Monday, December 5, 2011

Former HP chair Dunn, 58, dies after cancer bout (AP)

Former HP chair Dunn, 58, dies after cancer bout (AP)

Former HP chair Dunn, 58, dies after cancer bout (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 08:19 PM PST

FILE - In this March 30, 2005 file photo, Hewlett-Packard Company's Patricia Dunn speaks during a news conference at HP headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. Dunn, the former Hewlett-Packard Co. chairwoman who authorized a boardroom surveillance probe that ultimately sullied her remarkable rise from investment bank typist to the corporate upper class, died Sunday, Dec. 4, 2011. She was 58. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)AP - Patricia Dunn, the former Hewlett-Packard Co. chairwoman who authorized a boardroom surveillance probe that ultimately sullied her remarkable rise from investment bank typist to the corporate upper class, has died after a long bout with cancer. She was 58.

iPads become child's play (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 12:14 PM PST

This product photo provided by Spin Master Ltd, shows the Appblaster. The $19.99 AppBlaster, a plastic gun for kids over 8 years old. After slipping an iPhone or iPad touch on top of the AppBlaster, kids can shoot at aliens that pop up on the screen. (AP Photo/Spin Master Ltd, Tom Szuba)AP - Make room in the toy box for the iPad.

Facebook hires Gowalla team, will shut it down (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 01:00 PM PST

AP - Facebook has hired the team behind Gowalla, the location service that lets people share where they are using their mobile phones.

Another Earth? NASA confirms first planet that could support life, liquid water (Yahoo! News)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 06:47 PM PST

Yahoo! News - NASA's Kepler space telescope is quite prolific when it comes to fascinating interstellar finds. Earlier this year it spotted what scientists referred to as a "treasure chest" of new planets. Since then, Kepler tracked down one of the most Earth-like …

Just Show Me: How to burn a DVD or CD in Windows 7 (Yahoo! News)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 06:40 PM PST

Yahoo! News - Welcome to Just Show Me on Tecca TV, where we show you tips and tricks for getting the most out of the gadgets in your life. In today's episode we'll show you how to burn a CD or DVD in Windows 7. If …

1.8 Billion Questions Later, ChaCha has Evolved Past Text Message Roots (Mashable)

Posted: 04 Dec 2011 09:23 AM PST

Mashable - When ChaCha launched in 2008, most of us were introduced to it through a friend. We added its number to our flip phones and sent our questions off via text message, gleefully showing our friends how quickly we received responses. It was like Google, only mobile. Now Google is mobile, and an estimated 35% of Americans have smartphones. But instead of becoming obsolete, ChaCha has shifted its focus toward mobile apps, Q&A as a form of content and a social redesign that could challenge crowdsourced Q&A sites such as Quora and Yahoo Answers.

First-class mail: Just a little bit s-l-o-w-e-r (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 08:47 PM PST

Mail carrier Zack Wyscarver delivers mail in freezing temperatures in Omaha, Neb., Monday, Dec. 5, 2011. Unprecedented cuts by the cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service will slow first-class delivery next spring and, for the first time in 40 years, eliminate the chance for stamped letters to arrive the next day. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)AP - Already mocked by some as "snail mail," first-class U.S. mail will slow even more by next spring under plans by the cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service to eliminate more than 250 processing centers. Nearly 30,000 workers would be laid off, too, as the post office struggles to respond to a shift to online communication and bill payments.

More TV Channels Coming To Xbox Live (NewsFactor)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 03:55 PM PST

NewsFactor - A week after Microsoft and Verizon announced that FiOS channels are coming to the Xbox 360, the software giant is unleashing more apps to allow TV viewing online via the hit gaming console.

Starbucks mobile apps account for 26 million transactions over 2011 (Digital Trends)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 07:35 PM PST

Digital Trends - Launched during January 2011, Starbucks Mobile Pay allows customers of the coffee chain to make purchases with an iPhone, Android phone or BlackBerry using a mobile application. The initial launch allows customers to make mobile payments at approximately 6,800 Starbucks locations as well as 1,000 Target locations. However, this number has climbed to 10,000 locations over the past eleven months by adding Safeway Starbucks stores and locations in Canada. Nine weeks after the company initially launched the apps, Starbucks processed three million mobile payments. In the past nine weeks, the company has processed approximately six million mobile payments, double the volume of the initial nine weeks. In total, the company has processed 26 million transactions since launch.

South Korea's net nirvana spawns good, bad and ugly results (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 08:43 PM PST

Reuters - On a single, dimly-lit floor in the towering central Seoul headquarters of Korea's National Police Agency, dozens of hard drives and mobile phones sit on shelves awaiting dissection.

Theaters set aside "Tweet Seats" for Twitter users (Digital Trends)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 08:02 PM PST

Digital Trends - According to an article published in USA Today, more theaters and performing groups within the United States are reserving seats for Twitter users to live-tweet about the performance. Theaters and concert halls participating in the new trend include Raleigh’s Carolina Ballet, Connecticut’s Norma Terris Theater, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Dayton Opera and the the Indianapolis Symphony. Twitter users that are attending a performance utilize a hashtag to link tweets together when a user searches for the performance on Twitter. For instance, the production of Hello! My Baby: The Musical encourages the use of the #hmbmusical hashtag when submitting tweets to the service.

Can Mozilla survive without Google? (Digital Trends)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 05:06 PM PST

Digital Trends - Mozilla’s Firefox browser occupies a unique place in the industry. Developed as an alternative to Microsoft’s market-dominating Internet Explorer, Mozilla is the only major Web browser on the planet that isn’t a commercial operation. Firefox aims to answer to actual Web users, rather than cow-tow to corporate goals and pursue every opportunity to capture users and (of course) make profits. And Mozilla has succeeded: the company has been operating for years and steadily eroded Microsoft’s share of the browser market to become Internet Explorer’s leading competitor.

FingerFace a fun way to make silly pictures (Appolicious)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 03:30 PM PST

Appolicious - People who enjoy drawing mustaches on their fingers might have finally met their finger-illustrating match with FingerFace. The app lets you take a photo of your fingers and then decorate the digits with a number of items.

Facebook grabs Gowalla team, but not technology (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 12:23 PM PST

Reuters - Facebook has hired the co-founders of Gowalla, one of the pioneering companies that developed the concept of "checking in" at real-world locations with mobile phones.

New Android-powered TV line is headed to the hospital (Digital Trends)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 06:15 AM PST

Digital Trends - Various versions of Android-powered televisions have tried to carve out a niche for themselves independent of the Google TV scene and had a rough time of it. A new line of HDTVs from HCI suggests that maybe the other products just weren’t tapping the right market.

The Sad Fliers' Crusade for Airplane Mode (The Atlantic Wire)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 03:29 PM PST

The Atlantic Wire - Related: iPad Sales Have Reached a Plateau

Analysis: SAP's new cloud czar to take on Salesforce, Oracle (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 05:53 PM PST

Reuters - SAP AG's purchase of Web-based software company SuccessFactors Inc could be the catalyst the old-school German technology giant needs to try to catch up to rivals in the fast-growing cloud computing market.

Stop being your own worst enemy (InfoWorld)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 03:00 AM PST

InfoWorld - I've spent a great deal of the past 15 years doing two things: building new server, storage, and network infrastructures -- and fixing them when they fall flat on their face for one reason or another. Over that time, I've seen one common theme emerge: There are very easy, seemingly unimportant things you can do when you build and maintain infrastructure that will save your bacon later when things go pear shaped.
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