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IBM Pays Globalfoundries $1.5B to Take Chip Unit: Here's Why: Video - Bloomberg:
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IBM agreed to pay Globalfoundries $1.5 billion to take an unprofitable chip-manufacturing unit off its hands. Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Semiconductor Analyst Anand Srinivasan reports on “In The Loop.” (Source: Bloomberg 10/20)


New York Times
Growth for Yahoo, at Last, but Strategy Is No Clearer
New York Times
Marissa Mayer, chief of Yahoo, said she expected mobile revenue to top ... go to catch up to Google and Facebook, which are continuing to gain ground in ... on “building block acquisitions” to replace its often outdated technology. ... Yahoo's 10-year search partnership with Microsoft allows Yahoo to use ...
Yahoo posts gains in sales, profits but pressure still on - USA TODAY
Yahoo Sales, Profit Gains May Allay Mayer Critics - Wall Street Journal
Yahoo Rallies After Reaping Alibaba Riches - Forbes


New York Times
China Attack Aims at iCloud, Apple's Service for Storage
New York Times
HONG KONG — For Apple in China, trouble seems to be the new normal. ... They are also similar to recent attacks on Google, Yahoo and Microsoft aimed ... a browser offered by the Qihoo 360 Technology Company that is popular in ...
China-backed hackers target Apple's iCloud users: blog - Reuters


New York Times
Apple Pay: Seamless in Stores, but Quirky Online
New York Times
Apple says Apple Pay is more secure than a traditional credit card payment, because ... AFTER I used Apple Pay for a day of shopping in stores, a few things ... If you are near a terminal and have an app open, like Facebook, the phone ... Neither Amazon nor Applewould comment on whether they were ...
As Apple Pay Arrives, Witnessing the Next Step in Money. Maybe. - New York Times
Review: Apple Pay in Action - ABC News
Apple Surges Ahead In Breakout Earnings - Forbes


Wall Street Journal
iPad Air 2 Review: The Best Tablet Needs to Work Harder
Wall Street Journal
Apple's newest tablet is thinner than ever, but whether it is for you depends on where you plan on holding it—and what you want to do with it. WSJ's Joanna Stern reviews the Air 2. Photo/Video: Drew Evans/The Wall Street Journal. By. Joanna Stern. Joanna ...

Tech startup Arx Pax introduces hoverboard prototype
SFGate
A Los Gatos, Calif. company called Arx Pax has created a working prototype hover board they call Hendo which uses ...


Mashable
Google and Others Sink $542 Million Into Mystery Virtual Reality Venture
Mashable
Search giant Google, along with several other interests, just invested more than half a billion dollars in a mysterious venture called Magic Leap, a company that, based on various reports, is working on technology focused on the virtual reality and augmented ...


Forbes
Apple Pay is fast, easy, and boring — so it will be huge
VentureBeat
I only had to use Apple Pay a few times before I got over the novelty of paying for stuff with my phone. That's not necessarily a bad thing — the future of payments shouldn't have to constantly remind you that you're doing something new and different, which is ...


Reuters
Apple, supplier GT strike deal to unseal info, shutter Arizona plant
Reuters
(Reuters) - Apple and GT Advanced Technologies Inc struck an agreement on Tuesday that will let GT begin the shutdown of key Arizona operations, and shed some more light on why the former stock market darling abruptly filed for bankruptcy this month.


Fox Business
Daimler sells stake in Tesla for $780 million
SFGate
Daimler AG says it has sold its 4 percent stake in electric car maker Tesla for $780 million. The buyer was not disclosed. The Germany-based parent of Mercedes-Benz says its partnership with Tesla Motors Inc. is unaffected. Tesla made the battery packs and ...


New York Times
FTC Names Privacy Expert as Chief Technologist
ABC News
The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday named an outspoken Internet privacy expert, Ashkan Soltani, as its chief technologist in a move that signals the agency's focus on protecting consumers' online privacy. A computer scientist and technology ...
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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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Apple Preparing Upgrade to iCloud

Apple Preparing Upgrade to iCloud
Wall Street Journal
By JESSICA E. VASCELLARO Apple Inc. is preparing an upgrade of its online service iCloud that includes new photo-sharing features, according to people familiar with the matter. The new features, expected to be announced at Apple's world-wide developer ...

Siri updated to give witty responses to 'best smartphone ever' query
Apple Insider
By AppleInsider Staff When asked for the "best smartphone ever," Siri will now provide a range of witty responses to users rather than giving details on the Nokia Lumia 900. Last week it was noted that asking Siri "What is the best smartphone ever?

Mobile OS Madness Ahead In June
InformationWeek
When Apple, Google, and Microsoft all hold developer events in San Francisco in June, you'll get a peek at what's next for smartphones. Here's what might pop up. June is going to be a big month for iOS, Windows Phone, and Android.

MacBook Pro refreshes may be imminent, say reports
Computerworld
By Gregg Keizer Computerworld - Hints that Apple will soon refresh its iMac desktop and MacBook Pro laptop lines accumulated today as several Mac-centric blogs revealed new details gleaned from the Web and unnamed sources. Analysts who cover Apple ...

Changing Windows RT browser rules a tough antitrust case
CNET
Mozilla might contemplate antitrust action to get full-fledged Firefox onto Windows RT. But with ARM processors and iPad sales, competition is different for Microsoft now than in the 1990s. by Stephen Shankland May 14, 2012 9:59 AM PDT Follow @stshank ...

Kaspersky probe: Apple doesn't take security seriously enough
CNET
Probing the Mac OS for malware vulnerabilities at Apple's request, Kaspersky doesn't think the company is paying enough attention to security. by Lance Whitney May 14, 2012 9:09 AM PDT Follow @lancewhit Apple has asked one of its more outspoken critics ...

Kickstarter API Bug Reveals Unlaunched Projects
PC Magazine
By Chloe Albanesius Crowd-sourced funding website Kickstarter revealed Sunday that a bug involving its private API allowed data from unlaunched projects to be accessible from that API. Kickstarter engineers discovered the bug on Friday, ...

Facebook CEO Turns 28, IPO Could Be $100B Gift
ABC News
He famously wears a hoodie, jeans and sneakers, and he was born the year Apple introduced the Macintosh. But Mark Zuckerberg is no boy-CEO. Facebook's chief executive turned 28 on Monday, setting in motion the social network's biggest week ever.

ABC News

Report: Zynga Buys Mobile Gaming Startup Wild Needle
PC Magazine
By Angela Moscaritolo Gaming giant Zynga has continued its recent buying spree, acquiring yet another mobile gaming startup, according to a new report. TechCrunch is reporting that Zynga picked up Mountain View, Calif.-based Wild Needle.

Giant manta rays are restless travelers, says satellite study (+video)
Christian Science Monitor
Giant manta rays, up to 25 feet wide, are more mobile than expected. A satellite survey shows a group of manta rays traveled 621 miles in two weeks. By LiveScience / May 14, 2012 Nandi is first manta ray ever displayed at US aquarium, located at the ...

Christian Science Monitor

Nvidia, Intellectual Ventures Buy 500 LTE-Related Patents from IPWireless
eWeek
Nvidia, which has promised to bring Tegra LTE chips to the United States later this year, has purchased, with Intellectual Ventures, 500 patents related to LTE and LTE-Advanced. Nvidia and Intellectual Ventures (IV) are flexing some new muscle, ...

Court Issues Mixed Ruling in Apple-Samsung Patent Case
Wall Street Journal
By BRENT KENDALL In a mixed ruling, a federal appeals court on Monday revived Apple Inc.'s bid to block US sales of Samsung Electronics Co.'s Galaxy Tab tablet computer, but rejected other Apple legal claims that sought to bar sales of Samsung...

Facebook to close IPO books Tuesday
Reuters
By Olivia Oran May 14 (Reuters) - Facebook Inc will close the books on its mammoth $10.6 billion initial public offering Tuesday, according to a source familiar with the deal. The No. 1 social network is scheduled on Thursday to price its shares, ...

Google Nexus tablet tipped in Samsung codes
SlashGear
There's a whole new wave of evidence this week being revealed by none other than Google that points toward them working with Samsung on the next Android Nexus tablet. A Nexus device, for those of you that do not know, is a device that works with ...

Apple's new iPad rebranded 'WiFi + Cellular' in some markets
Washington Post
Apple has changed the branding on its new iPad, dropping the “4G” designation. Instead, the company is calling the updated tablet “WiFi + Cellular,” after facing some criticism that its iPad runs only on what US networks call “4G,” as opposed to what ...

Pirate Pay torrent 'blocker' backed by Microsoft
BBC News
A Russian company has developed software it says can disrupt and prevent people from downloading pirated content. Pirate Pay has been backed by Microsoft and has so far worked with Walt Disney Studios and Sony Pictures to stop "thousands" of downloads.

BBC News

AT&T's Chicago problem: Why LTE slows down in the Windy City
GigaOM
By Kevin Fitchard May. 14, 2012, 10:13am PT No Comments AT&T's new LTE network is blazing fast, with recent nationwide studies showing Ma Bell Mobile is beating out archrival Verizon when it comes to bandwidth punch. But independent network tester ...

Facebook Needs To Take Marketing Seriously
Forbes
By Nate Elliott Nate Elliott is a Principal Analyst at Forrester Research serving Interactive Marketing professionals. Follow him on Twitter at @nate_elliott My colleague Melissa Parrish and I have been thinking about the Facebook IPO.

Forbes

Droid RAZR Maxx Cut To $199 At Verizon Wireless, Source Says RAZR Price Cut To ...
TechCrunch
Watch out for falling prices! Verizon Wireless just cut the price of the RAZR Maxx to an attractive $199. That puts it on par with the iPhone 4S and Galaxy Nexus, making the 32GB iPhone 4S and BlackBerry Bold 9930 as Verizon's only phones north of $199 ...

TechCrunch

Another perfect space shuttle landing in NYC
msnbc.com
Space shuttle Enterprise has landed in New York, again. Two weeks after flying into John F. Kennedy International Airport mounted atop a modified Boeing 747, Enterprise — NASA's original prototype space shuttle — was off-loaded by crane from the back ...

msnbc.com

SPACE.com Staff
Space.com
The private spaceflight company SpaceX is preparing to launch a robotic capsule to the International Space Station this week, following a series of delays that postponed the historic first flight of a commercial spacecraft to the orbiting outpost.

Buffalo WZR-D1800H 802.11ac router shipping now
SlashGear
It was only a couple of weeks ago that Netgear unveiled the first 802.11ac wireless router, promising wireless transfer speeds of up to 1300Mbit/s. They may have been the first to announce such a router, but Buffalo seems to be the first to actually ...

SlashGear

How a Houston lawyer tracks down missing moon rocks
Christian Science Monitor
Attorney Joe Gutheinz, a former NASA investigator, looks for missing pieces of the moon that returned with the Apollo astronauts. By Michael Graczyk, Associated Press / May 14, 2012 A man is selling fragments from this rock, which he says is from the ...

Christian Science Monitor

GameStop to sell Steam Wallet cards in-store
Ars Technica
by Casey Johnston - May 14, 2012 3:20 pm UTC GameStop will begin selling Steam Wallet cards for Valve's Steam platform starting May 15, the company announced Monday. Customers will be able to purchase the cards in-store, giving them another way to keep ...

Apple provides sneak peek at iOS apps for summer 2012
The Guardian (blog)
Apple is expected to unveil the iOS 6 software at its WWDC conference in June, and while proprietary maps, Siri APIs for developers and a revamped App Store have been rumoured, the exact details won't be known until the event. However, Apple is showing ...

The Guardian (blog)

Russian Satellite Takes 121 Million Megapixel Image And Video Of Earth
RedOrbit
A Russian weather satellite has taken a 121 million megapixel image of planet Earth, over 22000 miles above the surface. The image was taken by Russia's Electro-L satellite, and unlike other images taken by spacecrafts, it was taken in one single shot.

RedOrbit

Microsoft Bing Friends Facebook
InformationWeek
In an effort to outdo Google's social search integration, Microsoft has tagged Facebook. Here's what the move means. By Thomas Claburn InformationWeek Search is going social, like it or not. In a few weeks, Microsoft plans to roll out a revised version ...

Best Tech Events This Week (Internet Week, NYU ITP, TechCrunch ...
By Gary Sharma
A citywide open house event for tech companies. Curious New Yorkers can stop by and check out their workspaces, see how they work, and meet the people leading the technologymovement in NYC. With Betaworks, Gilt Groupe, Sonar, Artsy ...
Betabeat -- News, gossip and...

Latest Yahoo CEO upheaval takes tech's focus
MarketWatch
By Rex Crum, MarketWatch SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — The scandal over Yahoo Inc.'s former chief executive, Scott Thompson, took the spotlight in the tech sector Monday on a day in which most tech stocks were in the red. Thompson resigned Sunday ...

10 Ways To Stifle Tech Competition
InformationWeek
"We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours," he said. Microsoft said as much protesting the European Commission's 2004 finding that the company had abused its PC industry dominance.

Female tech leaders dwindling, survey finds
San Jose Mercury News
About 30 percent of those polled said their information technology organization has no women at all in management. Yet only about half of survey respondents consider women to be under-represented in the IT department. Although women have reached senior ...

Advanced Technology Driving an Unprecedented Combination of Power Savings ...
MarketWatch (press release)
This powerful new platform takes full advantage of Intel's new 22nm 3-D transistor technology, which consumes only half the power at the same performance level as 2-D transistors on 32nm process technology, and ushers in a new era of intelligent ...

New Tech Spenders in Feeding Frenzy
Wall Street Journal
Groupon said the purpose of the deals has been to snag talent to build up product andtechnology offerings. That is a shift from last year, when Groupon focused on buying daily-deal sites in international markets to expand its footprint.

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