Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Apple's iPad mini packs full-sized punch but screen inferior: reviews

Apple's iPad mini packs full-sized punch but screen inferior: reviews


Apple's iPad mini packs full-sized punch but screen inferior: reviews

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 07:55 PM PDT

Customers gather outside an Apple store before the release of iPhone 5 in MunichSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc's entry in the accelerating mobile tablet race squeezes about 35 percent more viewing space onto a lighter package than rival devices from Google or Amazon.com Inc, but it sports inferior resolution and a lofty price tag, two influential reviewers wrote on Tuesday. The iPad mini, which starts at $329 versus the $199 for Google's Nexus 7 and Amazon's Kindle Fire HD, is easy to hold with one hand, eliminating a drawback of the 10-inch iPad, Wall Street Journal columnist Walt Mossberg wrote in one of the first major reviews of a gadget introduced last week. ...


Disney to buy "Star Wars" producer for $4.05 billion

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 04:16 PM PDT

Walt Disney Company Chairman and CEO Iger and filmmaker and Chairman of the Board of Lucasfilm Ltd. Lucas sign documents at the Walt Disney Co. in BurbankLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co agreed to buy filmmaker George Lucas's Lucasfilm Ltd and its "Star Wars" franchise for $4.05 billion in cash and stock, a blockbuster deal that includes the surprise promise of a new film in the series in 2015. Disney Chief Executive Bob Iger told analysts on Tuesday that the plan is to release a new movie in the series every two to three years thereafter. The last "Star Wars" picture was "Revenge of the Sith" in 2005, and Lucas has in the past denied any plans for more. ...


Hurricane Sandy disrupts Northeast U.S. telecom networks

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 02:38 PM PDT

A man walks through floodwaters in the Rockaways section of New YorkNEW YORK (Reuters) - Power outages and flooding caused by Hurricane Sandy disrupted telecommunications services in Northeastern states on Tuesday, resulting in spotty coverage for cellphones, television, home telephones and Internet services. While all the region's telecom service providers were having problems, Verizon Communications, which serves many of the states in the hurricane's path, may have suffered some of the worst damage from the storm to its wireline network. ...


10 Out of This World Star Wars-Disney Mashups

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 03:28 PM PDT

10 Out of This World Star Wars-Disney MashupsCool story, bro.


This Is What a Disney Star Wars Universe Looks Like [COMIC]

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 12:42 PM PDT

10 Out of This World Star Wars-Disney MashupsDisney's decision to gobble up the Star Wars universe has left many Skywalker fan boys (and fan droids) stunned.


Storm knocks down some web sites, but most stay online

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 06:27 PM PDT

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Despite outages at a few well-known web sites and ripple effects that occasionally slowed communications around the country, the Internet came through the massive storm that swamped New York and New Jersey with relatively minor problems. Built for resiliency and buttressed by the adoption of cloud computing, the Internet functioned largely as it was supposed to, industry experts said, routing around major disruptions in one of its central network locations, New York City. ...

Electronic Arts Q3 forecast disappoints as "Medal" seen lagging

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 06:16 PM PDT

Electronic Arts' CEO Riccitiello introduces their new lineup during the EA press conference as part E3 in Los Angeles, CaliforniaSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc forecast third-quarter earnings below Wall Street targets on Tuesday after its just-released "Medal of Honor: Warfighter" title failed to wow gamers ahead of a crowded holiday season. Poor reviews for the latest installment in the first-person shooter franchise released last week and the postponement of its "NBA Live 13" will hurt current-quarter sales, analysts say. A clutch of new sports games, such as the popular "FIFA 13," did not seem able to take up the slack, they say. ...


ARM unveils chip designs for future smartphones, servers

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 03:40 PM PDT

LONDON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - British chip designer ARM on Tuesday launched processors to power a new generation of smartphones and also offer low-energy solutions for servers, increasing its incursion into a market dominated by Intel. The Cambridge-based company, whose technology is in Apple's iPhone 5 and Samsung Electronics' Galaxy S3, said its latest blueprints would deliver three times today's processing power using the same amount of energy. ...

These Android apps help you get in shape

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 02:24 PM PDT

It wouldn't be entirely good if you were just to sit around and play games on your Android phone all day. You need to get out and stretch those leg muscles every once in a while, and since there are hundreds of apps designed to enhance your workouts, you might as well take your Android phone with you! Today's post covers some of the neat apps out there to help you get or stay fit.

Everybody Loves the iPad Mini

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 08:48 PM PDT

Everybody Loves the iPad MiniThe reviews for the latest hyped-about Apple device are in and, surprise surprise, everybody thinks it's amazing. The iPad Mini was announced last week after a seemingly never-ending torrent of rumors about its existence, and with just two days left before the device hits store, the embargo on the reviews was just lifted. Like we said, the reaction, so far, is expectedly ecstatic.


Hurricane Takes Down Big Websites

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 08:33 PM PDT

Hurricane Takes Down Big WebsitesFlooding at a Data Center in Manhattan Caused Websites to be Taken Offline.


Ohio teen convicted in deadly Craigslist scheme

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 07:14 PM PDT

Jack Kern reacts after a jury reached a guilty verdict on all accounts in the Brogan Rafferty Craigslist murder trial in the courtroom of Judge Lynn S. Callahan in the Summit County Courthouse on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012 in Akron, Ohio. Kern's son Timothy of Massillon was one of the men murdered. Rafferty, an Ohio teenager taken under the wing of a man defense attorneys described as a master manipulator was found guilty of aggravated murder Tuesday for his role in a deadly plot to lure men desperate for work with phony Craigslist job offers. (AP Photo/Akron Beacon Journal, Phil Masturzo, Pool)A teenager taken under the wing of a man defense attorneys described as a master manipulator was found guilty of aggravated murder Tuesday for his role in a deadly plot to lure men desperate for work with phony Craigslist job offers.


Martian Soil Is a Lot Like Hawaiian Soil

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 06:49 PM PDT

Martian Soil Is a Lot Like Hawaiian SoilYou know how smug tourists like to talk about how climbing volcanoes in Hawaii is out of this world? Turns out they're sort of right.


Sandy takes out 25 pct of cell towers

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 06:37 PM PDT

People in New York's Tribeca neighborhood, without power because of superstorm Sandy, wait for a chance to charge their mobile phones on an available generator setup on a sidewalk, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. Sandy, the storm that made landfall Monday, caused multiple fatalities, halted mass transit and cut power to more than 6 million homes and businesses. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)Superstorm Sandy knocked out a quarter of the cell towers in an area spreading across 10 states, and the situation could get worse, federal regulators said Tuesday.


Storm knocks down some web sites, but most stay online

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 06:27 PM PDT

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Despite outages at a few well-known web sites and ripple effects that occasionally slowed communications around the country, the Internet came through the massive storm that swamped New York and New Jersey with relatively minor problems. Built for resiliency and buttressed by the adoption of cloud computing, the Internet functioned largely as it was supposed to, industry experts said, routing around major disruptions in one of its central network locations, New York City. ...

Electronic Arts Q3 forecast disappoints as "Medal" seen lagging

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 06:16 PM PDT

Electronic Arts' CEO Riccitiello introduces their new lineup during the EA press conference as part E3 in Los Angeles, CaliforniaSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc forecast third-quarter earnings below Wall Street targets on Tuesday after its just-released "Medal of Honor: Warfighter" title failed to wow gamers ahead of a crowded holiday season. Poor reviews for the latest installment in the first-person shooter franchise released last week and the postponement of its "NBA Live 13" will hurt current-quarter sales, analysts say. A clutch of new sports games, such as the popular "FIFA 13," did not seem able to take up the slack, they say. ...


Disney to realize vision of 9 'Star Wars' episodes

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 06:06 PM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 17, 2012 file photo, George Lucas arrives at the 43rd NAACP Image Awards in Los Angeles. A decade after George Lucas said "Star Wars" was finished on the big screen, a new trilogy is destined for theaters after The Walt Disney Co. announced Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, that it was buying Lucasfilm Ltd. for $4.05 billion. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles File)One of the many intriguing sub-plots in "Star Wars" lore is just how many sequels moviemaker George Lucas originally wanted to make.


Disney to make new 'Star Wars' films, buy Lucas co

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 05:59 PM PDT

People walk past a fountain showing the Yoda character from the Star Wars movies outside of Lucasfilms headquarters in San Francisco, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. The Walt Disney Co. announced Tuesday that it was buying Lucasfilm Ltd. for $4.05 billion. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)A decade after George Lucas said "Star Wars" was finished on the big screen, a new trilogy is destined for theaters after The Walt Disney Co. announced Tuesday that it was buying Lucasfilm Ltd. for $4.05 billion.


New York's Silicon Alley makes do after Sandy

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 04:50 PM PDT

A man uses his mobile phone to photograph a closed and flooded subway station in lower Manhattan, in New York, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. Due to superstorm Sandy, New York City awakened Tuesday to a flooded subway system, shuttered financial markets and hundreds of thousands of people without power a day after a wall of seawater and high winds slammed into the city, destroying buildings and flooding tunnels. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)New York City's fast-paced technology scene, known as Silicon Alley, tried not to lose a step after Hurricane Sandy knocked out power lines, devastated the public transit system and left portions of the city flooded.


Disney to buy "Star Wars" producer for $4.05 billion

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 04:16 PM PDT

Walt Disney Company Chairman and CEO Iger and filmmaker and Chairman of the Board of Lucasfilm Ltd. Lucas sign documents at the Walt Disney Co. in BurbankLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co agreed to buy filmmaker George Lucas's Lucasfilm Ltd and its "Star Wars" franchise for $4.05 billion in cash and stock, a blockbuster deal that includes the surprise promise of a new film in the series in 2015. Disney Chief Executive Bob Iger told analysts on Tuesday that the plan is to release a new movie in the series every two to three years thereafter. The last "Star Wars" picture was "Revenge of the Sith" in 2005, and Lucas has in the past denied any plans for more. ...


At a Glance: A list of Lucasfilm movies

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 03:59 PM PDT

The Walt Disney Co. announced it is buying Lucasfilm Ltd., the company behind the iconic "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones" franchises, for $4.05 billion. Lucasfilm is already working on a new "Star Wars" trilogy, with a seventh movie planned for 2015.

ARM unveils chip designs for future smartphones, servers

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 03:40 PM PDT

LONDON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - British chip designer ARM on Tuesday launched processors to power a new generation of smartphones and also offer low-energy solutions for servers, increasing its incursion into a market dominated by Intel. The Cambridge-based company, whose technology is in Apple's iPhone 5 and Samsung Electronics' Galaxy S3, said its latest blueprints would deliver three times today's processing power using the same amount of energy. ...

Wall Street Journal remains No. 1 US newspaper

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 03:29 PM PDT

U.S. newspaper circulation was almost unchanged in the six months that ended in September as publications continued to make gains in digital editions, according to data from a media industry group.

Electronic Arts third-quarter forecast disappoints as "Medal" lags

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 03:16 PM PDT

Electronic Arts' CEO Riccitiello introduces their new lineup during the EA press conference as part E3 in Los Angeles, CaliforniaSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc forecast third-quarter earnings below Wall Street targets on Tuesday after its "Medal of Honor: Warfighter" title fell short of expectations for a crowded holiday season. The company reported fiscal second-quarter earnings - excluding certain items - of 15 cents per share, beating the Street view of 11 cents per share as cost cuts took effect. But it forecast third-quarter earnings in the range of 50 cents to 60 cents, lower than the Street's view of 71 cents, according to Thomson-Reuters I/B/E/S. ...


Hurricane Sandy disrupts Northeast U.S. telecom networks

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 02:38 PM PDT

A man walks through floodwaters in the Rockaways section of New YorkNEW YORK (Reuters) - Power outages and flooding caused by Hurricane Sandy disrupted telecommunications services in Northeastern states on Tuesday, resulting in spotty coverage for cellphones, television, home telephones and Internet services. While all the region's telecom service providers were having problems, Verizon Communications, which serves many of the states in the hurricane's path, may have suffered some of the worst damage from the storm to its wireline network. ...


Spectra says two NJ compressor stations down

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 02:10 PM PDT

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Spectra Energy on Tuesday said that two of its natural gas compressor stations in New Jersey were shut down when power was lost due to Hurricane Sandy, but the outages were not expected to impact gas supplies to customers. "The Linden Compressor station and Franklin Compressor Station in New Jersey experienced emergency shut downs when they lost commercial power during the storm and the back-up generator did not come on as intended," company spokeswoman Caitlin Currie said in an email. ...

Disney buying Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 01:38 PM PDT

Disney is paying $4.05 billion to buy Lucasfilm Ltd., the production company behind "Star Wars," from its chairman and founder, George Lucas. It's also making a seventh movie in the "Star Wars" series called "Episode 7," set for release in 2015, with plans to follow it with Episodes 8 and 9 and then one new movie every two or three years.

Instant View: Disney to buy Lucasfilm, plans new "Star Wars" movies

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 01:36 PM PDT

(Reuters) - Walt Disney Co will buy George Lucas' Lucasfilm Ltd for $4.05 billion and plans to add three more films to the "Star Wars" franchise starting 2015. Commentary: MICHAEL CORTY, ANALYST, MORNINGSTAR "From Disney's point of view it adds more valuable franchises to their portfolio essentially, with Star Wars being the key asset in this deal. There is already one movie scheduled to be made. It has potential for future movies, merchandising and with their parks franchises, spreading Star Wars across Disney, is where the upside would be for Disney. ...

Disney buying 'Star Wars' maker Lucasfilm

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 01:02 PM PDT

Disney says it is buying 'Star Wars' maker Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion from George Lucas.

This Is What a Disney Star Wars Universe Looks Like [COMIC]

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 12:42 PM PDT

10 Out of This World Star Wars-Disney MashupsDisney's decision to gobble up the Star Wars universe has left many Skywalker fan boys (and fan droids) stunned.


REPORT: Apple Exec Refused to Apologize

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 12:36 PM PDT

Yesterday Apple announced that its head of  software for the iPad and iPhone,  Scott Forstall, would be leaving the company at the end of the year. It was a dramatic change for the Cupertino-based company and many analysts surmised that the ousting was a result of the quality...

Apple in safe hands with bigger role for Ive: analysts

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 12:31 PM PDT

Jonathan Ive, senior vice president of industrial design at Apple Inc poses with his with his KBE award after an investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace in London(Reuters) - The exit of Apple Inc's longtime mobile software products chief may be a surprise, but a band of able executives led by Tim Cook and a bigger role for design boss Jonathan Ive meant the company was in good hands, analysts said on Tuesday. Ive, Apple's celebrated industrial design chief will now look into both hardware and software designs, following the departure of Scott Forstall after years of friction with other top executives. ...


Earthlink boosts full-year forecast

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 12:26 PM PDT

Earthlink Inc.'s third-quarter profit fell sharply but the company boosted its full-year outlook as it made progress in shifting its focus toward information technology services.

Post-Sandy, New Yorkers Cook Up Brilliant Power Hacks

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 12:07 PM PDT

Post-Sandy, New Yorkers Cook Up Brilliant Power HacksForget the ATM, This Bank Has Outlets


10 Candy Tumblrs to Fix Your Sweet Tooth

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 11:54 AM PDT

10 Candy Tumblrs to Fix Your Sweet Tooth1. Scandy Bars


Acer delays Windows RT tablets after Microsoft moves into market

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 11:40 AM PDT

A woman walks into an Acer store located in the Guanghua Market area in TaipeiLONDON (Reuters) - Taiwanese computer maker Acer is putting off the launch of tablets using Microsoft's new Windows RT operating system to give itself time to see how Microsoft's own Surface tablet fares. The world's No. 4 PC vendor by shipments initially planned to roll out Windows RT tablets based on ARM chips early next year. However, the launch of Microsoft's tablet last week and the mixed reviews it has drawn has prompted Acer to wait and see until at least the second quarter of 2013. ...


Flooded data center takes down websites

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 11:38 AM PDT

Trees lie fallen across parked cars in the Brooklyn borough of New York the morning after superstorm Sandy made landfall, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. A record storm surge that was higher than predicted along with high winds damaged the electrical system and plunged millions of people into darkness. Utilities say it could be up to a week before power is fully restored. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)Water welling into southern Manhattan drenched one of the world's densest communications nodes, taking out popular websites and forcing carriers to reroute international traffic.


Politics ads, Olympics lift Belo 3Q profit 81 pct

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 11:26 AM PDT

The election in November and the Olympics this summer lifted net income of Belo Corp. 81 percent, the television station owner said Tuesday, and declared a special dividend for investors.

Circulation numbers for the 25 largest newspapers

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 11:26 AM PDT

The top 25 U.S. newspapers by average weekday and Sunday circulation from April to September. The figures include digital editions such as those on tablet computers or websites that charge for access. Also included are branded editions such as regional editions or those tailored for commuters.

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