Thursday, October 7, 2010

AP-mtvU Poll: Technology brings connection, stress (AP)

AP-mtvU Poll: Technology brings connection, stress (AP)

AP-mtvU Poll: Technology brings connection, stress (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 08:23 AM PDT

AP - Technology has become so entwined with college students' often frantic lives that most in a new survey say they'd be more frazzled without it.

Adobe soars on report of possible Microsoft bid (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 03:20 PM PDT

AP - Shares of Adobe soared in heavy trading Thursday on a report that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer discussed a possible buyout of the company.

Average length of U.S. mobile calls drops as text and data use surges (Ben Patterson)

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 01:57 PM PDT

Ben Patterson - Make no mistake: As a nation, we still love talking on our cell phones. After all, a grand total of 2.26 trillion wireless minutes in 12 months —equivalent to an amazing 4-plus million years, if my math is correct — is nothing to sneeze at.

Pay-TV subscribers increasingly unhappy with monthly bills, survey says (Ben Patterson)

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 12:01 PM PDT

Ben Patterson - Feeling ripped off every time you cough up a truckload of change for your monthly cable or satellite-TV bill? Join the club.

China Telecom may be in talks to offer iPhone: report (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 08:05 PM PDT

A woman walks next to an advertisement for the iPhone 3GS in Bangkok September 23, 2010. REUTERS/Chaiwat SubprasomReuters - China Telecom, the smallest of China's three wireless carriers, may become the second Chinese operator to offer Apple's popular iPhone after an exclusive agreement with one of its rivals expires, a Deutsche Bank analyst note said.

PayPal iPhone app lets you scan checks to deposit (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 06:13 PM PDT

AP - Betting you wouldn't trek to your bank or the closest ATM if you didn't have to, PayPal has added a feature to its free iPhone application that lets users deposit checks into their PayPal accounts by taking a picture of them.

Microsoft Sees Many Uses for Gesture-controlled Interfaces (PC World)

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 06:40 PM PDT

PC World - Motion sensing technologies like Microsoft Kinect won't be limited to PCs and video game consoles, Microsoft's chief research and strategy office Craig Mundie said in a speech at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Thursday.

OMVC Mobile TV Initiative Pushes on as FLO TV Founders (PC World)

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 06:50 PM PDT

PC World - Regular local broadcasts over mobile TV are coming on special devices by the end of 2010 and should reach phones within the next few years, backers of a nationwide U.S. initiative said on Thursday at the CTIA Enterprise & Applications show in San Francisco.

Facebook Groups dinged for drafting members (AFP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 02:55 PM PDT

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, seen on October 6. Facebook on Thursday was getting kudos for giving members better control of their information but dinged for letting people be thrown into AFP - Facebook on Thursday was getting kudos for giving members better control of their information but dinged for letting people be thrown into "groups" without their permission.

Gay community sends video message: It gets better (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 04:55 PM PDT

This image made Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010 shows a YouTube video made by David Valdes Greenwood for the 'It Gets Better' project. Hundreds of people in the gay community, including Greenwood, have posted 'It Gets Better' videos after a recent spate of suicides by teens who were believed to be victims of anti-gay bullying. (AP Photo) NO SALESAP - David Valdes Greenwood was 15 when he climbed to the highest arch of a bridge in his small Maine town and got ready to jump.

Komodo 6 Adds HTML5 and CSS3 Support (Mashable)

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 04:21 PM PDT

Mashable - Komodo 6, the latest version of a popular, multi-language IDE (integrated developer environment) from ActiveState, has just been released today.

Nine things you need to know about 4G networks (Appolicious)

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 02:42 PM PDT

Appolicious - Imagine having a mobile phone that matches what you can do on your home PC.

Software on tap to slim actors on-screen (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 08:50 PM PDT

Reuters - Goodbye, Hollywood fat suits!

Car Tech: A Quick Look at MyFord Touch (PC World)

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 05:46 PM PDT

PC World - Most of the gizmos and technology at this year's CTIA Enterprise & Applications show in San Francisco are geared toward businesses--you may have guessed that much from the show's name. But one of the more fun items on display was Ford's newest Sync technology.

Nine of Ten US Kids Have Online Presence by Age Two, Study (PC World)

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 02:45 PM PDT

PC World - It's increasingly common for children to have an online footprint before they're born, and most kids in many developed countries have some sort of digital profile by their second birthday, according to a new study by AVG, an Internet security firm.

EBay Deploys Joomla for Analytics Portal (PC World)

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 09:10 AM PDT

PC World - Bypassing a number of commercial portal packages, eBay has started using the Joomla open source content management software as a framework to provide its employes with analytic tools, the online auction giant said.

Mobile and 'cloud' computing key future job skills: IBM (AFP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 04:50 PM PDT

US technology titan IBM says the job skills of the future include savvy with smartphones, tablet computers and software hosted in the Internet AFP - US technology titan IBM says the job skills of the future include savvy with smartphones, tablet computers and software hosted in the Internet "cloud" rather than standard desktop computers.
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