Favorite Mobile Apps for CEOs, From Wine to Traffic (video)

Favorite Mobile Apps for CEOs - From wine to traffic, CEOs representing various industries weigh in on their favorite smartphone and tablet apps. WSJ's Shelby Holliday reports from the CEO Council in Washington. Published on Nov 24, 2015

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HP going Google--first a Chromebook, now an Android tablet

HP unveils Android tablet: " . . . Slate 7 has a 7-inch display with a modest (judging by the 1024 by 600 resolution) display, similar to the original Kindle Fire, which seems to be a direct competitive target among entry level models. Unlike the camera-free first Fire, Slate 7 has two cameras, a rear 3-megapixel camera and a VGA front camera. The tablet runs the Jelly Bean 4.1 flavor of Android, and has a dual-core ARM processor, and 8 gigabytes of memory, expandable via microSD. HP says the tablet battery will go about 5 hours, which if so is nothing to write home about. Among the Slate 7 features are embedded Beats Audio, which HP claims is an industry first for tablets. Slate 7 also has direct printing capabilities. Built around a stainless steel frame, the initial models—you can get it in red or gray—are Wi-Fi only . . . ."

LG Buys WebOS From HP to Power Smart TVs: "Now that HP has committed to Android for tablets and phones — beginning with theHP Slate 7 — it's time for the company to get rid of some of its excess baggage — namely,webOS. According to CNET, LG is acquiring webOS from HP with the intention of putting it on its smart television sets. You remember webOS, right? It was Palm's innovative mobile operating system that based its foundation on web technologies — such as HTML and JavaScript. When HP acquired Palm back in 2010, it all looked so promising. It wasn't to last. In a span of just 16 months, HP went from "doubling down" on webOS to ending hardware development and open-sourcing the operating system. . . . "

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Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Tablet: iPad Mini Rival
InformationWeek
Samsung's Galaxy Note 8 is a smaller tablet that offers all the same stylus-based features of its larger cousin. Start The Discussion · Tweet; Mail Mail; Print Print · Eric Zeman | February 25, 2013 08:55 AM. 10 Best Apps For the Samsung Galaxy Note ...

Asus announces the 5-inch PadFone Infinity
CNET
BARCELONA, Spain--Well that was quick. It's hasn't even been a year since the launch of the PadFone 2 back in October 2012 and a new PadFone is making a debut here in Barcelona. Last year's MWC saw the launch of the first PadFone, so this kind of ...

CNET

Nokia Lumia 720, 520 Expand Windows Phone 8 Portfolio: MWC
eWeek
Nokia expands its Windows Phone 8 offerings with the Lumia 720 and 520 smartphones, and debuts two handsets aimed at emerging markets. BARCELONA--Handset maker Nokia introduced four devices, including the Lumia 720 and Lumia 520...

eWeek

Scientists plan mission to smash into an asteroid
Fox News
A mission that aims to slam a spacecraft into a near-Earth asteroid now officially has a target — a space rock called Didymos. The joint European/U.S. Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment mission, or AIDA, will work to intercept Didymos in 2022, when ...

BlackBerry launches Z10 in India amid claims of poor sales
ZDNet
Summary: The fruit-themed smartphone maker launches its Z10 in India, just as Nokia launches its own smartphone in China. Can you work out why? (Hint: analysts say Z10 sales are struggling only a month in.) Zack Whittaker. By Zack Whittaker for Between...

ZDNet

Sony Announces Alpha 58 and NEX-3N at Aggressive Price Points
PC Magazine
Europe got this news last week, but Sony announced the US pricing and availability for a number of new cameras today. Headlinging the group is the company's new entry level compact interchangeable lens camera, the Alpha NEX-3N, and the replacement ...

MWC 2013: live coverage
Telegraph.co.uk
... Off. • Mobile World Congress 2013 gets underway in Barcelona • Sony and Samsung announce new tablets • Samsung issues invites to Galaxy S4 launch • Nokia unveils cheaper smartphone models. 13.29 Booth Babe-watch continues. Benedict Evans ...

Telegraph.co.uk

Microsoft coughs up compensation for Azure cloud cock-up
Register
Microsoft has vowed to compensate users of its Azure cloud after an expired SSL certificate took the service offline. Victims of the Blue Sky of Death, which lasted 12 hours, will get credits as per their service-level agreement (SLA), the Redmond giant ...

Google Shooting for 4Q13, Sub-$1500 Project Glass Release
Tom's Hardware Guide
Google may be shooting to launch a consumer version of Glass by the end of the year. Project Glass, or Google Glass, is currently in the hands of developers as they crank out applications for Google's new head-mounted display. The company originally ...

Firefox to auto-block third-party ad cookies by summer
Computerworld
Computerworld - Mozilla will automatically block third-party cookies starting with Firefox 22, which is slated to ship this summer, according to the Stanford University researcher who coded the change. The move, which will make it more difficult for online ad ...

Final Review: Microsoft Surface Pro
Forbes
When Microsoft launched the Surface RT I praised its build quality, display, stellar battery life, and unrivaled capacity for productivity. With its stripped down ARM-powered OS, it was logical to compare its feature set with other tablets. The Surface Pro, however ...

Forbes

Apple Debuts Hollywood iPad Ad During Oscars
The Mac Observer
Apple released a new iPad commercial during the Oscars Sunday night that, appropriately enough, highlighted the tablet's movie making and viewing features. The ad follows the same formula as other recent commercials by picking words that fit with a theme ...

The Mac Observer

Hackers: The Flies in Social Media Marketing Ointment
CRM Buyer
Marketers are just beginning to get a handle on the myriad ways social networks can be used for brand-building, but some ugly problems are threatening to spoil the party. Hackers have been tampering with some of the most exciting and potentially lucrative ...

Microsoft admits it was also a target of Apple and Facebook attacks
Inquirer
SOFTWARE HOUSE Microsoft has admitted that it too was a target of cyber attacks that exploited vulnerabilities to infect employees' machines at major technology firms including Apple, Facebook and Twitter. The company confirmed it experienced "a similar ...

Sony Xperia Tablet Z hands-on: Slim is in
SlashGear
Sony's track record with tablets has been mixed, but the Xperia Tablet Z is undoubtedly the company's best play for the slate market so far. Slotting a bright, colorful 10.1-inch display running at a hefty 1920 x 1200 resolution into a waifishly-appealing 6.9mm ...

SlashGear

Huawei Announces Ascend P2, 'The Fastest Smartphone In The World'
Huffington Post
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Huawei, a Chinese company that recently became the world's third-largest maker of smartphones, calls its new flagship product "the fastest smartphone in the world" and wants to use it to expand global awareness of its brand.

Now that's “fast” roadside assistance: AT&T's LTE will power GM's OnStar
GigaOM
The deal runs counter to bring-your-own-connectivity approach GM and the rest of the Detroit automakers have backed in recent years. OnStar Leverages Google Technology for New Mobile App Features. General Motors' OnStar system is going to get turbo ...

GigaOM

India Launches Asteroid-Hunting Satellites, Tiny Space Telescopes Into Orbit
Huffington Post
A rocket carrying seven new satellites, including the first spacecraft designed to hunt huge asteroids and two of the world's smallest space telescopes, launched into space Monday (Feb. 25) from an Indian spaceport. The Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle ...

Kyocera unveils new Torque ultra-rugged 4G LTE Android smartphone
SlashGear
Kyocera has unveiled a new extremely rugged smartphone running the Android operating system called the Torque. The device will launch on March 8 on the Sprint network and is designed to survive everyday life and extreme elements. The smartphone will ...

SlashGear

Social media emerge as a big advertising platform — and a target for hackers
Boston.com
While most Americans were winding up their holiday weekends last Monday, the phones at the Vancouver, British Columbia, headquarters of HootSuite, a social media management company, began to ring.

MWC 2013: Samsung's Knox system takes BYOD fight to BlackBerry
ZDNet
Summary: Samsung hopes to attract more enterprise customers through the introduction of a new containerised security system called Knox for some of its Android-powered Galaxy smartphones. Ben Woods. By Ben Woods | February 25, 2013 -- 10:05 GMT ...

And Now, Ubuntu for Tablets - Wait, What?
LinuxInsider.com
"On the one hand, a real Linux tablet is very attractive," said Google+ blogger Kevin O'Brien. "On the other hand, what will the ecosystem look like? Will there be all of the apps I want? ... There is a tendency still for companies to not create Linux clients for ...

Android Apps for Children: A plea from parents
Cool Mom Tech
Kindle Fire apps We've written (again and again, often in comments) as to why it's so difficult to find Android apps that meet our standards. And while a recent survey of our readers indicates that more than 90% own an Apple device (often an iPad) and are ...

How Dinosaurs Evolved the World's Longest Necks While Giraffes Fell Short
Science World Report
(Photo : Flickr/Patrick Emerson) How did dinosaurs evolve such long necks? New research shows how they managed to support a neck that was sometimes as much as 50 feet in length. Giraffes may have long necks, but theirs are nothing when compared to ...

Facebook to offer free or discounted data for Messenger iOS app in international ...
Apple Insider
Social networking monolith Facebook on Monday announced that it has partnered with multiple cellular providers worldwide to let Messenger app users send messages at discounted or free data rates. Facebook Messenger. In a post to Facebook's official ...

10 Things You Need To Know This Morning (HPQ, NOK, T, FB, MSFT, YHOO)
San Francisco Chronicle
Good morning! Here's the overnight news. LG bought WebOS, the smartphone operating system that used to power the Palm Pre, from HP. LG will use it in TVs. (UPDATE: CNET ...

Intel launches dual-core Atom processor platform formerly known as Clover Trail+
SlashGear
Intel has officially launched its new dual-core Atom processor-based platform that was formerly known as Clover Trail+. The new platform has officially launched at Mobile World Congress 2013 and will be featured in a range of new products, ecosystems, and...

SlashGear

Euro-Spec Ford EcoSport Revealed
Motorward
ford ecosport EU 1 545x363 at Euro Spec Ford EcoSport Revealed Ford took to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona to reveal the European version of its EcoSport, a global crossover model. The car is designed as an Eco model, but the Euro-spec ...

Motorward

Pluto's New Moon May be Named Vulcan
Cleveland Leader
Two new moons were discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2011 and 2012, and a naming contest for them is being held. In keeping with the naming tradition of Pluto and its other moon's, scientists from the SETI Institute have requested the choice to ...

Cleveland Leader

Report: Google developing subscription music streaming service
ITProPortal
Google is reportedly in talks with multiple music labels in a bid to launch its own subscription music streaming service, according to a Wall Street Journal report. According to the report, the new Google music streaming service will bring music lovers similar ...

ITProPortal

Could 'lost' continent discovered in Indian Ocean be Atlantis?
msnNOW
Researchers have found evidence of an ancient continent (possibly the lost civilization of Atlantis) buried beneath the floor of the Indian Ocean. Researchers believe they've found a "microcontinent" that was once wedged between India and Madagascar.

msnNOW

Despite Massive Support From Telco Industry, Mozilla's Firefox OS 'Needs ...
Forbes
People look at a screen displaying a ZTE mobile phone with a Firefox logo on its screen during a press conference to present the new Firefox OS mobile operating system in Barcelona on February 24, 2013, a day before the start of the 2013 Mobile World ...

Facebook builds 'cold storage' archive for old photos
NDTV
Facebook is building a vast new "cold storage" facility in the US to archive all the messages, photos and other postings that its over billion users do not need every day but want to retain for future reference. A 16,000-square-foot data centre under construction ...

Nvidia Shows Off Tegra 4 CPU, Phoenix Reference Design Phone
LAPTOP Magazine (blog)
Nvidia's been on a roll of late. After announcing its next-gen Tegra 4 platform at CES, the company recently unveiled its lower-cost Tegra 4i CPU with integrated LTE modem. Now, here at Mobile World Congress, the company is demonstrating the graphics ...

LAPTOP Magazine (blog)

PlayStation 4 vs. PC graphics: Can Sony even compete?
PCWorld
Sony's PlayStation 4 launch last Wednesday was monumental, and not just because it may very well be the first console announcement in history where the company failed to actually show the console itself. While the rest of the world was bemoaning the ...

LG eyes lost ground in smartphones
Financial Times
As Samsung Electronics has surged to pole position in global smartphone sales over the past two years, its South Korean rival LG Electronics has watched its handset market share dwindle. Company insiders admit that the group was damagingly slow to ...

This chief executive is an appy chappy
The Australian Financial Review
All of us had a BlackBerry for a long time. We were great fans; the texting and phone were great. Tony Stuart. The rise of mobile apps has touched many areas of daily life, from personal banking to entertainment, but for NRMA Group chief executive Tony ...

MWC 2013: Mophie Juice Pack Air for iPhone 5 released, 1700mAh battery pack ...
Today's iPhone
MWC 2013 has just kicked off in Barcelona, and my email inbox is flooding with press releases of new products and initiatives. If you're in to mobile, it's the one conference you should visit each year. Sadly, I couldn't be there, but that doesn't mean we won't ...

HTC launches smartphone with revamped software
Business Recorder (blog)
Taiwan's HTC Corp has unveiled the new smartphone that it hopes will set it apart from the crowd of Google Android devices on the market and help it to make up ground lost to Samsung. The HTC One is powered by Google's software, but the company has ...

HP backs into tablet, commodity device game: Can it win?
ZDNet
Summary: HP is clearly on the Google and Android bandwagon with a new 7-inch tablet. That's great news for Google. Likely bad news for HP's profit margins. Larry Dignan. By Larry Dignan for Between the Lines | February 25, 2013 -- 07:00 GMT (23:00 PST) ...

North Hollywood High School wins 20th Annual Science Bowl
Los Angeles Times
North Hollywood High School won the 20th Annual Science Bowl Regional Competition on Sunday in downtown Los Angeles, the school's eighth consecutive win. Harvard-Westlake School in Studio City placed second in the tournament, sponsored by the ...

Happy Birthday Steve Jobs: The Story Behind Late Apple CEO Who Made ...
Gizbot
Its Steve Jobs' 58th birthday today and its time to remember the icon who gave the tech world iPhone and iPad. The late Apple co-founder was best known for his visionary leadership and innovation, but he was also known for his unvarying signature look.

Facebook app update, NYPD has a dedicated Apple device recovery team, HTC ...
iPhone Buzz
iPhone users who take advantage of the Facebook app may have noticed that a new update is now available. The new update brings voice calling to the US and Canada at no cost. There are a lot of thieves out there that specifically target Apple devices such...

iPhone Buzz

White House seeks to shed the risk-averse cyber information sharing culture
FederalNewsRadio.com
One of the effects of the executive order on cybersecurity President Barack Obama signed earlier this month is to begin sharing up-to-date, classified government information on cyber threats with companies that operate critical infrastructure. The White House ...

New Jeep Cherokee unveiled
Autocar
This is the new Jeep Cherokee, the first all-new Jeep to be born out of the Fiat-Chrysler alliance. The model will be seen in the public for the first time at the New York motor show later next month, before going on sale in the autumn. Jeep released these first ...

Evidence could prove that humans have unique cortical brain networks
News-Medical.net
Our ancestors evolutionarily split from those of rhesus monkeys about 25 million years ago. Since then, brain areas have been added, have disappeared or have changed in function. This raises the question, 'Has evolution given humans unique brain ...

Google unveils futuristic Californian HQ plans
The Drum
Google has announced plans for a $120m expansion of its existing Mountain View headquarters, California, to bring its employees closer together and furnish them with a roof garden. The 1.1m square foot 'Googleplex' is scheduled for completion in 2015 ...

The Drum


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Google Nexus Tablet Details Leak

Google Nexus Tablet Details Leak
InformationWeek
Specs for the Nexus 7, a Google-branded tablet with a seven-inch display, sneak out, pointing to a mid-level device with a competitive price. By Eric Zeman InformationWeek Leaked training materials for the as-yet unannounced Google Nexus tablet point ... 

Investment Banks Seek Business in Patent Deals as M&A Work Slows
Bloomberg
Amid the dearth of global mergers and acquisitions, a handful of investment banks are finding business advising companies on patent sales. Lazard Ltd. (LAZ), Evercore Partners Inc. (EVR) and Barclays Plc (BARC) are banking on a turf typically dominated ...

Verizon, T-Mobile Plan Spectrum Swap
PCWorld
By Grant Gross, IDG News Verizon Wireless will swap spectrum with T-Mobile USA in the AWS (advanced wireless service) band, if Verizon can get regulatory approval to buy the spectrum from a group of cable companies, the companies announced Monday.

Microsoft: We Won't Build Own Windows Phones
InformationWeek
Microsoft exec categorically denies reports that the company plans to bring its Surface tablet strategy to the smartphone market. By Paul McDougall InformationWeek A Microsoft executive said the company has no plans to manufacture its own ...

Two LulzSec Members Plead Guilty to Sony, CIA Hacking
Businessweek
By Lindsay Fortado on June 25, 2012 Ryan Cleary and another member of the LulzSec “hacktivist” group, pleaded guilty to disrupting websites at Sony Corp. (6758), the Central Intelligence Agency and News Corp. (NWSA) (NWSA) while denying they illegally ...

Quest Software gets new $2.32B takeover bid
Businessweek
ALISO VIEJO, Calif. (AP) — Quest Software Inc. said Monday that it received a higher buyout offer from unnamed bidder worth about $2.32 billion, continuing a battle for the technology services provider. The most recent offer of $27.50 per share follows ...

Samsung: Galaxy S III sales to hit 10 mln in July
USA TODAY
SEOUL, South Korea – Samsung Electronics Co., the world's top mobile phone maker, said Monday it expects global sales of the latest Galaxy smartphone to surpass 10 million in July even as it struggles to keep up with demand because of component ...

USA TODAY

Asus Transformer Pad Infinity TF700
PC Magazine
Incredibly bright and sharp screen. Thin and light aluminum body. Blazing fast quad-core Tegra 3 processor. Dearth of apps that take advantage of the screen. The Asus Transformer Pad Infinity TF700 is the best Android tablet money can buy, ...

After Windows Phone 8 announcement, Nokia sales estimates cut
Los Angeles Times
A group of analysts have significantly cut revenue estimates of Nokia phones after Microsoft's announcement of Windows Phone 8 last week. Nomura Holdings Inc. said it expects Nokia to only sell 34 million devices running Windows Phone in 2013,...

Sony, Panasonic tying up in advanced TV displays
The Associated Press
By YURI KAGEYAMA, AP Business Writer – 2 hours ago TOKYO (AP) — Long-time Japanese rivals Sony Corp. and Panasonic Corp. are working together to develop next-generation TV panels called OLEDs in a reversal of decades of rivalry as they try to catch up ...

The Associated Press

Facebook Testing 'Find Friends Nearby' Feature
PC Magazine
By Chloe Albanesius Facebook is testing out a new feature that lets you discover new Facebook friends who are nearby. If you were in a bar, for example, and wanted to find out who was around you or add someone you just met, navigate to the "Find ...

Yelp check-ins expected for Apple's new Maps
Ars Technica
by Jacqui Cheng - Jun 25, 2012 3:30 pm UTC Remember when people had the patience to "check in" at restaurants or other businesses on their iPhones in order to get discounts? Okay, some people still do, and it appears as if Apple plans to begin catering ...

Ars Technica

Analyst sees RIM losing 90 percent of workers
CNET
RIM is set up for a triple whammy that may require the company to shed most of its employees just to survive as a niche security device maker. by Larry Dignan Research In Motion is a fundamentally broken company that is likely to be split up in parts ...

Stonehenge built as a symbol of peace and unity, British researchers suggest
Christian Science Monitor
The creation of the mysterious monument and the culture built around it suggests Stonehenge was thought as a symbol of unity in late Neolithic Europe, British researchers say. By Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience / June 25, 2012 The mysterious structure of ...

Christian Science Monitor

Survey: 70% of teens hide online behavior from parents
CNN
(CNN) -- Here's a real shocker: Teens are better than their parents at using the Internet, and are likely to hide some of their online behaviors from them. That news comes from a 2017-person survey funded by the online security software maker McAfee, ...

Apple, Motorola Patent Lawsuit Shut Down… Again
The Mac Observer
Judge Richard Posner dismissed Apple and Motorola's patent infringement lawsuit on Friday, ending both side's attempts to impose injunctions on the sale of each other's smartphones. The Judge dismissed the lawsuit with prejudice, meaning Apple and ...

The Mac Observer

213 miles up, Chinese astronauts achieve milestone
Christian Science Monitor
A trio of Chinese astronauts successfully manually docked their space capsule to a prototype orbiting module on Sunday. By Clara Moskowitz, SPACE.com / June 25, 2012 This still from a CNTV bradcast shows the view from a camera aboard China's Shenzhou 9 ...

Christian Science Monitor

NYT Times expands digital platform
AFP
NEW YORK — The New York Times said Monday it was expanding its digital news offerings to third-party platforms as part of a push for more online subscribers. The "NYT Everywhere" will begin with Flipboard, a so-called social magazine which allows its ...

AFP

Video: '7 minutes of terror' for next Mars probe
EE Times
WASHINGTON – On Aug. 5, 2012, after completing a nine-month, 354 million mile journey, mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory will attempt to break the fall of a rover-carrying spacecraft traveling at about 13000 miles per hour to zero ...

EE Times

Sony Xperia Ion promotion begins
TG Daily
The device was released to stores around the country yesterday and although it didn't spark a lot of camping out at mobile stores, it is quite possibly the beginning of something big. Sony Mobile Communications, a brand new division within Sony that...

Google, Boingo offer New York free summer Wi-Fi
AFP
NEW YORK — Google and wireless Internet group Boingo said Monday they would offer free Wi-Fi access over the summer months in many parts of New York City, including some busy subway stations. "Big Apple visitors and New York straphangers on the go can ...

AFP

Nintendo to start selling 3DS with larger screens
Boston.com
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese game maker Nintendo Co. has upgraded its 3DS handheld to sport a screen nearly twice as big as the previous model amid hot competition against smartphones and tablets that are wooing people away from dedicated gaming machines.

Don't Delete Your Stupidity. Fix it. Facebook Rolls Out Comment Editing and ...
TechCrunch
No more “Arggh! Copy, delete, paste, edit, post.” Facebook is now rolling out the ability to edit comments, but users will be able to see the full edit history of a thread. This is just one more feature that I really liked about Google+, since I could ...

DirecTV cuts 3-D channel from 24-hour to part-time
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) — DirecTV says it has reduced the programming hours of its 24-hour 3-D channel, n3D, due to a shortage of 3-D content. The satellite TV provider launched the channel to much fanfare in July 2010, boasting the backing of Panasonic Corp.

The Design Principles of Metro Apps
Dr. Dobb's
By Dino Esposito, June 25, 2012 App bars, live tiles, and charms are part of the many new Metro features whose use is inspired by a core set of new design principles. A Metro-style app uniquely leverages the features of Microsoft Windows 8.

What were they thinking? Studies reveal animal intellect
msnbc.com
WASHINGTON — The more we study animals, the less special we seem. Baboons can distinguish between written words and gibberish. Monkeys seem to be able to do multiplication. Apes can delay instant gratification longer than a human child can.

msnbc.com

MIT Labs' Infinity-by-Nine system aims to provide a more immersive viewing ...
Ubergizmo
By Tyler Lee on 06/25/2012 07:00 PDT Playing games and watching movies for the most part tends to be a very straight-on experience, save for 3D, since the screen is usually right in front of you. While there are setups such as IMAX which offers a wider ...

Ubergizmo

Study Slashes Deforestation Carbon Emission Estimate
Science Daily (press release)
ScienceDaily (June 25, 2012) — A new study with NASA participation has sharply reduced previous estimates of how much carbon was emitted into Earth's atmosphere from tropical deforestation in the early 2000s. Research scientist Sassan Saatchi of NASA's ...

RBS tech mess will entrench UK's "free" banking
Reuters
RBS tech mess will entrench UK's "free" banking .... news agency, providing investing news, world news, business news, technology news, headline news, small ...

Nightmare Airport Road Costs Jobs in Bangalore: Corporate India
Bloomberg
For visitors to Bangalore, India's technology capital, the worst leg of their journey can begin ...Nightmare Airport Road Costs Jobs for India Silicon Valley: Tech ...

Federal Workers: Professional Technology Should Match Personal
The Digital Government Strategy directs Federal agencies to "seize the digital opportunity and fundamentally change how the Federal Government serves both ...
gov.aol.com/.../federal-workers-professional-technology-shoul...

New York City's Getting a Tech Upgrade
By Alex Fitzpatrick
The initiatives, introduced by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and developed in partnership with the New York City Economic Development Corporation and the Department of Information Technology and ...
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Microsoft to launch tablet to compete with iPad

Microsoft 'to launch tablet to compete with iPad'
The Guardian
Microsoft is to launch an own-brand tablet running a new version of Windows in a bit to compete with Apple's iPad, according to rumours swirling in the technology industry. An invitation to an event in Los Angeles on Monday evening sent out by the ...

China Sends Its First Woman Into Space
Wall Street Journal
By BRIAN SPEGELE BEIJING—China's launch of three astronauts Saturday, including its first woman, into space was the first step in a much-anticipated test of whether China can achieve its first manned space-docking. The mission is the latest step as ...

Retailers feast on free Facebook tools, shun ads
Reuters
By Alistair Barr | CHICAGO (Reuters) - Krishan Agarwal, president of online luxury watch vendor Melrose.com, told a roomful of attentive Internet retailers last week how Facebook had helped his company generate about 25 percent more sales in two years.

Air Force video reveals X-37B space plane landing
msnbc.com
The US Air Force's robotic X-37B space plane came back to Earth Saturday after 15 months in orbit on a mystery mission, and its much-anticipated landing was caught on video. The X-37B spacecraft touched down at California's Vandenberg Air Force Base at ...

Lorenzo cruises to Silverstone success
AFP
SILVERSTONE — Jorge Lorenzo cruised to a comfortable win over defending world champion Casey Stoner in the British MotoGP here on Sunday, with Spaniards also clinching the Moto2 and Moto3 categories. The Yamaha star, a winner here in 2010 when he went ...

AFP

Diablo III puts PC gaming back on top
TG Daily
The video game market ebbs and flows with the state of our economy. When times are tough, people stop buying video games and related hardware. When the economy picks back up, gaming gear purchases rebound. So it comes as little surprise that a recent ...

TG Daily

Does Auto Layout In iOS 6 Mean A Larger iPhone Screen Is A Done Deal?
TechCrunch
The WWDC keynote came and went with nary a mention of a new iPhone, but that didn't stop people from ruminating about Apple's newest mobile juggernaut. Apple's brass spent much of their time on-stage pulling back the curtains on the latest version of ...

TechCrunch

Rumor: Apple to Launch 13-inch MacBook Pro by October
Tom's Hardware Guide
As WWDC draws to a close, conversation has turned to the products Apple didn't announce last Monday and when we might expect to see additional product launches from Cupertino. There are the obvious and long awaited gadgets, such as the iPhone 5 and ...

Teased Nokia announcement unrelated to Microsoft tablet event
TechRadar UK
By Chris Smith June 17th 2012 A ripple of excitement moved through the tech fraternity this weekend when Nokia teased it would be a part of Microsoft's big press event on Monday. The Finnish smartphone company posted an image on its US Facebook page, ...

TechRadar UK

Removal of Leaked Xbox 720 Document Only Makes Folks More Interested
Geekosystem
by Rollin Bishop | 11:00 am, June 17th, 2012 There's nothing quite like having your legal firm requesting the removal of incriminating documents to lend said documents legitimacy. What may have otherwise been taken as a hoax document purporting the...

Bones of John The Baptist Possibly Discovered
ABC News (blog)
A team of researchers believe a knuckle bone found buried beneath a Bulgarian church may belong to John the Baptist, the New Testament prophet who heralded the ministry of Jesus. The archaeologists from Oxford University were surprised that the bones ...

ABC News (blog)

Happy Father's Day From Google Doodle
Shockya.com
To celebrate fathers today, Google is featuring a new animated, interactive Doodle. Replacing the search engine's official logo on its homepage, the Doodle initially has the L from Google wearing glasses, seated in an arm chair reading a newspaper.

Shockya.com

Apple I fetches $374.5K at Sotheby's auction, Steve Jobs Atari note goes for ...
Engadget
By Joe Pollicino posted Jun 17th 2012 9:31AM Here's an update for all the collectors of vintage Apple Computer-wares out there. If you'll recall, it was a few weeks back when Sotheby's announced it would auction off an Apple 1 motherboard, ...

Microsoft Said to Hold Talks on Buying Yammer Social Site
Bloomberg
Gerard Til/Redux Yammer is a social network designed for business collaboration, for use on multiple platforms. (Corrects spelling of Yammer spokeswoman's name in fifth paragraph of story that ran June 14.) Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) is in discussions to ...

Bloomberg

Mobile-Phone Radiation Safety to Be Reviewed by US FCC
Businessweek
By Todd Shields on June 15, 2012 The US Federal Communications Commission plans to ask whether its standards protect people from mobile-phone radiation, a question it hasn't posed in 15 years, as people use smartphones for longer, more frequent calls.

Apple interested in swappable iPhone camera lenses
Apple Insider
By Neil Hughes A new concept for an improved iPhone camera system would allow users to reconfigure or even replace the lens for optimal pictures. The details of Apple's proposed invention were revealed in a new patent filing discovered by AppleInsider ...

TV Maker VIZIO Launches New Laptop and Desktop PCs
GamerLive.TV
VIZIO has launched its new line of personal computers designed to work hard and play hard. By combining its entertainment know-how with the unmatched power of the latest Intel Core processors, VIZIO intends to set a new standard for the Windows ...

Ethiopia clamps down on Skype and other internet use on Tor
BBC News
By Katia Moskvitch Technology reporter, BBC News Campaigners have warned of fresh efforts by the Ethiopian government to clamp down on certain types of internet use in the country. Reporters Without Borders says that the authorities have installed a ...

BBC News

Motorcycle helmet laws reduce deaths
Carmi Times
By Anonymous Fewer motorcyclists die in states that require helmets, and the costs to society are lower too, according to a new federal study released Thursday. About five times as many no-helmet biker deaths occur in states with less restrictive laws,...

Internet's domain name land grab more than just “fools gold”
Toronto Star
Last week, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the California-based non-profit corporation charged with the principal responsibility for maintaining the Internet's domain name system, revealed that it has received nearly...

Facebook loses its chief technology officer
TechRadar UK
By Chris Smith June 17th 2012 Facebook CTO Bret Taylor has announced he will be leaving the social network this summer to start his own company. The new company, details of which remain unknown, will be founded with Taylor's pal Kevin Gibbs, ...

TechRadar UK

Apple To Finally Fight Google ('s Motorola)
RedOrbit
Apple will face off against Google's Motorola next week in the ongoing war between Android and iOS. Though the outcome of this decision seemed shaky when lawyers for the 2 companies left pretrial meetings last week, US Circuit Judge Richard Posner ...

RedOrbit

iOS 6 Includes Gay And Lesbian Couple Emoji
TechCrunch
Now this is nice: Apple has updated their Emoji collection to reflect reality. They've added a lesbian and homosexual couple to the usual collection of goofy faces, monkeys, and weird skulls. The new Emoji will appear in iOS 6 but to access the ...

Apple iPad to gain market share in 2012 at expense of Android
Apple Insider
By Mikey Campbell Market research firm IDC on Thursday released an updated worldwide tablet sales forecast and expects Apple to gain more ground over Android devices in 2012 amid an overall surge for the sector. According to the latest IDC Worldwide ...

Samsung, Apple get most smartphone profits: survey
AFP
NEW YORK — Samsung and Apple have captured more than half the global market for smartphones and over 90 percent of its profits, a research firm said Friday. ABI Research said global smartphone shipments grew 41 percent year-over-year to 144.6 million ...

AFP

Facebook to pay $10 million to settle suit
Reuters
By Dan Levine and Sarah McBride | SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc has agreed to pay $10 million to charity to settle a lawsuit that accused the site of violating users' rights to control the use of their own names, photographs and likenesses, ...

Take A Look At Beautiful New Rendered Pictures Of The iPhone 5
Apple Bitch (blog)
Based on the all the recent rumors and leaked parts apparently destined for the iPhone 5, one could fairly successfully assemble a reasonable approximation of what the device will look like. As such, a new set of detailed renders of what the next ...

Apple Bitch (blog)

Chicago technology venture capital scorecard for 2011
Chicago Tribune
When technology startups are ready to turbocharge their growth, whether that means quickly expanding into new markets or hiring additional talent, they often ...

CIOs Play a Big Role in Technology Startups
The American Dream is alive and well among tech startups. There's no shortage of entrepreneurs who believe that all it takes to become the next Facebook is a billion-dollar idea and the determination to see it through. Of course, taking a ...
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Motorola Tablet Goof: 4 Security Lessons For Users

Motorola Tablet Goof: 4 Security Lessons For Users
InformationWeek
Motorola accidentally shipped 100 refurbished tablets with old customer data still intact. Here's what you can do to ensure your information isn't sold by mistake. By Eric Zeman InformationWeek Motorola alerted customers on Friday that it shipped about ... 

Singapore's Artivision says in tie-up with Intel
Reuters
| SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Artivision Technologies Ltd, a Singapore firm that specializes in online video advertising, said on Sunday its technology may be incorporated into a software kit being developed by Intel Corp. Under a memorandum of understanding ...

German Apple Sales Resume as Court Suspends Injunction
ITProPortal
A German court has suspended a decision whereby Apple was not allowed to sell 3G enabled iOS devices thus allowing the fruity company to resume sale of its devices. Apple was surrounded in a controversy with Motorola Mobility which apparently placed ...

THQ partners with Innovative Leisure for digital and mobile
Joystiq
by Jordan Mallory on Feb 4th 2012 11:30AM You gotta hand it to THQ, despite posting a $56 million loss last quarter, the publisher is still willing to take a risk on bringing a fresh-faced developer into the fold. Of course, when you take into account ...

Micron appoints Durcan CEO after Appleton's death
Reuters
| SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Memory chipmaker Micron Technology's board appointed company veteran Mark Durcan as chief executive a day after longtime Chairman and CEO Steve Appleton was killed in a plane crash. Hours after Appleton's death on Friday ...

For Facebook 'Hacker Way' is way of life
USA TODAY
By Barbara Ortutay, AP A street sign for "Hacker Way" stands at the Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. A street sign for "Hacker Way" stands at the Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. For most people, that word means something ...

USA TODAY

MIT Researchers Find a Way To Make Solar Panels from Grass Clippings
DeathRattleSports.com
What if generating solar energy at home required little more than mixing some grass clippings with inexpensive chemicals? That's exactly what MIT researcher Andreas Mershin has found to be the case. The scientist says creating a solar cell could be as ...

Soul Calibre V (16+)
Mirror.co.uk
by Mike Bell, Sunday Mirror 5/02/2012 Despite the original team disbanding and reforming over the course of its development, Soul Calibur V is still the beat-'em-up series' best instalment in a long time. The game has received a much-needed overhaul.

Mirror.co.uk

Social network 'code' words kids use that parents should know
DigitalJournal.com
By Leigh Goessl By Leigh Goessl. San Bruno - In the vast number of places kids can fall into trouble on the web, parents often find it challenging to monitor what their children are doing in cyberspace. This is particularly true as the web increasingly ...

DigitalJournal.com

Avid Launches Semi-Professional Video Editing App For The iPad
Cult of Mac
By Alex Heath (9:06 am, Feb 04) Avid has been making professional video editing software for decades, and with the introduction of the “pro-sumer” Final Cut Pro X, many industry leaders have turned back to Avid for their editing needs.

The $1.6 Billion Woman, Staying on Message
New York Times
SAN FRANCISCO SEVENTY-TWO hours before Facebook's big moment, Sheryl K. Sandberg was half a world away, hobnobbing with the likes of Bono and the Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Yes, Ms. Sandberg is Mark Zuckerberg's No. 2. And, yes, if all goes well, ...

New York Times

Gadgets can ease winter chill
USA TODAY
By Alice Truong, Special for USA TODAY Baby, it's cold outside. Having survived Chicago winters, I always dread this time of year, which prompts the couch potato in me to stay in. But as with most anything, technology makes it easier to cope with the...

USA TODAY

For Facebook 'Hacker Way' is way of life
Wall Street Journal
AP For most people, that word means something malicious — shady criminals who listen in on private voicemails, or anonymous villains who cripple websites and break into email accounts. For Facebook, though, "hacker" means something different.

Apple Amends iBooks Author EULA, Doesn't Claim to Own Content
PC Magazine
By Damon Poeter Someone in Cupertino appears to have noticed the outcry over the user agreement for Apple's iBooks Author software. The company has updated its iBooks End-User License Agreement (EULA) to clarify that Apple is not laying claim to ...

Where now for Microsoft and Windows Phone?
Forbes
Apple have had a historic quarter, Android devices have the lions share of the market, so where now for Windows Phone? Let's be honest here, Microsoft will not go gently into the good night of the smartphone wars. Windows Phone is going to get a lot of ...

Supercross 'storm' brings uncertainty
Pasadena Star-News
By Keith Lair, Staff Writer That must mean that this year's season must be the storm of the century. In four races, there have been four different winners, the first time that has happened since 1976, the only other time it has happened in the series.

Google's Android Market 'Bouncer' - Does it offer enough protection?
ZDNet (blog)
By Adrian Kingsley-Hughes | February 4, 2012, 4:12am PST On Thursday Google revealed a new security feature for the Android Market store that's designed to protect Android users from malware. But does the service go far enough?

ZDNet (blog)

Apple Pulls Ripoff Apps From its Walled Garden
PCWorld (blog)
By Christina DesMarais, PCWorld Feb 4, 2012 7:39 AM The consumer electronics powerhouse has been pulling several fake apps from its store as plagiarized apps have been a hot topic in recent days. Here are some quick tips to help you protect yourself ...

Micron Chief Dies in a Plane Crash
ITProPortal
Technology Pioneer Micron lamented the demise of its CEO Mr Appleton who passed away in a fatal plane accident near an Idaho runway. The experimental plane was being steered by the CEO himself when it banked steeply, stalled and crashed.

ITProPortal

Kindle Fire Tablet Rides Holiday Momentum Into 2012
eWeek
Amazon's Kindle Fire remains a popular Android tablet in early 2012, according to ChangeWave Research. The firm said 54 percent of Fire owners said they were "very satisfied" with the slate. Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) may have missed its analyst estimates ...

Seeing visions: Science's annual visual challenge – in pictures
The Guardian
Science magazine has announced the winners of its 2011 International Science & Engineering Visual Challenge. This is our pick of the most eye-catching and innovative entries.

Microsoft's Search Head: Google 'Realized We Were Ahead And They Overextended ...
Business Insider
Microsoft thinks it's done a pretty good job with social search so far, according to Bing Search director Stefan Weitz — so much so that it prompted Google to start its own social search program called Search Plus Your World. But there's been a little ...

Business Insider

UK: Hacked phone call with FBI poses no risk
USA TODAY
LONDON (AP) – Trading jokes and swapping leads, investigators from the FBI and Scotland Yard spent the conference call strategizing about how to bring down the hacking collective known as Anonymous, responsible for a string of embarrassing attacks ...

USA TODAY

Playing New Zynga Game At Facebook
Wall Street Journal
By ROLFE WINKLER Garbage in, garbage out. Sometimes on Wall Street, that's all you have to go on. When Facebook released its financial results Wednesday evening, it disclosed in a footnote that Zynga was responsible for driving 12% of its 2011 revenue.

Wall Street Journal

Report: Smartphone Shipments Overtake PCs in 2011
PC Magazine
By Damon Poeter The era of smartphones has officially arrived. More were shipped globally last year than client PCs for the first time ever, according to Canalys. Vendors shipped 488 million smartphones in 2011 as compared with 415 million PCs, ...

Pew study: Facebook users don't follow golden rule
USA TODAY
By Barbara Ortutay, AP NEW YORK – The goody-two-shoes among us say it's better to give than to receive. That's not true for the average Facebook user, though. Facebook visitors pose in front of a sign at the main entrance to the company's new ...

Max Payne 3 New Screenshots
GamerGaia
by Andrew Donnell category News Rockstar has released a number of new screenshots from their forthcoming game Max Payne 3. The game which is due out May 15th on PS3 and Xbox (29th for PC users) has been highly anticipated and fans have been looking ...

Betfair Launches New iPad App
Gambling Kingz
by Renee Israel Betfair Plc. has announced the release of its new betting application for iPad users. The iPad App can now be found at the Apple store and, according to the online gambling group, improves the player's game experience significantly.

Gambling Kingz

Australian farmer revolutionizes water-turbine technology ...
By Lieu Thi Pham
MELBOURNE — Farmer and inventor Fred Sundermann has developed a breakthrough water turbine. Portable, cost-effective and efficient, the S-Turbin.
Global Observer | SmartPlanet

ROCK HILL | Technology 'hooks' students at Northwestern High ...
By scetrone@heraldonline.com (Shawn Cetrone)
Armed with smartphones and an array of Web tools, the students at Northwestern High in Rock Hill spent much of last semester using technology to come up with solutions for hypothetical and real-life situations.
The Herald -- Featured Stories

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Japan's technology giants faced down disaster – but the new enemy ...
Industrial recovery from the tsunami has been remarkable, but the competition from Korea's burgeoning electronics industry is becoming relentless.
ForexLive

The Science and Technology of Gaming Continues to Evolve » Blog ...
An interesting questions regarding gaming technology financial reporting and auditing was offered by Steffani Ruuska, the moderator of the second session: “Do you, as business leaders and executives, make sure that your books are 100% ...
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'Top Tools For Tight Times' – Jim Luther's Assistive Technology ...
By Paul Hamilton
Anyone may benefit from the use of assistive technology, whether or not he or she has a diagnosed “disability”. For example, someone may just not be a very good reader. Maybe he reads slowly or struggles to retain what is read. In fact, this ...
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