Thursday, June 30, 2011

Reports say FTC investigating Twitter (AP)

Reports say FTC investigating Twitter (AP)

Reports say FTC investigating Twitter (AP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 03:48 PM PDT

AP - Federal regulators are looking into the interactions between Twitter and a company called Ubermedia, which develops applications that help users follow and communicate with each other on Twitter's popular online messaging service, according to two published reports.

US rules partially against Kodak in Apple dispute (AP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 04:36 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2011 file photo, a Kodak logo is shown on a slide projector in Philadelphia. Embattled photography pioneer Eastman Kodak Co. is nearing the end of a high-stakes patent-infringement fight Thursday, June 30, 2011, with tech giants Apple and Research in Motion Ltd. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, file)AP - The U.S. International Trade Commission issued a mixed verdict Thursday in Eastman Kodak Co.'s high-stakes patent-infringement dispute with the makers of the iPhone and BlackBerry phones. The ruling disappointed investors.

Tests show wireless network could harm GPS systems (AP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 04:01 PM PDT

AP - New test results show that a proposed nationwide wireless broadband network would produce significant interference with GPS systems used for everything from aviation to high-precision timing networks to consumer navigation devices. Changes to the proposal could reduce interference, but wouldn't eliminate it.

London premiere of last Harry Potter film to be livecast on YouTube (Yahoo! News)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 06:14 PM PDT

Yahoo! News - On July 7, YouTube will be live streaming the red carpet premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 from Trafalgar Square in London. Many famous faces are expected to appear at the event, including author J.K. Rowling, …

Virgin America will offer in-flight Chromebooks to lucky fliers (Yahoo! News)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 01:17 PM PDT

Yahoo! News - Forget an extra ginger ale or free pillow for your next flight; Virgin America has a better idea. In a move that one-ups American Airlines' free in-flight Android tablets, Virgin will allow passengers to use Samsung Chromebooks on certain flights. …

Why Do People Follow Brands? [INFOGRAPHIC] (Mashable)

Posted: 29 Jun 2011 06:58 PM PDT

Mashable - On Twitter, Facebook, and dozens of other social sites, normal consumers often choose to keep tabs on the brands they love. In fact, many brands have highly optimized their marketing and PR strategies to accommodate that behavior, even going to far as to do one-to-one CRM (that's customer or consumer relationship management) through avenues such as Facebook and Twitter.

Justin Timberlake: Stealth Silicon Valley angel? (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 04:57 PM PDT

Reuters - As it turns out, Justin Timberlake's role as Napster founder Sean Parker in "The Social Network" was a wink and nod to the celebrity's little publicized role in driving Silicon Valley start-ups.

Street Fighter IV Volt tops iPhone Games of the Week (Appolicious)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 04:00 PM PDT

Appolicious - Be warned: The title leading off this week's Best Games list is a quality release, but it's going to frustrate you. That's because Street Fighter IV Volt is merely a slight update to Capcom's high quality fighting game Street Fighter IV due to the addition of online multiplayer. If it sounds like fun, you're right, it can be – until you take on some eight-year-old with an insane mastery of Ryu's fireball move and some kind of supernatural ability to anticipate every time you're even thinking about jumping. ...

Call of Duty: Black Ops - Annihilation map pack review (Digital Trends)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 06:08 PM PDT

Digital Trends - The third and possibly final Call of Duty: Black Ops map pack, Annihilation, has been released for Xbox Live (with PC and PS3 releases due out soon), and if this is the final release, Treyarch is going out in style.

Trade body backs part of ruling against Kodak (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 04:39 PM PDT

Reuters - Eastman Kodak shares plunged 15 percent on Thursday after a U.S. trade panel upheld portions of a ruling unfavorable to the company in a patent fight over digital camera technology in cellphones.

Is Facebook launching an 'awesome' iPad feature next week? (Digital Trends)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 08:35 PM PDT

Digital Trends - Facebook is building buzz about a mysterious new feature they will be launching next week. What could it be?

Android Leads as Smartphone Use Grows in U.S. (NewsFactor)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 02:10 PM PDT

NewsFactor - A new Nielsen survey released Thursday indicates that 38 percent of all U.S. mobile consumers now own smartphones. Of those, 55 percent are recent handset purchasers who selected a smartphone. By contrast, only 28 percent of U.S. mobile consumers were equipped with smartphones in the third quarter of last year -- when 41 percent of recent buyers said they had purchased a smartphone, according to the FCC.

Google+ tops Android Apps of the Week (Appolicious)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 02:30 PM PDT

Appolicious - Google is percolating something new, feeding us bit-by-bit the details of its latest social coup. The search engine is testing the waters of today's social web culture, launching Google+ in private beta. The project comes with an Android app, syncing photos and other content with your socially-enhanced Google profile. Google+'s biggest adversary, Facebook, has updated its Android app too, finally adding video uploads.

LightSquared shifts spectrum (Investor's Business Daily)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 03:47 PM PDT

Investor's Business Daily - The prospective builder of a broadband wireless network filed a revised proposal with the FCC that would move its network to a different block of spectrum to ease fears it would interfere with GPS frequencies. Separately, a technical working group filed a study with the agency that shows LightSquared's original network plans could interfere with GPS signals used in consumer navigation devices and aircraft guidance systems.

Judge's comments boost Dish (Investor's Business Daily)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 03:50 PM PDT

Investor's Business Daily - Dish Network (NASDAQ:DISH - News) rose 3.6% to 30.67 after it got a green light from bankruptcy judge Robert Gerber to buy bankrupt DBSD North America for about $1.4 bil. Gerber said he would wait to enter the official order until Dish has a chance to study changes in the plan. The deal would be Dish's 3rd major acquisition this year. On Monday it won an auction to buy TerreStar Networks, another bankrupt telecommunications company, for $1.38 bil. RBC raised its price target for Dish to $37 from $35.

Nielsen: iOS smartphone marketshare up, Android flat in May (Digital Trends)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 10:54 AM PDT

Digital Trends - New survey figures released by market metrics firm Nielsen show that Google’s Android operating system remained the most popular smartphone platform in the U.S. market, accounting for 38 percent of smartphone users. However, Nielsen also finds that Android’s adoption by new smartphone buyers over the last few months has remained steady at 27 percent, while Apple’s iPhone has shown steady growth, jumping from 10 percent of new acquirers in February to 17 percent in May. In other words, Apple’s iOS is the only smartphone platform to have shown significant growth in recent months.

Open Letter to RIM Management Calls for Massive Change (PC Magazine)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 11:40 AM PDT

PC Magazine - An anonymous letter posted to the Web on Thursday, allegedly penned by a senior RIM employee, took Research in Motion to task for a lack of management accountability, poor software tools, and even being too nice.

8x8 dead to aid cloud services (Investor's Business Daily)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 03:47 PM PDT

Investor's Business Daily - The provider of Internet telecom services partnered with Virtual Computing Environment to speed up deployment of its cloud-computing services. VCE was formed by Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO - News) and EMC with investments from VMware and Intel (NASDAQ:INTC - News) and is making its VBlock platform available to 8x8 (NASDAQ:EGHT - News) to help it accelerate its cloud-based products. With VBlock's help, 8x8 will pursue larger enterprise and gov't clients. 8x8 leapt 9.9% to 5.
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