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2011-12-13 15:11:31.595799

Panasonic Toughpad A1 and Toughpad B1 Android tablets revealed
SlashGear
This week the folks at Panasonic have revealed one tablet and named a second, the first being the Toughpad A1, a 10.1-inch Android 3.2 Honeycomb tablet with a processor from no less than Marvell, the most elusive chipmaker of all. ...
1 month ago | Score: 708.628944946

Baldwin's Twitter account offline
The Nation, Pakistan
The Twitter account of the Hollywood and TV actor, Alec Baldwin, has been deactivated. Mr Baldwin had been a prolific tweeter and made headlines this week after writing that he had been kicked off an American Airlines plane for playing a game on his ...
4 days, 13 hours ago | Score: 496.146598642

Kerio sets sights on Microsoft, Google
CRN Australia
By Allie Coyne on Nov 8, 2011 2:00 PM (35 minutes ago) Global solutions provider Kerio is aiming to take on Microsoft and Google in Australia, revealing an aggressive channel strategy for its new server product on the first anniversary of its Sydney ...
1 month ago | Score: 357.083364754

Better Buy: Microsoft vs. IBM
Motley Fool
In today's edition, Jeremy and Eric pit Microsoft against IBM to decide which one of these IT giants is the better buy. While Eric and Jeremy find Microsoft to be a compelling valuation, Eric deems IBM's leadership to be the trump card. ...
1 month, 3 weeks ago | Score: 321.322772234

Summary Box: Twitter redesigns short messaging service in attempt to broaden ...
Washington Post
NEW LOOK: Twitter is changing its short messaging service to make it easier to understand key features and find customized information. THE HIGHLIGHTS: A section called “Discover” will be devoted to displaying information tailored to each user's ...
4 days, 13 hours ago | Score: 291.706094756

Twitter redesign: Close but still not great
CBS News
Here's another: Too bad Jobs never got a chance to design Twitter. Twitter has been a smash success almost from the moment it hit the transom in 2006. Moving beyond the circle of early adopters into the mainstream, it fast became an indispensable tool ...
4 days, 13 hours ago | Score: 287.230943331

Room for Debate: A Running Commentary on the News
New York Times
Google's newly installed founder-CEO is racing to create new businesses, while Steve Ballmer at Microsoft and Reed Hastings at Netflix are struggling through similar shifts. A successful company needs to become its own fiercest competitor, ...
1 month, 1 week ago | Score: 235.576551761

Motorola Droid RAZR Features and Spec Sheet, Secretly Smart With Advanced ...
Mobile bloom News
The Razr employs advanced artificial intelligence technology that monitors your behavior and then self-optimizes to deliver a peak performance in the ways that matter most to you. This feature actually allows you to get 25% more battery life per charge ...
4 days, 13 hours ago | Score: 230.684224646

Skype adds Facebook video chatting to software
BusinessWeek
By RACHEL METZ Internet phone service Skype said Thursday that it will let users of its software make video calls to their Facebook friends and receive them, too. The free feature, released Thursday in a "beta" test version of Skype's software for Macs ...
3 weeks, 4 days ago | Score: 186.195107795

Flipboard finally makes its way onto the iPhone
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
And now there's a version of Flipboard for the much smaller screens of the iPhone and iPod Touch. This new version, released late Tuesday night, also gives you the ability to sync your Flipboard feeds across multiple devices. ...
5 days, 23 hours ago | Score: 171.040870156

Daily Job Lead: Linux-Systems Administrator
The Root
InMotion Hosting in Virginia Beach, Va., is seeking a Linux-systems administrator to assist in system and network-capacity planning and operations. The Linux-systems administrator will solve complex technical issues involving multiple technology stacks ...
1 month ago | Score: 164.049581457

Apple Will Be Serving As Your Safe Haven Today, Thanks to iPhone Sales
Wall Street Journal (blog)
The company, which for a brief time earlier this year was the biggest US public company by market cap, is enjoying strong iPhone demand and a little analyst love this morning. This morning we noted that with AT&T's better than expected smartphone ...
4 days, 13 hours ago | Score: 163.075132296

HP, Dell Overtake Nokia in Updated Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics
PCWorld
The latest guide to greener PCs, TVs and mobile phones recognizes the efforts Hewlett-Packard and Dell have made to clean up their supply chain, catapulting them up the rankings, while Nokia has slipped back to third place after leading since September ...
1 month ago | Score: 161.697595792

Google Offers Free Websites to 500000 Indian SMBs
PCWorld
By John Ribeiro, IDG News To get Indian small and medium businesses online, Google and partner HostGator.com will pay for one year for the domain name registration and website hosting of 500000 Indian businesses. While India has an estimated 8 million ...
1 month, 1 week ago | Score: 151.717043224

Intel Ultrabooks Take On Apple's MacBook Air: Rich Jaroslovsky
Bloomberg
Now Intel Corp. (INTC), whose chips power most personal computers, is working with computer makers to fight back, touting an if- you-can't-beat-'em, join-'em concept called the Ultrabook. The design borrows liberally from the tablet playbook in an ...
1 month, 2 weeks ago | Score: 133.887734414

Study: User Tools to Limit Ad Tracking Are Clunky
PCWorld
A spokeswoman for Microsoft said the Tracking Protection feature in IE9 lets users add "an industry curated" tracking protection list with one click. ...

1 month, 1 week ago | Score: 112.202202605

New Kindle Touch 3G removes access to most of Internet
CNN
Users will still be able to use 3G to sync book and document purchases, but anything beyond Wikipedia will be off-limits. Browsing was (and still is) an experimental feature on the last iteration of the Kindle, now known as the Kindle Keyboard 3G. ...
2 months, 1 week ago | Score: 109.63959414

8 Candidates Rat Race For Yahoo Throne
Siliconindia.com
He was involved as a strategist in helping News Corporation to acqui re Myspace in 2005, an achievement that eventually failed. Considered to be closely associated with the world of new media, Ross is said to have learnt a lot from his past mistakes ...
3 months ago | Score: 104.941792655

BLOCKED: No Google Wallet For Verizon Customers
By Matt Rosoff
Sprint is still the only way you can get Google Wallet.
Business Insider
1 week ago | Score: 94.2400008254

ASML sees slowdown for electronic chip makers
Reuters
A bellwether for Europe's technology sector, ASML is the world's largest maker of semiconductor lithography machines which map out electronic circuits on silicon wafers, competing with Japanese groups Canon and Nikon . "I think 2012 will be a difficult ...
2 months ago | Score: 86.9397357929

Ncomputing offers a different take on VDI
ZDNet (blog)
In the past, Ncomputing offered a physical host-based version of its operating system virtualization technology that could support a surprising number of Windows or Linux users on a single PC. This time, that technology is being offered to run on a ...
1 month, 2 weeks ago | Score: 85.1382291688

Steve Jobs, Jon Corzine Among 2011's Biggest CEO Departures
Forbes
Steve Jobs had been on medical leave since January, when he officially stepped down as CEO of Apple on August 24. “I have always said that if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I would be the ...
4 days, 13 hours ago | Score: 80.6268900666

Facebook 'Like' Button to Morph into 'Read,' 'Watch,' 'Listen'?
PC Magazine
By Mark Hachman Facebook's "Read, Watch, Listen" theme of its f8 developer event on Thursday apparently now involves altering the "Like" button to specific actions. In other words, "read," "watch" and "listen" will be applied to the "Like" button. ...
2 months, 3 weeks ago | Score: 79.9754824602

Are You Bad at the Internet?
Inc.com
In 2004, just 2.1 percent of overall retail revenue was generated on the Internet. By 2009, that percentage hovered around 4 percent. "It's a tiny fraction of sales," Robb says. "I was expecting something larger." Manufacturing, on the other hand, ...
1 month, 3 weeks ago | Score: 78.5519441152

Nokia Siemens Networks appoints Igor Leprince to lead its Middle East business
Al-Bawaba
Nokia Siemens Networks has announced the appointment of Igor Leprince to lead its business in the Middle East region, effective October 1, 2011. Leprince, who will be based in Dubai, is currently global head of care within Nokia Siemens Networks' ...
3 months ago | Score: 78.4306595374

Nokia Siemens to cut 17000 jobs
Los Angeles Times
Nokia has announced more than 10000 layoffs for this year and next as a part of its effort to switch its devices over to Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system. And on Wednesday, Nokia Siemens Networks, a joint venture between Nokia and Siemens ...
2 weeks, 5 days ago | Score: 77.6065748023

Google tops dream employer list again
Herald Sun
Self-employment was second, followed by the Virgin Group, Qantas, Apple and Microsoft. Pay, benefits and conditions are the main reason workers become attracted to a company, according to findings from the Insync Surveys and RedBalloon 2011 Dream ...
2 months, 3 weeks ago | Score: 75.8479752243

Adobe Flash, Edge, and how future transition to HTML5 for mobile impacts ...
ChicagoNow
They determined it would be best to focus on HTML5 as the future for mobile interactive features and animation, and discontinue Flash for mobile. While this is not a bad thing, the announcement seems abrupt, leaving many Flash designers, animators and ...
4 weeks, 1 day ago | Score: 73.3364324967

Oracle offers commercial extensions to MySQL
Register
Oracle has released three new commercial extensions for MySQL, provoking fears that the company might be trying to take the project too far from its open source roots. The extensions for MySQL Enterprise cover thread pool scalability, a pluggable API ...
2 months, 3 weeks ago | Score: 71.0327901673

Acer, Asus and Dell 'to exit Android tablets'
The Guardian (blog)
With Acer having said that it is committed to higher-margin products than just PCs, and Asus aiming for a quad-core tablet in 2012, it seems more likely that the companies named are delaying some orders until 2012 as they await the arrival of ...
3 weeks, 4 days ago | Score: 70.9785988998

Larry Page Ousts Mark Zuckerberg As Most Popular On Google+
Search Engine Land
It looks like adding a suggested user list to Google+ has finally paid off in solving its “Mark Zuckerberg problem.” Facebook's CEO is no longer the most popular person on Google+, having just now been passed by Google CEO Larry Page. ...
1 month, 2 weeks ago | Score: 68.903814041

Steve Jobs and Apple skewered on New York stage
Reuters UK
Apple Computer Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs holds the new iPhone in San Francisco, California January 9, 2007. By Jed Horowitz NEW YORK (Reuters) - In a sold-out theatre in downtown Manhattan, two miles from the square where anti-Wall Street ...
1 month, 2 weeks ago | Score: 68.6972158116

Google's Eric Schmidt: Google Is Not A Country
TechCrunch
Learn More Despite the search engine's aggressive growth and “manifest destiny”-type approach to its expansion, “Think of us a teenager,” Google Chairman Eric Schmidt replied, to an interesting question from audience member Jeremaiah Owyang here at Le ...
6 days ago | Score: 67.149544638

2011-09-11 12:37:43.552051

Tor Network Cloaks Your Browsing From Prying Eyes
PCWorld
To access the Tor Network, just hop over to the Tor Network website and download the Tor browser bundle to get an older copy of Firefox with the Torbutton extension, which allows you to enable or disable browsing through the Tor Network with the click ...
2 months ago | Score: 570.807600959

Twitter Co-Founders Evan Williams, Biz Stone Switch Focus to New Venture
Bloomberg
By Joseph Galante - Tue Jun 28 22:09:51 GMT 2011 Twitter Inc. co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams said they are taking a further step back from the microblogging service and devoting their time to a company aimed at incubating new ideas. ...
2 months, 2 weeks ago | Score: 519.023703127

First Tablets With Intel's Oak Trail Processor Ship
PCWorld
By Agam Shah, IDG News The first tablets based on Intel's processor code-named Oak Trail started shipping late last week, with the initial models targeted at businesses. Fujitsu's Q550 and Motion Computing's CL900 tablets have Intel's Z670 processor ...
3 months, 1 week ago | Score: 478.36107004

Google's Six-Front War
Washington Post
More recently, the social browser RockMelt has captured some peoples' interests, and last week secured $30M in financing, adding Facebook board members Jim Breyer and Marc Andreessen to its board. Andreessen obviously knows a thing or two about ...
2 months, 1 week ago | Score: 391.768656878

Panasonic shoves WiGig inside mobile phones
IntoMobile
Panasonic is looking to change all that by announcing that they've successfully managed to shrink WiGig down to something so small that it can fit inside a mobile phone. Using the 60 GHz band, which is rather high when you consider that the WiFi of ...
3 months, 1 week ago | Score: 380.453744563

Microsoft Scores Android Royalties
Datamation
Microsoft hasn't been aggressive in launching a tablet, yet that doesn't mean the company is ignoring the mobile market. Microsoft hasn't been aggressive in launching a tablet, yet that doesn't mean the company is ignoring the mobile market. ...
2 months ago | Score: 341.281494949

DMW 100 Financial Index
Digital Media Wire
“It's a bad software Read More Luxembourg — Skype says the company is all about keeping their promises. Just look to their blog where the VoIP company announced today the inclusion of Skype 2.1 on 17 Android devices. The software update brings ...
1 month ago | Score: 340.049055069

Asus to launch Eee PC pre-loaded with Ubuntu Linux
V3.co.uk
The OS will come complete with a suite of applications for document creation including spreadsheets and presentations, which can be shared with Windows users, as well as pre-installed versions of Mozilla Firefox and Adobe Flash. ...
3 months, 1 week ago | Score: 302.930405762

Hurd, Ellison pay valued at more than $77M
Sacramento Bee
The contract talks crumbled, but Hurd found a new home with his friend Larry Ellison at Oracle Corp. On Friday, Oracle disclosed that Hurd's compensation for the year came in slightly higher than even Ellison's. Taken together, Hurd's severance package ...
2 weeks, 1 day ago | Score: 228.76364546

EBay completes $240M acquisition of Zong
BusinessWeek
EBay Inc. said Thursday that it has completed its $240 million acquisition of mobile payments provider Zong. Zong lets people use their mobile phones to buy virtual goods inside social networks and online games. To use it, they enter their phone ...
1 month ago | Score: 175.996581921

WordPress.org Forces Password Resets Due To Compromised Plugins
TechCrunch
According to founder Matt Mullenweg, WordPress .org has decided to reset all WordPress.org passwords, because of suspicious activity surrounding popular ...

2 months, 3 weeks ago | Score: 170.944826484

Steve Jobs gets comic book bio treatment
North County Times
The one-shot issue, expected in August, was created, in part, because of the sales of its last high-tech profile subject, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. (AP Photo/Bluewater Productions Inc.) Steve Jobs, the public face of Apple Inc., ...
2 months, 4 weeks ago | Score: 164.134759161

Apple Profit Seen Rising on Record IPad Sales
Bloomberg
(Source: Bloomberg) Apple Inc. (AAPL) is set to post a 69 percent jump in quarterly profit when it reports results today, after record buying of the iPad and Mac computer made up for weaker demand for its aging iPhone 4. Profit rose to $5.5 billion in ...
1 month, 3 weeks ago | Score: 163.681403223

Zuckerberg now richer than Google founders
NDTV.com
PTI, Updated: June 30, 2011 12:11 IST Boston: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's personal fortunes have soared, thanks to investment fund GSV Capital's recent stake in the social networking site which has put the Harvard dropout at a worth higher than ...
2 months, 1 week ago | Score: 157.150423307

Excited about Zynga's IPO? Get Ready for Korea's Nexon
By Sarah Lacy
Silicon Valley loves to dismiss Asian companies as nothing more than copycats who thrive, particularly in China, because the government protects them and punishes Western competitors. Even when the businesses in question are ...
TechCrunch
2 months ago | Score: 148.901585982

Chrome now has over 20 percent global market share
Afterdawn.com
The clear leaders, Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, have each dropped in the time frame, with IE falling from a commanding 60 percent to 44 percent and Firefox stalling, dropping from 30 percent to 28 percent. Chrome launched in December 2008 and ...
2 months, 1 week ago | Score: 144.783968658

Google speaks out about 'hostile, organized campaign' against Android
ZDNet (blog)
Google's Android operating system has risen to become one of the top mobile platforms in the world and the current leader in the United States. Naturally, this is sure to infuriate Google's competitors. Because of Android's success, David Drummond, ...
1 month, 1 week ago | Score: 133.131707138

PayPal founder pays entrepreneurs to skip college
Reuters
Stephens was chosen to participate in PayPal founder Peter Thiel's ''20 Under 20'' program that pays young entrepreneurs to skip college to work on their startups. By Deborah L. Cohen CHICAGO (Reuters) - Dale Stephens was homeschooled for most of his ...
2 weeks, 3 days ago | Score: 131.902759966

Baidu says Microsoft's Bing to power some of its English search
Reuters
SHANGHAI, July 4 (Reuters) - China's top search engine Baidu said on Monday that it had signed a deal with Microsoft's Bing search engine to offer English-language search to Baidu users. Baidu dominates China's search engine market after Google Inc ...
2 months, 1 week ago | Score: 123.012979795

In San Jose, The Tech Museum gets hacked
San Jose Mercury News
By Mike Rosenberg A museum devoted to promoting technology in the heart of Silicon Valley has fallen victim to a more sinister techie: a hacker. The Tech, the popular downtown San Jose museum, said Wednesday that a hacker broke into three old files ...
2 months ago | Score: 121.86945148

Steve Jobs to kick off Apple conference
Reuters
Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs introduces the iPad 2 on stage during an Apple event in San Francisco, California March 2, 2011. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) said Chief Executive Steve Jobs, who has been on medical leave, will open up the iPhone ...
3 months, 1 week ago | Score: 115.214430421

Google's Nexus Contraptions Bring A Rube Goldberg Diversion To YouTube
TechCrunch
Here's a good way to spend the last few hours of your work week as we head into the long holiday weekend: Google has just launched a new game called Nexus Contraptions. It's full of slick graphics, physics, and gadgetry, and while I'm not entirely sure ...
2 months, 1 week ago | Score: 113.277123646

Russian Reverse Engineer Praises Skype
eWEEK Europe UK
Last week, the news broke that a Russian programmer had reverse-engineered Skype's proprietary VoIP protocols. In an interview, he praises Skype as a good product with more “polish” than open source software can muster. He denies any malicious intent ...
3 months, 1 week ago | Score: 110.68662336

Google Apps ending support for older browsers
TG Daily
If you've been hesitant to update your Internet browser, you may want to pay attention to this. Google announced that it will begin phasing out support for users who are not using the most up-to-date browsers. And it's not just talking about people who ...
3 months, 1 week ago | Score: 104.55373166

Amazon Taking Pre-Orders For $700 HP TouchPad 4G
CRN
By Kevin McLaughlin, CRN With an absence of fanfare, Amazon has begun taking pre-orders for Hewlett Packard's inaugural 4G wireless broadband TouchPad, which AT&T is expected to begin offering to US customers sometime this month. ...
1 month ago | Score: 96.1109863836

Apple iCloud vs. Google Music vs. Amazon Cloud
KPTV Portland
Amazon was the first to announce its Cloud Drive storage service a few months back, and it's the only cloud-based music service that is completely available to users as of today. Google recently announced its highly-anticipated Google Music Beta ...
2 months, 2 weeks ago | Score: 96.0906048614

Adobe says its disagreement with Apple about Flash is over
Inquirer
While Adobe's Flash software doesn't have the best track record when it comes to security and Jobs was indeed correct that Flash is a closed standard, it is clear that users want access to it, at least until the use of HTML5 becomes widespread. ...
3 months, 1 week ago | Score: 93.0454235615

The 9 Most Important Things to Remember If You Want to Sell Your Startup
TechCrunch
Even Larry Page and Sergey Brin wanted to sell Google to Yahoo for $1 million within ten seconds of starting their company. And Yahoo said, “No”. As soon as I start a company, I want to sell it. I've sold four companies and I'm invested in another ...
3 months ago | Score: 80.289074776

Rebecca Black's 'Friday' For Rent On YouTube!? Well Not At The Moment
Washington Post
By TechCrunch.com, So I've been sitting here for the past 30 minutes writing a blog opus about how Rebecca Black's “Friday” is now a $2.99 YouTube Rental, heralding a new era for YouTube's content monetization strategy and guess what? ...
2 months, 4 weeks ago | Score: 79.9594221924

NEWSMAKER-Steve Jobs has a different operating system
Reuters
By Poornima Gupta and Peter Henderson SAN FRANCISCO Aug 24 (Reuters) - Hard to understand, difficult to work with and deemed irreplaceable by many Apple fans and investors, Steve Jobs has made a life defying conventions and expectations. ...
2 weeks, 3 days ago | Score: 77.0087355167

Report: CAA Eyeing Silicon Valley Office
mediabistro.com
They represent a number of Silicon Valley marquee names such as Biz Stone and Mark Zuckerberg's sister Randi. But, per Lauria's unnamed sources, there's a lot more to it than that: Currently, the agency's business in Silicon Valley is divided into ...
2 weeks, 2 days ago | Score: 75.5517199861

Google+ Posts Creep into Gmail
TIME
Earlier today we reported on the ability to start Google+ hangouts directly from YouTube, and now Gmail is getting the Google+ treatment. If the sender of an e-mail has shared any Google+ posts with you, a link to the most recent post will appear in ...
2 weeks, 4 days ago | Score: 73.8335466386

Egyptian academic heralds global youth revolution
Greenwich Time
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — An Egyptian academic says diverse communities can find integration through social networking, including platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. Ismail Serageldin, director of Egypt's Alexandria Library, says the world is on the ...
1 month, 2 weeks ago | Score: 73.4124914681

2011-05-30 16:44:54.186109

Ashton Kutcher invests in vacation rental startup Airbnb
Digitaltrends.com
In addition to running a staggeringly popular Twitter account, Kutcher has been busy investing in a number of already-successful tech startups: companies like Skype, which just sold to Microsoft for $8.5 billion. He also serves as an adviser to ...
3 days, 7 hours ago | Score: 157.933605799

Google's Sergey Brin talks about Chrome, but won't talk about secret projects
Los Angeles Times
Google-watchers were disappointed that newly (re)minted CEO Larry Page did not make an appearance at Google's annual developers conference in San Francisco. But co-founder Sergey Brin (wearing his Vibrams) did show up for a question-and-answer session ...
2 weeks, 4 days ago | Score: 150.241427984

Bing Gordon: The Zynga/Facebook Credits Battle Was The Cuban Missile Crisis Of ...
TechCrunch
Gordon, who aside from leading KPCB investments in Zynga is also a major fan (he's reached the top level in CityVille), recounted some of the drama that went on last spring, when the gaming company came very close to breaking away from Facebook ...
5 days, 23 hours ago | Score: 70.5551321044

Linux kernel runs inside web browser
Register
French hacker Fabrice Bellard says his JavaScript PC Emulator can run the 2.6.20 Linux kernel inside Mozilla's Firefox 4 and Google's Chrome 11, two browsers designed to significantly advance JavaScript speeds. "I did it for fun, just because newer ...
1 week, 5 days ago | Score: 68.3141018804

Microsoft-Skype deal could boost Redmond economy
Seattle Post Intelligencer
By Taylor Wirtz, REDMOND REPORTER The recent announcement that Microsoft, Corp. is planning to acquire global internet communications company Skype could mean an influx of new employees to Redmond, driving up the housing sales and revenue for the local ...
2 days, 19 hours ago | Score: 62.5468217298

What It Was Like To Launch At Disrupt NYC
By Guest Author
There are many local, regional and global startup competitions that startups can compete in. I'm a big believer in the value of these startup competitions for two big reasons—they are a great forcing function to ship your product and ...
1 day, 22 hours ago | Score: 57.6032827825

The Next-Generation Browser: No URL Bar
ConceivablyTech
Yet it is the URL bar and its purpose that is now being reconsidered by both Google as well as Mozilla for Chrome and Firefox. The next major revision of web browsers will include options to hide the URL bar. Further down the road, it is inevitable ...
1 week, 2 days ago | Score: 56.3614572998

The Week's Best iPhone Apps
Gizmodo
Free CollabraCam: CollabraCam links video from multiple iPhones and feeds them into another iPhone that controls live, multi-cam editing. Utilizing a wireless LAN to get all the phones networked, the idea behind CollabraCam is that minimal-if any at ...
1 week ago | Score: 51.6164166587

Sundar Pichai - The man who runs Chrome at Google
Siliconindia.com
The Web gets better with more options and innovation Google Chrome is another option, and we hope it contributes to making the Web even better," Google's Sundar Pichai said in a blog post. Sundar Pichai, a technology whiz-kid and an IIT-ian, ...
2 weeks, 4 days ago | Score: 50.1805154723

Obama administration goes all in with electric car Volt and Leaf buy
TFLcar.com
The Obama administration is buying 116 new cars, which in itself is not newsworthy, but there's a twist to the new car purchase. The new cars are the plug in electric kind. To be exact the federal government is buying 101 Chevy Volts, ten all electric ...
4 days, 10 hours ago | Score: 48.7254854786

Google lobbying to legalise self-driving cars
Telegraph.co.uk
Google is lobbying the state of Nevada to allow it to legally operate self-driving cars on public roads. By Nick Allen, Los Angeles 12:40AM BST 14 May 2011 It would be the first state in the US to license the driverless vehicles and the proposed law ...
2 weeks, 2 days ago | Score: 48.253679716

Microsoft Sees Human Body as an Antenna
LiveScience.com
A team of researchers from Microsoft has discovered a home automation system that could eliminate costly rewiring and outsmart even the smartest appliances. The Redmond, Wash., team has shown that the human body is a natural antenna. ...
1 week, 5 days ago | Score: 42.6723229496

Chrome Hits 20-Percent Market Share
Tom's Guide
The latest gains appear to be supported by a TV ad campaign Google launched in the US last week, but it is somewhat surprising that Chrome can grow as consistently as it does, despite the launch activities of IE9 and Firefox 4. ...
2 weeks, 6 days ago | Score: 36.5199779243

Google slips open source JPEG killer into Gmail, Picasa
Register
"For each of these segments, we tune the amount of compression and filtering differently, and bits are redistributed where they are most useful," Google said. WebP is supported not only by Google Chrome but also Opera's desktop browser. ...
6 days, 21 hours ago | Score: 34.3870499391

3Crowd's CrowdCache: Reinventing The Content Delivery Network For ...
By Jason Kincaid
Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) are not sexy. Most people have no idea they exist; those that do know that they make the web snappier by replicating content on multiple servers, typically in different locations. Big names in the space ...
2 weeks, 6 days ago | Score: 32.5813236926

PlayStation Network problems: Your views on hacking
BBC News
By Dan Whitworth Nearly three weeks on after the PlayStation Network (PSN) went down, Sony says it's removed online details of more than 2000 people who had their accounts hacked into. It's still not clear when the network will be up and running again. ...
3 weeks ago | Score: 32.4367462146

How eBay Fared in Latest Skype Deal
New York Times (blog)
By VERNE G. KOPYTOFF Her idea that Skype, the Internet calling service, would encourage eBay's users to talk to one another rather than chat by e-mail never panned out. EBay ultimately acknowledged its mistake and cut its losses by selling a 65 percent ...
2 weeks, 5 days ago | Score: 31.5695981516

Sony Apologizes for PlayStation Network Attack and Outage
PCWorld
Coming Soon: A Faster Firefox for Linux Users Starting with Firefox 6, Mozilla's browser for the open source operating system will feature performance on par with the Windows version. Site-specific Browser Tool Fluid Hits 1.0 Fluid is now solid. ...
3 weeks, 6 days ago | Score: 30.7807601528

Microsoft's move for Skype: a gamble unlikely to pay off
The Guardian (blog)
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who has moved to buy Skype. Photograph: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images After paying $8.5bn for Skype, what will Microsoft end up with? In a few years, I forecast it will be this: $8.5bn less in its bank accounts, ...
2 weeks, 6 days ago | Score: 30.766072542

How Google Stopped Itself From Buying Skype
Tom's Guide
The new owners of Skype are none other than the largest software maker in the world – Microsoft. It seems fitting that Microsoft adds another premier service to its stable, but the interesting thing is that Google contemplated buying Skype during an ...
2 weeks, 3 days ago | Score: 30.5741401537

Arrington: Sonar (Which Took $250K To Build) Is Better Than Color Could Hope To Be
TechCrunch
At the TC Disrupt startup battlefield finals, after Sonar CEO's product demo (Sonar is an app that introduces you to the people relevant around you) TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington asked founder Brett Martin, how much he spent to build the service. ...
4 days, 18 hours ago | Score: 30.220493949

Sarkozy questions 'neutral' net at e-G8 forum
BBC News
Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, and Google's Eric Schmidt are among those due to speak. Critics have claimed that the e-G8 is too focused on handing net control to companies and governments. Addressing those concerns ...
6 days, 4 hours ago | Score: 30.0836900731

Adobe, Microsoft CEOs Make News At RIM's BlackBerry World
CRN
By Edward F. Moltzen, CRN Research In Motion pulled out all the stops at its major annual developer and user conference Tuesday, bringing in CEOs from Adobe and Microsoft to unveil major new efforts with the BlackBerry maker designed to outflank its ...
3 weeks, 5 days ago | Score: 28.572293218

Microsoft Close To Buying Skype For $7+ Billion
The Business Insider
The price tag is silly on a stand-alone basis, but the deal could make sense for Microsoft: With the rise of Facebook and Gmail, the company has lost its dominance of online communications. Although Skype's functionality is now a commodity (Microsoft ...
2 weeks, 6 days ago | Score: 28.3682909883

Telstra has Samsung's Ace up its sleeve
Good Gear Guide
Samsung has announced that its latest Galaxy Ace Android phone is now available exclusively through Telstra in Australia. The Samsung Galaxy Ace is a mid-range Android smartphone that runs the 2.2 'Froyo' version of Google's Android operating system. ...
1 week, 4 days ago | Score: 28.093581465

Is There A Peak Age for Entrepreneurship?
Washington Post
There are countless entrepreneurs over the age of 30, including Reid Hoffman (age 35 in 2002), Evan Williams of Twitter (age 35 in 2007), Mark Pincus of Zynga (age 41 in 2007), Arianna Huffington of the Huffington Post (age 54 in 2005), ...
1 day, 23 hours ago | Score: 27.9729348976

Microsoft brings Azure tools to iOS developers
CNET
by Josh Lowensohn In its quest to get developers on Apple's iOS platform more friendly with Microsoft technologies Microsoft this morning released a new toolkit for that helps developers integrate the company's Azure platform into the guts of iOS ...
2 weeks, 6 days ago | Score: 27.210534541

Calling All Geeks: Apply Now to Demo in NYC at ReadWriteWeb 2WAY ...
By Marshall Kirkpatrick
Have you got an awesome technology that captures some of the potential of the new read/write Web? We want to see the most exciting projects you've got demonstrated live in New York City next month at the ReadWriteWeb 2WAY Summit at ...
2 days, 13 hours ago | Score: 26.2033934669

China's Silicon Valley and 49 Asian Tech Stories You May Have Missed
Penn Olson
by Willis Wee on May 16, 2011 in Asia Last week, Zhongguancun, China's Silicon Valley had its plan approved for major changes as it aims to boost its total revenue to $1.54 trillion by 2020. It's yet another sign that China is indeed uprising. ...
2 weeks ago | Score: 26.1315896552

Welcome To The Future: Polymer Vision Demos SVGA Rollable Screen
By John Biggs
This 6-inch screen displays black and white e-ink text and images at 800x600 pixels and can roll around a tube the circumference of a dime. If this isn't the future of print, I don't know what is. Designed and manufactured by Polymer ...
2 days, 12 hours ago | Score: 26.0375555401

Microsoft ratings unaffected by Skype deal: S&P
Economic Times
We expect that Microsoft will fund the acquisition from its robust cash balances (exceeding $50 billion on March 31, 2011), and we also expect Microsoft to retire all of Skype's outstanding debt, including the senior secured credit facility ('B+'; ...
2 weeks, 5 days ago | Score: 25.4416178284

Google to appeal in Swiss Street View privacy battle
DAWN.com
Reuters File Photo ZURICH: Google said on Wednesday it would appeal to Switzerland's highest court against a ruling ordering the Internet giant to ensure that all people and cars pictured on Street View were unrecognisable. ...
2 weeks, 4 days ago | Score: 25.0862363961

Mark Zuckerberg urges G8 not to regulate the web
The Drum
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has warned the leaders of the world's eight richest nations not to interfere in the web with fresh regulation, pointing out that the sector had flourished precisely because of a lack of regulation. ...
3 days, 7 hours ago | Score: 24.1984566264