Monday, July 30, 2012

Levinsohn leaving Yahoo after second CEO snub

Levinsohn leaving Yahoo after second CEO snub

Levinsohn leaving Yahoo after second CEO snub

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 04:34 PM PDT

Ross Levinsohn, the interim CEO who was snubbed in the search for a permanent leader at Yahoo, is leaving the Internet portal.

IPhone appeal dims as Samsung shines

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 02:29 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 19, 2011 file photo, Samsung Electronics' Galaxy S, left, and Apple's iPhone 4 are displayed at a mobile phone shop in Seoul, South Korea. Two tech titans are squaring off in federal court Monday in a closely watched trial over control of the worldwide smart phone and computer tablet markets. Apple Inc. filed a lawsuit against Samsung Electronics Co. last year alleging the world's largest technology company's smart phones and computer tablets are illegal knockoffs. Samsung countered that it's Apple that is doing the stealing and, besides, some of the technology at issue such as the rounded rectangular designs of smart phones have been industry standards for years. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)The once-sexy iPhone is starting to look small and chubby.

Apple: 3M copies of Mountain Lion out in 4 days

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 09:14 AM PDT

Apple says Mac users downloaded 3 million copies of Mountain Lion, its latest operating system, in the first four days it was available.

Making maki at home gets exciting with the Sushi Bazooka

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 06:24 PM PDT

Cooking enthusiasts have lots of drool-worthy gadgets to make cooking healthier and easier, but this is certainly one of the strangest. It's a Sushi Bazooka, sold by Strapya World of Japan. For 2,000 yen, or about $25.50, you can be … Continue reading →

Eye injection gives a blind mouse the ability to see

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 06:13 PM PDT

Losing the use of your eyes via retinitis pigmentosa or macular degeneration — diseases that effect your ability to sense light — can be absolutely traumatizing. But thanks to new research on lab mice, these types of blindness may soon be reversible through … Continue reading →

20 TV Shows With the Most Social Media Buzz This Week

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 04:29 PM PDT

20 TV Shows With the Most Social Media Buzz This WeekThe Olympics are world champions when it comes to event television, so it's no surprise that the NBC broadcasts are dominating this week's social TV charts.

Apple: 3M copies of Mountain Lion out in 4 days

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 09:14 AM PDT

Apple says Mac users downloaded 3 million copies of Mountain Lion, its latest operating system, in the first four days it was available.

Jackson to make 'The Hobbit' into a trilogy

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 10:58 AM PDT

Peter Jackson is adding a third film to what was planned to be the two-part series "The Hobbit."

Student in Twitter threat ordered to avoid Kent St

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 02:36 PM PDT

William Koberna is seen in an undated booking photo provided by the Kent State University Police. Authorities say a Koberna, 19, a Kent State University student, is due in court to be arraigned Monday, July 30, 2012 after allegedly posting a message on Twitter saying he planned to "shoot up" the northeastern Ohio campus. Koberna was arrested at his parents' home in the Cleveland suburb of Brunswick Sunday afternoon. The sophomore has been charged with inducing panic, a felony, and aggravated menacing. (AP Photo/Kent State University Police )A Kent State University student accused of posting a message on Twitter saying he would be "shooting up" the northeastern Ohio campus was instructed Monday to stay away from the school and its president.

Featured apps from the Appolicious community of Android developers

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 04:00 PM PDT

Android app developer and publishers are encouraged to contact us directly at Appolicious to promote their new app and game releases. Just tell us about the apps that inspire you the most through a rating or review, or create curated lists of your favorites. We will be happy to give your app a shout-out in our monthly community round-up.

Japanese engineers hasten humanity’s extinction, unveil fully-armed four-ton robot [video]

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 08:00 PM PDT

Japanese engineers hasten humanity's extinction, unveil fully-armed four-ton robot [video]Sometimes it feels as though scientists and engineers have never watched the Terminator or Matrix movies at all. The Guardian reports that Japanese company Suidobashi Heavy Industry is showing off a new robot called "Kuratas" that weighs four tons, stands at 13 feet tall and comes armed with a gun capable of firing "6,000 ball-bearing pellets a minute." The robot, unveiled this week at the Wonder festival in Tokyo, may sound scary but Suidobashi insists it "makes your dream of becoming a robot pilot comes [sic] true." Humans have two ways of piloting Kuratas, either by climbing into the robot itself or by controlling it remotely via a smartphone connected to a 3G network. Suidobashi warns users in its introductory video that Kuratas is "not a normal vehicle

Apple gears up for September 12 event, stokes iPhone talk

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 07:49 PM PDT

An Apple retail store is seen in Carlsbad, CaliforniaSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc is gearing up to unveil a new product at a major September 12 event, a source familiar with the plan said, presaging the long-awaited launch of the redesigned iPhone. The world's most valuable technology company typically takes the wraps off its latest smartphones around the fall, allowing the gadget to hit store shelves in time for the peak holiday shopping season. ...

Jury selected in Apple, Samsung patent trial

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 07:39 PM PDT

An employee of South Korean mobile carrier KT holds an Apple Inc's iPhone 4 smartphone and a Samsung Electronics' Galaxy S II smartphone as he poses for photographs at a registration desk at KT's headquarters in SeoulSAN JOSE, California (Reuters) - An insurance agent, an unemployed video game enthusiast and a project manager for wireless carrier AT&T were among the 10 jurors selected to decide a high-stakes U.S. patent battle between Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, with billions of dollars in the balance. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh on Monday spent several hours examining jurors about their backgrounds and biases, as the companies began the trial after more than a year of pretrial jousting. Opening statements by the lawyers are expected to begin on Tuesday. ...

HTC shutters Seoul office as Apple, Samsung continue to dominate

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 06:55 PM PDT

HTC shutters Seoul office as Apple, Samsung continue to dominateStruggling smartphone maker HTC (2498) on Monday said that it has closed its offices in the South Korean capitol of Seoul. IDG News Service confirmed the news with the Taiwan-based company, which as seen smartphone sales slow significantly after an impressive run in mid-2011 helped the firm report record revenue for six consecutive months. That run came to an abrupt end in October following the launch of Apple's (AAPL) iPhone 4S, and HTC has been struggling ever since. HTC recently pulled out of the competitive Brazilian market, and it also closed a research facility in North Carolina in an effort to cut costs. Read

Jury selected in trial over iPhone, iPad patents

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 06:14 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 25, 2011 file photo, an attorney holds an Apple iPad, left, and a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 at the regional court in Duesseldorf, Germany. The two tech Titans will square off in federal court Monday, July 30, 2012, in a closely watched trial over control of the U.S. smart phone and computer tablet markets. Apple Inc. filed a lawsuit against Samsung Electronics Co. last year alleging the world's largest technology company's smartphones and computer tablets are illegal knockoffs of its popular iPhone and iPad products. (AP Photo/dapd, Sascha Schuermann, File)A jury was selected Monday to decide the merits of Apple Inc.'s claims that Samsung Electronics Co.'s smartphones and computer tablets are illegal knockoffs of the iPhone and iPad.

Olympics fans find ways to circumvent NBC's online control

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 06:08 PM PDT

NBC sign on the General Electric building in New YorkNEW YORK (Reuters) - It took Jason Legate, a Walnut Creek, California-resident, all of 10 minutes to connect his computer to a London-based server and access BBC's coverage of the Olympics Saturday, thereby circumventing NBC's lock on coverage in the United States. The 31-year-old system administrator said he has watched at least 12 hours of live BBC coverage (his favorite sport so far - judo) since he set up a virtual private network (VPN) connection to send all his Internet traffic to a server in London. ...

Earnings Preview: Viacom 3Q profit seen up a bit

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 06:03 PM PDT

Fresh on the heels of a 10-day standoff with DirecTV that analysts say ended in its favor, Viacom Inc. reports its third-quarter earnings on Friday before the market opens. Analysts will be looking for an update from the company about how to reverse declining audience trends at its networks including Nickelodeon.

Distracted pedestrians stumble into danger

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 05:58 PM PDT

In this July 10, 2012 photo, pedestrians cross K Street and Connecticut Ave. NW near the Farragut North Metro Entrance in downtown Washington. Across the country on city streets, in suburban parking lots and in shopping centers, there is usually someone strolling while talking on a phone, texting with their head down, listening to music, or playing a video game. The problem isn't as widely discussed as distracted driving, but the danger is real. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)A young man talking on a cellphone meanders along the edge of a lonely train platform at night. Suddenly he stumbles, loses his balance and pitches over the side, landing head first on the tracks.

Samsung plots to conquer the Windows Phone 8 smartphone market as well

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 05:50 PM PDT

Samsung plots to conquer the Windows Phone 8 smartphone market as wellSamsung (005930) apparently isn't satisfied with being the current undisputed champ of Android smartphones. As The Verge reports, it seems that Samsung has its eye on creating some high-end Windows Phone 8 devices as well. According to court documents filed during the Samsung-Apple mega-trial last week, Samsung is developing two Windows Phone 8-based smartphones codenamed "Macro" and "Odyssey" that both feature 1.5GHz dual-core processors, 4G LTE connectivity and Super AMOLED displays. The Odyssey is the fancier phone of the two with its 8-megapixel camera, NFC connectivity and 4.65-inch display, while the Macro features a 5-megapixel camera and a 4-inch screen. Read

Twitter suspends reporter's account for NBC tweet

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 05:42 PM PDT

A Twitter page is displayed on a laptop computer in Los AngelesSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Twitter Inc and NBC Universal's move to suppress a British reporter's tweets related to the network's Olympics coverage may have backfired after the incident became fodder for Twitter chatter around the world on Monday. The microblogging service suspended Guy Adams, the Los Angeles correspondent for London-based daily The Independent, after he sent a tweet on Friday revealing NBC Olympics President Gary Zenkel's email address. ...

Fiserv's net income jumps 79 pct in 2Q

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 05:34 PM PDT

Financial services technology company Fiserv Inc. said Monday that its net income jumped 79 percent in the second quarter, buoyed by higher processing and services revenue.

Cemex to outsource jobs in biggest Mexican deal for IBM

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 05:17 PM PDT

A worker is pictured behind a logo at the IBM stand on the CeBIT computer fair in HanoverMEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's top cement maker Cemex is outsourcing jobs worldwide to IBM in a deal that will help it save $1 billion over 10 years, the latest bid by the company to trim costs and boost its financial health. Cemex, which was swamped by the collapse of the U.S. housing market after paying out some $16 billion to buy Australian peer Rinker, has been working its way out of a deep debt hole for the past three years. ...

What Facebook Reveals About Olympics Fans [INFOGRAPHIC]

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 04:55 PM PDT

What Facebook Reveals About Olympics Fans [INFOGRAPHIC]Olympics fans like sports. But what do they Like? Facebook -- who else? -- holds many interesting insights there.

T-Mobile gets the Galaxy Note at last; launches August 8th starting at $199.99

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 04:55 PM PDT

T-Mobile gets the Galaxy Note at last; launches August 8th starting at $199.99T-Mobile subscribers will finally be able to buy Samsung's (005930) Galaxy Note phablet on August 8th, around six months after AT&T subscribers first got their hands on the device. T-Mobile is charging $199.99 for the Note with a two-year service agreement on one of its Equipment Installment Plans, or $249.99 with a standard plan. Current rumors suggest that Samsung plans to announce a new version of the Galaxy Note in mid-August, however, so prospective buyers might want to hold onto their cash until they see whether T-Mobile will be getting the Galaxy Note II as well. T-Mobile Expands Its Galaxy Lineup With the Samsung Galaxy Note™ T-Mobile USA, Inc., the No. 1 mobile operator brand in Samsung Galaxy S™ sales, and Samsung

Levinsohn leaving Yahoo after second CEO snub

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 04:34 PM PDT

Ross Levinsohn, the interim CEO who was snubbed in the search for a permanent leader at Yahoo, is leaving the Internet portal.

20 TV Shows With the Most Social Media Buzz This Week

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 04:29 PM PDT

20 TV Shows With the Most Social Media Buzz This WeekThe Olympics are world champions when it comes to event television, so it's no surprise that the NBC broadcasts are dominating this week's social TV charts.

Best Buy founder building executive team ahead of buyout

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 04:10 PM PDT

Best Buy founder building executive team ahead of buyoutBest Buy (BBY) founder Richard Schulze plans to take the massive nationwide retailer private once again, and he is reportedly recruiting a team of executives to help revitalize the company if his effort is successful. An earlier report from June revealed Schulze's intentions, suggesting that the former board chairman was planning a buyout to turn the struggling retailer's business around and prevent his stake in the company, which currently sits at 20%, from losing more value. Now, Bloomberg adds on to the report, citing a senior Best Buy executive in stating that Schulze is building a new executive team that will be put in place if his buyout succeeds. "He is talking to people he trusts," J.D. Wilson, SVP of enterprise capabilities,

A Subreddit of Her Own: Reddit's Solution to Reddit's Woman Problem

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 04:08 PM PDT

A Subreddit of Her Own: Reddit's Solution to Reddit's Woman ProblemLast week we told you about the Reddit's internal discussion about its not-so-welcoming attitude towards women who use the site. We called up Reddit general manager Erik Martin to find out what — if anything — can be done about the hostility many said they encountered. Martin said he knows about the site's gender problems. And as we noted in our previous post, this isn't anything new. "It's something we've thought about and read a lot of commentary about for a long time," he told us. ...

Young Women Can Ask All Their Private Health Questions on ChickRx

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 04:00 PM PDT

Young Women Can Ask All Their Private Health Questions on ChickRxName: ChickRx

Featured apps from the Appolicious community of Android developers

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 04:00 PM PDT

Android app developer and publishers are encouraged to contact us directly at Appolicious to promote their new app and game releases. Just tell us about the apps that inspire you the most through a rating or review, or create curated lists of your favorites. We will be happy to give your app a shout-out in our monthly community round-up.

Seagate's fiscal 4Q disappoints, shares drop

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 03:46 PM PDT

Hard disk drive maker Seagate Technology said Monday that its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings and revenue jumped. But they still missed Wall Street expectations, and Seagate shares fell about 8 percent in after-hours trading.

7 Benefits of Mobile Expense Reporting

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 03:34 PM PDT

7 Benefits of Mobile Expense ReportingEric Sikola is CEO and founder of ExpenseCloud, a TriNet company. ExpenseCloud provides mobile and online expense reporting solutions to companies of all sizes. More than 3,900 companies using ExpenseCloud.

Apple, Samsung patent trial starts with jury selection

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 03:28 PM PDT

An employee of South Korean mobile carrier KT holds an Apple Inc's iPhone 4 smartphone and a Samsung Electronics' Galaxy S II smartphone as he poses for photographs at a registration desk at KT's headquarters in SeoulSAN JOSE, California (Reuters) - A Google employee, at least five patent owners and plenty of iPhone and iPad consumers were among the potential jurors summoned to court on Monday in a high-stakes U.S. patent battle between Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh spent several hours examining jurors about their backgrounds and biases, as the companies began the trial after more than a year of pretrial jousting, with billions of dollars in the balance. ...

Music industry again hoards Pirate Bay booty, starves artists

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 03:25 PM PDT

Music industry again hoards Pirate Bay booty, starves artistsWait, people didn't really expect the music industry to share copyright infringement winnings with the people who actually make music, did they? TorrentFreak reported over the weekend that a leaked report from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) stated explicitly that any compensation won by recording companies as part of the Pirate Bay verdict would go directly to anti-piracy campaigns rather than to the artists who were actually hurt by music piracy. "There is an agreement that any recovered funds will be paid to IFPI Sweden and IFPI London for use in future anti-piracy activities," IFPI writes in its report. None of this should come as a surprise, of course, as the recording industry has persistently plugged any money

Interim Yahoo CEO Ross Levinsohn leaves company

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 03:22 PM PDT

Yahoo interim CEO Ross Levinsohn and his wife Nicole Levinsohn attendSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Ross Levinsohn is leaving Yahoo, two weeks after the company announced he lost out on the top job to Google executive Marissa Mayer, the company said in a filing. Levinsohn will leave the company effective Tuesday, July 31. He will go with the severance payments outlined in his 2010 offer letter and 2011 severance agreement, plus an equity award of 67,000 restricted stock units and 250,000 stock options. The options have an exercise price of $15.80, the closing per share price of Yahoo stock on Friday, giving them a current value of just over $5 million. ...

Batman Is a Cheapskate: 'Iron Man' Get-Up Costs $1.6 Trillion [INFOGRAPHIC]

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 03:18 PM PDT

If you've been paying attention to the financial section of today's superhero news, you will have already noted the high cost of being Batman: $682 million. That's according to one estimate of the comic book character's costs by by British online financial marketplace MoneySupermarket.com.

From Koogle to Mayer: CEOs at Yahoo

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 03:12 PM PDT

FILE- In this Monday, Dec. 7, 2009, file photo, Marissa Mayer, VP of Search Products and User Experience for Google, speaks in Mountain View, Calif. Yahoo announced Monday, July 16, 2012, it is hiring Mayer to be its next CEO, the fifth in five years as the company struggles to rebound from years of financial malaise and internal turmoil. Mayer, who starts at Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday, July 17, 2012, was one of Google's earliest employees and was most recently responsible for its mapping, local and location services. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)Ross Levinsohn briefly led Yahoo Inc., until the company hired Marissa Mayer from Google to take the job permanently. On Monday, Yahoo said Levinsohn is leaving the company.

Key events involving Yahoo and its performance

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 03:10 PM PDT

FILE- In this Monday, Dec. 7, 2009, file photo, Marissa Mayer, VP of Search Products and User Experience for Google, speaks in Mountain View, Calif. Yahoo announced Monday, July 16, 2012, it is hiring Mayer to be its next CEO, the fifth in five years as the company struggles to rebound from years of financial malaise and internal turmoil. Mayer, who starts at Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday, July 17, 2012, was one of Google's earliest employees and was most recently responsible for its mapping, local and location services. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)Yahoo executive Ross Levinsohn is leaving the company after Yahoo went with someone else to permanently lead it. He had been interim CEO. Two weeks ago, Yahoo named longtime Google executive Marissa Mayer as its fifth CEO in as many years. She'll be the latest person to attempt a turnaround at the struggling Internet pioneer.

Seagate forecasts weak first-quarter on slowing PC sales

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 03:09 PM PDT

(Reuters) - Hard drive maker Seagate Technology Plc projected first-quarter revenue below estimates on slowing PC sales and lower-than-expected growth in the company's enterprise segment. Seagate said it expects first-quarter sales of about $4 billion, less than the $4.62 billion expected by analysts, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. Chief Executive Steve Luczo on a conference call with analysts cited slowing economic growth and shaky sales of personal computers as consumers shift toward tablets and smartphones for the slowing sales growth. ...
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