Monday, January 23, 2012

Analysts: New software won't save Blackberry maker (AP)

Analysts: New software won't save Blackberry maker (AP)

Analysts: New software won't save Blackberry maker (AP)

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 01:59 PM PST

AP - In the trend-setting North American market, BlackBerry phones have gone from must-have messaging toys to outdated clunkers _all in the space of a few years. The new CEO of Research In Motion Ltd., the company behind the phones, says it can claw its way back to the top with new software, but analysts are deeply doubtful.

Google's 4Q lobbying bill triples to $3.76 million (AP)

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 04:50 PM PST

AP - Google's U.S. lobbying bill more than tripled to $3.76 million in the fourth quarter as the Internet search leader fought proposed changes to online piracy laws and sought to influence a wide range of other issues that could affect its fortunes.

Warrant needed for GPS tracking, high court says (AP)

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 06:42 PM PST

File - This Jan. 5, 2011 file photo shows Yasir Afifi at his home in San Jose, Calif., where a GPS tracking device was placed on his car. The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday, Jan. 23, 2012, that police must get a search warrant before using GPS technology to track criminal suspects.(AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)AP - In a rare defeat for law enforcement, the Supreme Court unanimously agreed on Monday to bar police from installing GPS technology to track suspects without first getting a judge's approval. The justices made clear it wouldn't be their final word on increasingly advanced high-tech surveillance of Americans.

Can a lifetime of sudoku and crosswords help fight Alzheimer’s? (Yahoo! News)

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 07:47 PM PST

Yahoo! News - All that time you've spent reading books and solving Rubik's cubes may have far more lasting benefits than previously thought. A new University of California, Berkley study, published today, shows that a lifetime of activities that require high levels of brain function helps …

Study finds that Facebook users have low self-esteem (Yahoo! News)

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 07:43 PM PST

Yahoo! News - Last year, a pair of studies showed that heavy Facebook users have more grey matter in their brains and are subject to a condition known as Facebook Depression. A new study from Utah Valley University suggests heavy users of Facebook may also share …

RIM Co-CEOs Are Out, Heins Is In (Mashable)

Posted: 22 Jan 2012 01:47 PM PST

Mashable - Following weeks of speculation, it appears Research in Motion (RIM) is finally ready to oust Co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis. The two are, according to a press release from RIM, stepping aside on Monday and will be replaced by company insider and former COO Thorsten Heins. Heins, who also joins the company's board, is already listed as President and CEO on RIM's executive bios page. The change in leadership may have come at the behest of Lazaridis who explained in a statement, “There comes a time in the growth of every successful company when the founders recognize the need to pass the baton to new leadership. Jim [Balsillie] and I went to the Board and told them that we thought that time was now."

Analysis: Megaupload shutdown unlikely to deter piracy (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 06:00 PM PST

Reuters - The crackdown on file-sharing site Megaupload is expected to do little to reduce overall piracy of music, software and Hollywood movies, while potentially stifling emerging means of distributing content online.

House votes on permanent electronic duck stamp (AP)

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 04:26 PM PST

AP - The e-Duck Stamp would become a permanent part of federal law under legislation passed by the House Monday.

Chip Solar House is powered by the sun and controlled through Xbox Kinect (Digital Trends)

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 05:25 PM PST

Digital Trends - There is a lot that goes into making a house green, and we don’t mean just slapping a coat of paint on it. Building an energy efficient home is hard enough, let alone maintaining a home that doesn’t harm the environment by wasting resources and over consuming energy. Little things like switching off the lights and adjusting the thermostat go a long way in conserving energy, but it isn’t always easy, and it can be difficult fiddling with all of that on a day to day basis. Enter the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arch) and California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and their easy-to-use CHIP Solar House, a cutting-edge solar home you control with a wave of your hands and the help of Xbox Kinect.

Android development set to overtake iOS app makers (Appolicious)

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 07:30 AM PST

Appolicious - Android continues to make an impression on developers and consumers alike. According to a new report from Ovum, Android is set to replace Apple's iOS in terms of importance to developers in the Asia-Pacific region over the next 12 months. Looking at its second annual developer survey, Ovum's findings mirror noted trends in the wider smartphone market. And when it comes to a growing mobile ecosystem, developers tend to follow consumers' lead, creating apps and services on the most prominent platform.

If Facebook won't bring filters to you, these apps will bring filters to Facebook (Digital Trends)

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 04:44 PM PST

Digital Trends - Last summer, Facebook was rumored to be eyeing Instagram. Obviously the acquisition speculation was merely that, and Instagram has gone on to quick and unparalleled photo-sharing success. And for its part, Facebook has been rumored to be developing a built-in filter application of its own.

New RIM CEO Can't Save the BlackBerry (ContributorNetwork)

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 04:38 PM PST

ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Investors at RIM -- the company that makes the BlackBerry smartphone and BlackBerry PlayBook tablet -- have been pushing the company for awhile now to get rid of its two co-ceos, Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, on acount of their complete failure to adapt to the changing market. In a nutshell, Apple's iPhone caught them off-guard; and not only did they fail to respond appropriately, they failed to even realize that there was a problem until it was too late.

TurboTax SnapTax makes 1040EZs even simpler (Appolicious)

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 04:45 PM PST

Appolicious - Your W-2 should be hitting your mailbox soon, which means it's time to start thinking about your tax returns. Yay! Those of you blessed with easy returns now have a new filing option in the way of TurboTax SnapTax for iPhone and camera-equipped iPod Touch.

PayPal preparing to expand its digital wallet service to 2,000 Home Depot stores this spring (Appolicious)

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 01:00 PM PST

Appolicious - Online payment service PayPal is continuing to try out its new mobile payment capabilities, expanding its testing grounds to 2,000 Home Depot stores.

Web music revenue growth stuck in single figures (AP)

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 12:29 PM PST

AP - A report by the global music industry lobbying group says the growth in digital revenues remains stuck in the single figures.

Hackers bring first untethered jailbreak to iPad 2, iPhone 4S (Appolicious)

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 06:10 AM PST

Appolicious - Hackers bring first untethered jailbreak to iPad 2, iPhone 4S

VMware profit beats Street view, shares rise (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 02:39 PM PST

Reuters - Software maker VMware Inc reported profit ahead of Wall Street expectations and released an outlook ahead of some forecasts, raising hopes that technology spending will grow this year, even as some warn that the economic outlook is grim.

Second life: Revive your old workstation with SSDs (InfoWorld)

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 03:00 AM PST

InfoWorld - I've written on a number of occasions about the capabilities of enterprise-class SLC solid-state drives (SSDs) when leveraged in demanding primary storage environments. Their ability to both provide impressive sequential read/write performance and shoulder enormous OLTP loads has made them an almost indispensable component of high-end database and large VDI infrastructures.
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