Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Review: Soulo converts iPad into karaoke machine (AP)

Review: Soulo converts iPad into karaoke machine (AP)

Review: Soulo converts iPad into karaoke machine (AP)

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 12:57 PM PST

This product image provided by First Act, Inc., shows the Soulo Digital Wireless Mic and App, a consumer electronics product that turns an iPad into a karaoke machine. (AP Photo/First Act, Inc.)AP - Karaoke lovers typically fall into two categories: Those who enjoy it, and those whose arms have to be twisted to get up and sing in public.

Lawsuit seeks to block Google's privacy changes (AP)

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 02:53 PM PST

AP - A consumer watchdog group is suing the Federal Trade Commission in an attempt to prevent Google from making sweeping changes to its privacy policies next month.

Cisco beats estimates with 2Q earnings, sales (AP)

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 03:46 PM PST

In this Feb. 2, 2012 photo, shows Cisco CEO John Chambers watches a Stanford basketball game in Palo Alto, Calif. Cisco Systems Inc., reports quarterly financial results Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012, after the market close. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - Cisco, the world's largest maker of computer networking equipment, on Wednesday said that its net income jumped 44 percent in the latest quarter as it continues to put last year's slump behind it.

Just Show Me: How to check your data usage on Android 4.0 (Yahoo! News)

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 05:32 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 how to check your data usage on your Android 4.0 phone. Android …

Far-out footage: Water droplets orbit a knitting needle on the International Space Station (Yahoo! News)

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 05:27 PM PST

Yahoo! News - When NASA astronaut Dan Burbank left Earth for the International Space Station as part of Expedition 30 last November, he took along some knitting needles, but not for making a space sweater. The mission's commander brought them to make a point â€" …

British Cabinet Warns of Possible Internet Outages During Summer Olympics (Mashable)

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 04:05 PM PST

Mashable - The British Cabinet Office has warned businesses in England that the country may not be able to fully accommodate a surge in Internet use during the 2012 Olympics in London this summer. Businesses have been told that Internet providers may be forced to ration access to the web during certain times of day and service may fall out altogether at other times.

ESPN falls to third in online sports site rankings (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 06:10 PM PST

Reuters - Yahoo Sports remained the most popular U.S. online sports site in January, but the most eye-catching news was ESPN.com falling to third place behind FoxSports.com.

McCartney to debut new songs live on iTunes stream (AP)

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 02:50 PM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 5, 2011 file photo, musician Paul McCartney performs on stage during his 'Good Evening Europe' European Tour, his first since 2004, at the O2 arena in London. McCartney will debut the songs from his new album 'Kisses on the Bottom' in a free live streaming performance on iTunes. The performance takes place at 10 p.m. EST Thursday from Capitol Studios in Los Angeles where much of the new album was recorded. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan, file) EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP - Paul McCartney will debut the songs from his new album "Kisses on the Bottom" in a free live streaming performance on iTunes.

Sony abandons PlayStation Vita UMD Passport plan in North America (Digital Trends)

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 07:31 PM PST

Digital Trends - As reported by Kotaku earlier today, Sony is ditching plans to allow new Vita owners to download PSP titles that they currently own on UMD disc. Sony rolled out this program in Japan at launch during December 2011 and all Japanese owners can register their UMD titles on the Vita by paying a fee based on the value of the game, thus Japanese owners can avoid having to repurchase the titles at full cost on the PlayStation Vita digital download store. New PlayStation Vita owners in North America on February 22 will have to keep the PSP in order to access old titles or repurchase older games at full price to utilize the software on the newer handheld system. 

Americans Aren't Entitled to Have Free Cellphones (ContributorNetwork)

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 04:08 PM PST

ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | According to Time, a federal program paid $1.6 billion last year to provide free cellphones and pay monthly phone bills for low-income Americans. The money to fund the program -- which has seen a dramatic rise in its participants since 2008 -- mostly comes from the Universal Service Fund, which is a fee land-line and wireless customers pay.

Facebook discloses details on bonuses (AP)

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 05:45 PM PST

AP - Facebook's top executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, are eligible for twice-a-year bonuses of up to 45 percent of their base salaries and other earnings, according to a Wednesday regulatory filing.

Survey: One in six UK parents can't operate kids' gadgets (Digital Trends)

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 07:27 PM PST

Digital Trends - Many parents may spend a good deal of time glued to the screen of their smartphones fiddling about with all manner of apps, but when it comes to getting a handle on the gadgets they buy for their children, many have no idea how to use them.

Update: Path now lets users opt-out of sharing contacts (Appolicious)

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 02:35 PM PST

Appolicious - Update: Path now lets users opt-out of sharing contacts

Apple's patent plea: Stop Samsung and Motorola from holding us hostage (Digital Trends)

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 03:21 PM PST

Digital Trends - The world of patent licensing often seems like a maze of twisty little passages, all alike, but every so often the industry stumbles into a new tunnel â€" or, at least, one that seems new at first glance. Such is the case with Apple, which has asked the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to establish a set of basic principles governing so-called fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) licensing of patented technologies included in wireless communications standards. That sentence may make many consumers’ eyes glaze over, but it boils down to this: Apple wants rules saying that if a company contributes their technology to a standard, they don’t get to use that technology to beat up competitors who use that standard.

The entire history of radio in one simple infographic (Digital Trends)

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 01:00 PM PST

Digital Trends - In this day and age, we take the amazing technology we have for granted. Not only that, we take it for granted that technology is, and will continue to be, amazing. We can communicate with almost anyone in the world, in real-time. We can broadcast live video streams via our cell phones. We can do almost anything. And what we can’t do yet, we will almost certainly be able to do in the near future.

Pay for play: Are marketers manipulating Apple's App Store rankings? (Digital Trends)

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 05:30 PM PST

Digital Trends - With over 500,000 apps available through Apple’s App Store, it can be daunting for developers to get their apps noticed â€" let alone downloaded. Enter a recent thread on app developer site Touch Arcade, in which a poster who was recently shopping around for ways to get his app more exposure was contacted by a “marketing” company that promised it could break apps into the top 25 rankings in exchange for a lump sum payment â€" in this case $5,000. The company in question went on to present a list of client apps that are currently sitting pretty on the list of 20 most popular free iPhone apps (8 out of 20 to be exact). That’s rarified air even for big-name developers. According to the poster, the company achieves its ends by utilizing outsourced bot farms to automatically download client apps (something the company freely admitted), thus moving them quickly up the rankings, at which point “human” users notice them and really get the numbers up.

Gameloft releases new social platform app for Android (Appolicious)

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 11:54 AM PST

Appolicious - Mobile game maker Gameloft is responsible for some of the biggest-budget, biggest-name games on Google's Android operating system (as well as Apple's iOS), which is probably why it has 7 million registered players in its proprietary gaming network. Today the company released a new app that lets dedicated Gameloft fans access that network even when they're not playing Asphalt 6 or Modern Combat.

The U.S. and China: A Duel to the Debt (The Motley Fool)

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 12:22 PM PST

The Motley Fool - In this period of "exceptional uncertainty" (to quote Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke), where can investors turn for a considered perspective on the current environment? Produced to feed the beast of the 24-hour news cycle, the bulk of financial journalism and commentary today isn't worth the servers it is stored on. One notable exception to that rule is Buttonwood, the financial markets column of The Economist. Philip Coggan is the columnist -- arguably the most influential position in financial journalism (along with the head of Lex at the Financial Times).
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