Friday, February 24, 2012

Kodak — and film — saying goodbye to the Oscars (AP)

Kodak — and film — saying goodbye to the Oscars (AP)

Kodak — and film — saying goodbye to the Oscars (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 01:57 PM PST

AP - Each year at the Oscars ceremony, Hollywood says goodbye to stars and filmmakers who've died. This year, the award show will bid adieu to the Kodak Theatre.

Judge awards iPhone user $850 in throttling case (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 04:14 PM PST

AP - When AT&T started slowing down the data service for his iPhone, Matt Spaccarelli, an unemployed truck driver and student, took the country's largest telecommunications company to small claims court. And won.

Ohio man given choice of Facebook apology or jail (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 06:08 PM PST

AP - A man who was threatened with jail time for posting comments about his estranged wife on his personal Facebook page unless he posted daily apologies for a month says the court ruling violates his freedom of speech.

Medical team livetweets beating-heart surgery for the first time (Yahoo! News)

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 04:07 PM PST

Yahoo! News - Subjecting Twitter to a play-by-play account of the contents of your lunch is one thing, but a hospital in Houston just took the micro-blogging service to intimate new heights. Tuesday morning, Memorial Hermann Medical Center livetweeted a beating heart double …

Watch a helicopter get destroyed by physics without even leaving the ground (Yahoo! News)

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 02:44 PM PST

Yahoo! News - It was the most stunning helicopter accident Para, Brazil has ever seen. And it all happened without the helicopter even leaving the ground. The shocking destruction of the plane was caused by a phenomenon called ground resonance. Like an out-of-balance washing machine, …

New Drinking Board Game Uses Memes as Spaces (Mashable)

Posted: 23 Feb 2012 01:14 PM PST

Mashable - For a larger version, click here. For meme playing pieces, click here. For a playable online version, click here. If you like memes and alcohol, you'll love this new drinking game that uses 24 memes as spaces of a board game. Cheers to that! Reddit's kc_sharky unveiled the game Thursday on the popular news aggregation site.

Google to sell Clearwire stake at 94 percent loss (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 03:40 PM PST

AP - Google Inc. on Friday said it will sell its stake in Clearwire Corp., the struggling operator of a wireless data network. The search company is taking a 94 percent loss on the originally $500 million investment made in 2008.

Hedge fund nominates five for AOL board (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 12:53 PM PST

Reuters - Activist hedge fund Starboard Value LP nominated a slate of five candidates to AOL Inc's board, saying discussions with the company in the past two months were unsatisfying.

Microsoft Office, Xbox Games Coming to iPad 3? (ContributorNetwork)

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 03:16 PM PST

ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | It used to be the killer app for the Mac, back when it was known as the Macintosh. And now Microsoft Office may be making its way to Apple's new computing platform, the iPad, according to Matt Hickey of The Daily.

Android bug opens devices to outside control: experts (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 12:58 PM PST

Reuters - Cybersecurity experts have uncovered a flaw in a component of the operating system of Google Inc's widely used Android smartphone that they say hackers can exploit to gain control of the devices.

Pew: Americans turning on to online privacy (Digital Trends)

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 12:51 PM PST

Digital Trends - A new report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project finds that Americans are increasingly aware of their online reputationsâ€"and are getting more savvy about managing their privacy setting and pruning less-than-flattering posts (and individuals) from their profiles. According to the survey results, nearly two thirds of respondents using social networking sites said deleted friends from their profiles, up from 56 percent in 2009.

New Android Devices from HTC, LG, Others Coming to Mobile World Congress (ContributorNetwork)

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 10:41 AM PST

ContributorNetwork - Mobile World Congress, held each year in Barcelona, Spain, is like the Consumer Electronics Show for smartphone and tablet makers. It starts on Monday, February 27, and ends on March 1.

Motorola suit causes Apple to shut down iCloud push email services in Germany (Appolicious)

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 12:03 PM PST

Appolicious - The latest casualty in the war between Apple and Motorola: email. Well, kind of.

Mythbuster: Why unlimited data throttling may be pointless (Digital Trends)

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 02:55 PM PST

Digital Trends - Well this is interesting: New research by Validas, a company that analyzes wireless phone bills, found that there is barely any difference in the data usage habits of the top 5 percent of tiered and unlimited wireless users. This comes after three of the four major US wireless carriers have begun to throttle speeds for those so-called “data hogs” on unlimited plans. What the findings potentially uncover is that the new policies are ostensibly less about the initial justifications for the limits â€" esoteric concerns over network bandwidth and wireless spectrum shortage, of which AT&T specifically referred to as an impetus for their policy shift â€" and more about moving legacy unlimited data plan holders to more modern, tiered contracts.

Dish Network to close 500 Blockbuster stores (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 05:49 PM PST

AP - Dish Network Corp. says in an annual filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it plans to close more than 500 Blockbuster stores this year.

Apple tactics in China iPad deal unusual: experts (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 03:39 PM PST

Reuters - Proview Electronics, the firm trying to stop Apple Inc from using the iPad name in China, has a plausible claim over the unusual methods Apple used to conceal its identity when attempting to acquire Proview's trademarks, according to several legal experts.

OnLive Desktop lets iOS users finally use Flash – for a price (Appolicious)

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 05:41 AM PST

Appolicious - Apple's iOS mobile operating system and Adobe Flash don't play well together.
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