Report: North Korea Linked To Cyberterrorism Against Sony (video)

U.S. Links North Korea to Sony Hacking - NYTimes.com: "... Senior administration officials, who would not speak on the record about the intelligence findings, said the White House was still debating whether to publicly accuse North Korea of what amounts to a cyberterrorism campaign..."



Sony’s New York premiere of “The Interview” was canceled and the fourth-largest U.S. cinema chain won’t screen the film after threats of violence from the hackers behind a devastating cyberattack on the studio. Adallom President of Marketing Tal Klein and Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw speak on “Bloomberg West.” (Source: Bloomberg)

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Google's Detractors Take Their Fight to the States
New York Times
Google's detractors complain about the search giant to everyone they can, ... ForMicrosoft, any limits imposed on Google might help it improve the ...


Wired
Sci-Fi Author Neal Stephenson Joins Mystery Startup Magic Leap as 'Chief Futurist'
Wired
Silicon Valley is already abuzz over this stealthy augmented-reality startup, mainly due to some funding from Google and a brief glimpse of the company's technology that shows a 3-D virtual elephant floating above someone's hands. And now, the company ...

ABC News
Instagram Gets Five New Filters
PC Magazine
It's been two years since Instagram added any new filters to its lineup of classics like Rise, Lo-Fi, and X-Pro II. So it's high time the Facebook-owned company got on that, right? Well, get ready to get excited, Instagrammers. Because the photo- and ...

The Independent
Google Reveals 2014's Top Searches
PC Magazine
Google clocked trillions of searches worldwide in 2014, but one man managed to steal the spotlight: The late Robin Williams landed the No. 1 spot in the global trends charts. The comedian and actor passed away in August, prompting folks around the world ...

PCWorld
Sony can make any eyewear more like Google Glass
Engadget
Sony has just announced a new attachable display module that can turn a "pair of fashionable glasses, goggles, sunglasses, or other type of eyewear" into smartglasses. And, yes, it's completely detachable so you can remove it whenever you want to.

Wall Street Journal
Sprint to Face Record Fine Over Unauthorized Customer Charges
Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Commission is preparing to fine Sprint Corp. a record $105 million over allegations the company charged consumers for unwanted text message alerts and other services. An FCC official confirmed that the ...

USA TODAY
Report: Samsung Eyeing Apple Pay Competitor
PC Magazine
Samsung is in talks with payments startup LoopPay for a technology that would rival Apple's new mobile payment system, according to a Tuesday report from Re/code. The technology, slated to make its debut in 2015, would bring greater convenience to the ...

CNET
Alleged OnePlus Mini spied in leaked photos
CNET
A pair of images have emerged showing what purports to be a smaller take on the OnePlus smartphone...

Forbes
Why Nintendo's Wii U Might Be The Best Console To Unwrap Christmas Morning
Forbes
In the next week or so, there will likely be many articles stacking up the three major consoles, the PS4, the Xbox One, and the Wii U, comparing price, features, graphics, games and so on as you try to understand which one to buy for someone (or yourself) this ...

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Tech News Week Review, Jack Ma Richest in Asia (video)

Jack Ma has become the richest person in Asia. The 50-year-old founder of Alibaba Group Holding, China’s biggest e-commerce company, passed Li Ka-shing, the Hong Kong property and ports tycoon who has held the top spot in the region since April 5, 2012, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Bloomberg's Yvonne Man has more on "On The Move Asia." (Source: Bloomberg 12Dec)


CNET
FCC to spend $3.9 billion to expand Internet access to schools in rural and poor ...
Washington Post
The Federal Communications Commission agreed Thursday to dramatically boost spending to bring high-speed Internet access to schools and libraries in poor or rural areas, a move that would probably increase Americans' phone bills by about $2 a year.


USA TODAY
'Call of Duty' and Xbox One pace monthly game sales
USA TODAY
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare captured the top spot on November's video-game sales list and Microsoft's Xbox One outsold the PlayStation 4, according to The NPD Group — the first month Xbox has been the top seller since the consoles were released a ...


Forbes
Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook May Offer Something Beyond The Like Button
Forbes
For years, people on Facebook have wanted something more than the Like button to express their feelings about the posts they see on the social network. Despite the clamoring, though, all you see to click on below posts is a thumbs up. That could change ...


Fortune
Twitter co-founder: 'I don't give a sh*t' if Instagram has more users
Fortune
Yesterday, Instagram announced it has 300 million monthly active users. The news drew immediate comparisons between the photo-sharing app, which sold to Facebook FB for $1 billion in 2012, and Twitter TWTR , a $24 billion publicly traded company ...


Financial Times
Google shuts Russia engineering office
Financial Times
Google is to close its engineering office in Russia, in the latest sign that a crackdown on internet activity by Russian authorities this year could hasten an outflow of engineering talent from the country. A series of moves against internet companies, culminating ...


Wired
Original Apple computer sells for $365000 at New York auction
Reuters
A fully operational Apple computer that company co-founder Steve Jobs sold out of his parents' garage in 1976 for $600 sold for $365,000 at Christie's on Thursday. The Ricketts Apple-1 Personal Computer, named after its ...


Quartz
Priceline.com Becomes First Major Online Travel Agency to Integrate Apple Pay ...
MarketWatch
Priceline.com announced today that it is the first major Online Travel Agency (OTA) to integrate Apple Pay in its recently updated ...


CBC.ca
Spanish news to vanish from Google News globally
Fresno Business Journal
Google announced Thursday it will close Google News in Spain and block reports from Spanish publishers from more than 70 Google News international editions due to a new Spanish law...


NDTV
YouTube unveils experimental new GIF maker, currently in testing on PBS Idea ...
9 to 5 Google
YouTube has just released a new GIF-making tool in testing on PBS's Idea Channel. The tool is available under the share menu and allows users to pick a five-second clip from the video, add two lines of text, and export the file to their computer. The frame rate ...

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YouTube, Stars, Channels, Talent Development (videos)

How to Turn YouTube Stars into Media Empires: Video - Bloomberg:
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Omnivision Entertainment CEO Rob Barnett discusses YouTube stars and talent development in the digital world. He speaks with Betty Liu on “In The Loop.” (Source: Bloomberg)

How to Build an Audience for a Successful YouTube Channel: Video - Bloomberg:
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RocketJump Founder Freddie Wong and Bloomberg’s Felix Gillette discuss YouTube, short-form digital videos and building an online audience. They speak on "Bloomberg West." (Source: Bloomberg Aug28)

Instagram Hyperlapse app lets you create amazing time-lapse videos
Tech Times
Instagram has just launched Hyperlapse, an app that allows users to create professional-looking time lapse videos. The app uses image stabilizing algorithms to make images clearer. (Photo : Instagram). Instagram has just launched Hyperlapse, a standalone ...


Tech Times
Amazon won't change a thing about Twitch: Acquisition accepted by Twitch ...
Tech Times
Amazon has announced that it won't bring changes to Twitch, so everything should stay the same. Furthermore, it appears the Twitch community is quite pleased with the buyout. (Photo : Roja Directa). After it had been announced that Amazon has acquired ...


CNNMoney
Samsung unveils smartwatch that can make calls
Reuters
SEOUL Aug 28 (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd on Thursday unveiled what it said was the first smartwatch capable of making and receiving calls without a mobile phone nearby, in the South Korean firm's latest effort to find a new growth driver.


Telegraph.co.uk
Apple to unveil iWatch alongside iPhone 6
Telegraph.co.uk
Apple will unveil a smartwatch alongside the iPhone 6 on September 9, according to reports. The technology giant is expected to launch the iWatch at a "big" media event next month, Re/code has claimed. The wearable device could utilise the HomeKit ...

Cotap, A WhatsApp For The Workplace, Adds Box, Dropbox, Google, OneDrive And Desktop App | TechCrunch: ".... for a client like a cafe or a hotel, users include not just those in the back office, but those working at the front line of the retail experience. “Think of Cotap on a smartphone as replacing and improving on how a large business might have used a walkie-talkie,” Patterson explains. The Box, Dropbox, Google Drive and OneDrive integrations that are being announced today are a part of that bigger concept, Patterson tells me, with the idea here being that you can send flyers to staff with information, pictures of lost property, or other communications — as well as the latest marketing strategy...."

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Amazon Fire Phone #FAIL; LA Schools Suspend iPads

35,000. That’s the maximum potential number of Fire Phones Amazon has sold so far, according to an estimate by The Guardian’s Charles Arthur. (source infra)

There's no hope for Amazon's Fire Phone | VentureBeat | Mobile | by Devindra Hardawar: "The ultimate problem? With the Fire Phone, Amazon ended up serving itself more than it actually served consumers."

L.A. Unified halts contract for iPads - LA Times: "LA schools Supt. John Deasy suspended future use of a contract with Apple on Monday that was to provide iPads to all students in the nation's second-largest school system amid mounting scrutiny of the $1-billion-plus effort. The suspension comes days after disclosures that the superintendent and his top deputy had especially close ties to executives of Apple, maker of the iPad, and Pearson, the company that is providing the curriculum on the devices. And an internal report that examined the technology effort showed major problems with the process and the implementation."Moving forward, we will no longer utilize our current contract with Apple Inc.," Deasy wrote in a memo sent to the Board of Education on Monday...Under the contract approved just over a year ago, Apple had been expected to provide iPads with Pearson as the subcontractor...."

Huawei Is Shaking Up the Smartphone Market - WSJ: "WSJ: Have you ever considered using the Tizen operating system [developed by Samsung and backed by Intel Corp. and others]? Mr. Yu: We have no plans to use Tizen. Some telecom carriers are pushing us to design Tizen phones but I say "no" to them. In the past we had a team to do research on Tizen but I canceled it. We feel Tizen has no chance to be successful. Even for Windows Phone it's difficult to be successful. We have no plans to build our own OS. It's easy to design a new OS, but the problem is building the ecosystem around it."

Speed and Spectators Lead to Twitch, a Gaming Nexus
New York Times
The website has quickly emerged as the go-to destination for watching video games, drawing tens of millions of viewers each month. On Monday, that success led to a huge payday for the company's founders, as Amazon said it had reached a deal to buy ...


Daily Mail
Is the universe a 2D hologram? Fermilab intends to find out
CNET
An experiment at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory called the Holometer intends to test several theories about the universe, including the holographic principle...


CNN
A quick photo primer on Instagram's Hyperlapse app
CNET
Instagram's new time lapse toolkit is a ton of fun -- more so if you know the ins and outs of the art form. Here's a best practices guide for snapping sped-up shots through space...


Laboratory Equipment
Cosmic effort provides best view yet of distant colliding galaxies
CNET
Behold the best look yet at a massive intergalactic train wreck in progress. It's also a glimpse at what the universe looked like when it was only half its current age...


Businessweek
Is Apple Prepping a Bigger iPad for 2015?
Businessweek
Remember when gadgets used to keep getting smaller? Now they keep getting bigger. Apple (AAPL) is rumored to be bringing out a larger iPhone this fall, and now our colleagues at Bloomberg News are reporting that a larger iPad is in the pipeline, too.


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Social media not a vehicle of debate, instead encourages self-censorship: Study
IBNLive
Washington: People who use Facebook and Twitter are less likely than others to share their opinions on hot-button issues, even when they are offline, according to a surprising new survey by the Pew Research Center. The study, done in conjunction with ...


New York Times
Google Acquires Video and Special-Effects Startup Zync
Wall Street Journal
The service operated on Amazon computers, but Google said it would move ... Googlelaunched a push earlier this year to get more developers and ...

Here’s How Amazon Might Take Over Brick-and-Mortar Retail | Re/code: "Broadly, they said the world’s largest online retailer aims to make it easy for a wider array of brick-and-mortar shops to sell on Amazon while giving Amazon shoppers another way to receive orders on the same day they are purchased. The move would extend Amazon’s reach far beyond the virtual checkout aisle to the real ones in your neighborhood."

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Sony’s PS4 Outsells Microsoft’s Xbox One in March (video)

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Bloomberg’s Mia Saini reports on the state of the video game market and how Sony’s PS4 outsold Microsoft’s Xbox One game console in the U.S. for the last three months. She speaks to Rishaad Salamat on Bloomberg Television’s “On The Move Asia.” (Bloomberg April18) 

Flickr Ventures Into Instagram's Territory With Mobile Redesign
Cult of Mac
Flickr's redesigned mobile apps, which are out today, look very much Instagram. And I think it's safe to say that the design decision was intentional. The question now is whether Flickr can set itself apart with its pro-friendly features and more free cloud storage ...

Earth-size planet with right temperature found 500 light-years away
Press Herald
The planet is the first Earth-size sphere found outside the solar system in the 'Goldilocks zone.' By Meeri Kim The Washington Post. The hunt for Earth's alien twin reached a new milestone with the discovery of a faraway exoplanet that's not much bigger than ...

Twitter Makes Bold Moves in Mobile Ad Game
TechNewsWorld
Twitter has taken a deep breath and plunged into mobile advertising with zeal, announcing a MoPub platform integration that could provide marketers with access to more than a billion pairs of eyeballs. In addition, it's taking another page from Facebook with ...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Released.
PC Perspectives
Ubuntu, the popular Linux distribution, has been on a steady six-month release schedule for eight years. Every four versions, that is, once every two years, one is marked as Long Term Support (LTS). While typical (non-LTS) releases are supported for around ...

Modern sharks are sleeker, faster than their ancestors, fossil find suggests
Fox News
Sharks turn out to be more modern and sleek than anyone had ever imagined, given a new study that negates a prior theory that today's sharks are “living fossils,” changing little over time. Instead, like the latest and greatest electronic devices or sports cars, ...

Windows Phone 8.1: Finally, a worthy rival to Android and iOS
Economic Times
It has been nearly four years since Microsoft launched Windows Phone. The OS is beautiful to look at and with its unique tile-based user interface, offers an approach to software that is fresh and modern compared to Android or iOS. The OS even forced both ...

Marshall Space Flight Center prepares for dynamic year with Space Launch ...
WAAY
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAAY) - The Marshall Space Flight Center says, over the next several years, it could break new ground, when it comes to all kinds of discoveries. As NASA and the Marshall Space Flight Center enter next year's budget year, they're poised ...

In weird Brazilian cave insects, male-female sex organs reversed
Reuters UK
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - This may be the role reversal to end all role reversals. Scientists on Thursday described four insect species that dwell in extremely dry caves in Brazil, feed on bat guano and possess what the researchers called an "evolutionary ...

Centipede eats its way out of deadly snake [PHOTO]
Science Recorder
Scientists are astonished to find a viper eaten alive from the inside out by his prey, a centipede. Centipede eats its way out of deadly snake [PHOTO]. Science Recorder | Delila James | Friday, April 18, 2014. While scientists were on a field study in Macedonia, ...

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Instagram goes Video

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Facebook Unveils Video on Instagram
PC Magazine
Video on Instagram will allow for 15-second video clips and includes 13 custom filters just for video. A feature known as Cinema will also provide for image stabilization so no more dizzying shots of friends at the bar or the kids at the playground. Instagram has ...

Mozilla again postpones Firefox third-party cookie-blocking, this time for months
Computerworld
Computerworld - Mozilla has effectively postponed Firefox's controversial third-party cookie-blocking policy for several months. Yesterday, the open-source developer announced it was collaborating with a new initiative, dubbed "Cookie Clearinghouse," or ...

LA Cable Customers Want to Dodge Time Warner's Sports Spending
Businessweek
The push for a la carte cable TV spilled over into courts this week when four Los Angeles residents filed a class-action complaint (PDF) against Time Warner Cable (TWC) for “invidious” bundling of expensive sports games. The aggrieved customers say Time ...

Google: GPAs are worthless
CNET
Google's senior vice president of "people operations" reveals that grade point averages mean nothing in hiring. Oh, and Google's going to stop its silly brain teaser tests too. Chris Matyszczyk.....

3-D Map of Human Brain Gives Unprecedented Detail
New York Times
Researchers in Germany and Canada have produced a new map of the human brain — not the sort that shows every brain cell and its every connection or the kind that shows broad patterns of activity in brain regions, but a work of classic anatomy, done with ...

Apple trial defense: A guilty verdict would send chills across Internet industry
Washington Post
NEW YORK--Apple lawyers on Thursday closed their arguments in a federal antitrust trial with fierce warnings that a guilty verdict would sends chills across the Internet industry. After three weeks defending Apple against Justice Department charges that it led ...

Every search engine hates the Xbox One ... except Microsoft's Bing
NBCNews.com
Microsoft may have reassured fans this week that the Xbox One won't be as restrictive a device as many feared, but the company still has something of a Google problem. Microsoft's Xbox One console has already had something of a social media problem.

US House bill would force Obama to declassify Fisa court decisions
The Guardian
Two US congressmen introduced a bill on Thursday compelling the Obama administration to declassify the secret legal justifications for the wide-ranging surveillance programs run by the National Security Agency. The disclosure bill, a complement to one ...

How did the chest-hair-farming Hoff crab evolve? Scientists solve mystery (+ video)
Christian Science Monitor
Footage from first ROV dives to vent fields at depth ~2400 m on the East Scotia Ridge, near Antarctica, from RRS James Cook Voyage 42 in January-February 2010. This crab has come a long way to farm its own chest hair. Skip to next paragraph. In Pictures ...

Nokia M&A talk stirs share valuation rethink
Reuters
Thu Jun 20, 2013 12:39pm EDT. * Investors, analysts say default fears have receded. * Spreads on outstanding bonds shrink. By Ritsuko Ando. HELSINKI, June 20 (Reuters) - Investors alert to M&A speculation around Nokia are taking a fresh look at whether ...

Pirate Bay founder Warg jailed for two years for hacking and fraud
Register
Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg has been found guilty of hacking in Sweden and sentenced to two years' imprisonment. Warg, 28, was found guilty of breaking into the Swedish arm of IT services firm Logica before publishing the personal data of ...

Xbox One reversal: did Microsoft make the right decision?
The Guardian
The internet won – that's the message flooding Twitter. Microsoft's attempt to restrict the sales of pre-owned games and to tie consoles in to a rigorous online authentication regime has been quashed. Xbox One games will now work like Xbox 360 games – you ...

Mars had materials rich in oxygen about 4 billion years ago
DailyTech
A new study suggests that Mars had an oxygen-rich environment long ago -- even before Earth. Oxford University researchers, led by Professor Bernard Wood of Oxford University's Department of Earth Sciences, compared meteorites and surface rocks before ...

'By the way, does anyone know how to stop an asteroid?' NASA issues 'Grand ...
Digital Trends
Although the idea of an enormous asteroid smashing into our plant and ruining our day in a big way still seems fantastical to many, events like the one over central Russia earlier this year mean more and more earthlings are waking up to the idea that, actually, ...

US Court of Appeals upholds Wii balance board patent
Gamasutra
The Federal Circuit of the US Court of Appeals has upheld a 2012 decision ruling that Nintendo's Wii balance board does not infringe on a patent held by IA Labs. The patent in question (U.S. Patent No. 7,121,982) describes an "isometric exercise system" ...

Chrysler Just Dared Its Competitors To Steal Its Customers
Forbes
With yesterday's last minute agreement with NHSTA, Chrysler will work on just over half of the Jeeps it had been asked to fix. It also doesn't have to call it a recall, but rather a customer service action, which'll give it cover in lawsuits arising from crashes.

Best Buy recalls thousands of MacBook Pro batteries due to fire, burn hazards
Digital Trends
Best Buy has put out a recall notice for 5,100 MacBook Pro batteries after reports of fires, with the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) warning that consumers should “immediately stop using the recalled battery”. The recalled batteries, which ...

Here we go again! Facebook Phone rumors reignite
Computerworld
Computerworld - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was in South Korea this week to meet with Samsung executives, and sparking speculation -- yet again -- that the social network will build its own smartphone. Zuckerberg reportedly met with the head of ...

Parents' Challenge: Many, Many Kids Apps to Choose From
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Swedish app maker Toca Boca on Thursday launched a new kids' game called Toca Builders, its 20th title in a stable of apps aimed at children hungry for interactive experiences. It's like a box of Legos for an iPad. Toca Boca: A screenshot of Toca Builders.

Snail genes reveal human migration
BBC News
A genetic similarity between snail fossils found in Ireland and the Eastern Pyrenees suggests humans migrated from southern Europe to Ireland 8,000 years ago. The slimy creatures in Ireland today are almost identical to snails in Southern France and ...

AP Buys Stake in Live Video Service Bambuser
ABC News
The Associated Press said Thursday that it has bought a minority stake in the live video service Bambuser, boosting its ability to acquire and distribute video collected by people who have witnessed news events. Financial terms were not disclosed. As part of ...

IDC gives Apple 9% of Chinese smartphone market, double the prevailing ...
Apple Insider
IDC has ranked Apple the fifth largest smartphone vendor in China, assigning it a 9 percent share of the 78 million smartphones sold in Q1. While the market grew by 117 percent, Apple's sales of the entry level iPhone 4 grew by 211 percent, the firm noted.

LinkedIn outage prompts security concerns
PCWorld
LinkedIn's domain name was temporarily redirected to a third-party server Thursday, which resulted in a service outage and potentially put user accounts at risk of compromise. Uptime monitoring service Pingdom recorded that LinkedIn was unavailable ...

Photoshop CC pirated already? You're missing the point
ZDNet
Summary: Adobe's decision to move to the cloud isn't about curbing all piracy. Just some. Remember ...

Lecture from space inspires children's dreams
Xinhua
BEIJING, June 20 (Xinhua) -- While watching a live broadcast of a science lecture delivered by an astronaut aboard the space module Tiangong-1 Thursday morning, Wang Lutian was drawing a colorful rocket with crayons in his classroom. "Moon...stars...a ...

Massive bee die-off in Oregon city prompts investigation from wildlife experts
CBS News
WILSONVILLE, Ore. Experts are investigating why 25,000 bees were found dead or dying in a parking lot at a Target store in an Oregon city southwest of Portland, CBS Portland affiliate KOIN-TV reports. The strange sight first caught shoppers' eyes a few days ...

Nvidia Cuts Shield Price to $299 Before June 27 Launch
PC Magazine
Nvidia today announced that it will drop the price of its upcoming Shield portable gaming system from $349 to $299. "We've heard from thousands of gamers that if the price was $299, we'd have a home run. So we're changing the price of Shield to $299," ...

Here You Go, Taxpayers: A Billion-Pixel Image of Mars
The Atlantic
This, to be clear, is not the full billion-pixel image. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS). The main purpose of the Mars Science Laboratory's mission to the red planet is exactly what its name suggests: science. There's a secondary mission, too, though, something that ...

Android Dolphin Browser Gets Boost After 80M Installs
PC Magazine
Dolphin today celebrated 80 million installs with the launch of a new version of its Android mobile browser. Version 10 boasts features like a customizable home screen, an intuitive user interface design, and rare functions like vertical search and Flash support ...

'XCOM' brings console-quality gaming to iPad, iPhone
USA TODAY
Last October, 2K Games and studio Firaxis launched XCOM: Enemy Unknown, a stellar turn-based strategy game for PCs and video game consoles that delivered incredible depth, smooth controls and intense combat. Now, it's available on your iPhone and ...

Life after Google Reader: why Feedly is the best alternative
The Province
NEW YORK — On July 1, we say goodbye to Google Reader, a handy tool for bringing headlines and articles from your favourite websites into a single place. With Reader, I've been able to see at a glance all the updates from various news services, blogs and ...

LG's next flagship smartphone will feature a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 CPU
Inquirer
KOREAN PHONE MAKER LG has announced that it will partner with Qualcomm for its next generation flagship smartphone that it plans to release in the third quarter. LG and Qualcomm have enjoyed a close relationship for a while, and that looks set to ...

Durable batteries are large, but cheap -- perfect for grid storage
DailyTech
You won't find this battery in your laptop or smartphone anytime soon, but it may help deliver steady power to those devices. I. Wood Battery -- Inspired by Nature As the world races forward towards intermittent alternative energy sources such as wind and ...

Holograms Enabled by $10 Optical Chip
Photonics.com
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 20, 2013 — An optical chip built by an MIT graduate student at a cost of $10 could be a “game changer” for holography, enhancing the resolution of conventional 2-D displays and enabling color holographic videos suitable for 3-D ...

Quantum Network Experiment Marks Major Milestone
Nature World News
Georgia Tech graduate student Lin Li adjusts the optics on equipment being used to measure the entanglement between light and an optical atomic excitation in the laboratory of Alex Kuzmich. (Photo : Nature; FA9550-12-1-0025; PHY-1105994).

Secrets and lies: Details of Yuri Gagarin's fatal plane crash are finally revealed
Science Recorder
The cause of the 1968 jet crash that ended the life of the first human being in space has been the subject of considerable speculation and rumors over the decades. Now, cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, who performed the first-ever spacewalk, has revealed the ...

How the 2012 drought could lead to one of the largest Gulf of Mexico "Dead ...
Natural Resources Defense Council (blog)
It looks like this year's “Dead Zone” in the Gulf of Mexico will be one for the record books. Scientific experts predict that the annual, low-oxygen area that suffocates fish, shellfish, and other marine life will be one of the largest ever, reaching the size of the State ...

Microsoft backtracks on Xbox One sharing policies
Fortune
(CNN) -- Reacting to "feedback from the Xbox community," Microsoft is appearing to reverse course and change two key components to policies for its new Xbox One video game console. All disc-based games can be played without ever connecting online, ...

ANALYSIS: Why Microsoft is willing to pay bug bounties
USA TODAY
Microsoft has long benefited from the bug bounty programs of other vendors, especially Google and Mozilla. But it is now offering three new programs to encourage and compensate so-called gray hat and white hat researchers who spend their days hunting ...

Google and privacy: European data regulators round on search giant
The Guardian
European data regulators are rounding on Google in a co-ordinated campaign to force the company to improve protection for consumers, with the UK, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands also planning to take action. France on Thursday launched enforcement ...

Apple e-book antitrust trial to wrap up Thursday
Washington Post
After three weeks of testimony from executives of Apple, Amazon and Google and personal insights of late Apple chief executive Steve Jobs, attorneys will deliver five hours of closing statements and field questions from U.S. District Court Judge Denise ...

Microsoft Explored Deal for Nokia
Wall Street Journal
Nokia jumped at an alliance with Microsoft, which at the time was looking for an ally for its new smartphone software. Nokia picked Microsoft's Windows Phone smartphone system over GoogleInc.'s Android software in the battle against Apple. Microsoft ...

Google 'not in cahoots with NSA' - chief legal officer answers your questions
The Guardian
Questions have been raised over collaboration with the US government by Google and other tech companies – including Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and Yahoo – in giving access to user data via the Prism program. Google has called for greater transparency ...

Apple Technicals No Longer So Bearish
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Apple Inc. has been trading below its 50-day moving average, which many traders see as a bearish signal, but some technicians think there's still a bullish case to be made. The stock was down 0.9% at $428.01 in midday trading Wednesday, while the 50 ...

Google brings Android Nation store to India to spice up its retail market
Economic Times
... technology blog 9to5Google said while breaking the story on Google's possible foray into retailing. "Google competitors Apple and Microsoft both have retail outlets where customers can try before they buy, so it won't be an entirely new area," it ...

Microsoft Adds Office for iPhone. Yawn.
New York Times (blog)
For example, Apple's own Pages, Numbers and Keynote apps ($10 each) can edit Office documents, as can the free Google Drive app (text and spreadsheet documents only). More serious apps, like Documents to Go Premium ($16), Polaris Office ($13) and ...

Apple's Siri May Now Prevent Suicides
ABC News
Apple declined to comment on the new update when reached by ABC News, but the company started working hand in hand with the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline a few months ago. PHOTO: Siri now provides access to suicide prevention sources.

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Insta-Rich: $1 Billion for Instagram

Insta-Rich: $1 Billion for Instagram
Wall Street Journal
By SHAYNDI RAICE And SPENCER E. ANTE Facebook is acquiring the popular photo-sharing app Instagram for $1 billion in cash and stock. The deal would rank as Facebook's largest to date. Don Clark has details on the News Hub.

Wall Street Journal

AOL sells patents to Microsoft in $1.1B deal
Washington Post
The companies did not say which patents are part of the deal, but a technology company as old as AOL certainly has patents that could prove useful for Microsoft as patent lawsuits continue to rage between some of the industry's largest companies.

Report: Apple Testing New Chip for Next-Gen iPhone
PC Magazine
By Damon Poeter Apple is reportedly handing out next-gen iPhone testing units internally. The prototypes have a variation of the A5X processor that powers the new iPad and Apple is supposedly using pre-iPhone 4/4S-generation casings "to throw off leaks ...

Google Readying 7-Inch Tablet for Late Summer Release
eWeek
Two-and-a-half years after failing with its first connected smart device, Google is doing it again—this time with a tablet PC. This one will be a co-branded Android tablet with Asustek Computer of Taiwan. Well, that one crashed and burned.

eWeek

Analyst cuts AAPL rating on iPhone subsidy backlash, estimates $1B earnings miss
Apple Insider
By Mikey Campbell BITG Research's Walter Piecyk cut his rating of AAPL stock from "buy" to "neutral" in a note to investors on Monday, saying that telecoms are growing weary of paying high subsidies for the iPhone with returns that don't match Apple's ...

AT&T to sell most of Yellow Pages to Cerberus
Boston.com
By Peter Svensson AP Technology Writer / April 9, 2012 NEW YORK—AT&T Inc. on Monday said that it had agreed to sell a majority stake in its Yellow Pages business to the private-equity firm Cerberus Capital for $950 million. The sale is part of AT&T's ...
German Courts at Epicenter of Global Patent Battles Among Tech Rivals
New York Times
Motorola Mobility has asked a court in Mannheim, Germany, to stop Microsoft from distributing its Xbox game consoles and Windows 7 operating system software because they employ a video streaming technology that Motorola claims to own.

Lenovo Targets iPad With 9.7-Inch IdeaTab Android Tablet
PC Magazine
By Angela Moscaritolo Lenovo is prepping a new Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich tablet called the IdeaTab S2109, which includes a screen similar to the one Apple used on older versions of the iPad. The forthcoming tablet will have a 9.7-inch display, ...

Anonymous Blamed for Attacks on USTelecom Group Websites
BusinessWeek
By Eric Engleman and Todd Shields on April 09, 2012 The hacker-activist group known as Anonymous led attacks on the websites of two technology trade associations for supporting cybersecurity legislation, the organizations said.

Check Out This Awesome Rube Goldberg Machine
PC Magazine
By Damon Poeter Remember the elaborate, warehouse-filling contraption that was the star of OK Go's video for "This Too Shall Pass"? If you got a kick out of that, you'll love the latest, greatest example of mechanical complexity for its own sake ...

Commodore founder Jack Tramiel dies at 83
Washington Post
Jack Tramiel, a huge figure in computer history and founder of Commodore, died on Sunday at the age of 83, according to Forbes. Tramiel was both a visionary and controversial figure as the founder of Commodore International and former chief executive...

Mozilla Builds Video Chat Using Nothing But Web Standards
Wired News
By Scott Gilbertson Mozilla recently showed off a demo of a video chat app built entirely from web standards. Most of the demo runs on top of the proposed Web Real Time Communication (WebRTC) standard, the W3C's answer to the audio and video streaming...

Easter store closures cut into Lumina 900 phone's sales debut
The Seattle Times
By Janet I. Tu The Nokia Lumia 900 phone is being advertised heavily in AT&T stores, including this one in New York City. No comments have been posted to this article. Promises of big marketing pushes have been made, promo events in New York, ...

T-Mobile Training For The HTC One S Begins, April 25th Release Date Looking Likely
TmoNews
By David Beren April 9, 2012 6:53 pm EST Comments (30) So you want to see the HTC One S? Well, so do we and now we've got a bit of teaser info as T-Mobile employees begin training in preparation for launch. We're not learning anything new per se, ...

TmoNews

Radiation from Japan found in kelp off US West Coast
AFP
LOS ANGELES — Radioactive iodine was found in kelp off the US West Coast following last year's earthquake-triggered Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown, according to a new study. It was already known that radioactive iodine 131 (131-I), carried in the ...

AFP

Is This How Google Gets to $1000?
DailyFinance
By Alex Planes, The Motley Fool One of the most interesting bits of viral news last week involved yet more far-out Google (NAS: GOOG) technology. It wasn't self-driving cars or an automated house, or even a moon-roving robot -- though the famously ...

Hybrid vehicle ownership has been on decline, study finds
Washington Post
Gas prices are shooting through the roof, and electric cars don't appear quite ready for primetime yet. That leaves a big opportunity for hybrid vehicles, but drivers who have already purchased one aren't necessarily ready to buy another yet.

US space companies prepare for space station docking
BBC News
Two US rocket companies are readying the first private space missions to the International Space Station (ISS). SpaceX and Orbital both have multi-billion dollar Nasa contracts to supply cargo to the station, filling the void left by the retirement ...

BBC News

Java updates for Flashback avoid OS X Tiger and Leopard
CNET
Apple has fixed the vulnerability through which the Flashback malware attacks Mac systems, but only in supported versions of OS X, not Tiger and Leopard. by Topher Kessler April 9, 2012 4:50 PM PDT To help tackle the recent Flashback malware threat,...

How Edward Muggeridge became Eadweard J. Muybridge
Christian Science Monitor
Eadweard J. Muybridge, the subject of Monday's Google doodle, had at least five names over the course of his life. How did he arrive at Eadweard J. Muybridge? By Chris Gaylord / April 9, 2012 The man behind Monday's Google doodle, Eadweard J. Muybridge ...

Christian Science Monitor

Apple's 'iPad' is the only tablet people know
CBS News
NEW YORK — Apple is on the verge of doing what few others have: change the English language. When you have a boo-boo, you reach for a Band-Aid not a bandage. When you need to blow your nose, you ask for Kleenex not tissue.

CBS News

AT&T lets you unlock your iPhone
Los Angeles Times
By Michelle Maltais Your personal leash can now be untethered. As of Sunday, April 8, if you have an iPhone that is off contract with AT&T, you can unlock the phone. You have to be eligible, with an account that is current (no outstanding fees).

New York Telephone Booths To Get a 'SmartScreen' Digital Makeover
ABC News
You have to feel slightly bad for telephone booths -- not only have cell phones made them relatively useless but as a result, they tend to get sorely neglected. But the life of a phone booth is about to get much better in New York City.

ABC News

'Community' star is Nintendo's latest pitchman
msnbc.com
Stay up to speed with news and reviews on video games for the PC, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360, Android, iPhone, iPad, Facebook and more. Nintendo has yet another celebrity spokesperson, this time for the 3DS. Unlike previous spots, featuring ...

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Changes in Social Status Seen in Monkeys' Genes
New York Times
Social stress is known to have adverse health effects on both humans and primates. Now, researchers report that it also affects the immune system of female rhesus macaques at the genetic level. “Social stress seemed to have a relatively strong and ...

OnLive changes its Windows on iPad licensing to appease Microsoft
ZDNet (blog)
By Mary Jo Foley | April 9, 2012, 6:46pm PDT Summary: OnLive, the company providing hosted a hosted Windows desktop on the iPad and Android, has taken steps to comply with Microsoft licensing terms. OnLive has changed its back-end infrastructure ...

Court Revives Trademark Suit Against Google
Wall Street Journal
By AMIR EFRATI Google Inc. suffered its second legal setback in two weeks as a US appeals court on Monday vacated part of an earlier court decision dismissing a trademark-infringement lawsuit filed against the Internet-search company.

RIM Says Sales to U.S. Government Are Rising
Datamation
Bloomberg BusinessWeek: Enterprise sales of BlackBerry smartphones have plummeted recently, but its RIM says US government sales are on the rise. In the most recent quarter, RIM's US sales dropped 57 percent; however, RIM's Scott Totzke said the news ...

Windows 8: The Wounded Bear From Redmond Awakens
Forbes
Edward A. Zabitsky is CEO of ACI Research, an institutional equity research firm focused on the telecom sector. This piece was originally distributed to his clients earlier Monday. If there is one company in the world that understands how to slay a ...

Will Google Tablet Sales Frag or Defrag the Android Market?
PCWorld
By John P. Mello Jr., PCWorld Apr 9, 2012 9:58 AM For consumers who don't live and breathe Android, the market can be confusing. There are dozens of phone models, many running different versions of the Android operating system.

Pre-1492 Amazon farmers didn't use controlled burns
msnbc.com
Farming without fire in tropical regions, like indigenous populations did in Pre-Columbian times, may be the key to both feeding people and managing land more sustainably. For hundreds of years before Columbus arrived in Central America, ...

Tech Startup Market Hot Again?
By Anita Campbell
In it he outlines that investors are hungry to invest in tech startups, even without business plans — and very different from his experience in 2009. .... Technology Resources For Small Businesses Answers Your Cloud and Tech Decisions. 1 ...

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