Samsung set to unveil new Galaxy Note

Samsung set to unveil new Galaxy Note
Washington Post
Samsung may have taken a hit after a California jury ruled that the company had infringed on Apple patents, but the company is moving right past that trial and prepping another big product launch Wednesday. The company is preparing for the launch of a ...

Samsung's IFA announcement live blog
CNET
by Aloysius Low | 29 August 2012 6:38pm SGT If you're staying up tonight for Samsung's IFA announcement about the new Galaxy Note as well as other possible mobile announcements from the Korean manufacturer, be sure to bookmark this page.

CNET

Samsung's new all-in-one PCs bring Start menu to Windows 8 with S Launcher
ZDNet
Summary: Missing the old Start menu on the new version of the Windows? Samsung may be starting a trend with the utility on its new desktops. By Sean Portnoy for Laptops & Desktops | August 29, 2012 -- 13:58 GMT (06:58 PDT) Much has been written ...

ZDNet

Disable Java NOW, users told, as 0-day exploit hits web : technology
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Mars rover Curiosity beams will.i.am song from Red Planet surface
Los Angeles Times
The rover transmitted a song by musician will.i.am from the surface of Mars. “There's no words to explain how amazing this is,” the singer, of Black Eyed Peas fame, said to the gathered audience, standing on stage with NASA astronaut Leland Melvin, ...

Space Sugar Discovered Around Sun-Like Star
Space.com
by SPACE.com Staff What a sweet cosmic find! Sugar molecules have been found in the gas surrounding a young sun-like star, suggesting that some of the building blocks of life may actually be present even as alien planets are still forming in the system ...

Bargain Seekers Broaden Manhattan's Silicon Alley
New York Times
By C. J. HUGHES. Published: August 28, 2012. A decade ago, in the dot-com boom,technology companies flocked to the neighborhoods along Broadway in Manhattan, with most ending up south of an unofficial cutoff of 23rd Street. ... an initiative started ...

New York Times

Cricket to offer Muve exclusively on Android plansUSA TODAY
LOS ANGELES – Mobile phone carrier Cricket is making its unlimited music service, Muve Music, an exclusive feature of its higher-end phones. The change is a bid to encourage users of lower-end, basic cellphones to trade up to smartphones, which require ...

USA TODAY

Search for alien life gets boost at twin star
AFP
WASHINGTON — The universe is looking increasingly crowded as scientists Tuesday announced the first proof twin stars can host multiple planets -- boosting their search for a planet that could support life. "We're seeing more and more planets in more ...

AFP

Apple salespeople go online in four countries outside the US
CNET
The service will allow customers to get answers to questions related to buying a new iPad or iPhone. by Don Reisinger Apple's store specialists are now available online in some countries. Apple salespeople are now going online in a handful of countries ...

Most Americans Don't Understand Cloud Computing: Does It Really Matter?
Forbes
The ideal underlying the cloud computing approach is that end-users — and even IT professionals — can run computing jobs with no awareness of what servers or networks are making it all happen. So, it's not surprising that a new survey shows there isn't ...

Forbes

The Aircraft and Spacecraft of Neil Armstrong's Career
Wired
By Jason Paur From a very early age Neil Armstrong was fascinated with flight. He was playing with toy airplanes at 3, and by the time he was 5 or 6 Armstrong went on his first airplane ride in a Ford Tri-Motor. By 8 or 9 he said he was building model ...

Wired

Blue Moon legends revealed
Lassen County News
Aug. 28, 2012 — When two full moons occur in the same month, it's called a blue moon, and according to the NASA website, if the wildfires continue to rage throughout the western US, the blue moon, occurring Aug. 31, could actually appear blue in color.

Lassen County News

Hurricane Isaac causes gas prices to rise
KSFY
By Denise DePaolo - email Although the storm is scheduled to hit hundreds of miles away, gas prices have already risen thirty cents since last month. According to AAA South Dakota, they are expected to rise an additional ten to twenty cents before the ...

Where do America's best (and worst) drivers live?
Fox News
Human beings are pretty funny: put anyone behind the wheel of a car, and suddenly he's kvetching about all the idiots on the freeway. We seem certain about our own infallibility, but we can't all be stellar drivers, can we? Indeed, we cannot.

Apple/Samsung dispute not yet made it to China: Xinhua
Reuters
| BEIJING (Reuters) - A patent dispute between Apple and Samsung Electronics has yet to make it to China, with no applications for a probe being made by either company in the country, state news agency Xinhua reported on Wednesday.

Seagulls in the firing line to stop feeding frenzy on battered whales
Sydney Morning Herald
BUENOS AIRES: What began as unusual bird behaviour has turned into something out of a horror film for threatened whales in Argentina. Seagulls around the city of Puerto Madryn discovered about a decade ago that by pecking at the whales as they come up...

Sydney Morning Herald

New Auto Efficiency Regs: Special Interests Win, Consumers Lose
Heritage.org (blog)
The federal government finalized new automobile efficiency rules today for cars and light trucks for model years 2017–2025. The rules require an average fuel economy of 54.5 miles per gallon (mpg) in 2025. Proponents of the rule advertise the more ...

Second LulzSec hacker arrested over Sony breach
Telegraph.co.uk
Raynaldo Rivera, 20, of Tempe, Arizona, surrendered to US authorities in Phoenix six days after a federal grand jury in Los Angeles returned an indictment charging him with conspiracy and unauthorised impairment of a protected computer.

Telegraph.co.uk

Where Investors Are Going - Consensus Report on Apple Inc. and Microsoft ...
Businessweek
AP Top Technology News At 3:04 am EDT JAKARTA, INDONESIA -- (Marketwire) -- 08/27/12 -- Moments ago, Investors-Alliance.com introduced new coverage of Apple Inc . (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Microsoft Corp oration (NASDAQ: MSFT). Full outlook, analysis and ...

TSMC rejected billions from Apple and Qualcomm for exclusive access
Inquirer
By Lawrence Latif FAB FOR HIRE TSMC rebuffed offers from Apple and Qualcomm for exclusive access to its production capacity. TSMC cuts wafers for just about every chip designer of note including AMD, Broadcom, Nvidia and Qualcomm, but according to ...

Inquirer

Lockdown Facebook Photo Albums: Hands-on with McAfee Social Protection App
PCWorld
By Sarah Jacobsson Purewal , PCWorld Aug 29, 2012 5:47 AM McAfee's latest Facebook app, called McAfee Social Protection, lets users create protected Facebook albums that are viewable only to the users they choose to share with.

MongoDB Upgrade Fills NoSQL Analytics Void
InformationWeek
Latest release of 10Gen's database sidesteps complicated MapReduce processing with a new data-aggregation framework. That distances MongoDB from NoSQL rivals including Cassandra, HBase, and Riak. By Doug Henschen InformationWeek 10Gen, ...

Google Wallet functionality expanding to counter Apple's Passbook
Apple Insider
By Sam Oliver Google has revealed plans to enhance its Wallet service with location-aware store cards, boarding passes and event tickets, much like the Passbook feature found in Apple's forthcoming iOS 6 iPhone update. New features planned for the ...

Report traces Apple Store turmoil all the way to Tim Cook
Fortune (blog)
By Philip Elmer-DeWitt August 29, 2012: 6:24 AM ET FORTUNE -- After Apple (AAPL) public relations released a statement calling staffing cutbacks at its Apple Stores a "mistake" that was being reversed, many thought that John Browett's days at the ...

Google Breaks Protocol, Promotes Nexus 7 Tablet on Home Page
eWeek
Google took its promotion of the Nexus 7 to a new level, posting an ad for the tablet on its usually sparse home page. The timing of move, following the verdict of the Samsung-Apple case, is curious. Google officials have been fastidious about tidying ...

Bill Nye claims teaching kids creationism sabotages the future of the U.S.
Examiner.com
Related topics K-12 Education Schools evolution creationism Education Science In a short video released on Big Think this week, American scientist William Sanford "Bill" Nye claimed that the teaching of creationism in schools is undermining children ...

Examiner.com

China is Fastest-Growing Android and iOS Market [REPORT]
Mashable
The country leads with an astonishing 401% year-over-year growth between this and last July, demonstrating the power of its growing middle class and vast population of more than 1.3 billion people, the report said. Other emerging economies such as ...

Battle.net no longer accessible in Iran
Computerandvideogames.com
By Christine Caruana for CVG Australia To comply with new US trade restrictions and economic sanction laws, Blizzard has had to restrict players in Iran using its online service battle.net. It started with gamers from Iran raising issues they were ...

Logitech UE rolls out new wave of headphones and wireless speakers
CNET
The company's latest incarnation of the Ultimate Ears line of audio offerings includes headphones, Bluetooth speakers, and a Wi-Fi radio. Here's what we think. by Justin Yu Logitech purchased the Ultimate Ears headphone line way back in 2008.

Next-Gen Fitness Gadgets Will Sync to Bluetooth-Enabled Devices
Mashable
The next generation of sports and fitness gadgets and apps will be able to sync with a wider variety of devices — from smartphones, tablets, laptops and even TVs — anything that's Bluetooth enabled. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), ...

Hack on Saudi Aramco hit 30000 workstations, oil firm admits
Register
By John Leyden • Get more from this author Analysis Saudi Aramco said that it had put its network back online on Saturday, 10 days after a malware attack floored 30000 workstations at the oil giant. In a statement, Saudi Arabia's national oil firm said ...

Even Mighty Isis Can't Hurry Pay-With-Your-Phone Future
Wired (blog)
By Marcus Wohlsen The iPhone was introduced in 2007. In the five years since, the smartphone has leap-frogged into the leading ranks of the world's labor-saving devices. That's not hyperbole: Market research firm IHS iSuppli predicts that for the first ...

NASA Builds Your Own Private Satellite — With Google Android
Wired
By Klint Finley The Android powered PhoneStat during a high-altitude balloon test. It's only about the size of a coffee cup. Photo: NASA Ames Research Center What would you do with your own private satellite? If you haven't decided, you should.

Wired

How Amazon's cloud service is transforming computing
Times of India
SEATTLE — Within a few years, Amazon.com's creative destruction of both traditional book publishing and retailing may be footnotes to the company's larger and more secretive goal: giving anyone on the planet access to an almost unimaginable amount of ...

IBM unveils new mainframe, talks Watson as 'supercharged' Siri
Good Morning Silicon Valley (blog)
• A day after announcing a cloud-based software deal — a $1.26 billion purchase of HR software maker Kenexa — IBM is introducing new hardware Tuesday. The New York company is rolling out a new line of mainframe computers as mainframes enjoy brisk sales ...

How Facebook's Stealthy New Headquarters Blends In (FB) - Real Estate News
San Francisco Luxury News
What's new in real estate? Here is an interesting item we saw. You can check out an excerpt of it below. Now we've got an even better idea of what Facebook's new 2800-person campus will look like. On Monday, Facebook real-estate director John Tenanes ...

Grooveshark Android App Returns to Google Play
PC Magazine
By Chloe Albanesius The Grooveshark music app has returned to Google Play more than a year after it was removed. The music-streaming service allows users to search, play, and discover songs from the desktop or mobile apps. But Grooveshark has run into ...

GM Wants to Double Cadillac 2010 US Sales in Two Years
Businessweek
By Tim Higgins on August 28, 2012 General Motors Co. (GM), the largest US automaker, aims to double the 2010 sales of its Cadillac luxury brand within two years, Don Butler, the brand's vice president for marketing, said today.

How to Handle a Stuck Gas Pedal
Cars.com News (blog)
Have you seen the harrowing footage of the Kia Sorento that malfunctioned and sped up to 115 mph on a Missouri highway last weekend? The driver, Lauri Ulvestad, managed to dial 911 with one hand and drive her-out-of-control car with other, ...

'Monster larvae' mystery dating 200 years solved
Examiner.com
Related topics Strange News Monster larvae mystery solved? According to scientists, the 200-year-old case has been pieced together using genetic testing recently. After centuries of seeing the babies, experts have not been able to discover an ...

Examiner.com

Support for Tesla stretches to a US museum and two movies
ZDNet
Summary: Nikola Tesla has been neglected as an inventor, but The Oatmeal has helped raise more than $1 million to set up a Tesla museum in New York, and there are plans for two movies about his life. By Jack Schofield for Jack's Blog | August 29, ...

ZDNet

Canon Adds Two New Cameras to EOS Line
TV Technology
LAKE SUCCESS, NY—Canon is launching two new cameras to its EOS product line. The EOS C500 4K Digital Cinema Camera targets high-end film production while the C100 Digital Video Camera was designed for “beginning filmmakers working on a budget,” ...

TV Technology

Twitter stops displaying names of third-party tweet services
Los Angeles Times
Twitter has stopped displaying the names of third-party services used to send tweets. This means you will no longer see that tweets on Twitter's website and mobile app have been sent from services such as Tweet-bot, Seesmic, HootSuite and others.

Space elevator project shoots for the moon
Tehran Times
A space elevator capable of shuttling robots or humans from the Earth to space remains decades away. But a company headed by a former NASA researcher says it can build a space elevator on the moon using today's technology. The LiftPort Group wants to ...

LG Unveils 4.7-Inch Optimus L9 With Translator App
PC Magazine
By Chloe Albanesius LG today unveiled the LG Optimus L9, a 4.7-inch smartphone running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The L9 packs a 1-GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM, an IPS display, and a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera, as well as a VGA camera ...

Nothing in Blackberry 7 will be in Blackberry 10, according to RIM's CEO
Ubergizmo
By Tyler Lee on 08/29/2012 03:41 PDT RIM's upcoming Blackberry 10 is expected to usher in a new era for the company, and hopefully produce devices and a platform that will prove to be competitive against Apple's iOS and Google's Android.

Ubergizmo

India approves $4.1 bln green vehicle push over 8 years
Reuters
* Sets ambitious target of 6 million vehicles by 2020 * Govt to spend 130-140 bln rupees on plan * Technology seen as prohibitively expensive in India (adds quotes, details) NEW DELHI, Aug 29 (Reuters) - India's government has approved a 230 billion ...

Florence Detlor: Oldest user on Facebook is 101 years old
Alaska Dispatch
The social media giant's chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, posted a photo on the site Tuesday of herself with Detlor and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. The caption read: “Honored to meet Florence Detlor, who at 101 years old is the oldest ...

The Kindle Wants To Be Free
Slate Magazine
Next week or next year, Amazon will start giving away its e-reader. Here's why. By Farhad Manjoo|Posted Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012, at 5:47 PM ET Amazon founder Jeff Bezos holds the Kindle Fire on Sep. 28, 2011 in New York City My record on predictions ...

Where Does Consumer Tech Go to Die?
By Brandon Smith
Samsara, a new documentary directed by American filmmaker Ron Fricke is “a non-verbal guided meditation on the cycle of birth, death and rebirth.” The film explores many layers and components of the cycle of life, one of which investigates ...
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Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 Review

Review Roundup: Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1
Washington Post
Samsung released the Galaxy Note 10.1 to stores on Thursday, looking to take on the iPad with a few tricks up its metaphorical sleeve. The new Note tablet has a few features that set it apart, most notably a stylus and the ability to run a select ...

Tech supporting BYOD 'not quite there'
ZDNet
Primarily, this means that enterprise administrative control and settings cannot be implemented in these devices, Yu said in his keynote speech during the Infocomm Technology Roadmap 2012 conference held here Friday. Even when installed, users tend to ...

How to keep tech talent engaged and motivated
Boston.com (blog)
Boston is a technology hotbed right now, ripe with startups, innovative technologies, and a deep pool of engineering talent. With a healthy local VC community, an expanded presence of tech giants like Google, Amazon, and Facebook , and a consistent ...

When it's best to hold off on buying the latest gadget
USA TODAY
If you're determined to own cutting edge tech gadgets, it can drive you to the poor house. Every year ... With technology moving so fast, gear that's less than top of the line or latest generation is usually more than good enough for most users' needs ...
Steam's 'big picture' mode gets beta in early September, could lead to Steam ...
The Verge
By Samit Sarkar on August 17, 2012 10:49 am @SamitSarkar 17Comments Steam's long-awaited "big picture" mode, which reformats the PC client to be more couch-friendly and could pave the way for a living-room device running Steam, will launch in beta in ...

Shamoon malware cripples Windows PCs to cover tracks
Computerworld
By Gregg Keizer Computerworld - A new Trojan horse tries to covers its tracks by crippling the victim's computer after stealing data, a security researcher said today. Dubbed "Shamoon" by most antivirus companies, the malware has been used in targeted ...

Researcher finds serious SMS spoofing flaw on iOS
ZDNet
Summary: A well-known security researcher urges iPhone users to distrust the legitimacy of text messages at first sight. By Ryan Naraine for Zero Day | August 17, 2012 -- 17:09 GMT (10:09 PDT) A security research who goes by the handle "pod2g" has ...

Google Introduces Mayan Ruins to 'Street View'
Fox News
Mexico City – Along with allowing users to take looks at some of the most famous locales in the US and Europe, Google Inc. is adding interactive images of dozens of pre-Hispanic ruins to the "Street View" feature on its Google Maps website.

Color-Changing Rubber Robot Could Aid Animal Study
National Geographic
The new robot, filled with air and glowing fluid. SA Morin, Harvard University and Science/AAAS. By National Geographic News staff A new soft, quivering robot walks when inflated and changes color when colored fluid—including glow-in-the-dark liquid—is ...

National Geographic

Citizen scientists may beat the pros in identifying at-risk species
Ars Technica
by Kate Shaw - Aug 17, 2012 4:00 pm UTC The ubiquitous image of a lone polar bear lumbering across melting sheets of ice has come to represent the plight of endangered species everywhere. Surprisingly, despite the symbolic role that this species plays, ...

Twitter announces API changes, give developers six months to adapt
Los Angeles Times
Twitter announced changes to its API, and the company wants developers to incorporate them within six months or risk being shut out. The company said the changes to its API will help Twitter create a "more consistent Twitter experience," which is the ...

Mystery continues: Why is the sun 'too round'?
Christian Science Monitor
In a strange twist of solar physics, the shape of our sun is rounder than previously thought, yet at the same time, it is also flatter — or squashed — more often, making the star wider at the middle than at its poles, scientists say.

Christian Science Monitor

Apple stock hits all-time high amid iPhone, iPad anticipation
Los Angeles Times
Apple's stock has hit an all-time high, reaching $645.48 in early trading Friday. The surge comes ahead of a widely expected new iPhone rumored to be launched next month. Analysts also speculate that a smaller iPad may be in the works.

The Discovery of Global Warming [Excerpt]
Scientific American
By Spencer Weart CLIMATE CHANGE: Scientists have spent the last 150 years proving that human emissions of greenhouse gases have created global warming. Image: Courtesy of NASA Showcasing more than fifty of the most provocative, original,...

Scientific American

Nokia to Offer Zynga Games for Users of Cheaper Phones
Businessweek
By Ville Heiskanen on August 17, 2012 Nokia Oyj (NOK1V), seeking to fend off competition from Android devices in growth markets such as Asia, said it plans to start offering two Zynga Inc. games on its cheaper mobile phones. “Draw Something” and “Zynga ...

Can Facebook Learn From Microsoft, Kodak Mistakes?
Forbes
When I see a company making bold decisions I find it useful to see what happened when other companies made similarly bold decisions in the past. In Facebook (FB) I am seeing a lot of Microsoft's tendency toward invasiveness and a lot Kodak's oblivion.

EPA Defeats Challenge to Higher Ethanol Levels in Fuel
Bloomberg
A challenge to an Environmental Protection Agency regulation allowing higher concentrations of corn-based ethanol in gasoline was thrown out by the US Appeals Court in Washington on grounds that the groups pressing the case had no right to sue.

'Shark Foursquare' app tracks all your shark friends in real time
DVICE
If the Discovery Channel has taught us anything, it's that any human who steps in the ocean will almost definitely be devoured by a great white shark. (Save yer comment, it's not true). Thankfully scientists have devised a novel way to track these ...

DVICE

Disney Clones Human Faces to Make Life-Like Robots
Mashable
Disney Research in Zurich, Switzerland, has developed a new process called “Physical Face Cloning” that allows it to create realistic animatronic characters. The technology scans the head of a human before putting the coordinates and expressions into a ...

Prelude: Watch the Making of 'Halo 4'
Forbes
Throughout the development of Halo 4, it has become clear that 343 Industries has something to prove. When Halo creators Bungie parted ways with Microsoft, 343 undertook one of the most challenging projects in the industry: Live up to and exceed the ...

Forbes

Hunger Games Becomes Amazon's Best-Selling Book Series
Wall Street Journal
By SAABIRA CHAUDHURI Amazon.com Inc. said the Hunger Games trilogy has outsold the Harry Potter series, making Suzanne Collins's work the online retailer's best-selling book series of all time, including print and Kindle book sales.

Text Book Encoded In DNA
Discovery News
Imagine a future where the amount of data on tyhe Web could be saved to a thumb drive. A storage medium already exists that can hold this amount of information. It's call DNA. DNA typically stores biological information in cells that direct structures ...

Fiat announces a 500 Turbo, and it isn't an Abarth
CNET
At the Concorso Italiano in Monterey, Calif. today, Fiat announced an additional version of its diminutive 500 model, a turbo version with 135 horsepower. by Wayne Cunningham Fiat adds the 500 Turbo to its line-up in the US, dropping in between the ...

Shiny new Windows 8 Skype app leaks online
VentureBeat
Microsoft is apparently getting ready to launch a new version of Skype that's been optimized for the company's forthcoming Windows 8 operating system. Windows blog Neowin managed to get its hands on the new app today, which is clearly marked as a...

VentureBeat

Samsung Semi to expand Silicon Valley R&D facility
Power Management Design Line
SAN FRANCISCO—Samsung Semiconductor Inc. signed a deal Thursday (Aug. 16) with California's governor and the Santa Clara County board of supervisors to expand its R&D facility in San Jose, Calif. Samsung Semi—a subsidiary of South Korean conglomerate ...

Hyrule Historia, the Book that Exposed the Official Zelda Timeline, is Headed ...
Geekosystem
by James Plafke | 11:42 am, August 17th, 2012 Not too long ago, Nintendo finally shed light on the official The Legend of Zelda timeline. Nintendo always said there is a cohesive order of events between each and every official Zelda title, ...

Tesla CEO Musk Gets Option to Buy 5.27 Million Shares
Businessweek
By Alan Ohnsman on August 16, 2012 Elon Musk, Tesla Motors Inc. (TSLA)'s chief executive officer and co-founder, was granted an option to buy 5.27 million shares as part of a long-term compensation plan to keep him at the maker of luxury electric cars ...

SRT Viper Launch Edition, 2013 Jaguars, Pebble Beach: Today's Car News
Motor Authority
By Joel Feder Joel oversees High Gear Media's social media channels, video, and OEM outreach, while also reporting the latest automotive news. A Minnesota native... More The Range Rover has a split personality, which makes it hard for the competition ...

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