Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Jaded West Coast chuckles over East Coast quake (AP)

Jaded West Coast chuckles over East Coast quake (AP)

Jaded West Coast chuckles over East Coast quake (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 09:06 PM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2008 file photo, school children practice their 'drop, cover and hold' technique, as they participate in the 'Great Southern California Shakeout' earthquake drill, based on the hypothetical scenario of a magnitude 7.8 earthquake, at the Altadena Christian Children's Center in Altadena, Calif. The reaction to the East Coast earthquake triggered mockery from the seismically active West Coast, where similar-sized quakes happen on a regular basis and rarely become a national media obsession. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)AP - Soon after the lunch plates stopped rattling and books stopped thumping to the floor, shaken easterners could hear another sound from Tuesday's magnitude-5.8 quake: snickering emanating from the opposite side of the continent.

Post-quake, West teases East on social networks (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 04:12 PM PDT

AP - On the East Coast, people tweeted and Facebooked with expressions of surprise, worry and sometimes panic over the most powerful earthquake to hit them in decades.

Facebook to let users pre-approve photo tags (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 12:02 PM PDT

In this screen shot provided by Facebook, a photo pre-approval feature is shown. Facebook will now let you pre-approve photos before your friends can post them with your name attached. (AP Photo/Facebook)AP - Drunken revelers rejoice: Facebook will now let you decide whether your friends can attach your name to a photo before it is circulated.

Facebook privacy overhaul adds photo tagging approval, easier selective sharing (Yahoo! News)

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 04:07 PM PDT

Yahoo! News - Today, Facebook announced a set of features that are sure to please its more privacy-conscious users. The social network has a bit of a notorious track record when it comes to privacy, a weakness that Google+ intentionally targeted when the rival service debuted in …

News of rare East Coast earthquake spreads through Twitter, Facebook, and Foursquare (Yahoo! News)

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 04:00 PM PDT

Yahoo! News - News of a rare earthquake on the East Coast swept across social media sites on Tuesday, from Twitter and Facebook to Foursquare. As traditional news sources scrambled to report the seismic event, which was felt across a wide swath of the Eastern seaboard, tweets …

Google Adds Friend Annotations to the +1 Button (Mashable)

Posted: 22 Aug 2011 05:15 PM PDT

Mashable - [More from Mashable: HTC Doubles Down on Android After Google-Motorola Deal]

Northern Calif. newspapers to combine, cut staff (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 06:48 PM PDT

AP - MediaNews Group is combining most of its daily newspapers in the San Francisco Bay area to save money on their print editions so that the company can invest in ways to bring in more revenue from the Internet and mobile devices.

Woman who was assaulted settles Match.com lawsuit (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 06:12 PM PDT

AP - A woman who sued Match.com after being sexually assaulted by a man she met on the dating website settled her lawsuit on Tuesday when she saw proof that the site screenings its members for sexual predators.

Canon announces two wireless photo printers that communicate with smartphones (Digital Trends)

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 08:55 PM PDT

Digital Trends - Today, Canon announced the release of two new wireless photo all-in-one printers to its consumer line of  PIXMA printers. The PIXMA MG8220 and MG6220 photo printers can communicate with Apple and Android smartphones to quickly print high-quality photo prints of recent pictures taken with mobile devices. In addition, consumers can utilize the Canon Easy-PhotoPrint application to scan photos or documents on the printer and have them sent directly to the smartphone. The scanned item can be copied to photo albums as a jpeg, saved as a PDF or emailed to contacts from the application. 

China Telecom gains in mobile (Investor's Business Daily)

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 03:32 PM PDT

Investor's Business Daily - The phone company said first-half 2011 profit rose 8% vs. last year to $1.5 bil. China Telecom's sales rose 11.5% to $18.8 bil. Mobile phone revenue rose 28% despite competition from rivals China Mobile and China Unicom , while fixed-line revenue fell. China Telecom was long the country's dominant carrier, but fell behind as demand shifted from landlines to wireless. China Telecom also is in talks with Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL - News) about carrying the iPhone. It rose 2% to 51.07.

Facebook to build second Menlo Park campus (Digital Trends)

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 09:11 PM PDT

Digital Trends - Facebook is planning on growing quite aggressively over the next few years. Recently unveiled plans for the Menlo Park migration reveal Facebook’s intent to quickly push the current 3600 worker cap and build a second campus using the 22 acres southwest of the former Sun Microsystems facility.

Quake bolsters calls for public safety wireless network (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 07:04 PM PDT

Reuters - Disruption of cell phone service by a rare East Coast earthquake on Tuesday prompted renewed calls for Congress and regulators to provide a dedicated wireless network for emergency workers.

Report: Sprint to get the iPhone 5 (Appolicious)

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 03:02 PM PDT

Appolicious - And then there were three... Carriers, that is.

Dish Network (Investor's Business Daily)

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 03:31 PM PDT

Investor's Business Daily - Dish Network (NASDAQ:DISH - News), the satellite TV broadcaster, asked the FCC to let it build a wireless broadband network. Dish said the expansion would enable it to compete more effectively with cable companies that can bundle broadband and TV signals. It rose 2.9% to 21.99.

LAPD probe threatening letter to Craig Ferguson (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 07:44 PM PDT

AP - Los Angeles police are investigating a threatening letter sent to Craig Ferguson which contained a white powder that turned out to be harmless.

Exclusive: Apple readies cheaper iPhone for growth markets (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 08:36 PM PDT

Reuters - Apple Inc will release a cheaper iPhone 4 within weeks, jeopardizing profit margins to win lower-end customers from rivals such as Nokia in China and other emerging markets.

Android finally integrates with Chrome, Google TV (Appolicious)

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 07:33 AM PDT

Appolicious - It's always been curious that Google's Chrome browser wasn't a standard offering on Android mobile devices. Being from the same parent company, many expected that Android and Chrome would somehow work together one day. It looks like that time has finally come, as Google software engineer Andrei Popescu revealed that the Android team will be working more closely with the WebKit developer community. It's full of potential for Chrome's impending presence on Android devices, granting even more points of integration around Google products.

Pure Storage Offers Cheaper 'True' All-Flash Array (NewsFactor)

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 10:35 AM PDT

NewsFactor - Data centers interested in flash-based drives have a new choice with the release Tuesday of what its maker describes as the first "true" all-flash enterprise array. Enterprise-focused storage firm Pure Storage said its FlashArray FA-300 Series is less than the cost of comparable disk-centric arrays.
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