Monday, May 23, 2011

Yahoo ready to deliver on promise to upgrade email (AP)

Yahoo ready to deliver on promise to upgrade email (AP)

Yahoo ready to deliver on promise to upgrade email (AP)

Posted: 23 May 2011 09:08 PM PDT

AP - Yahoo Inc. is giving its popular email service a long-promised facelift in an attempt to make it more appealing to people who are increasingly using Facebook, Twitter, Google and other online alternatives to communicate.

Sony to report $3.2 billion annual loss (AP)

Posted: 23 May 2011 05:17 AM PDT

Sony Corp. Chief Financial Officer Masaru Kato reacts during a press conference in Tokyo, Monday, May 23, 2011. Sony, the Japanese maker of PlayStation 3 video game machines and Bravia flat-panel TVs, said Monday the sharp downward revision to a net loss of 260 billion yen is ($3.2 billion) is mainly due to the impact from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)AP - Sony Corp. is expecting an annual loss of $3.2 billion, reversing its earlier projection of a return to profit, as the electronics giant struggles with production disruptions from Japan's tsunami and a hacker attack on its online gaming service.

Payment startup Square rolls out iPad sales app (AP)

Posted: 23 May 2011 01:42 PM PDT

AP - First, mobile payments service Square made it easier for merchants to accept credit cards anytime, anywhere, with just a smartphone and a tiny, plastic credit-card reader. Now, the startup led by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey hopes to show them they can abandon cash registers, too.

Sony lost $171 million due to PlayStation Network downtime (Yahoo! News)

Posted: 23 May 2011 05:10 PM PDT

Yahoo! News - Sony's month-long adventure which started with the unexpected shutdown of the company's PlayStation Network and Sony Online Entertainment services â€" and ended with the rebuilding and relaunch of both â€" cost the company approximately $171 million. Sony revealed the figure …

Digital Photography 101: Don’t cage in your zoo photography! (Yahoo! News)

Posted: 23 May 2011 05:04 PM PDT

Yahoo! News - Most people love taking pictures of animals, but very few have the money to go on an African safari or travel to other far-off reaches of the world. Thankfully, there are hundreds of excellent zoos and wild animal parks around …

PlayStation Network Outage: The Real Costs [INFOGRAPHIC] (Mashable)

Posted: 22 May 2011 10:51 AM PDT

Mashable - Now that Sony's PlayStation Network is back online again, analysts are beginning to assess the real-world cost of the network breach and shutdown of the giant gaming establishment. Even as recently as this past week, Sony was still having trouble with the PlayStation Network, taking down its password resetting facility because of another Sony oversight: not realizing that hackers might be able to re-exploit any of the 77 million hacked accounts because of the information they obtained.

First guilty plea in US online poker case (AFP)

Posted: 23 May 2011 08:22 PM PDT

Illustration. A man plays poker on his computer connected to an internet gaming site from his home in Manassas, Virginia. The American president of a Costa Rica-based company is facing up to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to illegally processing payments for Internet poker firms.(AFP/Illustration/Karen Bleier)AFP - The American president of a Costa Rica-based company is facing up to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to illegally processing payments for Internet poker firms.

Yandex IPO raises $1.3 billion, more than expected (Reuters)

Posted: 23 May 2011 05:24 PM PDT

Signs read Reuters - Russian Internet company Yandex NV raised 19 percent more than expected on Monday in the sector's biggest U.S. initial public offering since Google Inc went public in 2004.

eBay may use Skype money for acquisitions: CEO (AFP)

Posted: 23 May 2011 08:02 PM PDT

EBay may use some of the $2.4 billion it will receive from the sale of its stake in Skype to make acquisitions, the chief executive of the online auction giant said in an interview published Monday.(AFP/File/Jacques Demarthon)AFP - EBay may use some of the $2.4 billion it will receive from the sale of its stake in Skype to make acquisitions, the chief executive of the online auction giant said in an interview.

Android tablets won’t take off without any killer apps (Appolicious)

Posted: 23 May 2011 03:15 PM PDT

Appolicious - Android-based tablets including the Motorola Xoom and Samsung Galaxy Tab are arguably at least as technologically advanced as the iPad. They all boast great specs, nice hardware, and Android's ever-improving and user-friendly Honeycomb OS. But there's still one thing missing: truly killer apps.

Study: College Men Who Post About Alcohol Have More Facebook Friends (Time.com)

Posted: 23 May 2011 06:15 PM PDT

Time.com - If you tend to mention or post photos of alcohol on Facebook, you're likely to have more Facebook friends -- at least if you're a college-age man

Hulu lands on TiVo Premiere, 6 month free trial for new TiVo owners (Yahoo! News)

Posted: 23 May 2011 04:56 PM PDT

Yahoo! News - Premium streaming service Hulu Plus touches down on TiVo Premiere DVRs today, and subscribers can begin enjoying the hundreds of episodes it has to offer. The Hulu service allows users to watch just-aired episodes of many network series and cable …

Square processing $3 million in mobile payments every day (Appolicious)

Posted: 23 May 2011 12:17 PM PDT

Appolicious - Mobile payment service Square seems to be exploding in popularity.

Apple Stores Use Its Mobile Devices To Help Customers (NewsFactor)

Posted: 23 May 2011 01:56 PM PDT

NewsFactor - Apple is putting its iPads, iPhones and iPod touches to work in its stores. The company, which is in the process of retuning its stores, has confirmed reports that it's using the popular tablets and smartphones as part of its unique retail experience.

Lady Gaga album demand overwhelms Amazon servers (AP)

Posted: 23 May 2011 08:20 PM PDT

FILE - In this file CD cover image released by Interscope Records, the latest release by Lady Gaga, “Born This Way”, is shown. Amazon experienced a high volume of traffic that caused delays for those downloading the album â€AP - Much like the caller in the Lady Gaga hit song "Telephone," some visitors to Amazon's site received a busy signal Monday when they tried to download the digital version of the artist's latest album, "Born This Way," which the online retailer was selling for 99 cents on its release date.

Apple investors brush off China blast impact (Reuters)

Posted: 23 May 2011 04:33 PM PDT

Reuters - Shares of Apple Inc regrouped on Monday after Wall Street brushed off the impact of an explosion last week that shut a Foxconn factory in China producing its popular iPad.

Feds seek to derail H&R Block's deal for TaxACT (AP)

Posted: 23 May 2011 03:17 PM PDT

AP - The Department of Justice is trying to halt H&R Block's plans to acquire the creator of TaxACT software, saying the deal would leave just two major competitors in the do-it-yourself tax preparation market.

IBM passes Microsoft's market cap after 15 years (Reuters)

Posted: 23 May 2011 04:00 PM PDT

Reuters - International Business Machines edged past old rival Microsoft Corp in market value for the first time since April 1996, marking the latest twist in the fluctuating fortunes of two of the world's most storied technology companies.
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