Google To Be World's First Trillion Dollar Company?

Google, not Apple, may be world’s first $1 trillion company | New York Post: "The analyst predicted Google would cross the 10-figure mark in market capitalization by 2020. Over the last five years, Apple has more than doubled — 274 percent vs. 115 percent — Google’s stock performance. “Google is positioned to be the first company on [a] US listed stock exchange to have a market capitalization exceed one trillion dollars,” BGC Capital analyst Colin Gillis wrote in a research note to clients on Friday...." (read more at link above)

The Great Knowledge Box Showdown: Google Now vs. Siri vs. Cortana: "....Google Now has a clear lead in terms of the sheer volume of queries addressed, and more complete accuracy with its queries than either Siri or Cortana. All three parties will keep investing in this type of technology, but the cold hard facts are that Google is progressing the fastest on all fronts."

6 Reasons Carl Icahn Overvalues Apple By $700 Billion
Forbes
Carl Icahn has a reputation for using his big microphone to get technology companies whose businesses he doesn't understand to do something that ...


USA TODAY
Wolff: What next for Yahoo and Marissa Mayer?
USA TODAY
What will happen to Yahoo, really? And, as a both a subset and a wholly independent question, what will happen to Marissa Mayer, Yahoo's CEO, and ...


TechCrunch (blog)
Facebook's Anonymous App Could Kill Trolls With Secret Identity
TechCrunch (blog)
Wack-a-mole. That's what it's usually like fighting trolls, bullies, and spammers in anonymous communities. Ban them and they just start new accounts.


USA TODAY
What's new in Google Voice: MMS
USA TODAY
Q. How does this new Google Voice MMS support work, and why isn't Verizon ... Here are the limits to Google Voice MMS that his post didn't spell out ...


CNET
Apple's Oct. 16 event: Here's what we expect
CNET
New iPads and Macs, as well as an official launch of the OS X Yosemite computer operating system, should show up at Apple's event this week.


Techaeris
Apple Pay is coming to town
Fortune
There's no Starbucks in the small Western Massachusetts town where I live these days. No Whole Foods, either. No Bloomingdales, Macy's or Disney ...

Another Apple event and lots of earnings: 5 things to watch for this week
Fortune
Earnings season has arrived in full force. Expect a slew of earnings from big banks including Citigroup , Bank of America and Goldman Sachs.


Newsweek
Wary of Privacy Issues? Ditch Dropbox and Avoid Google, Says Edward Snowden
Newsweek
Ditch Dropbox and Avoid Google, Says Edward Snowden ... and to avoid using high-profile online services such as Facebook and Google, if they ... much of the technology the public needs hasn't been invented or popularized yet. ... Major cell phone providers, including Verizon, AT&T and Apple, can be ...


The Guardian
Google Glass v Apple Watch: in form against function, Apple edges it overGoogle
The Guardian
This came to mind as I considered the contrast between Google Glass and the AppleWatch. Here are two giants of the technology industry, with ...


San Jose Mercury News
Is Apple close to cracking the code for TV?
San Jose Mercury News
CUPERTINO -- Ever curious about what the next chapter holds for Apple, some ... A small but growing chorus of analysts and developers say Apple seems ... and Google andAmazon have entered the field with Chromecast and Fire ...

Sprint to shutter WiMAX network around Nov. 6, 2015 - FierceWireless: "In April, Sprint said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing that it would "cease using WiMAX technology  by the end of 2015." As part of that effort, Sprint said it identified  approximately 6,000 "redundant sites that we expect to decommission and  terminate the underlying leases.""

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Apple Sued Over Siri Infringement (video)

“China’s Siri” Sues Apple’s Siri Over Infringement! (video) » M.I.C. Gadget: "What a busy moment for the Apple’s legal team in China! Apple now has two infringement lawsuits to deal with, the Mac OS X “Snow Leopard” trademark that we reported just days ago and now comes to Apple’s voice assistant application Siri."

Apple Responds To App Crashing Issues, Has A Dedicated Team Working On A Fix
TechCrunch
. . .  Apple has now informed developers that it’s aware of the problem and is working on a resolution. For background, a serious problem has been discovered in the iOS and Mac App Stores which has been causing apps to immediately crash after users update to the most recent version. This is now day three of the problem, and Apple had yet to respond to the situation until this afternoon....

TechCrunch

Google Plans End Of iGoogle
InformationWeek
By Thomas Claburn InformationWeek Google on Tuesday continued amputating products and services as part of its "spring cleaning" campaign, a move that has prompted a deluge of complaints in the iGoogle support forum. Having already shut down more than ...

DARPA Wants More Power-Efficient Robots
PC Magazine
By Chloe Albanesius Defense Department officials are looking to develop a more energy-efficient robot, but they need your help. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) this week put out a call for proposals that would improve the power ...

Particle discovery is game changer for understanding the universe
Computerworld
By Sharon Gaudin Computerworld - Physicists trying to understand dark matter, anti-matter and the origin of the universe say the key to these great mysteries may lie with the discovery of a sub-atomic particle, whether it's the elusive Higgs boson or ...

PREVIEW-Microsoft stumbles into crucial financial year
Reuters
* Next 12 months pivotal to software company's success * July 19 quarterly earnings will offer glimpses of attack plan * Windows 8, Surface tablets, new Office, phones in store * Investors divided on prospects * Stock struggling to stay over $30 By ...

With DNSChanger Shutdown on July 9, Concerns Remain
eWeek
Security firms are preparing for the shutdown of a server that has provided DNS connectivity to PCs infected with the DNSChanger malware, including computers in about 12 percent of the Fortune 500. In March, a judge agreed to extend the US Department ...

A stunning close-up of Mars taken by visiting NASA rover
msnbc.com
A long-lived NASA rover on Mars has beamed home a stunning panoramic view of the Red Planet, a spectacular picture that a space agency description billed as the "next best thing to being there." The new Martian panorama was snapped by NASA's Mars rover ...

msnbc.com

Motorola Outs Atrix HD, Its First Phone Under Google
PCWorld
By Jared Newman, PCWorld Jul 5, 2012 1:33 PM Motorola has just leaked the Atrix HD, the company's first new Android phone as a Google subsidiary, seemingly by accident. A page on Motorola's website showed an image of the Atrix HD, along with specs.

Samsung announces Galaxy Chat for international markets
CNET
by Scott Webster Samsung Electronics today announced the Galaxy Chat, an Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone designed with socialites in mind. Initially available in Spain later this month, the handset will expand to Europe, Latin America, ...

Boffins pull off room-temp quantum computing with home-grown gems
Register
By Brid-Aine Parnell •  One of the very many reasons there won't be quantum computing any time soon is that the quantum bits (qubits) need to be at absolute zero - not very practical for the average server room, much less the ...

Android Malware Creates Smartphone Botnet, Researchers Say
eWeek
The malware, which usually downloaded via apps taken from third-party sites, sends out spam from users' Yahoo email accounts, according to security experts. Spammers have developed malware that is creating a botnet from Android mobile devices, ...

Samsung Galaxy Nexus pulled from Google Play over patent litigation
Ars Technica
by Andrew Cunningham - Jul 5, 2012 8:55 pm UTC The unlocked Galaxy Nexus has been listed as "coming soon" in the Google Play store since Tuesday. Customers hoping to buy an unlocked version of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus from the Google Play store have ...

This just in: Mermaids are NOT real, US agency says
Reuters
By Deborah Zabarenko | WASHINGTON, July 5 (Reuters) - This may not be much of a surprise, but mermaids aren't real. No less an authority than the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has debunked the existence of the legendary half-woman, ...

29-button Starcraft II arcade stick is the ultimate RTS controller
DVICE
Are you a huge Starcraft II fan? Do you spend way too many hours playing real-time strategy games with your fingers curled over the keyboard? Then, this custom Starcraft II arcade stick with its 29 buttons and giant mouse ball is the RTS controller you ...

Galaxy to power record $5.9 billion profit, but Samsung sweats over euro
Reuters
By Miyoung Kim | SEOUL (Reuters) - Soaraway sales of the Galaxy smartphone will drive record quarterly profit of $5.9 billion at Samsung Electronics, though the South Korean tech giant is fretting over how Europe's debt crisis is denting demand in its ...

Droid Incredible 4G LTE review: Great sound, good price
Computerworld
By Matt Hamblen Computerworld - The 4-in. HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE, which hit Verizon Wireless shelves today, offers rich multimedia features and a fairly rare chance to grab an Android 4.0 smartphone for just $149.99, after a $50 rebate from ...

Computerworld

PC to Mac sales ratio plummets
SlashGear
This week its been calculated by the analysts at Asymco that in the world of recorded sales for PCs vs Apple's Mac computers, the ratio of the former's sales to the latter is at its lowest since 1997. What we're to understand from this situation is...

'Super-Slim' PlayStation 3 is (reportedly) on the way
msnbc.com
If you thought that PlayStation 3 Slim of yours could still stand to lose a little weight, it's looking like Sony may just agree with you. It appears that Sony has filed documents with the US Federal Communications Commission referencing a...

Do You Use Bing? Yeah, Me Neither.
Forbes
Back in 2007, Microsoft (MSFT) paid $6 billion for a company called aQuantive, which was supposed to make it big in the internet search advertising game alongside Google (GOOG). But now Microsoft is writing off that failed attempt with a $6.2 billion ...

Olympus Yells “Me Too!” With The MEG4.0 Wearable Display Prototype
TechCrunch
Watch out, Google. Here comes Olympus with the MEG4.0 and don't dismiss this as a Google Glass knockoff. Olympus has been researching and developing wearable displays for more than 20 years. The MEG4.0 concept, and with that, its eventual production ...

TechCrunch

Apple is planning smaller iPad by year's end, sources say
Washington Post
July 4 (Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc. plans to debut a smaller, cheaper iPad by year-end, two people with knowledge of the plans said, to help maintain dominance of the tablet market as Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. prepare competing handheld devices.

Ramtron rejects Cypress takeover offer
CBS News
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Ramtron International Corp. said Thursday that a bid by rival chip maker Cypress Semiconductor Corp. to buy the company for about $91.4 million is "inadequate" and not in the best interest of Ramtron or its shareholders.

Yelp Rises on Speculation Smaller IPad Can Add Users
Bloomberg
Yelp Inc. (YELP) increased the most in almost a month on speculation that a smaller model of Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s iPad could help the business-review service add users. Yelp rose 10 percent to $27.30 at 11:08 am in New York, and earlier climbed as high ...

Bloomberg

Vanishing space dust baffles astronomers
CBC.ca
Astronomers monitoring a cloud of cosmic dust around a star say that the surprising rate at which the haze eventually disappeared suggests that the creation of planets may be a far quicker process than once imagined. The findings are published in ...

Hubble Space Telescope discovers rare dark matter filament
The Bunsen Burner
A team of scientists announced Thursday the discovery dark matter filament, the first such announcement concerning the mysterious form of matter. Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers say the filament forms a bridge between two huge clusters ...

Twitter Releases Transparency Report, Holds Itself And Governments Accountable
The Mary Sue
by Kellie Foxx-Gonzalez | 4:15 pm, July 5th, 2012 Taking a hint from Google's ongoing transparency efforts, Twitter has released it's first full transparency report detailing government requests received for user information, government requests...

Written by John Roberts / Published Wednesday, July 4, 2012 / Special Report
Fox News - Domestic Drone Concerns
This is a rush transcript from "Special Report," July 4, 2012. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated... TODD HUMPPHREYS, PROFEESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS: The kind of mentality that we got after 9/11 where we reinforced the cockpit ...

Apple Sued for Patent Infringement in China Over Siri
PC Magazine
By Chloe Albanesius A Chinese company has filed suit against Apple for infringing on one of its patents via Cupertino's voice-based assistant Siri. As reported by Marbridge Daily, Zhizhen Network Technology sued Apple and Shanghai-based subsidiary ...

Windows 8 Upgrade FAQ: How To Go Metro
InformationWeek
Microsoft is pulling out all the stops to get PC users onto its new OS; here's what you need to know. By Paul McDougall InformationWeek Microsoft this week released pricing and other details on programs that will allow PC users to upgrade their systems ...

Solar Flare's Red Glare: Sun Unleashes Early Fourth of July Fireworks
Space.com
by Tariq Malik, SPACE.com Managing Editor The sun erupted with a powerful solar flare Monday (July 2) in an early solar fireworks display just in time for the Fourth of July. A wave of plasma from the flare could reach Earth by the US Independence Day ...

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Apple's Siri Feature Doubles IPhone Data Usage

Apple's Siri Feature Doubles IPhone Data Usage
Bloomberg
Enlarge image Apple Siri Apple Siri Matthew Lloyd/Bloomberg A customer demonstrates the Siri function on an Apple Inc. iPhone 4S smartphone outside the company's store at Covent Garden in London. Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s voice recognition software Siri has ...

Bloomberg

Magellan Unveils Truck, RV GPS Devices for CES 2012
PC Magazine
Magellan is shrewdly targeting its new RoadMate 5190T and RV9145 at toward truck drivers and RV owners, respectively, with custom-tailored feature sets. By Jamie Lendino MiTac International's Magellan GPS device lineup gets two new additions for CES ...

NASA questions Lovell's right to sell Apollo 13 checklist
USA TODAY
By Curt Anderson, AP MIAMI – NASA is questioning whether Apollo 13 commander James Lovell has the right to sell a 70-page checklist from the flight that includes his handwritten calculations crucial in guiding the damaged spacecraft back to Earth. ...

USA TODAY

CES 2012: Google TVs from Samsung, LG
Washington Post
The future of television is always a hot topic of speculation at the Consumer Electronics Show. Though hype over 3D televisions cooled quickly after the show last year, this year's TV's trend taps into a movement that's become the watchword of the ...

Smartphones power Samsung to record quarterly profit
Reuters
By Miyoung Kim | SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics, the world's top maker of memory chips and smartphones, reported a record quarterly profit on Friday, aided by one-off gains and best-ever sales of high-end phones. The South Korean firm, ...

Zynga Launches Scramble With Friends App
PC Magazine
By Angela Moscaritolo Gaming company Zynga on Thursday released the latest mobile social app game in its popular “With Friends” franchise. The new game, now available in the App Store for iPhone and iPod touch, and coming soon for Android, ...

Nokia went and bought itself another mobile OS
CNET
by Roger Cheng January 6, 2012 6:08 AM PST Follow @RogerWCheng The Finnish handset giant scooped up Smarterphone, a small Norwegian company that has an operating system designed for more basic cell phones, known in the industry as feature phones. ...

Scientists create race of supersoldier ants
Christian Science Monitor
This discovery of oversized versions of soldier ants, whose job is to defend the nest, led researchers to create their own supersoldier ants in the lab with the help of a hormone. By Wynne Parry, LiveScience Senior Writer / January 6, 2012 When eight ...

Corning's Gorilla Glass 2 Coming to CES
PC Magazine
By Leslie Horn Corning, the maker of ultra-strong Gorilla Glass, will debut Gorilla Glass 2 at next week's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, the company announced Thursday. The details are scant thus far, but it appears the company believes ...

Apple threatened In Icons company for making a Steve Jobs doll
DailyTech
Apple is no stranger to throwing lawsuits around, but instead of accusing another company of ripping off its products, it's now blaming them for ripping off its former leader. In Icons, a Chinese company, recently created an action figure of Apple's ...

DailyTech

Gasoline prices start the year at a high — and rising
Los Angeles Times
Gas prices are the highest ever for this time of year, and analysts predict that motorists will be digging deep in 2012 to fuel their vehicles. California's average price for a gallon of regular gasoline was $3.666 on Thursday, according to the AAA ...

Los Angeles Times

Sony to launch flash cards with 125 Mbps write speeds
Computerworld
The Japanese electronics giant will be the first to launch memory cards under the new XQD standard. By Jay Alabaster IDG News Service - Sony said Friday it will begin selling memory cards with write speeds of 125 Mbps, the fastest in the industry, ...

Facebook Worm Siphons 45000 Accounts
InformationWeek
By Kelly Jackson Higgins, Dark Reading A server housing tens of thousands of stolen Facebook credentials was discovered--and it turns out the attackers employed a new version of an existing worm to pilfer the goods. Researchers at Seculert say the ...

Blackberry ditches new phones to focus on 'London'
Telegraph.co.uk
Research in Motion is now developing just one handset, the 'London', with its new BlackBerry 10 operating system, it has been reported. By Matt Warman, Consumer Technology Editor The troubled company had previously been working on handsets codenamed ...

Telegraph.co.uk

Rumor Claims iPad 3 in Spring, iPad 4 this Fall
The Mac Observer
New iPad rumors seem to be cropping up daily, and the latest claims Apple plans to release the iPad 3 in March and follow up with the iPad 4 in October. Industry sources apparently shared Apple's iPad timeline with DigiTimes, and said the iPad 3 will ...

The Samsung Note Is Definitively Not Coming To AT&T As Far As You Know
TechCrunch
Remember the mini-slate Samsung released a few months ago? The Samsung Galaxy Note? Pretty cool little device. As we enter CES week, the press releases are flying fast and furious and this one caught my eye. It's for a small company that makes ...

TechCrunch

Silicon Valley Is the New Detroit
The Atlantic Wire
Ford is heading to Silicon Valley to open a new research lab, and the car computers they hope to build will do a lot more than help you find radio stations more quickly or improve your gas mileage. The future of in-car computing looks not unlike the ...

iPad 3 to pack Retina Display, FaceTime HD, 8-megapixel camera and push iPad 2 ...
BGR
What would the Consumers Electronics Show be without Apple rumors overshadowing most of the announcements? iLounge's Jeremy Horwitz has taken to Twitter to break down some of the leaked iPad 3 information he's hearing. First off, it's being reported ...

GM to adds more steel to Volt to protect battery
BusinessWeek
By TOM KRISHER and DEE-ANN DURBIN General Motors is advising Volt owners to return their electric cars to dealers for repairs that will better protect the vehicles' batteries, which have caught fire after crash tests. The repairs-- which would fix 8000 ...

Galaxy Nexus may be heading to Sprint
TG Daily
The latest version of the Google-optimized smartphone line may have Sprint in its future. That is the only conclusion that can be drawn by the fact that a Sprint ad (pictured) was popping up on Cnet.com, and possibly other sites, proclaiming that the...

TG Daily

Symantec Confirms Leak of Source Code for Old Enterprise Antivirus Products
PCWorld
By Lucian Constantin, IDG-News-Service:Romania-Bureau Security vendor Symantec confirmed that a group of hackers is in possession of source code for two of its enterprise antivirus products, one of which is no longer in production. ...

Sprint Nextel mothballs LightSquared partnership
Bizjournals.com
Sprint Nextel Corp. has put on hold its $15 billion network build-out agreement with LightSquared Inc. as the Reston wireless startup sits in regulatory limbo, Bloomberg reported Friday. The suspension of spending in the Sprint-LightSquared deal, ...

Infinity Blade II makes $5 million, franchise makes $30 million
Appolicious
If you want to hear about an App Store success story, look no further than ChAIR's Infinty Blade series. Two games and just over a year after the release of the first Infinity Blade, the developer and publisher Epic Games announced that the franchise ...

Space Station Crew Excited for 1st Private Spaceship Visit
Space.com
by Clara Moskowitz, SPACE.com Assistant Managing Editor The astronauts living on the International Space Station (ISS) are gearing up for a milestone event in February — the first visit of a commercial spaceship to the orbiting outpost. ...

Google Obtains IBM Technology for Assessing Social Users' Interests
By Scott M. Fulton, III
Among a handful of patents transferred last December 31 from IBM's portfolio to that of Google, as first discovered by Bill Slawski of SEO By the Sea, is ...
ReadWriteWeb

Breaking technology | Scholarly Communications @ Duke
By Kevin Smith, J.D.
Another example of this failure to do what digital technologies allows you to do can be found in this article from the Chronicle of Higher Education, which reports on a study about textbook choices that found that e-textbooks offered little savings ...
Scholarly Communications @ Duke

Information Technology's Dangerous Trend in Africa - Ndubuisi ...
By Ndubuisi Ekekwe
For the past few decades, emerging technologies such as biotechnology, microelectronics, information technology and communications technologies have become central to the socioeconomic development of nations. These technologies ...
HBR.org

Technology behind 'Avatar,' 'Incredible Hulk' honored by academy ...
By Emily Rome
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' upcoming awards for Scientific and Technical Awards Presentation will honor innovators whose filmmaking inventions were used in such films as "Avatar," "The Incredible Hulk" and "U2 3D."
24 Frames

The Stupid Shall Be Punished: 21st Century Technology
By Bubblehead
21st Century Technology. I gave in to the inevitable and started a Twitter account, @JoelBubblehead. I have no idea what I'm going to do with it, but you can follow if you want. #firstworldproblems. posted by Bubblehead at 2:01 PM ...
The Stupid Shall Be Punished

Getting Good Technology out of the Lab and into the Marketplace
SOURCE: AP/ Steven Senne A physicist and computer scientist at Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology, one of the nation's leaders in creating startup small businesses out of research ideas. Encouraging the commercialization of ideas and ...
Science Progress

Plastic Recycling Technology Today: The Industrial War Against ...
By Christian Crisostomo
Fighting plastic pollution takes not only individual will, but should also be technologically aided by industrial might.
The Environmental Blog

Copying and file sharing recognized as a religion in Sweden ...
By Deborah Netburn
Is file sharing a religion? The Church of Kopimism gets recognized as a religion in Sweden.
L.A. Times Tech Blog

Defense technology to grow despite Pentagon budget cuts ...
By bbrewin@govexec.com (Bob Brewin)
As the Defense Department slashes its budget by at least $487 billion in 10 years, technologyinvestment is one of the few areas that will continue to grow,...
GovExec.com Top News

Health Technology Hazards: Top 10 for 2012 « Off the Charts
By amiemc
Advances in health technology can save patients' lives, but can also cause harm, as the recent Ecri Institute report, Top 10 Technology Hazards for 2012, reminds us. Here's a snapshot of the hazards nurses should be focusing on, and some ...
Off the Charts

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