Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Ariz. bill against 'annoying' online to get change

Ariz. bill against 'annoying' online to get change


Ariz. bill against 'annoying' online to get change

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Arizonans venturing online may have to think twice before leaving a comment on a website.

Palm-sized Star Trek tech may be closer than you think

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Future is NowIn the Star Trek universe, the tricorder is a handheld device used by Kirk, Spock, and various red-shirted crew members to make detailed scans of unfamiliar planets and even less familiar life-forms. It can be used in sick bay to diagnose intergalactic patients, and in engineering to find which part of the warp core is [...]


New Yahoo CEO sweeps out 2,000 employees in purge

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FILE - In this Jan. 4, 2012 file photo, the company logo is displayed at Yahoo headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif. Yahoo Inc. on Wednesday, April 4, 2012 announced that the company is laying off 2,000 employees as new CEO Scott Thompson sweeps out jobs that don't fit into his plans for turning around the beleaguered Internet company. The cuts announced Wednesday represent about 14 percent of the 14,100 workers employed by Yahoo. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)Yahoo's turnaround attempt is going to be messy.


What’s the deal with Google’s crazy augmented reality glasses?

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If flying cars and uncannily dexterous robots haven't tipped you off already, know this: the future is here. We're living in an age when Star Trek tech is getting realized little by little, and Google's just revealed a secret undertaking that … Continue reading

Electric car prototype increases range to 218 miles

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A few months ago, we reported on SIM-Drive's SIM-Lei, a Japanese electric car with a record-breaking range of 190 miles on a full charge. The company has been refining its prototype, and just broke its own record. Meet the SIM-WIL, an electric car … Continue reading

How Major League Baseball Stacks up on Social Media [INFOGRAPHIC]

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Spring is in the air and Major League Baseball season is officially underway. Hot dogs, beer and lazy days at the ballpark are on tap for the next several months. But how do the game's players, teams and leagues stack up on the social web?

Small phone companies to sell iPhone at discount

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A group of small, regional cellphone companies announced Wednesday that they're going to start selling the iPhone, at prices that undercut the big carriers.

Google announces expansion at Okla. data center

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Google plans to double its server capacity in Oklahoma and add 50 new jobs when it builds a new facility in the state, company officials announced Wednesday.

Grab your baseball apps just in time for Opening Day

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Baseball season is officially upon us, and while the game is all about hanging out in the bleachers and being outside, there are still some very cool ways that tablets and smartphones can keep you tied in to Major League Baseball.

Anonymous says it hacked Chinese government sites

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China is struggling to restore several government websites that international hacking group Anonymous says it has attacked.

European hackers suspected in Utah Medicaid files breach

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SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) - A data security breach at the Utah Health Department, believed to be the work of Eastern European hackers, has exposed 24,000 U.S. Medicaid files bearing names, Social Security numbers and other private information, state officials said on Wednesday. The intrusion initially appeared to have affected claims representing at least 9 percent of the 260,000 clients of Medicaid in Utah. But because each file often contains information on more than one individual, the full extent of the breach is probably wider, officials said. ...

Sprint seeks hit with advanced-camera EVO phone

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The EVO 4G LTE mobile phone is seen in this undated handout pictureNEW YORK (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel, the No.3 U.S. mobile service, is hoping to turn heads next month with the EVO 4G LTE, an HTC Corp phone with an advanced camera, a big screen, a high-speed wireless connection and crisper voice call quality. However the device may not immediately support fast data services and the new sound technology as it is expected to hit store shelves before Sprint launches services based on a multi-billion-dollar network upgrade it plans to kick off around mid-year. ...


Ariz. bill against 'annoying' online to get change

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Arizonans venturing online may have to think twice before leaving a comment on a website.

Facebook launches patent counterattack against Yahoo

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An illustration picture shows the log-on screen for the website Facebook in MunichSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook fired back on Tuesday in its legal battle with Yahoo by accusing the Web pioneer of infringing 10 of Facebook's patents, according to a court filing. The counterclaim from Facebook, filed in a San Francisco federal court, comes after Yahoo sued Facebook for patent infringement last month. The dueling claims mark an expanding web of patent litigation that has already caught up the smartphone and tablet sectors and high-tech stalwarts such as Apple Inc, Microsoft Corp and Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. ...


Telecoms' texting nemesis WhatsApp says it's no threat

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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - U.S.-based software startup WhatsApp, the fast-growing mobile messaging service, denies it's a threat to telephone carriers and the cash they earn from SMS messages. Instead, its co-founder, Brian Acton, said in a rare interview that WhatsApp was helping carriers move their customers to data packages that would, in the long term, prove more profitable. "I view it from the perspective that we're facilitating a broad movement to data plans and the entities that provide those plans are the carriers, so they stand to benefit quite substantially," he said. ...

Millions of Americans Cut the TV Cord [STUDY]

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Users aren't completely ditching pay-TV subscriptions, but a new report says 3.58 million people in the U.S. will have cut the TV cord by the end of 2012.

U.S. eyes quick expansion of technology trade pact

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is optimistic countries will agree to expand a landmark agreement that helped triple world trade in semiconductors, computers and other technology products to $4 trillion over the past 15 years, a top U.S. official said on Wednesday. "I've been very encouraged by what I've been hearing from other (World Trade Organization) members," Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Miriam Sapiro said in an interview. "We want to do this as quickly as possible. We want to frame this for success. ...

How Major League Baseball Stacks up on Social Media [INFOGRAPHIC]

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Spring is in the air and Major League Baseball season is officially underway. Hot dogs, beer and lazy days at the ballpark are on tap for the next several months. But how do the game's players, teams and leagues stack up on the social web?

Court picks terms in Apple/Samsung patent case

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An employee of South Korean mobile carrier KT holds an Apple Inc's iPhone 4 smartphone and a Samsung Electronics' Galaxy S II smartphone as he poses for photographs at a registration desk at KT's headquarters in SeoulSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. judge largely sided with Apple on Wednesday over how several technical terms will be defined in its patent fight against Samsung over smartphones and tablets. Deciding on the meaning of certain terms, known as claim construction orders, helps to define the scope of a party's patent rights and can often shape the course of litigation. Apple sued Samsung in the United States last year, saying the South Korean company's Galaxy line of mobile phones and tablets "slavishly" copies the iPhone and iPad. Samsung then countersued Apple. ...


Small phone companies to sell iPhone at discount

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A group of small, regional cellphone companies announced Wednesday that they're going to start selling the iPhone, at prices that undercut the big carriers.

Toshiba out of race to turn around Elpida: papers

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Man walks past Toshiba Corp's Regza LCD televisions at an electronic store in TokyoTOKYO (Reuters) - Toshiba Corp is out of the running among companies bidding to support Elpida Memory's turnaround, likely leaving three foreign companies including SK hynix and Micron Technology in the race, media reported on Thursday. Japan's Asahi and Mainichi newspapers said Toshiba, seen as the preferred partner for the bankrupt memory chipmaker by the government, was no longer bidding. The newspapers did not give a reason, or say where they got their information. (Reporting by Nobuhiro Kubo; Editing by Edwina Gibbs)


Ariz. bill says unlawful to 'annoy' others online

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Arizonans venturing online may want to think twice before leaving a comment on a website.

Mashable Photo Challenge Results: Candy Creations [PICS]

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In last week's Mashable Photo Challenge, we asked you to send us pictures of your candy creations.  Our community members got crafty and sent us some delectable photos of their confectionary projects.

Telecoms' texting nemesis WhatsApp says it's no threat

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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - U.S.-based software startup WhatsApp, the fast-growing mobile messaging service, denies it's a threat to telephone carriers and the cash they earn from SMS messages. Instead, its co-founder, Brian Acton, said in a rare interview that WhatsApp was helping carriers move their customers to data packages that would, in the long term, prove more profitable. "I view it from the perspective that we're facilitating a broad movement to data plans and the entities that provide those plans are the carriers, so they stand to benefit quite substantially," he said. ...

Make Your Photographs Move with This Easy iPhone App

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As the web falls back in love with the animated GIF, an app called Flixel has launched for people to create moving images with speed and ease.

New Yahoo CEO sweeps out 2,000 employees in purge

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FILE - In this Jan. 4, 2012 file photo, the company logo is displayed at Yahoo headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif. Yahoo Inc. on Wednesday, April 4, 2012 announced that the company is laying off 2,000 employees as new CEO Scott Thompson sweeps out jobs that don't fit into his plans for turning around the beleaguered Internet company. The cuts announced Wednesday represent about 14 percent of the 14,100 workers employed by Yahoo. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)Yahoo's turnaround attempt is going to be messy.


Reddit 'Blown Away' by Reaction to Time Machine Project

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Flash back to the final week of March: Reddit programmer Max Goodman and engineer Logan Hanks are furiously tinkering with code and "never-seen-before time travel technology" to build a standout April Fools' Day project.

Yahoo to lay off 2,000 employees

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File photo of a Yahoo! signs siting out front of their headquarters in Sunnyvale(Reuters) - Yahoo Inc will lay off 2,000 people, or 14 percent of its workforce, in its deepest round of job cuts in years as new Chief Executive Scott Thompson tries to jumpstart growth with a leaner, more agile company while saving hundreds of millions of dollars. Wall Street's reaction was lukewarm, after two previous Yahoo CEOs failed to find an answer to rivals like Web-search leader Google and the Facebook social-networking site. ...


One-fifth of U.S. adults read e-books as market booms: survey

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One in five American adults read an electronic book in the last year, as gift-giving sped the shift away from the printed page, a Pew Research Center survey showed on Wednesday. In a sweeping survey of e-books' impact on reading habits, the Pew report said that four times more U.S. readers, or 15 percent, were reading e-books on a typical day now compared with less than two years ago. But when it comes to reading in bed, the verdict is split. Forty-five percent of those surveyed preferred e-books and 43 percent gave the nod to old-fashioned print. ...

Hacker claims breach of Chinese defense contractor

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(Reuters) - A hacker has posted thousands of internal documents he says he obtained by breaking into the network of a Chinese company with defense contracts, an unusual extension of the phenomenon of activist hacking into the world's most populous country. The hacker, who uses the name Hardcore Charlie and said he was a friend of Hector Xavier Monsegur, the leader-turned- informant of the activist hacking group, LulzSec, told Reuters he got inside Beijing-based China National Import & Export Corp (CEIEC). He posted documents ranging from purported U.S. ...

Cutting-Edge Taxi of Tomorrow Coming to New York City in 2013 [PICS]

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At the 2012 New York International Auto Show on Tuesday, Nissan showed off the New York taxi of the future. The new cab features electrical outlets, USB ports and a dedicated air conditioner that's passenger-controlled.

A look at Yahoo's employment levels by year

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Number of Yahoo full-time employees at the end of each year, after new hires and departures:

Twitter heads to Motown to be closer to automakers

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To match Feature USA-DETROIT/FOODDETROIT (Reuters) - Twitter, looking for better proximity to car companies with hefty ad budgets, said on Wednesday it will open an office in Detroit just as the city's elected leaders scramble to avoid bankruptcy or a state takeover. The San Francisco social media firm has located an office in the Motor City following a notable financial recovery by General Motors Co , Ford Motor Co and Chrysler from years of painful restructuring and depressed auto sales. Google Inc made a big splash in Detroit a couple of years ago when it opened offices in a nearby suburb. ...


Facebook Misses Privacy Deadline in Ireland. Now What?

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Following a three-month audit by Ireland's Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (DPC), Facebook promised at the end of last year to make a slew of changes to give users more control over their privacy. The social networking company gave itself a series of deadlines for this, the first falling on March 31 of this year.

Sprint seeks hit with advanced-camera EVO phone

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The EVO 4G LTE mobile phone is seen in this undated handout pictureNEW YORK (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel is hoping to turn heads next month with the EVO 4G LTE, an HTC Corp phone with an advanced camera, a big screen and a high-speed wireless connection to highlight its multi-billion-dollar network upgrade. While the device will have much of the same technology that HTC is putting in phones that rivals AT&T Inc and T-Mobile USA plan to sell, Sprint is hoping that its popular EVO brand and some design changes will help make its phone a hit. ...


Quest seeks sale to avoid scrutiny, lawsuit claims

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(Reuters) - Quest Software Inc's new chief executive rushed to sell the company to head off a possible investigation by regulators, according to a shareholder lawsuit that shines a light on the technology company's accounting. The lawsuit claims the maker of backup software agreed to sell itself to private equity firm Insight Venture Partners for $2 billion in cash after a year of maneuvers to undermine Quest's value and set up a merger that enriches the CEO. Quest has said it is still looking for better offers. ...

Would Anyone Really Want to Watch a TV Show About a Blog?

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The new show from Bravo called Huh? (working title), which will follow the "eclectic staff at icanhascheezburger.com, one of the largest humor publishers on the Internet known for their popular LOLs and FAILs," as Bravo explains it, sounds supremely boring. In an attempt at making this show about bloggers sound exciting, Bravo asks, "Ever wonder who is behind those hilarious cat memes?" No, not really. As bloggers ourselves, we already know what their lives are like: boring. ...

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