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2011-12-13 15:11:31.595799

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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

2011-09-11T05:37:00.001-07:00

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

2011-05-30T09:44:00.001-07:00

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

2011-01-16 08:33:27.511929

2011-01-16T00:33:00.001-08:00

Search Engine Growth … and Decline
Windows 7 News
Bing considers itself as a “decision” search engine; something that allows users to make decisions. Still, Bing's algorithm's are different from Google's ...

21 minutes ago | Score: 13.8669730624

FYI: Beware the dangers of free Wi-Fi
Knoxville News Sentinel
One such danger lurks in the form of free wireless Internet access offered by many airports throughout the nation and in other public places. ...

26 minutes ago | Score: 9.45981480462

Google Chrome Hack: Google Pays Its First $3133.70 to a Hacker
Suite101.com
By Jennifer Marsh Google Chrome security is tested by the hacker community. The latest Google Chrome update fixes the security flaw. ...

6 hours, 5 minutes ago | Score: 4.62580054656

Google To Ship More CR-48's This Month
Chrome OS Site
Over the the last few weeks thousands of lucky CR-48 owners around the USA have had a chance to play around with Google's Chrome OS Beta. ...

7 hours, 51 minutes ago | Score: 3.57711716478

Google's Stunning Real-Time Voice Translation App
Tom's Guide
Through Google's work into translation and voice recognition, the company today released a new version of Google Translate for Android that features a ...

8 hours, 25 minutes ago | Score: 3.33201095015

Sony Ericsson Xperia X12: An upcoming sensation from Sony Ericsson
PR Wall Street
Sony Ericsson Xperia X12 is the wonderful handset which will soon entering into the market to create a sensation in the telecom industry. ...

20 hours, 40 minutes ago | Score: 2.1642782539

Kinect, Google TV, iPad, my desktop and Android: what's winning in my living room
The Next Web
It should come as no surprise to any of our regular readers that Microsoft, Google and Apple are in a fight to be the platform of choice for our living ...

2 hours ago | Score: 1.49875353532

Startup speeds up in Firefox 4 beta 9
CNET (blog)
by Seth Rosenblatt As Mozilla finally nears completion of the next generation of its popular open-source browser, the beta version of Firefox 4 begins to ...

1 day, 7 hours ago | Score: 1.32602071971

Report: News Corp Considering Options for MySpace
PC World
By Carrie-Ann Skinner, PC-Advisor-(UK) News Corp, which owns MySpace, has revealed it is considering a sale, merger or even spin-off of the social network. ...

1 day, 11 hours ago | Score: 1.2516231358

2011-01-15 01:51:28.471855

2011-01-14T17:51:00.001-08:00

Netlog Creates, Becomes Part Of Massive Media; Expands To New York ...
By Robin Wauters
European social networking site Netlog is to become part of a newly established social media company dubbed Massive Media, the company announced yesterday. The Ghent, Belgium-based company says its product portfolio will soon be ...

9 hours, 17 minutes ago | Score: 354535.753158

Android NFC apps appear
Android Community
New apps for NFC on the Android platform are starting to surface and two of the first are Taglet and Enable. Taglet is a Japanese language NCF tag reader ...

11 hours, 22 minutes ago | Score: 9.86340009433

WebM vs. H.264: Google Bets Big on Itself
TechNewsWorld
By Richard Adhikari Chrome will soon turn its back on the H.264 codec in favor of Google's own WebM technology. It's risky to ditch a working standard such ...

12 hours, 3 minutes ago | Score: 7.943245861

2010 Game Sales: It's Now Microsoft's Game to Lose
Technologizer
But in the industry's second consecutive year of decline, Microsoft's the only company with bragging rights. Consumers spent $6.2 billion on the Xbox 360 ...

7 hours, 40 minutes ago | Score: 4.12436084557

Microsoft Lashes Google for Dropping H.264
PC Magazine
Microsoft's Tim Sneath taunted Google this week for dropping H.264 video support in its Chrome web browser in a satirical blog post that frames the company ...

21 hours, 44 minutes ago | Score: 3.79292748627

Google pays first top-end bounty for Chrome vulnerability
CNET
by Stephen Shankland If there's a competition to uncover security holes in Google's browser, Sergey Glazunov is winning it. It's the first time Google paid ...

1 day, 4 hours ago | Score: 1.86534874258

2011-01-14 03:43:17.722070

2011-01-13T19:43:00.001-08:00

Top sites become IPv6 enabled
Inquirer
By Nick Farrell TOP TRAFFIC WEBSITES, Google and Yahoo are joining the major content delivery networks Akamaiand Limelight Networks, and the Internet ...

16 hours, 24 minutes ago | Score: 22.030384921

Unfollowed: Pentagon Deletes Social Media Office
Wired News (blog)
By Spencer Ackerman At a time when Facebook has 500 million users and Twitter is closing in on 200 million, the Pentagon no longer has a single person ...

1 hour, 28 minutes ago | Score: 19.7965929727

Kinect Will Hit PC When Time Is Right
Ve3d.com
Motion control is sneaking on to the PC little by little, and Microsoft doesn't plan to be left behind. MS CEO Steve Ballmer has promised that the company ...

2 hours, 1 minute ago | Score: 13.8791963001

Kabbage raises $6.65M to kick start online sellers with a quick cash advance
VentureBeat
Kabbage, which runs a service that helps eBay sellers pick up a quick cash advance in a pretty short period of time, announced today that it has raised ...

2 hours, 54 minutes ago | Score: 9.89719662114

Microsoft Releases Web Matrix
Storage (blog)
Web Matrix is a new low-end web development tool from Microsoft. Web Matrix is completely free. It's designed to make it easy for novice developers to ...

5 hours, 8 minutes ago | Score: 8.23018047201

IBM and Samsung collaborate on new semiconductor research
Electronista
IBM and Samsung have announced a new partnership that aims to expand research into new semiconductor materials, manufacturing processes and other ...

20 hours, 14 minutes ago | Score: 7.15976582149

Indian youngsters ''lag behind mobile internet use''
Oneindia
London, Jan 13 (PTI) Indian youngsters seem to beless tech-savvy as they lag behind their global counterpartswhen it comes to mobile internet use, ...

16 hours, 24 minutes ago | Score: 6.0903490598

Upcoming Asus Tablets Will Run Honeycomb
Wired (blog)
By Mike Isaac Asus has confirmed that three of its upcoming tablets will be running the next version of the Google mobile operating system, ...

6 hours, 15 minutes ago | Score: 5.80091268927

Google Acquires eBook Technologies
PC Magazine
Google has kicked off 2011 with a new acquisition. The search engine giant purchased online publishing company eBook Technologies. ...

12 hours, 32 minutes ago | Score: 4.41729592919

LittleBigPlanet 2 is Going For Five Guinness World Records at Launch Event
TotalPlayStation.com
On January 17th through the 19th, a small team of dedicated LittleBigPlanet fans will invade the PlayStation Lounge at the Sony Style store in New York City ...

15 hours, 34 minutes ago | Score: 2.35413398924

Microsoft Ran Out of Xbox 360 Consoles in December
Attack of the Fanboy
Microsoft Sold so many Xbox 360 Consoles in December they ran out. I suppose this thing tends to happen when an unanticipated sales spike of epic ...

1 day, 1 hour ago | Score: 1.97158291104

Next up for Kiefer Sutherland: An internet series! EXCLUSIVE
Entertainment Weekly
by Lynette Rice Kiefer Sutherland, internet star? That's the plan: EW has learned exclusively that Sutherland will follow up his critically-beloved run on ...

1 day, 5 hours ago | Score: 1.53976636972

2011-01-13 06:46:52.969280

2011-01-12T22:46:00.000-08:00

Mozilla Exec: Firefox 4 Will Arrive in February
PC World
By Katherine Noyes, PCWorld Firefox 4 is nearly ready for release, a recent post on Mozilla's developer mailing list suggests. ...

6 hours, 4 minutes ago | Score: 6.93937891421

Mobile VC Investment Was A Massive $6.1M In 2010. Google, Intel Led The Way
MocoNews
In the M&A space, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) was the most active acquirer in terms of number of transactions (but not necessarily by value—Rutberg doesn't break ...

12 hours, 52 minutes ago | Score: 4.86122267632

Microsoft Kinect Can Now Be Used in Conjunction with Adobe Flash & Microsoft ...
GizmoCrave
It finally is and we will soon get to have our Microsoft Kinect motion controller to be used in conjunction with Adobe's Flash and Microsoft's Sliverlight. ...

17 hours, 16 minutes ago | Score: 2.88282956173

2011-01-12 20:19:30.297089

2011-01-12T12:19:00.001-08:00

Twitter reveals geographical dialect
Fox11online.com
They've checked out messages from Twitter from a one-week period last year. They found the social networking site is full of its own kinds of geographical ...

6 minutes ago | Score: 52.6521817461

Tiffany and Adobe named potential takeover targets in 2011
Fundamentals
Tiffany & Co and Adobe Systems have been named as attractive targets for takeover this year, according to research by Bernheim, Dreyfus. ...

1 hour, 20 minutes ago | Score: 25.9656180708

Sony Hits PlayStation Hacker With Lawsuit
International Business Times
Sony has filed for temporary restraining order against a hacker who published a method of circumventing copy protections on the Playstation 3. ...

1 hour, 23 minutes ago | Score: 24.6819797378

Will The Future of the Internet be Written in Chinese?
Singularity Hub
English is the most spoken language on the internet, with more than 550 million regular visitors across the globe. Yet just this past year, China's presence ...

1 hour, 50 minutes ago | Score: 17.2611248289

Symbian's Secret History: Davies on what went right (and wrong)
Register
The plasma physics PhD was Symbian's CTO for five years and left Nokia earlier this year. He rarely gives interviews but kindly agreed to talk about Symbian ...

3 hours, 24 minutes ago | Score: 16.7029284683

Google and Apple Join Forces in Adobe Flash Hypocrisy
Minyanville.com
By Mike Schuster January 12, 2011 12:13 PM Last April, Steve Jobs put his opposition toward Adobe Flash into words. He posted an open letter, ...

2 hours, 5 minutes ago | Score: 14.4723457071

2 hours, 25 minutes ago | Score: 12.3734473394

Google Nexus S Reported to be Suffering from Random Reboots
GizmoCrave
There have been complaints about the Google Nexus S from its owners that their devices have been facing some problems with random reboots. ...

2 hours, 25 minutes ago | Score: 12.3190266886

Skype Enhancing Video Service
TechWeek
The internet phone service providers introduced a new feature to Skype's video calling and now ten people from anywhere around the world can be put on the ...

2 hours, 37 minutes ago | Score: 11.1642975081

Google Translate for Android Introduces Experimental Conversation Mode
Android Community
Google Translate for Android has officially been available on the Android Market for one year this month, and Google is now updating the application with a ...

35 minutes ago | Score: 10.4302682362

Google Chrome to drop H.264 support; roadblock to HTML5?
ZDNet (blog)
By dropping H.264 support in Google Chrome, it's taking on Apple and Microsoft diectly. What does it mean? Ed Bott is an award-winning technology writer ...

20 hours, 7 minutes ago | Score: 9.2786212951

Google lets apps tap into goo.gl URL shortner
CNET
by Stephen Shankland Google took a somewhat arcane but important step yesterday in improving its goo.gl URL-shortening service, making it available not just ...

1 day, 2 hours ago | Score: 8.01413055153

Wikipedia celebrates 10th anniversary on Jan. 15
ABS CBN News
MANILA, Philippines - Wikipedia, the popular web-based collaborative encyclopedia project, will be 10 years old this Saturday. Celebrations will vary from ...

8 hours, 13 minutes ago | Score: 8.01231495116

Google Is Holding a Global, Web-Based Science Fair
Mashable
Tomorrow morning, Google will be making some exciting announcements about a worldwide, web-based science fair. The tech giant is inviting students ages 13 ...

1 day, 15 hours ago | Score: 7.1527008373

The Facebook Auction Nobody Is Talking About
The Business Insider
The action in Facebook is awfully hot for a private company. Recent news that Goldman Sachs is making $1.5 bn in equity in the social media company ...

50 minutes ago | Score: 5.07198924897

Sony Ericsson's Xperia Arc is the world's thinnest smartphone
Geek.com
Sony Ericsson has, until recently, seemed like a mobile phone manufacturer slowly atrophying under the onslaught of competing smartphones, but appearances ...

1 day, 1 hour ago | Score: 4.86423296461

Official Playstation app for iPhone now available
tuaw.com
by Kelly Hodgkins (RSS feed) on Jan 11th 2011 at 8:00PM Sony announced its official Playstation app was coming to iOS last month, and now it has landed in ...

18 hours, 35 minutes ago | Score: 3.51022922686

2011-01-11 20:33:54.719951

2011-01-11T12:33:00.001-08:00

Facebook Paid Farm Bureau $8.5 Million To Acquire Fb.com
TechCrunch
On November 15th, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that Facebook had acquired Fb.com from The American Farm Bureau Federation to use as the domain for ...

48 minutes ago | Score: 38.1258252757

Microsoft investigates phantom Windows Phone 7 data reports
Afterdawn.com
Microsoft has confirmed that it is investigating online reports from its users of "phantom" data usage over mobile networks. Several net forums have been ...

1 hour, 17 minutes ago | Score: 29.4947121644

It's official: Verizon gets the iPhone
Yahoo! Tech (blog)
... which pummeled AT&T more than a year ago with those devastating "there's a map for that" ads. — Ben Patterson is a technology writer for Yahoo! News.

3 hours, 2 minutes ago | Score: 23.8604716715

Wikileaks volunteer hires lawyers in Twitter fight
CNET
by Declan McCullagh An ex-Wikileaks volunteer has hired American lawyers to oppose the US government's efforts to obtain the contents of her Twitter account ...

12 hours, 3 minutes ago | Score: 17.0023939685

Asus Eee Slate EP121 user manual found: Bluetooth keyboard ships standard
Liliputing
Riccardo at Eee PC.it spotted the Asus Eee Slate EP121 user manual online, and it holds a few surprises. For instance, the tablet comes with a Bluetooth ...

4 hours, 3 minutes ago | Score: 15.1384587859

Microsoft To Develop Facetime Competitor App For Windows Phone 7
My Gadget News
By _GadgetNews Steve Ballmer didn't announce much about the upcoming Windows Phone 7 updates at the Consumer Electronic Show this year except for demoing ...

10 hours, 29 minutes ago | Score: 11.6047346197

Canon to spend $12bn on acquisitions by 2015
PhysOrg.com
Canon plans to spend up to one trillion yen ($12 billion) by 2015 on mergers and acquisitions to expand in the areas of medical equipment and robotics, ...

2 hours, 40 minutes ago | Score: 11.3200900483

Microsoft Promises to Support Motion Sensors on PC.
X-bit Labs
by Anton Shilov Chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp. confirmed in an interview an intention of the world's largest software makers to enable support ...

2 hours, 37 minutes ago | Score: 10.5867987289

Location-based service SCVNGR raises $15 million in Series C round
IntoMobile
You may be thinking that with competitors like Foursquare, Gowalla and even Facebook (with its Facebook Places), the market is too crowded for ...

21 minutes ago | Score: 9.92004892917

Google 2.4 'Ice Cream' set for a summer debut
Afterdawn.com
2.3 Gingerbread is available now on the Nexus S and soon on a number of other Android devices, like the Nexus One. An announcement from Google is expected ...

13 hours, 9 minutes ago | Score: 5.29384849155

Apple's Steve Jobs to join Rupert Murdoch in unveiling The Daily on Jan. 19
Apple Insider
By Sam Oliver Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs will appear onstage alongside media mogul and News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch in San Francisco on Jan. ...

17 hours, 28 minutes ago | Score: 4.28636989416

North Korean Twitter, YouTube accounts hijacked
CNET (blog)
The Twitter and YouTube accounts held by the North Korean government were hijacked over the weekend and used to post messages critical of the regime and ...

19 hours, 5 minutes ago | Score: 3.09722394573

Syyn Labs Builds Rube Goldberg Machine for Google Science Fair
Fast Company
One company was Google. It hired Syyn to build a fun, science-related Rube Goldberg machine for tomorrow's launch of its global science fair. ...

23 hours, 1 minute ago | Score: 1.83737707629

2011-01-11 08:45:41.192270

2011-01-11T00:45:00.001-08:00

Android 2.4 Ice Cream Coming In Time for Google I/O?
Phandroid.com
by Kevin Krause on January 10th, 2011 A shot of the unreleased Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc running Android 2.4 threw us for a bit of a loop last week ...

12 hours ago | Score: 35.3691233282

Best of Show CES 2011: The Motorola Atrix
By John Biggs
We're all back at home this morning and I've been mulling over best of show all weekend. While we could take our love of the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Minis to its obvious conclusion, considering that the candies eventually and ...

15 hours, 56 minutes ago | Score: 19.9315626397

Samsung, Time Warner Cable Join for Cable Subscriptions Offering
TMCnet
By Rahul Arora, TMCnet Contributor In an announcement made at International Consumer Electronics Show, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and Time Warner Cable ...

15 hours, 46 minutes ago | Score: 12.2794856249

Sprint drops Samsung Epic 4G price to $199, but Amazon has it for $99
Unwired View
By Vlad Bobleanta on 10 Jan 11 Sprint has announced a change in its pricing of the Samsung Epic 4G, the Android-powered smartphone that represents Sprint's ...

8 hours, 42 minutes ago | Score: 10.6436624537

Disney in Talks With Yahoo! to Offer Content on Its Web TVs
Hollywood Reporter
NEW YORK - Walt Disney is considering making at least some video from some of its TV networks available on TV sets with Yahoo!'s Internet TV software in a ...

16 hours, 59 minutes ago | Score: 10.0187234141

Android's Google Goggles adds barcodes, Sudoku cheats
CNET (blog)
by Jessica Dolcourt I've never been completely sold on the accuracy or practicality of Google Goggles, but an update to the Goggles for Android app makes ...

12 hours ago | Score: 8.46434100211

Dear Dinky Startup: You're Not Facebook.
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Facebook's decision to defer an IPO creates an opportunity for other Web 2.0 companies to tag along under Facebook's valuation umbrella in the public ...

11 hours, 9 minutes ago | Score: 8.17643321152

Microsoft investigates 'phantom' Windows Phone 7 data
BBC News
Microsoft has told BBC News that it is investigating why some handsets running its Windows Phone 7 software are sending and receiving "phantom data". ...

15 hours, 31 minutes ago | Score: 8.10310308042

Blackberry maker says will filter porn to meet Indonesia rules
Reuters
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Research In Motion said on Monday it will filter pornographic internet content for its Blackberry smartphone users in Indonesia, ...

19 hours, 30 minutes ago | Score: 8.06263856613

Panasonic Viera Tablet hands-on
Pocket-lint.com
Panasonic was just one of the many manufacturers to add its name to the list of companies launching tablet devices at CES, with the unveiling of its ...

20 hours, 7 minutes ago | Score: 7.24272646538

CES Count the Tablets 41-44: The Real Deal from Microsoft
The Mac Observer
All of this just makes it all the more curious that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made nary a mention of tablets during his CES keynote presentation last ...

10 hours, 29 minutes ago | Score: 6.84891416214

Facebook Faces Challenges in Japan
Techzone360
According to a New York Times report, this lack of recognition could have something to do with the fact that few in Japan actually use Facebook. ...

15 hours, 41 minutes ago | Score: 6.40980604414

Asus announces trio of Android tablets
TTKN News
Today Asus announced a trio of Android tablets powered by Honeycomb, which the company referred to as Android 3.0 (not 2.4). All of the devices feature a ...

12 hours, 31 minutes ago | Score: 5.32714912263

Samsung goes deal crazy
Rapid tv news
Finally, Samsung has joined forces with Adobe to bring Adobe AIR 2.5 to Smart TVs, making it easy for developers to build, distribute and monetise ...

1 day ago | Score: 4.4410015357

Disney, Yahoo in internet TV content talks-WSJ
Reuters UK
N) is in discussions on allowing content from some of its television networks to be available on sets embedded with Yahoo Inc's (YHOO. ...

1 day, 1 hour ago | Score: 3.94269401716

Facebook Ads and Google PPC
Practical Ecommerce
If you are having measurable success with Facebook ads, then there is a good probability that you will also have success with Google pay-per-click (PPC) ...

11 hours, 13 minutes ago | Score: 3.79800822976

PREDICTION: Android powers on
StrategyEye
By Tom O'Meara Google's Android operating system will continue to prove incredibly disruptive during 2011. It could conceivably overtake market leader Nokia ...

11 hours, 13 minutes ago | Score: 3.66582414958

Broadcom Joins The Linux Foundation
Muktware
The Linux Foundation is on a spree to engage more and more hardware vendors with the development of Linux. One of the major hardware players, Broadcom, ...

22 hours, 27 minutes ago | Score: 3.60144682299

Trend Micro reveals Android security suite
ITP.net
By Georgina Enzer Published January 10, 2011 Trend Micro has announced an application that is designed to secure Android powered mobile devices. ...

1 day ago | Score: 3.50736545462

Apple's iTunes juggernaut turns 10 years old
ipodnn
Apple's iTunes application turned 10 years old on Sunday. First launched on January 9, 2001 some nine months ahead of the launch of the first iPod on ...

18 hours, 40 minutes ago | Score: 3.38801708531

Facebook Denies It Is Shutting Down
Hollywood Reporter
Facebook isn't going offline, despite a tabloid report by the Weekly World News that quoted Mark Zuckerberg declaring it would shut down on March 15. ...

16 hours, 16 minutes ago | Score: 3.26091332221

Myspace China Makes Staff Cuts, CEO Leaves
PC World
By Michael Kan, IDG News Myspace's China office cut about 30 employees last month and saw its CEO depart, a sign that the US-based social networking service ...

19 hours, 35 minutes ago | Score: 2.52985629667

Tunisian Government Allegedly Hacking Facebook, Gmail Accounts of Dissidents ...
Fast Company
According to a report by the Committee to Protect Journalists, the Tunisian government appears to be breaking into the Facebook, Google, and Yahoo accounts ...

1 day, 3 hours ago | Score: 2.42060348707

Android runs down iPhone in the Smartphone Races
ZDNet (blog)
Apple took third with 25.0 percent; followed by Microsoft with 9.0 percent and Palm in the back with 3.9 percent. What's more telling, though, is that while ...

1 day, 6 hours ago | Score: 2.20352809209

Apple iPad 2: Apple iPad 2 Release Date and Specifications Revealed
Software Downloads Guide
Apple iPad 2: According to the latest news, Apple plans to launch its next generation iPad, which is named as Apple iPad 2 by next month. ...

14 hours, 47 minutes ago | Score: 1.99669283616

Oracle kicks off global cloud computing road show
PC World Magazine
Oracle is conducting a cloud computing road show that will hit roughly 80 cities around the world, according to its website. Attendees will hear from ...

1 day, 9 hours ago | Score: 1.87407084126

Stephen Glover: Attack Google too, if you value privacy
Independent
Its name is Google. Compare it on the same three counts with the wicked media mogul. (1) Google's Street View carries pictures of every street in Britain. ...

1 day, 8 hours ago | Score: 1.75836365756

Google the site Search our articles archive Search for an event
Chicago Reader (blog)
Headed into the third night of SketchFest, I was thinking I'd better start coming up with more adjectives meaning funny. ...

1 day, 11 hours ago | Score: 1.46664888997

2011-01-10 13:59:10.760125

2011-01-10T05:59:00.001-08:00

6 hours, 40 minutes ago | Score: 16.8499102807

Verizon Said to Plan IPhone Launch, Helping Apple Combat Google
BusinessWeek
11, according to a person familiar with the plans, helping Apple Inc. compete for smartphone users against Google Inc. Verizon Wireless, the largest US ...

10 hours, 17 minutes ago | Score: 7.56390965334

Amazon revamps cloud support
ZDNet Asia
By Jack Clark, ZDNet UK on January 10, 2011 (1 hour 52 minutes ago) Amazon Web Services has broadened its premium support products to encompass individual ...

8 hours, 48 minutes ago | Score: 3.40950480352

Acer expands Android phone line
THINQ.co.uk
Acer added a couple of Android smartphones to its range at CES 2011. The Liquid Mini an BeTouch E210 both run the Froyo version of the Google OS. ...

19 hours, 22 minutes ago | Score: 2.39491815687

Photos of Mythical Sony Ericsson Xperia Playstation Phone Unveiled
Personal Finance Bulletin
Sony has denied the existence of Playstation phone, but a web site in China has posted 61 pictures of the elusive device, which clearly has the logo of ...

22 hours, 37 minutes ago | Score: 1.43499912301

Samsung Verizon 4G LTE Android smartphone hands-on
IntoMobile
I have no idea why the Samsung Verizon 4G Android smartphone didn't get a snazzy name like the Thunderbolt or the Bionic but it's still looking like a ...

1 day, 6 hours ago | Score: 1.16871664631

2011-01-10 03:35:29.682189

2011-01-09T19:35:00.001-08:00

Tweet, Tweet, Boom! Angry Birds Now in The PlayStation Store
Ps3 Maven
The bird-bombing pig thwarting mobile phone sensation Angry Birds finally makes it way on to the PlayStation Network, with a download-able PlayStation minis ...

7 hours, 9 minutes ago | Score: 9.35732858292

Hands-on with Sony Ericsson's Xperia Arc
Electronista
While at the Sony booth at CES, we had the opportunity to try Sony Ericsson's new Xperia Arc smartphone and came back fairly impressed. ...

1 day, 9 hours ago | Score: 7.35489644595

VLC for iPhone and iPad get pulled from the App Store
Switched
by Lee Mathews on January 8, 2011 at 07:06 AM If you happened to head to the App Store this morning to search for, say, a new media player with support for ...

1 day, 13 hours ago | Score: 3.57229209586

Rumour of Facebook shutting down blazes internet
International Business Times
So if you ever want to see your pictures again, I recommend you take them off the internet. You won't be able to get them back once Facebook goes out of ...

23 hours, 14 minutes ago | Score: 3.20786244411

Acer Unveils Liquid Mini Android-based Smartphone
ITProPortal
Acer added the Liquid Mini to its growing family of Android smartphones at CES 2011, together with the BeTouch E210 smartphone. The device measures only ...

1 day, 20 hours ago | Score: 2.1945357628

DOJ sends order to Twitter for Wikileaks-related account info
CNET
by Declan McCullagh The US Justice Department is seeking a court order directing Twitter to turn over information about the accounts of activists with ties ...

1 day, 19 hours ago | Score: 2.12796582678

Hands-on with the Asus Eee Pad Slider
Liliputing
The Asus Eee Pad Slider is an Android tablet with a pull-out keyboard. It's one of four new tablets Asus officially unveiled earlier this week, ...

1 day, 8 hours ago | Score: 2.11066798586

Courtney Love's Slanderous Twitter Account Suspended
Gawker
Courtney Love's highly-entertaining Twitter account, CourtneyLoveUK, has been suspended! And this just days after she was hit with the world's first-ever ...

1 day, 23 hours ago | Score: 2.0031889429

Apple boss Steve Jobs takes home just $1 salary in '10
Economic Times
NEW YORK: He runs the world's most-valued technology company but when it comes to pay, Apple's iconic chief Steve Jobs has been taking home a salary of just ...

20 hours, 38 minutes ago | Score: 1.83114542644

CES: Verizon Demos Full HD 3D To Via Panasonic Blu-ray Player
Multichannel News
The telco enabled the demo by porting its interactive program guide to run on the Panasonic player. The video, a clip of Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, ...

2 days, 5 hours ago | Score: 1.53914636755

Viewsonic Announces Viewpad 4 Android Smartphone
PhoneNews.com
Viewsonic has announced its next device in the Viewpad series of Android devices in the Viewpad 4. Slated for release in the middle of the year, ...

1 day, 3 hours ago | Score: 1.35959216714

Consumer Electronics Show: Is 3-D hot or not?
Los Angeles Times
Samsung executives said that an estimated 2.5 million Internet-enabled TVs sold in the US last year, with expected sales increasing to 9 million in 2011; ...

1 day, 3 hours ago | Score: 1.25257721493

ORIGIN PC Overclocks New Core i7 to 5.0 GHz
Tom's Hardware Guide
ORIGIN has overclocked Intel's Core i7 processor to over 5.0 GHz in its revamped Genesis and Big O performance PCs. Wednesday ORIGIN PC said that its ORIGIN ...

1 day, 6 hours ago | Score: 1.17718728233

2011-01-08 13:13:20.583295

2011-01-08T05:13:00.001-08:00

Kinect Still Hard to Find in 2011
Attack of the Fanboy
Microsoft has sold 8 million of the Kinect motion controller devices in just 60 days. Because of this huge demand for the device, shortages may perpetuate ...

3 hours, 34 minutes ago | Score: 62.0905629001

Android Edges iPhone in US Smartphone Market: ComScore
eWeek
Google's Android operating system beat Apple's iOS in US smartphone market share by one percentage point, according to comScore. ...

21 hours, 46 minutes ago | Score: 59.4095048938

Linux 2.6.37 boosts SMP, loads up on drivers
LinuxDevices.com
By Eric Brown The Linux 2.6.37 kernel was released this week with improved symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) scalability and the addition of many new hardware ...

15 hours, 57 minutes ago | Score: 46.5978225869

Zynga Acquires Flock Social Media Browser
NowPublic
Flock combined Twitter and Facebook feeds into the bezel of a Firefox-based (now Chromium-based) browser, so you could have all your social-media inputs in ...

17 hours, 29 minutes ago | Score: 18.862884419

Google to Re-Enter Chinese Search
Search Engine Journal
Of the popular posts on the official Google blog last year, the second most visited was Google's stance on searches in China. This entry discussed the ...

15 hours, 59 minutes ago | Score: 18.3528912877

Google to Start Charging for Prediction API
By Klint Finley
Speaking of the Google Prediction API: the company will start charging for the API, like good fortune teller should. According to its pricing page, the service will ...

2 hours, 5 minutes ago | Score: 14.430672931

Ballmer: Kinect support headed to PCs, in time
CNET
That would be the reasoning behind bringing Kinect to PCs, which Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer did his best not to deny when talking to the BBC on top of the ...

7 hours, 49 minutes ago | Score: 14.2670743979

Samsung very quietly admits to Google TV line
msnbc.com
By Wilson Rothman It was strongly rumored that Samsung would introduce a Google TV product, despite the critical thrashing that Google got for its ...

15 hours, 59 minutes ago | Score: 12.6999890388

Beckham puts Porsche on eBay
TVNZ
The car is being sold on eBay through Los Angeles dealer Chequered Flag and the top bid currently stands at $134000. It is set to rise because of its unique ...

1 day, 3 hours ago | Score: 8.19967400154

Hands-On With VIA Plus Internet Apps, 16:10 HDTVs, And More
PC World
Google TV may have gotten a rather lackluster response in the Logitech Revue set-top box and Sony's Google TV lineup, but Vizio is working with them to make ...

9 hours, 23 minutes ago | Score: 7.79442798056

Apple iPad 2 seen at CES
TechEye
Apple doesn't really do non-fruity events like CES, so it wasn't there to tout the tablet itself, but other manufacturers were showcasing the iPad 2 shell, ...

23 hours, 6 minutes ago | Score: 5.1439825383

The Microsoft Touch Mouse with Gesture Control
Gadgets and gizmos
One of the new products at the CES 2011 which perhaps hasn't grabbed quite as many headlines as some others is the Microsoft Touch Mouse. ...

16 hours, 45 minutes ago | Score: 5.07836080878

Intel to Integrate DirectX 11 in Ivy Bridge Chips
PC World
By Agam Shah, IDG News Intel will integrate DirectX 11 graphics technology in its next generation of laptop and desktop chips based on the Ivy Bridge ...

1 day, 2 hours ago | Score: 3.49603527091

2011-01-07 12:27:41.706032

2011-01-07T04:27:00.001-08:00

Facebook likely to go public in 2012
CNNMoney
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has taken great pains to keep his fast-growing company private. By Stacy Cowley, tech editorJanuary 6, ...

12 hours, 39 minutes ago | Score: 39.6245052993

ARM says Microsoft needs it for mobile
Reuters
By Gabriel Madway LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Microsoft's plan to make Windows compatible with ARM Holdings chip designs will help the software giant establish a ...

9 hours, 37 minutes ago | Score: 14.4416052165

PlayStation 3 Responds to Hacking Threat
Attack of the Fanboy
Playstation 3 - Responds to Recent Hacking Threat. Earlier this week hackers reached the pinnacle of access to the PlayStation 3's security vulnerabilties. ...

10 hours, 34 minutes ago | Score: 9.49481491092

Intel Insider: Hardware DRM At Home In Sandy Bridge
Hot Hardware
Intel's Sandy Bridge made headlines this week for its improved efficiency, reduced power consumption, and much-improved graphics engine, but there's another ...

8 hours, 49 minutes ago | Score: 7.38548180753

Broadcom Joins the Linux Foundation
PC World
By Katherine Noyes, PCWorld It was exciting news back in September when Broadcom unveiled brcm80211, the fully open and Linux-compatible driver for several ...

11 hours, 8 minutes ago | Score: 4.36325910039

Badges Are Here! foursquare, MTV Awarding Jersey Shore GTL Badges
BayNewser
By David Cohen on January 6, 2011 4:18 PM Jersey Shore returns to MTV with its third-season premiere Thursday night, and foursquare has something besides a ...

12 hours, 47 minutes ago | Score: 2.3138885808

2011-01-07 02:31:07.311469

2011-01-06T18:31:00.001-08:00

Q&A site looks to Facebook and could be the next little thing
Irish Times
WIRED: Does imitating Facebook get you another Facebook, or just a tiny orbiting satellite of a giant? WHEN GOOGLE was first launched, it was one of a kind. ...

1 hour, 33 minutes ago | Score: 55.9938246337

Chinese E-Reader Maker Plans to Enter US This Year to Challenge Amazon
Bloomberg
The Kindle DX is the largest in Amazon's family of e-readers. “The key in the US market is a high-tech product at a low cost,” Jessica Zhang, ...

1 hour, 2 minutes ago | Score: 38.1229036323

IPad Ripple Effect: The Unfolding Future of Video Transcoding ...
By Marshall Kirkpatrick
You might not think about video transcoding software very often, but the technology it takes to prepare all those videos you watch on your iPad is helping drive ...

2 hours, 26 minutes ago | Score: 31.8333312564

Chips are down as Intel faces new rival
Irish Times
INTEL USHERED in a new generation of chips this week, demonstrating their abilities to attendees at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and promising ...

1 hour, 52 minutes ago | Score: 29.2205640872

Samsung shows off its first sliding tablet
Inquirer
By Edward Berridge ELECTRONICS MAKER Samsung has announced the launch of its first sliding tablet PC at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. ...

14 hours, 30 minutes ago | Score: 26.0578186463

Salesforce.com Acquires Dimdim for $31 Million in Cash ...
By Klint Finley
Salesforce.com officially announced today its acquisition of Indian web conferencing company Dimdim for approximately $31 million in cash. We reported rumors that Salesforce.com would acquire Dimdim in ...

2 hours, 26 minutes ago | Score: 16.5717041236

Amazon: Asus EEE Slate EP121 – Pre-Order Yours Now
Online Social Media
Now we are seeing the pre-order option appearing on Amazon? This machine is categorized as a tablet PC however; it's a tablet with a difference. ...

11 hours, 56 minutes ago | Score: 14.6253774339

Facebook likely to go public in 2012
CNNMoney
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has taken great pains to keep his fast-growing company private. By Stacy Cowley, tech editorJanuary 6, ...

2 hours, 43 minutes ago | Score: 11.2554176208

One-way public relationships? Microsoft wants to patent 'fans'
TechFlash
Microsoft wants to patent 'fans' In a filing made public today, Microsoft is seeking a patent for something it calls "One-Way Public Relationships" in ...

3 hours ago | Score: 10.8949500721

Down the Strip from CES, the Adult Entertainment Expo opens
89.3 KPCC
Called the world's first, the doll is a life-size robotic girlfriend complete with artificial intelligence and flesh-like synthetic skin. ...

24 minutes ago | Score: 10.4208479342

Facebook Versus Google Circa 2004
Wall Street Journal (blog)
As people ponder that question this week, we decided to look at Google, the Internet's previous wunderkind. Google's market cap passed the $50 billion mark ...

25 minutes ago | Score: 6.73004732707

AT&T Cuts iPhone 3GS Price to $49
Mashable
Apple may not have any new products to show off at the moment, but the iPhone 3GS just became a lot more affordable, as AT&T cut its price to a mere $49 ...

12 hours, 3 minutes ago | Score: 5.67530787798

Apple's Mac App Store goes live
New York Post
The move brought the popular app store, currently available on the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, to Apple computer models for the first time. ...

12 hours, 14 minutes ago | Score: 5.61141179295

Kontron's 10 Embedded Platforms Integrates Newest Intel Core Processor
TMCnet
By Raju Shanbhag, TMCnet Contributor Kontron will now support the launch of the second generation Intel (News - Alert) Core processor with CPU, ...

12 hours, 4 minutes ago | Score: 4.3015025564

Motorola and LG announce 4G tablets running Android 3.0
VentureBeat
That's what the Consumer Electronics Show has felt like so far, and both Motorola and LG continue the craze with their newly announced 4G Android 3.0 ...

17 hours, 37 minutes ago | Score: 2.33336713218

2011-01-06 13:04:22.427436

2011-01-06T05:04:00.001-08:00

Google Fights API Bloat by Adding Libraries to Google Maps JavaScript API
ReadWriteWeb
... Know In order to add more features to the Google Maps JavaScript API without increasing its size Google is adding a new concept to the API: libraries. ...

10 hours, 56 minutes ago | Score: 34.8252854901

Live Blogging Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer At CES 2011
Search Engine Land
Looking for Bing news? My understanding is that there won't be much in his keynote about it, unlike last year's keynote (where Search Engine Land's logo ...

10 hours, 13 minutes ago | Score: 14.5762853204

Google wins ruling to block Interior Department from using Microsoft e-mail system
Los Angeles Times
Google had alleged that the department had illegally skewed the contracting process to seek only Microsoft e-mail solutions. Federal Judge Susan Braden ...

8 hours, 32 minutes ago | Score: 9.20208719423

Sony Ericsson Teases New Phone at CES
Spong
CES kicks off today with some press conferences from Microsoft and Sony - with the latter teasing a new kind of Sony Ericsson phone that is likely to be ...

5 hours, 6 minutes ago | Score: 6.84378192706

Samsung arrives at Central Station
CNET (blog)
Today Samsung announced a potential solution, called Central Station; it's a monitor/hub that can wirelessly connect your laptop to all your desktop devices ...

6 hours, 12 minutes ago | Score: 5.38723561928

Alleged Miley Cyrus Hacker Arrested
PC World
In court documents, the FBI says that Holly was an accomplished spammer, who hacked a large number of Gmail and MySpace accounts. ...

14 hours, 44 minutes ago | Score: 4.06892296876

CES-UPDATE 1-AT&T plans 20 new smartphones, major Android push
Reuters
AT&T said at an event ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show that the 20-phone lineup would include Google Android devices from Motorola Inc (MSI. ...

16 hours, 40 minutes ago | Score: 3.67850131043

Video surfaces of Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc
MacNN
A pair of teaser videos and several product photos have surfaced for Sony Ericsson's new flagship Android phone. Referred to by its codename Anzu or as the ...

14 hours, 43 minutes ago | Score: 3.18407244746

PlayStation 3 Custom Firmware Released in Hacking Scene
Attack of the Fanboy
PlayStation hackers have vigilantly been launching assault on the, at one time secure, PlayStation 3. Utilizing methods to bypass the PlayStation 3's built ...

13 hours, 57 minutes ago | Score: 2.08213962902

2011-01-06 02:29:07.517143

2011-01-05T18:29:00.001-08:00

Apple Tops PetroChina to Become No. 2 in World: Chart of Day
BusinessWeek
... lifted by investor optimism for sales of the iPhone, iPad and Macintosh. The CHART OF THE DAY shows the rise in Apple's market value, ...

4 hours, 40 minutes ago | Score: 61.3888742674

Acer Iconia Tab A500 confirmed as early Verizon 4G tablet
Electronista
Acer in a slew of introductions today brought out one of the first official 4G tablets for Verizon's LTE network. The 10-inch Iconia Tab A500 will use the ...

3 hours, 31 minutes ago | Score: 21.9827499506

Universal Phone Chargers to Debut Soon in EU
GreenBiz.com
In the middle of that year, major phone companies like Apple, Nokia, RIM, Samsung and Sony Ericsson agreed to make phones that would all work with chargers ...

4 hours, 33 minutes ago | Score: 11.2511193148

Google wins legal faceoff with Microsoft over key government contract
Los Angeles Times
Google asked for the injuction, arguing that the bidding process was designed with Microsoft products in mind. Braden ruled that Google had made a ...

5 hours, 26 minutes ago | Score: 5.45220111354

CES: Nvidia lists 3D Vision-equipped Acer Aspire Z5673 all-in-one
CNET (blog)
by Rich Brown We don't have this information directly from Acer yet, but according to a release sent out by Nvidia, Acer will be debuting a new all-in-one ...

9 hours, 59 minutes ago | Score: 5.22424051744

Mac OS X Hacked Onto Intel's Sandy Bridge Platform
Mac Rumors
Earlier this week, Intel officially unveiled its next-generation "Sandy Bridge" processor architecture, marking a significant performance improvement, ...

8 hours, 57 minutes ago | Score: 4.51513131003

Apple to Take On the Microsoft Tablets
TheStreet.com
The Eee Slate runs on Microsoft Windows 7 using Intel's(INTC) Core i5 processor. Add an accessory like a keyboard, and you have a promising tablet/notebook ...

13 hours, 41 minutes ago | Score: 3.36589216474

Monitor Your Blood Pressure With Your iPhone
Gearlog (blog)
Wrap the band around your arm, like a traditional blood pressure monitor, connect it to your iPhone or iPod touch (actually, the company just says "iOS ...

9 hours, 15 minutes ago | Score: 3.22877721047

Amazon takes first Android Appstore steps
CNET
by Stephen Shankland Amazon has invited programmers to submit Android applications for sale through the company's upcoming app store, a move that marks the ...

12 hours, 8 minutes ago | Score: 3.15267914428

Secunia PSI 2.0 Identifies and Installs Application Updates
eWeek
I was also gratified to find that PSI 2.0 no longer requires the Adobe Flash ActiveX plug-in to display the graphical trending data, a requirement I found ...

12 hours, 53 minutes ago | Score: 3.06303125285

Android Honeycomb 3.0 tips up on Asus tablets
Inquirer
By Rob Coppinger GOOGLE'S ANDROID 3.0 codenamed Honeycomb will power three of Asus' four tablets that it is unveiling at the Consumer Electronics Show, ...

11 hours, 56 minutes ago | Score: 2.98363436128

Samsung Launches HMX-Q10, Full-HD Camcorder
TMC Net
By Nathesh, TMCnet Contributor Samsung, a dealer in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies, launched the ...

11 hours, 16 minutes ago | Score: 2.49730139788

2011-01-05 20:33:30.884983

2011-01-05T12:33:00.001-08:00

Angry Birds Due To Hit PlayStation Consoles This Week
ITProPortal
Rovio Mobile is gearing up to launch its highly popular Angry Birds game to major gaming consoles starting with Sony's PlayStation 3 and PlayStation ...

1 day, 6 hours ago | Score: 258331.180573

Internet Retailers Show 3.29% Growth In Panasonic Lumix DMC-G2
Photography News
Internet sellers in Iceland had the ugliest day with trade figures down 4.3%. The United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Italy and Hong Kong also had fairly poor ...

1 day, 13 hours ago | Score: 113506.733787

PayPal to Throw Weight Behind NFC Technology for Digital Wallet
Gotta Be Mobile
PayPal itself is saying that it may enter the mobile payment market in the second half of 2011, perhaps partnering with Android to throw its weight behind ...

12 hours, 56 minutes ago | Score: 117.380271557

CES: Sharp Galapagos tablet hits FCC
CNET (blog)
Instead, it looks like the Sharp Galapagos e-reader has finally trickled out of Asia, gracing us with its Linux-based, large format design. ...

1 day, 8 hours ago | Score: 59.1942252037

Comcast launches 100 Mbps data tier for Ind. businesses
CED Magazine
The 100 Mbps tier is available to Comcast's business-class customers for $369.95 per month and includes Microsoft Communication Services, which Comcast said ...

20 hours, 3 minutes ago | Score: 39.395097574

Google hits web translation barrier
The Australian
As well as perfecting the system, Google is building devices that can make it more useful. Last year, Eric Schmidt, Google's chief executive, demonstrated a ...

19 hours, 15 minutes ago | Score: 26.9549537788

Gambling.com To Be Sold For $10 Million, But Nobody Gambles Online
Casino Gambling Web
Considered to be the most valuable domain name within the Internet gaming industry, www.gambling.com is being sold by Media Corp., a UK-based advertising ...

19 hours, 21 minutes ago | Score: 24.5411228695

SEO shifts for Google
Last Click News
In the past 12 months, Google has made notable shifts in the generation of its search results. Most noticeably, the search engine seems to be putting more ...

13 hours, 49 minutes ago | Score: 23.917917757

When it comes to investing, Facebook is just for insiders
Washington Post
... might want to take to heart the advice recently offered by Facebook's young founder, Mark Zuckerberg, when asked about an IPO: "Don't hold your breath. ...

19 hours, 29 minutes ago | Score: 21.5818108707

Wells Fargo again tests mobile payment
Bizjournals.com
... user waves the phone in front of a mobile-payment reader. The company conducted a similar test using Nokia phones three years ago but then tabled the trial.

4 hours, 7 minutes ago | Score: 18.3974209633

Report: MySpace Planning Huge Layoffs
PC Magazine
MySpace is preparing to make huge layoffs. According to a Wall Street Journal report, the social-networking site could be cutting between a third to a half ...

16 hours, 22 minutes ago | Score: 18.2984135487

Opera to launch browser for tablet PCs
Oneindia
With Opera's new move, users expect tablet browsers from Google and Microsoft. Will we get Google Chrome and Internet Explorer tablet browsers. ...

1 day, 12 hours ago | Score: 16.9117172495

Sony Ericsson's XPERIA Arc leaks: slimline 4.2″ Gingerbread phone
Android Community
The Sony Ericsson XPERIA Arc has seemingly leaked ahead of its official debut at CES 2011 this week, with Russian site Gagadget offering specs, ...

4 hours, 17 minutes ago | Score: 16.2800941541

Amazon Kindle apps for Android & Windows tablets promised
SlashGear
By Chris Davies on Tue Jan 4th, 2011 0 Comments Amazon is looking to spread its ereader wings even further, promising to launch tablet-centric versions of ...

1 day, 5 hours ago | Score: 15.1976927524

Apple To Challenge Google and Microsoft With Cloud OS?
ConceivablyTech
If this patent is any indication, then it appears to be clear that Apple intends to differentiate itself from Google and Microsoft with an entirely ...

20 hours, 3 minutes ago | Score: 14.9083118775

Intel event Wednesday at CES 2011 (live blog)
CNET (blog)
by Tom Krazit Intel has already shared a few details about its plans for 2011, but will likely get into a lot more detail tomorrow during its CES 2011 press ...

1 day ago | Score: 12.759666766

Report: Internet Gains on TV as People's Main News Source
CBS News
A report by the Pew Research Center shows 41 percent of Americans get their national and international news from the internet. That statistic hasn't changed ...

15 hours, 6 minutes ago | Score: 12.3441301316

Vudu to start streaming 3D movies
CNET (blog)
by Don Reisinger Starting next week, PlayStation 3 owners, as well as those who own a 3D TV from Vizio, LG, Samsung, and others, will have the ability to ...

5 hours, 58 minutes ago | Score: 10.995631732

Microsoft should ditch 'Windows' brand for TV set-top
PC World Magazine
Microsoft is expected to launch a version of Windows for TV set-top boxes. Why using the Windows brand could be a bad idea. Rumor has it that Microsoft will ...

16 hours, 23 minutes ago | Score: 10.8838850799

Adobe offers top 10 list for Flash Platform in 2010
NetworkWorld.com
While hailing developments that made the list, Rozen acknowledged challenges Adobe faced challenges last year as well. "There was some adversity to overcome ...

23 hours, 40 minutes ago | Score: 10.3482382107

Will Facebook and Google still be relevant in 10 years?
Bleeding Edge TV
In a time when Facebook is everywhere, now reported to be valued at $50 billion, having raised $500 million recently and being expected to raise another ...

15 hours, 13 minutes ago | Score: 10.1069800614

Chrome reaches 10 percent market share
ZDNet UK
By Stephen Shankland , CNET News, 4 January, 2011 09:39 One out of every 10 people surfing the web in December 2010 used Google's Chrome browser, ...

1 day, 7 hours ago | Score: 9.07342761158

Analyst: Flash may hog PlayBook battery life
CNET
From our understanding, the poor battery life of early PlayBook units may be due to its incorporation of Adobe Flash." 2. QNX, the operating system on which ...

1 day, 4 hours ago | Score: 8.97981523973

Nokia E6-00 specs leak: VGA display, QWERTY & HSPA
SlashGear
By Chris Davies on Wed Jan 5th, 2011 0 Comments Nokia's nHD 640 x 360 displays have been looking all the more outmoded compared to the WVGA and higher ...

9 hours, 47 minutes ago | Score: 8.41561689781

Firefox Ousts Internet Explorer as Number 1 Browser in Europe
By Audrey Watters
Firefox has overtaken Internet Explorer to become the number one browser in Europe, reports analytics company StatCounter. According to December figures, Firefox had 38.11% of the European market ...

1 day, 4 hours ago | Score: 8.33590535748

CES: Toshiba's 10-inch Honeycomb tablet, hands-on
CNET (blog)
by Donald Bell Toshiba's 10.1-inch Android tablet (right) offers a little extra screen room compared against the Apple iPad (left). ...

1 day, 17 hours ago | Score: 8.07717259535

Celebrities join campaign to find missing teenager
Independent
Celebrities have used Twitter to publicise an online campaign to find a missing teenage girl who vanished three weeks ago. Stephen Fry, footballer Rio ...

1 day, 6 hours ago | Score: 8.01589877403

Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez: The Twitter response
Washington Post
By Jen Chaney After photos of Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez kissing leaked on the Internet Monday, the Twitter-verse naturally blew up with expressions of ...

1 day, 6 hours ago | Score: 8.01505808905

Facebook Users Set Photo Record Over New Year's
WebProNews
By Doug Caverly New Year's Eve celebrations - and the hangovers that in many cases followed - did not keep people away from Facebook this weekend. ...

22 hours, 34 minutes ago | Score: 7.99533436613

New Investment Fund Values Twitter at $4.1 Billion
Wall Street Journal (blog)
But following at its heels is Twitter Inc., which last month raised a $200 million round at a $3.7 billion valuation led by noted venture capital firm ...

1 day, 2 hours ago | Score: 7.90197327792

LG Optimus 2X Slaps Around iPhone 4 in Browser Speed Test
Phandroid.com
Look no further than exhibit A above, where the LG Optimus 2X makes short work of rendering websites that the iPhone's pretty quick Safari mobile browser ...

1 day ago | Score: 7.89264961638

Microsoft Browser Dethroned in Europe by Mozilla Firefox, StatCounter Says
Bloomberg
s Firefox topped Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer in Europe for the first time last month to become the region's most-used web browser, according to ...

11 hours, 36 minutes ago | Score: 7.52297398917

HTC HD7 with Windows Phone 7: Solid Start, but Needs Something More
eWeek
Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 on the HTC HD7 offers users a solid smartphone experience, but the platform may need something more to compete with the iPhone ...

23 hours, 56 minutes ago | Score: 7.16612303108

2011-01-04 05:36:55.316784

2011-01-03T21:36:00.001-08:00

Facebook Valued at $50 Billion, Worth More Than eBay, Yahoo, and Time Warner
Black Web 2.0
This makes it worth more than big names like eBay, Yahoo, and Time Warner. This new influx of cash will allow Facebook to continue their competition with ...

12 hours, 28 minutes ago | Score: 76.9581906959

Sandy Bridge: 10 Things You Need to Know
PC Magazine
Intel has now officially released its "second-generation Core" CPUs, which are popularly referred to by their collective code name "Sandy Bridge. ...

1 hour, 32 minutes ago | Score: 75.8697623635

ITC backs Rambus with 34-company probe
EETimes.com
... cited as targets of the investigation include: Asus, Cisco, Garmin, Hewlett-Packard Hitachi GST, Motorola and Seagate as part of a list of 34 companies. ...

11 hours, 23 minutes ago | Score: 72.166755896

Big Developments Predicted for the 2011 Internet Segment
TMCnet
The 2011 Internet segment will experience continual challenges for Google (News - Alert), strategic changes at Yahoo, Apple cloud offering, ...

16 hours, 11 minutes ago | Score: 60.5113549446

How A Startup Pivots: The Tagged Story (So Far)
TechCrunch
In September, I gave a candid update on Tagged in a video interview with Michael Arrington, discussing how we'd launched one of the original social networks ...

4 hours, 50 minutes ago | Score: 28.8144182471

PSFK Launches Quora-Like Service for Marketers
Adrants
... industry experts from around the world including Foursquare Founder Dennis Crowley, Engadget Founder Peter Rojas and Treehugger FOunder Graham Hill. ...

4 hours, 57 minutes ago | Score: 25.1791409958

Square Gets a $200 Million Valuation: Is This the Next PayPal?
DailyFinance
Inexpensive personal money transfers are a huge potential market, as PayPal proved by turning the market for person-to-person transactions into one of the ...

15 hours, 9 minutes ago | Score: 24.4114497716

The Little Known Secret to Getting Page 1 Google Rankings
Associated Content
Properly post that, and according to a recent study by Forrester Research, you stand a 53 times better chance of getting a Page 1 Google ranking. ...

5 hours, 24 minutes ago | Score: 17.3548166848

Goldman Investment in Facebook May Draw SEC Scrutiny
Bloomberg
By Joshua Gallu and Jesse Hamilton - Mon Jan 03 23:53:43 GMT 2011 Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s plan to offer clients up to $1.5 billion in Facebook Inc. ...

4 hours, 38 minutes ago | Score: 15.6704505675

Nexus S overclocked to 1.2GHz with custom kernel
Techtree.com
Google-Samsung Nexus S was officially launched on Dec 7 and same day followed the announcement of Android 2.3 Gingerbread update. ...

13 hours, 25 minutes ago | Score: 13.1505538848

PlayStation 3 DRM Falls – Root Key Found
Zeropaid
If you've ever wanted to create home brew video games for the PlayStation 3 (PS3), you may now be one major step closer. A user by the name GeoHot, ...

5 hours, 27 minutes ago | Score: 13.0544944237

Microsoft restores access to Hotmail inboxes
TG Daily
Microsoft says it's identified the source of the issue and has restored email access to those who were affected. However, emails from the last three days ...

15 hours, 32 minutes ago | Score: 9.12067982065

Verizon grabbing iPhone domains
tuaw.com
by Kelly Hodgkins (RSS feed) on Jan 3rd 2011 at 12:30PM A report circulating over the holiday weekend suggests Verizon is buying up Verizon iPhone-related ...

11 hours, 19 minutes ago | Score: 8.10401869609

Chrome finishes 2010 with 10 percent share
CNET
Chrome's gains have come largely at the expense of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, whose usage share has been dropping for years, but there's also a ray of ...

18 hours, 15 minutes ago | Score: 7.79007874123

Angry Birds Launches On PlayStation Minis This Week
PushSquare.com
Thankfully Sony's part of the curve with their PlayStation Minis platform. Sure the PSP is home to epic releases such as God Of War: Ghost Of Sparta, ...

15 hours, 33 minutes ago | Score: 6.79059073469

LG to Introduce Internet TV Add-on Box at CES 2011
About - News & Issues
Would you like an Internet TV, but can't afford one right now? If so, then LG might have an answer for you, its new ST600 Smart TV Upgrader. ...

5 hours, 38 minutes ago | Score: 6.08437039523

Silicon Valley Now Using ME Domain Names For Branding
ADI News
Silicon Valley is a little slow sometimes picking up on current trends, but then again, they were so used to being trend makers for so long. ...

6 hours, 11 minutes ago | Score: 5.37479584054

IBM bets big on business analytics solutions
Economic Times
NEW DELHI: Technology giant IBM today said it is focussing on business analytics and access management segments to strengthen its portfolio in the country. ...

19 hours, 20 minutes ago | Score: 2.43200337451

Intel ships miniature SSDs
Infostor magazine
By Dave Simpson January 3, 2011 – Intel recently announced tiny solid-state disk (SSD) drives that deliver almost as much performance as the company's ...

1 day, 4 hours ago | Score: 1.68940463685

Facebook's 2010 by the numbers
Siliconrepublic.com
Facebook has released data showing that over the past year its 500 million users uploaded more than 2.7 million photographs, shared one million links and ...

1 day, 9 hours ago | Score: 1.26863736049

2011-01-03 13:02:36.629257

2011-01-03T05:02:00.001-08:00

Meta keywords are no longer necessary for SEO
Last Click News
Experts say that Google no longer prioritizes meta keyword tags in determining rankings. It focuses on keywords in general. The meta keywords maybe the most ...

4 hours, 20 minutes ago | Score: 136.804658516

Twitter turned down Facebook in 2008: Offer was $500 million
Online Social Media
... to new reports that's exactly what Twitter's three co-founders did when they turned down the offer from Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg back in 2008. ...

1 hour, 5 minutes ago | Score: 53.6446249954

1 hour, 40 minutes ago | Score: 17.5967181653

Facebook to Get $500 Million in Goldman-led Investment
CBS News
A couple of years ago, Microsoft invested $240 million in Facebook, giving the young company a jaw-dropping $15 billion valuation. ...

3 hours, 58 minutes ago | Score: 9.08616487382

2011-01-03 08:32:19.463976

2011-01-03T00:32:00.001-08:00

PrimeSense and Asus to Launch WAVI Xtion Gesture-Controlled User Interface
UberGizmo
... the hardware powering Kinnect, its Immersive Natural Interaction solutions, will be embedded in WAVI Xtion, a user interface developed by ASUS. ...

2 hours, 46 minutes ago | Score: 31.6994991958

Atomic Mall Launches Auctions Very Different from eBay-Style Listings
Auctionbytes
But it's not the auction format shoppers have come to expect on marketplaces like eBay. Instead, Atomic Mall uses a form of sealed bid auction that doesn't ...

3 hours, 59 minutes ago | Score: 19.8595262624

Beijing Strikes Skype: What's Really at Stake
Forbes (blog)
Skype, partially owned by eBay, will be affected the most, especially because it is gearing up for an anticipated $1 billion initial public offering this ...

4 hours, 40 minutes ago | Score: 13.045429177

Google exploring digital newsstand: report
Reuters Canada
Last month, Google, the world's No.1 Internet search engine, began selling digital books through an online store, entering a market dominated by Amazon.com ...

6 hours, 15 minutes ago | Score: 8.34749997571

Reports: Vizio to launch smartphone, tablet
CNET
by Steven Musil Flat-screen TV maker Vizio is making the jump into the smartphone and tablet computer markets, tapping Google to take on the likes of Apple ...

6 hours, 15 minutes ago | Score: 8.33059360867

2011-01-03 00:25:18.840930

2011-01-02T16:25:00.001-08:00

Paypal Gears Up For Move To China
Sure Start News
The online payment website Paypal, the largest in the world of its kind, will soon be extending its reach to China, in a move that experts are saying could ...

42 minutes ago | Score: 94.6500667348

Microsoft Buys Kinect.com Domain Name
Domain Name Wire
Microsoft gets domain name to go along with popular Kinect product. Microsoft has purchased the domain name Kinect.com, updated whois records show. ...

4 hours ago | Score: 22.3710393006

How Twitter Uses NoSQL - ReadWriteCloud
By Klint Finley
InfoQ has released a video of Twitter's Kevin Weil speaking at Strange Loop earlier this year on how the company uses NoSQL. Weil is quick to point ...

3 hours, 50 minutes ago | Score: 16.3934458963

Amazon: Relax, There's Really Not That Much Spam On Mechanical Turk
The Business Insider
Last month, we wrote about a study that seems to show that over 40% of the requests on Amazon's labor marketplace, Mechanical Turk, were for spam. ...

3 hours, 58 minutes ago | Score: 7.88780060065

2011-01-02 23:32:05.390073

2011-01-02T15:32:00.001-08:00

Google TV faces some hurdles
Monsters and Critics.com
Google plans to rework the software for Google TV before more manufacturers bring devices to market with that programming installed, reported US media ...

19 hours, 30 minutes ago | Score: 68.6299861855

The Rebirth of MySpace
SEO Consult (blog)
MySpace is starting to win back a new breed of user thanks to its graphical overhaul and reinvention, and owners News Corp have already scored something of ...

12 hours, 59 minutes ago | Score: 56.748328656

Facebook Close To Naming Sun Microsystems Campus As New Headquarters
By Jason Kincaid
It's been less than two years since Facebook moved into its 150000 square foot office space at 1601 South California Ave in Palo Alto, but the rapidly growing company is already itching for a new home. Now we're hearing from multiple ...

19 hours, 35 minutes ago | Score: 29.6201475227

To buy or not to buy; new technology to arrive in 2011
StandardNet
The tablet half of the Hybrid re-emerged in September as LePad, with Android's newest operating system, 3.0, code named "Honeycomb. ...

12 hours, 19 minutes ago | Score: 27.6104565321

70% of mobiles sold in Jan-Nov, 2010, were Nokia or Samsung
Deccan Herald
Nokia and Samsung were the top picks for Indian consumers when it came to mobile phones in January-November, 2010, with the two handset-makers cornering ...

12 hours, 22 minutes ago | Score: 26.4340217086

2011-01-02 02:07:01.950598

2011-01-01T18:07:00.001-08:00

Wikipedia Raises $16 Million, Stops Asking for Donations
The Atlantic
I was reading an entry about British wildlife conservationist George Adamson on Wikipedia this afternoon when I realized that co-founder Jimmy Wales wasn't ...

2 hours, 18 minutes ago | Score: 18.1367566416

Mukesh Ambani, India's Steve Jobs?
ZDNet (blog)
... all set to define mobile computing in India, I'd say we have a visionary in the consumer technology space with as a good a story to tell as Steve Jobs. ...

1 hour, 43 minutes ago | Score: 16.3688834265

2011-01-01 23:48:26.440433

2011-01-01T15:48:00.001-08:00

Why We Desperately Need a New (and Better) Google
TechCrunch
Blekko is backed by notable angels, including Ron Conway, Marc Andreessen, Jeff Clavier, and Mike Maples. It has received a total of $24 million in venture ...

8 hours, 6 minutes ago | Score: 92.1546392741

A lot of feedback went into Nissan Leaf's sounds
Los Angeles Times
The electric car's noises — like a far-off jet at takeoff when accelerating and a sonar ping when backing up — are the result of work by engineers, ...

17 hours, 31 minutes ago | Score: 8.72605942246