Hollywood warms to China's new openness

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• Hollywood warms to China's new openness
• Oracle skewers Google as Android trial opens
• Scientists devise a method to create waterproof, magnetic, and antibacterial paper
• Just Show Me: How to set your iCloud options on Mac
• Pretty Your Pinterest With This New Photo Hack
• Judges, journalists clash over courtroom tweets
• Rebates to cut price of $60 LED bulb
• FCC fines Google $25,000 over Street View probe
• YouTube, Google Play add 600 MGM movies for rent
• Update: Path confirms $30 million round
• New deal brings 600 MGM movies to Android and YouTube
• Toshiba Tec to buy IBM's point-of-sale terminal operations: source
• Image of Spotify’s official iPad app leaks, launch is ‘getting closer’
• Judges, journalists clash over courtroom tweets
• Nokia to announce its first manufacturing plant in Vietnam on April 23rd
• Summary Box: Oracle spars with Google in trial
• FCC fines Google $25,000 for unauthorized data collection and impeding investigation
• Oracle says Google's own emails show its guilt
• AFP, Huffington Post, Politico win Pulitzers
• Oracle skewers Google as Android trial opens
• 20 TV Shows With the Most Social Media Buzz This Week [CHART]
• Pretty Your Pinterest With This New Photo Hack
• Tracky: The Most Useful Online Tool You'll Use At Work Today
• High-definition version of Motorola’s RAZR in the works
• Rebates to cut price of $60 LED bulb
• Yahoo taps PayPal exec for new commerce group
• Corrected: In Silicon Valley, designers emerge as rock stars
• Microsoft Reveals Its Plan to Sell Windows 8
• ScoreBig Goes Mobile With Priceline-Style App for Event Tickets
• Ridiculously Photogenic Guy Answers Questions on Reddit
• One in five U.S. adults still doesn’t use the Internet
• IBM may raise full-year software demand forecast
• Suspected Anonymous member charged with police hacks
• RIM considering hiring bankers: report
• KIT Digital chairman resigns, shares fall
• Rebates to cut cost of $60 LED bulb
• Hollywood warms to China's new openness
• Apple and Chinese environmental group to audit factory due to pollution concerns
• Oracle focuses on Google emails in Android trial

Hollywood warms to China's new openness Posted: There's a new breach in China's great cultural wall and Hollywood is cautiously moving in.

Oracle skewers Google as Android trial opens Posted: Oracle began Monday trying to convince a jury that Google's top executives have long known that they stole a key piece of technology to build the Android software that now powers more than more than 300 million smartphones and tablet computers.

Scientists devise a method to create waterproof, magnetic, and antibacterial paper Posted: Thanks to scientists from the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, time may come when you don't have to worry about spilling water on books. The researchers have come up with a way to make paper impervious not only to liquid but also to bacteria … Continue reading →

Just Show Me: How to set your iCloud options on Mac Posted: 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. Today we'll show you how to set your iCloud options on your Mac. You can choose to sync your … Continue reading →

Pretty Your Pinterest With This New Photo Hack Posted: Following Pinterest's new design, we've discovered an exciting new way to "hack" your boards.

Judges, journalists clash over courtroom tweets Posted: Getting news from a big trial once took days, moving at the speed of a carrier pigeon or an express pony. The telegraph and telephone cut that time dramatically, as did live television broadcasts.

Rebates to cut price of $60 LED bulb Posted: How much would you pay for an amazing, state-of-the-art light bulb? Shoppers will be asking themselves that very question at Home Depot and other outlets starting Sunday — Earth Day — when the bulb that won a $10 million government contest goes on sale.

FCC fines Google $25,000 over Street View probe Posted: The Federal Communications Commission has fined Google $25,000, saying the online search leader impeded an investigation into how it collected data while taking photos for its "Street View" mapping feature.

YouTube, Google Play add 600 MGM movies for rent Posted: Google is adding 600 movies from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to the titles it has available for rent on YouTube and also Google Play, its digital content store for Android-powered mobile devices.

Update: Path confirms $30 million round Posted:

New deal brings 600 MGM movies to Android and YouTube Posted: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Google have come to an agreement to offer 600 movies for rent through YouTube and the Google Play marketplace for users in the U.S. and Canada. "Thanks to MGM, you'll be able to join in this trend and grab its movies online and on the go," the company said in a blog post on Monday. "From timeless love stories like West Side Story and Moonstruck, to sci-fi action films like The Terminator and Robocop, to modern classics like Rain Man and Rocky, you can now rediscover MGM's movie-making magic on Google Play and YouTube." The Mountain View-based company has rental deals in place with five other major Hollywood studios, including Paramount, Warner Brothers, Disney, Universal Pictures and Sony Pictures. NewsCorp's

Toshiba Tec to buy IBM's point-of-sale terminal operations: source Posted: TOKYO (Reuters) - A Toshiba Corp unit plans to buy IBM Corp's point-of-sale terminal business for several tens of billions of yen, aiming to secure clients such as Wal-mart Stores Inc and Toys "R" Us Inc , a source familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. Toshiba Tec Corp aims to buy the business, which spans cash registers and software to monitor inventory for retailers, by the summer, the source said (Reporting by Maki Shiraki; Writing by Mayumi Negishi; Editing by Edwina Gibbs)

Image of Spotify’s official iPad app leaks, launch is ‘getting closer’ Posted: While Spotify offers a native iPhone app, the company still doesn't offer one for Apple's iPad. According to a photo recently published to the web, however, that may soon change. A Swedish technology consultant posted the first image of what is said to be a beta version of Spotify's official iPad app. The image was posted on Instagram and it featured the caption, "It's getting closer!" The image has since been removed, but not before it began to spread across various tech blogs. Spotify on Friday sent out press invitations for a special announcement event in New York City. Could the event be for an iPad app? Perhaps, although a press conference dedicated solely to an app seems unlikely. Earlier

Judges, journalists clash over courtroom tweets Posted: Getting news from a big trial once took days, moving at the speed of a carrier pigeon or an express pony. The telegraph and telephone cut that time dramatically, as did live television broadcasts.

Nokia to announce its first manufacturing plant in Vietnam on April 23rd Posted: Over the last few months, Nokia has closed scaled back several of its Western factories and shed over 3,000 employees in a recent effort to cut costs. The Finnish handset maker will shift its manufacturing business to Asia and is planning to build a plant in Vietnam, a move that is expected to cost some $300 million according to Vietnamese news organization BaoMoi. "Shifting device assembly to Asia is targeted at improving our time to market. By working more closely with our suppliers, we believe that we will be able to introduce innovations into the market more quickly and ultimately be more competitive," Nokia EVP of Markets Niklas Savander previously said. The company will reportedly hold a press conference to officially announce the project

Summary Box: Oracle spars with Google in trial Posted: LEGAL SHOWDOWN: Oracle delivered its opening statement in a federal court trial revolving around its allegations that Google stole a key piece of programming technology called Java to build the Android operating system that now powers more than 300 million smartphones and computer tablets.

FCC fines Google $25,000 for unauthorized data collection and impeding investigation Posted: The Federal Communications Commission has fined Google $25,000 for impeding a U.S. investigation into the data collection scandal surrounding its Street View project, in which the Internet giant allegedly accessed unsecured networks and collected personal information without users' permission. The FCC said the Mountain View-based company did not cooperate with the investigation and refused to reveal the names of its engineers associated with the project. "Google refused to identify any employees or produce any e-mails. The company could not supply compliant declarations without identifying employees it preferred not to identify," the FCC said. "Misconduct of this nature threatens to compromise the commission's ability to effectively investigate possible violations of the Communications Act and the commission's rules." In a statement provided to Reuters, Google challenged the agency's

Oracle says Google's own emails show its guilt Posted: SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - An Oracle attorney cited emails between top executives at Google as prime evidence that Google took its intellectual property to gain an edge in the lucrative smartphone market, at the start of a high stakes trial between the two tech giants. Opening statements between Oracle Corp and Google Inc began on Monday in a San Francisco federal court. Oracle sued Google in August 2010 over patent and copyright claims for the Java programming language. ...

AFP, Huffington Post, Politico win Pulitzers Posted: Agence France-Presse and the news websites Huffington Post and Politico each won their first Pulitzer Prizes Monday as the prestigious journalism awards highlighted global issues and online reporting.

Oracle skewers Google as Android trial opens Posted: Oracle began Monday trying to convince a jury that Google's top executives have long known that they stole a key piece of technology to build the Android software that now powers more than more than 300 million smartphones and tablet computers.

20 TV Shows With the Most Social Media Buzz This Week [CHART] Posted: Aside from the requisite reality shows, cartoons and sitcoms, every so often a more layered comedy sneaks into the the top 20 list. New to the charts this week is Girls, HBO's new comedy-drama that documents the not-so-glamorous lives of women in their 20s.

Pretty Your Pinterest With This New Photo Hack Posted: Following Pinterest's new design, we've discovered an exciting new way to "hack" your boards.

Tracky: The Most Useful Online Tool You'll Use At Work Today Posted: The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.

High-definition version of Motorola’s RAZR in the works Posted: The name DROID RAZR HD has appeared in the EXIF data from a series of images uploaded to Picasa by a Motorola employee. The EXIF data shows that the handset is running Android 4.0.3 and its camera is equipped with a f/2.4 aperture camera. The photos in question were uploaded by Vic Yu, who is a software engineer and program manager at Motorola Mobility according to his Google+ and LinkedIn profiles. Last month, the first image of what was believed to be the unannounced DROID Fighter surfaced on a Chinese forum. The handset is said to be equipped with the same massive 3,300 mAh battery that is found in the RAZR MAXX and a 4.6-inch high-definition display. The phone also

Rebates to cut price of $60 LED bulb Posted: How much would you pay for an amazing, state-of-the-art light bulb? Shoppers will be asking themselves that very question at Home Depot and other outlets starting Sunday — Earth Day — when the bulb that won a $10 million government contest goes on sale.

Yahoo taps PayPal exec for new commerce group Posted: SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc hired PayPal's former head of products to help oversee its newly-formed commerce group, as the Web pioneer looks for new ways to reignite growth. Yahoo said on Monday that Sam Shrauger will co-lead the consumer commerce business, along with Mollie Spilman, who most recently led marketing in Yahoo's Americas region. The announcement fills an important slot in the management reorganization unveiled last week by Yahoo Chief Executive Scott Thompson, the former President of PayPal, a unit of eBay Inc. ...

Corrected: In Silicon Valley, designers emerge as rock stars Posted: SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Five years ago, Justin Edmund arrived at Carnegie Mellon University, a floppy-haired freshman, with artistic talent and dreams of joining a venerable design firm like IDEO or Frog. But during his sophomore year, a recruiting pitch from a Facebook employee turned his head, and prompted a detour of his ambitions. "It didn't even occur to me that working at a tech company was something I could do," Edmund said. "I switched my trajectory completely." So, in 2010, Edmund interned on Facebook's burgeoning design team, and, after graduation, landed a job at Pinterest. ...

Microsoft Reveals Its Plan to Sell Windows 8 Posted: Microsoft just told the world what it's going to call the next version of Windows, and -- shocker -- the official name will be "Windows 8." It also revealed how many versions of Windows 8 there will be, and what the company will call them.

ScoreBig Goes Mobile With Priceline-Style App for Event Tickets Posted: Event ticketing service ScoreBig took a significant step Monday toward expanding its Priceline-style business model for live shows and sports games.

Ridiculously Photogenic Guy Answers Questions on Reddit Posted: Zeddie Little knew how Reddit worked, and liked memes.

One in five U.S. adults still doesn’t use the Internet Posted: The Pew Internet & American Life Project's latest poll indicates that one in five adults in the United States still doesn't use the Internet. "Senior citizens, those who prefer to take our interviews in Spanish rather than English, adults with less than a high school education, and those living in households earning less than $30,000 per year are the least likely adults to have Internet access," Pew Internet said. Almost half of those adults who don't use the Internet found the technology irrelevant to them, with most having never used it before. About one in five adults claimed they didn't know enough about technology to start using the Internet on their own, and only 10% were interested in using the

IBM may raise full-year software demand forecast Posted: (Reuters) - IBM Corp reports earnings after the bell on Tuesday and investors are hoping strong software demand will make for a repeat of last year's first-quarter performance, when the company raised its full year forecast. After Oracle Corp's strong first-quarter software sales and outsourcing firm Accenture Plc's positive outlook on IT spending, there is a chance that IBM - which competes with both companies - may raise its full year outlook. Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu wrote in a recent note that there was a "fair likelihood" IBM would "modestly raise" its outlook. ...

Suspected Anonymous member charged with police hacks Posted: A man linked to notorious hacker collective Anonymous was charged on Monday with cyber attacks on police websites in the US state of Utah.

RIM considering hiring bankers: report Posted: TORONTO (Reuters) - Research In Motion is considering hiring a financial adviser to weigh its strategic options, Bloomberg News said on Monday, citing three sources with knowledge of the matter. RIM said while reporting its latest quarterly results in late March that it was considering options including partnerships, licensing deals, joint ventures or even a sale. RIM spokeswoman Tenille Kennedy declined to comment, citing company policy. (Reporting by Alastair Sharp in Toronto; Editing by Gary Hill)

KIT Digital chairman resigns, shares fall Posted: (Reuters) - KIT Digital's Chairman Kaleil Isaza Tuzman resigned, less than a month after four directors of the video management software company left. Tuzman had taken up the job about a month ago, after he had stepped down as the chief executive of the company. KIT Digital had announced a management rejig on March 23 that saw the departure of four directors and the appointment of an interim CEO. KIT Digital shares fell as much as 7 percent after the bell. They had closed at $7.14 on Monday on the Nasdaq. (Reporting by Chandni Doulatramani in Bangalore; Editing by Sreejiraj Eluvangal)

Rebates to cut cost of $60 LED bulb Posted: How much would you pay for an amazing, state-of-the-art light bulb? Shoppers will ask themselves that very question at Home Depot and other outlets starting Sunday —Earth Day— when the bulb that won a $10 million U.S. government contest goes on sale.

Hollywood warms to China's new openness Posted: There's a new breach in China's great cultural wall and Hollywood is cautiously moving in.

Apple and Chinese environmental group to audit factory due to pollution concerns Posted: Apple, alongside a Chinese environmental group, will audit one of its supplier's factories in China for the first time, IDG News Service reported on Monday. The Beijing-based Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs announced that Apple had agreed to the joint audit, which will be carried out at the end of the month. Apple will hire an independent auditing firm that will investigate the pollution created by one of its circuit boards manufacturers. The audit will be a pilot project meant for one factory, but the environmental group hopes Apple will agree to more joint audits in the future. "We think this is a very positive step made by Apple," said Wang Jing Jing, vice director of IPE. "We hope this

Oracle focuses on Google emails in Android trial Posted: Oracle intends to rely heavily on Google's own internal emails to prove Google's top executives knew they were stealing a popular piece of technology to build the Android software that now powers more than 300 million smartphones and tablet computers.

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