The 10 patents Yahoo is using to sue Facebook

Here are the 10 patents Yahoo is using to sue Facebook (and what they really mean)
Washington Post
With Facebook getting ready for its IPO, Yahoo has decided to sue over patent infringement. Yahoo used the same tactic against Google in the run up to their IPO, pocketing a helping of the search engine's pre-IPO shares. Yahoo's new CEO, Scott Thompson ...

EU: Apple, Motorola Held Patent Settlement Talks
PC Magazine
By Chloe Albanesius Apple and Motorola Mobility held talks in late 2011 in an effort to reach a cross-licensing deal over patents, according to documents released by the European Commission. The negotiations did not result in a deal - as the two ...

As car tech advances, can distracted drivers keep up?
Fox News
iStock Driver distraction is like the weather. Everybody complains about it but no one does anything about it. Well, now the federal government says it wants to do something about it. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) held the ...

Spaceflight may harm astronauts' vision, study finds
msnbc.com
Scientists have long known that extended spaceflight is bad for astronauts' bones and muscles. Now evidence is building that it may cause vision problems as well. In a new study, researchers used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to study the eyes and ...

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Production of Apple television expected to begin in May/June for late 2012 launch
Apple Insider
By Neil Hughes Overseas suppliers have begun to ship parts for Apple's anticipated television set as the company gears up to begin production as soon as May, according to a new report. Analyst Peter Misek with Jefferies said in a note to investors on ...

Dell To Buy IT-Security Company As It Builds Software Arm
Wall Street Journal
By Joan E. Solsman Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Dell Inc. (DELL) agreed to buy information-technology security company SonicWall Inc., as the computer maker accumulates software assets in its bid to expand nonhardware businesses.

Coda Automotive begins car production in California
Fox News
Coda Automotive The first Chinese car that you buy may actually be American. California startup automaker Coda Automotive began production of its all-electric sedan on Monday at a facility in Benecia, outside of San Francisco.

Apple Slams Proview Over iPad Name Suit
PC Magazine
By Chloe Albanesius Apple this week spoke out regarding its iPad name battle against Proview Technology, arguing that its tablet nemesis is "misleading" consumers and court officials. "Proview is misleading Chinese courts and customers with claims that ...

Apple avoids showcasing Google Maps in promotional material for new iPad
Apple Insider
By Neil Hughes As further evidence that Apple plans to transition away from Google Maps in iOS, the company uploaded to its Web servers — but chose not to publish — images of Google's mapping data on the new iPad. On the "Features" section of Apple's ...

Samsung Starts Galaxy S II Ice Cream Sandwich Rollout
PC Magazine
By Chloe Albanesius Samsung on Tuesday provided an update on its rollout of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich for its Galaxy S II smartphone. The company said in a blog post that Ice Cream Sandwich will hit the Galaxy S II in several European countries ...

Apple hit with Siri suit over what the program can really do
Washington Post
Ever find yourself frustrated with how smoothly Siri seems to work for the folks in Apple's commercials but not for you? A New York man has filed a class-action suit against Apple, saying that the company has been “misleading and deceptive” about what ...

Intel Seeking Media Rights to Start Online Pay-TV System
BusinessWeek
By Andy Fixmer and Ian King on March 13, 2012 Intel Corp. (INTC), the world's biggest chipmaker, is considering creating an online pay-television service that works on TV sets, computers and mobile devices, according to three people with knowledge of ...

Mojang can't use "Scrolls" name for potential sequels
Ars Technica
By Kyle Orland | Published March 13, 2012 9:58 AM Yesterday, we were happy to report that Mojang and Bethesda Softworks had settled a months-long legal battle over the rights to use the name "Scrolls" for Mojang's upcoming card/board game title.

Nokia Rumored to Release Windows 8 Tablet in 4Q12
Tom's Hardware Guide
Nokia may be launching a Windows on ARM tablet when the OS launches later this year. Those notorious unnamed upstream component suppliers who like to dish out rumor after rumor now claim that Nokia will introduce a Windows 8 tablet in 4Q12.

Venus and Jupiter: how to spot them
The Guardian
After the moon, they are the two brightest objects in the night sky, and for the next few evenings they will appear side-by-side in western skies in a dazzling heavenly spectacle. Though Jupiter is seven times farther from Earth than Venus, ...

The Guardian

New Arm chips herald 'Internet of things'
Telegraph.co.uk
New processors from Arm Holdings use so little power they could allow a new generation of connected devices, from credit cards to light bulbs. By Matt Warman, Consumer Technology Editor The chips, just 1mm by 1mm and powered by tiny batteries, ...

Telegraph.co.uk

DARPA Director Regina Dugan Leaving to Work at Google
DailyTech
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is a US defense agency that has a knack for turning fictional sounding projects into real objects that can be used to defend the country and protect soldiers. One of the more sensational sounding ...

DailyTech

Ex-PlayStation boss Phil Harrison joins Xbox - OFFICIAL
Computerandvideogames.com
By Andy Robinson for computerandvideogames.com One of the former faces of PlayStation, Phil Harrison has switched allegiance to join the Xbox team as head of Microsoft's European Interactive Entertainment Business, it's been confirmed.

Twitter buys Posterous, eyes Tumblr and Wordpress's territory
DVICE
Need more evidence that Twitter is ready to put on the big boy pants and become bigger than 140-characters per tweet? It just bought blogging platform Posterous for a unspecified amount of money. Started in 2008, Posterous is a blogging platform that ...

Samsung to Supply Apple With IPad Screen After LG, Sharp Miss Requirements
Bloomberg
Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) will supply the touch screen for Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s new iPad after LG Display Co. (034220) and Sharp Corp. (6753) didn't meet the US company's quality requirements, according to an analyst with iSuppli.

More Businesses Eyeing Tablets, Mostly iPads
PC Magazine
By Chloe Albanesius More and more businesses are looking to buy tablets for their employees, and most are considering Apple's new iPad, according to a new survey from ChangeWave Research. Of the 1604 business IT buyers surveyed by ChangeWave, ...

Teeny tiny race car zips into existence on high-speed nanoprinter
DVICE
What's about four times the width of a human hair and goes from zero to existing in four minutes flat? If you guessed "that race car with the flat tires in the picture right there," you'd be right. It's small, it's fast and there are lasers involved.

Fans Petition Bioware to Change Mass Effect 3 Ending: Should Bioware Cave?
Forbes
Controversy seems to nip at Mass Effect 3′s heels for every step it takes out of release. First there was the uproar over the possibility of gay romance, then there was the uproar over the addition of day-one DLC (downloadable content), and now, ...

Why the Man in the Moon is Always 'Looking' at Earth
Discovery News
By eating cold pease-porridge." It's human nature to see shapes and patterns all around us, and ascribe a meaning to what is actually just a random coincidence. The phenomenon is called pareidolia, and includes things like seeing the Virgin Mary in a ...

Sorry, a $120 keyboard won't save RIM's $200 PlayBook
GigaOm
By Kevin C. Tofel Mar. 13, 2012, 8:32am PT No Comments As a product, I think RIM's new keyboard is a great idea. I've used 7-inch slate tablets since 2006 and have routinely used wireless keyboards with all of them. For productivity apps and fast text ...

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What Sherwood Rowland taught us about science, and the Earth
Los Angeles Times
Otherwise, he might not have won the Nobel Prize, and we might all be a lot closer to dead -– as individuals, as a species and as a planet. If UC Irvine chemist F. Sherwood Rowland, who passed away Saturday, had been starting his work now on how ...

1 in 3 smartphones sold in 2011 had 4G connectivity
GigaOm
By Kevin Fitchard Mar. 13, 2012, 8:32am PT No Comments Aided by the launch of the iPhone 4S, the number of US smartphones embedded with mobile broadband connectivity jumped in 2011, increasing from 6 percent of at the end of 2010 to 35 percent by the ...

Meet the two newest, tiniest horned dinosaurs
io9
Two pint-sized relatives of the famous Triceratops have been discovered in Alberta, giving us our best understanding yet of how these horned dinosaurs expanded into North America. The best part? Neither was much more than a meter or so long.

Grenade Throwing Robot to Fight Fires on Ships
Cleveland News - Fox 8
By Matthew Knight,CNN (CNN) — It might look like science fiction but the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) hopes to turn this humanoid robot into a seafaring fact in an effort to improve firefighting capabilities on board military vessels.

Cleveland News - Fox 8

Life on Mars? Funds to Find Answer Fade
New York Times
Just as NASA is on the cusp of answering the most fascinating questions about Mars — is there, was there or could there be life there? — the money needed to provide the answers is about to be abruptly withdrawn, a victim of President Obama's budget ...

Sony Unveils Xperia Sola With 'Floating Touch' Technology
PC Magazine
By Angela Moscaritolo Sony Mobile Communications on Tuesday unveiled its latest Android smartphone, the Xperia Sola, which will feature new, Kinect-like technology. The latest addition to Sony's Android-powered Xperia line of smartphones includes ...

Facebook's technology's all ours, says Yahoo
TG Daily
Yahoo's suing Facebook over a series of patents, claiming the entire company is built on its technology. In a complaint filed yesterday in a San Francisco court, Yahoo's asked for an order banning Facebook from infringing ten patents, ...

The LA Tech Scene Finally Moves Out of its Parents' Basement ...
By pandodailyguest
As the second largest city in the United States and home to many of its finest universities, as well as the entertainment industry, many would argue that Los Angeles has long been an underachiever in the arena of technology and startups.
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Tech Report: 'Enemies of the Internet' List Released « CBS San ...
By Andre Torrez
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) — Reporters Without Borders released its annual 'Enemies of the Internet' list and this year it appears that the Arab Spring has changed the face of online censorship. KCBS'Technology Analyst Larry Magid traveled ...
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Solar storm hits Earth - not as strong as feared

Solar storm not as strong as feared
USA TODAY
By Dan Vergano, USA TODAY A solar storm struck Earth's magnetic field early Thursday morning, delivering "a pretty good shock" but not causing any of the geomagnetic disruptions that scientists feared. A solar flare, the largest in five years, ...

USA TODAY

Miles Under the Pacific, a Director Will Take On His Riskiest Project
New York Times
As a boy, he used to squeeze his body into drainage pipes, snaking along to see how far he could go. As an adult, he made the two top-grossing movies of all time, “Avatar” and “Titanic.” And on Wednesday, James Cameron folded his 6-foot-2-inch frame ...

APNewsBreak: Full Titanic site mapped for 1st time
Wall Street Journal
AP SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine — Researchers have pieced together what's believed to be the first comprehensive map of the entire 3-by-5-mile Titanic debris field and hope it will provide new clues about what exactly happened the night 100 years ago when the ...

Apple TV Easter Eggs: Cloud Matching for Movies, Netflix Billed to iTunes, and ...
Wired News
By Tim Carmody Apple didn't show off everything they had on Wednesday. Since the focus was on the new iPad, many new Apple TV features remained under the hood, waiting for users to download the software update and put the new engine through its paces.

Wired News

Google Chrome Falls Twice In Hacking Contest
InformationWeek
VUPEN Security hacks Google Chrome, Safari, and Internet Explorer to take early lead in Pwn2Own contest. By Mathew J. Schwartz InformationWeek In this year's annual Pwn2Own battle of browser-hacking prowess, Google Chrome was the first to fall--and in ...

Apple's New iPad: What We Didn't Get
PC Magazine
By Chloe Albanesius After all the rumors, Apple finally took the wraps off its new iPad yesterday, and while we got a Retina Display, 4G LTE connectivity, and a better camera, there were a few things that Cupertino didn't have up its sleeve after all.

Apple's iPhoto for iOS Abandons Google Maps in Favor of OpenStreetMap
Wired News
By Scott Gilbertson Google Maps vs Apple's custom maps. Note the increased road/path detail from OpenStreetMap visible in the Apple version of this map of Vienna, Austria. Apple has given Google Maps the heave-ho for iPhoto on iOS, Apple's new photo ...

Wired News

NASA chief defends 2013 budget in Congress
msnbc.com
NASA chief Charles Bolden defended the US space agency's proposed 2013 budget to members of Congress Wednesday in a pair of tense congressional hearings that, at times, drew harsh criticism from lawmakers. Under the Obama administration's 2013 budget ...

msnbc.com

Kara Is Self-Aware: Heavy Rain Maker Unveils Uncanny Performance Capture
Wired News
By Chris Baker SAN FRANCISCO — A new tech demo featuring sophisticated performance-capture technology made by the game developer Quantic Dream ( Heavy Rain , Indigo Prophecy ) was inspired by Ray Kurzweil's book The Singularity is Near .

IBM's Holey Optochip Uses Light to Transmit Data
eWeek
A prototype optical chip IBM is demonstrating could be a boon for data centers and supercomputing environments looking for ways to speed up data transfer rates. IBM researchers continue to work with light in hopes of solving challenges in the rapidly ...

Navy's Newest Robot Is A Mechanized Fireman
Wired News
By Katie Drummond Meet SAFFiR: Embedded sensors allow the 'bot to see through smoke, and sophisticated upper-body agility let the 'bot throw fire-squelching grenades. Illo: Naval Research Laboratory Add another eerily life-like robot to the military's ...

Discord unites elite hackers charged in NY, IL
The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — At the large public housing project in New York City where he lived, outsiders knew him as a quiet family man. But federal prosecutors say Hector Xavier Monsegur was an Internet saboteur known as Sabu. During the Arab spring, ...

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Watch a NASA Astronaut Play Real-Life Angry Birds in Zero Gravity [VIDEO]
Mashable
If you're an Angry Birds fan and a space geek, this may be the best video you've seen all year. Angry Birds creators Rovio announced the first real details about Angry Birds Space — with a little help from an astronaut aboard the space station.

PC shipments expected to remain weak in 2012
Computerworld
By Sharon Gaudin Computerworld - Worldwide PC shipments are on track for a small increase, but will remain weak throughout 2012, according to industry analyst firm Gartner. Global PC shipments are expected to hit 368 million units this year, ...

First gorilla genome map offers clues to human evolution
CNN
By Matthew Knight, CNN The complete DNA of a female western lowland gorilla called Kamilah (left) has been mapped by scientists, completing the set of genomes for all great apes (humans, chimpanzees, gorillas and orang-utans).

Is Google Becoming Microsoft?
msnbc.com
On a day when much of planet Earth, it seems, had its eyes on Apple and its unveiling of the latest iPad, the tech world could be forgiven for missing the latest product announcement from Google. Of course, the latter company hasn't quite mastered the ...

BioShock Infinite's "Heavy Hitter" enemies include animatronic George Washington
Neoseeker
Not that you expected different, but BioShock Infinite won't offer just your traditional enemies, but some very fresh ones as well, including what the developer calls "Heavy Hitters", which represent a particularly strong challenge.

Summary Box: 'Portal 2,' 'The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim' win at Game Developers ...
Washington Post
THE BIG WINNER: “Portal 2” won the most trophies at the Game Developers Choice Awards. It had three wins — for best game design, narrative and audio. THE BIGGER WINNER: Bethesda Softworks' role-playing saga “The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim” got the night's ...

Ex-Microsofter Ray Ozzie Warns Microsoft: "We are in a "Post-PC' World'
DailyTech
People argue about 'are we in a post-PC world?'. Why are we arguing? Of course we are in a post-PC world. That doesn't mean the PC dies, that just means that the scenarios that we use them in, we stop referring to them as PCs, we refer to them as other ...

DailyTech

Dell working on business friendly Windows 8 tablet
SlashGear
Windows 8 is certainly proving popular ahead of its release later this year: the consumer preview release racked up over one million downloads in less than 24 hours last week. While OEMs are almost certainly eyeing up ways to capitalize on the ...

Anonymous protests 'corrupt' Catholic Church, takes down Vatican site
Death and Taxes
By DJ Pangburn 1 min ago There's nothing quite like reminding people of the Catholic Church's rich history of extortion, torture, colonialism, slavery, Machievellian political maneuvering, forced conversion of North and South American natives, ...

angel funding
CNET
Three companies have combined forces to take a look at the state of angel round investing. The Angel Resource Institute, Silicon Valley Bank, and CB Insights have revealed in their first Halo Report, a study on the current state of early-stage ...

Huge dust whirlwind seen on the surface of Mars
BBC News
Nasa space cameras have snapped up this dusty whirlwind - known as a dust devil - on the surface of Mars. The plume of the whirlwind reaches 800m high and 30m wide, and its dusty trail covers an area of more than 600m. Just like on Earth, winds on Mars ...

BBC News

Exclusive: Netflix in talks for cable partnership
Reuters
By Yinka Adegoke and Lisa Richwine (Reuters) - Netflix Chief Executive Reed Hastings has quietly met with some of the largest US cable companies in recent weeks to discuss adding the online movie streaming service to their cable offerings, according to ...

Why Volt Production Pause is a Good Thing
EV World
The five-week shutdown of the Volt production line is a good thing for plug-in vehicles because it will help align production with demand and keep GM's revenue on the vehicles higher and fund ongoing vehicle development. So General Motors announced ...

Titanic disaster blamed on Moon
Telegraph.co.uk
For 100 years it has shouldered the blame for the sinking of the Titanic but now the much-maligned iceberg could be partially forgiven after scientists identified a new culprit – the moon. By Nick Collins, Science Correspondent Although a collision ...

Telegraph.co.uk

Sony Xperia S review
Engadget
By Sharif Sakr posted Mar 8th 2012 11:00AM Has spring 2012 brought a rebirth to the Xperia range, or just a rebranding? On the face of it, that's an easy one. The Sony Xperia S (codenamed "Nozomi") is the first handset we've reviewed in the ...

The new iPad and gaming: What will change?
CNET
by Scott Stein March 7, 2012 12:38 PM PST Follow @jetscott Retina Display, quad-core graphics; are these enough to change iPad gaming? In some ways, yes, but in other ways not so much. Showing off Infinity Blade Dungeons at the new iPad unveiling.

New discovery is key to understanding neutrino transformations
UC Berkeley
By Robert Sanders, Media Relations | March 8, 2012 A new discovery provides a crucial key to understanding how neutrinos – ghostly particles with multiple personalities – change identity and may help shed light on why matter exists in the universe.

UC Berkeley

Tech Savvy: Apps and websites for curbing fuel costs
Los Angeles Times
GasBuddy, Gas Cubby and MapQuest are among the digital tools motorists are turning to on mobile devices and Web browsers to find the cheapest pump prices or track fuel economy. By Andrea Chang, Los Angeles Times With gas prices in record territory for ...mofuel.com

China's Proview demands iPad sales stop, threatens “severe measures” for ...
Washington Post
Shenzhen Proview Technology issued the demand in an open letter to China iPad vendors and dealers, threatening “severe measures” against trademark infringements. The letter, reported in local newspapers Thursday, says any use of “IPAD” or similar ...

Mobile Technology Adoption, US Businesses
Washington Post
8, 2012 - March 7 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg's Cory Johnson reports on the impact of mobiletechnology on the US economy and companies like Critical Systems LLC and Glu Mobile Inc. Johnson speaks on Bloomberg Television's "Bloomberg West.

Tech Ticker: Facebook boosts mobile audience, suit against Apple e-book prices
San Jose Mercury News
Facebook disclosed for the first time Wednesday how rapidly its mobile audience is growing, saying it had 432 million regular mobile users at the end of December, a 76 percent jump in 2011. Facebook says it now has 58 million regular users who log on ...

Tech Junkie: Geneva day 3 03.08.12
News & Observer
(AP Photo/Frank Augstein) – Associated Press Arnold Schwarzenegger, R20 Founding Chair and former Governor of California, visits the Geneva Motor Show to Celebrate Green Automobile Technology, during the opening day of the 82nd Geneva International ...

News & Observer

Proview Shenzhen asks China distributors to halt iPad sales
Reuters
| HONG KONG (Reuters) - Proview Technology, which is battling Apple over the iPad trademark in China, has asked Chinese distributors to stop selling the popular tablet PC after the US technologygiant launched the latest version of its iPad.

JCDecaux Launches `Smart' Technology Billboards
Washington Post
Mar. 8, 2012 - March 8 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg Television's Caroline Hyde reports on the outdoor advertiser JCDecaux SA's new billboards in Reading, England. (Source: Bloomberg) (/Bloomberg) Correction: Clarification: SuperFan badge holders ...

US tech groups alarmed by India purchasing plan
Reuters
The plan by India's Department of Information Technology's also covers "products that have undefined 'security implications'" and potentially software, the groups said. "Most troubling, however, are the (Indian government's) plans to use its regulatory ...

Kinect technology takes Mass Effect to a whole new level
NEWS.com.au
Mass Effect 3 (ME3) is one of 2012's most hotly-anticipated video games and features revolutionary gameplay using the Xbox 360's Kinect voice recognition technology. The last instalment of BioWare's epic sci-fi trilogy allows gamers to quickly switch ...

Technology's benefits for teens vs. YouTube fights, cyber-harassment, webcam ...
Washington Post (blog)
Neither it nor the other incidents discount what the experts polled by Pew had to say about the potential of technology in kids' lives. What the incidents do suggest is that technology is also amplifying the hardest parts of adolescence — the cruelty, ...

Apple's new iPad 'could be banned in China' despite fanfare launch
Irish Independent
By Emma Barnett APPLE'S new iPad may have launched to great fanfare, but the company needs to resolve a new issue with Proview, a Chinese technology firm intent upon banning the sale of the tablet device in China. Proview Technology, which is fighting ...

Irish Independent

IPad Dispute in China Gets Murkier
Wall Street Journal
... that said it speaks for a group of major state-controlled Chinese banks said Wednesday that the lenders own the Chinese rights to the iPad brand, the object of a continuing legal battle in China between Apple Inc. and a local technology company.

Start thinking about 5G wireless
CNN
By David Goldman @CNNMoneyTech March 8, 2012: 5:41 AM ET 5G technology is going to bring a wireless Internet of 'things,' rather than just phones and tablets. BARCELONA, Spain (CNNMoney) -- Just as consumers are wrapping their heads around 4G, ...

Universal Detection Technology Unveils the Smartphone Application for Its ...
MarketWatch (press release)
LOS ANGELES, CA, Mar 08, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Universal Detection Technology( www.udetection.com ) (OBB:UNDT) , a developer of early-warning monitoring technologies that protect against biological, chemical, and radiological threats, ...

Chinese tech firms fingered for military collaboration
Register
Huawei, ZTE and Datang are also all named in the report as having close collaborative ties with the PLA, with the former named as an “advanced source of technology” for the military. Rather than isolate certain state owned IT firms as exclusively ...

Google Applies for Photo-based Landmark Identification Technology
By Quentyn Kennemer
Google has applied for a very interesting patent. This one allows a user to find their location by taking a photo of a landmark. After taking the photo, it'll be shipped off to Google's servers where they'll attempt to match your photo with one in ...
Android Phone Fans

Israeli President Touts Tech In Final Day Of Bay Area Visit « CBS ...
By tjfang
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Israeli President Shimon Peres touted the role of technology as an instrument for peace during a talk Wednesday at the annual Launch Conference in San Francisco. The brief appearance at the high-tech event ...
CBS San Francisco

The Essential SXSW Tech Tool Kit - Lauren Goode - Social ...
By Lauren Goode
For ourselves, and for others who are heading down to Austin, we've put together the Essential SXSW Tech Toolkit for the five days of the festival. RSVP to All Your ..... Featuring the most influential figures in technology, unscripted and upfront.
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Don't Read Tech Blogs: 10 Ideas from Backupify's Rob May | Xconomy
By Gregory T. Huang
You might know him as the founder and CEO of Backupify, one of the fast-growing technologystartups around Boston. I know him as a guy who speaks his mind about. ... one of the fast-growingtechnology startups around Boston. I know him as a guy who speaks his mind about many a techtopic. .... Business, life sciences, and technology news — covering Boston, Seattle, San Diego, Detroit, San Francisco, New York and beyond. © 2007-2012, Xconomy, Inc. Xconomy is a registered...
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Apple's new iPad: Retina display, 5-megapixel camera, 4G LTE, A5X chip, and voice dictation

Apple's new iPad: Retina display, 5-megapixel camera, 4G LTE [Updated]
Los Angeles Times
By Nathan Olivarez-Giles This story was updated at 11:45 am with information on the new iPad's A5X chip, voice dictation and pricing. Apple's new iPad has been unveiled and it's called -- the iPad. Not iPad 3 and not iPad HD, contrary to rampant ...

Los Angeles Times

Biggest solar storm in years nears Earth, may disrupt power
USA TODAY
By Seth Borenstein, AP WASHINGTON – The largest solar flare in five years is racing toward Earth, threatening to unleash a torrent of charged particles that could disrupt power grids, GPS and airplane flights. AP An ultraviolet wavelength image ...

USA TODAY

Bizarre hybrid deep-sea creatures discovered
Fox News
Deep sea symbiosis: A hermit crab uses an anemone as a shell.Greg Rouse Scientists have discovered a strange and rare hybrid site in the deep sea where two extreme seafloor environments exist side by side, and are home to a parade of weird hybrid ...

Antimatter atom is measured for the first time
msnbc.com
Scientists have taken the first-ever measurement of an atom made of antimatter. This measurement, though not very precise, represents a first step toward being able to study antimatter atoms in detail — a goal necessary for understanding why the ...

msnbc.com

Security site hacked in LulzSec revenge move
msnbc.com
Angry members of LulzSec, part of hacktivist group Anonymous, hacked into a software security site that they believed led to the arrests Tuesday of six suspected leaders of Anonymous. The hackers posted what they said were the usernames and passwords ...

msnbc.com

Gorillas More Related to People Than Thought, Genome Says
National Geographic
Staring face to face with a gorilla, it's hard not to find them eerily similar to humans—and now the first published gorilla genome supports that, according to a new study. In 2008 geneticists took DNA from Kamilah, a then 30-year-old female western ...

National Geographic

Siri Speaks Japanese in iOS 5.1 Update
PCWorld
Apple's iPhone 4S's artificially intelligent assistant now speaks six languages, with the addition of Japanese in the refreshed iOS. By Philip Michaels, Macworld Japanese-speaking iPhone 4S owners will now get a chance to chat with Siri.

Venus BELCHES solar wind in shock weather explosion
Register
By Brid-Aine Parnell • Get more from this author ESA's Venus Express spacecraft has spotted the planet blowing back million-mile-per-hour solar winds in weather explosions similar to what happens outside Earth's magnetic shield.

iPhoto coming to iOS for $4.99, completes mobile iWork and iLife
Ars Technica
By Casey Johnston | Published March 7, 2012 2:08 PM Apple's head engineer for photo and video application, Randy Ubilios, demos the new iOS version of iPhoto. Apple announced updates to a handful of apps for iOS alongside its new iPad at a special ...

Ars Technica

Google Play May Add Audiobooks
PCWorld
By John P. Mello Jr., PCWorld Mar 7, 2012 11:35 AM Google Play, launched by the search giant Tuesday, may be adding audiobooks to its inventory of music, movies, apps and ebooks. Signs of audiobook expansion were first spotted by Google watchers at the ...

New Apple TV delivers 1080p, updated interface
CNET
by Matthew Moskovciak March 7, 2012 10:11 AM PST Follow @cnetmoskovciak Apple's streaming video box gets a bump up to 1080p and a few other minor improvements. The new Apple TV will feature a redesigned user interface. As expected, a new Apple TV ...

It's Official: SimCity Returns to the PC in 2013
Tom's Hardware Guide
Electronic Arts and Maxis Emeryville announced on Wednesday that the SimCity franchise is making a return to the PC in 2013. They call it a "true rebirth" of the franchise (AKA reboot) that will break new ground next year by implementing a "robust" ...

Higgs boson coming into focus, say scientists (+video)
Christian Science Monitor
Higgs boson: The hunt for the Higgs boson, the so-called God Particle, continues. But in a study released today, scientists say they're getting closer to proving the existence of Higgs boson, but the image is 'fuzzy.' By Andrew Stern, Reuters / March 7 ...

Christian Science Monitor

Video: Lego space shuttle almost makes it to space
TG Daily
I've always been a big fan of Lego models, especially when uber-geeks take the little bricks and create advanced designs or structures. Of course, this has to rank right up there with some of my favorite Lego stories. Yes, the very talented Raul Oaida ...

Is Netflix Running to Cable's Warm Embrace?
TechNewsWorld
By Ed Sutherland Netflix's streaming services may start piggybacking on cable TV offerings if the company lands the deals it's reportedly trying to clinch. Such agreements could give Netflix a revenue boost, and from cable operators' point of view, ...

Samsung Files Patent Lawsuit Against Apple in South Korea
PCWorld
By Agam Shah, IDG News Samsung Electronics this week filed a lawsuit against Apple, alleging infringement of three patents used in the iPhone 4S and iPad 2. The lawsuit was filed in Seoul Central District Court. Samsung previously filed a separate ...

Apple Awarded iWallet Patent
PC Magazine
By Chloe Albanesius Apple has been awarded an "iWallet" patent that, among other things, would link mobile payments to your iTunes account. As reported by Patently Apple, the iWallet patent would allow credit card companies to send customers their ...

AMD's SeaMicro Deal Will Strengthen Server Market Presence
Forbes
AMD recently stated that it will acquire SeaMicro for $334 million. SeaMicro builds micro servers that essentially pack together several chips to save space and energy. [1] AMD's attempt comes as a result of the company's consistently poor performance ...

Eye tracking evolution: A look at Tobii's slim new IS-2, glasses-free 3D...
Digitaltrends.com
Today, Tobii announced a newer, smaller, better eye tracking device that can be used in consumer devices as well as a partnership that could greatly enhance glasses-free 3D. We spoke with the company about its plans and where eye control is headed next ...

Digitaltrends.com

Facebook hit by technical problem
BBC News
Facebook was unavailable for a number of users mostly across Europe on Wednesday due to "technical difficulties". Users reported problems accessing Facebook.com in many countries, including the UK, for about two hours. The social network's smartphone ...

BBC News

Spider silk conducts heat, unalike organic material: Study
The State Column
Spider silk conducts heat, unlike most organic materials, according to a press release from Iowa State University Friday. Xinwei Wang, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Iowa State University, made the discovery after his curiosity ...

Researchers capture first-ever images of atoms moving in a molecule
R & D Magazine
Using a new ultrafast camera, researchers have recorded the first real-time image of two atoms vibrating in a molecule. Key to the experiment, which appears in Nature, is the researchers' use of the energy of a molecule's own electron as a kind of ...

Battlefield 3 to Get Three New Expansions this Year
RipTen
Are you getting bored with Battlefield 3′s maps? Why not try the game's Back to Karkand expansion? Already did? Well, if your trigger-finger is itching for new maps and weapons to blow crap up with, then do we have good news for you!

Dinosaur guts reveal velociraptor's last meal
CBS News
A lightweight Velociraptor dinosaur may have chowed down on the carcass of a much larger flying reptile not long before meeting his own demise some 75 million years ago. The evidence comes from a pterosaur bone discovered in the gut of the skeletal ...

Researchers link moon to Titanic disaster
ABC15.com (KNXV-TV)
April 14 will mark 100 years since the Titanic sunk on her maiden voyage after striking an iceberg. Recent research from the Texas State University suggested that a rare lunar event might have contributed to the tragedy. Physics faculty members Donald ...

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Android Hits 'Play,' Apple May Be Offering to Settle
Sci-Tech Today
By Barry Levine The Wall Street Journal reported that Apple may be ready to settle its proxy war with Google over Android. For months, Apple has been embroiled in a multi-front, worldwide patent conflict with Samsung and Motorola, among others, ...

Sci-Tech Today

Windows 8: 8 Benefits For Business
InformationWeek
Microsoft pitches more detail on Windows 8's security and manageability improvements for enterprise IT and SMBs, a week after releasing the consumer preview version. By Paul McDougall InformationWeek A week after releasing the Windows 8 Consumer ...

GM to Halt Output of Slow-Selling Volt for Five Weeks Rather Than Discount
Bloomberg
General Motors Co. (GM), missing sales goals for the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid, plans to halt production of the sedan for five weeks beginning later this month rather than discount the high-technology cars. GM will stop making Volts at its ...

Tech Wars: The new battlegrounds
Hindustan Times
If you thought Pepsi - Coca Cola's counter advertisements were the summit of in-your-face competition, welcome to the tech industry - a no-holds-barred space where battles are fought daily on acquisition tables, corporate blogs, parody videos, ...
 
Hindustan Times

Gates Beats Ellison in Tech Billionaires Ranking
BusinessWeek (blog)
(MSFT), the world's largest software company, is technology's richest man. The chairman of Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft, was worth $61.3 billion as of the close of US trading yesterday, down $805.4 million for the day, according to a daily ...

Science & Tech: Nasa probes begin mapping surface of the moon
Scottish Daily Record
"Literally and figuratively, I'm over the moon," mission chief scientist Maria Zuber at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said in an email. Despite astronaut landings and robotic missions aimed at the moon, scientists still do not know ...

iPad HD “Feel Screen” Senseg tech tipped
SlashGear
A super-tactile touchscreen capable of delivering virtual textures, bumps and more to your fingertips has been tipped for the iPad 3/iPad HD, with haptics specialist Senseg dropping heavy hints that its innovative tech is featured in the third-gen iOS ...

SlashGear

Are Small, Tech-Savvy Firms Top US Job Creators?
Wall Street Journal
By EMILY MALTBY Small businesses that heavily use technology, from back-end software to social-media websites, are highly successful job creators, according to a research report released Wednesday from the Technology CEO Council.

Wall Street Journal

Top Ten Richest People In Tech
By Matt Rosoff
Bloomberg has started ranking the richest people in the tech industry, and it's going to adjust the rankings daily based on the movement of stock prices and other assets. Not surprisingly, Bill Gates is still number 1 by a large margin, with more ...
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Apple iPad 3 - Sifting through the rumors

Apple's 'iPad 3': Sifting through the rumors
Washington Post
We're in the home stretch for iPad rumors, with Apple's media event set to go for this Wednesday. Keep in mind that Apple hasn't even said, explicitly, that this Wednesday will bring a new iPad, but with a picture of an iPad on the invitation and the ...

Anonymous Allies Hit With Zeus Malware
InformationWeek
Fraudsters steal hacktivist supporters' banking, webmail logins by modifying Anonymous attack tool with a hidden Trojan. By Mathew J. Schwartz InformationWeek Would-be Anonymous supporters, choose your attack tools carefully.

The State of Mobile Technology
TIME
Ben Bajarin is the director of consumer technology analysis and research at Creative Strategies Inc., a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm in Silicon Valley. By Ben Bajarin | @benbajarin | March 5, 2012 | + Asus chairman Jonney ...

TIME

Tech Test Drive: Android alternatives to iPods
San Jose Mercury News
By CNet.com Portable media players like the Apple iPod touch will eventually die out, but there's still plenty of interest in the category, and money to be made by chasing after people who don't feel the iPod fits their needs.

Travel Tech: Renting a Mifi Mobile Hotspot from Xcom Global
USA TODAY (blog)
Keeping up with my constant stream of email and social media while traveling internationally has been the bane of my semi-nomadic lifestyle. As a freelance writer with constant deadlines, I need to be able to answer questions from editors quickly, ...

11 Windows 8 Keyboard, Mouse Tips to Turbocharge the Desktop
PC Magazine
By Michael Muchmore Windows 8 is being marketed as a touch-tablet operating system, but mouse and keyboard users have not been overlooked. With the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, Microsoft has added a few goodies for keyboarders and mousers, who have been ...

Apple flaunts 25B App Store downloads
Computerworld
By Gregg Keizer Computerworld - Apple today announced that a Chinese woman had been awarded a $10000 iTunes gift card for downloading the 25 billionth app from the company's iOS App Store. The milestone was set when Chunli Fu of Qingdao, China, ...

Computerworld

Yahoo layoffs could reach thousands, happen this month, report says
San Jose Mercury News
By Jeremy C. Owens Yahoo (YHOO) CEO Scott Thompson is planning a massive restructuring that will result in layoffs possibly totaling in the thousands as early as the end this month, according to a Monday report. AllThingsD reporter Kara Swisher, ...

Killer Windows Phone App: Nokia's ESPN Hub
InformationWeek
Nokia hopes to differentiate its Windows Phones through the ESPN Hub, a sports-lovers dream come true. Microsoft's Windows Phone platform might see better sales in the US if more retail shop reps showed off Nokia's ESPN Hub.

Android Key Lime Pie after Jelly Bean?
msnbc.com
Facebook, iPhone, Twitter and Wii. Technology evolves at the speed of light. Msnbc.com's tech reporters look at the gadgets, games and innovations changing our world. Google's naming construct for its mobile operating system, which started...

Sun unleashes another dramatic solar flare
msnbc.com
A major solar flare erupted from the sun late Sunday, sending out an explosion of plasma and charged particles. The X1.1-class solar flare exploded from the surface of the sun at 11:13 pm ET, according to the Space Weather Prediction Center, ...

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Application Streaming Gets a New Face With Cloudpaging
Computerworld
By Thor Olavsrud CIO - Delivering software on-demand from centralized servers or the cloud was the great promise of application streaming technology. But Osman Kent, CEO of startup Numecent (formerly known as Endeavors Technologies) says that promise ...

Nook in the UK: Barnes & Noble to Host London Event for Developers
Wired News
By Tim Carmody Barnes & Noble is sponsoring an event for developers in London on March 19th, possibly signaling a spring entry of its Nook e-reading and tablet devices into the UK and Europe. The event is hosted by Mobile Monday London, ...

Wired News

Mars Swings into Opposition March 3
Scientific American
Every two years and two months Earth and Mars line up with the sun, giving us a relatively close view of the Red Planet. Cynthia Graber reports Now's a great time to break out that backyard telescope. Because Saturday, March 3, is the Mars opposition.

Sen. Schumer wants FTC probe of Apple, Google
Computerworld
By Grant Gross IDG News Service - The US Federal Trade Commission should investigate Apple and Google for allowing applications on their mobile OSes to access users' photographs without permission, a US senator said. Some mobile applications on the ...

Ford to Send Customers Software Update for Touch-Screen Controls
San Francisco Chronicle
March 5 (Bloomberg) -- Ford Motor Co., which has plunged in quality rankings, on March 8 will begin sending more than 300000 owners of the Ford Explorer, Edge, Focus and Lincoln MKX a UBS flash drive loaded with new software to fix problems with MyFord ...

Ford unleashes blistering Fiesta ST for Europe
USA TODAY
By Chris Woodyard, USA TODAY It's small and potent -- and it won't be coming to the US -- but get a load of this new little firecracker from Ford, the Fiesta ST. The production version is being shown this week at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show.

USA TODAY

High price soured Chevy Volt sales
CNN
By Peter Valdes-Dapena @PeterDrives March 5, 2012: 1:32 PM ET The Chevrolet's biggest challenger, analysts say, has been the Chevrolet Cruze. The Cruze gets good good gas milage for half the price. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Despite winning a trophy case ...

Galaxy Nexus and Droid Incredible 3 new models tipped for Verizon
SlashGear
The Smartphones are pouring from the sky like rain here in the first quarter of 2012, and they won't be stopping with brand new model names – in a tip today coming from a source close with Verizon, we're hearing news of a new Galaxy Nexus model as well ...

SlashGear

Assassin's Creed trailer is the American Revolution
TG Daily
Ubisoft has released its long-awaited trailer for Assassin's Creed III, which is set during the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783). The Revolution began as a conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen burgeoning colonies in North ...

Diablo III leaked release date: April 17th
SlashGear
Blizzard have always been coy with release dates, simply stating that things will be done when they're done, and released only when they're ready. Their next anticipated game, Diablo III, was first announced back in 2008, and gamers have been waiting ...

2012 European Car of the Year Award Goes To Chevrolet Volt, Opel Ampera
MotorTrend Magazine
Oddly enough, the 2012 European Car of the Year isn't really European – in fact, it's actually assembled just outside of Detroit. A panel of 59 European automotive journalists officially named the Chevrolet Volt, along with its mechanically-identical ...

MotorTrend Magazine

Video: DARPA's Cheetah robot sets new speed record
TG Daily
Ground robots are currently deployed by the US military in various explosive-ordinance-disposal missions. However, if the limitations on 'bot mobility and manipulation capabilities can be overcome, robots could ultimately assist warfighters across a ...

How much will rising gas prices hurt the US economy?
Christian Science Monitor
Gas prices are slated to hit new highs within months. How might that affect the modest economic recovery? Here's a clue: Every 10-cent rise per gallon in gas prices costs the US economy $11 billion. By Ron Scherer, Staff writer / March 5, ...

Christian Science Monitor

Introducing... the invisible Mercedes?!
TG Daily
Various types of technology can be used to help make vehicles greener and save at the fuel pump. Typically, though, most people tend to think only about electric vehicles or hybrids when it comes to green car technology.

Stuxnet worm was a calculated risk
Former CIA director General Michael Hayden believes the Stuxnet worm that targeted Iran's nuclear infrastructure was a "good idea," even though it set a precedent for the use of malicious software as a weapon. "We have entered into a new phase of ...

TG Daily

Saturn's moon Dione has thin atmosphere of oxygen: NASA
The State Column
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected molecular oxygen ions around Saturn's moon Dione, according to a NASA press release Friday. Scientists posit that this discovery confirms the presence of a very rarefied atmosphere. In fact, scientists reveal that ...

Fable gets a co-op hack-and-slash makeover in Fable Heroes for XBLA
Gaming Age
by Paul Bryant As the other of the pair of new Fable titles revealed at Microsoft's Spring Showcase 2012, Fable Heroes is more of an action oriented co-op XBLA title and somewhat of a fresh spin on the franchise. The game also takes the world of Fable ...

Gaming Age

NASA lost 'full control' to hackers, pwned 13 times last year
Register
By John Leyden • Get more from this author Cybercrooks broke into NASA's computer systems 13 times last year gaining "full functional control" of important systems in the worse cases, according to the testimony before the US Congress by the space ...

If You're Not Paying For It, You Become The Product
Forbes
Scott Goodson is the founder of StrawberryFrog. His first book, Uprising exploring Movement Marketing has been published by McGraw Hill. The internet continues to evolve and with it our privacy continues to be a matter of debate.

Stinging and seeing
UC Davis
New research from the University of California shows how the ability to detect light could have evolved before anything like an eye. As published today (March 5) in the journal BMC Biology, the research is based on the stinging mechanism in the tiny, ...

Here's That Cinematic Trailer for Mass Effect 3 Featuring Femshep You Asked For
The Mary Sue
by Susana Polo | 1:06 pm, March 5th We've already seen a gameplay trailer featuring the official Femshep, but there's something to be said for the symbolic importance of the fully animated cinematic trailer. This one is exactly the same as the full ...

Halo 4 Developer Pledges 'Darker' Tone For Shooter Series
Wired News
By Patrick Shaw Halo 4 marks the return of series protagonist Master Chief, whose human side will be explored in the new storyline. Halo 4 creative director Josh Holmes said that while it is important to keep the essence of Halo 's identity intact,...

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