Google phasing out 'iGoogle' in latest purge

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• Google phasing out 'iGoogle' in latest purge
• Malware may knock thousands off Internet on Monday
• Solar, wind energy a missed opportunity for Cuba
• Move over Google: Apple granted patent for Google Glass-like tech
• Gap between Mac and PC sales the smallest in 15 years
• Live Shark Feed will Take a Bite Out of Your Evening [VIDEO]
• Solar, wind energy a missed opportunity for Cuba
• Al-Jazeera show's Twitter account hacked
• WikiLeaks has data from 2.4 million Syrian emails
• Kingdom Rush tops iPhone Games of the Week
• U.S. online job demand rises in June
• New slimmer PlayStation 3 in the works, FCC docs suggest
• Samsung tips record-high profit for 2nd quarter
• Mobile ad spending may triple to $7.1 billion by 2015, study projects
• Virus could black out nearly 250,000 PCs
• Seagate sees revenue below estimates
• Samsung's Galaxy powers record $5.9 billion profit
• Motorola Atrix HD unveiled: 4.5-inch display, Ice Cream Sandwich and more
• Samsung's Galaxy powers record $5.9 billion profit; euro a worry
• International spam botnet found to be infecting Android devices
• Hot New Events in Social Media, Mobile and Dev Worlds
• Apple's Jobs tapped France 3615 for pre-internet ideas
• Human Rights Council backs Internet freedom
• Live Shark Feed will Take a Bite Out of Your Evening [VIDEO]
• Seagate shares slip on weak revenue outlook
• Judge in Apple patent case says patent system is a mess
• Yahoo CEO search down to Levinsohn, Hulu's Kilar
• Bombfellows! This Site Does Your Clothes Picking For You
• Patient Cat Suffers Drunk 'Kiss From a Rose' [VIDEO]
• Record Breaking U.S. Droughts; Higher Rate of Childhood Diabetes in China than U.S.
• Developer hacks Raspberry Pi to play Super Nintendo games
• Google+ Hangouts Get Closed Captioning, Transcripts
• Emulex to pay Broadcom fees in partial settlement
• Prices of Facebook stock since long-awaited IPO
• Microsoft stumbles into crucial financial year
• The Unscientific Things That the Higgs Boson Taught Us
• Google phasing out 'iGoogle' in latest purge
• Verizon customers report getting Galaxy S III early
• Archos Unveils 97 Carbon -- an iPad-sized Android Tablet for $250

Google phasing out 'iGoogle' in latest purge Posted: 05 Jul 2012 01:12 PM PDT Google is phasing out a service that allows millions of people to personalize its home page with applications such as weather updates and stock quotes.

Malware may knock thousands off Internet on Monday Posted: 05 Jul 2012 11:58 AM PDT Despite repeated alerts, tens of thousands of Americans may still lose their Internet service Monday unless they do a quick check of their computers for malware that could have taken over their machines more than a year ago.

Solar, wind energy a missed opportunity for Cuba Posted: 05 Jul 2012 12:13 PM PDT The sleepy country setting that farmer Juan Alonso calls home hasn't changed much since he was born 74 years ago, with the two rustic wooden houses nestled among palm trees against a backdrop of green hills and clear skies.

Move over Google: Apple granted patent for Google Glass-like tech Posted: 05 Jul 2012 06:54 PM PDT One of the most anticipated pieces of tech of next year would almost certainly have to be Google Glass, the tech giant's risky gamble in the yet-to-be-proven augmented reality space. But Google is far from the only tech giant eyeing … Continue reading →

Gap between Mac and PC sales the smallest in 15 years Posted: 05 Jul 2012 06:49 PM PDT Apple has been on one hell of a tear lately. The company's signature iPhone dominates the smartphone market. Apple's new iPad is, by far, the best selling tablet being sold today. There's only one market where Apple is still playing … Continue reading →

Live Shark Feed will Take a Bite Out of Your Evening [VIDEO] Posted: 05 Jul 2012 03:58 PM PDT As if we needed more reasons to love sharks and the Internet. and Georgia Aquarium are teaming up to present you with , a live streaming video from the world's largest single aquarium habitat inside the world's largest aquarium.

Solar, wind energy a missed opportunity for Cuba Posted: 05 Jul 2012 12:13 PM PDT The sleepy country setting that farmer Juan Alonso calls home hasn't changed much since he was born 74 years ago, with the two rustic wooden houses nestled among palm trees against a backdrop of green hills and clear skies.

Al-Jazeera show's Twitter account hacked Posted: 05 Jul 2012 08:46 AM PDT The Twitter account of Al-Jazeera's English-language social media show has been hacked by supporters of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

WikiLeaks has data from 2.4 million Syrian emails Posted: 05 Jul 2012 12:34 PM PDT The secret-spilling group WikiLeaks said Thursday it was in the process of publishing material from 2.4 million Syrian emails — many of which it said came from official government accounts.

Kingdom Rush tops iPhone Games of the Week Posted: 05 Jul 2012 04:00 PM PDT This week's best game is an iPad transplant that has made its way over to the iPhone, with fantastic results. Kingdom Rush is an addictive tower defense title that will have players wrapped up for at least a few hours. You can read all about it below, along with four other titles we've been addicted to this week.

U.S. online job demand rises in June Posted: 05 Jul 2012 09:11 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - A monthly gauge of online labor demand in the United States rose in June, led by jobs available in the transportation and warehousing sector, while retail positions regained momentum, the operator of a job search website said on Friday. Monster Worldwide Inc, an online careers and recruiting firm, said its employment index rose 4.1 percent to 153 points from 147 in May. The index was up 4.8 percent from 146 a year ago. The index saw annual growth in 14 of the 20 industries and 19 of the 23 occupations monitored last month. ...

New slimmer PlayStation 3 in the works, FCC docs suggest Posted: 05 Jul 2012 08:30 PM PDT EuroGamer on Thursday pointed out some documents from the Federal Communications Commission's website showing diagrams of what may be the long-rumored "super-slim" rendition of the PlayStation 3. The documents in question refer to the a "CECH-4001x" PlayStation model, which Eurogamer says "could relate to a slimmer PS3″ that the publication "has heard will be announced at German game show Gamescom next month." With the next-generation PlayStation 4 not due to be released until late 2013, Eurogamer speculates that the super-slim PS3 may be Sony's way of breathing some new life into its six-year-old console to appeal to late adopters. Read

Samsung tips record-high profit for 2nd quarter Posted: 05 Jul 2012 07:48 PM PDT Samsung Electronics Co., the world's largest maker of memory chips, mobile phones, flat-screen panels and televisions, said Friday that its preliminary second-quarter operating profit jumped nearly 80 percent from a year ago to a record high. Analysts said the sharp rise was driven by Galaxy smartphone sales.

Mobile ad spending may triple to $7.1 billion by 2015, study projects Posted: 05 Jul 2012 07:15 PM PDT Get ready for even more annoying advertisements to pop up during Angry Birds. Per Mobile Business Briefing, a new study from Juniper Research projects that spending on advertisements delivered in mobile applications will grow from $2.4 billion in 2012 to $7.1 billion in 2015, a nearly three-fold increase over the span of three years. What's more, Juniper projects that advertising dollars spent on Mobile Messaging will increase eight-fold over the next five years, so users should get ready to deal with a lot more ads on their smartphones and tablets. Read

Virus could black out nearly 250,000 PCs Posted: 05 Jul 2012 07:15 PM PDT BOSTON (Reuters) - About a quarter-million computer users around the world are at risk of losing Internet access on Monday because of malicious software at the heart of a hacking scam that U.S. authorities shut down last November. Some blogs and news reports hyped the risk of an outage, warning of a potential "blackout" and describing the Alureon malware as the "Internet Doomsday" virus. Yet experts said only a tiny fraction of computer users were at risk, and Internet providers would be on call to quickly restore service. ...

Seagate sees revenue below estimates Posted: 05 Jul 2012 06:34 PM PDT (Reuters) - Electronic storage device maker Seagate Technology Plc said its fourth-quarter revenue is expected to have missed its forecast as a quality issue at a supplier affected production in its enterprise disk drive unit. The company, which competes with Western Digital Corp, said shipments fell by about 1.5 million units to about 66 million for the June quarter, squeezing gross margins. Seagate expects an adjusted gross margin of 33.6 percent. The company now expects to report revenue of $4.5 billion. It had forecast $5 billion. Analysts on average were expecting revenue of $4. ...

Samsung's Galaxy powers record $5.9 billion profit Posted: 05 Jul 2012 06:09 PM PDT SEOUL (Reuters) - Soaraway sales of the Galaxy smartphone drove record quarterly profit of $5.9 billion at Samsung Electronics, though the South Korean tech giant is sweating over how Europe's debt crisis is denting demand in its biggest market for televisions and home appliances. The flagship Galaxy smartphones are likely to have stretched their lead over rivals Apple and Nokia - despite a parts shortage that meant it struggled to keep up with stronger-than-expected demand for its latest S III model. ...

Motorola Atrix HD unveiled: 4.5-inch display, Ice Cream Sandwich and more Posted: 05 Jul 2012 06:00 PM PDT Motorola has published a landing page for the newest addition to its Atrix smartphone series, the Motorola Atrix HD. The device stacks up well in the specs department and features a 4.5-inch display screen with a resolution of 720 x 1280 pixels, an 8-megapixel rear-facing camera, a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera, a 1.5GHz dual-core processor, a 1,780 mAh Li Ion Polymer battery, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and 4G LTE connectivity. It's also 8.4 millimeters thin and weighs in at 140 grams. The device will run on AT&T's HSPA+ and LTE networks, although Motorola hasn't made availability or pricing information public just yet. However, previous rumors suggest the device will be released in July so it's unlikely Atrix fans will have to

Samsung's Galaxy powers record $5.9 billion profit; euro a worry Posted: 05 Jul 2012 04:57 PM PDT SEOUL (Reuters) - Soaraway sales of the Galaxy smartphone drove record quarterly profit of $5.9 billion at Samsung Electronics, though the South Korean tech giant is fretting over how Europe's debt crisis is denting demand in its biggest market for televisions and home appliances. In its April-June earnings guidance on Friday, Samsung, valued at $170 billion and the world's leading maker of TVs, smartphones and DRAM memory chips, estimated operating profit jumped 79 percent to 6.7 trillion won from a year ago - in line with an average forecast in a Reuters survey of 23 analysts. ...

International spam botnet found to be infecting Android devices Posted: 05 Jul 2012 04:45 PM PDT A Microsoft engineer on Tuesday identified a new international spam botnet that can access Yahoo! Mail accounts on Android devices. Terry Zink noted on a Microsoft blog that various spam emails included the signature, "Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android." The engineer then traced the IP addresses of the emails to various developing countries, such as Chile, Indonesia, Lebanon, Oman, Philippines, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Ukraine and Venezuela. "I am betting that the users of those phones downloaded some malicious Android app in order to avoid paying for a legitimate version and they got more than they bargained for," Zink said. "Either that or they acquired a rogue Yahoo Mail app." Android has been targeted before, with some reports claiming

Hot New Events in Social Media, Mobile and Dev Worlds Posted: 05 Jul 2012 04:45 PM PDT Summer's not even halfway done, but the events are already piling up for the fall. We're rounded up some great upcoming events from Mashable's below. Check out this selection of , where you'll have a chance to learn about fresh innovations in social media, mobile, dev and design. Our plans span the calendar and the globe, so there's definitely one that will suit your interests and needs.

Apple's Jobs tapped France 3615 for pre-internet ideas Posted: 05 Jul 2012 04:41 PM PDT PARIS (Reuters) - The man who turned Apple into a web-connected empire of consumer gadgets drew some of his inspiration from a table-top box that wired French households to networked information way before the arrival of mass Internet, a French telecoms engineer says. Long before hundreds of millions of homes worldwide began connecting to the Internet in the 1990s, France's Minitel box, the steam train of the online world, attracted the attention of Apple Inc's now deceased founder, Steve Jobs. ...

Human Rights Council backs Internet freedom Posted: 05 Jul 2012 04:15 PM PDT The UN Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva passed its first resolution on Internet freedom on Thursday with a call for all states to support individuals' rights online as much as offline.

Live Shark Feed will Take a Bite Out of Your Evening [VIDEO] Posted: 05 Jul 2012 03:58 PM PDT As if we needed more reasons to love sharks and the Internet. and Georgia Aquarium are teaming up to present you with , a live streaming video from the world's largest single aquarium habitat inside the world's largest aquarium.

Seagate shares slip on weak revenue outlook Posted: 05 Jul 2012 03:55 PM PDT Seagate Technology PLC warned Thursday that its quarterly revenue will fall below expectations, after shipping fewer hard drives than expected partly because of a quality issue with a supplier.

Judge in Apple patent case says patent system is a mess Posted: 05 Jul 2012 03:30 PM PDT Judge Richard Posner, last seen dismissing an Apple-Motorola patent dispute with prejudice, has added some more thoughts to the current state of the patent system through an interview with Reuters's Dan Levine. Among other things, Posner questions whether the tech industry even needs software patents at all in order to thrive. According to Levine, Posner thinks that tech companies don't have as strong a claim as other industries to having patents since "advances in software and other industries cost much less" than, say, research and development for pharmaceuticals. What's more, Posner believes tech companies that are first to market with important new innovations will get richly rewarded for their work even if other companies work to copy them shortly after. Finally, Posner contends

Yahoo CEO search down to Levinsohn, Hulu's Kilar Posted: 05 Jul 2012 03:20 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - The race to become Yahoo Inc's next chief executive appears to have come down to two candidates: current interim CEO Ross Levinsohn and Hulu CEO Jason Kilar. According to two sources with knowledge of the situation, Levinsohn and Kilar are the last names left on the Yahoo board's shortlist for permanent CEO of the company. Yahoo, the once iconic Internet company, has struggled to find its footing in the new digital world dominated by the likes of Apple, Google, Facebook, and Twitter. ...

Bombfellows! This Site Does Your Clothes Picking For You Posted: 05 Jul 2012 02:56 PM PDT The highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by . If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details .

Patient Cat Suffers Drunk 'Kiss From a Rose' [VIDEO] Posted: 05 Jul 2012 02:36 PM PDT "I was drunk. Please don't sue me," writes YouTube user Bard55 -- possibly the embarrassing human in this .

Record Breaking U.S. Droughts; Higher Rate of Childhood Diabetes in China than U.S. Posted: 05 Jul 2012 02:35 PM PDT Discovered: Record breaking U.S. droughts, China has more child diabetes than the U.S., things look bad for the coral reef, and a human-like robot eye.Surprise! Record breaking U.S. droughts. Kidding about the surprise part. This makes absolute sense to anyone living anywhere in America, where things have gotten so hot it hurts to think about going outside. That map down there shows our country's drought situation as of the end of June. And science now says that more of the U.S. ...

Developer hacks Raspberry Pi to play Super Nintendo games Posted: 05 Jul 2012 02:15 PM PDT A small, ugly computer playing old, primitive video games normally wouldn't be news. But most small, ugly computers aren't nearly as cool as the Raspberry Pi, the credit card-sized Linux computer that's being sold for just $35 by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. And now, petRockBlog founder Florian has made the Raspberry Pi even cooler by creating an adapter for the mini-computer that's capable of playing old-school 16-bit and 8-bit Nintendo games. In his blog post describing his project, Florian lists several key tasks he had to perform to make the Pi SNES-ready, such as creating a hardware controller interface, building a case that can contain the Pi and connect to traditional SNES controllers, and building a launch menu from scratch that

Google+ Hangouts Get Closed Captioning, Transcripts Posted: 05 Jul 2012 02:12 PM PDT You can read a transcript of what's going on in a Google+ Hangout in real-time -- Closed Captioning, essentially -- thanks to a new app released Thursday called Hangout Captions.

Emulex to pay Broadcom fees in partial settlement Posted: 05 Jul 2012 02:08 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - Emulex Corp has agreed to pay Broadcom Corp a $58 million license fee in a partial settlement of patent infringement litigation. The companies said on Thursday that the agreement would result in the dismissal of some Broadcom patent infringement claims against Emulex in the U.S. district court in Santa Ana, California. However, litigation regarding some other Broadcom patents was not dismissed as part of the agreement. Under the pact Emulex will receive a license to use three Broadcom patents and related families for fiber channel, a storage networking technology. ...

Prices of Facebook stock since long-awaited IPO Posted: 05 Jul 2012 01:47 PM PDT Facebook Inc.'s stock gained 27 cents, or nearly 1 percent, to close Thursday at $31.47. That's down 17 percent from its public offering price of $38.

Microsoft stumbles into crucial financial year Posted: 05 Jul 2012 01:39 PM PDT SEATTLE (Reuters) - An ugly first week for Microsoft Corp's new financial year, probably its most important to date, has done little to inspire confidence that the software giant can jumpstart a stubbornly stagnant share price. The world's largest software company, whose stock remains mired around $30, had prepared a multi-pronged assault to try and break into the crucial mobile computing space this year and take Apple Inc and Google Inc down a peg. But on Monday, it announced a $6. ...

The Unscientific Things That the Higgs Boson Taught Us Posted: 05 Jul 2012 01:28 PM PDT We're not even going to try and explain the significance of the Higgs boson  discovery  observation, but we did an find a lot of non-sciencey things that the Higgs boson taught us, which is a lot easier than explaining gammas, sigmas, and hadrons.

Google phasing out 'iGoogle' in latest purge Posted: 05 Jul 2012 01:12 PM PDT Google is phasing out a service that allows millions of people to personalize its home page with applications such as weather updates and stock quotes.

Verizon customers report getting Galaxy S III early Posted: 05 Jul 2012 01:10 PM PDT Some Verizon Wireless customers who preordered the Samsung Galaxy S III are getting a pleasant surprise this week as their new smartphones are arriving earlier than expected. "Dgstorm" over at Droid Forums says that "several users are reporting that they have already received their Samsung Galaxy S III pre-orders" as of Thursday, nearly a week before they were slated to arrive on July 10th. Dgstorm describes Verizon's early Galaxy S III delivery as a "classic case of under-promising, yet over-delivering" and says Verizon deserves credit for going "out of their way to take care of their customers." Read

Archos Unveils 97 Carbon -- an iPad-sized Android Tablet for $250 Posted: 05 Jul 2012 01:06 PM PDT Archos is taking on lower-priced tablets such as the Nexus 7 and Kindle Fire with its newest tab: The Archos 97 Carbon.

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