Friday, June 24, 2011

FTC's antitrust inquiry turns up heat on Google (AP)

FTC's antitrust inquiry turns up heat on Google (AP)

FTC's antitrust inquiry turns up heat on Google (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 05:13 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 2, 2006, file photo, Google receptionist Lee Stimmel works at the front desk in the company's office in New York. Federal regulators have begun a formal antitrust investigation into Google's business practices. In a blog post Friday, June 24, 2011, the Internet search giant said it received notification from the Federal Trade Commission of the review on Thursday. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)AP - Google may be entering a make-or-break phase in its colorful history now that U.S. regulators have opened an investigation into whether the company has been abusing its dominance of Internet search and advertising to stifle competition.

AP EXCLUSIVE: Power grid change may disrupt clocks (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 05:18 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 10, 2005 file photo, UPS delivery man Chris Carhart of South Boston, wheels packages past a store window featuring clocks at Quincy Market in Boston. Our power supply has been so precise we've set our clocks by it — but time is running out on that idea. A yearlong experiment with the electric grid may make plug-in clocks and devices like coffeemakers run up to 20 minutes fast. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)AP - A yearlong experiment with the nation's electric grid could mess up traffic lights, security systems and some computers — and make plug-in clocks and appliances like programmable coffeemakers run up to 20 minutes fast.

Brazen, publicity-seeking hackers on attack spree (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 05:16 PM PDT

FILE - In this Monday, May 31 2011 file frame grab of the PBS website, as PBS officials confirmed its official Twitter account that the website had been hacked. Lulz Security has stolen mountains of personal data in about a dozen different hacks, embarrassing law enforcement on both sides of the Atlantic while boasting about the stunts online.(AP Photo, File)AP - Can you be famous if no one knows your name? A new band of hackers is giving it its best shot, trumpeting its cyber-capers in an all-sirens-flashing publicity campaign.

TechLife on a $100,000 lava-proof razor, how to sneak Facebook at work, Obama’s tweets, and more (Yahoo! News)

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 07:25 PM PDT

Yahoo! News - Welcome everybody to TechLife on Tecca TV, where we give you the top 5 technology-meets-lifestyle news stories in only 5 minutes. We hope to bring a little Friday Fun to you every week! If you missed last week's edition, be …

Artist turns old motherboards into colorful works of art (Yahoo! News)

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 07:18 PM PDT

Yahoo! News - We've seen people do some pretty remarkable things with their old computer hardware, but artist Joe Dragt's motherboard paintings are definitely the most worthy of hanging on your living room wall. When Dragt, who works out of his home in …

The Battle for Yahoo's Future (Mashable)

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 07:43 PM PDT

Mashable - Thanks to a weakening business, painful talent exodus and stagnant stock price, Yahoo is a house divided. And as President Abraham Lincoln famously once said, "a house divided against itself cannot stand." It's no secret that Yahoo is struggling. The company hasn't staged the dramatic turnaround that its investors envisioned CEO Carol Bartz would lead. Almost half of its market value is derived from its 40% stake in Alibaba, the China Internet giant with a market cap of approximately $8 billion. Most importantly, Yahoo hasn't been able to create growth or articulate a clear vision for substantive growth.

US regulators investigating Google over search (AFP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 06:48 PM PDT

Google logos created by children are displayed at the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California. US regulators have launched a probe into Google's lucrative search and advertising business in a move that could pose the most serious legal challenge yet to the Internet giant(AFP/File/Kimihiro Hoshino)AFP - US regulators have launched a probe into Google's lucrative search and advertising business in a move that could pose the most serious legal challenge yet to the Internet giant.

Nokia Phone 7 'Leak' May Have Been Planned (NewsFactor)

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 01:55 PM PDT

NewsFactor - Nokia and Microsoft's first collaboration generated a substantial amount of buzz this week after a video of the smartphone appeared on a Hungarian web site -- the kind of buzz Windows Phone 7 will need to gain traction in the smartphone market. The device, code-named Sea Ray, was unveiled at a Nokia Connections event in Singapore by CEO Stephen Elop and Jukka Kiiskinen, a Nokia sales manager.

New lawsuit hits Sony, says company ignored security warnings (Digital Trends)

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 08:29 PM PDT

Digital Trends - Sony just can’t catch a break. The company is being hit with another class action lawsuit over the Playstation Network breach in April.

Hands-on with Intel's line of Atom-based tablets, including the MeeGo WeTab (Digital Trends)

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 05:18 PM PDT

Digital Trends - The cellphone revolution of the last 10 years has been amazing and the influx of smartphones and tablets that now crowd our shelves are challenging the ways we compute. Unfortunately for Intel, all of these new devices are powered by ARM processors, not Intel chips. Sure, Intel is still dominating when it comes to PCs, but PCs aren’t the growing market anymore. At Computex in May, Intel debuted 10 new tablets, all running on its Atom chip architecture. Some of these tablets were on display in at the CE Week Line Show in New York yesterday, where I took a gander at Intel’s best stab at tablets. The most notable manufacturers in the bunch are Fujitsu and Viewsonic, followed by Motion with its CL900, which was a bit thicker than I remembered, though its built for the outdoors. Sadly, I don’t think having Intel Inside will save many of these tablets.

Has Renren suffered enough from China stocks phobia? (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 05:22 PM PDT

Reuters - Renren Inc was hyped as the "Facebook" of China, a company that had access to the world's largest Internet market, and a good way to ride the buzz surrounding social media IPOs -- but investors who believed the story are nursing big wounds.

Wesco shareholders approve $545M sale to Berkshire (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 05:15 PM PDT

AP - Shareholders in Wesco Financial, a conglomerate that Warren Buffett and his sidekick Charlie Munger first took control of in 1973, voted Friday to sell the remaining 20 percent of the company's stock to Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

As Color fades into irrelevance, we look back at other inglorious tech busts (Appolicious)

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 01:40 PM PDT

Appolicious - Launched in March with $41 million in venture capital and a gushing media at its disposal, the Color app for iPhone and Android is seriously in the red.

Top techs eye Nortel patents (Investor's Business Daily)

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 03:35 PM PDT

Investor's Business Daily - Valuable broadband and networking patents owned by bankrupt Nortel Networks go up for sale this week, with Google (NASDAQ:GOOG - News), Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL - News) and Intel (NASDAQ:INTC - News) heading the list of would-be buyers. The portfolio could fetch up to $1.5 bil, analysts said. Nortel is selling 6,000 patents and patent applications that cover wireless, voice, Internet and other technologies.

Apple confirms: ICloud will get rid of iDisk, iWeb (Digital Trends)

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 12:56 PM PDT

Digital Trends - Apple recently introduced iCloud, it’s cloud-based storage and computing solution that would host it’s new music service as well as MobileMe successor. While MobileMe can hardly be considered a success, its termination will be something of a complication for current users who will have to endure the transition process. Adding to this is the fact that iWeb, its website hosting application, and iDisk, its mass storage solution, may be wiped out along with MobileMe.

Hands-on with Intel's Ultrabooks, a stopgap toward the next generation of laptop (Digital Trends)

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 04:15 PM PDT

Digital Trends - During CE Week here in New York, I had the opportunity to check out the first examples of what Intel has creatively named “Ultrabooks.” Though they seem to be entirely inspired by the sleek design of Apple’s MacBook Air, the three units from LG, Lenovo, and Samsung attempt to bridge the gap between the power and usability of traditional laptops and the mobility and new capabilities of tablets.

Opera Co-Founder von Tetzchner to Leave Company (PC Magazine)

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 10:46 AM PDT

PC Magazine - Opera co-founder Jon S. von Tetzchner is leaving Opera Software in June, the browser company said Friday.

Nimble Offers Social Relationship Manager for Teams (NewsFactor)

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 11:05 AM PDT

NewsFactor - Nimble, a company that leverages traditional CRM and social media with its web-based social CRM platform, is trying to live up to its name with its latest CRM software launch. Nimble just rolled out the team version of its Social Relationship Manager.
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