ZenFone 2, World's Most Powerful Android Phone? (video)

Intel Inside The World's Possibly Most Powerful Android Phone - Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) | Seeking Alpha: "Tech-savvy people will find the $284.96 price tag of the new ZenFone 2 as the better deal than Xiaomi's Mi4, which was launched today in India for 22,150 Rupees ($353.30). "


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TAG Heuer Teams Up With Intel, Google, for Smartwatch

TAG Heuer Teams Up With Intel, Google for Smartwatch -

TAG Heuer CEO Jean-Claude Biver discusses the partnership with Google and Intel to develop smartwatches. March 19, 2015

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FBI Warns of Destructive Malware Attack (video)

FBI Warns of `Destructive’ Malware Attack: Video - Bloomberg:
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Veracode Vice President of Research Chris Eng discusses the FBI’s warning to businesses of a malware released by unknown hackers that can wipe data off hard drives. Eng speaks on “Bloomberg West.” (Source: Bloomberg 12/2)

Exclusive: FBI warns of 'destructive' malware in wake of Sony attack
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NBCNews.com
Steve Jobs to Take the Stand in Apple Antitrust Suit
NBCNews.com
Apple is back in the courtroom to defend itself from antitrust allegations and Steve Jobs, the late co-founder of the tech giant, is set to be the star ...
Apple trial to feature unseen Steve Jobs video deposition - CNN
Steve Jobs emails featured in Apple iPod antitrust trial - Reuters
Apple is just now going to trial over the music DRM it killed in 2009 - The Verge


New York Times
To Gain the Upper Hand, Amazon Disrupts Itself
New York Times
Sometime last summer, a quarter-billion dollars went missing at Amazon. Analysts were expecting the usual gangbusters third quarter. But it was ...

New York Times
What Is a True Threat on Facebook?
New York Times
The First Amendment protects all kinds of outrageous and upsetting speech. As the Supreme Court has stated in a long line of cases, the government ...

Forbes
That privacy notice you're posting to Facebook? It won't work
CNET
The main page for "Privacy Basics," a tips and FAQ hub Facebook launched in ... For its part, Facebook said it just owns your activity on the service. ... Privacy policies across the technology industry have been a jumble of legal ... In June, HBO comedian John Oliver joked Apple could put the entire text of ...

Computerworld
Intel gives Google Glass a needed boost
Computerworld
Just weeks after speculation surfaced that Google was abandoning Glass, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday that Intel Corp. is going to supply chips for the wearable device. Featured Resource. Presented by Tibco Software. 10 Best Practices for Cloud ...

Mashable
Apple iPod lawsuit will reveal unseen Steve Jobs video
Mashable
The voice of the visionary behind much of the success of Apple, the late Steve Jobs, will be heard once again thanks to a videotaped deposition set to be entered into evidence in a decade-old class action lawsuit. A case filed back in 2005 asserts that Apple's ...

TechCrunch
Microsoft Is Getting Rid Of Clip Art
TechCrunch
There are many things that the next generation of geek won't get to experience. The sound of the 56k modem connecting when your parents are sleeping in the next room. Burning CDs. Being somewhere and not knowing something, and just having to deal ...

The Fuse Joplin
Samsung Galaxy S4 vs Samsung Galaxy S5: Unnecessary Upgrade?
The Fuse Joplin
Samsung is one of the top companies when it comes to Smartphones. The Samsung phones are among the most common on the market, and this is because of their top qualities. One of the top Samsung Smartphones are the Galaxy S Series. Among the ...

CNET
Macmillan Science and Education Grants Access to NPG Journals
InfoToday.com
Macmillan Science and Education launched a publishing initiative that allows subscribers to 49 Nature Publishing Group (NPG) journals to share the full text of articles with other (non-subscribing) researchers around the world. Researchers can share this ...

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How to Protect Your Company From Data Breaches (video)

How to Protect Your Company From Data Breaches: Video - Bloomberg:
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How to Protect Your Company From Data Breaches - Verizon's Eddie Schwartz discusses how to avoid data breaches with Angie Lau on Bloomberg Television's "First Up." (Source: Bloomberg May 26)

Report: Apple plans to introduce a connected home platform at WWDC
PCWorld (blog)
Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off in a week, and ... And big tech companies already want in: Look no further than Google's ...

Apple focuses on music creation, travel writing in latest 'Your Verse' iPad ads
Apple Insider
Apple on Sunday released two new spots for its "Your Verse" iPad campaign touting the tablet's music creation and travelogue capabilities with stories from composer Esa-Pekka Salonen and travel writer Cherie King. Composer and principal conductor of the ...

Apple asks US court to make Samsung remove infringing features

Computerworld
IDG News Service - Following up on a jury verdict, Apple has asked a court in California to order Samsung Electronics to stop using features that were ...

Google 'Right To Be Forgotten' Ruling Unlikely to Repeat in US
NBCNews.com
... Security Agency secretly broke into communications on Yahoo and Google abroad and targeted overseas ... "The right to be forgotten is a great idea philosophically, but it is wrong to put the onus on Google or Facebook," she said.

Google, Costco and Facebook Best Employers in the US: Glassdoor Poll
NDTV
Google, Facebook and wholesale retailer Costco offer the best pay and benefit packages in the United States, according to employee ratings compiled ...

A Look At Amazon's Burgeoning Robot Army
Inventorspot
Currently, Amazon utilizes around 1,000 robot workers on its facility floors. ... In short, it looks like Google's not the only one building a robot army.

Facebook: We should know about the 4 new privacy
Views Times
Facebook has finally caved to public pressure and agreed to improve its privacy settings, but the tighter security for its traditional features also comes ...

Apple iPhone 6 is coming: What you should know
KENS 5 TV
Going into an iPhone launch there's never much doubt about whether Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL ) latest addition to the key lineup will sell better than its ...

Google's current stance on patents with Android would have prevented Google from ever having ...
Apple Insider
This might remind you of Apple's Siri, or the development of the NCSA web ... Out of the ashes of the Dot Com Crash, Yahoo and Microsoft rapidly began earning ... Over the ten years since that Yahoo deal, Google has maintained an ..... 

Yahoo's Ad Business Ain't Dead Yet - Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) | Seeking Alpha
By Alex Cho
Some environments are a little more ad-friendly, like the Facebook homepage, whereas other environments aren't as easy to advertise on, like Yahoo ...

Everything Is Broken — The Message — Medium: "Once upon a time, a friend of mine accidentally took over thousands of computers. He had found a vulnerability in a piece of software and started playing with it. In the process, he figured out how to get total administration access over a network. He put it in a script, and ran it to see what would happen, then went to bed for about four hours. Next morning on the way to work he checked on it, and discovered he was now lord and master of about 50,000 computers. After nearly vomiting in fear he killed the whole thing and deleted all the files associated with it. In the end he said he threw the hard drive into a bonfire. I can’t tell you who he is because he doesn’t want to go to Federal prison... This story isn’t extraordinary at all. Spend much time in the hacker and security scene, you’ll hear stories like this and worse...." (read more at link above)

U.S. Case Offers Glimpse Into China’s Hacker Army - NYTimes.com: "One man accused of being a hacker for the Chinese military, Wang Dong, better known as UglyGorilla, wrote in a social media profile that he did not “have much ambition” but wanted “to wander the world with a sword, an idiot.” Another, Sun Kailiang, also known as Jack Sun, grew up in wealthy Pei County in eastern China, the home of a peasant who founded the ancient Han dynasty and was idolized by Mao. They and three others were indicted by the United States Justice Department this week, charged with being part of a Chinese military unit that has hacked the computers of prominent American companies to steal commercial secrets, presumably for the benefit of Chinese companies...."

Intel Vs. Qualcomm: Who Has The Better Roadmap For 2015? - Qualcomm Inc. (NASDAQ:QCOM) | Seeking Alpha: "Intel will gain market share as a result of aggressive pricing and performance gains. However, I don't think Intel's graphics and modem solution will match Qualcomm's in 2015."

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FCC Proposal is a Startup Killer

All major US tech companies oppose FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler's Plan to Kill the Internet -- see letter to FCC here

Will an Internet Fast Lane Be an Innovation Dead End? | MIT Technology Review: "Some VCs say the FCC’s latest net neutrality proposal will raise costs for startups that need fast connections or use a lot of bandwidth.The cost of delivering content over the Internet may determine which Internet products and services succeed in coming years. Some venture capitalists at the cutting edge of Internet innovation say they will shun startups requiring fast connections for video, audio, or other services, mindful that the U.S. Federal Communications Commission may let ISPs charge extra fees to major content providers. Proposed rules being drafted by the FCC’s chairman, Tom Wheeler, would allow ISPs to charge content providers like Netflix to ensure speedy service, so long as those charges are “commercially reasonable.” The rules are scheduled to be released for public comment May 15..."

Intel Gets Serious About Chromebook | Mobile devices content from Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows: "....Some of these devices won't ship until late in the summer. But that's still in time for back-to-school, and if Microsoft wasn't taking the Chromebook threat seriously before, I assume it's standing upright and paying attention now. With Intel entering the mix in a serious way, and with Google continuing to improve the core OS, the Chromebook value equation is starting to make more and more sense."

Motorola confirms 'Moto X+1' name | MobileSyrup.com: "The Moto X+1 is one of the upcoming devices Motorola is planning to release. This was rumoured in the past, but for some odd reason Motorola has posted this go-to-market name on MotoMaker in the States...."

Amazon's Cheap Ride With Delivery Companies Is Over, No Easy Fix In Sight
Forbes
The fundamental problem Amazon.com Amazon.com has to solve is “What are correct box sizes and distribution center locations for an almost infinite ...

Amazon expands Sunday delivery to 15 more cities
USA TODAY
Don't let the weekend get in the way of your next online package delivery. Amazon.com's Sunday delivery program is now available in 15 additional ...

Apple reveals US government data request guidelines
ZDNet
The guidelines are specifically for law enforcement or other government entities in the US to use when seeking data concerning Apple device users.

Microsoft's Smartwatch Patent: Fitness Focus
InformationWeek
Microsoft's long-rumored smartwatch concept finally appears in a patent, ... A Microsoftsmartwatch patent surfaced this week that suggests the ... Google recently unveiled Android Wear, a smartwatch-optimized version of the ... Apple is widely assumed to be planning a smartwatch, and it has reportedly ...

Despite Yahoo's Core Business Being Valued At Less Than Nothing Marissa Mayer Insists It's Very ...
Forbes
To which the correct response might well be “Well, she would wouldn't she?”. For that core business is the part of Yahoo Yahoo that Marissa Mayer is ...

Google, Amazon and other online giants warn FCC on net neutrality
PCWorld
More than 100 online firms including Google, Amazon and Facebook have signed a joint letter to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission ...

Microsoft's Bing now searches, finds Xbox Music
PCWorld (blog)
Microsoft confirmed Wednesday that users can once again search for music ... (On Android, Google will pull up the song if you have it stored in your ...

Yahoo Eyes Big Bucks As Alibaba Files For IPO
Forbes
Yahoo! core business has failed to gain traction despite numerous website ... Alibaba's net income is more than the combined earnings of $2.4 billion posted during the same April-December period by eBay and Amazon last year.

Apple's North American Sales Head Leaving
Wall Street Journal (blog)
“Doug Beck has done a great job helping to grow Apple's business in Japan and Korea. His role is expanding to include North America sales as well,” ...

Google Ventures Leads $130M Round For Big Data Medical Software Company Flatiron Health
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Google Ventures has made its largest medical software investment yet, providing the bulk of a $130 million financing for Flatiron Health Inc., which ...

Google Play services 4.4 | Android Developers Blog
By Android Developers
... Mobile Ads, and Wallet API. Here are the highlights of Google Play services release 4.4: ... Coming up in June is Google I/O, no need to say more…
Android Developers Blog

Chrome Releases: Chrome Beta for Android Update - Google Chrome Releases
By Jason Kersey
Chrome Beta for Android has been updated to 35.0.1916.99 and will be available in GooglePlay over the next few hours. This release contains ...
Google Chrome Releases

Google Blocks Demonoid for Spreading Malicious Software | TorrentFreak
By Andy
Google Blocks Demonoid for Spreading Malicious Software. By Andy ... Google'sadvisory reports that after checking 59 pages on the site during the past 90 days, 7 pages resulted in “malicious software being ...
TorrentFreak

Can Google Chromebooks Go Mainstream? | Technology | Minyanville's Wall Street
By Michael Comeau
It only shows that Amazon tech shoppers are early adopters. ... I see Chromebooks as a deadly threat to Microsoft's (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows juggernaut. ... It would be ideal if Google flat-out said things like "you can use Facebook ...

Drones Overhead, Seeing Everything, Always: Inside Google and Facebook's Latest Acquisitions ...
By Peter Diamandis
Imagine a fleet of drones, overhead, out of sight, tens of thousands of feet in the sky. Imagine those drones being powered by sunlight — effectively ...
Singularity Hub

Yahoo News Digest has gone global - iDownloadBlog
By Christian Zibreg
Yahoo's News Digest iOS app isn't just gorgeous, it's a great time saver, too. For those unfamiliar with Digest, it uses Yahoo-owned Summly ...
iDownloadBlog.com

Apple's Official Weekly Top Games Chart: 4/28 - 5/4 - 'Blek', 'Piano Tiles', 'Minecraft' and '2048 ...
By Eli Hodapp
For whatever reason, Apple sent these top cumulative downloads charts a little late to us this week, so if you were looking for them on Tuesday, sorry ...
Touch Arcade

Buying Attribution: Google, AOL Acquisitions Raise Flags On Media Neutrality - AdExchanger
By Kelly Liyakasa
Facebook Ad Network To Support Native Ads, First-Party Data Targeting ... FollowingGoogle and AOL's acquisitions of multitouch attribution vendors Adometry and ... “That will still be a hard sell to [prospective] Google clients.” ... Google To Buy Marketing Attribution Pure Play Adometry · Yahoo!
AdExchanger: News and Views on...

Delhi's air among dirtiest in the world, reveals WHO report
India Today
Air pollution in India is attributed to the high dependence on fossil fuels, and industrial and vehicular emissions. Delhi's notoriously dirty air has breached critical levels of pollution and is unfit for breathing. A latest World Health Organisation (WHO) study on ...

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Alibaba IPO, the noise before the trading

Better get used to all the noise about the Alibaba IPO--it may not be until the end of 2014 when it actually begins trading:

Alibaba files for IPO that could be biggest in history for tech company - San Jose Mercury News: "....There is no deadline for the company to begin trading, and some analysts expect trading may not happen until the fourth quarter of the year. Companies may announce pricing and begin a roadshow ---when executives hold meetings with potential investors to drum up interest in their company -- within 21 days of an IPO filing."

Beyond net neutrality: The new battle for the future of the internet - Vox: "....There's also a danger that large internet service providers will abuse their monopoly power. Most of the leading American broadband companies also sell paid television services that compete directly with online streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon Instant Video. Network owners might be tempted to relegate online video services to the slow lane to prevent them from becoming a competitive threat to their lucrative paid television businesses. Or they might charge competing services a big markup for access to the fast lane, ensuring that they won't be able to undercut them on price. A final problem is that a multi-tiered business model could give ISPs perverse incentives. An ISP might be tempted to make its slow lane slower — or at least not upgrade it very quickly — to encourage content companies to pony up for fast-lane status...."

Protecting Net Neutrality and the Open Internet | Open Policy: "Today, Mozilla formally filed a request with the FCC to take a new path forward. We are asking the FCC to modernize its understanding of Internet access services, and apply its statutory authority for Internet data delivery services in a consistent and complete way. With our proposal, the FCC would be able to shift its attention away from authority questions once and for all, and focus instead on adopting clear rules prohibiting blocking and discrimination online...."

FCC commissioner says FCC “invented” new authority to regulate Internet | Ars Technica: ".... On the other side of the aisle, consumer advocacy groups have argued that Section 706 won't give the FCC enough power to prevent ISPs from discriminating against Web services that can't afford to pay for preferential treatment. Yesterday, the Mozilla Foundation joined many other groups in asking the FCC to regulate broadband with common carrier rules."

​Google extends Intel love affair with new Bay Trail Chromebooks - CNET: " Google and Intel dabbled with a dalliance last year, but now they're all in as the two tech titans revealed a new lineup on Tuesday of more than 20 Intel-driven devices across several major hardware manufacturers that all run Chrome OS. The partnership sees Intel-powered Chromebooks jump from four Haswell devices announced in September to a vast range of Bay Trail, Haswell, and 4th generation Core i3 laptops and desktop boxes. Intel has a long partnership with Google's Chrome OS, stretching back to the original Chrombook prototype, the Cr-48, and part of today's announcements was that all the Chrome OS devices shown off at the event had their Intel chips made using conflict-free metals. The news marks the strongest commitment yet between the two companies Chromebooks are laptops for Google's Chrome-based operating system. They first debuted as a public prototype in late 2010, with the first Chromebook laptop reaching consumers six months later. The currently comprise a quarter of the sub-$300 market, and [chromebooks] are used in more than 10,000 schools across the US --up from 5,000 half a year ago...."

Leaked Google Stars Video and Screenshots Show New Features: "Google is building a favoriting service called Google Stars that will let users save, share, and organize Web content. The company is testing a wide array of features for Stars, as depicted in a video and screenshots leaked out today (previous leaks only included marketing images and mockups)...."

Yahoo's Alibaba moment has finally arrived
MarketWatch
Alibaba, a company in which Yahoo Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) owns a 24% stake, has filed papers for an initial public offering, capping what had been a ...

Google Sends Shopping Alerts To Android Devices
InformationWeek
Google Now blends search and location data to advise you when you're ... The latest update to the Google Search application for Android devices ...

Apple retail boss welcomed with $68 million stock package
San Jose Mercury News
CUPERTINO -- The pressure on Apple's new superstar executive, Angela Ahrendts, to overhaul the company's retail and online sales operations ...

Apple Jumps to Second Place in Online Retail
Wall Street Journal (blog)
In the crusade to capture clicks and pull in dollars from online sales, Amazon remains the clear frontrunner. But 2013 e-commerce sales data from ...

Google Seeks to Overturn Vringo's $30.5 Million Verdict
Bloomberg
A victory against Google could mean more money from Microsoft Corp., too. Microsoft ... Lycos, a pioneer in search engines that once rivaled Yahoo!

Microsoft files for smartwatch patent
CNNMoney
Google plans to release the Moto 360 smartwatch in the U.S. this summer, while Applehas long been rumored to be developing a smartwatch of its ...

Google Debuts Free Tool Classroom for Teachers - The Next Web
By Emil Protalinski
Google today launched a new free tool called Classroom as part of its Google Apps for Education suite. In short, Classroom helps teachers create and ...
The Next Web

Facebook Platform Roadmap Update - Facebook Developers
By Facebook
We announced a number of new products and updates to Facebook Platform at f8 in April, including the Graph API, social plugins, and support for ...
Facebook Developer Blog

"I Do Not Know One Person Who Is Happy at Amazon" - Gawker
By Hamilton Nolan
In the past week, we've heard from several insiders at Amazon describing the company's bizarre and sometimes exploitative workplace culture. Today ...
Gawker

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Nexus 5 smartphone and Nexus 7 tablet market expands

The pure Google Android experience moves to international markets --

Google Nexus 5, 7 Reach More Countries
PC Magazine
Just like Google's Chromecast, the Nexus 5 smartphone and Nexus 7 tablet are getting a larger rollout. Google's international expansion continues today with the launch of its Nexus 5 and Nexus 7 ...

Google Unveils Software for Smartwatches-to-Be
New York Times (blog)
Adjusting Android — a breakaway hit as an operating system for smartphones — to work with wearable computers is a pre-emptive move for Google, which entered the smartphone and tablet markets after Apple. This time, it should have a first claim on ...

Google, Intel, Microsoft help build climate change tools
USA TODAY
Google plans to create high-resolution drought mapping for the mainland United States as part of a White House effort — to be unveiled Wednesday—to give communities more data so they can prepare for climate change. Google, one of several corporate ...

Microsoft Releases In-Memory Ready SQL Server 2014
InformationWeek
Microsoft SQL Server 2014 has been released to manufacturing, the company announced on Tuesday, promising general availability of the product on April 1. The company also announced the general availability of Hadoop 2.2 support in its Windows Azure ...

Google launches Chromecast in UK, Europe; tackles Spotify in Nordics
ZDNet
Available for £30 ($50) in the UK or €35 elsewhere, as usual the Chromecast is still more costly in Europe than in the US, where it retails for $35. However, the Google dongle will still be considerably cheaper than Apple's £99 Apple TV and, perhaps ...

Microsoft scrambles to simplify its convoluted business licensing
PCWorld
Microsoft's licensing policies and procedures are devilishly convoluted, a situation that has worsened in recent years with the popularity of virtualization, cloud computing, mobile devices and the consumerization of IT. By fracturing the conventional ...

Microsoft shares flirt with dotcom-boom levels on iPad app report
Chicago Tribune
Investors have for years urged Microsoft to adapt Office, its most profitable product, for iPhones and iPads and devices using Google Inc's Android software rather than shackling it to Windows as PC sales decline. Microsoft's productivity tools remain ...

Apple drops iPad 2, inserts 4th-gen Retina iPad into $399 price slot
Computerworld
"Slowly but surely, Apple is moving people to newer technologies," said Carolina Milanesi, strategic insight director of Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, She pointed out that unlike the iPad 2, the newer Retina iPad relies on the "Lightning" transfer and ...

Apple discounts iPhone 5C 8%-9% in five markets via storage cuts
Computerworld
Computerworld found the 8GB iPhone 5C on Apple's e-stores in just five markets: Australia, China, France, Germany and the U.K. Spot checks revealed that the model was not available in other major markets, such as Brazil, Canada, Hong Kong, Japan, ...

Google won't face email privacy class action
Reuters
(Reuters) - Google Inc won a significant legal victory as a U.S. judge decided not to combine several lawsuits that accuse the Internet search company of violating the privacy rights of hundreds of millions of email users into a single class action. In ...

Colliding solar eruptions created 'perfect storm' in space
Mother Nature Network
A new study analyzes the rare July 2012 solar superstorm to better understand extreme solar phenomena....

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Google, Intel, Haswell-based Chromebooks

These new Chromebooks (coming later this year with Intel's new Haswell chip) look great, and are priced great, with lots of storage from Google --

Google Chrome Blog: A fresh mix of Intel-based Chromebooks — something for everyone: " . . . Research firm NPD says Chromebooks represent 20-25% of the $300-or-less computer segment. In education, more than 5,000 schools have deployed Chromebooks for their students, representing more than 20% of school districts in the US. Together with our hardware partners, we’ve been working on expanding the Chromebook family. Intel, who has been with us on this journey from day one, unveiled a new lineup of Chromebooks today based on the Haswell microarchitecture at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. Intel’s latest processors sip less power to improve battery life by more than 2X over previous generations, while offering increased performance. This means these new Chromebooks last almost all day so you can focus on getting things done."

HP Chromebook 14 with Haswell hands-on (video): " . . . HP opted to adhere to the standard Chromebook keyboard layout instead of its own, and the trackpad has just a single button instead of the two found on the HP Pavilion 14. Other features include a HDMI port, 16GB of storage, USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 ports, an HD webcam, an SD card slot and a battery that promises up to 9.5 hours of continuous use. If you decide to buy one, it comes with 100GB of Google Drive for free for two years. The HP Chromebook 14 is priced at around $299.99 to start, and should be available for purchase before the holiday season."

Google and Intel Unveil Haswell-based Chromebooks » The Epoch Times: "Chromebooks are laptops running Google’s mostly open-source Chrome OS, which is mostly a web-browser based operating system based on Google’s own Chrome browser and the Chrome ecosystem of apps... Chromebooks seem to have been proving their point in sales: research firm NPD Group said that Chromebooks accounted for 20% to 25% of sales for the sub-$300 budget laptop market. Samsung’s $249 Chromebook has been on the top of sales charts for laptops on Amazon for several months now."

Researchers find gears in nature – on planthopper insects
Los Angeles Times
Gears may seem like a purely human invention. And yet the basic interlocking mechanism found inside grandfather clocks and car steering systems has now turned up in the remarkably powerful legs of young planthopper insects. The discovery, published in ...

140 reasons to worry about Twitter IPO
USA TODAY
Twitter's use of a new type of confidential filing to test the IPO waters makes clear how recent changes to U.S. securities laws have given companies more control over their ...

'Grand Theft Auto V' set to swipe gamers' time
USA TODAY
Out next week, 'Grand Theft Auto V' is the biggest ever from the critically acclaimed — and oft-criticized — developer Rockstar Games. GTAVUSA Today Exclusive. A screenshot from the video game 'Grand Theft Auto V.' (Photo: Rockstar Games) ...

Upgraded SpaceX rocket set for risky launch
USA TODAY
The upgraded rocket features more powerful engines and will carry a satellite as the primary payload. Falcon 9 rocket. SpaceX's upgraded Falcon 9 rocket is shown rolling to its pad recently ahead of a maiden launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in ...

Why can't Microsoft slam Apple with style?
CNET
Samsung and Google have proved that it's possible to needle Apple successfully. Why is it so hard for Microsoft? "Why isn't this funny?...

Best Buy will give you an iPhone 5 for trading in your old smartphone
Afterdawn.com
Best Buy will give you an iPhone 5 for trading in your old smartphone From now until Monday, Best Buy will be giving you an iPhone 5 if you exchange your old smartphone. The retailer is giving a guaranteed minimum $100 trade-in credit for old smartphones ...

Government Standards Agency “Strongly” Suggests Dropping its Own Encryption Standard - ProPublica: " in a little-noticed footnote, NIST went a step further, saying it is “strongly” recommending against even using one of the standards. The institute sets standards for everything from the time to weights to computer security that are used by the government and widely adopted by industry."

Despite fears, NSA revelations helping US tech industry
Reuters India
By Joseph Menn. SAN FRANCISCO | Sun Sep 15, 2013 7:20pm IST. SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Edward Snowden's unprecedented exposure of U.S. technology companies' close collaboration with national intelligence agencies, widely expected to ...

Sony reveals its own Chromecast-like BRAVIA Smart Stick device
VentureBeat
Sony is set to debut a brand new streaming media device tomorrow that should have most of the same features available on Google's new Chromecast streaming stick. The device is one of many that hardware manufacturers are making after the apparent ...

2013 Ig Nobel Prizes Announced
Pentagon Post
This year's Ig Nobel prizes were announced yesterday and it honored Opera's healing power, beer's magical mirror trick, cows that won't lie down and other such incredible scientific advances. Ig Nobel prizes are unique annual awards and are honored to ...

Apple or Android? How top mobile devices compare
Detroit Free Press
What's a smartphone shopper to do? With two new iPhones arriving on Sept. 20, Apple is facing formidable competition for buyers' attention. Consumers have flocked to hot handsets from Samsung and other top Android phone makers. And fans of Windows ...

Plasmonic nanostructures could prove a boon to solar cell technology
By Dario Borghino
A new study conducted at the University of Pennsylvania has shown that plasmonic nanostructures could prove especially effective at improving the performanc...
Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine

SUPERMARKETS: Technology speeds up checkout by reducing lines
By Laurie Lucas
To speed up lines, Ralphs has installed the QueVision system, which uses infrared cameras to determine how many customers are in a store so managers can redeploy workers to the cash registers...
PE.com Blogs

Meet the Family That Shuns Technologies Introduced After 1986 ...
The McMillans had a vague sense that gadgets were cheating their children of their childhoods. So they turned to a drastic solution.

Emerging Technology From the arXiv | MIT Technology Review
Emerging Technology From the arXiv Contributor. 1307 stories. Emerging Technologyfrom the arXiv produces daily coverage of the best new technologies from ...

The Secret Technology That Attracted $76 Million And Could Eat ...
When UK-based POWA Technologies managed to raise $76 million in a series A last month it turned a few heads. Why? Because it's not every day that a British ...

Arcade Fire / Just a Reflektor: Technology - JustAReflektor.com
Explore the web technologies used in Arcade Fire's interactive film, Just A Reflektor. Created for Google Chrome.more technology news below

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China, Apple, iPhones

Apple unlikely to sell many iPhones in China -- iPhone pricing too high vs low cost Android smartphones made by Chinese manufacturers --

iPhone 5C Price Good News for Chinese Vendors - Digits - WSJ: "At 4,488 yuan ($733) for the 16-gigabyte model without carrier contracts, the less expensive iPhone still falls easily in the high-end segment of China’s enormous smartphone market."

Apple falls on concern about iPhone pricing
USA TODAY
Apple shares fell 4.9% to $470.31 in afternoon trading. Apple has lost ground to Samsung and other rivals which make cheaper smartphones based on Google's Android operating system. This is especially true in faster-growing emerging and developing ...

Apple's shares tank as new iPhones fail to dazzle
Reuters
Apple Inc's shares slid 6 percent on Wednesday as a pricier-than-expected iPhone "5C" extinguished hopes of a major expansion into lower-end markets such as China, while ...

Intel Bay Trail: Chipmaker doubles tablet performance as it takes fight to ARM
ZDNet
Summary: Intel today unveiled its new family of chips designed to challenge ARM in the tablet market - promising to deliver a two times performance boost on its earlier tablets and support a raft of new Windows 8 and Android tablets. Nick Heath. By Nick ...

Apple raises bet in poker game with Microsoft over mobile productivity
Computerworld
Computerworld - Apple yesterday poked the bear that is Microsoft by announcing that it would give away its trio of iWork productivity apps to buyers of new iOS 7-compatible iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches purchased after Sept. 1. As part of the iPhone 5S ...

Google can face wiretap claims in Street View suits, court says
Los Angeles Times
A federal appeals court has refused to dismiss a civil lawsuit accusing Google Inc. of violating federal wiretap law when its fleet of Street View cars inadvertently swept up emails, passwords and other highly sensitive personal information from unencrypted ...

Nokia Lumia 1020 retains camera phone crown after iPhone 5S launch
ZDNet
Summary: I was hoping to see some new innovations in optics from Apple, but after yesterday's announcement it was easy for me to stick with my Nokia Lumia 1020's amazing camera technology....

Haswell signs up four new Chromebooks
CNET
Chromebook hardware gets a boost from Intel's Haswell chip as Google and Intel debut new, low-cost Chromebooks. Seth Rosenblatt. by Seth Rosenblatt. September 11, 2013 10:30 AM PDT. Follow @sethr. Google and Intel debut four new Chromebook ...

Free game sharing coming to Steam
Computerandvideogames.com
Software giant Valve will allow Steam users to turn their PCs into game platforms that can be shared among friends and family, the company has announced. A new initiative, called Family Sharing, allows one person to share their library of Steam games ...

ARM Adds $1 Billion on Apple IPhone Royalty Boost: London Mover
Bloomberg
ARM Holdings Plc (ARM), the chip designer whose products power Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s new iPhones, gained the most in almost five months on predictions it will generate increased royalties from the use of its latest technology. The shares advanced 4.8 ...

Apple unveils two new iPhones -- the 5S and 5C
CNN
Cupertino, California (CNN) -- For the first time ever, Apple unveiled two new iPhones on Tuesday, a traditional upgrade of its iPhone 5 as well as a simpler, cheaper version.Apple CEO Tim Cook said the iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C are a reaction to a ...

Microsoft Shouldn't Put Ford's Alan Mulally in the Driver's Seat
Businessweek
Could Ford (F) Chief Executive Officer Alan Mulally work the same turnaround magic atMicrosoft? (MSFT) Let's hope not. Tech folks are buzzing about the possibility that Mulally could be the man to replace Steve Ballmer when he retires later this year.

Microsoft Patch Tuesday delivers critical IE, Outlook fixes
Computerworld
In addition to the Microsoft patches, administrators should also take a look at the critical patches that Adobe also issued Tuesday for Reader and Flash. Users of Google Chrome and Internet Explorer will have the Flash patches applied automatically ...

Apple, it's time to drop the whole 'S' routine
CNET
At a time when HTC boasts an all-metal One smartphone, and Nokia has pushed the envelope with a 41-megapixel camera phone, Apple offered an iPhone 5 lookalike with some new software tricks and internal specification upgrades. The lack of a major change ...

Google Details Anti-Piracy Practices In Defensive Report
Forbes
Google, long a target of the content industry for what's perceived as a hands-off approach to copyright infringement, has produced a 25-page report in its own defense. In an attempt to improve its PR and woo the film and music industries – which ...

Apple's iWork free on all new iOS devices
ZDNet
Removing the application donwload fees may also tempt more consumers away from rival services such as Google Drive, and could be a way for the company to upsell more space within the cloud storage service, iCloud, in the future. Apple announced a split ...

Apple iTunes Radio due on September 18 with iOS 7
CNET
Streaming music -- a rare corner of growth for the otherwise beleaguered music industry -- is already a field crowded by the likes of Pandora, iHeartRadio, Spotify, Rdio, GoogleMusic All Access, et al., but Apple's base of at least 575 million iTunes ...

Google security exec: 'Passwords are dead'
CNET
Speaking on a TechCrunch Disrupt panel called "Spies Like Us," Heather Adkins,Google's manager of information security, told moderator Greg Ferenstein that in the future, the "game is over for" any startup that relies on passwords as its chief method ...
Intel's Wi-Fi adapters connectivity issues continue - Neowin: "The Windows 7/8 disconnection errors appearing with Intel Centrino 6230/6235 adapters are still a problem area, and users are becoming increasingly annoyed with the way Intel are handling the issue. Sadly, despite even more new driver updates released over the past couple of months, Intel still hasn't got to the bottom of what is causing users to be disconnected from their networks. To make matters worse, users who complain about the fault are now seeing their Intel forum accounts removed."

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Intel energizes wireless charging effort

Intel energizes wireless charging effort
Power Management Design Line
LONDON – Intel has selected mixed-signal fabless chip company Integrated Device Technology Inc. to make an transmitter and receiver ICs for Intel's resonant wireless energy transfer technology. Intel (Santa Clara, Calif.) is pushing hard to bring the ...

AT&T bites into Apple strategy with its own mega retail store
CNET
The aim behind the carrier's new flagship store in Chicago is to educate potential buyers about the benefits of smartphones and other gadgets. by Lance Whitney AT&T is adopting the Apple philosophy with a new mega retail store that focuses on the ...

Dieting Won't Help You Live Longer
Huffington Post UK
A diet that proclaims cutting calories is the secret to a longer life has been called into question by new research. In 2005, The Longevity Diet offered to help readers slow their ageing process and maintain peak vitality by dramatically cutting ...

Samsung Announces ATIV Windows 8, Phone 8 Devices
Tom's Hardware Guide
On Wednesday Samsung launched a new family of SmartPCs, tablets and smartphones called ATIV based on Windows 8 and Windows RT for the former two form factors, and Windows Phone 8 for the new smartphone line. The company said the branding is a reversed ...

Samsung Galaxy Note 2: One Giant Phone
ABC News
Samsung has not had an easy week, with a federal court jury finding it guilty of willful patent infringement against Apple, but the electronics manufacturer is continuing with business as usual. It's moving on to bigger things -- literally.

ABC News

Lenovo Beefs Up IdeaPad S Series Ultraportables
PC Magazine
By Ahmer Kazi Lenovo today announced an expansion of its IdeaPad S Series ultraportable lineup with three new systems: the IdeaPad S300, S400, and S405. Despite sporting the kind of thin profiles that are currently en vogue in the tech world, ...

Lenovo Challenges Google's Nexus 7 With Android Tablets Starting at $299
PCWorld
By Agam Shah, IDG News Lenovo is challenging Google's Nexus 7 tablet with a new range of affordable IdeaTab tablets, which start at $299 and have the Android 4.0 OS. The US$299 IdeaTab A2109 comes with a 7-inch screen, while the $399 IdeaTab S2110 is ...

AMAZON: We're Sold Out Of The Kindle Fire
Business Insider
AP Images Less than one year ago, Amazon introduced Kindle Fire—combining 15 years of innovation into a single, fully-integrated, end-to-end service for customers. Kindle Fire quickly became the most successful product launch in the history of ...

Business Insider

This Sun-like star is surrounded by sugar
io9
A team of European and American astronomers have found signs of a simple sugar molecule, glycolaldehyde, in a gas cloud surrounding a young sun-like star. Located 400 light-years away, it's the first time that sugar has been located around such a ...

What kind of game is Forza Horizon for Xbox 360? (hands-on)
CNET
The Forza Motorsport series of racing games takes a slightly less formal branch with the upcoming Forza Horizon. We get an early hands-on. by Antuan Goodwin This question has had me scratching my head since Turn 10 debuted the teaser trailer for its ...

WD adds USB 3.0 and high-speed HDD to Mac external storage solutions
CNET (blog)
Western Digital announces new portable drives for Macs that support USB 3.0 and a new Thunderbolt drive, the WD VelociRaptor Duo, which uses two VelociRaptor hard drives as its internal storage. by Dong Ngo The new My Book VelociRaptor Duo comes with ...

Astronauts take spacewalk to fix up space station
Sacramento Bee
By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer Two astronauts - an American and Japanese - ventured out Thursday to replace failed space station equipment. Sunita Williams and Akihiko Hoshide expect to spend six hours plugging in a new power-switching unit, ...

The Hewlett-Packard Co. touch-screen laptop, the Envy x2. Source: Hewlett ...
Businessweek
By Aaron Ricadela on August 30, 2012 Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ), the world's largest maker of personal computers, plans to unveil a line of touch-screen laptops running Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s new Windows 8 software, including one model that can ...

Quick Takes: Song goes the distance
Los Angeles Times
The Curiosity rover transmitted the first-ever feature song from the surface of Mars on Tuesday — a track penned by singer and producer will.i.am to celebrate the NASA robot's successful landing on the Red Planet. The song, called "Reach for the Stars ...

Sony launches new strike in tablet market
MarketWatch
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Looking to regain some of the luster it has lost in the electronics market over the last few years, Sony Corp. unveiled Wednesday a slate of new products, including a new Xperia brand tablet aimed at filling consumers' ...

TEXT-Fitch: Samsung - US jury decision, short-term reputation setback
Reuters
Aug 30 - Fitch Ratings does not plan any immediate action on Samsung Electronics' 'A+'/Stable rating following a decision by the US Jury on 24 August in favour of Apple Inc. The ruling stands in contrast to a split ruling on the same day in South Korea ...

Parallels 8 Runs Windows More Like a Mac
InformationWeek
Parallels has released a major update to Parallels Desktop for Mac, the most popular solution for running virtual machines, primarily Microsoft Windows, on a Mac simultaneously with Mac applications. Parallels Desktop 8 for Mac adds support for OS X ...

Gelsinger: VMware 'adolescent who has grown too quickly'
ZDNet
Summary: The incoming CEO aims to instill more operational discipline and hopes company will not grow to become arrogant, while stating that a stronger push into China can be expected. By Ryan Huang | August 30, 2012 -- 10:21 GMT (03:21 PDT) SAN ...

NASA launches twin satellites to study Earth's radiation belts
Fox News
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida – Twin satellites rocketed into orbit Thursday on a quest to explore Earth's treacherous radiation belts and protect the planet from solar outbursts. NASA launched the science probes before dawn, sending them skyward aboard an ...

Metal Gear Solid Movie Announced
MTV UK
A Metal Gear Solid movie is definitely in the pipeline, it has been officially announced. According to Famitsu, a film version of the popular game franchise was announced at the 25th anniversary event in Tokyo. Already signed up to produce the movie is ...

MTV UK

Religion News: Bill Nye says don't teach creationism
Little Falls Evening Times
By Anonymous Bill Nye, of "Bill Nye the Science Guy," says "creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate," according to HuffingtonPost.com. "Tax dollars intended for science education must not be used to teach ...

High-quality images compare alleged next-gen iPhone, iPhone 4S front assemblies
Apple Insider
By AppleInsider Staff A video and accompanying high-resolution photos of the purported next-generation iPhone's front assembly hit the web on Thursday, adding to to the mountain of rumors and leaks regarding Apple's hotly-anticipated handset.

Flesh Eating Gulls Devour Whales Alive
Discovery News
Right whales (Eubalaena australis) off the coast of Argentina face the gruesome threat of being slowly eaten alive by birds every time they take a breath. The menace has become so great that local officials are planning to declare open season on the ...

Goophone I5 manages to KIRF the 2012 iPhone weeks in advance
Engadget
By Jon Fingas posted Aug 30th 2012 8:42AM Here's something you still don't see every day: a KIRF that's unveiled before the device it's supposed to copy. Although the 2012 iPhone may not show for weeks, the Android-based Goophone I5 is already doing a ...

Want to build a space elevator on Earth? Start with the moon
Los Angeles Times
Scientists have been dreaming of an elevator that will take us to outer space without the use of rockets for more than 50 years. Michael Laine has spent much of the last 11 years working on making that dream a reality. He started his work at NASA as ...

Isaac behind biggest one-day jump in gas prices
Christian Science Monitor
Drivers are being hit with the biggest one-day jump in gasoline prices in 18 months just as Labor Day weekend, the last heavy driving weekend of the summer, approaches. As Hurricane Isaac swamps the nation's oil and gas hub along the Gulf Coast, ...

Christian Science Monitor

Nobody Knows What "The Cloud" Is
Slate Magazine (blog)
By Matthew Yglesias MySlate is a new tool that let's you track your favorite parts Slate. You can follow authors and sections, track comment threads you're interested in, and more. A picture taken on August 26, 2012 shows dark clouds over Venice during ...

Slate Magazine (blog)

The Digital Wallet Is Starting to Take Shape
TIME
By Jared Newman | @OneJaredNewman | August 30, 2012 | + Imagine if, in addition to all the things your smartphone does now, it could also act as your keys to the real world. Instead of fumbling through a wallet for your credit cards, coupons, ...

TIME

Memorial celebration in Warren honors Neil Armstrong
Youngstown Vindicator
By Ed Runyan Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, was a traveler in numerous ways, including trips to live in Champion Township, Warren and many other Ohio communities. Born in Wapakoneta, north of Dayton in 1930, Armstrong and his family ...

Safest-driving cities: Sioux Falls tops list; DC is at bottom
Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — If you've driven in the nation's capital, you already know this: It's full of bad drivers. A new report from Allstate Insurance Co. confirms it, putting the District of Columbia at the bottom of the list of the safest-driving cities, ...

NASA completes successful parachute drop simulation for Orion spacecraft
Engadget
By Zachary Lutz posted Aug 30th 2012 7:45AM NASA has always used the desert as its own personal playground, and we'd imagine that its team had a blast in Arizona yesterday, as a mock parachute compartment of the Orion spacecraft was dropped from 25000 ...

Baidu dominance challenged in search engine war
Global Times
By Agencies Battle lines have been drawn between China's search engine leader Baidu and Qihoo 360 Technology Co. after the latter launched its own search engine challenging Baidu's dominance. Qihoo, an Internet security service provider, introduced the ...

Google Self-Promotes; IBM Unveils World's Fastest Microprocessor; Firefox Gets ...
PC Magazine
By Stephanie Mlot In a rare advertising appearance, the tablet can be seen peeking through the minimalist background, under the tagline "The playground is open," with a link to the Google Play store where the device is on sale starting at $199.

Google releases new Nexus 7 advertisement
Ubergizmo
By Tyler Lee on 08/30/2012 03:22 PDT Tablets aren't just for adults these days – in fact we've seen more than our fair share of young children playing on iPads, and let's not forget companies who have created tablets for children in mind.

McAfee app helps protect Facebook photos
Times of India
NEW DELHI: Security solutions provider McAfee has launched a new free application 'McAfee Social Protection' to help users protect their photos from being shared without their permission on social networking site Facebook. Offered as a Facebook app ...

Facebook Can't Say Who Its Oldest User Is
Mashable
Remember Florence Detlor? The charming 101-year old from Menlo Park paid a visit to her neighbors at Facebook earlier this week — and was rewarded with a delightful (if fuzzy) snapshot of herself with young whippersnappers Sheryl Sandberg and Mark ...

PlayUp: Nokia and JBL kick off new speaker range for Lumia
Nokia Conversations
Today, Nokia announces a partnership with speaker experts JBL to create a range of audio accessories, plus the first fruits of the relationship: the JBL PlayUp Portable Wireless Speaker for Nokia. Keen-eyed readers will note that the new PlayUp ...

Broken Apple-1 Expected to Sell for £80000
Gizmodo UK
Deep-pocketed Apple enthusiasts have a big chance to buy themselves a bit of history in October, thanks to an incredibly rare Apple-1 going up for auction. The original motherboard, which doesn't work any more but is one of only around 50 of the ...

Gizmodo UK

Researchers open door to electronics made from single layers of atoms
Ars Technica
by Matthew Francis - Aug 29, 2012 8:15 pm UTC Artist's impression of a nanoscale electronic device made of graphene (carbon atoms, in gray) and boron nitride (BN, purple and blue). The graphene is conducting, the BN is insulating, so by laying down...

Ars Technica

Sleeping Dogs Review: Where There's a Will, There's a Wei
Warp Zoned
Some people like to refer to Sleeping Dogs as “Grand Theft Auto: Hong Kong.” While that's close to being true – you do steal and drive a lot of cars, and there's a huge amount of missions you can take on – there's far more to the game than just a ...

Warp Zoned

Apple AirPlay Direct to work without Wi-Fi connection?
about-electronics.eu
Pocket-lint: Apple is set to alter the way in which we use its AirPlay streaming service, by removing the need for a Wi-Fi connection, according to reports. Instead of a Wi-Fi connection, iOS devices such as the iPhone, iPad and iPod would create their ...

Jelly Bean for Verizon Galaxy Nexus available (pre-release)
Ubergizmo
By Edwin Kee on 08/29/2012 21:30 PDT If you happen to own a Galaxy Nexus from Verizon, there is a pre-release of the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean operating system update available at the moment, but you will need to do your fair bit of homework before you ...

Ubergizmo

Sony CEO says PlayStation Vita sales 'trending behind' in some regions
Globe and Mail
Sony Chief Executive Kazuo Hirai said on Thursday that its new gaming device Vita was mostly selling in line with its expectations, though in some places it was off the pace. Vita hit the stores earlier this year, the latest in a line of mobile gaming ...

Globe and Mail

Lighter, faster, more agile: the new 911 Carrera 4
Al-Bawaba
The new Porsche 911 Carrera 4 unites the excellent performance and efficiency of the new generation of the 911 Carrera with the dynamic benefits of the latest version of the active all-wheel drive system PTM Porsche Traction Management.

Al-Bawaba

Aliens: Colonial Marines new multiplayer mode
Gamedot.
By Gemma Hart on August 30th, 2012 SEGA announced an all new multiplayer mode for Aliens: Colonial Marines today. Escape mode is the second in a number of a competitive, intense multiplayer modes for the game. Providing for an innovative asymmetrical ...

Gamedot.

Cyber spying spreads in Iran after operation blown -researchers
Reuters
By Jim Finkle BOSTON Aug 29 (Reuters) - The scope of a cyber espionage campaign targeting Iran and other parts of the Middle East has widened, even after security experts blew the operation's cover last month, according to ...

Berlin Eyes Careful Balance To Bolster its Tech Sector
Wall Street Journal (blog)
As if to drive home the challenge, the Berlin state government took the opportunity to launch its own mini Tech City initiative, called Login.Berlin. Berlin State Secretary forTechnology Nicolas Zimmer, a former entrepreneur himself, was keen to avoid ...

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