T-Mobile Has Surpassed Sprint says CEO John Legere (video)

Wireless Carrier T-Mobile Has Already Surpassed Sprint says CEO John Legere (video above) - T-Mobile CEO John Legere discusses the T-Mobile's expansion plans and subscriber base. He speaks on Bloomberg's “Market Makers,” February 19, 2015.

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Why RadioShack Is in Trouble (video)

This Is Why RadioShack Is in Trouble -
Radio Shack is in talks to close half it's stores and convert the other half into Spirit mobile shops. If that happens will anyone even notice? Bloomberg took to the streets of San Francisco to ask potential customers how much they really know about Radio Shack. The lack of knowledge or attachment to the brand illustrates just why Radio Shack is going broke. (Bloomberg)

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Report: North Korea Linked To Cyberterrorism Against Sony (video)

U.S. Links North Korea to Sony Hacking - NYTimes.com: "... Senior administration officials, who would not speak on the record about the intelligence findings, said the White House was still debating whether to publicly accuse North Korea of what amounts to a cyberterrorism campaign..."



Sony’s New York premiere of “The Interview” was canceled and the fourth-largest U.S. cinema chain won’t screen the film after threats of violence from the hackers behind a devastating cyberattack on the studio. Adallom President of Marketing Tal Klein and Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw speak on “Bloomberg West.” (Source: Bloomberg)

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Google's Detractors Take Their Fight to the States
New York Times
Google's detractors complain about the search giant to everyone they can, ... ForMicrosoft, any limits imposed on Google might help it improve the ...


Wired
Sci-Fi Author Neal Stephenson Joins Mystery Startup Magic Leap as 'Chief Futurist'
Wired
Silicon Valley is already abuzz over this stealthy augmented-reality startup, mainly due to some funding from Google and a brief glimpse of the company's technology that shows a 3-D virtual elephant floating above someone's hands. And now, the company ...

ABC News
Instagram Gets Five New Filters
PC Magazine
It's been two years since Instagram added any new filters to its lineup of classics like Rise, Lo-Fi, and X-Pro II. So it's high time the Facebook-owned company got on that, right? Well, get ready to get excited, Instagrammers. Because the photo- and ...

The Independent
Google Reveals 2014's Top Searches
PC Magazine
Google clocked trillions of searches worldwide in 2014, but one man managed to steal the spotlight: The late Robin Williams landed the No. 1 spot in the global trends charts. The comedian and actor passed away in August, prompting folks around the world ...

PCWorld
Sony can make any eyewear more like Google Glass
Engadget
Sony has just announced a new attachable display module that can turn a "pair of fashionable glasses, goggles, sunglasses, or other type of eyewear" into smartglasses. And, yes, it's completely detachable so you can remove it whenever you want to.

Wall Street Journal
Sprint to Face Record Fine Over Unauthorized Customer Charges
Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Commission is preparing to fine Sprint Corp. a record $105 million over allegations the company charged consumers for unwanted text message alerts and other services. An FCC official confirmed that the ...

USA TODAY
Report: Samsung Eyeing Apple Pay Competitor
PC Magazine
Samsung is in talks with payments startup LoopPay for a technology that would rival Apple's new mobile payment system, according to a Tuesday report from Re/code. The technology, slated to make its debut in 2015, would bring greater convenience to the ...

CNET
Alleged OnePlus Mini spied in leaked photos
CNET
A pair of images have emerged showing what purports to be a smaller take on the OnePlus smartphone...

Forbes
Why Nintendo's Wii U Might Be The Best Console To Unwrap Christmas Morning
Forbes
In the next week or so, there will likely be many articles stacking up the three major consoles, the PS4, the Xbox One, and the Wii U, comparing price, features, graphics, games and so on as you try to understand which one to buy for someone (or yourself) this ...

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Sprint Loses More Customers Than Estimated, Will Cut 2000 Jobs (video)

Sprint Loses More Customers Than Estimated, Will Cut 2K Jobs: Video - Bloomberg:
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Sprint lost more customers than analysts projected as new CEO Marcelo Claure began to counter rivals’ escalating price cuts. As the company continues to lose money and subscribers, Sprint said it will cut about 2,000 more jobs. Estimize CEO Leigh Drogen and Bloomberg Intelligence's John Butler have more on "Street Smart." (Source: Bloomberg 11/3)

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NDTV
With Calendar app revamp, Google aims to keep rivals at bay
CNET
Tablet Review: Amazon's Fire Vs Google's Nexus 9 - ABC News
Google Just Released a Brand New Google Calendar App - TIME
Nexus 9 Review: Google's Flagship Tablet Is Nothing Special - Gizmodo


Wall Street Journal
Apple, Google Set Disney Video Deal
Google partnership with Disney streams its catalog to Android - CNET
Disney partners with Google to bring its cloud movie locker to Android and Google Play Movies - Gigaom

Bill Gates' $578M Planned Microsoft Stock Sale
Barron's
Microsoft shares went flying out the windows last week. ... of the company, Gates now serves as a technology advisor and on the company's board.


New York Daily News
Internet Archive Brings Vintage Arcade Games Right To Your Browser
Huffington Post
If office productivity takes a tumble around the world today, you can blame the Internet Archive. The online home of the "Wayback Machine" archive of old websites as well as libraries of books, videos and music has added some 900 classic arcade games that ...

Wall Street Journal
Google Renews Its Cloud Efforts
Wall Street Journal
Google is making a renewed effort to catch Amazon in so-called cloud services...


New York Times
Facebook Conducted Another Secret Experiment On Users
Huffington Post
Facebook quietly tweaked the news feeds of 1.9 million users before the 2012 election so they would see more "hard news" shared by friends. That change may have boosted voter turnout by as much as 3 percent, according to a little-known study first ...

PC Advisor
Nest Thermostat update 4.3 lands with improved energy saving
TrustedReviews
The Nest Thermostat made home heating cool when it hit the UK earlier this year, now the innovative device is being made even better thanks to a software update. Nest has been tinkering with the Thermostat's inner workings, with the new software update ...

PCWorld
Microsoft Cloud Apps vs. Best of Breed
Enterprise Apps Today
Microsoft offers cloud-based apps for business intelligence, CRM and ERP. You'll want to evaluate the "best-of-breed" approach to going with a single vendor like Microsoft for everything. When you think of Microsoft, you naturally think of operating systems ...

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Google To Be World's First Trillion Dollar Company?

Google, not Apple, may be world’s first $1 trillion company | New York Post: "The analyst predicted Google would cross the 10-figure mark in market capitalization by 2020. Over the last five years, Apple has more than doubled — 274 percent vs. 115 percent — Google’s stock performance. “Google is positioned to be the first company on [a] US listed stock exchange to have a market capitalization exceed one trillion dollars,” BGC Capital analyst Colin Gillis wrote in a research note to clients on Friday...." (read more at link above)

The Great Knowledge Box Showdown: Google Now vs. Siri vs. Cortana: "....Google Now has a clear lead in terms of the sheer volume of queries addressed, and more complete accuracy with its queries than either Siri or Cortana. All three parties will keep investing in this type of technology, but the cold hard facts are that Google is progressing the fastest on all fronts."

6 Reasons Carl Icahn Overvalues Apple By $700 Billion
Forbes
Carl Icahn has a reputation for using his big microphone to get technology companies whose businesses he doesn't understand to do something that ...


USA TODAY
Wolff: What next for Yahoo and Marissa Mayer?
USA TODAY
What will happen to Yahoo, really? And, as a both a subset and a wholly independent question, what will happen to Marissa Mayer, Yahoo's CEO, and ...


TechCrunch (blog)
Facebook's Anonymous App Could Kill Trolls With Secret Identity
TechCrunch (blog)
Wack-a-mole. That's what it's usually like fighting trolls, bullies, and spammers in anonymous communities. Ban them and they just start new accounts.


USA TODAY
What's new in Google Voice: MMS
USA TODAY
Q. How does this new Google Voice MMS support work, and why isn't Verizon ... Here are the limits to Google Voice MMS that his post didn't spell out ...


CNET
Apple's Oct. 16 event: Here's what we expect
CNET
New iPads and Macs, as well as an official launch of the OS X Yosemite computer operating system, should show up at Apple's event this week.


Techaeris
Apple Pay is coming to town
Fortune
There's no Starbucks in the small Western Massachusetts town where I live these days. No Whole Foods, either. No Bloomingdales, Macy's or Disney ...

Another Apple event and lots of earnings: 5 things to watch for this week
Fortune
Earnings season has arrived in full force. Expect a slew of earnings from big banks including Citigroup , Bank of America and Goldman Sachs.


Newsweek
Wary of Privacy Issues? Ditch Dropbox and Avoid Google, Says Edward Snowden
Newsweek
Ditch Dropbox and Avoid Google, Says Edward Snowden ... and to avoid using high-profile online services such as Facebook and Google, if they ... much of the technology the public needs hasn't been invented or popularized yet. ... Major cell phone providers, including Verizon, AT&T and Apple, can be ...


The Guardian
Google Glass v Apple Watch: in form against function, Apple edges it overGoogle
The Guardian
This came to mind as I considered the contrast between Google Glass and the AppleWatch. Here are two giants of the technology industry, with ...


San Jose Mercury News
Is Apple close to cracking the code for TV?
San Jose Mercury News
CUPERTINO -- Ever curious about what the next chapter holds for Apple, some ... A small but growing chorus of analysts and developers say Apple seems ... and Google andAmazon have entered the field with Chromecast and Fire ...

Sprint to shutter WiMAX network around Nov. 6, 2015 - FierceWireless: "In April, Sprint said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing that it would "cease using WiMAX technology  by the end of 2015." As part of that effort, Sprint said it identified  approximately 6,000 "redundant sites that we expect to decommission and  terminate the underlying leases.""

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Lenovo Smartphone Profits Up (video)

Video - Lenovo Smartphone Profits Jump in Second Quarter - WSJ.com: "Can Lenovo Beat Apple and Samsung with Motorola? Lenovo’s smartphone market share jumped in the second quarter as it sold more handsets in emerging markets. The Wall Street Journal’s Yun-Hee Kim speaks to IDC Analyst Bryan Ma about whether it can take on Apple and Samsung."

Sprint Dives Into Wireless Industry's Price War - WSJ: "Sprint Corp. dived into the wireless industry's price war Monday, saying it would offer new data-heavy family plans for $100 and pay up to $350 when subscribers switch from rivals."


Wall Street Journal
As Google Builds Out Own Content, Some Advertisers Feel Pushed Aside
Wall Street Journal
....Google has said its shifts are motivated in part by users' shift to mobile devices from personal computers. Google's revenue from search ads on PCs fell last year for the first time, researcher eMarketer Inc. estimates. On the smaller screen of a smartphone, users spend more time in apps and less time browsing the Web that Google has organized and monetized via search-related advertising. ...
Google: The $400 Billion Epistle - Wall Street Journal


Wall Street Journal
Apple's New iPhone Could Crack GT's Stock
Wall Street Journal
GT is building a manufacturing facility in Arizona in partnership with Apple to produce sapphire material for the iconic company's devices. The next ...


WJLA
Facebook Messenger: Is the paranoia justified? Five biggest myths busted
WJLA
NEW YORK (AP) - Facebook's recent effort to force people to adopt its standalone mobile messaging app has privacy-concerned users up in arms.


Business Insider Australia
What Facebook doesn't show you
Washington Post
So I went through my whole Facebook network – all of my 403 friends and the ... (think SEO for Google), and publishers invest enormous amounts of energy into ... Throughout my day on Facebook, I didn't see a single story from The ...


Forbes
The Moto 360 And Apple iWatch Will Kickoff The Smart Watch Wars Soon
Forbes
Motorola's Moto 360, the first round-face Android Wear smart watch, is coming next month and we could see our first glimpse of Apple's Apple's ...


PCR-online.biz
Apple plans reversible USB cable for iPhone 6, leaker says
CNET
The company's Lightning connector is already reversible on the eight-pin dock side, butApple might start offering a reversible connector on the other ...


Gigaom
Roku TVs marry cheap prices, proven smarts (hands-on)
CNET
The Roku TVs introduced at CES in January are now available for preorder. In addition to offering our favorite streaming platform built right into the TVs, the initial wave of models is priced even lower than mainstays like Vizio. by David Katzmaier.


Financialbuzz.com
China's first private rocket firm aims for market
Space Daily
Hu Zhenyu, 21, founder of Link Space, China's first private rocket firm, does not want people to call him a "rocket scientist" but a rocket entrepreneur. Rocket launches have traditionally been been a state monopoly in China, but the young graduate from South ...


Firstpost
AMD Announces Radeon R7 Series Solid-State Drives
Techgage
Talk about unexpected. At a time when fabless SSD manufacturers are consolidating or being snapped up by companies with in-house NAND production, AMD is bucking the industry trend by announcing the launch of the Radeon R7 SSD family.


SFGate
Amazon's first Fire phone update tackles its big interface problems
Engadget
Generally speaking, Amazon's Fire phone hasn't had the warmest of receptions, and the online retailer is looking to improve things with its first major update for the device. To start with, the flagship smartphone from Amazon is finally capable of multitasking, ...

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Sprint, T-Mobile Merger (video), T-Mobile’s Legere CEO?

Sprint, T-Mobile Near Accord on Price, Breakup Fee: Video - Bloomberg:
Sprint is nearing an agreement on the price, capital structure and termination fee of an acquisition for T-Mobile US that could value the wireless carrier at almost $40 a share, people with knowledge of the matter said. Alex Sherman has more on Bloomberg Television's "Taking Stock." (Source: Bloomberg 4 June 2014)

T-Mobile’s Legere Said Likely CEO After Sprint Merger - Bloomberg: "... Handed the smallest U.S. wireless carrier in 2012 after a failed sale to AT&T, Legere set out toward one main goal: gaining customers.  After rolling out the un-carrier strategy in March of last year, T-Mobile has introduced phone financing that separates the cost of the phone from the service charge and breaks phone payments up over monthly installments. This freed T-Mobile from having to sell phones at steep discounts and let customers get new smartphones without signing two-year commitments. “We laughed at un-carrier when if first came out,” Chaplin said. “Now it looks like consumers love it. I think the brand resonates well with people.” In what was probably the biggest challenge leveled at its larger rivals, T-Mobile offered to reimburse the early termination penalties for customers who break their contracts and switch to T-Mobile...."

Patent troll on the verge of winning 1 percent of iPhone revenue | Ars Technica: "In 2012, Apple won the year's biggest patent verdict—more than $1 billion against Samsung. The company also lost one of that year's biggest cases when an East Texas jury ordered it to pay $368 million to a company named VirnetX for infringing patents related to FaceTime and VPN On Demand functions used in iPhones, iPads, and Macs. VirnetX is a company some call a "patent troll" because its only business is now patent enforcement. Then, in March, US District Judge Leonard Davis ordered (PDF) an ongoing royalty to be paid to VirnetX. The number was downright stunning: 0.98 percent of revenue from iPhones and iPads sold in the US...."

An Author Talks Back to Amazon
Daily Beast
David Shafer awaited the publication of his first novel. Then Amazon went to war with Shafer's publisher—or were they, gulp, really after Shafer all ...

Google search results may indicate 'right to be forgotten' censorship
The Guardian
Google may include an alert on search results pages to indicate legally ... Google is planning to flag up search results it has censored following a ...

Facebook COO's first India visit to focus on SMEs, developers
Hindustan Times
India is the largest market for Facebook outside the US, with over 100 million ... Sandberg, who was with Google before joining Facebook in 2008, has ...

Google internship in Silicon Valley offers perks, pay and respect
CTV News
Also on the list: Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, eBay, Google and Apple, all of which pay more than $5,000 a month, or $60,000 annually if these were ...

Apple pitch to programmers shows rising threat from Google
TheNewsTribune.com
Apple CEO Tim Cook highlights the number of weekly visitors to the App store ... and others such as Facebook have rolled out tools to cater to developers. ... Microsoft found that in the 1980s and 1990s when many programmers ...

Apple serves up taste of the future
Irish Independent
But now it's taking a big stride with iCloud Drive and Airdrop, which do lots of what Dropbox and Google Drive does. In other words, you can create ...

Google Now Update Can Trigger Alarm When You're Near Your Transit Stop
PC Magazine
Assuming Google knows you're on public transportation, you'll never miss ... Well, Google seems to have noticed this problem that late-night partiers ...

Google 3D Tablet Coming Soon
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Google on Thursday revealed that is working on a tablet computer with 3D and ... Amazon invited people to request invitations at website ... known for selling its tablets at low profit margins to compete with Google and Apple and ...

Google is as Google Does
ZDNet
Google and Facebook have both had to become masters of this in order to maximize ...Microsoft, Yahoo and Amazon, to a lesser extent, also have to do this for those ...Apple, Google, Microsoft: Where does the money come from?
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US DOJ sues Sprint for wiretap overcharges!

Editor's note: Sprint didn't get the memo that you only have a blank check with the NSA for "reimbursements" -- not the DOJ! -- of course this begs the question: who at Obama's DOJ approved $21 million in overcharges for payment in the first place? Or was this some kind of political "kickback" that got caught up in an audit? Surely not every US government agency is as sloppy and wasteful as is apparently the DOJ?

US sues Sprint for allegedly overcharging on wiretaps | Mobile - CNET News: "...The government filed a complaint against Sprint in US District Court in San Francisco on Monday. The complaint says that government agencies, like the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration, were allegedly overcharged $21 million for wiretaps by Sprint. "Sprint inflated its charges by approximately 58 percent," the complaint reads. "As a result of Sprint's false claims, the United States paid over $21 million in unallowable costs from January 1, 2007 to July 31, 2010."..."

Nadella Confirms Microsoft Leadership Changes, Hints at Reasons
Windows IT Pro
...Reller's departure—and Mark Penn's ascension to overall strategy chief—is in many ways the bigger story here....Penn is an interesting case. He's infamous for his work on Hillary Rodham Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign, for which he masterminded the 3 a.m. television commercial that questioned Barack Obama's experience. And at Microsoft he created the "Scroogled" ad campaign ... That "Scroogled" is divisive is not open to debate ... some loathe them and believe Microsoft shouldn't stoop to attacking a competitor, no matter how valid the argument... 

Microsoft endorses Penn as chief strategy officer
Politico
Penn, known as a champion of negative ads, was a divisive figure during Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign, and, as a Microsoft executive, he was the mastermind behind the company's “Scroogled” ad campaign against Google. Nadella, who took the ...

Apple shifts gears with CarPlay, its response to Google Now
CNET (blog)
One of the great boons that Google had long-reserved specifically for Android users was access to Google Now, the popular artificial intelligence platform that anticipates a person's actions based on contextual information like location or personal ...

Microsoft to smarten up Office 365 with machine learning and social cues
PCWorld
Microsoft will add new software, developer tools and capabilities to Office 365 in an attempt to make the cloud applications suite a “smarter” product that is better at helping people interact at work. At its SharePoint Conference, which kicks off in ...

Microsoft Dresses Up Enterprise Apps
InformationWeek
Microsoft on Tuesday announced a wave of new Dynamics CRM and ERP applications and enhancements, tying most of the many marketing, social, mobile, and cloud-deployment enhancements to the theme of improving customer experience. The new apps ...

Apple Goes on Hiring Binge in Asia to Speed Product Releases
Wall Street Journal
The hiring push reflects Apple's need for more engineers to work with Asian suppliers on developing components for iPhones and iPads as it plans for faster and more-frequent product releases. Apple also is increasing its number of supply-chain managers ...

Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer to retire after 18 years
Los Angeles Times
"His guidance, leadership and expertise have been instrumental to Apple's success, not only as our CFO but also in many areas beyond finance, as he frequently took on additional activities to assist across the company. His contributions and integrity ...

Update: Microsoft reacts to XP upgrade critics with free file transfer tool
Computerworld
Computerworld - Reacting to criticism from customers that upgrading from Windows XP was "impossible," Microsoft today announced it would give away a limited migration tool to help people move to a newer operating system. The tool, PCmover Express for ...

Apple CEO Tim Cook Is Increasingly Flexing His Muscles
TIME
Tim Cook is getting more comfortable channeling the Steve Jobs's patented self-righteousness. At the company's annual shareholders meeting last week, the Apple CEO chafed at a request that Apple commit to not engaging in environmental initiatives that ...

Apple faces website blacklist in 'misleading' warranty claims
ZDNet
The tech giant appealed and lost. The European Commission is also scrutinizing in-app purchases offered by companies including Apple and Google. Consumer groups in the U.K., Denmark, Italy and Belgium have raised concerns over the language used by ...

Google's Eric Schmidt talks about power and limits of Internet
San Jose Mercury News
MOUNTAIN VIEW -- As the Internet increasingly connects people in more parts of the world, parents around the globe will find themselves bracing for a difficult talk with their kids,Google's Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen told a Silicon Valley audience ...

Apple Campus 2 Designer Gives Insight Into Planning Process ...
By Juli Clover
Apple's Campus 2 project, which includes the giant "spaceship"-esque building envisioned by Steve Jobs, has been thoroughly outlined in... ... EU Meeting With Apple and Google to Discuss Concerns Over In-App Purchases (43). • Apple to ...
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Why Facebook Wants to Buy a Drone Company
Fox Business
In an effort to expand Internet access in the developing world, Facebook (FB) may be about to leap into the drone industry. According to TechCrunch, Mark Zuckerberg's company is in talks to acquire startup Titan Aerospace, which makes near-orbital, ...

Black Bears Eating Less Human Food, Going Back to Natural Diet
Headlines & Global News
A new study found that the Yosemite black bears have returned to their natural diet due to the Yosemite National Park's ...

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T-Mobile LTE is fastest US network

The Uncarrier is killing the big guys --

T-Mobile's LTE network the nation's fastest at 11.5 Mbps, according to report - FierceWireless: "According to a new report from OpenSignal, T-Mobile US' LTE network provides the fastest average download speeds at 11.5 Mbps. Those speeds were faster than the 9.12 Mbps that AT&T Mobility provided, the 7.82 Mbps that Verizon Wireless provided, and the 4.32 Mbps that Sprint provided."

T-Mobile Pushes Customer Gains - Businessweek: "“T-Mobile is making money on each subscriber they acquire -- it’s just nowhere near as much money as the incumbents are used to,” Craig Moffett, an analyst at MoffettNathanson LLC in New York, said in an e-mail. He recommends buying the shares. “The rest of the industry should be very afraid.”"

Apple sues Chinese government agency over Siri patent dispute: "Apple has targeted both a Chinese government agency and a Shanghai-based company in a new patent lawsuit related to the ownership of Siri, the voice-driven personal assistant found on iPhone and iPad...."

Groundhog Day: Why the Samsung Galaxy S5 is just another Android device | ZDNet: "... Samsung's directions, translation and cloud storage features are simply duplications of what Google has in their native Android implementation already. It's very hard to say that this is actual differentiation and value-add. It would certainly not surprise me if Samsung, along their their increasingly deviated Android build and default applications, built out their own App Store to compete with Google Play, just as Amazon has done with their own Android implementation on the Kindle Fire...."

Microsoft's 'go-low' play puts Windows revenue on the line
Computerworld
Chromebooks, powered by Google's browser-based Chrome OS, have made inroads into education and business, but their overall impact has been disputed. Still, Microsoft sees them as enough of a threat to attack them in its advertising. Carolina Milanesi ...

Apple fixes security flaw for Macs
CNNMoney
Apple issued a fix Tuesday for Mac computer users whose sensitive information could have been exposed to hackers. The software update patches a security hole in OS X, the operating system for Apple computers. It comes four days after the same bug was ...

Apple's culture of secrecy delays security response -- again
CNET (blog)
The evidence points to problems at Apple with alerting its users and fixing flaws in a timely manner. This is problematic because it's not made clear to Mac and iPhone users how important an update is to their security. By contrast, Google and ...

Google Glass-wearing woman posts video of alleged SF bar attack
Los Angeles Times
A San Francisco woman who says she was attacked at a bar on Haight Street after refusing to stop wearing Google Glass has released video footage of the incident that she filmed with the new technology that spurred the confrontation in the first place.

Apple retires Snow Leopard from support, leaves 1 in 5 Macs vulnerable to attacks
Computerworld
To Apple, Snow Leopard increasingly looks like Windows XP does to Microsoft: an operating system that refuses to roll over and die. At the end of January, 19% of all Macs were running Snow Leopard, slightly more, in fact, than ran its successor, Lion ...

In appeal, Apple says e-book ruling will harm consumers
PCWorld
The district court's findings show that Apple offered a retail business model to the publishers that was in the company's independent business interests “and was attractive to the publishers, who were frustrated with Amazon,” Apple said in a filing ...

Microsoft Shouldn't Ditch The Xbox One Kinect
Forbes
A Kinect-free Xbox One “Lite” could retail for closer to $425 without taking a loss, or Microsoft could match the PS4′s $399 price-tag and take a small loss (or find some way to lower the cost of manufacturing the unit as a whole to get the price ...

Apple Joins Samsung in Telling EU to Cut Patent Trolls' Power
Bloomberg
Apple and Samsung are among 19 companies and associations that told the EU in a letter that a new court should limit the ability of companies that license technology to win court injunctions when the validity of the underlying patent is in dispute ...

Microsoft rallies Windows for price war with Android
PCWorld (blog)
... currently being sold via Microsoft's online Store for $230, down from its regular $300 price. Scouring Amazon and Best Buy's websites reveal no Windows tablets and few Windows notebooks available under $250. ... And despite what those Chromebook ...

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Samantha West, Telemarketer Robot

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Samantha West The Telemarketer Robot Who Swears She's Not a Robot | TIME.com: ". . . .This number, if you Google it, is the subject of much discussion online as other recipients of Samantha West calls complain on chat boards about the mysteriously persistent lady who keeps calling them. “A friendly sounded woman on the other end claimed I requested health insurance information,” writes one mark. “She doggedly refused to deviate from her script.”" (read more at link above)

Lawsuit accuses IBM of hiding China risks amid NSA spy scandal | Reuters: "The plaintiff in the complaint, Louisiana Sheriffs' Pension & Relief Fund, said this threatened IBM hardware sales in China, particularly given a program known as Prism that let the NSA spy on that country through technology companies such as IBM. The Baton Rouge pension fund said the revelation of Prism and related disclosures by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden caused Chinese businesses and China's government to abruptly cut ties with the world's largest technology services provider. It said this led IBM on October 16 to post disappointing third-quarter results, including drops in China of 22 percent in sales and 40 percent in hardware sales."

AT&T Whines About Sharing Utility Poles With Google Fiber | DSLReports, ISP Information: "AT&T got annoyed this week by a City of Austin plan aimed at making it easier for Austin-area competitors to attach to city utility poles. The Austin City Council planned to vote this week to change rules that would now require AT&T let Google lease space on their towers. The City Council argued this change was necessary to minimize disruptions, and prevent redundant pole installations as Google begins to install its 1 Gbps network. The city of Austin owns about 80% of the city's telephone poles, and AT&T owns the other 20%. Austin appears well within their right-of-way rights to require AT&T share their poles, and Google says they're happy to pay. "

Sprint Working on a bid for T-Mobile US - WSJ.com: "...The government would likely be very wary of allowing T-Mobile to be acquired, former antitrust officials said. In its opposition to AT&T's deal to buy T-Mobile in 2011, the Justice Department called the smaller company an "aggressive competitor" that benefits consumers by spurring the other three carriers to provide more attractive prices..."

Forget Amazon; I want a drone of my own

Computerworld
Google is funding drones to watch for rhino poachers. Scientists in China ...Amazon shows a video of its imagined drone delivery system in action. But because ...

Washington Post

Amazon now offering Kindle Fire HDX tablets on installment plan

ZDNet
Amazon is clearly trying to move some of its new Kindle Fire HDX tablets during this ... If you don't bother to finish paying it off, Amazon reserve the right to ...

Headlines & Global News

Apple Loop: 'Vintage' Holiday Ads, Counting China Mobile, Chrome ...

Forbes
The firm also found that Apple quadrupled its share in the Chinese market. ...Google this week said Chrome Apps, introduced in Septmber for Windows and ...

Wall Street Journal

Amazon.com distribution center in Kentucky recruits armada of RV ...

WCPO
Those are signs of the Christmas season in this Kentucky town, where theAmazon.com distribution center recruits an armada of RV owners as seasonal workers ...

WCPO

Apple's Mac OS X Does Not Contain Secret Bitcoin Mining Software

Forbes
There's a particularly horrible “joke” floating around out there that claims thatApple Apple has installed secret Bitcoin mining software inside Mac OS X. If you ...

Graham Cluley Security News

Apple CEO Tim Cook Talks Equality in Award Speech

Mashable
Last year, Apple's leading social-good message focused mostly on improving the working conditions for laborers at its factories in China. However, in recent ...

Business Standard

Google tussles with security researchers, privacy advocates

CSO
December 14, 2013 — CSO — Security researchers and Google are at odds over ... Newsletters and promotions from Amazon or magazines are examples of ...

Racers Republic

Apple seeks to freeze its antitrust 'monitor'

Fortune (blog)
Apple has filed papers in Manhattan federal court claiming its court-appointed monitor is overstepping his bounds and interfering with the company's business.

Apple's iPhones And iPads Showing Up In China Mobile Stores

Forbes
From the pictures he took and what he wrote a majority of the store was dedicated to Apple. While this is only one store it is a positive indication that China ...

Current Solar Activity Cycle Is Weakest in a Century | Space.com: "The sun's current space-weather cycle is the most anemic in 100 years, scientists say. Our star is now at "solar maximum," the peak phase of its 11-year activity cycle. But this solar max is weak, and the overall current cycle, known as Solar Cycle 24, conjures up comparisons to the famously feeble Solar Cycle 14 in the early 1900s, researchers said. "None of us alive have ever seen such a weak cycle. So we will learn something," Leif Svalgaard of Stanford University told reporters here today (Dec. 11) at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union. [Solar Max: Amazing Sun Storm Photos of 2013]..."

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Dish bids $25.5B for Sprint

Dish has the spectrum to make its offer a real win-win for Sprint and Sprint customers, notwithstanding the deep pockets of the other bidder SoftBank--

Wireless spectrum is the key to Dish's $25.5 B bid for Sprint
CNET
Dish and Sprint have complimentary spectrum holdings that would make a marriage of the two companies a match made in heaven. But there are obstacles to getting the deal done. Marguerite Reardon. by Marguerite Reardon....

Europeans Reach Deal With Google on Searches
New York Times
The investigation came about because of competitors like Microsoft and Foundem, a British comparison-shopping site, which complained about the way Google conducted its search and advertising businesses. In Europe, the agreement would be legally ...

Microsoft Working With Suppliers on Designs for Touch-Enabled Watch Device
Wall Street Journal
By LORRAINE LUK And SHIRA OVIDE. TAIPEI—Microsoft Corp. is working on designs for a touch-enabled watch device, executives at suppliers said, potentially joining rivals like Apple Inc. in working on a new class of computing products. Enlarge Image ...

Wall Street Journal

Drones should be banned from private use, says Google's Eric Schmidt
The Guardian
The use of cheap, miniature "everyman" drones needs to be banned by international treaties before such devices fall into the hands of private users including terrorists, the head of Google has said. In an extended interview with the Guardian, Eric ...

The Guardian

Boot up: Apple iWatch hints, mobile in China, PC slowdown explained and more
The Guardian (blog)
Noting that he was not at liberty to give away specific details on future Apple gizmos, [Apple board member Bill] Campbell did tell the audience to expect to see "a lot of things going on with the application of technology to really intimate things ...

The Guardian (blog)

Apple dominates best-paid list
Washington Post
The urgency has increased in recent months as Samsung Electronics Co. and Google Inc. challenge Apple. “It's a retention strategy to keep the key executives who were present in the Steve Jobs era,” said Greg Sterling, an analyst at San Francisco-based...

Washington Post

Microsoft, Intel Brave a Mobile World
Wall Street Journal
These days, another vibrant technology ecosystem has emerged around mobile devices and their software—particularly apps being developed around Google Inc.'s Android operating system, which runs on chip designs using technology from ARM Holdings PLC ...

Wall Street Journal

After Apple's App Store rejection, French minister wades into debate over apps ...
ZDNet
Summary: After Apple expelled French app AppGratis from its store, French minister Fleur Pellerin has expressed concern about the move - and its implications for net neutrality. Valéry Marchive. By Valéry Marchive for Vive la tech | April 15, 2013 ...

Revamped Google Play Store may bring operator billing for Indian telcos
NDTV
Google has updated the payment options to include an option for setting up operator billing for Indian operators in addition to the existing Debit and Credit card payment options. While the option doesn't work at the time of filing this report, the ...

NDTV

As PC sales tank, what's Microsoft's Plan B?
CNET (blog)
When market analyst IDC last week noted the sharp 13.9 percent quarterly drop in worldwide PC sales, it placed much of the blame on the "radical" user interface changes of Microsoft's new Windows 8 operating system. "Microsoft will have to make some ...

Google, CBA release conflicting research - Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning Herald
The results of Google's research contradict research conducted by the Commonwealth Bank. Its research shows 81 per cent of small businesses rate their knowledge of digital technologies as good or better. In contrast to Google's research, CBA's research ...

Sydney Morning Herald

Microsoft Reportedly Preparing To Jump On The Smartwatch ...
By Chris Velazco
Apple, Google, LG, and Samsung are all reportedly working on wrist-worn computing devices behind closed doors, and it seems like that little club of big compa..
TechCrunch

WSJ: Microsoft gathering parts for a watch-like device
By Jon Fingas
Hot on the heels of plans (official and otherwise) from Apple and Samsung, the Wall Street Journal reports that Microsoft has also been shopping around for parts to build a "watch-style device." While details are scarce as to what that would ...
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Microsoft Looking to Join the Smart Watch Race - Mac Rumors
By Eric Slivka
With rumors of an Apple smart watch ramping up over the past few months, a number of other companies have also reportedly been working on their own... ... Last month, both Samsung and Google were reported to be working on their own projects, and now The Wall Street Journal indicates that Microsoft is also exploring the possibility of a smart watch. Earlier this year, Microsoft asked suppliers in Asia to ship components for a potential watch-style device, the executives said.
MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors...

Microsoft Working With Suppliers on Designs for Touch-Enabled ...
By Lorraine Luk And Shira Ovide
Microsoft Corp. is working on designs for a touch-enabled watch device, executives at suppliers said, potentially joining rivals like Apple Inc. in working on a new class of computing products.
AllThingsD

Microsoft To Cut Windows XP - Business Insider
By The Economist
If they are predominantly consumers (rather than producers) of internet content, they can dump Windows altogether and rely on tablets with operating systems from Apple (iOS) or Google (Android). Alternatively, they can pay the Apple ...
SAI

Kobo unveils Aura 'high definition' ebook reader
BBC News
Ebook seller Kobo has released what it is describing as a "high definition" e-ink based device. The Aura HD's 6.8in (17.2cm) screen offers a resolution of 265 pixels per inch (ppi). That puts it ahead of Amazon's bestselling Kindle Paperwhite which offers ...

BBC News

Telenav Scout app getting 3D landmarks, traffic improvements
CNET
Telenav gives us an early peek at future updates to its mobile navigation app for Android and iPhone. Antuan Goodwin. by Antuan Goodwin. April 15, 2013 10:30 AM PDT Follow @antgoo. Telenav Scout for Phones. The updated version of Scout will ...

Foxconn Steps Up Hiring As Apple Readies Next iPhone
Wall Street Journal
TAIPEI—Foxconn Technology Group has resumed hiring assembly-line workers in China after a postholiday freeze, in the latest sign that customer Apple Inc. is gearing up for production of a new iPhone. Foxconn is the trade name for Taiwan-based Hon Hai ...

Wall Street Journal

Microsoft Working With Suppliers on Designs for Touch-Enabled Watch Device
Wall Street Journal
TAIPEI—Microsoft Corp. is working on designs for a touch-enabled watch device, executives at suppliers said, potentially joining rivals like Apple Inc. in working on a new class of computing products. Enlarge Image. image. Close. image. European ...

Wall Street Journal

Cutting CO2 too difficult? Try these 4 simple tricks instead
Register
Climate researchers - including one working for Wendy Schmidt, the campaigning wife of Google overlord Eric - have published research suggesting that there are other things apart from cutting CO2 emissions which would help to avoid disastrous rises in sea ...

Google boss: Entire world will be online by 2020
CNN
(CNN) -- Everybody in the world will be on the Internet within seven years. That's what Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said this weekend in public comments that inspired everything from excitement to incredulity. "For every person online, there are ...

Awesome Mars-Comet Impact Less Likely
Discovery News
For those of you rooting for the wellbeing of Mars, here's some good news: the probability of a massive comet impact next year has decreased. For those of you who wanted to see some planetary carnage, however, this news will likely be a major bummer.

Moore's Law and the Origin of Life | MIT Technology Review
As life has evolved, its complexity has increased exponentially, just like Moore's law. Now geneticists have extrapolated this trend backwards and found that by this measure, life is older than the Earth itself.
Technology Review blog

UK top 20 video games chart | Technology | guardian.co.uk
Bioshock Infinite holds on to the top spot for a third week, while Fifa 13 rises in a quiet week for new releases.
Technology: Games blog | guardian.co.uk

Hockey Goons Muscle Up with Fight Night Technology in NHL 14
By Owen Good
A fighting system backed by technology from Fight Night, plus off-the-ice role playing encounters in the Be a Pro career mode, are among the new features coming to NHL 14, EA Sports said today in offering the first look at the game.
Kotaku

50 Education Technology Tools You Can Start Using Today ...
By Jeff Dunn
Finding the best education technology tools is a time-consuming task. It may even be viewed as a chore (for some). Not with this fabulous list, though!
Edudemic

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