Monday, January 30, 2012

Twitter CEO says blocking policy over-distilled (AP)

Twitter CEO says blocking policy over-distilled (AP)

Twitter CEO says blocking policy over-distilled (AP)

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 08:47 PM PST

AP - Twitter CEO Dick Costolo sought to calm the global outrage over the company's new country-by-country censorship policy on Monday, complaining in part that the issue is being treated with the same kind of shorthand that has made Twitter popular.

Tech companies team up to combat email scams (AP)

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 10:41 AM PST

AP - Google, Facebook and other big tech companies are jointly designing a system for combating email scams known as phishing.

New Sundance film lets a computer shuffle the plot every time (Yahoo! News)

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 06:43 PM PST

Yahoo! News - It's fun rewatching a movie you love over and over again, but it sometimes gets old when you already know its plot twists like the back of your hand. Eve Sussman's new film overcomes this problem by telling a different story …

Facebook IPO could create the world’s largest internet company (Yahoo! News)

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 06:37 PM PST

Yahoo! News - Want to own a piece of Facebook? Next week, you can â€" the social media behemoth is expected to file papers for its IPO as soon as February 8. It's a bottom-line boosting move that's been a long time coming. Facebook was …

How Evi Compares to Siri: Evi's Clever, Too, But Slow [VIDEO] (Mashable)

Posted: 29 Jan 2012 11:17 AM PST

Mashable - Getting Siri's voice-recognition capabilities on your phone just became a possibility for Android users and a bit less expensive for iPhone users. Meet Evi -- a $.99 app for iPhones and free for Android. For such a nominal price, don't expect Evi to be on par with Siri. There are some major differences with Evi as opposed to the quick and integrated Siri. Evi will not schedule meetings on your calendar or let you dictate text messages. But for functions like finding local shops, restaurants and general information, it's pretty helpful.

Mexicans overcharged billions for phone, web: study (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 07:11 PM PST

Reuters - Mexicans have been overcharged $13.4 billion a year for phone and internet services as the industry dominated by billionaire Carlos Slim gouges customers and keeps the economy from growing, a study released on Monday said.

NJ woman accused of streaming kid sex abuse cries (AP)

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 04:44 PM PST

AP - A New Jersey waitress cried in court Monday as she heard a prosecutor accuse her of "extreme sexual assault" on a 5-year-old girl she was baby-sitting and of streaming video of the abuse online.

RIM committee stresses importance of independent chair (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 07:32 PM PST

Reuters - A review of Research In Motions' leadership structure by a committee of independent directors has concluded that no future chief executive or other employee can be chairperson of the BlackBerry maker.

Just Show Me: 3 great football apps for your Android phone (Yahoo! News)

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 02:22 PM PST

Yahoo! News - Welcome to Just Show Me on Tecca TV, where we show you tips and tricks for getting the most out of the gadgets in your life. In today's episode we'll show you three apps for your Android phone that'll help you stay on top …

Brit pair stopped from entering US over Twitter jokes (Digital Trends)

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 07:35 PM PST

Digital Trends - Two travelers from Britain were prevented from entering the US last week after Homeland Security officials feared one of the pair, 26-year-old Leigh Van Bryan, might follow through with one of his tweets. Prior to leaving the UK, Leigh had tweeted that he was going to “destroy America.”

New RIM CEO Can't Save the BlackBerry (ContributorNetwork)

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 05:24 PM PST

ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Investors at RIM -- the company that makes the BlackBerry smartphone and BlackBerry PlayBook tablet -- have been pushing the company for awhile now to get rid of its two co-ceos, Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, on acount of their complete failure to adapt to the changing market. In a nutshell, Apple's iPhone caught them off-guard; and not only did they fail to respond appropriately, they failed to even realize that there was a problem until it was too late.

Oscars tops iOS Apps of the Week (Appolicious)

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 02:30 PM PST

Appolicious - This week's top apps are quite media-centric. There are apps to make your Oscars viewing more enjoyable and apps to make your general TV watching more rewarding, too. There are even apps to keep up on digital media news and online videos. It's the middle of winter, so you might as well pop down on the couch and enjoy these apps. It looks awfully windy outside, anyway.

AT&T reorganizes management positions (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 06:16 PM PST

Reuters - Wireless provider AT&T has put company veteran John Stankey in charge of strategy amid a management reshuffle after its failed attempt to take over Deutsche Telekom's U.S. mobile unit.

Review: Odd experimentation reveals muddled result (AP)

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 07:16 AM PST

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Tablet boom makes Apple No 1 PC maker: research firm (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 01:38 PM PST

Reuters - Apple Inc overtook Hewlett-Packard Co as the world's largest vendor of personal computers in the fourth quarter, helped by booming demand for its iPads, research firm Canalys said on Monday.

Symantec says pcAnywhere safe, offers free upgrade (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 01:25 PM PST

Reuters - Symantec Corp said it is safe to use its pcAnywhere software for accessing remote PCs after it asked customers last week to disable the product because it put them at greater risk of being hacked.

Upload at your own risk: Most cloud storage services offer no data guarantee (Digital Trends)

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 03:01 PM PST

Digital Trends - It’s become increasingly clear that users who lost files due to the US government’s seizure of Megaupload will, most likely, never get their files back. First of all, Megaupload’s hosting company, Carpathia Hosting, will allegedly begin deleting files on Thursday due to non-payment by Megaupload. Second â€" and here’s the stickler â€" Megaupload never guaranteed that files stored on its servers would remain accessible to users in the first place.
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