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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Amazon Fire TV, not ready for Prime time?

Amazon Fire TV: $99 for the basic box + $99 for Amazon Prime subscription + $40 for Game Controller = $238 vs. $35 for a Chromecast

Amazon Fire TV review - CNET: "The Bad - The user interface strongly favors Amazon Instant content over other services, and the voice-search feature doesn't comb through Netflix or most other non-Amazon apps. Some major apps are missing, including HBO Go and Spotify. The $99 price feels relatively expensive, especially since you really need the $40 Fire Game Controller and a Prime subscription to get the most out of the box."

Brendan Eich steps down as Mozilla CEO after equality controversy
BetaNews
Brendan Eich is no longer the CEO of Mozilla. Effective today, he has stepped down. This news is rather bittersweet for me. While I disagree with Eich's perceived stance on marriage equality, I defend his right to express it. However, I also support the rights of ...

Nest halts detector sales, citing safety
Boston Globe
Nest Labs, the home automation company recently acquired by Google for $3.2 billion, said Thursday that it was halting sales of its smoke and carbon monoxide detector over safety concerns. Tony Fadell, the chief executive of Nest, said in a letter posted on ...

Microsoft's mobile moves: Still your father's technology company
Network World
This has been a big week for Microsoft, with a flood of new announcements and changes of direction. Along with its Build conference, new CEO Satya Nadella has made a number of moves designed to reverse the public perception that the company is an ...

Amazon Fire TV takes aim at Roku and Apple TV (+video)
Christian Science Monitor
Amazon has taken the wraps off a set-top box called the Fire TV, which can be used to stream a range of content, from video games to sitcoms and feature-length films. Skip to next paragraph. Recent posts. 04.03.14. Microsoft set to bring Internet Explorer 11 ...

Unreal Engine 4.1 update brings Linux/SteamOS support, free Elemental demo
Computerandvideogames.com
Unreal Engine will receive an update "later this month" that'll add initial support for Linux and SteamOS, Epic has confirmed. The company released detailed information on the Unreal Engine 4.1 update on Thursday, which will expand one of the industry's ...

New atomic clock will neither gain nor lose one second in about 300 million years
Business Standard
U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has launched a new atomic clock, called NIST-F2, which will serve as the new US time standard, and will neither gain nor lose one second in about 300 million years.

5 Facebook problems you need to fix right now
Charleston Post Courier
Facebook has been in the news a lot recently. Mark Zuckerberg bought the What's App company in February for a staggering, mind-blowing, huge - I'm running out of adjectives here - $19 billion. Last week, the company bought a little-known virtual-reality ...

5-year-old Ocean Beach boy exposes Microsoft Xbox vulnerability
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Apple Buys UK Voice Recognition Company Novauris
The Mac Observer
Apple CEO Tim Cook has made another corporate purchase, a UK voice recognition firm called Novauris. Bloomberg reported the acquisition, and Apple confirmed it without specifying terms or the purpose to which it will put Novauris. Apple Buys Novauris.

Europe's earth-monitoring Sentinel satellite heads into space
euronews
It is a revolutionary eye in the sky in what has been dubbed the most ambitious Earth observation venture ever. European radar satellite Sentinel-1a is being launched on Thursday. A fleet of other Sentinels will follow in coming years as part of Copernicus, ...

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Cheapest Smartphone, $25? (video)

At $25, Is This the Cheapest Smartphone Ever?: Video - Bloomberg: "Mozilla has revealed a prototype smartphone running on Firefox OS aimed squarely at emerging markets. Costing only $25, it's the cheapest in the world...and it's better than you might think. (Source: Bloomberg-Feb. 25)"

Google Wants Its Modular Ara Phone to Cost $50: "Google is taking its Ara modular smartphone platform increasingly seriously, and now in interviews with Time it has revealed that it aims to sell a simple version of the phone for as little as $50. Time has taken a deep dive into Google's modular smartphone, revealing some interesting details along the way. Work on the concept, which follows on from R&D by Phonebloks and Motorola, remains at Google because it kept hold of the Advanced Technology and Projects group when it sold Moto to Lenovo...."

Gartner Identifies Top 10 Mobile Technologies and Capabilities for 2015 and 2016: "LTE and LTE-A -  Long Term Evolution (LTE) and its successor LTE Advanced (LTE-A) are cellular technologies that improve spectral efficiency and will push cellular networks to theoretical peak downlink speeds of up to 1 Gbps, while reducing latency. All mobile users will benefit from improved bandwidth, and superior performance combined with new features such as LTE Broadcast will enable network operators to offer new services."

Why Apple Could Win Big With Tesla's Giant New Battery Factory
Wired
The first Tesla I ever saw was stripped down to the chassis, a bare-metal incarnation of the company's flagship electric Roadster on display at an event in Silicon Valley. Without the need for an internal combustion engine, the two-seater's petite ...

Apple CEO Tim Cook teases, reassures shareholders
Washington Post
Apple's stock dipped $1.43 to close Friday at $526.24. That's 25 percent below its peak price of $705.07 reached September 2012. Over the same stretch, the stock of Google Inc. — a bitter rival — has surged by 66 percent and the technology-driven ...

Google Updates Hangouts For iOS
InformationWeek
"The app has a brand new look and feel, is super easy to navigate, and includes a bunch of performance improvements," said Google's Frank Petterson in a Google+ post that announced the changes. "You can still make free voice and video calls, of course.

Apple could be the latest casualty in patent war
USA TODAY
Cases at German courts have seen the banning of Microsoft products including Windows 7, Media Player and the Xbox 360 in Europe's biggest economy, after Google-owned Motorola Mobility brought legal action against the U.S. firm in May 2012.

Google asks court to allow an anti-Muslim video to be restored on YouTube
San Jose Mercury News
Google has moved to restore an anti-Muslim video on YouTube, arguing that a federal appeals court order earlier this week requiring the company to take it down will cause "irreparable harm" because of its impact on online free speech. In court papers ...

Microsoft's Windows Strategy: A New Hope
InformationWeek
By creating a larger footprint in emerging markets, Microsoft impedes Android from becoming the reference point for a new generation of users -- a battle Nokia CEO Stephen Elop referenced when he explained how the Android-based Nokia X platform ...

Google Now Launcher: Google Brings Its Own Android Home Screen to the Play ...
TIME
Although Android 4.4 KitKat includes a new home screen design from Google, most users will never see it, because phone makers like Samsung and HTC tend to use their own home screens instead. That may change soon, now that the Google Now ...

Google Drags Smartphones Into The Really Modern Age
Forbes
Google's Project Ara has picked up pace with Time magazine now quoting an early 2015 launch for the modular smartphone. It's one of those projects that could truly revolutionize its industry because Ara is an attempt to bring modularity and ecosystem ...

Apple preparing software update to enhance functionality of iPhone 5s Touch ID
Apple Insider
By Daniel Eran Dilger. Apple is preparing to release a free software update designed to improve the fingerprint recognition experience of Touch ID, potentially fixing a "fade" issue that has been experienced by some iPhone 5s users, AppleInsider has ...

Google Donates $6.8M to SF Youth Transit Program
PC Magazine
In recent months, Google has come under fire, alongside companies like Apple and Facebook, for shuttling workers in luxury, Wi-Fi enabled buses from San Francisco to Silicon Valley campuses. The buses sparked a heated debate, with activists arguing ...

Mt. Gox Bitcoin Exchange Sued in US for 'Misappropriation'
Businessweek
Bankrupt Mt. Gox, once the world's biggest Bitcoin exchange, was sued by a customer in federal court in Chicago in a proposed class-action lawsuit representing all U.S. users who lost money. The Mt. Gox exchange announced Feb. 24 it had lost 750,000 ...

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Mozilla, Google commit to Metro browsers for Windows 8

Mozilla, Google commit to Metro browsers for Windows 8
Computerworld
Microsoft's IE10 has five-month head start; documentation on hybrid desktop-Metro browsers only showed up Feb. 29 By Gregg Keizer Computerworld - Mozilla has kick-started development of a Metro-style version of Firefox for Windows 8, ...

Taiwan's AU Optronics Found Guilty in LCD Price Fixing Scheme
PCWorld
By Michael Kan, IDG News A US federal jury on Tuesday convicted Taiwan's AU Optronics of taking part in a worldwide price fixing scheme on LCD panels that raked in at least US$500 million from US companies and customers including Apple, ...

HTC Lists Smartphones That Will Get Android 4.0
PCWorld
By Mikael Ricknäs, IDG News HTC is preparing an Android 4.0 upgrade for 16 of its existing smartphones, but the company still has few details on when users will get the upgrade, according to a blog posted on Tuesday. The company is in the early stages ...

Akira Yoshizawa gets Google Doodle: Wet origami? That's genius
Los Angeles Times
By Amy Hubbard Akira Yoshizawa, recipient of a Google Doodle honoring the 101st anniversary of his birth, was no mere paper folder. He was an origami artist credited with raising the paper-folding technique to a higher plane.

Los Angeles Times

New iPad hits stores at 8 a.m. Friday
CNET
Apple's retail and online stores will kick off sales of the new iPad early this Friday in the US, UK, Japan, and several other countries. by Lance Whitney March 14, 2012 6:14 AM PDT Follow @lancewhit The new iPad will hit the shelves at 8 am local time ...

Busy Sunspot Unleashes Another Strong Solar Flare
Space.com
by Denise Chow, SPACE.com Staff Writer The sun unleashed a new solar flare Tuesday (March 13) from the same region that has been actively brewing for the past week. The flare was categorized as an M7.9-class eruption and peaked at 1:41 pm EDT (1741 ...

Leap signs up as customer of new Clearwire network
The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Clearwire has signed up Leap Wireless, the parent of the Cricket cell service, as a customer for its next-generation network, the wireless broadband network said Wednesday. Clearwire's "LTE," or Long-Term Evolution network, ...

Frog-geddaboudit: New frog species found in NYC
Fox News
Mar. 14, 2012: Scientists have found a new type of leopard frog in the New York City area.Rutgers University NEW YORK – Scientists have identified a new species of leopard frog in and around New York City. The frog was found hiding in plain sight on ...

Apple's iPad Ready for March 16 Debut, IDC Raises 2012 Tablet Forecast
Forbes
Apple will release its new iPad on March 16, as promised, and said today that it will open its retail stores at 8 am local time in the US and nine other countries and territories. No word on how early it expects customers to line up before the doors ...

Intel wants to be inside your tablet and smartphone
TG Daily
Intel's x86 chips may power the majority of the world's PCs, but Santa Clara says it is now ready to "fine-tune" its processor supply chain to target the tablet and smartphone space. Both lucrative markets are currently dominated by ARM-powered chips ...

Human-like fossils in China caves puzzle scientists
AFP
WASHINGTON — The most recent fossils ever found of a human-like species in southeast China have presented scientists with a mystery about what may be an unknown Stone Age culture, researchers said Wednesday. Sometimes called the "red deer people," the ...

AFP

Nokia Not Dead, Working on a Windows 8 Tablet with Microsoft
Forbes
Microsoft recently launched the Consumer Preview version of Windows 8 and will presumably launch the final version by mid 2012. We expect W8 to be a major hit as it will target two markets already dominated by Microsoft – desktops and notebooks.

Former Exec Says Focus on Social, Google+ Ruined Google
PC Magazine
By Chloe Albanesius Former Google exec James Whittaker - now at Microsoft - penned a scorching takedown of his former employer today, arguing that Larry Page's emphasis on social, as well as an inability to effectively compete against Facebook, ...

American pies are cooling on the windowsill ahead of Pi Day
Register
By Brid-Aine Parnell • Get more from this author Today in the US, home of the crazily backward (if you're not American) date arrangement, it's Pi day because its March 14 or 3.14. This is the day that Americans (but not Europeans, obviously) celebrate ...

High school student wins science prize for breast cancer research
msnbc.com
Intel Science winner, 17-year-old Nithin Tumma was awarded $100000 for his research, which may provide new targets for novel breast cancer treatments.

AT&T seeks to settle _ quietly _ with iPhone user
The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — AT&T is offering to discuss a settlement with an iPhone user who won a small-claims case that alleged the company was slowing down his "unlimited" data service. A law firm retained by AT&T Inc. also threatened in a letter dated Friday ...

The Associated Press

Will the next iPhone be simply named 'iPhone'? Collapse
msnbc.com
Facebook, iPhone, Twitter and Wii. Technology evolves at the speed of light. Msnbc.com's tech reporters look at the gadgets, games and innovations changing our world. "A lot of you seem upset that it's just 'iPad' … but think iMac, iPod and MacBook.

Refusal to import mice for scientific testing 'choking off' medical research ...
Washington Post
LONDON — Medical research in the UK is being jeopardized by activists who have persuaded transport companies to stop importing mice, rats and rabbits for scientific experiments, a former British science minister says. The boycott affects only a tiny ...

How teenage galaxies feed
TG Daily
Astronomers have known for some time that the earliest galaxies were much smaller than the impressive spiral and elliptical entities which now fill our universe. Indeed, over the lifetime of the cosmos, galaxies have put on a great deal of weight but ...

TG Daily

Pinterest: Revamped Profile Pages, iPad App Coming Soon
OzarksFirst.com
(Austin, TX) -- You might excuse Ben Silbermann, co-founder and CEO of photo-sharing site Pinterest, if he looks a little overwhelmed these days. Pinterest, which encourages users to collect images of their passions on digital pinboards and share them ...

NASA: Space flight may harm your eyesight
CNET (blog)
by Chris Matyszczyk March 14, 2012 10:10 AM PDT Brain scans of astronauts who were in space for lengthy periods suggest a significant occurrence of a condition that can affect vision. One can imagine that flying up to space can do peculiar things to ...

NYC Man Sues Apple Because Siri Doesn't Understand Him
SFist
Those of us with an iPhone 4S boasting Apple's personal-assistant Siri, we understand the frustration when the nice lady inside our phone doesn't grasp a word we're saying. However, one New York man has had enough of Siri's hearing impairment so he's ...

SFist

Dell Agrees To Acquire Data Protection Firm SonicWALL
RTT News
(RTTNews) - PC maker Dell Inc. (DELL: News ) on Tuesday said it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire SonicWALL, Inc., a provider of advanced network security and data protection. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Verizon to double 4G LTE markets by end of 2012, only unveil LTE-capable phones
androidandme.com
Today Verizon Wireless announced they would more than double the number of markets for the nation's fastest 4G network. Verizon currently offers 4G LTE service in about 200 markets, but they plan to be in at least 400 markets by the end of 2012.

As gas prices soar, US driving habits shift — but slowly
Washington Post (blog)
With another year of soaring gasoline prices — the nationwide average is now $3.81 per gallon — Americans are altering their driving habits. But for a country that's still heavily dependent on the automobile, that's a slow, painstaking process.

Yahoo sues Facebook for infringing 10 patents
Reuters
By Dan Levine and Alexei Oreskovic | SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc sued Facebook Inc over 10 patents that include methods and systems for advertising on the Web, opening the first major legal battle among big technology companies in social media.

Scenic Greek Island Shows Signs of Volcanic Unrest
LiveScience.com
The volcanic caldera on the picturesque tourist island of Santorini is showing signs of unrest. But researchers detecting the caldera's movement say it doesn't necessarily mean an eruption is imminent. The Greek island was the site of one of the most ...

New iPad Photos, Retina Screenshots Hit the Web
The Mac Observer
As The Mac Observer discussed Tuesday, Vietnamese tech site Tinhte.vn was able to obtain a 16GB WiFi + 4G iPad several days before the official launch. After spending the past 24 hours getting acquainted with Apple's latest tablet, the site has now ...

The Mac Observer

Angry Birds Flashmob at SXSW 2012
ZDNet (blog)
By Violet Blue | March 14, 2012, 8:34am PDT Summary: A surprise Angry Birds flashmob at SXSW celebrated the Angry Birds In Space announcement. On Tuesday the high noon innocent bystanders outside the Austin Convention Center saw a real-life ...

Baby brains bring smarter computers closer to reality
Hindustan Times
Researchers are tapping the cognitive smarts of babies, toddlers and preschoolers in their bid to facilitate computers to think more like humans. If replicated in machines, the computational models based on baby brainpower could give a major boost to ...

Rare earth metals common in tech, defense
Politico
Continue Reading Text Size - + reset The resources at issue in the Obama administration's new trade case against China are critical to the high-tech sector, and some of those minerals are particularly good at boosting energy efficiency.

Politico

Announcing Rio+Social: Social Media & Technology to Take Historic UN ...
Reuters
The event brings together the United Nations Foundation, Mashable, 92 nd Street Y, Ericsson, and EDP, to create South America's first-of-its-kind in-person gathering and global, online conversation on the potential of social media and technology to ...

Microsoft Shows Off New Touchscreen Technology – Let's Hope ...
By Chris Chavez
Android's not perfect. And you'd be a fool to think so. One of the issues with Android that has long irked me about our mobile OS is what I call “screen lag.” Now, I'm not talking about framerate (which could use some improvement as well), but ...
Android Phone Fans

Data Points: Tech Set | Adweek
Advertisers need to keep many factors in mind when marketing to Hispanics, and technology is a key one of them. ... Hispanics in the U.S. use many devices to go online, but they're more likely to own high-tech gadgets than non-Hispanics.
Adweek : Advertising & Branding

One More Tech Patent Suit - 24/7 Wall St.
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The tech patent suits keep piling up. The most recent is a set of Yahoo! ... Oracle sued Google in 2010, alleging the Web search leader's Android mobile operating technology infringes Oracle's Java patents. In addition to those patent claims, ...
24/7 Wall St.

Music Tech Announcements From #SXSW: Rdio, OneSheet, mSpot ...
By Bruce Houghton
As SXSW Interactive transitions to SXSW Music, the music and music tech announcements are flowing: Music streamer Rdio launched a slicker, simpler and more social interface. OneSheet goes mobile: every user who creates a Onesheet is ...
hypebot

Yahoo-Facebook patent fight: more than meets the eye — Tech ...
By Om Malik
Some technology industry insiders believe that Facebook was pillaging Yahoo's email address books for a long time before the two companies signed an agreement announced in December 2009. Infact, Facebook had been doing such a ...
GigaOM

Why I left Google - JW on Tech - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
JW on Tech. James Whittaker is a technology executive focused on making the web a better place for users and developers. He is a former Googler, former ...
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Is Microsoft Firefox's last, great hope?

Is Microsoft Firefox's last, great hope? Computerworld (blog) By Preston Gralla Mozilla has faced considerable criticism for its decision to release a customized version of Firefox in which the default search engine and home page is Microsoft's Bing. But if Mozilla is going to survive, that's exactly what it ... Mozilla, Microsoft Join Forces for 'Firefox with Bing' Wired News By Scott Gilbertson Mozilla has announced a new special release of Firefox that integrates Microsoft's Bing search engine into the open source browser. The special Firefox build, dubbed Firefox with Bing, makes Bing the default search provider in both... Facebook account hijacked? Get a little help from your friends CNET by Elinor Mills October 27, 2011 9:00 AM PDT Follow @elinormills Facebook is set to announce new security features today that will let people set passwords for third-party apps and get help from friends when they can't get into their account. ... Sony to take over Sony Ericcson Los Angeles Times Sony has agreed to buy Ericsson's half of the Sony Ericsson smartphone-making joint venture, the two companies announced on Thursday. Sony will pay Ericsson about $1.5 billion for its stake in the company, which makes a wide range of smartphones with ... Report: US Satellites Attacked by Chinese Hackers PC Magazine By Chloe Albanesius US government satellites were compromised at least four times in 2007 and 2008, possibly at the hands of Chinese computer hackers with ties to the country's military, according to a new report. The devices were accessed via a ... Dropbox adds new file-sharing service for work groups Computerworld By Lucas Mearian Computerworld - Cloud storage and file-sharing service DropBox today announced a new service that allows work groups to share up to 1TB of online capacity, while also allowing IT shops to add or remove users. ... Clearwire shares jump with Sprint discussions BusinessWeek Shares of Clearwire Corp. jumped 19 percent Wednesday after Sprint Nextel Corp.'s CEO said the companies are talking about how to make Sprint's phones work with Clearwire's planned new wireless data network. THE SPARK: Early Wednesday, Sprint CEO Dan ... Report: Apple Struggles With Retina Display for iPad 3 PC Magazine By Leslie Horn Apple released the iPad 2 last March without upgrading its display, and but a CNet report has said Apple is now facing challenges with bumping the screen of the iPad 3 up to retina display. Apple would like its third-generation tablet to ... Facebook on Ice: New Data Center to Be Built Near Arctic Circle Fox News AP Photo/Scanpix, Sweco, The Node Pole Oct. 27, 2011: An artist's rendering of Facebook's new server farm on the edge of the Arctic Circle, the company's first outside the US Social networking site Facebook is to build its first data center outside the ... Firmware update enables 2011 iMacs to reinstall Lion from the Internet Ars Technica By Jacqui Cheng | Published October 27, 2011 9:30 AM Lion Internet Recovery enables Lion users to download and reinstall Lion from Apple's servers when they experience an operating system meltdown, as long as they have a broadband connection. ... Android Market Posts Big Numbers, Surpasses Apple Forbes Android now leads iOS in the total number of apps downloaded, as Google's open-source strategy both helps and hurts the platform. The Android platform was responsible for 44 percent of all mobile app downloads in the second quarter of 2011, ... Australia Court to Expedite Appeal in Galaxy Tab 10.1 Ban The Mac Observer The judge overseeing Apple's injunction blocking the sale of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet in Australia has agreed to expedite Samsung's appeal, according to the Sydney Morning Herald. Samsung is hoping to get a reversal so it can sell its iPad competitor... HP Planning ARM-Based Servers with Calxeda, Challenging Intel eWeek HP reportedly will become the first major server maker to use ARM-based processors in some of its data center servers. Hewlett-Packard reportedly will partner with chip-maker Calxeda to develop data center servers powered by low-power processors ... Oracle, Google to Negotiate Settlement With Trial Delay Mobiledia By Sandy Fitzgerald | Thu Oct 27, 2011 11:45 am The Oracle-Google copyright dispute is postponed until next year, giving both sides more time to hammer out a settlement that may allow them to avoid a lengthy, costly trial. US District Judge William ... Research Shows Stars Create Organic Matter of Unexpected Complexity Geekosystem by Eric Limer | 11:32 am, October 27th, 2011 For years, scientists have been trying to solve the mystery of “Unidentified Infrared Emission features,” a set of emissions from interstellar space that, up until now, has been relatively unexplained. ... Lost Americans Can't Stop Calling 911 Death and Taxes By Andrew Belonsky Thursday, October 27, 2011 Mark and Marcia Rosenthal had quite an adventure this week when they took what was meant to be a leisurely stroll through their local apple orchard. Unfortunately for them, that walk-about turned them ... DirecTV now streaming live video to your iPad Macgasm By Josh Wright Thu, Oct 27, 2011 @ 8:05 AM DirecTV for iPhone is probably one of my most utilized apps. It allows me to schedule recordings to my DVRs anywhere with an internet connection. I have yet to find a use for an iPad version though, until now. ... Indie Royale launches with Gemini Rue, Sanctum, Nimbus, ARES bundle Neoseeker Now here's something interesting. Indie Royale, a new website dedicated to selling indie games in bulk, is testing the waters with an interesting pricing tactic. You basically set your own price, much like the Humble Indie Bundle deals, but the price ... Android fragmentation gets visualized [infographic] BGR There have been six smartphone distribution updates since Android was released: Cupcake, Donut, Eclair, Froyo, Gingerbread and most recently, Ice Cream Sandwich. One man, Michael DeGusta, decided to map out every release and every Android smartphone ... LITA Blog » Blog Archive » Jobs in Library Information Technology ... By vedmonds LITA Blog. Library and Information Technology Association ... Integrated Technologies Services Coordinator, Kansas State University Libraries, Manhattan, KS. Visit the LITA Job Site for more available jobs and for information on submitting a ... LITA Blog Chris Dodd Pushes Back Against Hollywood Vs. Technology ... By Alex Ben Block The MPAA's new head looks past the industry's resistance to innovation in the modern era and vows to embrace tech to fight piracy. Hollywood Reporter - Top Stories Technology and Creativity Celebrated at the 11th Annual Adobe ... By Jon Perera, Vice President of Worldwide Education Marketing When asked about his message to other students around the world on using technology and design, his advice was, “Think big and outside the box. Have a positive impact on the world. And make sure that your design tells a story.” Secondly ... Adobe Featured Blogs » RSS The Miami Hurricane » Technology detracts from viewer's reality ... By Paul Levy In our digital age, anybody with a cell phone or other technology can quickly document events. This will completely change the sources where history stems from in the future. History will be much more first-hand and opinionated. Numerous ... The Miami Hurricane New York Media Hires Chief Technology Officer - FishbowlNY By Jerry Barmash Chevres will oversee all technology for the company's digital business, which includes the news and service Website nymag.com that recently topped 10 million monthly unique users. Chevres is also in charge of the Grub Street network of ... FishbowlNY Top Ten 2012 Strategic Technology Trends By Jeff Hurt The top ten strategic technology trends identified by Gartner will affect your organization in 2012. Are you prepared for these opportunities? Velvet Chainsaw | Midcourse Corrections Shane Smith from Vizeum on Creative Technology - #AdVision ... By Shelby Healy - MSFT How is technology changing the way we build campaigns? If you've ever played Angry Birds Rio, you've already seen a sneak peek. We took a moment to chat with Shane Smith from Vizeum who has been producing campaigns that have ... Microsoft Advertising Community A technology-free school in Silicon Valley — Joanne Jacobs By Joanne In the heart of Silicon Valley (and very near where I live), a Waldorf school has banned computers, PowerPoint and any technology more advanced than colored chalk, reports the New York Times. Who sends their kids there? Three quarters of ... Joanne Jacobs Award-winning "Green" Pipe Rehabilitation Technology Introduced ... Houston, TX (PRWEB) October 27, 2011 -- GeoTree Technologies, Inc., a high tech infrastructure repair materials company announced that it has formed strategic ... Environmental Expert Latest News... Follow @expricom