Thursday, January 19, 2012

Popular file-sharing website Megaupload shut down (AP)

Popular file-sharing website Megaupload shut down (AP)

Popular file-sharing website Megaupload shut down (AP)

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 05:54 PM PST

AP - One of the world's most popular file-sharing sites was shut down Thursday, and its founder and several company officials were accused of facilitating millions of illegal downloads of films, music and other content.

Google's 4Q disappoints as advertising prices sink (AP)

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 05:43 PM PST

In this Jan. 17, 2012 photo, a sign for Google is displayed behind the Google android robot, at the National Retail Federation, in New York. Google Inc., releases quarterly financial results Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012, after the market close. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)AP - What was supposed to be a celebration of the most prosperous quarter in Google's 13-year history instead turned into a major letdown.

Experts see tough road for Kodak to reinvent self (AP)

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 06:05 PM PST

An unidentified person enters Kodak Headquarters in Rochester, N.Y., Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012. Eastman Kodak Co. said early Thursday Jan. 19, 2012 it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, as it seeks to boost its cash position and stay in business. (AP Photo/David Duprey)AP - Even in bankruptcy, Kodak boasts some enviable strengths: a golden brand, technology firepower that includes a rich collection of photo patents, and more than $4 billion in annual sales of digital cameras, printers, and inks.

Nike FuelBand is the hot, healthy new thing to wear around your wrist (Yahoo! News)

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 06:56 PM PST

Yahoo! News - Following up on the pioneering success of the 2006's Nike+, the company that started the wearable digital fitness revolution has a slick new product. Meet the Nike+ FuelBand, a bracelet in the same fitness-forward family as the FitBit and the Jawbone Up The FuelBand …

Don’t Miss Video of the Day: Champion Muay Thai kickboxer smacks down offensive banana tree (Yahoo! News)

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 06:48 PM PST

Yahoo! News - We don't know what this banana tree could have said to Buakaw Por. Pramuk to deserve such a savage beating, but we're fairly sure the tree learned its lesson. In this mind-blowing display of tool-less lumberjacking, the Muay Thai kickboxing champion used …

Motorola Xoom Wi-Fi Gets Ice Cream Sandwich (Mashable)

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 06:58 PM PST

Mashable - Motorola has started rolling out Android 4.0 or Ice Cream Sandwich to Motorola Xoom owners, but only those who have the Wi-Fi version of the device. This will bring a redesigned app launcher, a better web browser, resizable widgets and many other goodies to the tablet.

Google results fall short, rare miss hurts shares (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 06:02 PM PST

A carpet with the Google logo is seen at the entrance of Google France's new headquarters before its official inauguration in Paris in this December 6, 2011 file photo. Google Inc's quarterly results fell short of Wall Street's heightened expectations for the holiday season as Europe's economic malaise weighed, a rare miss that triggered a 9 percent slide in its shares. REUTERS/Jacques Brinon/Pool/Files (FRANCE - Tags: BUSINESS SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY LOGO)Reuters - Google Inc's quarterly results fell short of Wall Street's heightened expectations for the holiday season as declining search advertising rates contributed to a rare miss, triggering a 9 percent slide in its shares.

Microsoft 2Q beats Street despite soft PC market (AP)

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 04:35 PM PST

In this Jan. 7, 2012 photo, attendees at the National Retail Federation visit a Microsoft display, in New York. Microsoft releases quarterly financial results Thursday, Jan.19, 2012, after the market close. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)AP - Microsoft Corp. battled through a weak PC market to post flat earnings in the final quarter of 2011, boosting sales of servers, Xbox games and its Office productivity software while trimming losses at its Bing search engine.

China iPhone launch delay could boost sales for rivals during Chinese New Year holidays (Digital Trends)

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 07:00 PM PST

Digital Trends - Imagine just prior to the holiday season supplies of Apple’s iPhone ran dry. You’d been hoping to treat yourself to the latest 4S device, or buy one for a friend or relative, but you can’t find the smartphone anywhere. Worse still, there’s no word when they might be returning to stores. If this happened, would you instead take a look at the competition? Examine some of the Android offerings, for example? Or would you just wait until Apple’s device returned to stores, even though it could be a couple of weeks before it happens, or even a month?

Is '5G' mobile broadband just around the corner? IMT-Advanced explained (Digital Trends)

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 02:30 PM PST

Digital Trends - With Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint racing to bring 4G LTE services to customers (and T-Mobile having long marketed its hot-rodded HSPA+ as 4G technology) it might seem the 4G mobile broadband is on the verge of going mainstream. But what if we said these technologies were really just a sort of “4G Lite,” and the real 4G was just around the corner â€" and up to 10 times faster than what mobile operators are touting as 4G today. Would you be interested?

Anonymous weaponizes Twitter, retaliates against MegaUpload takedown (Daily Caller)

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 05:39 PM PST

Daily Caller - Hell hath no fury like a hacker scorned.

Verizon Wireless, partners resist Sprint, DirecTV (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 03:36 PM PST

Reuters - Verizon Wireless and its cable partners are willing to give U.S. communication regulators confidential details of their agreement but objected to a request for information from Sprint Nextel , DirecTV , T-Mobile USA and others.

Dr. Seuss Band combines music gaming and creativity (Appolicious)

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 03:00 PM PST

Appolicious - Part app, part game, Dr. Seuss Band lets children's creativity flow, while providing real gaming challenges. Everything about this new Oceanhouse Media offering is filled with Seussical charm.

Virgin Mobile to begin throttling data speeds beginning March 23 (Digital Trends)

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 07:57 AM PST

Digital Trends - Like so many wireless carriers, Sprint subsidiary Virgin Mobile will soon begin throttling the data speeds of those who use the most data on its ‘unlimited’ data plans. Currently, Virgin Mobile users who have used more than 2.5GB of data in Dec. 2011 are being sent to a mobile site that warns them that, beginning March 23, 2012, any data they use in a month over the 2.5GB limit will be slowed down to 256Kbps. We don’t currently have a Virgin Mobile handset to test, but we suspect that typical data rates are around 1Mbps, or four times the reduced data speed. 

Facebook Users Respond to 'Shut Down Facebook' SOPA/PIPA Protests (ContributorNetwork)

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 05:20 PM PST

ContributorNetwork - In response to the blacked-out internet search pages and blogs that blanketed much of the web Wednesday, Facebook users couldn't help but notice one glaring fact: There was no "closed" sign in sight, all systems were go (well, as much as they ever are on Facebook), and, aside from much traffic from Facebook users in response to the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA), it was business as usual. Virtual farms were tended, pics of kittens posted, and YouTube videos peppered the walls of millions of users around the world, in spite of the uproar elsewhere about SOPA and PIPA.

Foxconn chairman equates iPhone-creating workforce to animals (Digital Trends)

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 09:00 PM PST

Digital Trends - First reported by Want China Times earlier today, chairman Terry Gou was meeting with senior managers and stated “”Hon Hai has a workforce of over one million worldwide and as human beings are also animals, to manage one million animals gives me a headache.” Hon Hai is the parent company of Foxconn, the company responsible for creating the majority of iPhones and iPads for Apple. Gou also stated that he would like to learn from the director of the Taipei Zoo, Chin Shih-chien, as to how animals should be managed. While it was also reported that these comments were possibly made in jest which was lost in the translation, the working conditions of Foxconn employees are certainly no joking matter.

IBM 4Q earnings beat estimates, revenue falls shy (AP)

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 05:06 PM PST

AP - IBM Corp.'s fourth-quarter earnings handily beat Wall Street's expectations on Thursday, helped by higher revenue and profit margins in the technology icon's lucrative software and services segments.

IBM, other tech results point to robust IT demand (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 05:54 PM PST

Reuters - A strong outlook from IBM and decent results from Intel Corp and Microsoft Corp suggest that corporate decision makers are shaking off nervousness about economic growth and boosting spending on technology.
Posted by Harshad at 9:29 PM

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)