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GOOGLE I/O Starts Today with LIVE Streaming from Moscone Center, San Francisco, starting at 9:00 AM PDT

expVC | expvc.com | domain name news: Google LIVE Presentation Wednesday on New gTLD Domain Names: "Google presentation on New gTLDs -- Who Cares About New Domain Names? --streamed LIVE* from Google I/O in San Francisco: Wednesday, June 25 1:00 PM - 1:45 PM (Pacific Time US)...."

Broken promises: Verizon, Google, and the Chromebook data debacle | Computerworld Blogs: "... Verizon is telling customers that as far as it's concerned, the plans were valid only for one year -- and that's why those initiated last spring are now expiring. I called the carrier's customer service line and, after holding for 15 minutes and then talking in circles to an agent for another 10, was able to get through to a supervisor. That person politely told me he wasn't aware of any two-year commitment and that -- despite my pointing out official documentation to the contrary -- there was nothing he could do to help me.... "

How Marissa Mayer Fell Asleep and Kept Ad Executives Waiting For Hours - CMO Today - WSJ: ".... Interpublic Group arranged a private dinner at the swanky L’Oasis for Ms. Mayer to meet executives from marketers such as Mondelez International, brewer MillerCoors and Greek yogurt maker Chobani. It was supposed to be a chance for Interpublic and some of its clients to get a first hand update from Ms. Mayer on what Yahoo has to offer. But Ms. Mayer was nearly two hours late, and several dinner attendees including  IPG Chief Executive Michael Roth ended up leaving before she arrived, people familiar with the matter said. Ms. Mayer told some attendees that she had fallen asleep, some of the people said. “If it were an investor meeting, a board meeting or a potential acquisition, I am sure she or someone from her team would have woken her up,” said one top executive in attendance.  “It is another instance where she demonstrated that she doesn’t understand the value of clients, ad revenue or agencies,” the person added. A Yahoo spokeswoman declined to comment...."

Google says voice search now supports Indian dialect
Times of India
NEW DELHI: Google on Tuesday said that now its voice search supports ... As Microsoft,Apple and Google battle in the smartphone market, a virtual ...

Microsoft's 'First' Android Phone Aims Low
InformationWeek
The X2 doesn't use any Google services and instead uses Microsoft's. That means no Gmail and no Google Drive. In their place you'll find ...

Google I/O: Pressure Is On
InformationWeek
Amazon, Apple, and Samsung all made moves this month to neutralize ... Here are four things the Internet titan should do at Google I/O this week to fight ... search engine from long-time rival Microsoft, to power Spotlight, the built-in ....

Microsoft to double OneDrive free space, slash extra storage prices up to 73%
Computerworld
Computerworld - Microsoft today announced it would double OneDrive's free storage space for ... (Data: Amazon, Apple, Dropbox, Google, Microsoft.).

Microsoft $650 Macbook Air Trade-In: Fine Print
InformationWeek
But it appears especially interested in Apple customers who might be getting ... even in light of the price war among Google, Amazon, and Rackspace.

Amazon, Warner Bros. Near Resolution on Pricing Dispute
Wall Street Journal
Preorders of Warner DVD and Blu-ray releases like '300: Rise of an Empire' are being offered on Amazon.com again. Pictured, Sullivan Stapleton in ...

Apple's Big IPhones Said to Start Production Next Month
Bloomberg
June 24 (Bloomberg) -- Apple suppliers in China will begin mass ... 40 percent of mobile gadgets based on Google Inc.'s Android operating ... Last year, the smartphone produced $91 billion in revenue alone, more than the total sales of Oracle Corp., Yahoo! Inc.,Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. combined.

Amazon's Fire Phone May Be Too Magical for Its Own Good
Wired
After several years of rumors, Amazon finally announced the launch of its very ... In a landscape dominated by Apple, Samsung, Google, and other ...

Google Glass with designer frames go on sale on fashion websites
Los Angeles Times
Designer Diane von Furstenberg and Google designer Isabelle Olsson ... Two years after she brought Google Glass to the New York Fashion week ...

Google Begins Testing Domain Registrations - The Next Web
By Josh Ong
Google today revealed that it is building a domain registration service called GoogleDomains. ...
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​Google wants to sell you your next domain name
By Sean Buckley
Right now, it's possible to buy a domain name using Google services. You can start the process on Google's own pages, process the transaction ...
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Today's Google doodle knows we're watching the World Cup at work - SBNation.com
By Michael Katz
Google knows we are watching the World Cup at work. ... Like SBNation.com Facebook. One more thing Google knows about us. Doodle_medium ...
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Google Gives Employee Week Off at Daughter's Request | NBC Bay Area
By NBC BAY AREA STAFF
A Google employee is getting a week off of work to enjoy his birthday, thanks to a letter his daughter wrote to his boss.
NBC Bay Area - Top Stories

Daily Report: Microsoft Sees Quantum Computing as Technology's Next Frontier - NYTimes.com
By By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Now a group of physicists and computer scientists funded by Microsoft is trying to take the ... Re/code | Bill Maris, the man behind Google Ventures, wants to redefine Silicon Valley economics. ... Tim Cook, Making Apple His Own; 3.
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German Publishing Association Files Complaint Accusing Amazon Of Antitrust Violation...
By Ashlee Kieler
Tensions between Amazon and German book publishers reached new ... Over the past several months, Amazon and book publishers in Germany and ... DOJ Proposal: Apple Must Let Amazon…
Consumerist

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NSA PRISM-Proof Web Services

NSA PRISM-Proof Web Services? Only a matter of time now --

Building PRISM-Proof Web Services | MIT Technology Review: "Researcher Raluca Popa of MIT thinks many online services should and could be redesigned to guard against that. “Really, there’s no trusting a server,” she says. Popa has led the development of a system called Mylar for building Web services that puts that philosophy into practice. Services built using it keep data on their servers encrypted at all times and only ever decrypt it on a person’s computer...."

Apple vs. Samsung: Jury has non-tech look and feel
San Jose Mercury News
SAN JOSE -- In a region brimming with software engineers and tech entrepreneurs, the Silicon Valley jury picked Monday to decide the fate of the ...

Facebook CEO reaps $3.3B gain from stock options
Washington Post
SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg reaped a $3.3 billion gain last year by exercising stock options in the social networking ...

Microsoft Clarifies Email Snooping Policy
InformationWeek
Now the question is whether Google and other companies that store customer data will join Microsoft in rejecting the special privileges written into ...

Amazon greenlights six series, renews 'Alpha House'
USA TODAY
Get ready to binge-watch even more because Amazon has added six series to its lineup. The shows all are exclusive to Amazon's Prime Instant video ...

Microsoft's Nadella names Xbox, cloud leadership team
PCWorld
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has filled three important executive positions, as he continues putting his mark on the company he was chosen to lead ...

Microsoft Previews 'Smarter' Outlook Web App
InformationWeek
Microsoft on Monday announced several new features for its Outlook Web App, including a tool that learns which emails are important to the user, and ...

Minyanville: Facebook and Google can't buy their way to innovation
USA TODAY
When Facebook bought Oculus VR last week, Facebook CEO Mark ... cry from the organic growth that saw Microsoft pull Office out of Windows, and Apple nurse the ...AMAZON: Free or cheap, 'Kindle TV' may squash the competition.

Google Researchers Give the Media a Grim Reminder
Businessweek
Journalists and news organizations are “massively overrepresented” in targeted hacking attacks sponsored by nation-states, according to two Google ...

Microsoft's Word for iPad cracks top 10 in gross revenue
Computerworld
Computerworld - Microsoft's new Word for iPad app has cracked the top 10 on Apple'sApp Store "Top Grossing" chart. The app, which was released ....

Oracle doubles the speed of MySQL query handling
PCWorld
For the next release of its open source MySQL, Oracle is making a number of changes designed to vastly boost the speed of the open source relational database management system. Such a sizeable performance bump could help organizations save money ...

Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: E-Money Digital Payments Sweep Africa, Head for Europe and India: " The mobile payment system that has revolutionised business and banking in sub-Saharan Africa is to come to Europe as Vodafone seeks to spread the popular digital currency outside emerging markets. Vodafone has acquired an e-money licence to operate financial services in Europe, with plans to launch M-Pesa (which means mobile money in Swahili) in Romania as a first step to potential expansion in the region."

Find Secret Public-Sleeping Dens With 'Google Naps' - John Metcalfe - The Atlantic Cities: ""Naps" is one of the few crowdsourcing projects out there geared toward lowering productivity. Simply allow it to sense your location, and it spits out a Google Maps-powered guide to where to find the nearest snoozing spot. Options range from public benches to lounges in businesses to libraries to a surprisingly number of grassy fields."

Japan told to halt Antarctic whaling by international court | Environment | theguardian.com: "Judge rules that Japanese whaling program is not scientific and that it failed to justify the number of minke whales it kills"
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Judge Rules in Favor of HP in Oracle Case

Judge Rules in Favor of Hewlett-Packard in Oracle Case
Wall Street Journal
By BEN WORTHEN A state court judge in California ruled that Oracle Corp. is contractually obligated to develop software for some high-profile server systems sold by Hewlett-Packard Co. The ruling Wednesday is an important victory for HP, ...

The elusive paperless office: HelloSign says it has the answer
CNET
The new product from Y-Combinator's HelloFax aims to replace printing and scanning documents while taking a consumer approach to the fabled office of the future. by Donna Tam HelloFax CEO Jospeh Walla wants to kill printers and scanners -- doing away ...

Google Revamps Pay-By-Phone Service to Add More Cards
Wall Street Journal
By Andrew R. Johnson Google Inc. (GOOG) unveiled changes to its mobile-payment system Wednesday in a bid to get the upper hand in the battle for control of consumers' "digital wallets." The revamp allows a consumer to load any existing credit- or ...

Quora reveals your reading habits by default with 'Views'
CNET
Now your reading habits on Quora will be revealed publicly, unless you take the extra step of turning off a new feature. by Elinor Mills If you want to keep your reading habits private on Quora you can either delete your view on any individual post, ...

Hands on: Amazon Instant Video on iPad sorely lacks Airplay support
Ars Technica
by Chris Foresman - Aug 1, 2012 9:50 pm UTC Watching a scene from the excellent fourth season episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer titled "Hush," streaming from Amazon to my iPad. Amazon launched an iPad client for its on-demand Amazon Instant Video ...

Ars Technica

AMD Hires Apple Chip Exec Who Worked on iPhones, iPads
eWeek
AMD, which lost a chip engineer to Apple last month, is looking to Jim Keller to work on chip core designs and push the company's ambidextrous strategy. Advanced Micro Devices, which saw one of its own chip designers to Apple earlier in July, ...

New report says iPhone will have an 8 pin connector dock
Los Angeles Times
Here's the latest from Apple rumor land: a connector dock controversy! Contrary to popular rumored belief, the iPhone's new connector dock may be even smaller than previously rumored, according to a new report from the website iLounge.

FTC Recommends New Guidelines for Handling Kids' Online Data
PC Magazine
By Chloe Albanesius The Federal Trade Commission today published proposed rules intended to better protect the personal, online information of children. The recommendations suggest extending the provisions of the Children's Online Privacy Protection ...

Watch Live: Mars Rover Chief Engineer Gives Behind-the-Scenes Tour at JPL
Wired News
By Adam Mann Get the latest scoop on NASA's new Mars rover, Curiosity, with this live show from the Slooh Space Camera collaboration starting at 2 pm Pacific/5 Eastern. The first in a three-part series over the coming days, the show will feature Robert ...

Facebook platform partnership director says goodbye
Reuters
| SAN FRANCISCO Aug 1 (Reuters) - Facebook Inc's director of platform partnerships announced he was leaving the company on Wednesday, the latest high-level departure since the social networking company's initial public offering in May.

Facebook Told Me To Sell My Business To Them Or Be Destroyed, And I Said Stuff ...
San Francisco Chronicle
An app developer named Dalton Caldwell has written an acerbic open letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The letter is about how Caldwell was called into Facebook to meet with a group of executives, and how these executives told Caldwell that his ...

EMC s interest in China, servers continues to grow
Computerworld
By Lucas Mearian Computerworld - EMC is showing heavy interest in boosting its share of the data center market by moving from storage and related services to servers. Over the past two years, EMC has announced a number of partnerships and products that ...

Facebook Introduces Advanced Post Targeting Abilities For Business Pages
PCWorld
By Brad Chacos, PCWorld The effectiveness of Facebook's mobile ads may get all the headlines, but once you've convinced a potential client to Like your Page and engage with your company, it's up to you to keep them engaged and coming back for more.

Oceans, plants help put the brakes on global warming, study finds (+video)
Christian Science Monitor
Earth's oceans and plants are now absorbing more than twice the amount of carbon dioxide that they soaked up in 1960, helping to slow global warming, a new study has found. By Alister Doyle, Reuters / August 1, 2012 This 2011 photo shows piles of coal ...

Christian Science Monitor

New spiral galaxy image shows pair of supernovae
Christian Science Monitor
The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope in Chile captured a very detailed image of a galaxy that hosted two supernova explosions within the past 30 years. By Space.com Staff, Space.com / August 1, 2012 This picture taken with the ...

Christian Science Monitor

Facebook's Mobile Traffic Jumps 23 Percent Since March
DailyTech
Facebook's recent dedication to mobile came just in time -- the number of users accessing the social network by mobile devices is growing by leaps and bounds. According to Facebook's 10-Q SEC document, the number of users that accessed Facebook by ...

DailyTech

Motorola Electrify 2, Defy XT Coming to US Cellular
PC Magazine
By Stephanie Mlot The Electrify 2, running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, is available today online and in stores beginning tomorrow. On Friday, Motorola will launch its Defy XT phone via Internet and brick-and-mortar retailers.

Roku Grabs TV Partners For 'Streaming Stick'
Forbes
Here's a clever idea. Rather than charging a premium price for a smart television, build a competitively priced set and let consumers bring their own smarts. The company best known for selling tiny boxes that let users put NetFlix and other streaming ...

Four player co-op in Far Cry 3 walkthrough trailer is half arcade, half ...
Neoseeker
In case you were thinking, "Hey, Far Cry 3 doesn't have a broad enough appeal!" then have I got news for you. Introducing Far Cry 3's 4-player co-op campaign, which takes place 6 months prior to the main story and revolves around four Left 4 Dead-style ...

Neoseeker

Oculus Rift surpasses Kickstarter goal in matter of hours
SlashGear
We knew that the Oculus Rift VR headset would be popular when it hit Kickstater, but now we have a better idea of just how popular it is. The Rift has already rocketed past its Kickstarter goal of $250000, managing to do so just a few hours after the ...

SlashGear

American Tower's Q2 Lifted By Growth Of Mobile Devices
Investor's Business Daily
By BRIAN DEAGON, INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY Global demand for wireless services continues to fuel cell tower providers, as American Tower early Wednesday reported 17% second-quarter sales growth. The results for the operator of cell towers were largely ...

You and your friends can no longer sue Valve together
Attack of the Fanboy
Valve has officially updated its Steam Subscriber Agreement, and with it comes the stipulation that you can no longer sue Valve collectively with your buddies for any reason, as the agreement prevents users from participating in class-action lawsuits ...

Attack of the Fanboy

Social media hurdles in London Olympics
Urban Oahu
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Fans of the Olympics aren't just glued to their televisions anymore. They're sending tweets, posting on Facebook, and sharing results hours before the events air in prime time. The popularity of social media is changing the...

BWI Airport offering free Wi-Fi service
Businessweek
LINTHICUM, Md. (AP) — Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport is now offering free wireless Internet service to all travelers. The free Wi-Fi launched Wednesday. Those who use the complimentary Wi-Fi will have to watch an ...

Feds Lack Privacy Protection Safeguards
InformationWeek
GAO cites data breaches, improper uses of personal information, paltry citizen notification as ongoing government problems. By Patience Wait InformationWeek Federal agencies are falling short in protecting personally identifiable information (PII) ...

Nintendo DSi gets Matte Red and Matte Blue finishes, shrugs off sunshine glare
Engadget
By Mat Smith posted Aug 1st 2012 5:41PM If glossy handhelds covered in fingerprint mess aren't your thing, then Nintendo's recently-announced matte finish DSi consoles might appeal. The games maker took to Twitter to announce that both the red and blue...

Dropbox Admits Hack, Adds More Security Features
InformationWeek
Flood of email spam blamed on attacker grabbing an internal document containing users' email addresses. By Mathew J. Schwartz InformationWeek Dropbox Tuesday confirmed that its users have been experiencing a spam onslaught, and pointed the finger at ...

Mystery of Mars still attracts space lovers
USA TODAY
MELBOURNE, Fla. -- It might take a rocket scientist to land a rover on the Red Planet, but it doesn't take an astrophysicist to explain why people have a soft spot for Mars. Mars is cool. No, not that kind of cool, though it gets nippy on a planet with ...

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Oracle CEO Ellison on Google Suit and Steve Jobs (audio)

Tech Report: Oracle CEO Ellison Discusses Google Suit, Steve Jobs ...
By Andre Torrez
As the All Things Digital Conference came to a close, a federal judge delivered a setback to Oracle in its lawsuit against Google. Nonetheless Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has fond memories of his highly influential friend.
CBS San Francisco

Microsoft Windows 8 Seen Tapping $58 Billion App Market: Tech
San Francisco Chronicle
As Microsoft struggles to keep up with a technology landscape that is moving beyond personal computers into a future defined by mobile devices, the company is under pressure to gain a toehold in tablets. Demand for these handheld machines is driven by ...

Tech a top priority for Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce
MiamiHerald.com
South Florida plays a large role in Latin America's technology sector, but lacks the kind of high-profile business leaders want for the industry. The Chamber of Commerce hopes to change that. High-tech yachting, anyone? By Douglas Hanks As the new head ...

MiamiHerald.com

Microsoft turns on 'do not track' by default in IE10
CNNMoney
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Technology that prevents advertisers from following your online footprints has been around for a couple years, but Microsoft became the first browser maker to turn that feature on as the default setting.

Update: Metric firm changes numbers, Chrome still behind Firefox
Computerworld
US-based Net Applications pegged Google's browser as No. 2 earlier today, but later revised the data By Gregg Keizer Computerworld - Google's Chrome passed Mozilla's Firefox in May to become the world's second-most-popular browser, according to data ...

Top 6 New Features of Windows 8 Release Preview
PC Magazine
By Michael Muchmore Many analysts, including yours truly, were somewhat surprised to see how few changes were made between Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Windows 8 Release Preview. Normally, at this point in the process, you'd get a "Release Candidate" ...

Facebook Boosts Pages Security, Adds Scheduled Posts
PC Magazine
By Stephanie Mlot Facebook this week upped its security capabilities by delegating restricted Pages administrator rights, allowing Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga a sigh of relief. The Pages entity is used by businesses and personalities like Disney, ...

Twitter Usage Doubles in a Year
PC Magazine
By Angela Moscaritolo Have you been tweeting more lately? Because a new report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project indicates that there has been a huge uptick in usage of the popular micro-blogging site. As of Feb.

Judge Allows Class-Action Status for Google Books Case
PC Magazine
By Chloe Albanesius A California district judge this week ruled that a lawsuit against Google over its book digitization effort can be designated as a class action. The decision means that authors will not have to sue Google individually for copyright ...

iPhone 5 Predictions: The Best And Worst
InformationWeek
Jeff Bertolucci 06/01/2012 Apple's next iPhone will likely arrive in September or October. As the rumor machine cranks into high gear, we sort the solid predictions from the silly. As the unveiling of Apple's next iPhone draws nigh, the rumor mill is ...

Google to charge companies for product search listings
BBC News
Google is to start charging for listing products in its Product Search service. From autumn, only retailers who have paid a fee will appear. For the past 10 years the price comparison service's results were based soley on relevance.

BBC News

Leap shares down on concerns about iPhone subsidies
Reuters
(Reuters) - Leap Wireless International Inc's (LEAP.O) plan to sell Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) iPhone raised investor concerns about margins at the US provider of prepaid mobile services, sending its shares down 10 percent. Leap said on Thursday that it ...

Nokia: Google Patent Accusations 'Wrong,' Company Has Plenty of IP
eWeek
Google has accused Nokia and Microsoft of colluding to raise costs by hiring unsavory firms to help them make money off of patents. Nokia responded that it runs independently of Microsoft and each has plenty of IP. An analyst called the Google ...

Google Search Users in China to See Censorship Warnings
PC Magazine
By Chloe Albanesius Google on Thursday announced that it will display warnings to Search users in mainland China when their query is likely to result in an error beyond the search giant's control. In recent years, Google has received a number of ...

Court Ruling: No Copyright Violations In Oracle-Google Java Case
CRN
By Rick Whiting, CRN Oracle is vowing to appeal a judge's ruling Thursday that Google did not violate Oracle's Java copyrights when it used Java application programming interfaces in its Android mobile operating system.

Flame's Bluetooth Functionality Could Help Spies Extract Data Locally ...
PCWorld
By Lucian Constantin, IDG-News-Service:Romania-Bureau The Bluetooth functionality of the Flame cyberespionage malware could potentially be used to pinpoint the physical location of infected devices and allow local attackers to extract data if they get ...

Nokia acknowledges nano-SIM decision, now says it's 'prepared' to license...
The Verge
By Chris Ziegler on June 1, 2012 10:30 am 25Comments Nokia had been waging the loudest opposition in recent months to Apple's nano-SIM proposal, a mild evolution of the micro-SIM currently found in the iPhone 4 and 4S (among others).

Cyber-stalking: The big boss may turn into Big Brother, report warns
Los Angeles Times
By Michelle Maltais Your Facebook password may be safe and off-limits, but your boss may soon cyber-stalking you -- legally. It's not that your digital life is so riveting, but frankly, you pose a threat as an insider talking freely on social media.

Anonymous Claims Responsibility For Facebook Website Crash
Forbes
The Hacking group Anonymous posted the claim on Twitter that it was behind the incident, and Facebook did not deny the claim. This was followed by 'Oh yeah … RIP Facebook a new sound of tango down, b*tches.' Shortly after the term 'RIP Facebook' was ...

Microsoft has more to gain than lose from IE10′s default 'Do Not Track' option
VentureBeat
Microsoft's web browser Internet Explore 10 will include a default “Do Not Track” feature that allows users to stop advertisers from tracking and collecting their personal data while surfing the net, the company announced late yesterday.

VentureBeat

Infinity Ward Founders and Activsion Settle at the Last Minute
Forbes
For those of you hoping for a big brawlfest of a trial between Infinity Ward founders Jason West and Vince Zampella and their former overlords at Activision, you're about to go home disappointed. The two party's lawyers have been in talks all week ...

Forbes

Milky Way doomed to head-on crash with Andromeda
CBS News
(Space.com) Four billion years from now, the Milky Way galaxy as we know it will cease to exist. Our Milky Way is bound for a head-on collision with the similar-sized Andromeda galaxy, researchers announced today (May 31). Over time, the huge galactic ...

CBS News

Looking Up: Venus crosses the sun
White Hall Journal
The Sun's image may be safely viewed, projected onto a white screen through binoculars. Line up the binoculars to the Sun by watching the shadow. Having the binoculars on a tripod is advantageous. By Peter Becker Whatever happened to Venus?

SpaceX Dragon Completes Historic Flight
Flying Magazine
By Stephen Pope / Published: Jun 01, 2012 The first privately built spacecraft to travel to the International Space Station returned home on Thursday after successfully completing a historic mission that proved commercial firms can indeed take over ...

Verizon Wireless's Viewdini Makes Its Escape
Multichannel News
By Todd Spangler -- Multichannel News, 6/1/2012 10:39:14 AM In a move to spur usage of its 4G network, Verizon Wireless on Friday officially launched viewdini, its mobile video portal that provides access to movies, TV shows and other content from ...

Multichannel News

Acer, Toshiba to Take on IPads With Windows 8 Tablets
Bloomberg
Acer Inc., Toshiba Corp. (6502) and Asustek Computer Inc. (2357) will unveil tablets running Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 8 operating system next week, people with knowledge of the matter said, challenging the dominance of Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s iPad.

'Greatly enhanced' iOS Maps, upgraded Camera & Photos apps expected at WWDC
Apple Insider
By Neil Hughes New software features in iOS, as well as OS X, are likely to be the main highlights at this year's Worldwide Developers Conference, though Apple is also expected to refresh a significant portion of its Mac hardware lineup.

"Livermorium" Joins the Periodic Table of Elements
KQED
by Peter Jon Shuler | June 1, 2012 — 7:14 AM An international agency has approved new names for the two most recent elements to be added to the periodic table. One of the newly-added elements was synthesized by researchers at Lawrence Livermore ...

Birds may be dinosaurs that never grew up
Los Angeles Times
By Thomas H. Maugh II Modern day birds may simply be dinosaurs that never grew up, researchers say. A comparison of fossilized skulls of juvenile dinosaurs with those of birds shows remarkable similarities, adding further evidence to the growing ...

$8.5 Billion Deal for Calling Service Presents a Puzzle
New York Times
PALO ALTO, Calif. — By some measures, Tony Bates has accomplished a lot at Skype since Microsoft paid $8.5 billion for the Internet calling service. The statistics tell the story. In seven months, the number of people using the service each month has ...

New York Times

top level domains
CNET
It's now too late to apply to ICANN to create new generic top-level domains (think .com, .net, .org, .gov, .xxx, etc.), but Google evangelist Vint Cerf says the company turned in a bunch of applications, including at least one with some great humor ...

Last month's solar flare created a mysterious pulse on Earth that seemed to ...
Daily Mail
By Rob Waugh After an unusually long quiet period, the sun unleashed a solar flare on May 17 this year - but scientists are now puzzling over what happened on Earth. Neutron monitors all round the world lit up in response to the blast for the first ...

Daily Mail

E3 2012: What to expect from Sony
CNET
by Jeff Bakalar | 1 June 2012 8:57am SGT Coming off what many think was the "winning" press conference at E3 2011, Sony will take the stage Monday night to tell the world what the future holds for the company behind the PlayStation 3.

CNET

Small-scale fuel cell designed for the home
TG Daily
Individual homes could soon be powered with their own solid oxide fuel cell systems, thanks to a breakthrough in performance. The new system, from the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), achieves up to 57 percent ...

London's Emerging Tech Cluster Goes to School at Google's ...
By Hamish McKenzie
Called Campus, the five-storey building hosts more than 90 startups and is helping to consolidate and feed an emerging tech cluster that Startup Genome recently said is the third most active in the world, behind only Silicon Valley and New ...
PandoDaily

RIM loses Canada's top tech title to CGI
Financial Post
CGI Group Inc.'s US$2.6-billion bid for Logica Plc catapulted it past Research In Motion Ltd. to become Canada's most valuable technology company as investors embraced its bet on Europe. “Multiples of European companies have been dropping, ...

Your Tech Questions, Answered
New York Times (blog)
By SAM GROBART Technology is supposed to make our lives easier. Sadly, that's not always the way it works. Sometimes, technology's promise of an easier, more productive life is hidden behind walls of jargon, settings and hardware adjustments.

Chic geeks give San Francisco a new tech grooveReuters
More than ever, technology entrepreneurs, and their investors and employees, are choosing the urban charms of San Francisco over the sprawl of neighboring Silicon Valley. In the South of Market district, the nexus of the city's tech industry, ...

[Infographic] Patent Wars Turn Tech into a Battlefield
ReadWriteWeb
One company, backed by some of the largest names in technology, exists almost entirely for this purpose. Rockstar Consortium came together to buy Nortel's 6000 mobile-related patents for $4.5 billion last year. Backed by Apple, Microsoft, Sony, ...

D10: Mayor Bloomberg On Why Tech is Harder in Government than Business
PC Magazine
He said government, like business, has the ability to use technology for all sorts of things, such as to converse with people and to gather data. It's harder, however, to explain the life cycle oftechnology in government, where "mission creep" ...

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Google Seeks New Trial In Oracle Case

Google Seeks New Trial In Oracle Fight
InformationWeek
By Thomas Claburn InformationWeek Google on Tuesday filed a motion asking the judge hearing Oracle's copyright and patent lawsuit against Google to declare a mistrial. Google's legal team on Monday indicated it would seek a new trial when the jury ...

Symantec Leapfrogs McAfee in Mobile Security
PCWorld
By Antone Gonsalves, CSO With mobile security on the radar of corporations, the race is on between Symantec and Intel-owned McAfee to solve the big headache troubling IT: bring-your-own device (BYOD). For now, Symantec has the edge with its latest ...

HP Announces New Ultrabooks, Introduces 'Sleekbooks'
Wired News
By Alexandra Chang The HP Envy Spectre XT has an all-metal body and weight only 3.07 pounds. Photo: HP HP has expanded its ever-slimming laptop line with the introduction of five new devices. The company introduced on Wednesday new Ultrabooks that are ...

Wired News

Appeals court grants wax seal to Maker's Mark
BusinessWeek
By BRETT BARROUQUERE A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but an appeals court says a liquor bottle with a red dripping wax seal by any name other than Maker's Mark would be illegal. Noting that "all bourbon is whiskey, but not all whiskey is ...

New Antarctic ice shelf threatened by warming
Reuters
By Chris Wickham | LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists are predicting the disappearance of another vast ice shelf in Antarctica by the end of the century that will accelerate rising sea levels. The Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf fringing the Weddell Sea on the ...

HP VP of Industrial Design: Apple doesn't own silver
CNET
Hewlett-Packard's industrial design chief dismisses a claim that the company's newest notebook looks like Apple's MacBook Air, arguing that form follows function. by Josh Lowensohn May 9, 2012 11:36 AM PDT Follow @Josh Telling the head of industrial ...

Sand dunes on Mars can be surprisingly swift
msnbc.com
Towering sand dunes on Mars, once thought to be ancient and unchanging, are actually dynamic and active today, new satellite observations show. Using advanced optical images taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) on NASA's ...

msnbc.com

Investor wants Yahoo CFO or media boss as temp CEO
Reuters
By Alexei Oreskovic SAN FRANCISCO May 9 (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc's largest outside shareholder said the Internet company should make its finance chief or head of media the interim chief executive because of the controversy surrounding CEO Scott Thompson's ...

Report: Zuckerberg to appear at Facebook IPO event Friday in Palo Alto
San Jose Mercury News
By Brandon Bailey Facebook Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg is escorted by security guards as he departs New York City's Sheraton Hotel May 7, 2012. Facebook Inc. kicked off its IPO roadshow in New York on Monday, attracting hundreds of investors to the ...

Take-Two delays 'BioShock Infinite' to February 2013
Washington Post
NEW YORK — Take-Two has delayed the release of “BioShock Infinite,” an eagerly awaited shooter game set in 1912. Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. said Wednesday that the game will launch on Feb. 26, rather than in October as it said previously.

Wolfenstein 3D' turns 20, celebrates by going free to play
msnbc.com
Stay up to speed with news and reviews on video games for the PC, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360, Android, iPhone, iPad, Facebook and more. Wednesday is the 20th anniversary of "Wolfenstein 3D," which essentially laid the groundwork for the ...

Review: 'Starhawk' a bumpy ride through space
USA TODAY
By Brett Molina, USA TODAY The ingredients for the PlayStation 3 adventure Starhawk look promising on paper: third-person shooting, dog fights in outer space and a build-and-battle system borrowing loosely from real-time strategy games.

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Google's self-driving car: Is this the next generation of autos?
Washington Post
Remember how adult you felt when you first got your driver's permit? Make sure it's preserved in your mind to tell your children, because now it's Google's self-driving car that's spreading its wings. The company's pie-in-the-sky project was approved ...

News Summary: Orangutans Use iPads to Communicate
ABC News
GOING APES: Several zoos are experimenting with computers. Six orangutans at Miami's Jungle Island use an iPad to communicate and as part of a mental stimulus program. WHAT THEY DO: 8-year-old orangutan twins draw, play games and expand their ...

Pogoplug service turns your computers into private cloud
Computerworld
By Lucas Mearian Computerworld - Cloud service provider Pogoplug today unveiled Pogoplug Team, which allows home offices and small businesses to turn file servers or spare PCs into pools of storage accessible from the Web.

Peru says 5000 birds, nearly 900 dolphins dead
AFP
LIMA — The Peruvian government said Wednesday that 5000 birds, mostly pelicans, and nearly 900 dolphins have died off the country's northern coast, possibly due to rising temperatures in Pacific waters. The country's northern beaches were earlier this ...

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One photo captures 100000 swarming stars in cluster
msnbc.com
A ball of some of the oldest stars in the universe looks like a swarm of bees in a new view from an observatory in Chile. The photo, released Wednesday, was taken by a European Southern Observatory telescope and shows 100000 stars crowded together in ...

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Facebook offers suicide-prevention lifeline for military families
Los Angeles Times
By Michelle Maltais Facebook is connecting with military-support and service organizations to offer customized suicide-prevention services for veterans, active service members and their families. For many members of military families, social media ...

Do non-iPad tablets stand a chance?
CNET
At CTIA 2012, Walt Mossberg, Samsung, and Barnes & Noble weigh in on the state of slates. by Jessica Dolcourt May 9, 2012 10:17 AM PDT Follow @jdolcourt It's big, it's heavy, and it's hardly portable. Is Toshiba's 13-inch tablet already dead in the ...

How a humongous garbage patch in the Pacific breeds new bugs (+video)
Christian Science Monitor
The great Pacific garbage patch has created a new breeding ground for a marine insect, which in turn is changing Pacific ecosystems. By Jennifer Welsh, LiveScience Staff Writer / May 9, 2012 This March 2011 photo shows a Japanese home adrift in the ...

Christian Science Monitor

Data overload threatens mobile networks
Financial Times
By Paul Taylor in New York Back in the early 2000s mobile network operators were clamouring to sign up new subscribers to “unlimited” data plans to offset what they correctly perceived to be a steady decline in mobile voice revenues.

Huawei Launches CloudEngine Series – New Data Center Switches
Daily Disruption
By Bill Klump | @TheKlumper | May 9th, 2012 Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider today launched its innovative CloudEngine series switches at Interop 2012. The CloudEngine series switches provide ...

T-Mobile goes back to lampooning AT&T iPhone
KBOI-TV
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Six months after AT&T's deal to buy T-Mobile USA collapsed, T-Mobile's TV ads are going back on the attack against a favorite target: AT&T Inc. Philipp Humm, the CEO of T-Mobile, showed off a new ad Tuesday featuring a hapless man on ...

Amazon Continues to Set The Customer Satisfaction Bar High
Daily Disruption
By Duane Barnhart | @dailydisrupt | May 9th, 2012 A record 36 of the top 100 online retailers achieve the “threshold for excellence” on the annual Top 100 E-Retail Satisfaction Index from customer experience analytics firm ForeSee.

Sprint: A Better Network is Coming
PC Magazine
By Sascha Segan NEW ORLEANS—Sprint executives today laid out their plans for a better 3G network, wider push-to-talk capabilities, and a solid LTE 4G experience during a breakfast at the CTIA Wireless trade show. We've already heard how Sprint is ...

Twitter Downplays Breach That Exposed Passwords
InformationWeek
Nearly 60000 Twitter usernames and passwords released via Pastebin, but social networking service says half are for blocked spam accounts or duplicates. By Mathew J. Schwartz InformationWeek Tens of thousands of Twitter users' email addresses and ...

AT&T Sales: Nokia Lumia 900 Demand Exceeding Supply
Vision 2 Mobile
AT&T must be struggling to keep pace with the demand for the Nokia Lumia 900, a smartphone powered by Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system. "Demand has been outstripping supply for the first couple of weeks, and we've been working hard to rectify ...

Microsoft, Facebook may be working on smartphone together
TechFlash
Connect with TechFlash on our Facebook page for all the latest technology news headlines and commentary, plus information and access to special events, photos from events, promotions and more. by Emily Parkhurst on Wednesday, May 9, 2012,...

AT&T HTC One X gets rooted with one simple click
androidandme.com
While HTC claims restrictions prevent them from unlocking the bootloader of the AT&T HTC One X, that has not stopped the development community from banding together to unlock root access on the phone. A new post by kennethpenn on XDA-Developers ...

Cornell Chronicle: Architect chosen for CornellNYC Tech
"The CornellNYC Tech project is about accelerating innovation in the technology sector, particularly in New York City, by connecting leading-edge academic ...
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Rockmelt CEO Talks Tech, Social Media - Yahoo! News
Rockmelt CEO Talks Tech, Social Media. 13 mins ago. CNBC 5:59 | 0 views. Eric Vishria, Rockmelt co-founder & CEO, discusses Rockmelt, which he says looks ...
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Oracle tries to get a Java "do-over"

Oracle tries to rewrite history for Sun and alter Java's future
CNET
The Oracle v. Google case is about copyright, patents and the intricacies of the open source world. But it's also about Oracle trying to get a do-over for decisions made by Sun's executive management. by Dan Farber May 2, 2012 12:45 PM PDT Follow ...

Technology Live: News and gadgets from our network of reporters
USA TODAY
Technology Live covers computers, electronics, and the Internet, with a focus on cutting-edge technology that has a real impact on your life. Our reporters and editors -- based in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, New York, and Washington – offer ...

Harvard, MIT to partner in $60 million initiative to offer free online classes ...
Boston.com
By Mary Carmichael, Globe Staff CAMBRIDGE -- Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said today they will team up to launch a $60 million initiative to offer free, online, college-level courses under a joint superbrand known as ...

Harvard, MIT partner on major $60M online learning venture
Boston Herald
By Ira Kantor Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced a new transformational partnership in online education today called EdX, which the two institutions will collaborate on to enhance campus-based teaching and ...

Q&A: Explorer and Robotics Engineer on Historic SpaceX Flight
Wired News
By Adam Mann This is the second in a series of Wired Q&As with spaceflight experts leading up to SpaceX's launch. Read the first installment. We may be at the dawn of a new, private era in space. In the near future, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket will ...

Wired News

At BlackBerry Maker, Chief Sharpens Focus
Wall Street Journal
By WILL CONNORS ORLANDO, Fla.—Research In Motion Ltd.'s new chief executive sought to further put his stamp on the BlackBerry maker Wednesday, saying he has refined the focus of the company and is close to hiring a new top marketing officer.

Physicist says Moore's Law is 'collapsing'
Computerworld
By Sharon Gaudin Computerworld - A well-known theoretical physicist has taken direct aim at a key theory in the computer industry, saying Moore's Law is collapsing. Physicist Michio Kaku, a professor of theoretical physics at City University of New ...

Leaked specs confirm dual-core CPU for Verizon's Galaxy S III
CNET
As expected, the US versions of the Galaxy S III will have a dual-core chipset. by Scott Webster May 2, 2012 12:52 PM PDT Follow @swebster77 Samsung is expected to unveil the Galaxy S III in London on May 3. A leaked user agent profile has seemingly ...

Gree acquires mobile game maker Funzio for $210M
Washington Post
Japanese mobile social network Gree has acquired Funzio, a fast-growing maker of hardcore mobile and social games, for $210 million. Funzio has the rare distinction of having three games that have all garnered big audiences.

VMware gussies up View and Horizon post-PC virty tools
Register
By Timothy Prickett Morgan • Get more from this author Server virtualization juggernaut VMware pretty much owns the hypervisor and management tools market for enterprise data centers on x86 iron, but if it wants to keep parent EMC and therefore Wall ...

Facebook calls on members to flag organ donor status
Reuters
By Julie Steenhuysen | CHICAGO (Reuters) - Tired of the long wait for a new kidney, Michael Shelling, a 50-year-old video game marketing consultant based in San Diego, decided to take a more active role in the search. About three months ago, ...

Google Street View May Face Fresh European Sanctions
InformationWeek
European investigators consider reopening previous Google Street View investigations in the wake of an FCC report detailing Google's wardriving practices. By Mathew J. Schwartz InformationWeek Google may face fresh police investigations in Europe into ...

Amazon 'Mother's Day' Deal Knocks $30 Off Kindle Fire
PC Magazine
By Mark Hachman Perhaps in response to discounts on the Nook the day before, Amazon today launched a one-day Mother's Day deal of sorts on its Kindle Fire. The e-tailer's Gold Box Deal for Wednesday is a refurbished Kindle Fire Android tablet, ...

CrowdStar raises $11.5M for mobile games but will lay off Facebook developers
VentureBeat
CrowdStar, which is shifting from social to mobile games, has raised $11.5 million in a recent round of funding. At the same time, the company will lay off a couple dozen of its Facebook game developers. These changes are a sign of the times in the ...

VentureBeat

Humongous fleas gorged on dinosaurs, report scientists
Christian Science Monitor
Five to 10 times larger than today's bloodusuckers, the flea-like Mesozoic bugs whose fossils were unearthed in China are thought to have dined on feathered dinosaurs and mammals. By Eoin O'Carroll, Staff / May 2, 2012 This ancient 'flea-like' insect, ...

Christian Science Monitor

Google finally wins DoI cloud apps contract
Register
Google has snatched victory from the jaws of defeat by winning the US Department of the Interior (DoI) contract for its Apps for Government platform, after Microsoft had snaffled the original deal. "We're honored that the Department of the Interior has ...

Report: $99 Xbox console with Kinect to launch next week, but there's a catch
Washington Post
Microsoft is planning to launch a $99 Xbox console package with a monthly subscription as early as next week, according to our sources. The software giant will offer the 4GB console with a Kinect sensor at its range of Microsoft Stores in the US, ...

Spotify for iPad Review
SlashGear
The folks at Spotify have brought forth the next big iteration of their mobile app, this time make specifically for the iPad (of all shapes and sizes.) Here we've got not just a giant version of the original iPhone app (as they so cleverly alude to in...

Windows 'Live' Is Dead (MSFT)
San Francisco Chronicle
Microsoft is killing the Windows Live brand it introduced six years ago. In a new post on the Building Windows 8 blog, Microsoft reveals that all its online services will simply have their own names: instead of Windows Live Messenger, it'll just be...

Nokia Fires Volley of Patent Lawsuits at Competitors
TechNewsWorld
By Peter Suciu It may be folly to engage in lawsuits that tie up resources and create a climate of confusion when a company has a solid footing in the market, but for a company that's slipping -- like Nokia -- it could be a sensible strategic move.

Google Play carrier billing hits Multimedia
SlashGear
Those of you looking for an easier and much more addictive way to purchase software and media from Google, that time has come, and it's come with carrier billing. While several carriers have allowed Google Play App Store purchases to be added to phone ...

Amazon moving into sitcoms
Washington Post
You can get just about anything on Amazon these days. Pretty soon that may include original sitcoms, with the rollout of Amazon Studios. “We're now developing original programming for Amazon Instant Video. Submit your children's series or comedy series ...

Activision Shoots For $20 As Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Trailer Released
Forbes
Video gaming developer Activision Blizzard has ignited buzz in gaming circles with the launch of first official trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, which is slated for release on November 13. [1] With the release of the trailer, the company has put ...

Facebook, China merge server rack specs
EE Times
SAN JOSE – Facebook struck an alliance with China's Tencent and Baidu to merge separate designs for data center racks. The move is one small step toward the social networking giant's goal of a broad data center specification.

EE Times

Verizon launching HomeFusion residential 4G LTE this week
SlashGear
Verizon's 4G LTE wireless connectivity will soon be an option for residential broadband. The company will be launching a new HomeFusion service that will leverage its 4G LTE wireless network to bring high-speed connectivity to residential customers, ...

Shimmering nebula revealed near Orion's Belt
msnbc.com
Bright beads of cosmic dust highlight a shimmering nebula in a new photo of a region just north of the famous Orion's Belt in the constellation Orion. The Messier 78 nebula, which is also known as NGC 2068, is often called the reflection nebula, ...

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Plant study flags dangers of warming world
Reuters
* Plants flowering 8.5 times faster than predicted * Changes have knock-on effect for food chain, ecosystems By Nina Chestney LONDON, May 2 (Reuters) - Plants are flowering faster than scientists predicted in response to climate change, research in the ...

Samsung Galaxy S III vs iPhone 5: pre-release battle
SlashGear
The next-generation iPhone 5 and the Samsung Galaxy S III will be the two biggest and baddest smartphones on the market this summer. There's no denying that. Unless you're HTC and you've got the HTC One series with the HTC One X on AT&T and the HTC One ...

SlashGear

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory sees Remarkable Outburst from Old Black Hole
Clarksville Online
Huntsville, AL – An extraordinary outburst produced by a black hole in a nearby galaxy has provided direct evidence for a population of old, volatile stellar black holes. The discovery, made by astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, ...

RIM Admits Orchestrating Anti-Apple Stunt
MyFox Chicago
(MarketWatch) - Research In Motion Ltd. said Wednesday that its Australian operation was responsible for an anti-Apple Inc. flash-mob in Sydney last week that triggered a raft of speculation over who was behind the stunt. Local media and blog reports ...

MyFox Chicago

Oetzi the Iceman's blood is world's oldest
BBC News
Researchers studying Oetzi, a 5300-year-old body found frozen in the Italian Alps in 1991, have found red blood cells around his wounds. Blood cells tend to degrade quickly, and earlier scans for blood within Oetzi's body turned up nothing.

BBC News

Barnes & Noble CEO: NFC coming to the Nook
Fortune
By JP Mangalindan, Writer May 1, 2012: 2:47 PM ET William Lynch talks about the future of the Nook business -- including how the company's software could be used in Windows and the potential of NFC chips showing up soon. FORTUNE -- The battle for ...
 
Fortune

T-Mobile Prism does budget Android for $20
CNET
T-Mobile's $20 Prism runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread and will be available at Wal-Mart and Best Buy, in addition to T-Mobile stores. by Jessica Dolcourt May 2, 2012 9:18 AM PDT Follow @jdolcourt You can always count on T-Mobile for wallet-friendly options ...

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