Twitterers Dazzled by New iPad Retina Display

Twitter Dazzled by New iPad Retina Display
PC Magazine
New iPad owners took to Twitter today to rave about the Retina display, among other things. By Chloe Albanesius The new iPad has arrived and if Twitter is any indication, many an Apple fan is currently gazing at the updated tablet's Retina display, ...

Google faces scrutiny from states
San Jose Mercury News
By Mike Swift Google (GOOG) has long faced privacy and antitrust problems with federal and European regulators. But states appear increasingly willing to confront the Internet giant over those same concerns, and also could exact significant financial ...

LightSquared Says FCC Lacks Power to Block Proposed Service
BusinessWeek
By Todd Shields on March 16, 2012 Philip Falcone's LightSquared Inc. (SKYT) today told the US Federal Communications Commission it can't legally block the company's proposed wireless service, calling the agency's proposal to do so “astounding.

Oink Privacy Hole Exposes Everything You've Uploaded
PC Magazine
By Mark Hachman A Pulse employee discovered a security hole in Oink on Friday, which allows anyone to download personal information belonging to another, just by knowing their username. PCMag was able to confirm the breach the same way Cristina Cordova ...

iPad resellers gird for high demand of new tablet
Washington Post
March 16 (Bloomberg) -- As supplies of Apple Inc.'s new iPad run thin after it goes on sale today, Fred Hadd will feel the pinch as much as anyone. Hadd owns Computer Village, a reseller of electronics with outlets in South Dakota, Montana and Wyoming...

Verizon iPad Works On T-Mobile Too! Sort Of
PC Magazine
By Sascha Segan If you buy the new 4G iPad, it comes with an unlocked MicroSIM card slot. That means the Verizon Wireless iPad will work on AT&T's HSPA+ 21 network, as MacRumors discovered. (It won't work on AT&T's LTE network because it's missing that ...

Scientists unravel mystery of humongous squid eyeballs
Christian Science Monitor
Living at extreme ocean depths, the colossal squid and its cousin, the giant squid, has unusually large eyes. A group of researchers say they now know what accounts for the animals' huge peepers. By Eoin O'Carroll, Staff / March 16, 2012 In 2007, ...

Christian Science Monitor

Microsoft Office 15 will open Office experience to tablets, smartphones: report
Christian Science Monitor
By Matthew Shaer, Correspondent / March 16, 2012 Late last month, Microsoft launched a consumer preview of Windows 8, the latest iteration of its popular operating system, and the first to be designed as a cross-platform OS – software for use, ...

Christian Science Monitor

Google Sued Over Bogus Android Apps, Return Policy
PC Magazine
By Chloe Albanesius A pair of Android users have sued Google over the company's app download policies, accusing the search giant of profiting off bogus apps and providing an insufficient window of time in which they can return underperforming apps.

Infinity Blade II 1.0.3 Retina Quality Review
SlashGear
For both of the newest models of the iPad, Apple has chosen the game series Infinity Blade to show off the most impressive gaming the tablets were capable of – today Infinity Blade II is where it's at for Retina-quality graphics.

Leaked Exploit Prompts Researcher to Publish Blueprint for Critical RDP ...
PCWorld
By Lucian Constantin, IDG News Luigi Auriemma, the researcher who discovered a recently patched critical vulnerability in Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), published a proof-of-concept exploit for it after a separate working exploit, ...

VIDEO: Woz Lines Up Overnight for iPad 3 at California Mall
Tom's Guide
As the co-founder of Apple, Steve Wozniak is a technophile with some serious connections. However, just because he can call in a favor at Apple and get an iPad delivered to him without having wait outside at all hours of the night, that doesn't mean he ...

Nokia Lumia update to bring WiFi hotspot support
SlashGear
Nokia's Lumia Windows Phone handsets will soon be updated to support tethering, according to the FAQ section of the Nokia Connects website. This means that a Nokia Lumia phone can act as a mobile WiFi hotspot through which your other devices can ...

SlashGear

Inside the iPad 3: Tearing Apart Apple's Latest Creation
Tom's Hardware Guide
The iPad 3 launched this morning to queues at stores around the world (unless you went to Walmart at midnight last night). It's a tradition for the most die-hard of Apple fans to camp out for the latest products. Now that the crowds are dispersing, ...

Pressure builds over Apple App Store fraud
Sydney Morning Herald
In a little more than an hour, Ryan Matthew Pierson racked up $US437.71 in iTunes charges for virtual currency that he could use to buy guns, nightclubs and cars in iMobster, a popular iPhone game. One problem: Pierson, a technology writer in Texas, ...

Elder Scrolls MMO Announcement Reportedly Coming Soon
1UP.com
By Chris Pereira, 03/16/2012 Since this is the week of the pipe dream, what with a sequel to Wasteland being funded and a release date for Diablo III finally being made official, now is as good a time as any for some juicy rumors to be floated.

Bright Galaxies with Black Hole Hearts Caught Bending Light Into Cosmic Lens
Space.com
by Clara Moskowitz, SPACE.com Assistant Managing Editor The intense gravity from extra-bright galaxies with huge black holes at their cores is bending light to create cosmic magnifying glasses, astronomers say. Using the Hubble Space Telescope, ...

Droid Razr Maxx's longevity tops Galaxy Note's stylus
PhysOrg.com
With so many Android smartphones on the market these days, many sporting quite similar screen sizes and underlying technical specs, manufacturers are having to find new ways to differentiate their products. Two of the latest gadgets are cases in point.

PhysOrg.com

Windows 8 Tablets: Ready, Set...
CIO Today
By Barry Levine With the launch of Microsoft's tablet-friendly Windows 8 expected later this year, a number of manufacturers, including Lenovo, Dell, Nokia, Samsung, Hewlett-Packard and Asus plan offerings to take advantage of Windows 8's Metro ...

CIO Today

BioWare Mass Effect 3 Executive Producer Casey Hudson Addresses New Movie
Forbes
Electronic Arts and BioWare continue to come under attack from some fans and journalists for Mass Effect 3. Controversy has surrounded everything from (at first) the game's inclusion of same-sex male relationships to the game's Day One DLC to its ...

Forbes

Scrap the warp drive: New test shows neutrinos not faster than light
GCN.com
By Kevin McCaney It looks like warp speed, time travel and other cool stuff from science fiction are still fiction, after all. A new experiment at the Gran Sasso laboratory in Switzerland has found that neutrinos don't travel faster than light, ...

Could neutrino technology be deployed by the military?
The State Column
Researchers from the University of Rochester and North Carolina State University have communicated a message through 240 meters of stone (780 feet) using a beam of neutrinos for the very first time, a press release from the University of Rochester ...

iPhone Again Scores Top Spot in Customer Satisfaction
Datamation
Cnet: For the seventh time in a row, Apple's iPhone has captured first place in JD Power's semiannual smartphone customer satisfaction survey. The iPhone scored 839 points (out of 1000), followed by HTC smartphones with 798 points, Samsung with 769 ...

Apple releases OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Developer Preview 2
BGR
Apple on Friday released OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Developer Preview 2 to OS X developers. According to TheNextWeb, the Cupertino-based company also posted an extensive list of known issues and bugs within the latest operating system.

Nokia working on own tablet: design chief
Reuters
| HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia design chief Marko Ahtisaari is spending a third of his time on creating a tablet for the cellphone maker, which would stand out among hundreds of iPad-challengers, he said in an interview with Finnish magazine Kauppalehti ...

Test jump from 71581 feet sets up daredevil's outer-space plunge
Fox News
March 15 2012: Pilot Felix Baumgartner of Austria seen before his jump at the first manned test flight for Red Bull Stratos in Roswell, New Mexico. In this test he reach 71500 f) and landed safely.balazsgardi.com/Red Bull Content Pool March 15 2012: A...

New iPad Sans Siri: Calculated Move or Big Mistake?
International Business Times
By Surojit Chatterjee: Subscribe to Surojit's RSS feed If you have been following stories about the new iPad since the device was unveiled on March 7, 2012, you would have realized by now that Siri is missing, and for reasons unknown, as Apple is yet ...

International Business Times

iPad Test Notes: Speed (Versus Tegra 3)
Gizmodo
Apple made some bold claims about its new A5X chip, claiming it would give a 4x graphical boost over Nvidia's Tegra 3. At the same time, the Tegra 3 is a powerhouse of computational processing. So lets put 'em to the test. First, the usual caveat: ...

Early Snow Melts Mean Fewer Butterflies
RedOrbit
Long-term data suggests that an early snow melt in the Rocky Mountains starts a chain reaction that ends with decreased butterfly population. Biologists from Stanford University conducted the research on the Mormon Fritillary butterfly at Rocky ...

RedOrbit

China eyes tech breakthrough before shale gas leap
Reuters
* Eyes technology breakthrough between now and 2015 * Targets 6.5 bcm output in 2015, 60-100 bcm in 2020 * Aims to find 200 bcm proven recoverable reserves by 2015 * Second shale gas tender in April/May (Adds details, writes through) By Jim Bai and ...

Cisco to buy video tech company NDS for about $4B
BusinessWeek
By BARBARA ORTUTAY Cisco Systems Inc. is buying digital video technology company NDS Group Ltd. to enhance the range of products it sells to pay-TV providers and to expand in emerging markets. The roughly $4 billion deal would be Cisco's first major ...

United Tech to sell wind, rocket engine businesses
The Associated Press
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — United Technologies Corp. said Thursday that it will sell its rocket engine and wind power businesses to help finance its $16.5 billion purchase of aerospace supplier Goodrich Corp. The Hartford, Conn.

Intel Invests In Tobii Eye Tracker
Wall Street Journal (blog)
By Sven Grundberg The much talked about Swedish technology firm Tobii Technologies AB has landed a renowned investor. Computer Sweden reported [in Swedish] that Intel has invested 143 million Swedish kronor ($20.8 million) for a 10% stake in the ...

Imagination Tech Soars to Record on IPad Supply: London Mover
BusinessWeek
The UK maker of semiconductor devices has the highest growth potential among Europeantechnology companies covered by Goldman, said Schafer, along with analysts Alexander Duval and Jo Blackshaw. Demand for the company's products is growing “strongly,” ...

Tech-Savvy Hoosiers Anticipate iPad Release
WRTV Indianapolis
INDIANAPOLIS -- Tech-savvy Hoosiers are anxiously awaiting the arrival of the latest addition to Apple's iPad series. The Apple store in The Fashion Mall at Keystone opened Thursday night in anticipation of the heavy demand for the latest iPad on ...

State Dept. offering tech training to more women in Africa
ZDNet (blog)
By Rachel King | March 16, 2012, 1:30am PDT Summary: TechWomen is an international exchange that uses technology as a means to empower women and girls worldwide, particularly in North Africa and the Middle East. The US Department of State's Bureau of ...

Tech test drive: New iPad is everything Apple promises - and a little more
Pioneer Press
By Julio Ojeda-Zapata On the third-generation iPad, the pixels are so small as to be all but undetectable. (Pioneer Press: Julio Ojeda-Zapata) Is the high-resolution "Retina" display on Apple's new iPad as amazing as the company claims?

United Tech sees Q1 continuing operations profit flat
Reuters
Weaker-than-expected demand in China is largely to blame for the slip, United Tech executives said. "We are still highly confident in the guidance for the full year ... despite what will be a little choppy first quarter," Hayes said.

Altium and Microchip Technology Collaborate on New Board-Level Design Content
MarketWatch (press release)
CARLSBAD, Calif., March 16, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Altium announces a substantial expansion of Microchip Technology Inc.'s board-level components now available through AltiumLive, Altium's online content delivery system.

Tech Gears Up for M&A Boom
TheStreet.com
Hooper explained that the total addressable market for service provider video is $26 billion, adding that NDS will boost deployments of the company's Videoscapetechnology, which lets service providers deliver content over multiple devices.

TheStreet.com

DVDFab Homebrew Technology Clears the Way for Blu-ray Backup
MarketWatch (press release)
BEIJING, March 16, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Fengtao Software Inc., the leading multimedia software company majors in DVD, Blu-ray copy and video converter, has now announced a new technology in Blu-ray copy - StealthyClone.

iOra SharePoint Replication Technology Successfully Tested by US Coalition ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The CWID is a US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff-directed annual event that engages cutting-edge information technology, focusing on operational shortfalls identified by combatant commanders and government agencies. The results for the 2011 CWID ...

SXSW: Music and Tech, Together at Last
TIME
They're both glued to their Foursquare apps on their phones, and accidentally bump into each other in front of the Twitter FEED house, the 10-day interactive art space that combines electronica music and mobile app technology, with heavy corporate ...

TIME

Is Silicon Motion Technology's Cash Machine Slowing Down?
DailyFinance
Today, we'll see how it applies to Silicon Motion Technology (NAS: SIMO) . In this series, we measure how swiftly a company turns cash into goods or services and back into cash. We'll use a quick, relatively foolproof tool known as the cash conversion ...

Top Tech Buzzwords You Use But Can't Define
By Zoe Fox
The Global Language Monitor has released a list of the most confusing tech buzzwords of the decade, so far. ... Google received the patent for self-driving car technology and is already testing it out in Nevada. Image courtesy of Flickr Viernest.
Mashable » Tech

Commission's Assignment: Find Best Uses for Tech in Schools ...
By John Murrell
In response to a challenge from the FCC and the Department of Education, a group of experts has formed the Leading Education by Advancing Digital (LEAD) Commission to look for the best ways that technology can be used in the classroom.
AllThingsD

Algorithm Update: Google Focusing on Semantic Search Technology
By David Angotti
google semantic technology According to a recent interview with Amit Singhal, a top executive at Google Search, Google is planning on making drastic algorithmic changes in the near future in order to provide end users better search results.
Search Engine Journal

Tech Report: Google Plans Search Engine Revamp « CBS San ...
By Andre Torrez
KCBS Technology Analyst Larry Magid commented on the rumors that Google is going to do more of a semantic approach meaning trying to better determine what it is the searcher is looking for. For example if you were to type in the word, ...
CBS San Francisco

Bizdom Searching For Entrepreneurs To Launch Tech Start-Ups In ...
By Matt Roush
Throughout the three month accelerator, each startup receives intense mentorship and guidance from numerous experts in the area of sales, marketing and technology from Quicken Loans' extensive network and family of companies.
CBS Detroit

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Reasons you should and shouldn't buy the new iPad

The new iPad: Reasons you should and shouldn't buy it
Washington Post
Here are five reasons to buy — and not to buy — Apple's latest iPad, according to Washington Posttech blogger Hayley Tsukayama. If you're really into photos or video, then the screen is probably the single-most compelling reason to upgrade. . . . 

Apple iPad review: 'Retina Display' technology makes screen look like glowing paper
Washington Post
The tablet also offers a greatly improved camera on its back (a 5 megapixel shooter with technologysimilar to the one featured on the iPhone 4S), new 4G LTE options (for both Verizon and AT&T), and a considerably more powerful processor. . . .

IPad Maintains Apple's Lead: Tech by Rich Jaroslovsky
BusinessWeek
By Rich Jaroslovsky on March 14, 2012 Let's get right to the point: If you don't already have an iPad, chances are you'll be very happy with the third-generation model that goes on sale Friday. If you already have an iPad 2, there's little need to ... 

How to Use Technology to Beat Obama's March Madness Bracket
By Sam Laird
If you trust in tech, Pick My Bracket could give you a leg up on President Obama. It's fun to compare your picks against his in the bracket challenge, but also ends with a bit of a letdown. After finishing your picks, the site whisks you away to a ...
Mashable » US & World

iPad reviewed: "Like getting a new eyeglasses ... - Fortune Tech - CNN
By Philip Elmer-DeWitt
The Wall St. Journal's Walt Mossberg: A Million More Pixels Than HDTV. "The key upgrades are to those core features — the 9.7-inch screen and the data speed over cellular networks. These upgrades are massive. Using the new display is ...
Fortune Tech: Technology blogs,...

Dissected iPad reveals Samsung, Qualcomm parts
Reuters
By Noel Randewich and Poornima Gupta | SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple's new iPad uses chips made by Qualcomm, Broadcom, Samsung Electronics and other semiconductor makers, according to a firm that cracked open one of the devices.

New NASA Video Depicts the Moon's Fiery History
Wired News
By Adam Mann The man in the moon might not change from month to month, but the lunar surface didn't always look this way. A new NASA video depicts the fiery history of the moon, showing how the familiar shapes we see each night were actually caused by ...

New iPad foils reviewers' attempts to find legitimate faults
msnbc.com
The new iPad will be available on Friday, but reviews of it are already floating around — courtesy of those lucky enough to chosen by Apple for a sneak peek of the device. So what's being said about the latest Apple gadget?

Record-seeking skydiver makes 13-mile test jump
The Associated Press
Skydiving daredevil Felix Baumgartner is more than halfway toward his goal of setting a world record for the highest jump. Baumgartner lifted off Thursday for a test jump from Roswell, NM, aboard a 100-foot helium balloon. He rode inside a pressurized ...

The Associated Press

Google Hires Rose, Entrepreneur Founder of Digg
BusinessWeek
By Brian Womack on March 15, 2012 Google Inc. (GOOG), the world's largest Web-search provider, is hiring Kevin Rose, the founder of news- aggregation service Digg Inc., according to a person with knowledge of the matter.

Gas prices spike, and American motorists rumble with anger, frustration
Washington Post
Stephens City, Va. — Long before the coming of the internal combustion engine, Route 11 was a pioneer track known as the Great Wagon Road. Eventually the interstate highway stole the long-distance traffic, and Route 11 became a byway,...

'Diablo 3' finally gets a release date
msnbc.com
Blizzard's long awaited dungeon crawler, and one of the most eagerly awaited games of 2012 in general, finally has a release date. "Diablo 3" will arrive on both physical and digital store shelves on May 15. Knowing that demand for the game spans ...

Boffins build cyborg snails to generate electricity
Register
A team of scientists have successfully implanted a bioelectronic fuel cell into a living organism and used its blood sugar to charge a battery. The team from Potsdam, New York's Clarkson University (thankfully nothing to do with Top Gear) implanted a ...

ACM Awards Judea Pearl the Turing Award for Work On Artificial Intelligence
PC Magazine
By Michael J. Miller Artificial intelligence has recently seen some great developments: better search engines, improved speech recognition programs, IBM's Watson project, and more. Underlying all of these advances are models of machine learning.

'Deathstar' like object spotted near sun
The West Australian
A NASA video of a dark, disc shaped object hovering near the sun has set off a wave of speculation online as amateur astronomers try to figure out what the object could be. The video, taken from a NASA satellite and uploaded to Youtube by a man calling ...

Apple iPad Wi-Fi + 4G 16GB (2012)
CNET
With its much-touted Retina Display, better graphics and 4G support, is the new Apple iPad a worthy successor to the iPad 2? S/n Audio Video Sub text 1 CNET Asia 'video' logo 2 Apple's new iPad has arrived. The company calls it Resolutionary for its ...

Giant Squid's Basketball-Size Eyes Have Sperm Whale Vision
National Geographic
A museum technician shines a light on an eye of a dead colossal squid four years ago. Colossal squid corneas—relatively small parts of the animal's basketball-size eyes (file picture). Photograph by Marty Melville, Getty Images.

National Geographic

Lame hacker tool or trojan delivery device? Hands on with Anonymous-OS
Ars Technica
By Sean Gallagher | Published March 15, 2012 4:55 PM On March 13, an anonymous benefactor announced the availability of Anonymous-OS, a new live-bootable Linux distribution tailored for a... particular class of user. The package was posted on ...

ESP study debunked: Steer clear of rabbit hole, psychologists say
Los Angeles Times
By Amy Hubbard Psychic ability is real, and here's proof, Daryl Bem said in 2011. It was an exciting claim, but excitement fades with time -- and, often, with further investigation. The social psychologist at Cornell University did research that he ...

Los Angeles Times

Bioware to Fans Protesting Mass Effect 3's Ending: We're Listening
Forbes
The fan community has exploded with rage, the internet has been filled with competing op-eds, a petition has been started, and in a wonderful twist, thousands of dollars have been raised for sick children. Now, Bioware is beginning to respond to the ...

Forbes

Sprint Galaxy Nexus gets approved by FCC, one step closer to daylight
Engadget
By Brad Molen posted Mar 15th 2012 3:56PM The Samsung SPH-L700. It may sound like a silly combination of letters and numbers, but it just so happens to be the model number for Sprint's version of the Galaxy Nexus -- and it's officially made it through ...

iPad vs. iPad: Which 4G tablet should you choose?
GigaOm
By Kevin Fitchard Mar. 15, 2012, 3:51pm PT No Comments 3G and 4G tablets haven't exactly been hot sellers since their introduction two years ago. Driven by the big markup for the extra radios as well as the cost of the mobile data plans, customers are ...

GigaOm

Hey HTC Vivid Owners, Go Download Your Ice Cream Sandwich Update
TechCrunch
Despite launching last October, the Ice Cream Sandwich club is still a pretty exclusive one, and even moreso in the United States. Let's see, there's the Galaxy Nexus… and, yeah, that's really it. Surprisingly though, while HTC mentioned earlier this ...

TechCrunch

Human fossils hint at new species
BBC News
By Jonathan Amos Science correspondent, BBC News The remains of what may be a previously unknown human species have been identified in southern China. The bones, which represent at least five individuals, have been dated to between 11500 and 14500 ...

BBC News

SEC probes trading in pre-IPO tech shares
Washington Post
They've been some of the most coveted investments of recent years — pre-IPO shares oftechnology companies such as Facebook and Twitter — and the demand for them has spurred the emergence of a hot new private marketplace. But some investors in that ...

Cisco to acquire video technology company NDS Group for about $5B, including debt
Washington Post
Cisco Systems Inc. said Thursday that it will buy digital video technology company NDS Group Ltd. for about $5 billion, including debt. Cisco said buying NDS will accelerate the delivery of its Videoscape entertainment platform and help it grow in ...

How To Get Your Music & Tech Startup Funded Panel @ SXSW ...
By Dan Rys, Austin
SXSW's Getting Your Music/Tech Startup Funded panel brought together a spectrum of financial backers, from the bottom level to the very high end. Moderated by the...
DOPNEWS: Billboard

Tech Report: Encyclopaedia Britannica Stops Print Editions « CBS ...
By Keith Mizuguchi
It really shows that people no longer want printed editions.” KCBS Technology Analyst Larry Magid :Tech Report: Encyclopaedia Britannica Stops Print Editions. Magid said that people are not willing to spend the amount of money and find the ...
CBS San Francisco

Ask The Readers: What's Your Tech Spring Cleaning Routine ...
By Jason Fitzpatrick
Whether you actually time your technology cleaning with the first blooms of spring or not, we're interested in hearing all about your routines for keeping your machines clean and organized both inside and out.
How-To Geek

How floating touch technology works | Ubergizmo
By Edwin Kee
Remember our announcement on the Sony Xperia sola yesterday? Well, surely one of the biggest featuers of the Xperia sola would be the new touch sensor technology known as “floating touch”, where it lets you interact with the phone's ...
Ubergizmo

10 ways technology will change travel by 2020 | Matador Network
By Jason Wire
The way you travel today will not be the way you travel tomorrow.
Matador Network

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iPad Apps: 10 Hidden Gems

iPad Apps: 10 Hidden Gems
InformationWeek
Jeff Bertolucci 03/12/2012 Apple's iTunes Store has more than 140000 apps just for the iPad. You can't try all of them, of course, but here are 10 hidden gems worth the effort. There's one thing iPad owners don't have to worry about: A shortage of apps ... 

Apple projected to sell at least 1 million of new iPad on launch day
Apple Insider
By Neil Hughes This Friday's iPad launch will be another blockbuster for Apple, with one new analysis projecting that the company will sell at least one million on the first day alone. Analyst Gene Munster with Piper Jaffray said in a note to investors ... 

iPad With 4G LTE Technology Makes It a Truly Global Tablet
eWeek
NEWS ANALYSIS: Apple's new iPad will be a truly global tablet no matter which carrier users have, since both Verizon and AT&T versions will support LTE. When users buy Apple's new iPad (the company has deliberately shied away from calling it the iPad ...

New iPad aimed at sharpening Apple's tablet lead
Washington Post
March 7 (Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc. introduced a new version of the iPad, beefing up the two-year-old mobile computer with a sharper screen and faster chip to widen its lead over Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc. in the tablet market.

Star tech investor to teach at Stanford
San Jose Mercury News
By Gerry Shih Silicon Valley investor Peter Thiel will teach a class on startups at Stanford this spring. SAN FRANCISCO -- Peter Thiel, the superstar Silicon Valley investor, has famously dismissed university as a waste of time and money, ...

Porn site breached in hack attack
BBC News
Hackers claim to have stolen the details of more than 73000 subscribers to porn site Digital Playground. The data includes user names, email addresses and passwords. Also taken were the numbers, expiry dates and security codes for 40000 credit cards.
 
BBC News

IPhone Fails to Gain China Share as Samsung Lead Triples: Tech
Bloomberg
You need to enable Javascript to play media on Bloomberg.com Play Apple Playing Catch Up with Samsung in China Apple Inc. (AAPL) got a second partner in China to sell the iPhone in the world's biggest mobile-phone market. The deal may be too late to ...

Bloomberg

No Windows Phone 8 OS Upgrade For You?
InformationWeek
Microsoft exec hedges on question of whether Windows Phone 8 upgrade will be available for WP7 owners. By Paul McDougall InformationWeek Microsoft's forthcoming Windows Phone 8 platform will run at least 95% of apps available for Windows Phone 7, ...

BioWare Responds to Mass Effect 3 DLC Controversy
PC Magazine
By Chloe Albanesius BioWare on Sunday denied that portions of a downloadable content (DLC) pack for Mass Effect 3 was intentionally removed from the game for financial gain. DLCs are game add-ons that players purchase to enhance their experience.

Ford Taurus probed by feds for sticky throttles
USA TODAY
US safety regulators are investigating complaints that accelerators can stick in Ford Tauruses from model years 2005 and 2006, according to the Associated Press in Detroit. The investigation, opened Wednesday, covers an estimated 360000 of the sedans.

Spain's first dinosaur not as old as first believed
msnbc.com
The first dinosaur ever found in Spain is not as old as paleontologists had believed — though at 130 million years old, the long-necked creature is no spring chicken. The dinosaur, Aragosaurus ischiaticus, was originally discovered in 1987.

msnbc.com

Dish closes on 2 purchases key to broadband plans
The Associated Press
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Satellite TV provider Dish Network Corp. has completed its purchase of two satellite operators whose wireless licenses it hopes to use to offer broadband access that can help it compete better with cable TV and phone companies.

Hacker-turned-informant has NY court date in April
Wall Street Journal
AP NEW YORK — The world renowned computer hacker who became an FBI informant will now face a New York judge on April 12. Hector Xavier Monsegur (HAH'-vee-ehr MAHN'-see-gur) originally was scheduled for a state court hearing Monday on charges he ...

Tim Schafer has so much money, he doesn't know what to do
msnbc.com
With a little over 24 hours left to go for the now historic Double Fine Adventure Kickstarter, Tim Schafer and company are within sight of the $3 million mark, which is well past the original goal of $400000. With so much money at his disposal, ...

Nobel-winning UCI chemistry professor Sherry Rowland remembered
Los Angeles Times
The world's largest natural products convention, a celebration of all things healthy and eco-friendly, was being held at the Anaheim Convention Center Saturday when F. Sherwood Rowland, 84, died at his home in Corona del Mar. It's not much of a stretch ...

Los Angeles Times

Netflix cable platform may be a long way off
Los Angeles Times
Last week, a Reuters story speculating that Netflix was planning to create a cable distribution platform for its movies and television shows drew a lot of attention. That article grew out of comments that Netflix Chief Executive Reed Hastings made at ...

Gasoline hits $3.80 per gallon on expectation of supply dip in April; oil ...
Washington Post
NEW YORK — The price of gasoline jumped by nearly a nickel over the weekend and is now $3.80 per gallon That's the highest ever for this time of year. Pump prices have risen an average 52 cents this year as refineries and wholesalers pass along the ...

Safari 5.1.4 update promises 11% JavaScript performance boost, fixes other bugs
Ars Technica
By Jacqui Cheng | Published March 12, 2012 12:55 PM Speed demons will be pleased with Safari's latest update that promises to bring "up to" an 11 percent increase in JavaScript performance over the previous version. Unfortunately, those not yet running ...

Apple says Samsung violated court order in patent case
CNET
by Lance Whitney March 12, 2012 10:23 AM PDT Follow @lancewhit Samsung didn't fully comply with a judge's order asking for the source code for certain products, claims Apple in a court filing. Apple is trying to stir up more legal headches for Samsung.

AT&T to expand 4G LTE coverage to 12 more cities following iPad announcement
Ars Technica
By Casey Johnston | Published March 12, 2012 1:10 PM AT&T will expand 4G LTE service to 12 new markets in the wake of the new iPad's launch, the company stated in a press release today. Locations that will be blessed with the faster service include ...

Finally, Venus and Jupiter will dazzle us this week
msnbc.com
Venus and Jupiter have been dancing toward each other in the night sky for months, and they'll finally come together this week in a dazzling show for skywatchers. Beginning Monday night, the two brightest planets in the sky will be so close together ...

msnbc.com

Foursquare Rules SXSW
Forbes
If you've been keeping tabs on this blogger's Twitterstream, you're (painfully) aware that I finally made my way to Austin for the 2012 South by Southwest Interactive Festival. No longer a Newbie, I earned the 2012 SXSW Sophomore Badge on Foursquare ...

Forbes

Zenimax settlement blocks Mojang from making more Scrolls games
Gamasutra
by Eric Caoili [Console/PC, Indie, Business] Newsbrief: Independent developer Mojang is now prohibited from using the Scrolls trademark for any sequels to its digital card game, as part of its recent settlement with The Elder Scrolls maker ZeniMax ...

EU ready to settle with publishers over ebook price-fixing, but no talks yet
BetaNews
By Ed Oswald European Union antitrust chief Joaquin Almunia says that the Competition Commission is open to a settlement with publishers in the increasingly high-profile ebook price fixing case, but only if the companies address key regulatory issues.

BetaNews

China's Sina Weibo Requiring Identity Verification by March 16
PC Magazine
By Leslie Horn China's popular micro-blogging platform, Sina Weibo, expects that 60 percent of its users will verify their identities by a government-mandated deadline of March 16. According to the BBC, the government is requiring users to provide the ...

Have online comment sections become 'a joke'?
CNN International
By Doug Gross, CNN Gawker Media founder Nick Denton says majority of online comments have become "off topic" and "toxic." One idea? Making certain stories only open to a few select commenters Austin, Texas (CNN) -- In the early days of the Internet, ...

Popular Instagram iOS App Hits 27 Million Users: Now Headed for Android
PCWorld
By Ian Paul, PCWorld Mar 12, 2012 8:07 AM Popular mobile photo-sharing app Instagram announced it now has more than 27 million users on iOS, and is hinting the company plans to release an Android app soon. Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom showed off ...

Tech companies, consumers must work together on online privacy
Tuscaloosa News
By Wayne Grayson In a classic comedy sketch from the television show “Laugh In,” which aired between 1967 and 1973, actress Lily Tomlin portrays a phone operator attempting to receive payment from a Mr. Veedul for three calls placed to Topeka, Kan.

Greenland ice could melt faster than thought, study finds
msnbc.com
It may take less of an increase in global temperatures to melt the ice sheet covering Greenland than thought, new research suggests. Only on msnbc.com Steven Bridges for msnbc.com Homeowners beat banks at their own game courtesy Candice Johnson Hurt on ...

Watch a nanoscale race car get 3D printed with a laser
Geek
3D printing is a hot topic at the moment, especially as the price of the hardware continues to fall. There's also a few popular gadgets coming out that will benefit from 3D printing, a prime example is the Raspberry Pi which ships without a case.

Geek

GCHQ-backed competition names Cyber Security Champion
BBC News
By Leo Kelion Technology reporter A 19-year-old university student has been named the UK's "Cyber Security Champion" following a competition sponsored by the intelligence agency GCHQ and several leading tech firms. Judges said Jonathan Millican had ...

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