Tuesday, July 5, 2011

China's Baidu, Microsoft to cooperate in search (AP)

China's Baidu, Microsoft to cooperate in search (AP)

China's Baidu, Microsoft to cooperate in search (AP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 01:38 PM PDT

AP - Chinese search giant Baidu Inc. will use Microsoft's Bing for some English-language results as the software giant tries to expand its small share of China's search market.

Budgeting for wireless data on Verizon's new plans (AP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 06:01 PM PDT

AP - Are you a wireless data glutton or a nibbler?

The apps that eat your wireless data (AP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 11:40 AM PDT

AP - If you have a cellphone with a monthly limit on how much data you can use, here are some tips on what types of phone use will gobble up your precious megabytes:

Why would you want an unlocked iPhone? (Yahoo! News)

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 05:03 PM PDT

Yahoo! News - Why would you want an unlocked iPhone 4? That is a great question, and the answer is quite simple. If you travel on a regular basis and spend most of your time between countries, then the unlocked iPhone 4 is …

Expression-reading glasses tell you when to shut up (Yahoo! News)

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 04:51 PM PDT

Yahoo! News - We've all been part of a conversation where we wish we had stopped talking a few sentences sooner than we did. Researchers from MIT and Cambridge have now developed a pair of glasses that can read the facial expressions of …

Twitter Begins Allowing Direct Messages With Verified Accounts Sans Following Back (Mashable)

Posted: 04 Jul 2011 05:14 PM PDT

Mashable - The back-and-forth between brand reps who manage Twitter accounts and people who try to communicate with those brands might become a little less complicated. It seems no longer will verified Twitter accounts be required to follow back the Twitter users who want to send direct messages. The Next Web is reporting that Twitter is easing up on the follow requirement so that users with a verified account won't have to follow a user who wants to message them, ask for a direct message and later unfollow them after the communication has ended.

Netflix expands online service to Latin America (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 04:02 PM PDT

Reuters - Netflix Inc is expanding its online video service to 43 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, sending its shares to an all-time high.

Ind. AG: WellPoint to pay $100K over data breach (AP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 03:52 PM PDT

AP - Health insurer WellPoint Inc. will pay $100,000 and take other steps after admitting it waited months to notify 32,000 Indiana customers that their Social Security numbers, health records and other personal information might have been exposed online, Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller said Tuesday.

Apple iOS replaces BlackBerry as second most popular smartphone platform (Digital Trends)

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 06:28 PM PDT

Digital Trends - We think everyone saw this one coming, or maybe even assumed this already happened a year ago.

Help the fight against obesity with the Fooducate Grocery Scanner Android app (Appolicious)

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 02:30 PM PDT

Appolicious - Nutrition labels might as well be categorized as a foreign language. They're not the most intuitive things to follow, and even when you can pick out a few facts and ingredients, it's often difficult to put this information in perspective. A great resource for anyone remotely interested in their health, Fooducate Grocery Scanner is a very helpful, thorough app that decodes what these cardboard boxes and aluminum cans are trying to say.

Hackers seize PayPal UK Twitter account (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 03:04 PM PDT

Reuters - Hackers seized control of a PayPal Twitter feed for more than an hour on Tuesday, then sent out messages criticizing the payment processor in the second attack of its type in two days.

iPhone passes Blackberry in US: comScore (AFP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 03:33 PM PDT

Apple's iPhone has leapfrogged Research In Motion's Blackberry to grab fourth-place among handset manufacturers in the United States, tracking firm comScore said Tuesday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/David Paul Morris)AFP - Apple's iPhone has leapfrogged Research In Motion's Blackberry to grab fourth-place among handset manufacturers in the United States, tracking firm comScore said Tuesday.

Developer rails against Amazon Appstore (Appolicious)

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 11:30 AM PDT

Appolicious - Since it was first launched, the Amazon Appstore has received a fair amount of criticism. Now there's more: one indie developer is pulling his high-ranking Android app from the store after calling it a "disaster" and claiming that indie developers shouldn't even bother with trying to sell through Amazon.

Verizon Wireless nixing unlimited data for newbies (AP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 05:51 PM PDT

AP - Verizon Wireless, the nation's largest wireless carrier, is getting rid of its unlimited data plan for new smartphone customers starting Thursday, shifting instead to limited data plans that give users between 2 and 10 gigabytes of data each month.

Satellite maker objects to TerreStar sale to Dish (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 03:10 PM PDT

Reuters - Bankrupt telecommunications firm TerreStar Networks Inc is facing two objections to its proposed sale to Dish Network Corp, including from the maker of its geosynchronous satellite.

iPad Earns One Percent of Global Web Traffic (LiveScience.com)

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 05:04 PM PDT

LiveScience.com - iPad traffic is starting to get on the global Internet traffic map.

Cyberattacks on South Korea-US a test run: McAfee (AFP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 02:43 PM PDT

The McAfee logo is displayed outside of the company's headquarters in 2010 in Santa Clara, California. Cyber attacks on US and South Korean military websites in March may have been a test by North Korea or sympathizers, according to a report released Tuesday by computer security firm McAfee.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Justin Sullivan)AFP - Cyberattacks on US and South Korean military websites in March may have been a test by North Korea or sympathizers, according to a report released Tuesday by computer security firm McAfee.

Media moguls focus on digital dollars at Sun Valley (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 07:28 PM PDT

Reuters - Media and technology moguls gather in Idaho this week to once more debate a shift to a digital world, but the talk this year will finally focus on how to make money off it.
Posted by Harshad at 9:49 PM

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)