Why Google Launched Shopping Express

Google Launched Shopping Express To Generate New Revenues From Product Search - Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) | Seeking Alpha: "Since the mid-1990s Amazon has led the e-commerce market while competing with all major retail stores. Google collaborated with the largest retailers to launch Google Shopping Express, the same day delivery service by Google. Google is not interested in becoming an online retailer but is interested in offering product search ads. Collaboration with the largest retailers is Google’s advance over Amazon that can substantial market share and product ads sales later on...." (read more at link above)

Google Set To Publish Earnings This Week | Seeking Alpha: "Google earns most of its money from advertising, but has focused on other operations as well, including Google Glass, Android and Youtube.com, while it experiments with driverless cars, robotics and space travel. The company is scheduled to release its earnings on Thursday, the 17th of July after the market close. Consensus estimates for earnings stand at $6.26 per share, with analyst estimates ranging from lows of $5.73 to $6.65 per share. In comparison, Google posted earnings of $4.78 per share last year. Reported revenues are seen at $15.62 billion, which would result in sales growth of 10.7%.... "

The perennial question -- Yahoo's true valuation?
Yahoo!'s Core Business Still Worth Less Than Nothing As Alibaba Revalues Before IPO
Forbes
There's still something of a puzzle about the valuation being applied to Yahoo! by the market. For even as Alibaba firms up its own internal ...

Should I switch back to Windows 7? | The Tech Guy: "... Leo says that when all is said and done, even with improvements, Windows 8 has been a flop. They do have better file copy and built in windows antivirus. And under the hood, it is better. But the interface is what has been a collosal failure. And Leo says it's really two operating systems mushed together - a touch screen interface and Windows 7. It really doesn't know what it wants to be. And that's caused confusion... "

Amazon, a Friendly Giant as Long as It's Fed
New York Times

He is edited by Amazon editors and promoted by Amazon publicists to ... just Amazon but Google, Apple and Facebook — companies with bottomless ...

China Announces New Subsidies to Encourage Officials to Buy Energy-Efficient ...
Wall Street Journal
SHANGHAI—China announced new subsidies and other inducements Sunday to get government officials and agencies to buy energy-efficient vehicles in a renewed boost for a sector Beijing has had high hopes for. Under the new rules, which will be phased ...

Orbital Sciences Cygnus spacecraft carries supplies and valuable experiments ...
Daily Digest
An Antares rocket successfully launched from Virginia today carrying a Cygnus spacecraft and 3,000 pounds of supplies and experimental technology to the crew of the International Space Station....

Factory wipe on Android won't delete all your nude pics
The Next Digit
Technology has taken big leaps in the current scenario and apparently everything is possible with it. For example, the nude selfies that had been deleted by a bunch of users have been retrieved by the researchers. These pictures have been retrieved from the ...

LG's new 18-inch screen bends like paper
Stuff.co.nz
ROLL WITH IT: An LG employee demonstrates the flexibility of its new 18-inch display screen. LG Display has developed an 18-inch (45cm) flexible display that can be rolled into the shape of a thin cylinder, a step toward making a large display for flexible TVs ...

Apple rejects China's security fears over iPhone location function
The Australian
US technology giant Apple has denied Chinese claims the iPhone threatens national security through its ability to track and time-stamp a user's location. The frequent locations function, which can be switched on or off by users, is available on iOS 7, the ...

Chimpanzee intelligence passed down through parents genes
Delhi Daily News
A new study has suggested that like humans, chimpanzees also inherit a good amount of intelligence from their parents. "Genes matter. We have what we would call a smart chimp, and chimps we?d call not so smart. We were able to explain a lot of that ...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella needs an editor
Quartz
Satya Nadella’s latest message to the troops—and to the world—is disquieting. It lacks focus, specifics, and, if not soon sharpened, his words will worry employees, developers, customers, and even shareholders....

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Windows 7 growth almost double that of Windows 8.x

In Redmond they must be wondering WTF! -- Windows 7 has 50.06 percent market share, Windows 8.x only 12.71 percent --

Normal service is resumed as Windows 7's growth once again comfortably outpaces Windows 8.x: "... So the question is, where are XP users moving to? I think you probably know the answer to that by now. Windows 8 continued to lose market share, going from 6.36 percent in April to 6.29 percent in May for a drop of 0.07 percent. Windows 8.1 grew share, going from 5.88 percent to 6.35 percent, for an increase of 0.47 percent. You don’t need a calculator to work out that in total Windows 8.x share grew by 0.4 percent. The previous month it grew by 0.9 percent, which was its biggest market share gain since December 2013. It might be hard to get hold of Windows 7 these days, but that hasn’t stopped the OS packing on growth. It went from 49.27 percent in April to 50.06 percent in May -- finally breaking through the 50 percent barrier -- for an increase of 0.79 percent, nearly double that of Windows 8.x...."

Charging a Smartphone, No Wires Required | MIT Technology Review: ".... Energous is the latest in a long line of companies fixated on the idea that life would be easier if we didn’t have so many wires and gadgets to plug in. Yet many of the wireless charging products that have come to market have relied on special charging mats that juice up devices at a short distance, and they’re still not that popular with consumers. “There’s not very many people that want to take their phone and go leave it somewhere while it charges,” Energous CEO Stephen Rizzone argues. “If they’re going to leave it somewhere while it charges, they’re going to plug it into a wall.”..."

How Advanced Socialbots Have Infiltrated Twitter | MIT Technology Review: "....Freitas and co also monitored the Klout score of each of their social bots to see how they fared. (Klout is an online service that measures the influence of Twitter accounts, giving them a score between 0 and 100). “We find that the socialbots achieved Klout scores of the same order of (or, at times, even higher than) several well-known academicians and social network researchers,” they say...."

What's New And Different About Apple's New Swift Programming Language? "....There are performance improvements, too, but White says the sandbox feature--"where you can run stuff in Playgrounds to be able to change code on the fly without recompiling"--is an even bigger boon. "The overall syntax is very JavaScripty in a way--they're moving toward not having hard type variables," White says. He calls it a mishmash of a scripting language, with all the power of a compiled language. "It's still native, it still compiles, but it's a style of programming that a lot of people--especially backend developers--are used to...."

Secret Global Strike Kills 2 Malicious Web Viruses - NYTimes.com: "Federal agents over the weekend secretly seized control of two computer networks that hackers used to steal millions of dollars from unsuspecting victims. In doing so, the Justice Department disrupted the circulation of two of the world’s most pernicious viruses and turned a 30-year-old Russian computer hacker into a most-wanted fugitive. The strike, coordinated with the European authorities, was aimed at malware called GameOver Zeus, which is known to steal bank information and send it to overseas hackers, and CryptoLocker, which burrows into computers and encrypts personal data. The hackers then demand a ransom to unlock the files... Together, the Justice Department estimates, the two malicious programs have infected between 500,000 and a million computers and cost people more than $100 million in direct and indirect losses. Authorities had been investigating the two viruses separately, but along the way, they realized that GameOver Zeus was the main vehicle by which CryptoLocker was spread, the Justice Department said...."

Apple counters Microsoft's convergence strategy with Continuity
Computerworld
Computerworld - Apple yesterday unveiled its answer to Microsoft's vision of the future, where multiple devices collapse into one, where compromises ...

Google testing super-secure email
CNNMoney
End-to-End encryption will soon be available Google Chrome, and it's the best ... Googleis working on the ultimate security and privacy feature.

Facebook to Small Businesses: Buy More Ads
TIME
There will be no summer vacation for Facebook — the company is spending the season trying to convince small businesses to buy more ads on the ...

Apple Dumps Google Search For Microsoft's Bing
InformationWeek
Facebook · Twitter · LinkedIn · Google+ · RSS ... Apple has dealt Google another blow by announcing a new default Web search provider ... Last year, the company struck a deal with Microsoft to name Bing as the default ... to its list of default search engines, which also include Google, Yahoo, and Bing.

Apple Needs More Than Dr. Dre to Cure Chronic P/E Discount
Bloomberg
As the headlines coming out of Apple's developers' conference show, the competition between Apple and Google is as fierce as ever in the ...

Amazon and Hachette: The dispute in 13 easy steps
Los Angeles Times
An unusually public battle is being waged between Amazon and one of ... booksellers nationwide; other retailers include Apple, Google and Kobo.

Apple Allows Virtual Currencies in Apps, Opening Door to Bitcoin
Bloomberg
June 3 (Bloomberg) -- Mary Turner, Chief Executive Officer at Alertme, discusses the importance of Apple's move into the internet of things and the ...

Amazon Opens On-Ramp For VMware Workloads
InformationWeek
Amazon Web Services makes a bid for VMware-based workloads by giving vCenter virtual machine admins a direct link to its EC2 cloud. 6 Models Of ...

Google looks to shed Glass 'geek' with designer chic
Computerworld
"In 2012, we gave you an insider's view of [von Furstenberg's] Spring 2013 runway show [through Google Glass]," the Google Glass team wrote in a ...

How Apple's new iCloud pricing compares to rivals
Los Angeles Times
Apple on Monday announced it will soon offer cheaper iCloud plans. ... Apple's new pricing makes it a more affordable option than Microsoft, Box and Dropbox. The new pricing also makes it more comparable to Google's pricing.

64-bit beta Chrome Web browser arrives for Windows
ZDNet
On June 3, Google announced that it had released a 64-bit version of its Chrome Web browser for Windows 7 and 8. A 64-bit Chrome Web browser has long been available on Linux. 64-bit-Chrome Google's 64-bit Chrome for Windows 7 and 8 is still very ...

Comcast to Encrypt Email For Security
Wall Street Journal
The move came just hours after Google called out email providers, including Comcast, for not using encryption. Google Tuesday publicized for the first time the share of its email traffic with other providers that remains encrypted. According to Google, fewer ...

Great artists steal: The iOS 8 features inspired by Android
Ars Technica
Apple has taken the wraps off iOS 8, its newest mobile operating system, at its WWDC keynote. There were lots of new features added to iOS, but any observer familiar with Android saw quite a few things that seem... familiar. That's because many of Apple's ...

Photo: Hubble captures 'most colorful' view of the universe
San Jose Mercury News
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have assembled a comprehensive picture of the evolving universe -- among the most colorful deep space images ever captured by the 24-year-old telescope, NASA said Tuesday. This handout composite ...

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Microsoft Build, everything you need to know in 7 minute video

Microsoft Build -- everything you need to know in 7 minute video
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Microsoft still has a #Loser in Windows 8 point whatever, however --
Windows 7 Outgains Windows 8 and 8.1 Again, Windows XP Above 27%
Windows 8.1 grows steadily while Windows 8 stays flat, together they only have 11 percent market share. Windows 7 outgained them both by jumping 1.46 percentage points from 47.31 percent to 48.77 percent. Windows XP still has more than 27 percent of market share. How embarrassing for the team in Redmond! (sources: Net Applications and TheNextWeb)

Microsoft's Windows 8 is Less Popular than Discontinued Windows XP - CraveOnline: According to StatCounter, statistics revealed in March indicate that Windows 7 has held on to its spot as the world's most popular operating system by a considerable margin, with the OS installed on 55% of all surveyed systems. Meanwhile, Windows XP is the second most popular OS, despite Microsoft announcing that it will be discontinuing the OS in a matter of days, with 18.6% of all installs.

But Microsoft putting more lipstick on the pig, making Windows free on devices with screens under nine inches -- Microsoft making Windows free on devices with screens under nine inches | The Verge: "Microsoft today said it will make Windows free of charge for phones and tablets with screens smaller than nine inches, a move designed to help boost the company's market share. The announcement comes alongside plans to let developers make universal applications that work on all devices running Microsoft's software — both Windows Phone and Windows. That feature is headed to Windows 8.1 as well as Windows Phone 8.1, which was also detailed on stage and is arriving on mobile devices in the next few months."

How Russians Are Outsmarting Internet Censorship - Global Voices Advocacy: "Mere days after several opposition websites were blocked [Global Voices report] by Russia's mass communications regulatory agency, Roskomnadzor, free speech proponents have created a unique system for circumventing censorship — and imposing counter-attacks. This approach could create problems both for censors and pro-Kremlin websites. Indeed, it seems that Russian Internet activists have taken the adage “the best defense is a good offence” to heart."

Intel outs 64-bit KitKat Android, 'Braswell' chip for Chromebooks - CNET: "Intel revealed a new processor dubbed "Braswell," the QVOD media box, and a 64-bit Android kernel, among other announcements at the second day of a China conference...Kirk Skaugen, senior vice president at Intel, disclosed that a chip code-named Braswell will be the follow-on to a version of the Bay Trail processor now found in low-cost devices like Chromebooks and sub-$500 Windows PCs. Braswell will be a system-on-a-chip, aka SoC, built on the company's next-generation 14-nanometer manufacturing process. SoCs typically squeeze most of a device's core electronics onto one piece of silicon...."

FireChat Could Be the First in a Wave of Mesh Networking Apps | MIT Technology Review: "FireChat makes use of a feature Apple introduced in the latest version of its iOS mobile software, iOS7, called multipeer connectivity. This feature allows phones to connect to one another directly using Bluetooth or Wi-Fi as an alternative to the Internet. If you’re using FireChat, its “nearby” chat room lets you exchange messages with other users within 100 feet without sending data via your cellular provider."

[Rumor] "Android Silver" May Be Google's Attempt To Finally Provide A Premium Android Sale And Support Experience: "To qualify for Android Silver status, a handset must "run the latest version of Android with no or very limited customizations," (emphasis ours) and only 5 such handsets will be selected by Google for Silver status at any given time. These devices will not be sold by Google, however - at least not exclusively - this campaign is aimed squarely at carriers. Carrier stores will have an Android Silver display, showcasing the Android Silver devices available on their network. Google will be entirely in charge of how this experience is crafted, and carrier store staff must be trained and certified to sell Android Silver devices. Carriers will be required to stock a certain number of Android Silver devices and accessories." (read more at link above)

Amazon announces $99 set-top box
Boston Globe
NEW YORK — If Amazon has its way — and it did not become one of the country's most ... Google, and Apple, have three problems: It is too hard to search for content, performance is slow ... “The likely winners are Apple and Amazon, both of which offer entire ecosystems, ... Facebook · Twitter · Google+ ...

Microsoft Is Now An Underdog, Sort Of
Forbes
Microsoft Microsoft kicked off its Build developer conference in San ... Apple and Google battle already for supremacy in various aspects of the next ...

Microsoft's Cortana Raises Important Questions About Sexism and Gender Stereotyping
TIME
Cortana, the name Microsoft's given its response to Apple's Siri virtual assistant, may turn out to be a bolder move for the company than I suspect many ...

Apple Bulls Bet New Products Will Bring Stock Revival
Businessweek
Options (AAPL:US) traders are betting new Apple Inc. products will propel the world's largest company after it rebounded from the worst monthly loss ...

Apple, Facebook, Google Internet Data Centers Getting Greener, Report Finds
Fox Business
Apple Inc, Google Inc and Facebook Inc have made significant progress in adopting renewable energy sources to power their Web services, the ...

Apple to raise app prices by up to 30 per cent
Sydney Morning Herald
A price increase was foreshadowed by Fairfax Media on Tuesday, and has been followed up with the release of updated pricing tables to Apple ...

Does Microsoft Office Turn an iPad Into a Workhorse? Just Barely
Wall Street Journal
How Word, Excel and PowerPoint perform on Apple's market-leading tablet..... Microsoft says Apple restricts developers from pointing users to offers ...

Apple's WWDC set for June 2–6, and you must apply to attend — Tech News and Analysis - Gigaom
By Stacey Higginbotham
Amazon has one of the dirtiest powered clouds around, says Greenpeace. Apr. 2, 2014. While Google, Facebook, Apple and others made major ...
Gigaom

Report: Google Wants to Become a Wireless Carrier - Gizmodo
By Adam Clark Estes
Google bosses are dreaming about adding wireless service to the search giant's menu of offerings. A couple of unnamed sources "who have ...
Gizmodo

Google Has 49 Pct Of Mobile Ad Revs, Just 18 Pct Of Time Spent: "Google makes more than its “fair share” of mobile ad revenue based on time spent with Google mobile properties, whereas Facebook’s revenues are in line with time spent. That’s according to data published by Flurry, relying on ad revenue estimates from eMarketer."
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Chrome gets Faster; Windows 8 a Big #FAIL compared to Windows 7

Google still ascendant, Microsoft fading --

Google: Under-the-hood change helps Web apps on Chrome | Internet & Media - CNET News: "...The newest Chrome beta version, 33, includes a feature called concurrent compilation that means the browser takes a smoother, faster trip to an optimized version of the Web page code it's running. "Concurrent code compilation is another step towards reducing latency in Chrome," said Chrome programmer Yang Guo in a blog post Thursday...." more info: http://blog.chromium.org/2014/02/compiling-in-background-for-smoother.html

After 15 months, Windows 8 has sold 100 million fewer copies than Windows 7 did - The Next Web: "Windows 8 launched on October 26, 2012. In February 2014, Microsoft revealed that it had sold over 200 million Windows 8 licenses in the operating system’s 15 months. No matter how you slice it, that’s not good news for the company."

Not even Steve Jobs could sell live tiles on iOS 8 | ZDNet: "... an [idiot] analyst with JP Morgan believes that Apple needs to radically change iOS, presumably starting with iOS 8, to be more like Windows 8. The new iOS would blend OS X and iOS into a single operating system, much along the lines of Windows 8. The thought of an Apple mobile OS with live tiles shows it is not likely something the folks in Cupertino would do...."

Slow cable Internet service providers lobby to kill local broadband | BGR: " . . . Ars Technica’s Jon Brodkin writes that that ISPs have successfully lobbied legislatures in 20 different states to pass laws that make it more difficult or even impossible for individual municipalities to build their own broadband networks. What’s more, ISPs apparently aren’t satisfied with their current winnings and are pushing for fresh restrictions in two of the three states where Google has just happened to launch its Google Fiber services. . . ."

Flappy Bird game pulled from online stores by creator
BBC News
After more than 50 million downloads mobile phone game Flappy Bird has been removed from online stores by its creator, Dong Nguyen. He said its fame "ruins my simple life". Online security company Cloudflare has warned of "the start of ugly things to ...

Mystery of 'jelly doughnut' Martian rock solved
Houston Chronicle
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Scientists have solved the mystery of the "jelly doughnut" rock on Mars that appeared to come out of nowhere. NASA said Friday that a wheel of the rover Opportunity broke it off a larger rock and then kicked it into the field of view.

Android Contract Raises Questions
EE Times
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Is Google playing fair in its Android agreements? That's what I'd like to hear from the community of smartphone and tablet makers. A leaked copy of a 2011 Android agreement between Google and HTC raises questions about the amount ...

Robots Inspired by Termites Build Complicated Structures
Guardian Liberty Voice
Harvard University engineers have used termites as inspiration for a new breed of robot. These small robots are able to build complicated structures without a centralized plan by following simple rules of organization. Using a process called stigmergy, which ...

Ants With Formic Acid Are Invading North America! (Video)
Guardian Liberty Voice
For a long time, red fire ants have been the raining kings of the ant world because of their large stingers that secrete a deadly dose of venom to their competition. Different types of ants compete and attack each other over resources and nest space. However ...

Rakuten acquires Viber web phone/messaging service for $900 million
The Japan Times
Rakuten Inc., the Japanese online retailer controlled by billionaire Hiroshi Mikitani, is buying the Viber Internet messaging and calling service for $900 million as it moves into social networking. Viber will provide a distribution channel for Rakuten's digital ...

How to Survive the Next Wave of Technology Extinction - NYTimes ...
Technologies have always gone belly up, but tech extinctions may become even more common over the next few years. We're living through an exhilarating and ...

www.nytimes.com/.../how-to-survive-the-next-wave-of-techno...

Lithium Technologies to buy Klout - CNN Money
Customer engagement service Lithium Technologies has agreed to buy Klout, a service that measures users' online influence.
money.cnn.com/2014/02/11/.../lithium-technolgies-klout/

Snowden used simple technology to mine NSA computer networks ...
Snowden was a technology contractor working at an agency outpost in Hawaii that had yet to be equipped with modern monitors which might have sounded the ...
www.theguardian.com/.../edward-snowden-used-simple-techn...

Emerging Nations Embrace Internet, Mobile Technology | Pew ...
In a remarkably short period of time, internet and mobile technology have become a part of everyday life for some in the emerging and developing world.
www.pewglobal.org/.../emerging-nations-embrace-internet-mo...

Bitcoin Trading Technology In Question As Currency Dives After ...
A software glitch, enabling Bitcoin traders to effectively defraud exchanges, has prompted a severe war of words – between the currency organisation and a ...
www.forbes.com/.../bitcoin-trading-technology-in-question-as...

1 in 4 Americans Don't Know Earth Orbits the Sun. Yes, Really. : Discovery News: "the National Science Foundation (NSF) delivered news of a pretty shocking poll result: around one in four Americans (yes, that's 25 percent) are unaware that the Earth orbits the sun. Let’s repeat that: One in four Americans — that represents one quarter of the population — when asked probably the most basic question in science (except, perhaps, “Is the Earth flat?” Hint: No.), got the answer incorrect."
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The Tech Guy: "Windows 7 is the best version of Windows ever"

In other words -- stay away from Windows 8 and Windows 8.1! -- take it from the Tech Guy --

Episode 1039 | The Tech Guy: (Dec 14, 2013) "Leo [Laporte] thinks that Windows 7 is the best version of Windows ever. Microsoft has decided to move everyone to a tablet interface, with big tiles that can be tapped with a finger. Windows 8 is really designed for touch, and is a hybrid between a desktop and tablet interface, which makes it confusing. If Rick can get a Windows 7 system, then he should do that...."

A Microsoft Star Goes to Google - NYTimes.com
By By NICK WINGFIELD
Blaise Agüera y Arcas, a respected engineer and software designer at Microsoft, has left the company to join its rival Google. At Microsoft, he was involved with development projects in a variety of fields, including augmented reality, wearable ...
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Chromecast in 2014: an open SDK, big international plans and maybe even new devices — Tech News and Analysis: "Google landed a bit of a coup with Chromecast this year, launching a device that no one saw coming but that has proven to be very popular. Next year, the company plans to take Chromecast even further by bringing it to a number of international markets, opening up the SDK to make hundreds (if not thousands) of apps Chromecast-compatible, and partnering with consumer electronics companies to bring cast functionality to other devices...."

Amazon Hit By Limited Strikes In Germany
Forbes
Which is clearly why the German workers in some of the Amazonwarehouses in Germany are having their strike action right now. It's not a shutdown ...

New York Times (blog)

Microsoft Losing Mollenkopf Shows Challenge of CEO Hunt
Bloomberg
Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates told shareholders last month the ... J.C. Penney hired Johnson from Apple Inc., where he turned the iPad maker's ...

Bloomberg

Google seeks brand advertising billions with YouTube
USA TODAY
SAN FRANCISCO -- Google is stepping up an effort to win more advertising dollars from brands because the Internet giant sees this area as one of the ...

Microsoft's CEO search and the art of non-denial denials
Computerworld
Computerworld - Observers of Microsoft's three-month-and-counting CEO search have watched the art of the "non-denial denial" at its best -- or worst ...

Google will not answer to British court over UK privacy claim
The Guardian
Google is accused by claimants of secretly monitoring their behaviour by circumventing security settings on the iPhone, iPad and desktop versions of ...

The Guardian

Amazon takes aim at Netflix, other rivals with 'Betas,' 'Alpha House'
Los Angeles Times
Will you go Prime? That's a question of increasing importance for Amazon Studios as its second original television series, "Betas," gets underway...

Apple Supplier Uses Face Recognition to Screen Workers
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Apple Inc. supplier Pegatron Corp. began using facial recognition technology this year to screen applicants for its iPhone plant, illustrating how some ...

Cult of Mac

Apple to IBM Push Buyback to Record Trading as Volume Slows
Bloomberg
Apple, the world's largest company by market value, borrowed $17 billion in its first... Read More. Apple, the world's largest company by market value, ...

Washington Post

Microsoft Surface Pro 2 and Surface 2 Sold Out at Many Locations
Mashable
With just a week and a half to go before Christmas, shoppers are in full-on spending mode, but those looking to score the new Surface 2 or Surface ...

Siliconrepublic.com

Apple, Google And Facebook Have Nothing To Fear From Changes ...
Forbes
Contrary to the dearest wishes of certain campaigners the major tech companies, Apple, Google and Facebook, have nothing to fear from any possible ...

Telegraph.co.uk

China's Space Ambitions
Wall Street Journal
China's first lunar probe touched down over the weekend and deployed an endearingly named rover, Jade Rabbit. Congratulations are in order for this space success, all the more so because it was a peaceful exploration mission. The U.S. and Soviet Union ...

Google investing heavily in advanced robotics, buys renowned military contractor
Apple Insider
Google's latest high-profile acquisition is raising eyebrows worldwide, as the search giant has bought a Boston-based robotics company that specializes in lifelike walking machines built for military projects — creations that have proven extremely popular in ...

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Toshiba says 99 percent of its business sales are Windows 7

#Windows8FAIL --

Toshiba: 99 percent of our business sales are Windows 7 | ZDNet: "The PC maker, which recently revamped its range of business devices, says Windows 8 has barely made a dent in its enterprise customer base, despite the push away from Windows XP."

Google Sets Plan to Sell Users' Endorsements (but you can opt out (see below), and doesn't apply if under 18)
New York Times
On Friday, Google announced an update to its terms of service that allows the company to include adult users' names, photos and comments in ads shown across the Web, based on ratings, reviews and posts they have made on Google Plus and other ...

Terms of Service update – Policies & Principles – Google: 
Terms of Service update
October 11, 2013
We are updating the Google Terms of Service. The new Terms will go live on November 11, 2013 and you can read them here.
Because many of you are allergic to legalese, here’s a plain English summary for your convenience.
We’ve made three changes:
First, clarifying how your Profile name and photo might appear in Google products (including in reviews, advertising and other commercial contexts).
You can control whether your image and name appear in ads via the Shared Endorsements setting.
Second, a reminder to use your mobile devices safely.
Third, details on the importance of keeping your password confidential. . . . (read more at links above)

Facebook privacy: Users should check these settings as new changes roll out
Washington Post
Facebook users may be wary after hearing that the social network is following up on a promise to cut a privacy setting that kept user names out of the social network's graph search. Here's a quick guide to what changes are coming and which settings to review ...

Rapper Wants GTA 5 Recall Over Stolen Songs
PC Magazine
One of the many reasons that players love the Grand Theft Auto series is the carefully selected licensed soundtracks. However, rapper and producer Daz Dillinger is accusing Rockstar of using two of his songs without permission in its most recent smash-hit ...

Unu Android Tablet Works as Game Console, Smart TV
PC Magazine
With its tablet, game console, and smart TV functionality, the Unu media station wants to be all things to all people. German manufacturer Sunflex has just opened up pre-orders for its upcoming multi-purpose Android device, coming in November and starting ...

Google plans to phase out Google TV brand: report

ZDNet
Summary: According to reports, Google will phase out Google TV, but will continue to ... Three years after launching Google TV, the service is going to be quietly ...

ZDNet

Amazon to buy TenMarks in Kindle education push

USA TODAY
Amazon has made a big push into schools in recent years, entering a market that has been particularly successful for rival Apple and its iPad tablet. Amazon has ...

Siliconrepublic.com

Google The Power Player Invests In Another Giant Solar Farm

Forbes
If you live in California, the power that makes it possible for you run Google... In recent years, Apple began to look at building solar farms near its data centers....

San Francisco Chronicle

Google Seeks to Appeal U.S. Judge's Gmail Wiretap Ruling

Bloomberg
Google Inc. (GOOG), facing a trial over whether it broke wiretapping laws when it scanned users' e-mails, asked a California federal judge to let it ask a higher ...

Apple's China Mobile Deal Appears To Be Finally Happening

Chicago Tribune
One little piece of news that indicates that Apple might have finally come to an agreement with China Mobile over allowing the iPhone onto that network. For we ...

WPTV

Google Glass Enters Operating Room

InformationWeek
The demonstration transferred the vital signs data to Google Glass, itself still in the beta ... With a device based on Microsoft Kinect technology, for example, some ... Meaningful Use regulations and start asking: Is my site as useful as Amazon?...

Amazon.com will start collecting sales tax from Wisconsin customers

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Amazon.com Inc.'s proposed Kenosha distribution center may be a year from opening, but the online retailer plans to begin collecting sales taxes from ...

KSTP.com

Google Malaysia hit by DNS poisoning (Updated)

The Star Online
PETALING JAYA: Instead of getting a search page, Malaysians visiting Google Malaysia (google.com.my) this morning were treated to a webpage that proclaims ...

The Guardian

Microsoft's Frankly Speaking Thompson Guides Quest for CEO: Tech

Businessweek
“Ours is not a role where we devise the strategy,” Thompson told Microsoft's ... to take on AppleInc. (AAPL:US) and Google Inc. in smartphones and tablets....

Apple, Intel among tech giants trawling for BlackBerry brains
Vancouver Sun
Apple Inc. has all but destroyed BlackBerry Ltd.'s business model and now it's after ... Over the past several weeks, a number of companies — including Google, ...

Vancouver Sun

Apple's BlackBerry Employee-Poaching Party - AllThingsD

John Paczkowski
... employees! Apple's recruiting team is hosting a career event in your town! ... Trending – GoogleCIO Ben Fried on How Google Works · John Paczkowski.

AllThingsD

 
Google and NASA make a short film to explain their quantum ...

Jon Fingas
Google and NASA made much ado of their Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab when it launched in May, but they said little about how it works or its.

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Inside Amazon's 'gladiator culture' | VentureBeat

Eric Blattberg
These gladiators are not Amazon employees, but they'd fit in well .... companies it covers in depth include Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Twitter, Zynga, ...

VentureBeat 

Apple's first retail store in Turkey set to open in Istanbul in January ...

Jordan Kahn
As previously announced by Tim Cook earlier this year, Apple is preparing to open its ... The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple has picked up around 21,000 square ... Amazon.com Widgets · Follow on Twitter Syndicate this feed · Thumbnail for Report: Google TV getting rebranded as “Android TV” for next-generation of ...

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Microsoft to stop support for XP users - The Nation
Microsoft to stop support for XP users. Microsoft Friday reminded business and consumers in Thailand with PCs still running Windows XP that it will officially ...NationMultimedia.com - Technology 

Advanced Patent Search - Google
Advanced Patent Search, About Google. Find results. with all of the words. 10 results, 20 results, 30 results, 50 results, 100 results. with the exact phrase. with at ...https://www.google.com/advanced_patent_search?q=malbac 

'Dutch sandwich' grows as Google shifts €8.8 billion to Bermuda
Google funneled €8.8 billion of royalty payments to Bermuda last year, a strategy that is saving the U.S. internet group billions of dollars in tax.www.cnbc.com/id/101104483 

This Is What Amazon Looked Like In 1995 - Business Insider
Amazon has become one of America's predominant retailers since it opened in 1995. .... Login With Facebook Login With Twitter Login With Google. Submit the ...www.businessinsider.com/this-is-what-amazon-looked-like-in-... 

Google Web Designer: the Review - SitePoint
Google Web Designer seemingly appeared from nowhere. The company launched the ... Microsofthas dropped their Expression Web suite. Adobe is promoting ...www.sitepoint.com/google-web-designer-review/ 

Google Now: The Tip of A Very Long Spear | John Battelle's Search ...

This, of course, has been the holy grail of tech for some time – predating Google and evenMicrosoft. But now that rich data streams course constantly through ...battellemedia.com/.../google-now-the-point-of-a-very-long-sp...

US and Vietnam sign nuclear technology deal — RT Business
By RT
The US and Vietnam have signed a deal allowing the US to transfer nuclear technologyto the south-east Asian country.
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From Windows 8 to Windows 7: why I downgraded
ZDNet
From Windows 8 to Windows 7: why I downgraded. Summary: Windows 8 is certainly an ambitious effort on the behalf of Microsoft, but it seems I'm missing something that's keeping me from enjoying it and I'm curious to see who feels the same. Stephen ...

Skype disables password resets over big security flaw
TG Daily
Skype has disabled password resets, in response to a security vulnerability that allows accounts to be hijacked with only the user's email address. Almost unbelievably, it's possible for a hacker to sign up to Skype for a new account using the same email ...

TG Daily

TED Talks Reach Milestone 1 Billion Views
PC Magazine
TED Talks Guest-Curated Playlists. TED's plan to spread ideas around the world seems to be working. The nonprofit organization today announced that its cumulative talk views have surpassed the one billion mark. Known for its "Ideas Worth Spreading" ...

Facebook Should Keep Suppressing Mark Cuban's Mavericks Page
Wired
Mark Cuban is angry. The Dallas Mavericks owner and tech entrepreneur is lashing out at Facebook for filtering the messages he directs to the Mavericks' 2.3 million followers. The thing is, he's part of the problem on Facebook, not the solution — and if ...

Wired

Samsung chip price hike would affect Apple's margins by 1-2%
Apple Insider
Samsung chip price hike would affect Apple's margins by 1-2%. By Neil Hughes. If Samsung does in fact increase the price of building mobile processors for Apple, the change is expected to reduce the company's overall margins by as much as 2 percent.

Apple Insider

New flexible lens works like the one in your eye - and could replace it
Register
Scientists have created an artificial eye lens out of 800,000 layers of plastic that could revolutionise eye implants and aerial surveillance. Based on research from 2008 published in journal Optics Express, the new plastic eye closely copies the structure of the ...

ROGUE PLANET WITHOUT A SUN spotted in interstellar space
Register
In images, it doesn't look like much: just a blue dot against the black of space. What's exciting about this little planet is that it has somehow manage to escape its star. Even getting an image of the object, dubbed CFBDSIR2149, is a pretty good trick: ...

New Self-Healing Polymer Acts Like Human Skin
DailyTech
This could be used to develop lifelike prosthetics. A new flexible, skin-like material has combined mechanical and electrical means of self-healing for a new generation of prosthetics. A Stanford University team of researchers led by Zhenan Bao, a Stanford...

DailyTech

Lumen Bluetooth LED light bulb makes home automation easy
TG Daily
I'm sure there are a lot of people out there who like the idea of home automation. For example, being able to turn off the light upstairs without having to leave the living room or den is certainly very convenient, as is controlling how bright the light in your room is ...

Need for Speed Most Wanted demo now available for PS3 and Xbox 360
SlashGear
EA has announced that the demo for the new open world racing game Need for Speed Most Wanted is available right now. The demo is available for download for both PS3 and Xbox 360 gamers via the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live. The game ...

SlashGear

iPads, tablets eating into PC market: Barclays
MarketWatch
iPads, tablets eating into PC market: Barclays. Barclays Capital sees more tough times ahead for personal computers. And it's not just about a weak economy and the reluctance of consumers to spend. In fact, consumers are willing to buy new computing ...

Toyota recalls millions of cars worldwide
NBCNews.com
TODAY: TODAY | Aired on November 14, 2012. Toyota recalls millions of cars worldwide. Auto giant Toyota pulls $2.7 million vehicles worldwide for faulty steering and a water pump glitch on some Prius models. No accidents have been linked to these issues.

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Motorola Details $100 Rebate Program For Devices Left Out Of The Jelly Bean ...
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Google: Government Surveillance Requests Are Way Up—and the US Is the ...
Slate Magazine (blog)
Every six months Google publishes transparency reports to disclose how many requests it has received from government agencies to hand over user data or take down content. Today's figures reveal Google received 20,938 inquiries from government entities ...

Slate Magazine (blog)

RIM adds VoIP digivoice calls to BBM youngster-messaging ware
Register
BlackBerry Messenger 7 will support VoIP calls as well as messaging, and is available now to download to BlackBerry OS 6 or better, with 5 to follow soon. It's a beta version, but adds a Voice Call button to the BBM experience, when the other party has the ...

Jawbone's Up Wristband: It's Back
TIME
A year ago, Jawbone — the company best known for its Bluetooth headsets and Jambox portable speakers — got into an entirely new business with a wristband called Up. Like the Fitbit, Nike's FuelBand and other products, Up was a bit of wearable ...

TIME

Is Amazon releasing the Kindle in China?
CNET
Email Print. The Amazon Kindle Paperwhite could be officially making its way to China soon. (Credit: Amazon). Fans of Amazon.com's Kindle may soon be able to purchase the e-readers directly from the e-commerce company. According to QQ Tech Report,...

CNET

Halo 4 proves a beautiful evolution
The Stylus
HALO. Photo from Hollywoodreporter.com. Halo 4 is the first Halo game made by 343 Studios rather than Bungie. While this game features new enemies and takes the franchise in a new direction, it maintains the integrity of Halo's iconic hero, Master Chief.

Verizon and Sprint detail LTE expansion plans
Engadget
DNP Verizon and Sprint detail LTE expansion plans. The great 4G race is upon us and two of America's major contestants are working on expanding their respective reach. In an effort to extend its existing lead, LTE frontrunner Verizon announced that it will ...

Google Fiber experiment draws would-be Web entrepreneurs
News & Observer
KANSAS CITY, Mo -- KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Mike Demarais, who is 20, arrived from Boston to the Kansas City area's first "fiberhood" with his MacBook, some clothes and an idea. Call him a homesteader on the Silicon Prairie. His idea is, well, hard to explain ...

Samsung executive: No plans to settle with Apple
ZDNet
Samsung executive: No plans to settle with Apple. Summary: The head of Samsung's mobile and IT division has made it clear that the company has no intention of following in HTC's footsteps and settling its legal dispute with Apple. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes ...

ZDNet

HTC announces Droid DNA smartphone with 1080p, 440 ppi screen
ITworld.com
November 14, 2012, 8:30 AM — HTC and Verizon announced a beast of a smartphone yesterday, the same day the Nexus 4 went on sale here in the US. The HTC Droid DNA features a 5" IPS screen with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 (440 ppi); that's the ...

FTC leans on Google over antitrust
Inquirer
UNITED STATES TRADE REGULATOR the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is leaning on Google over antitrust issues and is expected to come up with a settlement proposal soon. Bloomberg reports that sources close to the discussions say that Google ...

Elon Musk Says Electric Pickup May Be in Tesla's Future
TruckTrend Magazine
Coming off the Tesla's double-victory of winning both Automobile Magazine's Automobile of the Year and Motor Trend's Car of the Year, as well as several other industry and media awards and accolades, CEO Elon Musk says it's just the beginning for the ...

TruckTrend Magazine

Australians treated to rare full solar eclipse
Reuters
CAIRNS, Australia (Reuters) - A rare full solar eclipse plunged north Queensland into darkness for two minutes early on Wednesday, delighting the thousands of people who had gathered on the Australian state's beaches. In Cairns, the main city in north ...

Gif is America's word of the year? Now that's what I call an omnishambles
The Guardian (blog)
I rather like the idea of a word of the year. We have a sports personality of the year, after all, and I like words better than sport, so why not? I approve, as well, Oxford University Press's choice of "omnishambles" to take the title: not only was it coined by the ...

TWC Modem Fee Is "Hi-Tech Consumer Fraud," Lawsuits Allege
Gothamist
Back in October, before it got credit for being a good corporate citizen post-Hurricane Sandy, Time Warner Cable managed to infuriate a whole lot of its folk when it announced it was adding a $3.95 modem rental fee to customers' already bloated bills.

Gothamist

Living with the iPad Mini: Three weeks and counting
CNET
OK, I'll admit it. The iPad Mini hasn't left my hands in the last three weeks. It's been no contest, really. While the larger fourth-gen iPad has sat alone by my bedside table, the Mini has gone on field trips on the bus, gotten dragged in my jacket pocket while I ...

Nokia Launches 'Here' Mapping Service, Expands With 3-D
Wall Street Journal
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Google Nexus 10
PC Magazine
Pros. Super-sharp screen. Powerful processor. Only 10-inch tablet currently available with Android 4.2. Cons Buggy. Real-life performance doesn't match up to hardware specs. Difficult to find good apps. Bottom Line. The first 10-inch tablet from Google, the ...

World's 10 fastest supercomputers
Times of India
TOI Tech The list of world's 500 fastest supercomputers is out. The bi-annual list based on standard speed tests has a new claimant for the top position. Called Titan, the Cray machine is based at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in United States and dethrones ...

Dropbox has over 100 million users and counting
ZDNet
While tech titans such as Apple, Google and Microsoft (among others) continue to clamor over the personal cloud storage space, Dropbox remains an incredibly strong competitor as it now retains more than 100 million users. The San Francisco-based ...

Microsoft Launches SharePoint 2013
Windows IT Pro
At the SharePoint Conference 2012 this week in Las Vegas, Microsoft is touting the next major version of its SharePoint server and service. SharePoint 2013, part of the Office 2013 wave of products and services, puts new social and mobile capabilities at...

Windows IT Pro

Dark energy spotted driving universe expansion
SlashGear
Dark energy, time-traveling star gazing, and a telescope that looks like a Bond villain's ray gun: when it comes to hunting down the reasons why the universe is expanding, it's hard to know what aspect is cooler. The BOSS (Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic ...

SlashGear

Text messaging declines for the first time ever in the US
TechSpot
Text messaging is on the decline for the first time ever in the US according to a new report from consulting firm Chetan Sharma. They found a drop in the total number of messages being sent and received in addition to a drop in overall messaging revenue for ...

Cloaking Device Produces True Invisibility
TechNewsWorld
Cloaking Device Produces True Invisibility. Cloaking Device Produces True Invisibility. By Richard Adhikari TechNewsWorld 11/13/12 1:54 PM PT. The problem with invisibility cloaks is that up until now, they always reflect a little bit of light, so the object being ...

Humans Are Getting Dumber And Dumber, Says Stanford Researcher Gerald ...
Huffington Post
Have you ever felt like your fellow humans are just getting stupider and more emotional? You're not mistaken. A Stanford University researcher (aptly named Gerald Crabtree) has furthered a similar theory -- that we are now way less smart or "emotionally ...

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