Overtakes iOS in App Downloads PCWorld By Eric Mack, PCWorld Oct 25, 2011 8:29 AM The Android operating system now leads in total app downloads, another benchmark in the race to dominate the smartphone market, according to ABI Research. The market research firm's Singapore office said ... 2000-Year-Old Supernova Mystery Solved Fox News This image combines data from four different space telescopes to create a multi-wavelength view of all that remains of the oldest documented example of a supernova, called RCW 86. The Chinese witnessed the event in 185 AD, documenting a mysterious ... Garmin Turns Your iPhone Into a Personal Trainer PC Magazine By Will Greenwald Garmin isn't known for its fitness products, but it does offer some. Beyond GPS units, the company has a handful of watches and adapters for use with fitness devices and heart monitors. Garmin is trying to make its health products and ... Creator of the iPod: Saving Energy Is Sexy Fox News By John R. Quain Oct. 25, 2011: The world's first learning thermostat, introduced Tuesday by Tony Fadell -- the man who sold Steve Jobs on the iPod. Can the father of the iPod make saving energy sexy? Tony Fadell is the man who took the idea of the ... Battlefield 3's Pretty, Messy, Tedious Solo Campaign PCWorld By Matt Peckham, PCWorld Oct 25, 2011 7:41 AM Before we get into it, a few Battlefield 3 play notes: I'm running the Xbox 360 version, because that arrived first, and the PC version's still downloading from EA's Origin servers this morning. ... Buzz Earns Google 20-Year Privacy Monitoring from FTC The Mac Observer Google has 20 years worth of privacy monitoring to look forward to from the US Federal Trade Commission thanks to what are being called deceptive practices the Internet search giant used with its now dead Google Buzz social networking service. ... Range Rover Evoque Named Motor Trend Truck of the Year Fox News Motor Trend has announced the winner of its 2012 Truck of the Year award, and it's approved by Victoria Beckham. The Range Rover Evoque compact crossover bested the likes of the Ford Explorer and Dodge Durango to claim the perennially noteworthy title ... NASA asked to reconsider shuttle for Seattle The Seattle Times Gov. Chris Gregoire is asking that Seattle get another chance to host a retiring space shuttle, at least temporarily, because two of the cities selected will not have displays ready for years. By Seattle Times staff Gotta love our post active elected ... Bruce the turtle ready to return to San Diego Bay San Jose Mercury News AP SAN DIEGO—A Pacific green sea turtle that was found near-dead of gunshot wounds to the neck in January has recuperated at San Diego's Sea World and is ready for release. The Los Angeles Times (http://lat.ms/vjdtlm) reports that Bruce the turtle is ... UN panel sets target to connect poor to broadband The Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — A United Nations panel has given governments a target of connecting half the world's poor citizens to broadband Internet by 2015. The UN's Broadband Commission for Digital Development also says at least 40 percent of households in ... Bluetooth SIG Announces A Lot Of Weird Branding For 4.0-Compatible Devices TechCrunch Biggs is the editor of TechCrunch Gadgets. Biggs has written for the New York Times, InSync, USA Weekend, Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Money and a number of other outlets on technology and wristwatches. He is the former editor-in-chief of ... Artificial Intelligence Pioneer John McCarthy Dies at 84 Mashable John McCarthy, the inventor of programming language Lisp and the man who coined the term “artificial intelligence,” has died at the age of 84. Born in 1927, McCarthy had a PhD in mathematics and was a long-standing professor at Stanford University. ... Windows XP At 10: No Life Support InformationWeek By Paul McDougall InformationWeek A Microsoft official said the company has no plans to extend Windows XP's looming retirement date in order to give companies whose business systems run on the aging OS more time to migrate to a newer version of ... Blizzard DOTA, coming soon to a new platform called Blizzard Arcade Joystiq by Mike Schramm on Oct 25th 2011 10:45AM Blizzard DOTA was back on the floor of BlizzCon 2011 last week, after spending a year away from the spotlight being "completely rebooted." We played the game as soon as we possibly could, finding it to be a much ... To Social, Google Must Social Internet Evolution You don't have to be a fashionista to become the king of cool style (Steve Jobs, you will be missed). And you don't have to be a social maven to create a social network (just look at Mark Zuckerberg). But being super smart also doesn't guarantee ... New DOS tool overloads SSL servers with ease Computerworld By Lucian Constantin IDG News Service - A newly released denial-of-service (DOS) tool can be used to bring down SSL servers using an average laptop computer and a standard DSL connection. The hacking outfit decided to release the tool, ... Minnesota attorney general wants ban on cramming Minneapolis Star Tribune Minnesota Attorney Lori Swanson Monday petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to ban unauthorized third party charges on telephone bills, a practice known as cramming. Minnesota Attorney Lori Swanson Monday petitioned the Federal ... Minecraft Launch On Xbox 360 Delayed Until 2012 Gaming Union Microsoft has announced that Minecraft won't be appearing on the Xbox 360 this year. They had originally planned to release the game during the Winter months. The news came from one of Microsoft's producers working on bringing the successful PC game ... German satellite crashed over Asia's Bay of Bengal The Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Heavily populated Asian cities avoided a dangerous collision with space junk last weekend as a defunct German satellite crashed into the sea somewhere between India and Myanmar. The ROSAT satellite re-entered the atmosphere at 0150 GMT ... YouTube Blog: Technology and human rights By Ramya Activists, academics, and analysts will meet with engineers, entrepreneurs, and executives for discussion about how and when technology can advance human rights. We're pleased to be the original sponsor of Rightscon, as it's being called. ... YouTube Blog SpringSource links up with Neo Technology on NoSQL — Cloud ... By Derrick Harris SpringSource, the application-platform arm of VMware, has been working closely with NoSQL startup Neo Technology to produce a version of the Neo4j graph database optimized for Spring environments. Additionally, SpringSource founder ... GigaOM Weak technology weighs down Groupon's sinking ship | VentureBeat By Chikodi Chima Groupon's first technology product Groupon Now appears to be a stinking dud, according to data released on Sunday. The Groupon Now mobile app chalking up some very dour numbers, according to a new report compiled by Yipit, ... VentureBeat Henderson Independent school officials tout technology | Salisbury ... By Sarah Campbell. scampbell@salisburypost.com. SALISBURY — School officials are touting a technology overhaul at Henderson Independent High School as the major project funded by a federal School Improvement Grant. “Upon final ... Local News | The Salisbury Post Travel and technology at the New York City Travel Massive event ... By Jessica Festa On Tuesday, November 8, 2011, New York City Travel Massive will hold their November event at Winston's Champagne Bar at the Gansevoort Park Hotel. New. Gadling TapSense Touchscreen Technology Can Figure Out What's ... By Quentyn Kennemer While most of us are happy with the two most common touchscreen options on tablets and smartphones - touching with our finger and with a capacitive stylus - Android Phone Fans SmartPhone Technology Helps Deliver Babies Babies are heavily monitored in the hospital before they are born. During labor, their heartbeats can tell medical staff how well they are doing and if they need help. New technology is allowing doctors who can now monitor their little patients ... KOLO - HomePage - Headlines

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Facebook is closing its daily deal service; Groupon losing money?

Facebook is closing its daily deal service according to Bloomberg TV; and "Groupon is losing money like there is no tomorrow" said Vivek Wadhwa on the Bloomberg West TV show (August 26, 2011)
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Scientists Discover a Diamond as Big as a Planet TIME By Michael Lemonick Friday, Aug. 26, 2011 Back in the 1920s, the great Jazz Age writer F. Scott Fitzgerald published a story titled The Diamond as Big as the Ritz — the Ritz-Carlton hotel, that is, which even in those pre-high-rise days was a pretty ...

Facebook Hits 1 Trillion Page Views? Nope. WPBF West Palm Beach By David Goldman NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The news stormed across blogs and headlines this week: Facebook had become the first website to rack up a mind-boggling 1 trillion monthly page views. The tip came from an advertising service called DoubleClick ...

Closest Supernova in 25 Years Is a 'Cosmic Classic,' Astronomers Say Space.com Astronomers have spotted the closest supernova in a generation — and in a week or so, stargazers with a good pair of binoculars might be able to see it, too. The supernova, or exploded star, flared up Tuesday night (Aug. 23) in the Pinwheel Galaxy,...

Earth Meteorites Born from Single Asteroid International Business Times Suspected but unverified for years; S-type asteroids are confirmed to be the source for most small meteorites that fall on earth, scientists have proved. The analysis of asteroid dust brought by a Japanese spacecraft to earth last year, has confirmed ...

Apple may still challenge cable with TV subscription service Ars Technica By Jacqui Cheng | Published August 26, 2011 10:32 AM Apple's iCloud may not have brought us music subscriptions, but the company is reportedly still considering a subscription service tied to TV content delivery. In an article discussing some of the ...

Google to Shut Down Slide Social Apps PCWorld By Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Apparently the age of "superpoking" social network friends and throwing sheep at them is coming to a close. Google plans to shut down the social applications developed by Slide, a company it acquired a year ago for US$182 ...

Apple Hires iPhone Hacker Nicholas Allegra (@Comex) TechCrunch Apple has just hired yet another member of the iPhone jailbreaking community, Nicholas Allegra, also known as “@comex” on Twitter. Allegra is best known for the JailBreakMe website which made the process of jailbreaking the iPhone as simple as visiting ...

Underground river discovered below Amazon The Guardian Covering more than 7 million square kilometres in South America, the Amazon basin is one of the biggest and most impressive river systems in the world. But it turns out we have only known half the story until now. Brazilian scientists have found a new ... The Guardian

Facebook to Hold Annual f8 Conference in San Francisco, US in September ITProPortal Social media juggernaut Facebook is sending out invitations to f8 - the semi-regular developer conference it organises every year, and for which it usually dishes out some of the site's most important features. From Facebook on the f8 conference, ... ITProPortal

The Best Tech for Weathering Hurricane Irene PC Magazine With Hurricane Irene barrelling up the east coast, we've collected the technology, services, and apps you'll need to weather the storm. By Hilary Scott Hurricane Irene is headed up the east coast and it doesn't look pretty. ...

Report: Samsung Will Make Third Google Phone, Nexus Prime PC Magazine By Sara Yin Did Samsung lawyers accidentally confirm the third Nexus phone? A source sent Geek.com, PCMag's sister site, a copy of the cease and desist letter allegedly written by Samsung America's lawyers, warning someone not to release details about ...

Google+ Hangouts: How People Are Using Group Video Conferencing eWeek By Clint Boulton on 2011-08-26 Google+ has been around for roughly two months now, and one of the social network's popular features out of the gate has been Hangouts, the group video conferencing application that lets users host video chats with up to ... eWeek

People go social when in trouble, notes American Red Cross Moneycontrol.com Social networking may just be a way of enhancing one's social network for some. Well, of course, that is what it is intended to do. But for some, social networking ends up being a life saver. According to a recent survey-based research carried out by ...

Shark sighting closes stretch of San Diego beach until Friday Los Angeles Times A two-mile stretch of San Diego beach will remain closed until Friday morning after a lifeguard saw the dorsal fin of a great white shark about 100 yards off Mission Beach, officials said. Once the beach is opened, an advisory warning will remain in ...

UPDATE 1-Sterne Agee ups RIM to buy on new BlackBerry phones Reuters Aug 26 (Reuters) - In a rare Wall Street upgrade of Research in Motion (RIMM.O) in the past few months, Sterne Agee raised its rating on the US-listed shares to "buy," saying the BlackBerry maker will gain from its new smartphones featuring the ...

Black Hat Hacker Says Insulin Pump Maker Medtronic Belittles Security Flaw eWeek Diabetic security researcher Jerome Radcliffe, who hacked his insulin pump at Black Hat, accused Medtronic of not taking security of its devices or his research seriously. At the Black Hat security conference earlier this month in Las Vegas, ...

Firefox to Stick with Version Numbers After All Wired News By Scott Gilbertson Good news Firefox fans, that whole tempest in a teacup about version numbers being removed from the Firefox About dialog was, apparently, a misunderstanding. Firefox will continue to list its version number in the About Dialog box ... Wired News

Blackberry PlayBook OS 2.0 leaks and has Exchange ActiveSync but no BES or BB... SlashGear Earlier this week we mentioned that QNX using Blackberry smartphones would get access to Android apps. Another interesting tidbit about a Blackberry product has now surfaced. This time it has to do with the PlayBook tablet and a leaked version of OS ... SlashGear

SINA Faces Strict Regulations Daily Markets Chinese micro-blog “weibo” provider, SINA Corp. (SINA) is expected to face stiff regulatory control over Internet content, according to a recent report by Chinese newspaper Beijing Daily. Beijing Daily, which is backed by the Communist Party of China, ...

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Has a Trailer and Matchmaking Piki Geek To begin the onslaught of PAX prime 2011 news, this morning we were graced with the presence of an entirely new Counter-Strike: Global Offensive trailer. Valve's new Counter-Strike project announces its existence in the market by showcasing new maps, ...

Google adds voice search on PCs to mapping CNET It's an incremental addition to Google Voice Search that the Web search giant announced in June. But the newly announced feature allows users to speak their destinations into a computer's microphone. The idea is to make it easy to, for example, ...

Portal Lead Kim Swift Reveals First-Person Puzzler Quantum Conundrum Gamasutra by Mike Rose [Console/PC, Business] The next game from Portal and Left 4 Dead lead Kim Swift and developer Airtight Games has been revealed at the PAX Prime expo, and is set to be released in early 2012. Quantum Conundrum, as revealed by GameSpot, ... Gamasutra

Uncharted 3 PS3 pre-order grabs top 15 Best Buy sales Punch Jump By Marcus Lai On August 26, 2011 · In News, Playstation 3, Retail, Systems Pre-order sales for Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception for the Playstation 3 ranked in the top 15 sales at Best Buy Co. Inc.'s online division this week due to strong demand. ...

The Other 2012 Toyota Camry Revealed Motorward Yep, that 2012 Toyota Camry we showed you two days ago is apparently the US version. The rest of the world will get a substantially different Camry. It is not official yet, but Toyota Ukraine has published these images of the other Camry, which must be... Motorward

Google Explains How It Improves Its Search Algorithm (VIDEO) Huffington Post In a video published to the official Google Search Blog Thursday, the Internet giant shed some light on the nuts and bolts of Google Search and the methodology behind its algorithms. "The Google Search algorithm is made up of several hundred signals ...

Rage Gameplay Demo: Gearhead Vault Gamespy.com By Mike Sharkey | Aug 26, 2011 The newest gameplay demo for id Software's upcoming post-apocalyptic shooter, Rage, takes us into Subway Town to accept a new mission: assault the Gearhead Vault and steal a powerful new power supply. ...

'Super Monday Night Combat' goes free-to-play Digital Spy By Scott Nichols, Gaming Reporter Super Monday Night Combat has been announced by Uber Entertainment as a free-to-play title. The game is a follow up to 2010's Monday Night Combat, which combined DOTA-style strategy with third-person shooter gameplay. ...

Video Find: Hamsters are Back Rolling in 2012 Kia Soul with LMFAO MotorTrend Magazine Kia has been marketing its Soul not-quite-crossover with hamsters since 2010, and those hamsters have done it all: driven cars, rapped, even played the drums. With a new round of ads coming for the face-lifted 2012 Soul, however, Kia upped its game and... MotorTrend Magazine

Apple Developing 'New Technology' for Delivering Video Content ... By Eric Slivka In an article on some of the challenges facing Tim Cook as he steps into his new role as CEO at Apple, The Wall Street Journal briefly notes that... MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors...