YouTube publicly shames internet providers - Google's video site is following in Netflix's footsteps and showing alerts on slow-loading videos, shaming service providers for poor play quality, Quartz reports - The alert reads: 'Experiencing interruptions?' and includes a link to a new website from Google that shows playback quality for ISPs - much like Netflix's monthly Speed Index. The website is: https://www.google.com/get/videoqualityreport The alerts are one of the first public moves from Google as the FCC takes on new net neutrality rules. Google's relative silence on the issue contrasts the prominent role it played pushing for an open Internet in 2010 - a surprising change, given the company's increasing work on fiber deployment.
Google Fights Back Against Facebook By Shutting Down Orkut - Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) | Seeking Alpha: ".... Successfully converting Orkut users to Google Plus and winning the Brazil and India market shares are significant milestones in Google Plus' evolution. Orkut still has substantial market share in Brazil and India, which could be used by Google to increase its market share worldwide. If Google is successful in turning Orkut users to Google Plus, it will come very close to Facebook's market share and will be able to drive companies and advertisers in these markets to increase their use of Google Plus and increase revenues."
How Google Map Hackers Can Destroy a Business at Will
Wired
Rene Bertagna blames Google for the death of his restaurant, Serbian ... It turned out thatGoogle Places, the search giant's vast business directory, ...
Google's Larry Page On The 40 Hour Work Week; JM Keynes Got There First
Forbes
Google's Larry Page has been talking about the 40 hour work week and how it might be about time that we abandoned it as the standard that we live ...
Google's $600 million real estate shopping spree in Mountain View
San Jose Mercury News
MOUNTAIN VIEW -- Google has quietly spent $600 million over the past several years in a real estate shopping spree centered on this quiet suburban ...
Google Glass wearers can steal your password
CNNMoney
They tested the algorithm on passwords entered on an Apple (AAPL, Tech30) iPad,Google's (GOOGL, Tech30) Nexus 7 tablet, and an iPhone 5.
While Amazon Dreams Of Drones And Phones, Google Attacks With Trucks And Bucks
Forbes
Amazon's Jeff Bezos has been called “the ultimate disrupter” by Fortune ... GoogleShopping Express orders being loaded onto a truck at Costco in ... be going after isApple's, but that strategy only works if you gain market share. ... You can find me onFacebook, Twitter and Google+ You can e-mail me at ...
Amazon becomes latest target in Europe's 'sweetheart' tax probe
ZDNet
In June, it began a probe into whether Apple's low rate of tax in Ireland ... Europe has also questioned Luxembourg about its treatment of Microsoft and ...
Apple poaches Tag Heuer's sales chief ahead of iWatch launch
ZDNet
While Google has jumped ahead of Apple with the recent launch Android Wear, Applehas spent the past few months bulking up on talent to bring ...
Apple ordered to revise App Store refund policy, may make changes global
Apple Insider
South Korea's Fair Trade Commission on Sunday ordered Apple and Google to make changes to their respective iOS and Android app stores policies ...
Facebook's 'research' turns users into guinea pigs
Boston Globe
Social networks like Facebook know a lot about their users and deploy the data to target advertising. The vast majority of people on Facebook accept ...
Google Services Among 472 Sites Blocked For World Cup 'Piracy'
TorrentFreak
A TV network operated by Sony has obtained a sweeping High Court injunction compelling Indian ISPs to block hundreds of 'pirate' sites. However, in ...
Amazon.co.uk launches wearable technology store (Wired UK) - Wired.co.uk
By Katie Collins
Online retail giant Amazon.co.uk has seen fit to open its own wearable ... Subscribe to; RSS · Wired Podcast · Magazine · Newsletter · Twitter · Google+ · Facebook · Tumblr ...Google Glass rendered irrelevant by Android Wear ... a wearable made by Apple, you're out of luck for the moment we're afraid.
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Google Maps' enduring security holes put businesses at risk - Boing Boing
By Cory Doctorow
The problem isn't limited to Google, of course -- reputation-trashing fake Yelp reviews and ... “The bottom line was the jeweler put five-star reviews on his Google reviews, and he ...
Boing Boing
Earth's violent volcanic past preserved in Antarctic ice sheet
New Zealand Herald
Some of the biggest volcanic eruptions of the last 2,000 years have left their indelible mark deep within the pristine ice sheet of the Antarctic, a study has found. Scientists have been able to trace the most complete history of volcanic eruptions since the birth of ...
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23 February 2014
Microsoft Slashes Windows 8 Price, Desperation Aboard a Sinking Ship?
Or just moving the chairs on the deck of the Titantic? --
Microsoft Said to Cut Windows Price 70% to Counter Rivals - Bloomberg: "Manufacturers will be charged $15 to license Windows 8.1 and preinstall it on devices that retail for less than $250, instead of the usual fee of $50, said the people, who asked not to be named because the details aren’t public."
Why AT&T's Surveillance Report Omits 80 Million NSA Targets | Threat Level | Wired.com: "AT&T this week released for the first time in the phone company’s 140-year history a rough accounting of how often the U.S. government secretly demands records on telephone customers. But to those who’ve been following the National Security Agency leaks, Ma Bell’s numbers come up short by more than 80 million spied-upon Americans...."
WhatsApp Was Valued At ~$1.5B In Final Round Before Sale | TechCrunch: "... the truth is that the company had three rounds of financing, with Sequoia as the sole investor. According to documents unearthed by VC Experts, WhatsApp went from a $250k seed round in 2009 to an $8 million round at an ~$80 million valuation in 2011. The final round, which we reported as a Series C here but was actually technically a Series B, was a $52 million round back in July 2013, at a ~$1.5 billion valuation...."
Users blast LinkedIn for falsely implying that friends and colleagues have accounts | The Verge: "... LinkedIn may be taking things a step too far; users have complained about the company's "people you may know" section listing contacts who aren't even on the professional networking site. But you'd have no idea simply looking at the tool ..."
Comcast Time Warner Cable merger criticism: no evidence it will help | BGR: "One thing we’ve heard and will continue to hear over the next several months is that the proposed Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger will be an awesome deal for consumers because it will give the newly formed cable giant the ability to really invest in aggressive network upgrades. Writing at Bloomberg Businessweek, Brendan Greeley gives us some good reasons to treat this argument with a great deal of skepticism because we’ve largely let ISPs consolidate to their hearts’ content and it’s done us very little good...."
Netflix packets being dropped every day because Verizon wants more money | Ars Technica: "Verizon wants to be paid by consumers and Cogent, but Cogent refuses to pay...."
America's 10-Year Experiment in Broadband Investment Has Failed - Businessweek: "Tom Wheeler, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, announced Wednesday that there would be new rules written to guarantee net neutrality. It’s a good thing any website can reach any person unimpeded by tolls, and it’s good that Wheeler still wants to make this possible. The Internet service providers will first work to dilute the new rules, of course, and then sue to overturn them. Entire legal departments, lobbying outfits, and public-relations firms live for this moment, the beginning of a now-familiar three-year grind with the FCC....The U.S. has slipped to 16th place. Germany, France, and the U.K. have passed us, and all the countries ahead of us have applied some combination of either opening up the last mile or paying for infrastructure at the government level...."
Serious vulnerability found in SSL/TLS on OS X Mavericks and iOS, easily exploitable [Update] - Neowin: "Apple has been working hard to get its products into the enterprise but a new security vulnerability is about to put a black eye on their reputation. Sure, we know that many companies have security related issues but it’s the fact of the obvious oversight of this issue that will raise alarm bells. On Friday, Apple revealed a significant bug in their SSL/TLS implementation..."
Free Online University Receives Accreditation, in Time for Graduating Class of 7 - NYTimes.com: "the University of the People, a tuition-free four-year-old online institution built to reach underserved students around the world, announced Thursday that it had received accreditation."
This is where you'll find your next smartphone | Mobile World Congress - CNET Reviews: "... the Mobile World Congress is anything but usual. Held every February in Barcelona, Spain, it is the the premier global event for the wireless industry. Think of a smaller CES, but pack it with only smartphones, tablets, and everything mobile, and you'll get the idea. Then, drop it all in one of the world's most seductive cities -- sorry, Las Vegas -- and you wind up with a most exciting tech show...."
Google Powers Forest Protection Effort
InformationWeek
Davis and Thau point point out that while Brazil, with its vast Amazon rainforest, has long been one of the top countries for deforestation, the rate of deforestation there declined by an average of 1,318 square kilometers per year in the past ten ...
Google's 3D tech could be boon to Glass, robots and virtual reality
Computerworld
Computerworld - News that Google is working on 3D smartphones has analysts speculating that the company will one day add the tech to a slew of its products, such asGoogle Maps, Google Glass, Google robots and even virtual reality tools. "Google is ...
Apple v. Samsung: CEOs have no deal yet
San Jose Mercury News
Apple and Samsung top executives have been unable to settle their global patent feud, although they told a federal judge late Friday they will continue to seek a pact that might avoid another San Jose federal court trial looming in March. In a brief ...
Amazon Prime prices to increase in UK, Germany
USA TODAY
Amazon will increase the price of its Prime service to customers in the United Kingdom next week by 64%. The price will go from £49 ($81) per year to £79 ($131), Amazon said. The increase comes after Amazon purchased Lovefilm, a European movie rental ...
Why Apple needs a $700 MacBook Air
Computerworld
Historically, Apple's Macs have been revenue-making machines, with an average selling price (ASP) more than twice that of other systems, the vast bulk of them powered byMicrosoft's Windows. In the September 2013 quarter, the Mac ASP was $1,230, down ...
“Near-Real-Time' Updates On Deforestation Will Help Track Global Loss Of Trees
The Almagest
Global Forest Watch (GFW), a novel monitoring system has been launched to provide “near real time” updates on deforestation around the world. Backed by Google and more than 40 business and campaign groups, GFW will collect information from satellite ...
Microsoft Said to Cut Windows Price 70% to Counter Rivals - Bloomberg: "Manufacturers will be charged $15 to license Windows 8.1 and preinstall it on devices that retail for less than $250, instead of the usual fee of $50, said the people, who asked not to be named because the details aren’t public."
Why AT&T's Surveillance Report Omits 80 Million NSA Targets | Threat Level | Wired.com: "AT&T this week released for the first time in the phone company’s 140-year history a rough accounting of how often the U.S. government secretly demands records on telephone customers. But to those who’ve been following the National Security Agency leaks, Ma Bell’s numbers come up short by more than 80 million spied-upon Americans...."
WhatsApp Was Valued At ~$1.5B In Final Round Before Sale | TechCrunch: "... the truth is that the company had three rounds of financing, with Sequoia as the sole investor. According to documents unearthed by VC Experts, WhatsApp went from a $250k seed round in 2009 to an $8 million round at an ~$80 million valuation in 2011. The final round, which we reported as a Series C here but was actually technically a Series B, was a $52 million round back in July 2013, at a ~$1.5 billion valuation...."
Users blast LinkedIn for falsely implying that friends and colleagues have accounts | The Verge: "... LinkedIn may be taking things a step too far; users have complained about the company's "people you may know" section listing contacts who aren't even on the professional networking site. But you'd have no idea simply looking at the tool ..."
Comcast Time Warner Cable merger criticism: no evidence it will help | BGR: "One thing we’ve heard and will continue to hear over the next several months is that the proposed Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger will be an awesome deal for consumers because it will give the newly formed cable giant the ability to really invest in aggressive network upgrades. Writing at Bloomberg Businessweek, Brendan Greeley gives us some good reasons to treat this argument with a great deal of skepticism because we’ve largely let ISPs consolidate to their hearts’ content and it’s done us very little good...."
Netflix packets being dropped every day because Verizon wants more money | Ars Technica: "Verizon wants to be paid by consumers and Cogent, but Cogent refuses to pay...."
America's 10-Year Experiment in Broadband Investment Has Failed - Businessweek: "Tom Wheeler, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, announced Wednesday that there would be new rules written to guarantee net neutrality. It’s a good thing any website can reach any person unimpeded by tolls, and it’s good that Wheeler still wants to make this possible. The Internet service providers will first work to dilute the new rules, of course, and then sue to overturn them. Entire legal departments, lobbying outfits, and public-relations firms live for this moment, the beginning of a now-familiar three-year grind with the FCC....The U.S. has slipped to 16th place. Germany, France, and the U.K. have passed us, and all the countries ahead of us have applied some combination of either opening up the last mile or paying for infrastructure at the government level...."
Serious vulnerability found in SSL/TLS on OS X Mavericks and iOS, easily exploitable [Update] - Neowin: "Apple has been working hard to get its products into the enterprise but a new security vulnerability is about to put a black eye on their reputation. Sure, we know that many companies have security related issues but it’s the fact of the obvious oversight of this issue that will raise alarm bells. On Friday, Apple revealed a significant bug in their SSL/TLS implementation..."
Free Online University Receives Accreditation, in Time for Graduating Class of 7 - NYTimes.com: "the University of the People, a tuition-free four-year-old online institution built to reach underserved students around the world, announced Thursday that it had received accreditation."
This is where you'll find your next smartphone | Mobile World Congress - CNET Reviews: "... the Mobile World Congress is anything but usual. Held every February in Barcelona, Spain, it is the the premier global event for the wireless industry. Think of a smaller CES, but pack it with only smartphones, tablets, and everything mobile, and you'll get the idea. Then, drop it all in one of the world's most seductive cities -- sorry, Las Vegas -- and you wind up with a most exciting tech show...."
InformationWeek
Davis and Thau point point out that while Brazil, with its vast Amazon rainforest, has long been one of the top countries for deforestation, the rate of deforestation there declined by an average of 1,318 square kilometers per year in the past ten ...
Google's 3D tech could be boon to Glass, robots and virtual reality
Computerworld
Computerworld - News that Google is working on 3D smartphones has analysts speculating that the company will one day add the tech to a slew of its products, such asGoogle Maps, Google Glass, Google robots and even virtual reality tools. "Google is ...
Apple v. Samsung: CEOs have no deal yet
San Jose Mercury News
Apple and Samsung top executives have been unable to settle their global patent feud, although they told a federal judge late Friday they will continue to seek a pact that might avoid another San Jose federal court trial looming in March. In a brief ...
Amazon Prime prices to increase in UK, Germany
USA TODAY
Amazon will increase the price of its Prime service to customers in the United Kingdom next week by 64%. The price will go from £49 ($81) per year to £79 ($131), Amazon said. The increase comes after Amazon purchased Lovefilm, a European movie rental ...
Why Apple needs a $700 MacBook Air
Computerworld
Historically, Apple's Macs have been revenue-making machines, with an average selling price (ASP) more than twice that of other systems, the vast bulk of them powered byMicrosoft's Windows. In the September 2013 quarter, the Mac ASP was $1,230, down ...
“Near-Real-Time' Updates On Deforestation Will Help Track Global Loss Of Trees
The Almagest
Global Forest Watch (GFW), a novel monitoring system has been launched to provide “near real time” updates on deforestation around the world. Backed by Google and more than 40 business and campaign groups, GFW will collect information from satellite ...
22 February 2014
Why Is Broadband Internet More Expensive in the US?
Basically it comes down to a failure of regulation -- the FCC and Obama Administration have dropped the ball -- and there probably isn't a more important issue for economic progress and infrastructure. Will Washington wake up, or will Obama's carrier-connected, conflicted FCC chair, continue to cater to ISPs?
BBC News - Why is broadband more expensive in the US?: "...The price of basic broadband, TV and phone packages - or bundles as they are known - is much higher in American cities than elsewhere, suggests the New America Foundation think tank, which compared hundreds of available packages worldwide. Looking at some of the cheaper ones available in certain cities, at lower to mid download speeds, San Francisco ($99/£61), New York ($70) and Washington DC ($68) dwarf London ($38), Paris ($35) and Seoul ($15)..."
Why is Netflix streaming slow? Major peering dispute with ISPs | BGR: " . . . What this really boils down to, explains Ars Technica’s Jon Brodkin, is a dispute over peering. Most of the time, ISPs and bandwidth providers such as Cogent Communications have peering agreements to swap traffic with one another without any additional charge. However, ISPs apparently think the rise of video streaming over their networks has upset the balance that peering agreements have traditionally struck which is why they’re trying to change things up. . . ."
Time Warner Cable Raises Rates (Again), Adds 'Broadcast TV' Fee | DSLReports, ISP Information: "As with most rate hikes, the notices are accompanied with the insistence that the hikes are about bringing you added "value," and necessary because of all the great upgrades the companies have been busy with. Except in Time Warner Cable's case those upgrades have been slow in coming, the company considerably slower than Comcast in deploying faster DOCSIS 3.0 speeds or new TV technologies."
Inside Scoop: Samsung S5 and other Mobile World Congress soothsayings Video
CNET
....All eyes are on Barcelona, Spain, ...(Mobile World Congress, February 24-27, Barcelona)
How Will WhatsApp Coexist With a Company Whose Business It Hates?
Businessweek
In recent weeks Facebook has been talking up the strategy it hopes will help keep it from fading into obsolescence during its second decade. In earnings calls and profiles in prestigious business publications, Mark Zuckerberg has talked about the value of ...
YouTube Gets a Makeover With Layout, Playlist Tweaks
PC Magazine
If you browsed over to YouTube this morning, you may have noticed that things look a little bit different. The Google-owned video-sharing site has received a mini-makeover, including changes to the layout and playlists. "The way you watch YouTube keeps ...
What Is WhatsApp? An Explainer | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: " The app also uploads all of a user's contacts and requires them to individually block users with whom they do not want contact. Additionally, even the numbers of those who do not use WhatsApp are stored in the app in perpetuity."
Google's Project Tango Sees All
InformationWeek
Current smartphones can manage limited tracking of position and orientation, but lack the full range of sensors and precision to run the kinds of applications Google envisions. More significantly, they aren't designed to place the device within a 3D ...
Hey Microsoft, where's the next Mac Office?
Computerworld
Historically, Microsoft has hewn to a three-year development cycle for both Office on the Mac and the far-more-popular Office suite for Windows, with a new version of the former following the newest of the latter by several months at a minimum. Office ...
Apple Acting More Like Microsoft Than Facebook
Forbes
Not only has Apple been slow to enter new categories with in-house products, it has also been beaten out for acquisitions by rivals like Facebook and Google Google. Whether or not Apple bid for assets like smart appliance maker Nest Labs, which Google ...
Google Fiber Plans Expansion To 34 New Cities (Including Salt Lake)
Forbes
The race for the Internet gigabit space took another leap forward this week with Google Google Fiber's announcement that it has targeted 34 more cities in 9 metro areas for access to Google internet services at the increasingly popular 1Gps speed. Salt ...
Google Borrows $1 Billion With First Bond Sale in Three Years
Bloomberg
Google Inc. (GOOG) sold bonds for the first time in three years, borrowing funds to refinance $1 billion of maturing debt even after its cash hoard swelled to a record of more than $60 billion. The owner of the world's largest search engine issued 3 ...
Google Fiber may be fast, but it takes time to build
San Jose Mercury News
If you live in one of the five Silicon Valley cities Google may wire for high speed Internet, don't expect it to happen overnight. Based on the experience of Kansas City, whereGoogle is building its first high-speed network, it could take a couple of ...
Microsoft Stops Hiding Office's Free Online Edition
TIME
PS Apple has iCloud and it's giving Office Online a run for its money and totally blows Google Drive out of the water when it comes to presentations (haven't tried it for anything else)....
Google makes good on threat, flips 'kill switch' on some Chrome add-ons
Computerworld
By forcing add-on developers to publish their work in the Store, Google moved another step closer to a closed market, the kind popularized by Apple's mobile app ecosystem, where it can more easily vet the extensions and then yank them if necessary. On ...
Google deal is no 'gentlemen's agreement', says EU antitrust chief
Chicago Tribune
PARIS (Reuters) - The EU antitrust chief defended a deal with Google over how it displays web search results, following criticism from rival firms and his own colleagues, saying there had been no gentlemen's agreement to close the case. The world's ...
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BBC News - Why is broadband more expensive in the US?: "...The price of basic broadband, TV and phone packages - or bundles as they are known - is much higher in American cities than elsewhere, suggests the New America Foundation think tank, which compared hundreds of available packages worldwide. Looking at some of the cheaper ones available in certain cities, at lower to mid download speeds, San Francisco ($99/£61), New York ($70) and Washington DC ($68) dwarf London ($38), Paris ($35) and Seoul ($15)..."
Why is Netflix streaming slow? Major peering dispute with ISPs | BGR: " . . . What this really boils down to, explains Ars Technica’s Jon Brodkin, is a dispute over peering. Most of the time, ISPs and bandwidth providers such as Cogent Communications have peering agreements to swap traffic with one another without any additional charge. However, ISPs apparently think the rise of video streaming over their networks has upset the balance that peering agreements have traditionally struck which is why they’re trying to change things up. . . ."
Time Warner Cable Raises Rates (Again), Adds 'Broadcast TV' Fee | DSLReports, ISP Information: "As with most rate hikes, the notices are accompanied with the insistence that the hikes are about bringing you added "value," and necessary because of all the great upgrades the companies have been busy with. Except in Time Warner Cable's case those upgrades have been slow in coming, the company considerably slower than Comcast in deploying faster DOCSIS 3.0 speeds or new TV technologies."
Inside Scoop: Samsung S5 and other Mobile World Congress soothsayings Video
CNET
....All eyes are on Barcelona, Spain, ...(Mobile World Congress, February 24-27, Barcelona)
How Will WhatsApp Coexist With a Company Whose Business It Hates?
Businessweek
In recent weeks Facebook has been talking up the strategy it hopes will help keep it from fading into obsolescence during its second decade. In earnings calls and profiles in prestigious business publications, Mark Zuckerberg has talked about the value of ...
YouTube Gets a Makeover With Layout, Playlist Tweaks
PC Magazine
If you browsed over to YouTube this morning, you may have noticed that things look a little bit different. The Google-owned video-sharing site has received a mini-makeover, including changes to the layout and playlists. "The way you watch YouTube keeps ...
What Is WhatsApp? An Explainer | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: " The app also uploads all of a user's contacts and requires them to individually block users with whom they do not want contact. Additionally, even the numbers of those who do not use WhatsApp are stored in the app in perpetuity."
Google's Project Tango Sees All
InformationWeek
Current smartphones can manage limited tracking of position and orientation, but lack the full range of sensors and precision to run the kinds of applications Google envisions. More significantly, they aren't designed to place the device within a 3D ...
Hey Microsoft, where's the next Mac Office?
Computerworld
Historically, Microsoft has hewn to a three-year development cycle for both Office on the Mac and the far-more-popular Office suite for Windows, with a new version of the former following the newest of the latter by several months at a minimum. Office ...
Apple Acting More Like Microsoft Than Facebook
Forbes
Not only has Apple been slow to enter new categories with in-house products, it has also been beaten out for acquisitions by rivals like Facebook and Google Google. Whether or not Apple bid for assets like smart appliance maker Nest Labs, which Google ...
Google Fiber Plans Expansion To 34 New Cities (Including Salt Lake)
Forbes
The race for the Internet gigabit space took another leap forward this week with Google Google Fiber's announcement that it has targeted 34 more cities in 9 metro areas for access to Google internet services at the increasingly popular 1Gps speed. Salt ...
Google Borrows $1 Billion With First Bond Sale in Three Years
Bloomberg
Google Inc. (GOOG) sold bonds for the first time in three years, borrowing funds to refinance $1 billion of maturing debt even after its cash hoard swelled to a record of more than $60 billion. The owner of the world's largest search engine issued 3 ...
Google Fiber may be fast, but it takes time to build
San Jose Mercury News
If you live in one of the five Silicon Valley cities Google may wire for high speed Internet, don't expect it to happen overnight. Based on the experience of Kansas City, whereGoogle is building its first high-speed network, it could take a couple of ...
Microsoft Stops Hiding Office's Free Online Edition
TIME
PS Apple has iCloud and it's giving Office Online a run for its money and totally blows Google Drive out of the water when it comes to presentations (haven't tried it for anything else)....
Google makes good on threat, flips 'kill switch' on some Chrome add-ons
Computerworld
By forcing add-on developers to publish their work in the Store, Google moved another step closer to a closed market, the kind popularized by Apple's mobile app ecosystem, where it can more easily vet the extensions and then yank them if necessary. On ...
Google deal is no 'gentlemen's agreement', says EU antitrust chief
Chicago Tribune
PARIS (Reuters) - The EU antitrust chief defended a deal with Google over how it displays web search results, following criticism from rival firms and his own colleagues, saying there had been no gentlemen's agreement to close the case. The world's ...
more technology news below ( @ web version--link below)
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24 January 2014
Google, ISPs, Video Quality Report
Google is watching all ISPs, and they are going to give the public a ranking of every ISP
Google Starts Ranking ISPs Based on YouTube Performance | DSLReports, ISP Information: "... Google has posted a new video quality report. Right now the report is simply a series of slides explaining how video gets delivered to you, but ultimately Google is going to start logging ISP connection speeds and ranking them based on YouTube streaming performance...Ultimately Google will list the best ISPs in each region based on YouTube performance, and when ISP subscribers are able to watch 90% of the YouTube videos in HD (720p) at consistent quality, that ISP will be branded as "YouTube HD Verified...." See also Netflix's Open Connect CDN
After Moto X, Moto Go, Motorola launching $50 smartphone: Great specs, lowest price | Northern Voices Online: "... now the company is going to do even better in terms of pricing of its smartphones by coming out with as low priced as $50 smartphone in the market. Motorola CEO Dennis Woodside Woodside says, “We’re going to look at that and just delivering on that value promise is super important. I mean why can’t these devices be $50? There’s no reason that can’t happen so we’re going to push that.” So get ready for the party pretty soon."
IBM sells its x86 server business to Lenovo for $2.3 billion | Business Tech - CNET News: ".... companies like Google and Facebook make their own servers rather than buying them already manufactured. And at the same time, Amazon Web Services and rival offerings led many customers away from buying their own machines and instead renting services from others better able to build this large-scale server infrastructure. IBM is the second-place server maker after Hewlett-Packard, as measured by Gartner's estimates of third-quarter revenue, with Dell in third place. IBM's sales accounted for 22.9 percent of a $12.6 billion market, with HP at 27.6 percent and Dell at 16.4 percent. IBM's share had dropped 18.9 percentage points from the year-earlier quarter...."
Microsoft, in midst of CEO search, needs a plan for the mobile future
Washington Post
... pushes to get its mobile Windows products into consumers' hands. They've attacked with prime-time product placement, products aimed at several market segments and ad campaigns that set smug Windows phone users apart from the Apple-Android wars.
Apple iPhones to Come Out With Bigger Screens
Wall Street Journal
The people said Apple plans an iPhone model with a screen larger than 4½ inches measured diagonally, and a second version with a display bigger than 5 inches. Until now, Apple's largest phone has been the 4-inch display on the iPhone 5. Both new ...
Apple Customers Bought More Expensive iPads In Q4
InformationWeek
The 2011-era iPad 2, which Apple sells for $399, registered at just 5% of all iPad sales. It is heavier and bulkier than the iPad Air, doesn't have Retina Display, and includes an outdated processor. With the two iPad Minis coming in at $299 and $399 ...
Apple Mac team to reunite for the big 3-0
MarketWatch
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — The biggest reunion of the team that developed the original Apple Inc. Macintosh computer is taking place in Silicon Valley this weekend, at the same auditorium where the little machine that changed the course of ...
Apple: We're fixing the 'white screen of death'
CNN
(CNN) -- Since Apple released iOS 7, its completely revamped operating system for the iPhone, reviews have been mixed but mostly positive. However, a glitch that has quietly plagued iPhone users — the "white/black screen of death," a bug that abruptly ...
Microsoft lawyer suggests non-US data storage for overseas users: FT
Chicago Tribune
Microsoft, along with Apple Inc, Facebook Inc, Google Inc, Twitter Inc and others jointly called in December for reforms in the way governments use internet surveillance, lobbying for more transparency and a ban on bulk data collection. But the ...
Microsoft-bound Nokia business sees sales slide
Businessweek
HELSINKI (AP) — The Nokia handsets business that Microsoft is due to take over saw sales continue to slide in the fourth quarter as its Lumia smartphones failed to draw business away from larger competitors like Apple and Samsung....
Apple gobbled up the most chips in 2013 -- is that bad?
PCWorld (blog)
Apple outspent Samsung on semiconductor purchases by more than $8 billion in 2013, as it snapped up more chips than any other company in the technology business. According to IHS Technology, Apple spent $30.3 billion on semiconductors alone in ...
Apple and Google want your body
Computerworld (blog)
The next battleground in the unyielding Apple versus Google war will be health, as the two tech giants push their vision of wearable computing into the sector -- and both firms want your body, as well as your mind. Apple and Google want your body ...
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Google Starts Ranking ISPs Based on YouTube Performance | DSLReports, ISP Information: "... Google has posted a new video quality report. Right now the report is simply a series of slides explaining how video gets delivered to you, but ultimately Google is going to start logging ISP connection speeds and ranking them based on YouTube streaming performance...Ultimately Google will list the best ISPs in each region based on YouTube performance, and when ISP subscribers are able to watch 90% of the YouTube videos in HD (720p) at consistent quality, that ISP will be branded as "YouTube HD Verified...." See also Netflix's Open Connect CDN
After Moto X, Moto Go, Motorola launching $50 smartphone: Great specs, lowest price | Northern Voices Online: "... now the company is going to do even better in terms of pricing of its smartphones by coming out with as low priced as $50 smartphone in the market. Motorola CEO Dennis Woodside Woodside says, “We’re going to look at that and just delivering on that value promise is super important. I mean why can’t these devices be $50? There’s no reason that can’t happen so we’re going to push that.” So get ready for the party pretty soon."
IBM sells its x86 server business to Lenovo for $2.3 billion | Business Tech - CNET News: ".... companies like Google and Facebook make their own servers rather than buying them already manufactured. And at the same time, Amazon Web Services and rival offerings led many customers away from buying their own machines and instead renting services from others better able to build this large-scale server infrastructure. IBM is the second-place server maker after Hewlett-Packard, as measured by Gartner's estimates of third-quarter revenue, with Dell in third place. IBM's sales accounted for 22.9 percent of a $12.6 billion market, with HP at 27.6 percent and Dell at 16.4 percent. IBM's share had dropped 18.9 percentage points from the year-earlier quarter...."
Microsoft, in midst of CEO search, needs a plan for the mobile future
Washington Post
... pushes to get its mobile Windows products into consumers' hands. They've attacked with prime-time product placement, products aimed at several market segments and ad campaigns that set smug Windows phone users apart from the Apple-Android wars.
Apple iPhones to Come Out With Bigger Screens
Wall Street Journal
The people said Apple plans an iPhone model with a screen larger than 4½ inches measured diagonally, and a second version with a display bigger than 5 inches. Until now, Apple's largest phone has been the 4-inch display on the iPhone 5. Both new ...
Apple Customers Bought More Expensive iPads In Q4
InformationWeek
The 2011-era iPad 2, which Apple sells for $399, registered at just 5% of all iPad sales. It is heavier and bulkier than the iPad Air, doesn't have Retina Display, and includes an outdated processor. With the two iPad Minis coming in at $299 and $399 ...
Apple Mac team to reunite for the big 3-0
MarketWatch
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — The biggest reunion of the team that developed the original Apple Inc. Macintosh computer is taking place in Silicon Valley this weekend, at the same auditorium where the little machine that changed the course of ...
Apple: We're fixing the 'white screen of death'
CNN
(CNN) -- Since Apple released iOS 7, its completely revamped operating system for the iPhone, reviews have been mixed but mostly positive. However, a glitch that has quietly plagued iPhone users — the "white/black screen of death," a bug that abruptly ...
Microsoft lawyer suggests non-US data storage for overseas users: FT
Chicago Tribune
Microsoft, along with Apple Inc, Facebook Inc, Google Inc, Twitter Inc and others jointly called in December for reforms in the way governments use internet surveillance, lobbying for more transparency and a ban on bulk data collection. But the ...
Microsoft-bound Nokia business sees sales slide
Businessweek
HELSINKI (AP) — The Nokia handsets business that Microsoft is due to take over saw sales continue to slide in the fourth quarter as its Lumia smartphones failed to draw business away from larger competitors like Apple and Samsung....
Apple gobbled up the most chips in 2013 -- is that bad?
PCWorld (blog)
Apple outspent Samsung on semiconductor purchases by more than $8 billion in 2013, as it snapped up more chips than any other company in the technology business. According to IHS Technology, Apple spent $30.3 billion on semiconductors alone in ...
Apple and Google want your body
Computerworld (blog)
The next battleground in the unyielding Apple versus Google war will be health, as the two tech giants push their vision of wearable computing into the sector -- and both firms want your body, as well as your mind. Apple and Google want your body ...
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11 September 2013
Who controls the US internet: Verizon, ISPs, or FCC?
Big case developing where Verizon (on behalf of itself and other ISPs) is trying to gut net neutrality and FCC governance --
The beast is back: The FCC’s net neutrality case gets its day in court — Tech News and Analysis: "SUMMARY: Verizon is arguing its net neutrality lawsuit Monday, and the case is important for consumers, web service providers and could even call the FCC’s ability to regulate the internet into question. This is big."
Look out Netflix and Google! An analyst thinks the court may allow ISPs to charge you — Tech News and Analysis: "SUMMARY: The judges hearing the lawsuit filed by Verizon against the FCC’s network neutrality rules seem inclined to let ISPs charge providers for delivering premium content– effectively creating a fast lane for the web and gutting network neutrality."
Apple Announcements Tuesday - 2 new iPhones -- iPhone 5S and 5C - At full price without a contract, which is how many overseas carriers make people pay for phones, the iPhone 5C costs $550 — only $100 less than the iPhone 5S. That is far higher than the $300 to $400 range that many analysts expected. The more expensive phone, the iPhone 5S, will be the first Apple device to feature a processor called A7, which processes information more quickly than the previous one. (source infra)
Apple Shows Off 2 New iPhones, One a Lower-Cost Model
New York Times
That is why Apple is releasing two new iPhones this month instead of just one, including a cheaper model aimed at less wealthy countries where new Apple phones have been desired but out of reach because of their price. “It has an incredible new design ...
Apple Releases Two New IPhones
Businessweek
Apple (AAPL) introduced new versions of the iPhone at an event in Cupertino, Calif., on Tuesday. The changes to the high-end iPhone were mostly incremental, aside from a nifty fingerprint scanner built into the home button. Apple also introduced a ...
Google encrypts data amid backlash against NSA spying - The Washington Post: "Google is racing to encrypt the torrents of information that flow among its data centers around the world in a bid to thwart snooping by the NSA and the intelligence agencies of foreign governments, company officials said Friday. The move by Google is among the most concrete signs yet that recent revelations about the National Security Agency’s sweeping surveillance efforts have provoked significant backlash within an American technology industry that U.S. government officials long courted as a potential partner in spying programs."
Apple Shows Off 2 New iPhones, One a Lower-Cost Model
New York Times
That is why Apple is releasing two new iPhones this month instead of just one, including a cheaper model aimed at less wealthy countries where new Apple phones have been desired but out of reach because of their price. “It has an incredible new design ...
Apple Releases Two New IPhones
Businessweek
Apple (AAPL) introduced new versions of the iPhone at an event in Cupertino, Calif., on Tuesday. The changes to the high-end iPhone were mostly incremental, aside from a nifty fingerprint scanner built into the home button. Apple also introduced a ...
Google encrypts data amid backlash against NSA spying - The Washington Post: "Google is racing to encrypt the torrents of information that flow among its data centers around the world in a bid to thwart snooping by the NSA and the intelligence agencies of foreign governments, company officials said Friday. The move by Google is among the most concrete signs yet that recent revelations about the National Security Agency’s sweeping surveillance efforts have provoked significant backlash within an American technology industry that U.S. government officials long courted as a potential partner in spying programs."
Google Refuses to Remove The Pirate Bay Homepage | TorrentFreak: "The Pirate Bay is one of the few torrent sites that doesn’t link to any infringing material on its homepage but that doesn’t prevent copyright holders from targeting it. In one of its recent DMCA notices music industry group BPI asked Google to remove The Pirate Bay’s homepage from its search results, marking it as infringing. Google disagreed, however, and refused to comply with the request."
Microsoft Wins Patent Case Against Motorola
CIO Today
Before the trial, Motorola, owned by Google, had sought rates that Microsoft... Apple and Samsung have been involved in a number of patent battles in venues ...
CIO Today
Review: Google, Apple Decent Contenders to MS Office
CIO Today
Depending on your sharing and syncing needs, Google and Apple offer free or cheap alternatives to Microsoft Office that may suit your business requirements.
CIO Today
Apple to Motorola: Mobiles getting fashion makeovers
Times of India
Apple and Google's Motorola are among those trying to score style points as... said Brunner, whose clients have included Amazon.com, Dell and Nike. ...Nokia's phone business, soon to be part of Microsoft, was one of the first to try color.
Times of India
Microsoft's Journey May Leave Too Many Behind
InformationWeek
... for IT pros haven't helped dispel the notion that Microsoft is forsaking its historic dominance with business users -- many of whom will continue to use PCs for the long haul -- in its quest to compete with Apple and Google in the consumer mobility ...
Google Makes New Offer to Settle Its European Union Antitrust Case
New York Times
“We must hope after so much prevarication that this time Google's proposals represent a genuine attempt to address the concerns identified,” said David Wood, the legal counsel for Icomp, an industry group backed by Microsoft and a number of other ...
Google, Facebook ask FISA for permission to release information on government ...
Washington Post
The requests made in the petition are similar to those laid out in a letter that civil rights groups and firms including Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft and Yahoo wrote earlier this year to President Obama and other top administration officials ...
Amazon says it won't launch a free phone
USA TODAY
Amazon is likely to refresh its line of Kindle Fire tablets later this year, in time for the holiday shopping season, when the company generates most of its sales. These devices undercut iPad on price. Such strategies aim at the heart of Apple, which ...
Apple's Latest iPhone Puts Focus Back on Fingerprint Security
Wall Street Journal
At least one new smartphone running Google Inc.'s Android operating system to be released this year will include a similar fingerprint sensor, though it is unclear if that phone will be sold in the U.S, a person familiar with the matter said. A Google ...
Microsoft launches Xbox Music on Web for free
Boston.com
based Microsoft Corp.'s move in June to release app versions of its Office software onApple's iPhone. Microsoft is also updating its Xbox Music interface by reducing the size of cover art but adding tabs to make it easier to create and manage ...
As Apple plays to the masses, the fanboys could grow restless
NBCNews.com
This undated photo made available by Google shows backup tapes stored at a data center in · After NSA encryption ... In recent years, though, the keynotes have felt a bit anti-climactic, like Christmas mornings in the age of the Amazon wishlist ...
Microsoft reverses course; releases Windows 8.1 RTM to developers
ZDNet
In fact, Microsoft is making the RTM versions of Windows 8.1 and Windows 8.1 Pro available to those groups today, September 9, starting at 10 a.m. PST. Microsoft also will be releasing the RTM version of Windows Server 2012 R2 to MSDN/TechNet and ...
Apple iOS 7: 6 Reasons Enterprises Must Upgrade
InformationWeek
Apple is known as a consumer-oriented company, but many of iOS 7's behind-the-scenes enhancements are aimed squarely at businesses. Thanks to new features that include more-granular IT controls and access to corporate content that is more convenient ...
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Microsoft Wins Patent Case Against Motorola
CIO Today
Before the trial, Motorola, owned by Google, had sought rates that Microsoft... Apple and Samsung have been involved in a number of patent battles in venues ...
CIO Today
Review: Google, Apple Decent Contenders to MS Office
CIO Today
Depending on your sharing and syncing needs, Google and Apple offer free or cheap alternatives to Microsoft Office that may suit your business requirements.
CIO Today
Apple to Motorola: Mobiles getting fashion makeovers
Times of India
Apple and Google's Motorola are among those trying to score style points as... said Brunner, whose clients have included Amazon.com, Dell and Nike. ...Nokia's phone business, soon to be part of Microsoft, was one of the first to try color.
Times of India
Microsoft's Journey May Leave Too Many Behind
InformationWeek
... for IT pros haven't helped dispel the notion that Microsoft is forsaking its historic dominance with business users -- many of whom will continue to use PCs for the long haul -- in its quest to compete with Apple and Google in the consumer mobility ...
Google Makes New Offer to Settle Its European Union Antitrust Case
New York Times
“We must hope after so much prevarication that this time Google's proposals represent a genuine attempt to address the concerns identified,” said David Wood, the legal counsel for Icomp, an industry group backed by Microsoft and a number of other ...
Google, Facebook ask FISA for permission to release information on government ...
Washington Post
The requests made in the petition are similar to those laid out in a letter that civil rights groups and firms including Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft and Yahoo wrote earlier this year to President Obama and other top administration officials ...
Amazon says it won't launch a free phone
USA TODAY
Amazon is likely to refresh its line of Kindle Fire tablets later this year, in time for the holiday shopping season, when the company generates most of its sales. These devices undercut iPad on price. Such strategies aim at the heart of Apple, which ...
Apple's Latest iPhone Puts Focus Back on Fingerprint Security
Wall Street Journal
At least one new smartphone running Google Inc.'s Android operating system to be released this year will include a similar fingerprint sensor, though it is unclear if that phone will be sold in the U.S, a person familiar with the matter said. A Google ...
Microsoft launches Xbox Music on Web for free
Boston.com
based Microsoft Corp.'s move in June to release app versions of its Office software onApple's iPhone. Microsoft is also updating its Xbox Music interface by reducing the size of cover art but adding tabs to make it easier to create and manage ...
As Apple plays to the masses, the fanboys could grow restless
NBCNews.com
This undated photo made available by Google shows backup tapes stored at a data center in · After NSA encryption ... In recent years, though, the keynotes have felt a bit anti-climactic, like Christmas mornings in the age of the Amazon wishlist ...
Microsoft reverses course; releases Windows 8.1 RTM to developers
ZDNet
In fact, Microsoft is making the RTM versions of Windows 8.1 and Windows 8.1 Pro available to those groups today, September 9, starting at 10 a.m. PST. Microsoft also will be releasing the RTM version of Windows Server 2012 R2 to MSDN/TechNet and ...
Apple iOS 7: 6 Reasons Enterprises Must Upgrade
InformationWeek
Apple is known as a consumer-oriented company, but many of iOS 7's behind-the-scenes enhancements are aimed squarely at businesses. Thanks to new features that include more-granular IT controls and access to corporate content that is more convenient ...
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23 July 2013
Google has about 25 percent of all consumer internet traffic in North America
Google has added thousands of servers — called Google Global Cache servers — to ISPs around the world. These servers store the most popular content from Google’s network — a YouTube video that’s going viral right now or apps from the Android marketplace, for example — then serve it directly from the ISP’s data center, rather than streaming it all the way from Google’s data center. These servers were in a handful of North American ISPs three years ago. Today, they’re in 80 percent of them . . . (source infra)
Google Serves 25 Percent of North American Internet Traffic
Wired . . .“What’s really interesting is, over just the past year, how pervasive Google has become, not just in Google data centers, but throughout the North American internet,” says Craig Labovitz, founder of Deepfield, the internet monitoring company that crunched the data. His probes show that more than 62 percent of the smartphones, laptops, video streamers, and other devices that tap into the internet from throughout North America connect to Google at least once a day. . . .
Cameron cracks down on 'corroding influence' of online pornography
The Guardian
Every household in Britain connected to the internet will be obliged to declare whether they want to maintain access to online pornography, David Cameron will announce on Monday. In the most dramatic step by the government to crack down on the ...
Apple Developer site hack: Turkish security researcher claims responsibility
The Guardian
Apple says its Developer portal has been hacked and that some information about its 275,000 registered third-party developers who use it may have been stolen. The portal at developer.apple.com had been offline since Thursday without explanation, raising ...
Intel cooks up new low-power server chips — oh, and it makes custom chips for ...
GigaOM
Intel says it will add new low-power, high performance system-on-chips in the Xeon E3 family for compute, storage and networking. Plus, it revealed it builds custom CPUs for eBay and Facebook. Diane Bryant Intel. photo: Jordan Novet. Intel on Monday ...
Time Warner Cable Battles CBS Over Fees
Bloomberg
July 22 (Bloomberg) -- Time Warner Cable is balking at renewing an agreement to carry CBS's broadcast network on its pay-TV system because the entertainment company is asking for too much money. RBC Capital Markets Analyst David Bank speaks with ...
Crypto flaw makes millions of smartphones susceptible to hijacking
Ars Technica
Millions of smartphones could be remotely commandeered in attacks that allow hackers to clone the secret encryption credentials used to secure payment data and identify individual handsets on carrier networks. The vulnerabilities reside in at least 500 ...
Leap Motion: Control your PC through air gestures
USA TODAY
You're not about to replace your mouse, trackpad, keyboard or even touch-screen as the chief ways to control your computer. But then you start using the new Leap Motion Controller ...
LG has announced that its curved OLED TV, model 55EA9800, will be the first ...
CNET (blog)
LG was the first manufacturer to ship large-screen OLED TV to Korea and Europe, and today the company claims "first" for its U.S. model. The LG 55EA9800, a 55-inch OLED TV with a curved screen, will be available for preorder today at a price of $14,999.
Apple's iOS maintains dominance over Android with 63% mobile browsing share
Apple Insider
New mobile Web browsing data shows that iOS users remain far more active on the Internet than their Android counterparts, with Apple's devices accounting for nearly two-thirds of all domestic mobile website traffic. Piper Jaffray. With data pulled from 70 of ...
Sony may be planning 'camera-less' camera that connects to phones
NBCNews.com (blog)
The lens unit would operate independently, but could be clamped to a device for convenience. Your phone's camera still isn't that great, but if you don't want to carry around a point-and-shoot or DSLR, either, what should you do? Sony may have a solution for ...
Ubuntu launches crowdfunding effort to manufacture a PC-level Edge superphone
ZDNet (blog)
Summary: Canonical is hoping to raise $32 million from enterprises and enthusiasts who are willing to pay for a limited edition Ubuntu for Android phone that has the specification of a laptop and delivers the "full desktop experience" when plugged into a big ...
Samsung to host developer conference in fall
ZDNet (blog)
Summary: To be held in San Francisco, it's the company's first as it works to stabilize its mobile products. . . .
eBay Now expands coverage area for 1-hour delivery
CNET
The company is adding more service areas, including Silicon Valley, Brooklyn, Queens, Chicago, and Dallas, as well as in-store pickup and a desktop service. . ..
Crowds line up in DC to experience blooming 'corpse flower,' but rancid stench ...
Washington Post
WASHINGTON — Curious crowds are experiencing the fleeting bloom of the unusual “corpse flower.” The 8-foot flower bloomed Sunday at the U.S. Botanic Garden next to the Capitol. But by the time visitors lined up Monday morning, Plant Curator Bill ...
Water on Mars? Ancient Red Planet had humongous ocean, say scientists. (+ ...
Christian Science Monitor
Scientists have spotted more evidence that an enormous ocean on Mars covered much of the planet's surface billions of years ago. Skip to next paragraph. In Pictures Exploring Mars with Curiosity. Related stories. Are you scientifically literate? Take our quiz ...
Khronos Group releases updates to graphics, parallel programming tools
PCWorld
Programming tools that harness the computing power of CPUs and graphics processors have been updated, bringing more parallel programming capabilities to the table. Standards-setting firm Khronos Group has released OpenCL 2.0, which is a key ...
New e-skin pairs flexible electronics with touchscreen technology
TechSpot
Flexible displays promise to revolutionize the way we navigate and view electronics much in the way touch-optimized screens have done in the past few years. Although we often see one or the other, we rarely see these ideas paired up; that is, until now.
Nvidia Announces New Ship Date for Shield: July 31
PC Magazine
Get excited, potential purchasers of Nvidia's Shield handheld gaming device. Nvidia has announced a new shipping date for the Shield as of this morning, and it's unlikely that the project will hit more snags between now and the new date, July 31. Nvidia's ...
Google Invests in Glass Component Supplier Himax Technologies
eWeek
The purpose of the investment is to fund production upgrades, expand capacity and further enhance production capabilities. Search engine giant Google announced it has entered into an agreement with Himax Technologies, best known for supplying the ...
Google reportedly scoops up speech recognition patents
VentureBeat
SR Tech Group LLC is claiming that Google scooped up a number of speech-related patents today. The portfolio includes a patent covering a speech interface for search engines and a patent that covers a system for modifying a speech recognition program, ...
For Facebook, the key to new users lies with feature phones overseas
GigaOM
Facebook released some stats on its feature phone usage, noting that 100 million people are now using Facebook on these phones every month. For the company, it's a key way to maintain growth and hook potential new users. facebook-featurephone.
Microsoft Isn't Doomed...Yet
Forbes
Microsoft Microsoft stock took a bath on Friday following disappointing quarterly earnings results. The company took a write-off of nearly $1 billion (USD) for unsold units of its Surface RT tablets, and Microsoft naysayers have come out of the woodwork to ...
What Would a Soviet Moon Landing Have Looked Like?
Discovery News
With the passing of Neil Armstrong last year, this 44th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing may seem even more remote in time. That said, the United States will be remembered for millennia to come for pulling off such a technological triumph — just as ...
Climate change threatens Iberian lynx
CBS News
The world's most endangered cat species could be extinct within the next 50 years, according to British researchers. The likeliest way to save the Iberian lynx, their study shows, is to base conservation efforts around climate change, and how it impacts prey.
NSA revelations reframe digital life for some
Modesto Bee
In this Thursday, July 18, 2013, photo, information technology professional Josh Scott looks up at a visual he uses while hosting a monthly "Cryptoparty" in Dallas. Across the Internet, users are talking about changes small and large, from using more ...
As Antarctic ice melts, a warning emerges from the past
Catholic Online
A study published in Nature Geoscience reveals that global warming that occurred some five million years ago causing sea levels to rise dramatically, possibly as much as by 20 meters. Scientists suggest that Antarctic ice may be more susceptible to warming ...
CIA to Fund Study to Alter Weather with Geoengineering
Nature World News
The Central Intelligence Agency, along with other U.S. government agencies, is partially funding an experiment to control the weather. Under the auspices of scientific research into whether geoengineering techniques can be used to alter Earth's environment ...
Yahoo Censors Tumblr's Gay And Lesbian Tags — #Why?
Refinery29
tumblr bod Tumblr has blocked all of its users (and those curiously perusing the site's tags) from viewing anything that has been tagged "#gay", "#lesbian", "#bisexual", and 26 other tags that have been deemed NSFW. Apparently, Yahoo believes that the ...
Canary aims to make home security simple and smart
CNET
The startup is developing a $199 home security device with an HD camera and multiple sensors that is managed by an iOS or Android smartphone. Canary includes an HD video ...
Deforestation in Africa's Congo Basin rainforest slows
BBC News
Satellite images of Africa's Congo Basin reveal that deforestation has fallen by about a third since 2000. Researchers believe this is partly because of a focus on mining and oil rather than commercial agriculture, where swathes of forest are cleared. The work ...
SanDisk's new flash drive wirelessly beams files to your tablet or phone
The Verge
When you run out of room on your Apple iPad, your HTC One, or other mobile device without an SD card slot, where do you turn? Do you painstakingly delete one batch of vacation photos to make room for the next one? SanDisk believes it has an alternative.
Dropbox acquires cash-back app Endorse
AZNewsDesk.com
Popular cloud-storage platform Dropbox has bought cash-back deals app Endorse. Endorse lets shoppers get real cash-back deals on buying branded products. Though Dropbox and Endorse confirmed the acquisition, it is not clear how much the deal costs.
First Ever Mission to Moon's South Pole: New Telescope to Launch
Science World Report
We may be getting a better look at our moon's south pole in 2015. The International Lunar Observatory Association and Moon Express are planning a first-ever mission to launch a telescope to the moon in 2015. The new instrument will rest on the lunar ...
Earth From The Saturn System — NASA Releases New Image Of The Earth As ...
PlanetSave.com
NASA just released the raw imagery from the Cassini probe's July 19th imaging session of the Earth, and the first unofficial versions of the images are now coming through thanks to the amateurs who have been working on processing them. The official ...
LEAKED: Here's Your Closest Look Yet At Google's Next Android Tablet (GOOG)
San Francisco Chronicle
Google is expected to announce its newest Android tablet, the second-generation Nexus 7, this week. In the meantime, we've already seen several leaks of the device. The latest comes from the anonymous @evleaks on Twitter, who consistently obtains ...
Moto X: Motorola's Not-So-Bold Rebirth
Intelligent Enterprise (blog)
As Motorola prepares to reveal the Moto X, its first smartphone developed under Google's ownership, here's what we expect. Samsung Unleashes New Mobile Devices: Visual ...
HopStop App for Windows Phone Vanishes Following Apple Deal
Mashable
As noted by AllThingsD, the app mysteriously vanished from the Windows Phone Marketplace. Meanwhile, Windows devices with the app already downloaded received an alert saying, "HopStop no longer supports the Windows platform."...
T-Mobile HTC One getting firmware update
The Droid Guy
The T-Mobile HTC One in the U.S is now receiving a minor under the hood update bringing minor improvements to the processor and network reception as well as 4G LTE. The update doesn't change the Android OS version, so you will still be stuck on ...
Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone Suggests $10-Per-Month Ad-Free Facebook ...
AllFacebook
Despite the fact that Facebook has repeatedly stressed that it will never charge for its service, suggestions to that effect emerge constantly, and the latest came from Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone, who wrote in a post on his blog that if the social network ...
Unity game engine adds support for Windows Phone 8, BlackBerry 10
Fiercemobilecontent
Unity Technologies released version 4.2 of its Unity game development engine, adding support for the BlackBerry (NASDAQ:BBRY) 10 mobile operating system as well as Microsoft's (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows Phone 8 and Windows RT. The Unity platform ...
Scientists capture pitch drop on camera for first time (w/ Video)
Phys.Org
The Pitch Drop experiment set up in 1944 at Trinity College Dublin's School of Physics is one of the world's oldest continuously running experiments. The experiment was established to demonstrate that pitch is a material that flows, albeit with an incredibly ...
Google's new ads for Gmail masquerade as regular emails
The Independent
Google have introduced a new form of advertising to Gmail users, directly emailing individuals with unsolicited messages from brands and companies. Currently in beta mode, the ads are only sent to those with the updated Gmail inbox where they are stored ...
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Google Serves 25 Percent of North American Internet Traffic
Wired . . .“What’s really interesting is, over just the past year, how pervasive Google has become, not just in Google data centers, but throughout the North American internet,” says Craig Labovitz, founder of Deepfield, the internet monitoring company that crunched the data. His probes show that more than 62 percent of the smartphones, laptops, video streamers, and other devices that tap into the internet from throughout North America connect to Google at least once a day. . . .
Cameron cracks down on 'corroding influence' of online pornography
The Guardian
Every household in Britain connected to the internet will be obliged to declare whether they want to maintain access to online pornography, David Cameron will announce on Monday. In the most dramatic step by the government to crack down on the ...
Apple Developer site hack: Turkish security researcher claims responsibility
The Guardian
Apple says its Developer portal has been hacked and that some information about its 275,000 registered third-party developers who use it may have been stolen. The portal at developer.apple.com had been offline since Thursday without explanation, raising ...
Intel cooks up new low-power server chips — oh, and it makes custom chips for ...
GigaOM
Intel says it will add new low-power, high performance system-on-chips in the Xeon E3 family for compute, storage and networking. Plus, it revealed it builds custom CPUs for eBay and Facebook. Diane Bryant Intel. photo: Jordan Novet. Intel on Monday ...
Time Warner Cable Battles CBS Over Fees
Bloomberg
July 22 (Bloomberg) -- Time Warner Cable is balking at renewing an agreement to carry CBS's broadcast network on its pay-TV system because the entertainment company is asking for too much money. RBC Capital Markets Analyst David Bank speaks with ...
Crypto flaw makes millions of smartphones susceptible to hijacking
Ars Technica
Millions of smartphones could be remotely commandeered in attacks that allow hackers to clone the secret encryption credentials used to secure payment data and identify individual handsets on carrier networks. The vulnerabilities reside in at least 500 ...
Leap Motion: Control your PC through air gestures
USA TODAY
You're not about to replace your mouse, trackpad, keyboard or even touch-screen as the chief ways to control your computer. But then you start using the new Leap Motion Controller ...
LG has announced that its curved OLED TV, model 55EA9800, will be the first ...
CNET (blog)
LG was the first manufacturer to ship large-screen OLED TV to Korea and Europe, and today the company claims "first" for its U.S. model. The LG 55EA9800, a 55-inch OLED TV with a curved screen, will be available for preorder today at a price of $14,999.
Apple's iOS maintains dominance over Android with 63% mobile browsing share
Apple Insider
New mobile Web browsing data shows that iOS users remain far more active on the Internet than their Android counterparts, with Apple's devices accounting for nearly two-thirds of all domestic mobile website traffic. Piper Jaffray. With data pulled from 70 of ...
Sony may be planning 'camera-less' camera that connects to phones
NBCNews.com (blog)
The lens unit would operate independently, but could be clamped to a device for convenience. Your phone's camera still isn't that great, but if you don't want to carry around a point-and-shoot or DSLR, either, what should you do? Sony may have a solution for ...
Ubuntu launches crowdfunding effort to manufacture a PC-level Edge superphone
ZDNet (blog)
Summary: Canonical is hoping to raise $32 million from enterprises and enthusiasts who are willing to pay for a limited edition Ubuntu for Android phone that has the specification of a laptop and delivers the "full desktop experience" when plugged into a big ...
Samsung to host developer conference in fall
ZDNet (blog)
Summary: To be held in San Francisco, it's the company's first as it works to stabilize its mobile products. . . .
eBay Now expands coverage area for 1-hour delivery
CNET
The company is adding more service areas, including Silicon Valley, Brooklyn, Queens, Chicago, and Dallas, as well as in-store pickup and a desktop service. . ..
Crowds line up in DC to experience blooming 'corpse flower,' but rancid stench ...
Washington Post
WASHINGTON — Curious crowds are experiencing the fleeting bloom of the unusual “corpse flower.” The 8-foot flower bloomed Sunday at the U.S. Botanic Garden next to the Capitol. But by the time visitors lined up Monday morning, Plant Curator Bill ...
Water on Mars? Ancient Red Planet had humongous ocean, say scientists. (+ ...
Christian Science Monitor
Scientists have spotted more evidence that an enormous ocean on Mars covered much of the planet's surface billions of years ago. Skip to next paragraph. In Pictures Exploring Mars with Curiosity. Related stories. Are you scientifically literate? Take our quiz ...
Khronos Group releases updates to graphics, parallel programming tools
PCWorld
Programming tools that harness the computing power of CPUs and graphics processors have been updated, bringing more parallel programming capabilities to the table. Standards-setting firm Khronos Group has released OpenCL 2.0, which is a key ...
New e-skin pairs flexible electronics with touchscreen technology
TechSpot
Flexible displays promise to revolutionize the way we navigate and view electronics much in the way touch-optimized screens have done in the past few years. Although we often see one or the other, we rarely see these ideas paired up; that is, until now.
Nvidia Announces New Ship Date for Shield: July 31
PC Magazine
Get excited, potential purchasers of Nvidia's Shield handheld gaming device. Nvidia has announced a new shipping date for the Shield as of this morning, and it's unlikely that the project will hit more snags between now and the new date, July 31. Nvidia's ...
Google Invests in Glass Component Supplier Himax Technologies
eWeek
The purpose of the investment is to fund production upgrades, expand capacity and further enhance production capabilities. Search engine giant Google announced it has entered into an agreement with Himax Technologies, best known for supplying the ...
Google reportedly scoops up speech recognition patents
VentureBeat
SR Tech Group LLC is claiming that Google scooped up a number of speech-related patents today. The portfolio includes a patent covering a speech interface for search engines and a patent that covers a system for modifying a speech recognition program, ...
For Facebook, the key to new users lies with feature phones overseas
GigaOM
Facebook released some stats on its feature phone usage, noting that 100 million people are now using Facebook on these phones every month. For the company, it's a key way to maintain growth and hook potential new users. facebook-featurephone.
Microsoft Isn't Doomed...Yet
Forbes
Microsoft Microsoft stock took a bath on Friday following disappointing quarterly earnings results. The company took a write-off of nearly $1 billion (USD) for unsold units of its Surface RT tablets, and Microsoft naysayers have come out of the woodwork to ...
What Would a Soviet Moon Landing Have Looked Like?
Discovery News
With the passing of Neil Armstrong last year, this 44th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing may seem even more remote in time. That said, the United States will be remembered for millennia to come for pulling off such a technological triumph — just as ...
Climate change threatens Iberian lynx
CBS News
The world's most endangered cat species could be extinct within the next 50 years, according to British researchers. The likeliest way to save the Iberian lynx, their study shows, is to base conservation efforts around climate change, and how it impacts prey.
NSA revelations reframe digital life for some
Modesto Bee
In this Thursday, July 18, 2013, photo, information technology professional Josh Scott looks up at a visual he uses while hosting a monthly "Cryptoparty" in Dallas. Across the Internet, users are talking about changes small and large, from using more ...
As Antarctic ice melts, a warning emerges from the past
Catholic Online
A study published in Nature Geoscience reveals that global warming that occurred some five million years ago causing sea levels to rise dramatically, possibly as much as by 20 meters. Scientists suggest that Antarctic ice may be more susceptible to warming ...
CIA to Fund Study to Alter Weather with Geoengineering
Nature World News
The Central Intelligence Agency, along with other U.S. government agencies, is partially funding an experiment to control the weather. Under the auspices of scientific research into whether geoengineering techniques can be used to alter Earth's environment ...
Yahoo Censors Tumblr's Gay And Lesbian Tags — #Why?
Refinery29
tumblr bod Tumblr has blocked all of its users (and those curiously perusing the site's tags) from viewing anything that has been tagged "#gay", "#lesbian", "#bisexual", and 26 other tags that have been deemed NSFW. Apparently, Yahoo believes that the ...
Canary aims to make home security simple and smart
CNET
The startup is developing a $199 home security device with an HD camera and multiple sensors that is managed by an iOS or Android smartphone. Canary includes an HD video ...
Deforestation in Africa's Congo Basin rainforest slows
BBC News
Satellite images of Africa's Congo Basin reveal that deforestation has fallen by about a third since 2000. Researchers believe this is partly because of a focus on mining and oil rather than commercial agriculture, where swathes of forest are cleared. The work ...
SanDisk's new flash drive wirelessly beams files to your tablet or phone
The Verge
When you run out of room on your Apple iPad, your HTC One, or other mobile device without an SD card slot, where do you turn? Do you painstakingly delete one batch of vacation photos to make room for the next one? SanDisk believes it has an alternative.
Dropbox acquires cash-back app Endorse
AZNewsDesk.com
Popular cloud-storage platform Dropbox has bought cash-back deals app Endorse. Endorse lets shoppers get real cash-back deals on buying branded products. Though Dropbox and Endorse confirmed the acquisition, it is not clear how much the deal costs.
First Ever Mission to Moon's South Pole: New Telescope to Launch
Science World Report
We may be getting a better look at our moon's south pole in 2015. The International Lunar Observatory Association and Moon Express are planning a first-ever mission to launch a telescope to the moon in 2015. The new instrument will rest on the lunar ...
Earth From The Saturn System — NASA Releases New Image Of The Earth As ...
PlanetSave.com
NASA just released the raw imagery from the Cassini probe's July 19th imaging session of the Earth, and the first unofficial versions of the images are now coming through thanks to the amateurs who have been working on processing them. The official ...
LEAKED: Here's Your Closest Look Yet At Google's Next Android Tablet (GOOG)
San Francisco Chronicle
Google is expected to announce its newest Android tablet, the second-generation Nexus 7, this week. In the meantime, we've already seen several leaks of the device. The latest comes from the anonymous @evleaks on Twitter, who consistently obtains ...
Moto X: Motorola's Not-So-Bold Rebirth
Intelligent Enterprise (blog)
As Motorola prepares to reveal the Moto X, its first smartphone developed under Google's ownership, here's what we expect. Samsung Unleashes New Mobile Devices: Visual ...
HopStop App for Windows Phone Vanishes Following Apple Deal
Mashable
As noted by AllThingsD, the app mysteriously vanished from the Windows Phone Marketplace. Meanwhile, Windows devices with the app already downloaded received an alert saying, "HopStop no longer supports the Windows platform."...
T-Mobile HTC One getting firmware update
The Droid Guy
The T-Mobile HTC One in the U.S is now receiving a minor under the hood update bringing minor improvements to the processor and network reception as well as 4G LTE. The update doesn't change the Android OS version, so you will still be stuck on ...
Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone Suggests $10-Per-Month Ad-Free Facebook ...
AllFacebook
Despite the fact that Facebook has repeatedly stressed that it will never charge for its service, suggestions to that effect emerge constantly, and the latest came from Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone, who wrote in a post on his blog that if the social network ...
Unity game engine adds support for Windows Phone 8, BlackBerry 10
Fiercemobilecontent
Unity Technologies released version 4.2 of its Unity game development engine, adding support for the BlackBerry (NASDAQ:BBRY) 10 mobile operating system as well as Microsoft's (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows Phone 8 and Windows RT. The Unity platform ...
Scientists capture pitch drop on camera for first time (w/ Video)
Phys.Org
The Pitch Drop experiment set up in 1944 at Trinity College Dublin's School of Physics is one of the world's oldest continuously running experiments. The experiment was established to demonstrate that pitch is a material that flows, albeit with an incredibly ...
Google's new ads for Gmail masquerade as regular emails
The Independent
Google have introduced a new form of advertising to Gmail users, directly emailing individuals with unsolicited messages from brands and companies. Currently in beta mode, the ads are only sent to those with the updated Gmail inbox where they are stored ...
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