RIM loses another senior executive

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• RIM loses another senior executive
• Mark Zuckerberg makes surprise cameo on Chinese TV
• Facebook in Talks to Acquire Face.com for 'Tens of Millions' [REPORT]
• Microsoft appoints first official Iraq distributor
• Astronauts enter world's 1st private supply ship
• New telescope to be in South Africa, Australia
• Dragon Brush brings a traditional Chinese folktale to life on iOS
• Panasonic mulls shrinking HQ workforce: source
• Samsung launches Galaxy S3 to cement smartphone supremacy
• Dragon Brush brings a traditional Chinese folktale to life on iOS
• Huawei denies getting illegal Chinese subsidies
• Foxconn reportedly begins taking orders for the Apple TV
• Cloud Photo Sync Chronicles Adventures of Snatched iPhone [VIDEO]
• Facebook smartphone could come by next year: report
• Silicon Valley entrepreneur lived at AOL office
• Three million LTE LG smartphones sold worldwide
• Powerful "Flame" cyber weapon found in Iran
• New York is vying to become global high-tech hub
• Facebook in Talks to Acquire Face.com for 'Tens of Millions' [REPORT]
• RIM loses another senior executive
• June Movie Preview: Summer Blockbuster's Get Social
• Chavez notches up three million Twitter followers
• RIM's top lawyer joins parade of resignations
• LG announces 5-inch 1080p HD display for smartphones
• Mark Zuckerberg makes surprise cameo on Chinese TV
• Zuckerberg makes unlikely cameo on Chinese TV
• Bad Tech Etiquette To Avoid at Work
• Nearly one million iOS devices jailbroken over holiday weekend
• If You Work at RIM, You Might Want to Start Packing Your Desk
• Do We Really Need a Facebook Phone?
• Japan's Renesas ups chip outsourcing to Taiwan giant
• Are These the Best Startup Perks You've Ever Seen?
• Strong orders for next-gen Apple MacBooks cause supply chain labor shortages
• Facebook phone could be reality before end of the year
• Top iPad apps: Cut the Rope: Experiments HD, Subway Surfers
• Internet Defense League Fights For Freedom Across the Web [VIDEO]

RIM loses another senior executive Posted: 28 May 2012 01:53 PM PDT Struggling BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion Ltd. said Monday that it is losing another senior executive as its chief legal officer is retiring from the company after 12 years.

Mark Zuckerberg makes surprise cameo on Chinese TV Posted: 28 May 2012 12:11 PM PDT Social media sites and blogs have lit up after eagle-eyed viewers spotted a surprise cameo in a Chinese TV documentary about the country's police force: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his now-wife, Priscilla Chan.

Facebook in Talks to Acquire Face.com for 'Tens of Millions' [REPORT] Posted: 28 May 2012 02:25 PM PDT Facebook may be about to acquire facial recognition tool Face.com, according to multiple reports.

Microsoft appoints first official Iraq distributor Posted: 28 May 2012 06:11 AM PDT Microsoft Corp. said Monday it has appointed a local company to distribute its products in Iraq, calling the move a sign of progress for the country.

Astronauts enter world's 1st private supply ship Posted: 26 May 2012 09:43 AM PDT Space station astronauts floated into the Dragon on Saturday, a day after its heralded arrival as the world's first commercial supply ship.

New telescope to be in South Africa, Australia Posted: 25 May 2012 05:19 PM PDT Australia and South Africa will share hosting of a giant radio telescope made up of thousands of separate dishes and intended to help scientists figure out the make-up of the universe, the international consortium overseeing the project announced Friday.

Dragon Brush brings a traditional Chinese folktale to life on iOS Posted: 28 May 2012 07:30 PM PDT From the creative team that brought Mo Willems' Penguin to the App Store with Don't Let This Pigeon Run This App! comes a luscious new digital children's fable, Dragon Brush.

Panasonic mulls shrinking HQ workforce: source Posted: 28 May 2012 08:41 PM PDT TOKYO (Reuters) - Panasonic Corp, which posted a record net loss in the business year just ended, is mulling fresh job losses on top of 17,000 recent lay-offs as the Japanese electronics conglomerate looks to engineer a profit rebound, a source said. Following restructuring at its plants and other facilities, next in line is the company's headquarters, the source with knowledge of the deliberations said. Rather than redundancies, however, staff may be shifted to other units, subsidiaries or affiliates, the source added. ...

Samsung launches Galaxy S3 to cement smartphone supremacy Posted: 28 May 2012 07:51 PM PDT SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co launches its latest Galaxy S smartphone in Europe on Tuesday, with the third generation model expected to be even more successful than its predecessor, which helped the South Korean company topple Apple Inc as the world's top smartphone maker. The S3, which tracks the user's eye movements to keep the screen from dimming or turning off while in use, hits stores in 28 European and Middle East countries, including Germany and Britain, as Samsung aims to widen the gap with Apple months ahead of its rival's new iPhone, expected in the third quarter. ...

Dragon Brush brings a traditional Chinese folktale to life on iOS Posted: 28 May 2012 07:30 PM PDT From the creative team that brought Mo Willems' Penguin to the App Store with Don't Let This Pigeon Run This App! comes a luscious new digital children's fable, Dragon Brush.

Huawei denies getting illegal Chinese subsidies Posted: 28 May 2012 06:51 PM PDT HONG KONG (Reuters) - Huawei Technologies Co Ltd denied on Tuesday that it benefited from illegal Chinese government subsidies after a media report said the European Union planned to take action against Chinese telecom equipment makers in an anti-dumping case. The Financial Times quoted unidentified EU officials and executives as saying that the commission had been gathering evidence in a case against China-based Huawei and ZTE Corp. ...

Foxconn reportedly begins taking orders for the Apple TV Posted: 28 May 2012 05:26 PM PDT Apple's Chinese manufacturing partner Foxconn has reportedly begun accepting orders to build an Apple TV set, according to Chinese news website Sina. The publication's sources claim the long rumored iTV is currently in the "trial production stage," however more details were not given. Earlier this month Foxconn's CEO denied that his company would soon begin manufacturing a television for Apple. It has long been rumored that the Cupertino-based company was looking to enter the TV market with an HDTV that will reportedly look much like the company's current LED Cinema Display. The device is said to feature an aluminum casing, iOS, Siri voice controls and an iSight camera for FaceTime video chats. Earlier reports claim that the device would debut later this year, however

Cloud Photo Sync Chronicles Adventures of Snatched iPhone [VIDEO] Posted: 28 May 2012 04:31 PM PDT When Katy McCaffrey's iPhone turned up missing at the end of her Disney cruise, she feared she'd never see it again.

Facebook smartphone could come by next year: report Posted: 28 May 2012 04:06 PM PDT Facebook hopes to release its own smartphone by next year, as the newly public social networking giant looks to boost its revenue in the mobile Internet market, the New York Times reported Monday.

Silicon Valley entrepreneur lived at AOL office Posted: 28 May 2012 03:37 PM PDT Some of Silicon Valley's most successful entrepreneurs are known for their humble beginnings. Internet startup founder Eric Simons is following that tradition.

Three million LTE LG smartphones sold worldwide Posted: 28 May 2012 03:18 PM PDT Worldwide sales of 4G LTE smartphones from LG have surpassed three million units, the company announced over the weekend. The South Korean manufacturer released its first 4G LTE smartphone in the United States on Verizon Wireless last year, the Revolution, and has since expanded its market to Europe and Asia. LG is currently selling LTE smartphones in 10 countries and plans double its reach by the end of 2012. The company's Optimus LTE handset recently surpassed one million units sold in Korea, becoming LG's first smartphone to achieve the feat. Read

Powerful "Flame" cyber weapon found in Iran Posted: 28 May 2012 03:17 PM PDT BOSTON (Reuters) - Security experts said on Monday a highly sophisticated computer virus is infecting computers in Iran and other Middle East countries and may have been deployed at least five years ago to engage in state-sponsored cyber espionage. Evidence suggest that the virus, dubbed Flame, may have been built on behalf of the same nation or nations that commissioned the Stuxnet worm that attacked Iran's nuclear program in 2010, according to Kaspersky Lab, the Russian cyber security software maker that took credit for discovering the infections. ...

New York is vying to become global high-tech hub Posted: 28 May 2012 02:48 PM PDT Just as a trench dug in the 1800s created a shortcut to the nation's interior and helped make New York a global trading hub, the city is now hoping for another "Erie Canal moment" with a high-tech research complex to be built on an island in the East River.

Facebook in Talks to Acquire Face.com for 'Tens of Millions' [REPORT] Posted: 28 May 2012 02:25 PM PDT Facebook may be about to acquire facial recognition tool Face.com, according to multiple reports.

RIM loses another senior executive Posted: 28 May 2012 01:53 PM PDT Struggling BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion Ltd. said Monday that it is losing another senior executive as its chief legal officer is retiring from the company after 12 years.

June Movie Preview: Summer Blockbuster's Get Social Posted: 28 May 2012 01:29 PM PDT The summer movie season is already off to a bang, thanks to the success of The Avengers and Men in Black 3, but the action on the silver screen is really going to heat up in June.

Chavez notches up three million Twitter followers Posted: 28 May 2012 01:09 PM PDT Firebrand Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez now has more than three million followers on Twitter, making him the most popular Latin American politician on the site -- a milestone he celebrated on Monday.

RIM's top lawyer joins parade of resignations Posted: 28 May 2012 12:57 PM PDT TORONTO (Reuters) - The top lawyer at Research In Motion Ltd has resigned and will soon leave the struggling BlackBerry maker, RIM said on Monday, joining a parade of long-time company executives to depart since Thorsten Heins took over as CEO earlier this year. The loss of Chief Legal Officer Karima Bawa - who litigated numerous patent disputes and helped write many of RIM's commercial deals - follows the resignation of RIM's head of global sales, Patrick Spence, last week. "Thorsten Heins is reframing the RIM organization. ...

LG announces 5-inch 1080p HD display for smartphones Posted: 28 May 2012 12:38 PM PDT LG Display on Monday announced the world's first full HD LCD smartphone display. The 5-inch panel features the highest resolution to date and is based on AH-IPS technology. The screen has a whopping 440 pixels-per-inch and a 1920 x 1080 HD resolution. For comparison, Apple's 3.5-inch class-leading Retina Display features a pixel density of 326 ppi. "As smartphones become increasingly valued for how well they do multimedia and with the rapid growth of LTE enabling faster large file transfers, our new 5″ Full HD LCD panel is certain to prove a significant asset to the mobile market," said Sang-Deok Yeo, CTO and Executive Vice President of LG Display. "With the world's highest resolution smartphone display, LG Display continues to remain a

Mark Zuckerberg makes surprise cameo on Chinese TV Posted: 28 May 2012 12:11 PM PDT Social media sites and blogs have lit up after eagle-eyed viewers spotted a surprise cameo in a Chinese TV documentary about the country's police force: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his now-wife, Priscilla Chan.

Zuckerberg makes unlikely cameo on Chinese TV Posted: 28 May 2012 11:51 AM PDT Social media sites and blogs have lit up after eagle-eyed viewers spotted a surprise cameo in a Chinese TV documentary about the country's police force: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his now-wife, Priscilla Chan.

Bad Tech Etiquette To Avoid at Work Posted: 28 May 2012 11:17 AM PDT Angie Reed is a VoIP expert and Switchvox UC Product Marketing Manager at Digium, the creator and sponsor of Asterisk, the world's most widely used open source communications software. Follow her @switchvox and read her blog.

Nearly one million iOS devices jailbroken over holiday weekend Posted: 28 May 2012 11:01 AM PDT Absinthe 2.0, the untethered jailbreak solution for iOS 5.1.1, has already been downloaded almost one million times. According to the Chronic Dev Team, 973,086 devices had been jailbroken as of Sunday evening, 211,401 of which were Apple's newest iPad. The program, which was released to the public on Friday and runs on a computer connected to an iOS device, is compatible with A4 devices like the iPhone 3GS and iPad as well as A5 and A5X-powered devices such as the new iPad and iPhone 4. It is not compatible, however, with iPad 2 models powered by Apple's newer 32-nanometer chipset, though this updated iPad 2 only became quietly available a few months ago. Read

If You Work at RIM, You Might Want to Start Packing Your Desk Posted: 28 May 2012 11:01 AM PDT If you work for RIM, you might want to start polishing off your resume and start slipping your name to other employers. The Globe and Mail and AllThingsD are reporting that RIM is planning on cutting over 2,000 jobs from its 16,500 strong workforce. The layoffs are expected to come on June 1, a day prior to the end of RIM's first quarter.

Do We Really Need a Facebook Phone? Posted: 28 May 2012 10:38 AM PDT Facebook is apparently trying to develop their own smartphone again, and they're prompting us to wonder if we really need one, and if a smartphone is really the answer to their problems.

Japan's Renesas ups chip outsourcing to Taiwan giant Posted: 28 May 2012 09:53 AM PDT Japan's Renesas Electronics said Monday it will boost the outsourcing of its chip production to Taiwan's TSMC, but it declined comment on reports it would cut about 30 percent of its staff.

Are These the Best Startup Perks You've Ever Seen? Posted: 28 May 2012 09:10 AM PDT This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.

Strong orders for next-gen Apple MacBooks cause supply chain labor shortages Posted: 28 May 2012 09:10 AM PDT Strong orders of Apple's next-generation MacBook laptops are causing labor shortages within the Cupertino, California-based consumer electronics company's Asian supply chain, a recent report claims. Citing multiple unnamed sources, Digitimes on Monday reports that heavier than expected MacBook orders have created labor shortages so serious at some Apple suppliers that they have been forced to outsource orders to meet shipment schedules. The report notes that May and June are typically slower months among PC component suppliers in eastern China, however Apple's orders have caused recent labor shortage issues to grow more serious. New MacBook laptops and iMac all-in-one PCs will reportedly launch this summer. Apple's new notebook computers are expected to be thinner than previous models, and both the MacBook Pro and

Facebook phone could be reality before end of the year Posted: 28 May 2012 08:45 AM PDT Facebook could launch its own-branded smartphone before the end of 2012, according to an article published online Sunday, May 27 in The New York Times. The report suggests that the social network has called upon the services of several software and hardware engineers who worked on the iPhone and iPad for Apple.

Top iPad apps: Cut the Rope: Experiments HD, Subway Surfers Posted: 28 May 2012 08:12 AM PDT A new version of the hit game Cut the Rope is topping charts in the USA, the UK, France, Japan and Germany. The platform game Subway Surfers is popular in Australia and Italy. Details of these and other top free iPad applications by country* for the week, by number of downloads, recorded on May 28 can be found below.

Internet Defense League Fights For Freedom Across the Web [VIDEO] Posted: 28 May 2012 08:08 AM PDT A coalition of activists are building a network to help fight legislation and other measures that threaten Internet freedom.

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