FCC should reclassify internet providers as Title II services

Netflix makes the case that the FCC has no other choice, and points out that two previous attempts at regulating internet providers as “information services” failed due to a poor legal framework. The company’s filing also highlights the recent controversy over “interconnection points” and who is to blame for congestion points at deeper reaches of the internet that caused Netflix traffic to degrade for Comcast and Verizon subscribers. According to Netflix, the cable giants deliberately failed to maintain these points, with the result that: “Due to Comcast’s degrading its interconnection points, the first customer received less than 6% of the broadband service she had purchased from Comcast, while the second received only 1%.”(source infra)

Netflix to FCC: reclassify Comcast and Verizon so they can’t choke the internet — Tech News and Analysis: "While many companies — including Comcast — have said the FCC should preserve a “free and open internet,” Netflix’s submission is unusually blunt and specific about the measures to take. Notably, Netflix told the FCC that it should reclassify the internet providers as so-called “Title II” services, which would allow the agency to treat them more akin to public utilities and bar them from favoring one website over another."

Netflix FCC Comments

Microsoft Echoes Google Response to European Privacy Ruling
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Microsoft Embraces AI With Project Adam
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Microsoft boosts OneDrive storage to free terabyte
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Facebook launches Ads Manager for mobile - Inside Facebook
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Who Wants A Smartwatch?

Apparently, not many people do --

Does Anyone Even Want a Smartwatch? -- NYMag: "Despite all the buzz surrounding wearables, it isn’t clear who’s supposed to be buying them. Fewer than half of the respondents to a recent Accenture survey said they would consider buying a smartwatch, and even the most optimistic experts predict only 20 million smartwatch sales this year, a pittance compared with phone and tablet sales. "

The secretive billionaire who built Silicon Valley: "How John Arrillaga Sr. [real estate developer] transformed California fruit orchards into high-priced office space for the likes of Google, Apple, Hewlett-Packard, and Cisco."

Google Directors Wanted Page, Brin to Court Facebook Employees
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Google considered having its cofounders personally recruit Facebook workers and instituted a policy to make counteroffers within an hour to workers ...

Facebook: World Cup Biggest Social Media Event Ever
Voice of America
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Google, Others Push for 'Strong' Open Internet Action
PC Magazine
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Facebook 'Friends' Its City, Pays for Officer
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Google Glass creator heads to Amazon
CNET
Babak Parviz, who led the development of Google Glass and other ... at the Internet search-engine giant, confirms to CNET he left to Amazon.

Microsoft Azure Machine Learning: Pier 1 Digs In
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Microsoft CEO Nadella writes long memo to employees -- Oh my!
Computerworld (blog)
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) CEO Satya Nadella enjoys writing a good memo. His latest tome written to employees -- published online Thursday -- has ...

Yahoo: Focus on Alibaba, display business
MarketWatch
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Google's 3D mapping tech flying to space station
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Apple Denies Chinese Media Claim of IPhone Security Risk
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... the microblog of the People's Daily newspaper said Apple...

Developers and Apple open up on new Swift programming language
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FWD.us hopes for legislative immigration reform crushed

'Now, as hope for an overhaul fades, the group must reconcile Silicon Valley's high-flying ambition with the sobering lessons of Washington. 'In Silicon Valley if you don't like the taxi industry, you start Uber, you go around it,' said FWD.us President Joe Green, who helped establish the group alongside Facebook's Zuckerberg, his former college roommate. 'With politics you have to work through it, and doing that can be very challenging.'' http://politico.pro/1kxKenG 

MEXICO CITY: Fight to end telecom monopolies may be in trouble - Economy & Banking - MiamiHerald.com: "... While Slim’s Telcel will be forced to share its network infrastructure with other operators, and not charge them for calls to its own clients, the framework bill would let it enter the broadcast market after two years. Televisa, for its part, will be forced to publish its advertising rates and apply them to all customers, but it may be allowed to capture a significant portion of the market for wireless services. “At the end of the day, we thought the state was going to adequately regulate Carlos Slim and Televisa. But we see that the law ends up offering them privileges,” Denise Dresser, a columnist and commentator, told MVS Radio. In September, the Pena Nieto administration is to auction off the rights to launch two new television networks. Televisa must provide access to the winners of the two new networks on its cable and satellite systems...."

Google's Street View maps world's largest cruise ship
USA TODAY
Cruisers can now explore Royal Caribbean's 5,400-passenger Allure of the Seas onGoogle's Street View. It's the first time the panoramic-view ...

Google Fiber is coming to Overland Park, Kan.
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Does Facebook break up marriages?
MarketWatch
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Facebook Mood Experiment Draws FTC Complaint
InformationWeek
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Google's Growing Silence on Saving Open Internet Leaves Fight to Startups
Bloomberg
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Microsoft's Windows to aid PC market revival in 2015
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Google Rates Internet Service Providers' Video Streaming Quality
Voice of America
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Facebook Moves Ahead In Beijing, Line Blocked
Forbes
China is extremely wary of offshore-based SNS like Facebook, Line and ... Yahoo's(Nasdaq: YHOO) photo-sharing Flickr service, and Microsoft's ...

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Apple Shares 'Pride' Video Featuring Preparation for San Francisco Pride Parade - Mac Rumors
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From Android Auto to OnLive: how video is becoming the secret glue of connected devices — Tech News and Analysis: "In this move towards virtualization, video streams have become the secret glue that connects screens and devices without the need for complicated, platform-specific implementations. And the upside of rendering video instead of code could be that devices have to be replaced less often while getting more frequent updates."

36-Year-Old NASA Probe's Engines Successfully Fired Up by Private Team - Scientific American: "An old NASA spacecraft under the control of a private team fired its thrusters yesterday (July 2) for the first time in a generation. NASA's International Sun-Earth Explorer 3 probe (ISEE-3), which the agency retired in 1997, performed the maneuver in preparation for a larger trajectory correction next week. The spacecraft hadn't fired its engines since 1987, ISEE-3 Reboot Project team members said. It took several attempts and days to perform the roll maneuver because ISEE-3 was not responding to test commands. But this time, controllers got in touch. They increased the roll rate from 19.16 revolutions per minute to 19.76 RPM, putting it within mission specifications for trajectory corrections...."

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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
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Google Sends Shopping Alerts To Android Devices
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Apple retail boss welcomed with $68 million stock package
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Apple Jumps to Second Place in Online Retail
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Google Seeks to Overturn Vringo's $30.5 Million Verdict
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Microsoft files for smartwatch patent
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FCC Proposal to Destroy Net Neutrality

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler (appointed by Barack Obama) obviously cares nothing about the public interest, net neutrality, an open internet or internet freedom. He is only serving his masters in the communications industry (ISPs) and and their lobbyists! This is the worst public policy to come out of Washington DC in years!

FCC proposal would destroy net neutrality | The Verge: "....The goal of net neutrality rules is to prevent service providers from discriminating between different content, allowing all types of data and all companies' data to be treated equally. While it appears that outright blocking of individual services won't be allowed, the Journal reports that some forms of discrimination will be allowed, though that will apparently not include slowing down websites. Nonetheless, allowing some websites to pay for preferentially treatment would inherently favor larger, more successful companies. A MAJOR CHANGE TO THE MEANING OF "OPEN INTERNET" The actual draft of the proposed rules has not yet been released, but the FCC did release a framework of the rules back in February. These proposed changes, however, are a large departure from the original Open Internet rules as well as what was shown earlier this year...."

F.C.C., in ‘Net Neutrality’ Turnaround, Plans to Allow Fast Lane - NYTimes.com:  " . . . The proposed rules are a complete turnaround for the F.C.C. on the subject of so-called net neutrality, the principle that Internet users should have equal ability to see any content they choose, and that no content providers should be discriminated against in providing their offerings to consumers....The new proposals, drafted by the F.C.C.'s chairman, Tom Wheeler, and his staff, will be circulated to the other four commissioners beginning Thursday, an F.C.C. spokeswoman said. The details can be amended by consensus in order to attract support from a majority of the commissioners. The commission will then vote on a final proposal at its May 15 meeting."

Samsung Galaxy Series Riding High on Overall User Engagement, but lukewarm Response to its Content and App Strategy.: "...Bonny Joy, Chief, Consumer Telemetry Platforms, said:  “Clearly, Galaxy Sx series have succeeded in creating more engagement by growing the overall pie, but its own content and media strategy is faring low at the moment. Galaxy S5 is a step-upgrade from the Galaxy S4, but as far as content and media is concerned, little has changed to draw consumer attention to its latest launch.”..."

Megaupload seeks return of millions in frozen Hong Kong assets ( - Legal - Security ): "...The company's assets were frozen by Hong Kong at the request of the U.S. Department of Justice around January 2012 after its operators, including founder Kim Dotcom, were indicted by U.S. prosecutors for allegedly profiting from large-scale copyright infringement. On Wednesday, the High Court ordered Hong Kong's Department of Justice to respond to Megaupload's filing by June 4...."

Amazon's Prime Pantry service lets you ship 45 pounds of groceries for a $6 fee
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Why Apple Can't Quit Steve Jobs
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Microsoft Earnings: 6 Questions
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Facebook Profit Tripled in First Quarter
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Amazon snares classic shows in deal with HBO
Boston Globe
Starting May 21, Amazon Prime members — who pay $99 a year for ... other content to televisions, competing with the likes of Apple Inc. and Roku.

Microsoft's Bing goes ad-free for all US schools
Computerworld
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Google Street View Offers Time Travel
InformationWeek
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Google, Facebook and other tech companies race to develop artificial intelligence
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Google, SunPower unwrap solar-power deal
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Heartbleed: why did a computer bug have a name and a logo?
The Guardian
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Google's Schmidt Urges North Korea to Open Internet

Google's Schmidt Urges North Korea to Open Internet
Wall Street Journal
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt says he advised North Korea to open Internet access to help to improve its economy during a visit to the isolated country. The WSJ's Brian Spegele tells us what the Google executive may want from the nation.

Nearly 1 million more Xbox 360s than Wii Us sold in December
CNET
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BlackBerry outage hits some Vodafone users
Washington Post
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Apple Downplays Cheap iPhone Reports
InformationWeek
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Samsung cancels plans for Windows RT tablet in the US
ZDNet
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ZDNet

Fla. Python Hunt Begins Thisss Weekend
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EU antitrust chief growls at Google, hopes to avoid sanctions
Register
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Incipio launches tape-less tape measure (video)
PCWorld
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Microsoft Confirms Acquisition of Entertainment-Tech Startup R2 Studios
Wall Street Journal (blog)
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Wall Street Journal (blog)

Wikipedia Takes On Travel Industry With Wikivoyage
Wired
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CES 2013: Lessons from Las Vegas
BBC News
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BBC News

Get ready for pricey 'Ultra HD' TVs
CNNMoney
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China Will Be Its #1 Market
ABC News (blog)
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Steve Jobs Memorialized by iPhone Sculpture in Russia
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The Mac Observer

IBM Watson supercomputer learned to curse thanks to Urban Dictionary
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SlashGear

Windows Messenger closes in March
The Guardian
2013 will mark the end of an era for social media fans as Microsoft finally kills off Windows Messenger, its popular but outdated instant messaging tool. After announcing in November that it planned to close the service, Microsoft this week emailed Messenger ...

The Guardian

The Pacific Bluefin Tuna Is Going, Going…
TIME
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TIME

Largest Spiral Galaxy Is Five Times Bigger Than Milky Way, NGC 6872 Study ...
Huffington Post
Astronomers have crowned the universe's largest known spiral galaxy, a spectacular behemoth five times bigger than our own Milky Way. The title-holder is now NGC 6872, a barred spiral found 212 million light-years away in the southern constellation Pavo, ...

Innovation, Not Just Reputation, Is Key to Market Success
Forbes
Variety may be the spice of life, but innovation drives variety. The pervasive taste of Apple would still dominate the smartphone palate if Samsung hadn't kicked things up a notch. Innovation Snabe 01-10-2013-A In fact, the South Korean manufacturer of the ...

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A Story About Steve Jobs, Steel Balls and Gorilla Glass (You, with the Cracked ...
TIME
The idea behind the Apple iPhone 5C is that it comes with a pre-cracked screen so you don't have to worry about cracking it yourself. But since it's not an actual product, we generally have to wait patiently for our own clumsiness, drunkenness, short temper or...

TIME

Nokia Bonds Rally as Lumia-Led Turnaround Gathers Pace
Bloomberg
Buyers of Nokia Oyj (NOK1V)'s debt are joining equity holders in reaping rewards as Chief Executive Officer Stephen Elop's plan to salvage the Finnish smartphone maker gathers pace. Nokia's handset unit is poised for the first break-even result or profit in a ...

New UN Environment Studies Show Rising Mercury Threat to People in ...
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Communities in developing countries are facing increasing health and environmental risks linked to exposure to mercury, according to new studies by the United Nations environmental agency. Produced by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the ...

Stargazing: 'Doomsday Asteroid' misses by a mile, actually 9 million
Florida Today
Near Earth Objects are comets and asteroids that cross the Earth's orbit and represent a potential threat of hitting the Earth. / NASA. Written by. Bernie Badger. Satellties and Planets. Filed Under. Columnists · Bernie Badger. Near Earth Objects are comets and ...

Dell Latitude 10 Essentials and Project Ophelia - Two very different approaches ...
ZDNet
Summary: Dell announced a new budget configuration for its Latitude 10 tablet at CES this week, along with the Dell Wyse Project Ophelia zero client, giving two very different options for improving student computing access. Christopher Dawson ...

You Can Send a Message to Zuckerberg's Inbox (For $100)
Gizmodo
You Can Send a Message to Zuckerberg's Inbox (For $100) If you have something you feel you desperately need to tell Mark Zuckerberg, now might be a real good time. For the handsome sum of $100, you can send a message to Mark's Facebook inbox, ...

Java allows 'open hunting season' for hackers, experts find
ZDNet
Security professionals urge disabling Java on your PC, saying that the computer language has created an "open hunting season on consumers" for hackers. Talking to Reuters, Jaime Blasco, Labs Manager with security firm AlienVault Labs recommended ...

Developer gets Mac OS running on a jailbroken Surface
Geek
It didn't take long for developers to move from a proof-on-concept RAM exploit to a full-blown Windows RT jailbreak. Over at the XDA forums, members have posted a simple batch file that makes the process just about foolproof. All it takes is a little patience ...

Geek

Regulators critical of Verizon's response to powerful wind storm; question level ...
Washington Post
WASHINGTON — Federal regulators have issued a sharply critical report on phone problems that followed a severe wind storm in the Washington-metro area last year. The Federal Communications Commission says even now, it remains concerned about ...

Windows 8 uncertainty blamed for decline in PC sales
TG Daily
For the first time in five years, PC shipments over the holiday shopping season were lower than the year before - and IDC is blaming Windows 8. The research firm says that a hoped-for boost to sales from the new operating system failed to materialize, ...

TG Daily

Astronaut Chris Hadfield Tweets from space
San Francisco Chronicle
Chris Hadfield has been Tweeting photos and observations since arriving at the International Space Station in December. He Tweeted about this photo: Humans need straight lines, nature doesn't. Indecisive river and orderly farmers, central Asia.

San Francisco Chronicle

Posts tagged ces 2013
TeensTalkTech (blog)
There was a lot going on at CES this week, though not too many big announcements as far as new cell phones go. Well, except if you're on T-Mobile, in which case there were some pretty huge announcements. Some of the big things T-Mobile shared this ...

Audi Piloted Driving Concept Explained – Video
Motorward
Audi is taking autonomous driving very seriously, by the looks of things, acquiring a license to test these cars on public roads in Nevada, and showing up at CES 2013 with a fully functional demo car. The piloted driving technology is not a full autopilot feature...

Motorward

Canon PowerShot N camera with iOS and Android support
Product Reviews
The point and shoot compact camera has been the device of choice when it comes to taking those spontaneous moments quick and fast, but times have changed and the compact camera has been left behind in recent years by the success of the Smartphone ...

Product Reviews

iPotty tries to get your toddler to use the toilet
SlashGear
People out there who don't have kids can't understand what a big deal it is for parents to potty train their kids. Not only does it really suck to have to clean up wet and poopy diapers multiple times a day, but was disposable diapers are incredibly expensive as ...

SlashGear

Anarchy Reigns review: Bland beat 'em...
Toronto Star
Anarchy Reigns. (out of 4). (Xbox/PS3). Rated M. Anarchy Reigns is a third-person beat 'em up from Platinum Software, best known for its over-the-top titles Bayonetta and MadWorld. All three games share similar control schemes and goals: use hand-to-hand ...

Toronto Star

Angry Birds Space update splashes underwater with new Pig Dipper episode
NDTV
If gravity wasn't enough, Rovio chose to add another interesting element to the birds in space - buoyancy. Angry Birds Space just got updated with an all new Pig Dipper episode featuring 30 new aquatic-themed levels. Users will now have to rethink their ...

NDTV

North American International Auto Show awash in optimism
CBC.ca
Confidence and optimism surround this year's North American International Auto Show in Detroit. "Last year we came halfway back, this year we're all the way back," said Jim Seavitt, a 30-year Ford deal and chairman of the North American International Auto ...

CBC.ca

Amazon AutoRip Provides Free Digital Copies Of CDs
InformationWeek
Amazon.com customers who have purchased music CDs as gifts without declaring them as such may be surprised to find that the company has returned the favor: Music from a large selection of CDs and MP3 files acquired from Amazon as far back as 1998 ...

Apple Targets App Store Bait And Switch Scammers
InformationWeek
Apple will lock down app screenshots after approval to stem a spate of sellers hawking fake apps....

Windows 8 Licenses Reach 60 Million Mark: Microsoft
eWeek
Despite some early discouraging signs, Microsoft says Windows 8 is selling more like the popular Windows 7 OS and not its ill-fated predecessor, Vista. Microsoft's big gamble is paying off, according to Windows executive Tami Reller. Reller, who is chief...

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Latest Mississippi news, sports, business and entertainment
WJTV
Authorities say they have run out of bunkers at a Louisiana military base for some of the millions of pounds explosives that caused a town's evacuation after the material was found haphazardly stored. Webster Parish Sheriff Gary Sexton says authorities are ...

Facebook's stock continues on a tear
CNET
One day after breaking the $30 mark, Facebook settles above $31 as speculation about next week's media announcement builds. Charles Cooper. by Charles Cooper. January 10, 2013 1:02 PM PST Follow @coopeydoop. The Nasdaq board in Times Square ...

Newfound planet is best candidate yet for life
TG Daily
Scientists with NASA's Kepler mission say they believe they've found the most Earthlike exoplanet yet. Earlier this week, they announced that they'd identified 461 new planet candidates, four of which are less than twice the size of Earth and orbit in their sun's ...

TG Daily

CES 2013: Asus' Transformer AiO runs both Windows 8, Android
Firstpost
Asus showed off its Transformer all-in-one (AiO), a desktop PC and touchscreen tablet, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Thursday. But unlike other hybrid PCs and tablets this one has a twist, it dual-boots both Windows 8 OS and Google's ...

Firstpost

Lexus to Unveil New IS-Series Sport Sedan in Detroit (Slideshow)
Wall Street Journal (blog)
The redesigned Lexus IS compact sport sedan will have a stronger family resemblance to other vehicles in the luxury-car maker's lineup, based on photos the Toyota unit released. A large, distinctively shaped front grille that Lexus calls the “spindle” has made ...

Wall Street Journal (blog)

Tegra 4 is clocked around 2GHz
Fudzilla
We still don't know the exact clock, as Nvidia is disclosing all the details on Tegra 4, but our sources are telling us that this A15 quad-core with a companion core should reach 2GHz. We have confirmed that Nvidia has already sent out samples of the current ...

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