Thursday, February 23, 2012

Tough times for HP ahead; will investors wait? (AP)

Tough times for HP ahead; will investors wait? (AP)

Tough times for HP ahead; will investors wait? (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2012 02:44 PM PST

AP - Hewlett-Packard Co. plans to spend years turning itself around as it addresses internal problems and battles broader threats from smartphones and tablet computers.

Apple CEO hints company will part with some cash (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2012 04:50 PM PST

AP - Apple CEO Tim Cook says he believes the world's most valuable company has more money than it needs. His next challenge is to figure out whether Apple should break from the cash-hoarding ways of his predecessor, the late Steve Jobs, and dip into its $98 billion bank account to pay shareholders a dividend this year.

QVC growth boosts Liberty Interactive (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2012 12:04 PM PST

AP - Liberty Interactive Corp. said Thursday that its operating income rose 3 percent as sales from its home shopping network QVC increased.

Mind-controlled skateboard is literally powered by your thoughts (Yahoo! News)

Posted: 23 Feb 2012 02:14 PM PST

Yahoo! News - You don't have to be Professor X or Yoda to control the Board of Imagination with your mind. This futuristic skateboard by Chaotic Moon Labs can read your brain waves and take you to where you want to go, even if you're …

Nonsensical Twitter printer attacks the environment one tweet at a time (Yahoo! News)

Posted: 23 Feb 2012 02:08 PM PST

Yahoo! News - What's amazing about the Adafruit Internet of Things printer isn't the fact that it converts your entire digital Twitter feed into a long, printed strip of paper. The truly amazing part is that there are other machines out there that already do …

10 Free Android Apps You'll Use Every Day (Mashable)

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 03:56 PM PST

Mashable - 1. Alarm Clock Plus

White House privacy push seeks cooperation (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Feb 2012 04:15 PM PST

Reuters - The White House proposed on Thursday a "privacy bill of rights" that would give consumers more control over their data but relies heavily for now on voluntary commitments by Internet companies like Google Inc and Facebook.

NY protester's tweets at heart of clash on privacy (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2012 03:02 PM PST

AP - An Occupy Wall Street protester and prosecutors are tussling over his tweets, a clash that's raising legal issues of privacy in an age of living online.

TiVo's revenue rises, adds new subscribers (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Feb 2012 02:55 PM PST

Reuters - TiVo Inc added 234,000 new subscribers in the fourth quarter as the maker of digital television recorders sold more of its products through agreements with cable operators.

Mathway Android app calculates how to improve your math skills (Appolicious)

Posted: 23 Feb 2012 02:30 PM PST

Appolicious - Your Android works hard to entertain you, but don't let that be its only purpose. Use that powerful Android device as a bionic brain implant as well, and get smarter using it to calculate your work and teach you math at the same time.

2 Baltimore attorneys sue Facebook over privacy (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2012 10:35 AM PST

AP - Two Baltimore law firms have filed a lawsuit against Facebook, arguing that the site has violated privacy laws.

T-Mobile LTE: How is that going to work? (Digital Trends)

Posted: 23 Feb 2012 01:45 PM PST

Digital Trends - Number four U.S. mobile carrier T-Mobile is attempting to shake off the dust of the abandoned takeover effort from AT&T, announcing a revamped “Challenger Strategy” that is intended to make the carrier more competitive against the likes of Sprint, AT&T, and the top U.S. mobile operator, Verizon Wireless. Of course, being competitive in the mobile market these days means moving towards 4G LTE technology â€" and that’s exactly what T-Mobile says it’s going to do, announcing plans to begin deploying LTE services in 2013. Furthermore, T-Mobile is going to re-jigger its network, drastically cutting back services for its 2G/EDGE customers in order to boost its HSPA+ high-speed broadband offerings â€" and, in so doing, make its network more interoperable with AT&T. That, in turn, could pave the way toward T-Mobile eventually being able to offer Apple’s iPhone.

Five extreme ways to lower your cell phone bill (Appolicious)

Posted: 23 Feb 2012 01:49 PM PST

Appolicious - The average wireless phone bill jumped more than 50 percent between 2006 and 2011. According to market research firm JD Power & Associates, this figure is approaching $1,200 per year. Ouch!

Mozilla mobile unfolding; Marketplace app store opening for developer submissions next week (Digital Trends)

Posted: 23 Feb 2012 07:51 PM PST

Digital Trends - Mozilla, the organization behind the Firefox web browser, announced it is moving forward with its 2012 mobile strategy. The company wants to offer another option to the Google and Apple-dominated app-industry with the Mozilla Marketplace; the company touts the new app store as: “The first operation system â€" and device â€" independent market for apps based on open Web technologies like HTML5, JavaScript and CSS.”

Dish Network shutting down a third of all remaining Blockbuster stores (Digital Trends)

Posted: 23 Feb 2012 08:51 PM PST

Digital Trends - As reported initially during January, Dish Network has finally decided on the amount of Blockbuster retail locations to close. Mentioned within Dish Network’s announcement regarding fourth quarter profits earlier today, the satellite service provider will be closing 500 Blockbuster stores across the United States during the first half of 2012. This will reduce the amount of remaining Blockbuster stores by roughly 33 percent, dropping from 1,500 locations down to just 1,000 storefronts. Store closures were made for a number of reasons, but the most prominent was a downturn in store-level financial performance due to competition from Redbox and Netflix.

Apple's China legal battle over iPad spreads to U.S. (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Feb 2012 05:58 PM PST

Reuters - The Asian firm trying to stop Apple Inc from using the iPad name in China has launched an attack on the consumer electronics giant's home turf, filing a lawsuit in California that accuses the iPhone-maker of employing deception when it bought the "iPad" trademark.

Ex-McAfee execs start security firm, CrowdStrike (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Feb 2012 01:23 PM PST

Reuters - Two executives who left security software maker McAfee after Intel Corp bought the company last year have started a firm that is developing technology to help corporations and government agencies track down elusive hackers.
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