Facebook IPO sets pace for more Tech IPOs

Facebook Debut Sets Pace For Tech IPOs To Come
Wall Street Journal
In the tech and Internet sectors alone, IPOs are pending from network-security technologydeveloper Palo Alto Networks, which filed its IPO paperwork April 6; LegalZoom.com, a provider of online-legal services, which filed May 10. 

Tech IPOs and Common Investment Mistakes
Forbes
But this is a good opportunity to highlight the dangers of technology IPOs. Simply put, they create instant wealth, often concentrated in a single position. There are always some employees who know how to properly diversify, but most aren't investment ...

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The Facebook Offering: How It Compares - NYTimes.com
What has happened after 2400 technology, Internet and telecom I.P.O.'s. ... Global · DealBook · Markets · Economy · Energy · Media · Personal Tech · Small ...
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Facebook IPO creates tech giant
Boston.com
Although “Facebook still has to prove to many advertisers its value,” according to Catherine Tucker, associate professor of marketing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management, it will soon have the resources to pursue ...

Tech Bubble Death Watch: The Facebook IPO
Huffington Post
As you have also maybe heard, everybody and their grandmother thinks this is the sign of a new bubble in technology companies. And you know what? So do we. You can't always trust everybody and their grandmother, but sometimes they are absolutely right. 

Want privacy on Twitter? Use Firefox
Computerworld
Twitter enables Mozilla's "Do Not Track" feature, so you can opt out of third-party tracking cookies. By Katherine Noyes PC World - True privacy can be hard to come by in the socially enabled online world, but Twitter on Thursday announced that it has ...

iPhone 5 and 10 Other Smartphones Offering Larger Displays
eWeek
By Nathan Eddy on 2012-05-18 In a world full of mobile devices, what else can smartphone makers do to distinguish their phones from the others? When it comes to the latest wave of smartphones, a large, high-quality display is a major selling point and ...

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Facebook Class Action Lawsuit Seeks $15 Billion for Privacy Violations
eWeek
A class action lawsuit filed against the social networking giant combines 21 lawsuits from across the country. Separately, a German official has also expressed concerns about Facebook's privacy approach as well. A class action lawsuit filed against ...

Facebook Volume On Track To Set New IPO Record
Wall Street Journal
By Alexandra Scaggs Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Frenzied trading in shares of Facebook Inc. (FB) had slowed to a mere rush by midday Friday, as the social-media giant remained on track to have the most heavily traded IPO ever.

Doodle 4 Google Winner Turns Homepage Into 'Pirate Times'
PC Magazine
By Chloe Albanesius Today's Google.com homepage art comes from one of the search giant's littlest doodlers - second-grader Dylan Hoffman. Earlier this week, Hoffman was selected as the winner of this year's Doodle 4 Google contest, which calls on ...

Apple Prepping 100 Percent Green Data Center
PC Magazine
By Angela Moscaritolo Apple says that its new $1 billion data center in Maiden, North Carolina will be powered entirely with renewable energy by the end of the year. On a new Web page announcing its renewable energy plans, the Cupertino tech giant said...

SpaceX, NASA confirm all systems are go for historic mission
Los Angeles Times
By WJ Hennigan The countdown has begun for SpaceX's historic mission to send a spacecraft into orbit to dock with the International Space Station. SpaceX, formally known as Space Exploration Technologies Corp., is due to launch its Falcon 9 rocket...

UK surveillance program could expose private lives
BusinessWeek
But experts say the government's proposed new surveillance program will gather so much data that spooks won't have to read your messages to guess what you're up to. The UK Home Office stresses it won't be reading the content of every Britons' ...

HTC EVO 4G LTE postponed indefinitely once more
SlashGear
It appears that once again the HTC EVO 4G LTE has hit a wall when it comes to being delivered to the USA for sale, so says customers receiving the note that their pre-orders were once again stopped here at the end of the week.

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Will Google's Multi-Partner Nexus Device Strategy Work?
Forbes
Google is apparently planning to change its Nexus device strategy in the coming months to expand the reach of its devices and try to wrestle control of its devices from carriers yet again. It will give five device OEMs early access to future versions ...

First 'Wikipedia Town' Going Live in Wales
PC Magazine
By Chloe Albanesius Have you ever come upon an interesting building, plant, or landmark and wanted immediate information about its origin or function? Perhaps you should travel to the Welsh town of Monmouth, which is set to become the first "Wikipedia ...

Keeping Steve Jobs alive with iPhone 5
MarketWatch
By John C. Dvorak Reports on MSNBC and elsewhere have it that the late Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) chief was working until the end on the new so-called iPhone 5. Really? He had nothing better to do than work on this legacy device?

National Bike to Work Week: 10 Awesome Pieces of Bike Tech
PC Magazine
By Jennifer Bergen We're more than half way through National Bike Month, at the end of National Bike Week, and today happens to be National Bike to Work Day (held annually on the third Friday in May). In other words, it's all about the bike during the ...

Solar Eclipse: Get Ready for Sunday
ABC News
If you live in a band across the southwestern United States, twilight will seem to come early on Sunday afternoon, well before the sun actually sets. The cause: a rare annular solar eclipse -- a ring of sunlight as the new moon, passing between Earth ...

Researchers find fossil of a turtle that was size of a Smart car
Los Angeles Times
By Thomas H. Maugh II Excavating in a coal mine in Colombia, paleontologists have discovered the fossil of the world's largest turtle, a 60-million-year-old specimen nearly 8 feet long -- the size of a Smart car. Thriving in a lake about 5 million ...

ZTE fesses up to security vulnerability in Score smartphone
Mobile Burn
ZTE has acknowledged that a security vulnerability exists in the Score smartphone sold by Cricket in the US The vulnerability could allow a malicious attacker to gain control of the device and access a user's personal information.

Microsoft Announces Its Back-To-School Promotion: Buy A PC, Get A Free Xbox
TechCrunch
Microsoft, just like Apple, usually runs a major back-to-school promotion every summer that is meant to give students (and their parents) some extra incentives to buy a new computer. The company's just-announced back-to-school deal for the US and ...

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4700 Potentially Hazardous Asteroids Are Lurking Out There
Discovery News
Generally speaking, there's a collective sigh of relief when any large hulk of space rock flies past Earth -- except, perhaps, for the smaller asteroids that scatter precious meteorites over California's 'Gold Country'. But when one of the estimated ...

Should You Renounce Your US Citizenship?
Wall Street Journal
By LAURA SAUNDERS That is the lesson from the disclosure that Eduardo Saverin, the 30-year-old billionaire who helped found Facebook, has renounced his US citizenship to become a resident of Singapore. Singapore offers huge tax advantages for people ...

Blue skies for The Weather Channel's overhauled iOS app
CNET
TWC now has perhaps the best interface of any iPhone weather app. It's free, though you'll have to endure some beefy banner ads. by Rick Broida May 18, 2012 9:15 AM PDT Follow @cheapskateblog On the short list of must-haves for every iPhone owner: a ...

Apple defends Siri against class action lawsuit
CBS News
(CBS News) Siri, the Apple iPhone 4S' digital personal assistant, got some heat in a recent lawsuit that claimed the software doesn't perform as advertised. Frank M. Fazio accused Apple of false advertising and alleged "that the company's commercials ...

CBS News

Stock Offering Sets Facebook Value at $104 Billion
LoanSafe
(Source: Jeff Gelles The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT) — It was the stock market event of the year, sure to make millions of dollars for venture capitalists, investment banks and other financiers, and billions for Facebook's founders and earliest backers ...

The week in tech: 5 must-know things
USA TODAY
By Charlie Szold, USA TODAY Amy Sancetta, AP Amy Sancetta, AP Wireless networks looking to increase profit margins are radically altering how they sell data plans to their customers. Verizon announced this week it would be moving customers with ...

USA TODAY

Comcast To Test New Pricing Tiers for Broadband Users, Temporarily Suspend ...
Game Politics
Comcast says that it will soon raise the monthly cap of 250GB that customers currently suffer under to 300GB as part of a new tiered pricing plan, according to a CNET report. While it will beta test this new tired pricing model in some areas, ...

Windows Phone Overtook iOS in China with 7% Control of the Market
Mobile & Apps
By Vamien McKalin | May 18, 2012 2:34 PM EDT A visitor talks on his phone next to a Windows Phone advertisement during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona February 27, 2012.(Photo: Reuters) Windows Phone might not be doing well in many parts of the ...

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$74 MK802 Android 4.0 Mini-PC Versus $200 FXI Cotton Candy - Game On!
Mobile & Apps
By Alexandra Burlacu | May 18, 2012 2:59 PM EDT Tiny and inexpensive micro-PCs have made their way into the market this year, and gained a lot of attention for their small yet intriguing designs and capabilities. The cheap Raspberry Pi started shipping ...

Mobile & Apps

Seventeen-Year-Old Canadian student awarded $50000 from the Intel Foundation ...
Sacramento Bee
By Intel The world's largest high school science research competition, the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, a program of Society for Science & the Public, announced its top winners in Pittsburgh, Pa. Jack Andraka of Crownsville, ...

#FF: Looks like Google's all fancy now
HLNtv.com
By AJ Willingham #FF is short for Follow Friday, a Twitter topic that alerts people to the newest, coolest accounts to follow. For us, #FF is an introduction to the creative things social media users have come up with to surprise, inspire and educate.

Stanford scientists document fragile land-sea ecological chain
Stanford Report
Intricate, often invisible chains of life are threatened with extinction around the world. A new study quantifies one of the longest such chains ever documented. By Rob Jordan The researchers found a link between replacing native trees with non-native ...

Stanford Report

Samsung Racks Up 9M Galaxy S III Preorders
InformationWeek
By Eric Zeman InformationWeek The Samsung Galaxy S III doesn't go on sale until May 29, but 9 million people have already placed preorders for the device. The orders are flowing in from more than 100 wireless network operators around the world, ...

Rise of the Tech Bandits: AllThingsD & Sarah Lacy, the Business ...
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... later by Lacy. Meanwhile, AllThingsD superheroes Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg have been on a tear this year, often scooping TechCrunch on important business news in thetechnology sector. ... When Sarah Lacy launched the oddly named PandoDaily earlier this year, the goal was to dislodge Silicon Valley kingmaker TechCrunch, New York media heavyweight AllThingsD, and Wall Street-friendly Business Insider as the daily source of business technology news. Those are ...
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Facebook IPO - insiders signal they will unload stakes

Facebook IPO: As insiders signal they will unload stakes, the public wonders ...
Washington Post
May 16 (Bloomberg) -- Facebook Inc. investors such as Accel Partners and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. increased the number of shares they're selling in the social network's initial public offering, boosting the sale to as much as $16 billion.

Chrome 19: The Best Web browser just keeps getting better
ZDNet (blog)
By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | May 16, 2012, 3:47pm PDT Summary: A new edition of Chrome appears, and, yes, once again, it's better than the last version and it's much better than the competition. With Chrome 19 you can sync tabs between PCs and ...
 
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Facebook's 11 Biggest Technology Bets
InformationWeek
What other key technology pieces will Facebook use to grow its business? By Thomas Claburn InformationWeek When Facebook stock goes on sale later this week, investors will be making a bet on open Web technologies and open hardware infrastructure.
Verizon Wireless to Curb Unlimited Data Plans
Wall Street Journal
By GREG BENSINGER Verizon Wireless is taking another step to snuff out unlimited data plans, a move that will likely lead to higher bills for millions of customers of the largest US wireless carrier. A top executive from the carrier said Wednesday it ...

Saverin: I'm a 'global citizen,' not tax dodger
CNET
Facebook's co-founder, who recently renounced his US citizenship, says the decision had nothing to do with the blockbuster IPO and taxes. by Steven Musil May 16, 2012 4:25 PM PDT Follow @stevenmusil Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, ...

Porsche's 78 mpg supercar takes shape
Fox News
Earlier this month the first prototypes for the 2014 Porsche 918 Spyder started testing at secret locations around Europe, and today Porsche has released its own batch of photos of one of the prototypes and confirmed some of the car's final specs.

Electronic Arts And Activision Blizzard Settle 'Call Of Duty' Suit
Wall Street Journal
By Ian Sherr Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones)-- Activision Blizzard Inc. (ATVI) and Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) have settled their lawsuit over the hit "Call of Duty" war simulation franchise of games. Santa Monica, Calif.

Facebook IPO doesn't mean the end of privacy
CNET
Privacy experts say that just because the company is going public, doesn't mean that it's game over for user privacy. In fact, it might shine a brighter light on privacy concerns. by Seth Rosenblatt May 16, 2012 3:51 PM PDT Follow @b1g1nj4p4n Despite ...

Google shifting its Android strategy, seeks to fix fragmentation
Los Angeles Times
By Salvador Rodriguez Google is changing the way it approaches the production of new Android smartphones, seeking to end fragmentation among phones running the many different versions of its OS. For its upcoming line of Nexus smartphones and tablets, ...

iPhone 5 Will Sport a 4-Inch Display: Report
eWeek
Apple has sold tens of millions of iPhones with 3.5-inch displays. However, the trend is toward smartphones with 4-inch displays and a new report suggests Apple will go with a bigger screen when the iPhone 5 debuts later this year.

Geoengineering experiment cancelled due to perceived conflict of interest
The Guardian
A controversial geoengineering experiment to simulate the cooling effect of volcanoes has been cancelled due to concern over a perceived conflict of interest with some of the researchers. The experiment would have injected 150 litres of water into the ...

Evernote for Android gets a sexy makeover
CNET
The beloved note-management tool now looks way, way better on Android than it does on iOS. by Rick Broida May 16, 2012 2:07 PM PDT Follow @cheapskateblog The latest version of Evernote for Android brings some much-needed improvements to the interface.

Samsung accounts for 40% of Android smartphone sales
BetaNews
By Joe Wilcox The figure is so important, I'm breaking it out from the long analysis posted mid-afternoon about the smartphone market consolidating around Apple and Samsung. The South Korean electronics giant is doing to Android on smartphones what ...

BetaNews

Here's How Bad Android's Fragmentation Problem Is [GRAPHIC]
Mashable
When Google first launched Android, the open-source operating system came with the promise that it could power almost any device. That's created a proverbial cornucopia of mobile devices that consumers have to choose from, but it's also led to the ...

iCloud upgrade has Ping-like aspirations
SlashGear
The next upgrade for Apple's iCloud may well have the company moving into the social networking realm once again with photo sharing in the same vein as ultra-popular photo application Instagram. This report comes from the Wall Street Journal whose ...

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Solar eclipse visible from 154 national parks Sunday
Christian Science Monitor
Sunday's solar eclipse will be the first visible in the US this century. The annular eclipse will be best seen from 33 national parks, including the Grand Canyon. By Nola Taylor Redd, OurAmazingPlanet Contributor / May 16, 2012 On Sunday, ...

Christian Science Monitor

Toyota using Nintendo DS as GPS remote control
SlashGear
The Nintendo DS is finding all sorts of uses outside of gaming, from school use to museum touring. And now the handheld can fill a new role in Toyota vehicles. In Japan, Toyota has begun offering a game card called Kuruma de DS, which allows DS owners ...

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iPhone architect presents Electric Imp
SlashGear
It's time to take a peek at some brand new use-cases for a company that's been brewing some magic for a bit over a year – Electric Imp, headed by CEO Hugo Fiennes, former Apple hardware team manager and iPhone architect. This fellow co-founded this ...

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SpaceX Launching Student Experiments and Emblems on 1st Space Station Flight
Space.com
by Robert Z. Pearlman, collectSPACE.com Editor Students' science experiments are about to make history, launching to space on the first attempt by a US commercial company to send a spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS).

Paralyzed woman uses thoughts to move robotic arm
Reuters
By Julie Steenhuysen | CHICAGO (Reuters) - Using just her thoughts, a 58-year-old paralyzed woman instructed a robotic arm to grasp a cup of coffee and guide it to her mouth where she sipped from a straw, the first drink she has been able to serve ...

The Pirate Bay Taken Down by DDoS Attack
PC Magazine
By Chloe Albanesius The Pirate Bay is under fire from an unknown attacker in a distributed denial of service (DDoS) strike that has lasted at least 24 hours. In an early morning post to its Facebook page, The Pirate Bay announced that it was "under a ...

Apple Makes a Large Order for DRAM Chips Crippling Samsung's Market
ValueWalk
By Kenny Winnigan After Apple placed a significant order for DRAM Chips with struggling Korean company Elpida, Samsung's stocks dropped significantly. According to Taiwan's DigiTimesan online trade news site, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (LON:BC94) ...

ValueWalk

Comcast Launching Skype Video Calling for $9.95 a Month
PC Magazine
By Angela Moscaritolo Cable provider Comcast on Wednesday started rolling out a new service that will bring Skype video calling to customer's living rooms. The service, called Skype on Xfinity, will allow customers to make and receive Skype video and ...

'Information' To 'Knowledge Agent': Google Changes The Way It Does Search
KUHF-FM
Besides presenting relevant links, Google will now provide information about your searches. Currently, Google said its engine knows 3.5 billion facts. by Eyder Peralta What a search result may look at on Google now. The search giant said the move was ...

Google+: No Comments?
PCWorld (blog)
By Ed Oswald, PCWorld May 16, 2012 4:00 PM Google+: No Comments?Google+ now has more than 100 million users, but data shows that once we're signed up for Google's social networking site, we lose interest in it quickly. The average post has less than ...

Oracle Releases Documents in Court Case With HP Over Itanium
eWeek
The exhibits, which include emails, shows HP trying to convince Intel to continue developing the high-end Itanium chip platform. Emails and other documents released by Oracle show Intel executives eager to end development of the controversial Itanium ...

New "Halo 4" Multiplayer and Limited Edition Details Reveal the Most Fleshed ...
Complex.com
By Michael Rougeau | May 16, 2012 | 6:42 pm | Permalink Microsoft today released the first details on Halo 4's "Infinity Multiplayer", claiming it will "redefine" the franchise, as well as the game's limited edition release and accompanying live-action ...

Android and iOS drive mobile app explosion [infographic]
BGR
One year ago, less than 40% of mobile subscribers in the United States had a smartphone. That number has increased dramatically, however; according to Nielsen, one in two mobile subscribers now owns a smartphone. Driven mostly by the rise of Android ...

Unified Communications Still Fragmented
CIO
The technology may get a big push from mobile adoption, but integration among multiple UC components is still a tough slog. By Bob Violino Computerworld — Unified communications (UC) technology has garnered a fair amount of attention, much of it due to ...

Apple's Patent Win Delays Shipments of Two HTC Smartphones
Wired News
By Nathan Olivarez-Giles Shipments of the HTC One X have been blocked by US Customs enforcement. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired If you're looking to buy an HTC One X or Evo 4G LTE smartphone, you might have to wait awhile.

'Twitter, Facebook don't want to work with us'
Times of India
Google's search engine is facing some serious challenge. With social networks getting more important and people looking for answers instead of information, competitors like Microsoft's Bing and WolframAlpha are creating lots of buzz.

Website search tech start-up raises $1.5M - Chicago Tribune
Elicit, a Chicago-based startup that makes technology to improve searching within websites, said Tuesday that it has raised $1.5 million in its first round of ...
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Facebook Retail Roadshow video

Facebook released its half-hour long, IPO roadshow video for potential investors. Check out some of the best highlights from the top players at Facebook as they explain the future of the social network.

Facebook Retail Roadshow full video

Oracle-Google Jury Mulls Verdict Over Android Patent
PCWorld
By James Niccolai, IDG News The jury has reached a partial verdict in the copyright phase of Oracle's intellectual property dispute with Google, and the judge has given them more time to try to resolve the remaining issue. The jury foreman told the ...

Facebook Adds Locations, Read Receipts to Messenger App
PC Magazine
By David Murphy Facebook has updated its mobile Messenger application to give users a bit more information about who's actually reading their messages versus who's ignoring them completely. Oh, and message recipients can now see a general gist of where ...

Facebook Posts Video for Potential Investors Ahead of Road Show
eWeek
The video extolling the virtues of the huge social network had been put up on YouTube but was yanked over the weekend after amassing several thousand hits. Facebook's marketers and financial executives headed out on the road over the weekend to place ...

iPhone 5 to Be Thinner With Bigger Screen
eWeek
A "confirmed" report says the new iPhone will feature a larger screen, smaller connecting dock and Gorilla Glass 2. Another day, another report on Apple's highly anticipated iPhone 5, this time from Mac blog iLounge, which claims via a “reliable ...

Dell and Origin PC Give Free Ivy Bridge Upgrades to Shoppers With Poor Timing
PC Magazine
By David Murphy One of the unmentioned joys of purchasing tech hardware is that you really have to be a news hound – or at least have a basic understanding of what's going on the tech market – lest you plunk down for a system or component that's about ...

Editing Text On Your iPad? Speed Up The Process With SwipeSelection
TechCrunch
More than a few people have been clamoring for Daniel Hooper's thoughtful iPad text editing concept to become a real thing since his video started making the rounds, and now all you mobile text editors have reason to celebrate.

Diageo to end funding of Heartland Institute after climate change outburst
The Guardian
Diageo, one of the world's largest drinks companies, has announced it will no longer fund the Heartland Institute, a rightwing US thinktank which briefly ran a billboard campaign this week comparing people concerned about climate change to mass ...

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iPhone 5 Release Date Rumors Reveal New iPhone 5 Concept Pictures
Spacelab
Last week, I talked about the current model of iPhone 5 release date theories, which are either June at the WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) or in the Fall like last year's iPhone release. I'm in favor (and completely willing to be wrong) of the ...

Northern California fishermen free entangled whale
Phys.Org
May 6, 2012 By JASON DEAREN and MARCUS WOHLSEN , AP This image provided April 17, 2012, by Capt. Daveís Dolphin and Whale Safari shows a gray whale entangled in netting in the waters off the coast of Southern California April 17, 2012.

AT&T's HTC One X goes on sale today
CNET
The Android-based smartphone hits the market with a $199 price tag, a bright 4.7-inch screen, 4G LTE data speeds, and a powerful camera. by Jonathan E. Skillings May 6, 2012 10:01 AM PDT Follow @jeskillings The HTC One X's 8MP camera settings are very ...

Further Proof Verizon Is Pushing Potential iPhone Customers To Other Devices
AppAdvice
BY Dave LeClair on Sun May 06th, 2012 Verizon Wireless Everyone knows that the iPhone is a big seller. When it was exclusive to AT&T a few years ago, every carrier under the sun was looking to get their hands on the hottest selling smartphone ever.

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Facebook IPO: How could privacy concerns affect revenue? - Technology News
San Francisco Luxury News
Now that Facebook has set its share prices, valuing the company between $ 77 billion and $ 96 billion, the question is whether it will be able to convince investors that it's got a sustainable business model, can keep growing and find new ways to ...

Study: Teens and their use of online video media
ZDNet (blog)
By Charlie Osborne | May 6, 2012, 9:32am PDT Summary: New research provided by Pew explores how the younger generation are using online networks, video and media. Young people are more comfortable using services including social media networks, ...

FBI: We need wiretap-ready Web sites - now
CNET
CNET learns the FBI is quietly pushing its plan to force surveillance backdoors on social networks, VoIP, and Web e-mail providers, and that the bureau is asking Internet companies not to oppose a law making those backdoors mandatory. by Declan ...

Disney Research's "Touché" is Touch Control on Another Level
Geekosystem
by Rollin Bishop | 1:00 pm, May 6th, 2012 Or in this case, multiple frequencies. Touché, from Disney Research in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a project that explores what they're calling “a novel Swept Frequency Capacitive Sensing technique” that would ...

Samsung Galaxy S3 Trounces iPhone 4S, HTC One S In Benchmarks
ITProPortal
The Samsung Galaxy S3 is no slouch as expected and early tests show that the quad core Cortex A9 processor that powers it (as well as its Mali400/MP4 GPU) surpasses all its ARM-based competitors including its only quad core rival on the market, ...

ITProPortal

Recall Roundup: Problems with Chryser Electronics, Dorel Child Seats
Wall Street Journal (blog)
By Jonathan Welsh Chrysler is recalling certain Chrysler 300 and Dodge Charger cars from the 2011 and 2012 model years to fix a potential electrical problem that could lead to malfunctions in their antilock-brake and stability-control systems.

Did you see the 'super moon' last night? See a few images from around the world
MLive.com
By Heidi Fenton | hfenton@mlive.com Enlarge Cory Morse | cmorse1@mlive.com Maple leaves are silhouetted by the "Super Moon" in Spring Lake Township, Sunday, May 6, 2012. The moon was the closest it will get to the Earth this year and appeared 14 ...

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Airborne iPhone fire caused by loose screw
ZDNet
An Australian investigation revealed that a misplaced screw caused a short circuit that led to the fire. An investigation into an Apple iPhone that started spewing black smoke on a Regional Express (REX) flight last year has revealed the reason for the ...

Facebook Buys Location-Based Discovery App Glancee
TechCrunch
A little under one month after its acquisition of Instagram, Facebook has acquired Highlight competitor and ambient location app Glancee. The social network has already shut down the developer's passive location app and all three co-founders,...

Adobe patches new Flash zero-day bug with emergency update
Computerworld
By Gregg Keizer Computerworld - Adobe today warned that hackers are exploiting a critical vulnerability in its popular Flash Player program, and issued an emergency update to patch the bug. "There are reports that the vulnerability is being exploited ...

$99 Xbox: Microsoft's killer move
Fortune
By JP Mangalindan, Writer May 4, 2012: 2:46 PM ET Microsoft won't confirm if it will indeed sell its Xbox for $99 plus a subscription fee. If it did, it could upend the race to dominate the living room. FORTUNE -- Since the Magnavox Odyssey sold for ...

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Motorcycle lane splitting is legal, but even some bikers get nervous about it
San Jose Mercury News
By Gary Richards Diane Bagues had just moved to San Leandro a few years ago from another state, and she was stunned one day when a motorcyclist sped down the middle of the freeway inches away from her car and one in the next lane.

Cloud-based storage options for Mac OS X
CNET
Apple offers its iCloud service, but there's a variety of alternatives that might be more appealing to OS X users. by Topher Kessler May 4, 2012 4:27 PM PDT With more and more computing devices becoming mobile or located in different areas besides the ...

Blond hair evolved separately in Europe and the South Pacific
Los Angeles Times
Though the indigenous people of the Solomon Islands all have dark skin, about 5% to 10% also have naturally blond hair – and a new study finds that the genetic quirk responsible for this is different from the one that produces blond hair in people of ...

PC Makers Mum on Windows 8 Upgrades
PCWorld
By Agam Shah, IDG News Windows 8The first wave of laptops with Intel's latest third-generation Core processors started shipping this week with Windows 7, but PC makers are quiet about what it would take to upgrade the PCs to run Microsoft's upcoming ...

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

Wired News

Report: HP Regains PC Market Share Crown from Apple
PC Magazine
By Damon Poeter Apple's reign as PC market share leader was short-lived as Hewlett-Packard regained its top spot in the first quarter of 2012 by the narrowest of margins, according to research firm Canalys. HP shipped 40000 more client PCs than Apple ...

LG Optimus LTE2 Smartphone Offers 4.7-Inch Display, 2GB of RAM
eWeek
Following Samsung's super-hyped phone launch with a surprise launch of its own, LG is introducing the Optimus LTE2, the first smartphone to offer 2GB of RAM. LG Electronics stole a little spotlight from Korean-rival Samsung May 4, with the introduction ...

New Evidence of Water on Early Mars, and a Climate Like the Earth's
PlanetSave.com
By Nathan On May 6, 2012 New research supports the theory that early Mars had a thick, wet atmosphere, and a climate similar to the Earth's climate now. The atmosphere of Mars is currently less than 1% the density of Earth's atmosphere.

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