New Mac Pro, spec-bumped MacBook Pro specs; New AirPort Express

New Mac Pro, spec-bumped MacBook Pro specs; New AirPort Express, USB ...
Ars Technica
We were first to report that four new Mac lines are incoming for WWDC, and now we have received some more detailed information about two of the new updates. First, the Mac Pro. A new Mac Pro will launch at WWDC, marking the pro desktop's first update ...

WWDC 2012: Apple online store is down, updates likely
Washington Post
The Apple online store is down for updates, which always indicates that new products are on the way. Well, almost always. It certainly would make sense, as Apple is expected to make at least a couple of big announcements Monday at its Worldwide ...

Full 100-minute video of Apple CEO Tim Cook at D10 now available
Apple Insider
By AppleInsider Staff Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook's full interview at this year's D10 conference is now available to stream online in its entirety. The video was posted on Monday by All Things D, which hosted the event in Southern California.

Silicon Valley Bank targets UK technology sector
BBC News
Chancellor George Osborne said the move proves "the UK is fast becoming thetechnology centre of Europe". The bank will target the technology, life science, private equity and venture capital sectors. Tech companies Shazam and The Foundry are already ...

Veteran Space Company Orbital Sciences Ready for ISS
Wired News
By Jason Paur With a few decades of space launch experience already under its belt, the Orbital Sciences Corporation is next up to demonstrate cargo delivery capabilities to the International Space Station. With so much attention focused on SpaceX's ...

Flame Malware Code Traced To Stuxnet
InformationWeek
Researchers find a link between the two different pieces of malware, suggesting that the US government may be behind both. By Mathew J. Schwartz InformationWeek Did the US government commission the recently discovered Flame malware?

Author Neal Stephenson Solicits Funds for Sword-Fighting Game
PC Magazine
By Chloe Albanesius Author Neal Stephenson is taking a brief break from penning novels in order to help fund a sword-based video game known as Clang. Stephenson this week set up a Kickstarter fund that is calling for $500000 for the development of a ...

Penguins' explicit sex acts shocked polar explorer
Fox News
Hidden for nearly 100 years for being too "graphic," a report of "hooligan" behaviors, including sexual coercion, by Adelie penguins observed during Captain Scott's 1910 polar expedition have been uncovered and interpreted.

'Zombie bullets' fly off US shelves after wave of undead attacks
Register
By Lewis Page • Get more from this author Special ammunition optimised for fighting zombies is selling like hot cakes in the USA, according to reports, following sensational media coverage of incidents involving flesh-eating and similar undead-esque ...

Apple expected to unveil applications to take on Google
Reuters
By Poornima Gupta | SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - When Apple Inc kicks off its annual conference for software developers on Monday, all the power players in the Apple universe will be on hand, save the one that is in many ways driving the agenda: Google ...

Mellanox wins Intel contract, shares hit life high
Reuters
(Reuters) - Mellanox Technologies Ltd won a contract to supply chip equipment to Intel Corp for use in servers, sending shares of the Israel-based company to a lifetime high. The contract is for Mellanox's ConnectX-3 FDR InfiniBand adapter silicon.

Microsoft: the cloud is your future, and ours
BetaNews
By Ed Oswald Microsoft is doing what it can to promote cloud computing, focusing on the platform at the TechEd annual developer conference in Orlando, Fla. this week. In the event's opening keynote, Server and Tools chief Satya Nadella told a sold-out ...

BetaNews

Android Reaches 900000 Daily Activations
InformationWeek
Google's Android platform has reached a new adoption milestone, says chief architect Andy Rubin. How long before it reaches 1 million? Android's chief architect, Andy Rubin, took to Twitter over the weekend to share the news that Google's mobile...

China To Launch Manned Docking Mission Later This Month
Forbes
The Chinese space agency has announced that it will be launching a manned docking mission with Tiangong-1, the country's orbiting space lab and its stepping stone towards building a complete space station. The Shenzhou-9 mission will launch sometime in ...

Forbes

After Google Acquisition, Meebo Shutting Down July 11
PC Magazine
By Angela Moscaritolo A week after being acquired by Google, social platform Meebo announced it is closing up shop next month. Meebo.com will be shutting down on July 11, the company said in a note on its website. On that day, Meebo Messenger, ...

Lenovo Unveils 'Anytime, Anywhere' Mobile Broadband
PC Magazine
By Stephanie Mlot PC vendor Lenovo today announced its new no-contract mobile broadband service, available to owners of select ThinkPad laptops. The cloud-based service, dubbed Lenovo Mobile Access, provides "pre-connected, always-on, ...

Apple to narrow OS X Mountain Lion's release date, unveil price today
Computerworld
By Gregg Keizer Computerworld - Although speculation that Apple would wrap up its new Mountain Lion Mac operating system early has flopped, later today the company will likely narrow the launch date to a specific month this summer.

Pachter: Wii U price must not exceed $300
Computerandvideogames.com
By Rob Crossley for CVG UK Nintendo must sell its next generation games console for less than $300 (£190) per unit in order for it to stand a chance at retail, a Wedbush Morgan analyst has claimed. Wedbush Morgan games analyst Michael Pachter Games ...

LinkedIn hacked: How to protect yourself online
CBS News
(MoneyWatch) COMMENTARY Last week, LinkedIn (LNKD) (along with unrelated sites like eHarmony and Last.fm) suffered a massive data breach when millions of user accounts and passwords were leaked and posted to hacker sites. Is there a way to know if you ...

CBS News

Intel Strikes Back at Computex
PC Magazine
By Michael J. Miller This year's Computex show was clearly dominated by "Wintel," specifically Microsoft Windows 8 and Intel's latest Core microprocessors. A while back, that would not have been surprising. After all, machines based on Windows and x86 ...

Fair skies greet bikers for start of NH bike week
CBS News
LACONIA, NH — Laconia Motorcycle Week is getting sunny skies for a second straight day to kick off the first weekend of the annual event that draws hundreds of thousands of bikers to New Hampshire's lakes region. The second day of the 89th annual biker ...

Arbitron/CIMM study demonstrates broadening scope of PPM measurement
Radio-Info.com
Arbitron and the Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement (CIMM) have released a study that utilizes the Portable People Meter to reveal TV viewers' usage of PCs and mobile devices as “second and third screens” to access video content.

Hackers Attack European League Of Legends Accounts
ZoKnowsGaming
European League Of Legends accounts in certain regions have come under attack from hackers, according to the official League Of Legends website. Riot Games notified users yesterday about the breach, which left email addresses, encrypted account ...

Discuss: Who should history remember — Steve Jobs or Bill Gates?
The Seattle Times
Author Malcolm Gladwell believes in 50 years, history will remember Bill Gates but Steve Jobs will be forgotten, according to The Seattle Times Microsoft Pri0 blog. Bill Gates brought the personal computer to the masses and may or may not be able to...

Apple Combats Google-Microsoft-Facebook Troika in App Race
AdAge.com
Apple is releasing a fresh lineup of computers and software tools to woo consumers and keep developers making applications amid accelerating rivalry from Google, Microsoft and, now, Facebook. Apple will use the Worldwide Developers Conference starting ...

CU-Boulder-led team finds microbes in extreme environment on South American ...
CU Boulder News & Events
A team led by the University of Colorado Boulder looking for organisms that eke out a living in some of the most inhospitable soils on Earth has found a hardy few. A new DNA analysis of rocky soils in the Martian-like landscape on some volcanoes in ...

Neustar to provide registry services for up to 358 new gTLDs
Domain Name News
by Mike Cohen in Categories: new gTLDs Neustar Inc (NYSE: NSR) has announced that it has been selected as the registry services provider for 358 applicants for new generic Top-Level domains (gTLDs). Additionally, Neustar has been selected by the City ...

Domain Name News

25% of smartphone owners also have a tablet
IntoMobile
After a few false starts, the tablet computer market is fully taking off. The surge is led by Apple's iPad tablet, which debuted in 2010 and single-handedly comprises a significant majority of the tablets found in consumer households today.

Before deep space, NASA heads deep under water
Tehran Times
NASA may have retired its shuttles, but it has its sights on sending astronauts deeper into space than ever before. These voyages are years away, but on Monday, astronauts were heading underwater to take part in a simulation that will help them figure ...

Technology shrinks need for office space
Vancouver Sun
Technology, the urge to go green, telecommuting and a generation of workers who grew up with smart-phones in their hands and computers in their laps are revamping the work culture. Companies are knocking down walls, even dismantling cubicles to create ...

 

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WWDC 2012: What to expect

WWDC 2012: What to expect
Computerworld
By Michael deAgonia Computerworld - On Monday, Apple CEO Tim Cook will kick off Apple's World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco. At its most basic, WWDC gives developers a rare chance to speak directly with Apple engineers about their ...

Analysis: Stakes high as "Wintel" puts all its chips on Windows 8
Reuters
By Lee Chyen Yee and Clare Jim | TAIPEI (Reuters) - The world of Wintel - Microsoft, Intel and the Taiwan-based companies that build the computers their products power and run on - is taking a huge collective bet on Windows 8.

League of Legends Databases Hacked, But Payment Info Safe
PC Magazine
By David Murphy Hackers have attacked the servers of Riot Games, makers of the popular free-to-play League of Legends title game forces players (and their NPC armies) to square off in corridor-based killing fields. Here's the good news: "No payment or ...

4 services to keep your passwords safe
USA TODAY
LinkedIn, eHarmony and Last.fm. Within the last week, these three companies reported password leaks affecting millions of users — about 6 million from LinkedIn, 1.5 million from eHarmony and an unspecified number from Last.fm. Even the savviest of tech ...

USA TODAY

No elegant technical fixes for distracted driving
The Seattle Times
By PETER SVENSSON AP Technology Writer Dialing or texting on a phone is a proven distraction when you're behind the wheel. And as "smart" as today's phones are, they can't compensate for human folly. Phone makers and software developers are making a ...

'Batman: Arkham City' Looks Worse On Wii U Than PS3
Forbes
Here's a comparison shot of Batman: Arkham City on the upcoming Wii U (right) and almost-obsolete PS3 (left.) See the full size image here. But even in the smaller version it's not hard to see how much better the PS3 version looks than the Wii U ...

Forbes

Linux on Microsoft Azure Platform-as-a-Service: Big Whoop
TechCrunch
As much fun as it is to view the world in a “Linux versus Microsoft” way, the reality is that a technology monoculture is less useful than a heterogenous one. Even Microsoft knows this: they've made a variety of tepid attempts to support integration ...

Academy of Sciences announce discovery of microbes capable of life on Mars
The Capitol Column
A new DNA analysis of the Martian-like landscape on top of some South American volcanoes has found communities of bacteria, fungi, and archaea. These organisms are not just capable of surviving there, but also deriving their energy in ways not ...

The Capitol Column

A texting 'epidemic'
Albany Times Union
AP Dylan Young, 18, a senior at North Arlington High, stands Wednesday, June 6, 2012, near the site where he was in a fender bender caused by being distracted while texting and driving, in North Arlington, NJ More than half of high school seniors say ...

iPhone soon to be available on prepaid Cricket network
StandardNet
By Leslie Meredith Beginning June 22, cellphone provider Cricket Wireless will sell the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S, making it the first no-contract wireless provider to do so. Cricket has offered partial subsidies on the phones -- about $150 off what Apple ...

Researchers Shed Light On Cockroaches' Vanishing Act
KGTV San Diego
SAN DIEGO -- You've seen it and begrudgingly admired it: the speed and swiftness with which a cockroach vanishes as you enter a room. Now, researchers at UC Berkeley have figured out how these indomitable and repugnant little critters disappear so ...

Samsung Galaxy S3 Woes: Apple Patent War, No 50GB Dropbox Promo
Gamenguide
Samsung will look to deal with ongoing battles while its next-gen smartphone the Galaxy S3 awaits its US market debut. Apple's patent war with Samsung will look to halt Galaxy S3 sales in the US along with other HTC Android devices.

Gamenguide

Set your iPhone free: Take a closer look at "jailbreaking" your phone
CultureMap Austin
By Austin Sanders Apple's iOS software is designed very specifically, with reliability, ease of use and overall performance at the forefront of design. This is all well and good for most users, but it can lead to glaring absences of functionality.

Neal Stephenson kickstarts realistic swordfighting game
Boing Boing
By Cory Doctorow at 9:02 am Sunday, Jun 10 Neal Stephenson and the good folks at the Subutai Corporation are looking to raise $500000 on Kickstarter to fund CLANG, a rich, detailed and faithful swordfighting game. I've heard tell of the Stephenson ...

Maps, better photo-sharing likely from Apple
Tucson Citizen
by Jefferson Graham on Jun. 10, 2012, under USA TODAY News Advances in mapping and photo sharing for mobile devices are expected to take center stage as Apple kicks off a big week for product announcements in San Francisco on Monday.

Mars rover, laboratories on display for public at JPL this weekend
Pasadena Star-News
By JD Velasco, SGVN From left, Rebecca Vasquez, 5, and her brother Joseph, 9, and Ryan Moore, 7, check out an MISR image in 3D during Jet Propulsion Laboratory's annual open house Saturday June 9, 2012. The open house continues Sunday from 9 to 4.

IE10's 'Do-Not-Track' Default Dies Quick Death
Wired News
By Ryan Singel The latest proposed draft of the Do Not Track specification published Wednesday requires that users must choose to turn on the anti-behavioral tracking feature in their browsers and software. That means that Microsoft IE 10, ...

Wired News

Revised 'Campus 2′ Documents Shed More Light On Apple's New Spaceship Building
TechCrunch
Here's a bit of Friday eye-candy for you. It was almost one year ago to the day that Steve Jobs appeared in front of the Cupertino City Council, pitching his vision of a visually striking, spaceship-esque Apple campus that would accomodate 12000 ...

TechCrunch

Swiss court allows Google Street View
Economic Times
Switzerland's highest court Friday upheld Google's basic right to document residential street fronts with its Street View technology, but imposed some limitations on the kinds of images the company can take. The ruling leaves the service legally intact ...

VIDEO: Venus Transit 2012 from Super Hi-Def NASA Camera
Patch.com
By Keith Brown If you missed the Venus Transit last week — or just want a better view of it — check out this video, taken by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. The observatory's main purpose is to examine the sun's atmosphere and the video captures ...

Opinion: Microsoft should be backing Android. Here's why
Digitaltrends.com
Microsoft's failing Windows Phone strategy proves that sometimes, the best platform is the one you can make money from, even if it isn't yours. Here's why hopping into bed with a competitor might have been Microsoft's best move for mobile.

Digitaltrends.com

IPv6: Five Things You Should Know
PCWorld
By Tony Bradley, PCWorld Today is the day IPv6 finally goes live. For as long as there has been an Internet IPv4 has been synonymous with IP and nobody really stopped to think about which version of the protocol it was. But, IPv4 has outlived its ...



Hacking group Anonymous takes on India internet 'censorship'
BBC News
By Rajini Vaidyanathan BBC News, Mumbai Members of the internet hacking group Anonymous have been staging protests across 16 cities in India, against what they say is internet censorship in the country. Mumbai's Azad Maidan sports ground is often ...

BBC News

China Plans Its First Manned Space Docking
New York Times
HONG KONG — China's space agency said on Saturday that it will launch astronauts later in June to perform the country's first manned space docking, the latest step in the country's ambitious plan for space exploration. The Shenzhou 9 spacecraft will ...



Dungey makes it two in a row
Side x Side News
by Jon Crowley on 10/06/12 at 6:07 am Factory teammates Ken Roczen of Germany and French rider Marvin Musquin also had a strong day out with Roczen on the podium in third and Musquin in overall fifth. Dungey got off to a great start in moto one and was ...

Side x Side News

Facebook Ads Don't Work? Not So Fast
PC Magazine
By Damon Poeter ComScore says Facebook ads really do work and it has the numbers to prove it. The research firm on Thursday teased a new report due out next week that presents "new findings about the effectiveness of paid and earned media exposure on ...

E3 2012: Game makers focus on second screens
USA TODAY
LOS ANGELES – If the gaming industry agreed on one idea at this week's Electronic Entertainment Expo, it's that playing video games on just one screen is no longer enough. The top three publishers — Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony — each focused on new ...

USA TODAY

Tyrannosaur is truly Mongolian, experts declare
Fox News
A dinosaur skeleton auctioned in May had been taken out of Mongolia, most likely within the past 10 years, American and Mongolian paleontologists have concluded, which would mean the specimen was removed illegally. "We have pulled a lot of them out of ...

Beneath Arctic ice, scientists find an ecosystem never imagined (+video)
Christian Science Monitor
Scientists report finding a massive bloom of phytoplankton hidden under Arctic ice, suggesting that, as the ice thins and melts, the region is becoming vastly more biologically productive. By Pete Spotts, Staff writer / June 7, 2012 The moon rises over ...

Canadian tech town feels BlackBerry's decline
Boston.com
RIM is Canada's most valuable technology company, an international icon so prestigious that founder Mike Lazaridis and its other driving force, Jim Balsillie, are on an official government list of national heroes, alongside the likes of Alexander ...

Boston.com

Tech Wars: Can Apple stand up to the Google blitz?
Firstpost
Google has invested huge sums in its mapping technology over the years, and about half of its map traffic now comes from iPhones and iPads. Among other things, the traffic from those devices reveals valuable location data that helps improve the mapping...

Firstpost

The Flack: New York Tech Scene Heats Up
By Peter Himler
The Flack. This weblog attempts to shine a brighter light on the subtle role public relations plays in politics, popular culture, journalism, business/finance, entertainment, technology, social media, consumer marketing and sports.
The Flack

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