| Netflix's monthly video streaming tops 1B hours Posted: 03 Jul 2012 02:16 PM PDT  Netflix subscribers watched more than 1 billion hours of online video last month as the advent of high-speed Internet connections and high-powered mobile devices change people's viewing habits.
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| Olympic experts sure they can repel cyber threats Posted: 03 Jul 2012 11:04 AM PDT  Vital computer systems for London's 2012 Olympic Games have come under repeated cyber-attacks — but only from hackers who were invited to join in thousands of hours of security tests.
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| Peru's ambitious laptop program gets mixed grades Posted: 03 Jul 2012 01:37 PM PDT  Peru's distribution of more than 800,000 low-cost laptop computers to children across the country easily ranks as one of the world's most ambitious efforts to leverage digital technology in the fight against poverty.
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| Ice Cream Sandwich is the third favorite flavor of Android Posted: 03 Jul 2012 01:52 PM PDT Although Google continues to make improvements to its Android mobile operating system, users of devices designed to run it are still a few steps behind. According to the latest stats released by the search engine giant, only 10% of Android … Continue reading → |
| Verizon claims the U.S. Constitution gives it the right to lower your data speeds Posted: 03 Jul 2012 01:48 PM PDT If the idea of an internet service provider selectively restricting your data speeds doesn't sit well, this probably won't either: Verizon feels that it should be allowed to tweak your bandwidth whenever it wants, and not only that, the company … Continue reading → |
| How to Take Photos of Fireworks With Your Phone Posted: 03 Jul 2012 04:12 PM PDT  1. Location
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| Peru's ambitious laptop program gets mixed grades Posted: 03 Jul 2012 01:37 PM PDT Peru's distribution of more than 800,000 low-cost laptop computers to children across the country easily ranks as one of the world's most ambitious efforts to leverage digital technology in the fight against poverty. |
| Activision brings online 'Call of Duty' to China Posted: 03 Jul 2012 10:25 AM PDT Activision is bringing its popular "Call of Duty" series to China as a free online game. |
| Conduct code for unmanned aircraft is unveiled Posted: 03 Jul 2012 11:12 AM PDT A trade group for drone aircraft manufacturers and operators has released the industry's first code of conduct in response to growing privacy concerns. |
| Gas Guru helps you fill up your car on the cheap Posted: 03 Jul 2012 11:00 AM PDT Compared to the past few years, this summer has brought with it a little bit of relief at the pump. In a time when gas prices are usually soaring, they've actually been falling. But even at a lower-than-normal price, it's never bad to save a few bucks where you can. That's the idea behind Gas Guru, an app that gives you the low-down on where to find the cheapest gas. |
| Toshiba hit with $87 million fine over LCD price fixing scandal Posted: 03 Jul 2012 08:30 PM PDT  A Northern California jury on Tuesday found Toshiba guilty of conspiring to fix prices of liquid crystal displays. Customers brought a civil lawsuit against the Japanese company and other LCD providers earlier this year alleging anti-competitive practices. While most other defendants settled the case out of court, Toshiba decided to fight the allegations in a San Francisco federal court. The company will now be forced to return $70 million to consumers who bought various products, and pay $17 million to manufacturers who used its LCD panels. "There was strong evidence that Toshiba participated in the price-fixing conspiracy through communications with other TFT-LCD manufacturers, and that it received future pricing information from its competitors, shared its own future information, and was aware
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| Tablet shipments to overtake notebooks in 2016, NPD says Posted: 03 Jul 2012 07:05 PM PDT  Tablets may indeed herald the coming of a "post-PC world," but that world won't arrive for another few years, NPD said on Tuesday. According to the latest NPD DisplaySearch figures, tablet shipments in 2016 will top 350 million units, putting them ahead of notebook shipments for the first time ever. NPD projects that tablet shipments will have a compound annual growth rate of 28% over the next five years as the total number of shipments rises from 121 million in 2012 to 416 million in 2017. Notebooks, meanwhile, will see shipments grow from 208 million in 2012 to 393 million in 2017. Tablet Shipments to Surpass Notebook Shipments in 2016 Total Mobile PC Shipments Exceed 800M Units by 2017 SANTA
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| Correction: Unmanned Aircraft-Rules story Posted: 03 Jul 2012 06:18 PM PDT In a story July 2 about a conduct code for operators of unmanned aircraft, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Boeing Co. subsidiary Insitu builds drones in Port Orange, Fla. An Insitu employee who was quoted in the story works for the company in that city, but drones are not built there. |
| Netflix subscribers streamed more than one billion hours of video in June Posted: 03 Jul 2012 06:00 PM PDT  Netflix on Tuesday revealed that its subscribers streamed more than one billion hours of video for the first time ever in June. The company's CEO Reed Hastings announced the milestone and congratulated his team with a post on his Facebook page. "Netflix monthly viewing exceeded 1 billion hours for the first time ever in June," the executive revealed. "When House of Cards and Arrested Development debut, we'll blow these records away." The 1 billion hours of collective viewing comes to a monthly average of 38 hours per streaming subscriber according to the Associated Press, an increase from 28 hours per customer in December. Netflix has more than 26 million streaming subscribers in the United States, Canada, Latin America, the United Kingdom
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| U.S. Judge rejects Samsung request to lift stay on Nexus sales Posted: 03 Jul 2012 05:54 PM PDT  (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Tuesday rejected a request by Samsung Electronics Co. to lift a pre-trial injunction against sales of its Galaxy Nexus phone, another legal setback for the South Korean firm ahead of an upcoming court battle with Apple Inc.. Last week, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California, granted Apple's request to block sales of the smartphone. Samsung had asked the court to stay the injunction pending resolution of an appeal. On Monday, Koh rejected a similar request to lift a ban on the U.S. sales of Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10. ...
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| Nexus 7 crushes Kindle Fire’s battery performance, says iFixit Posted: 03 Jul 2012 05:15 PM PDT  The repair wizards at iFixit have gotten hold of Google's Nexus 7 tablet and have found that it absolutely bludgeons Amazon's rival Kindle Fire tablet in terms of battery performance. According to iFixit, Google's new tablet has "a 4326 mAh, 16 Wh battery that can last 9:49 hours" or more than two hours longer than the Kindle Fire, which "has a 4400 mAh, 16.28 Wh battery " that "only lasts 7:42 hours." The results for the Nexus 7′s battery performance were more mixed when pitted against Apple's newest iPad models as iFixit says that the new iPad batteries last "9:52 hours for HSPA and 9:37 hours for LTE." However, iFixit also notes that the new iPad's battery is "significantly larger at
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| 16 Photos From Our Readers' Commutes Posted: 03 Jul 2012 04:34 PM PDT  Anthony Quintano
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| Apple loses bid to ban HTC phones Posted: 03 Jul 2012 04:30 PM PDT  Although Apple scored a big victory in its efforts to muck up Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 sales last week, it will have no such satisfaction for HTC Android devices just yet. All Things D reports that the International Trade Commission has denied Apple's request for an emergency ban on "pretty much any HTC smartphone or tablet running on Google's Android operating system." This doesn't mean that HTC is out of the woods all together, however, since the ITC has agreed to investigate whether HTC has been skirting rules around previous import bans by giving misleading statements to customs officials, claiming that the company had already altered their phones' technology to avoid infringing on Apple's patents. Read
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| How to Take Photos of Fireworks With Your Phone Posted: 03 Jul 2012 04:12 PM PDT 1. Location |
| Virgin Mobile launches contract-free HTC One V for just $199 Posted: 03 Jul 2012 03:45 PM PDT  The chin is in at Virgin Mobile — the Sprint-owned prepaid wireless carrier has quietly launched one of HTC's latest and greatest smartphones, the entry-level-but-quite-capable HTC One V. Complete with a throwback Android chin beneath the device's 3.7-inch WVGA display, the One V features a 1GHz Snapdragon S2 processor, a 5-megapixel camera with HTC ImageChip technology, 4GB of internal storage, microSDHC support, Beats Audio, 512MB of RAM and Sense 4 on top of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Virgin Mobile subscribers new and old can now purchase the sleek smartphone for just $199 without any contract, and plans start at just $35 per month for 300 voice minutes and unlimited messaging and data, though data speeds are throttled after 2.5GB of usage
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| The iPad Mini, Apple's Tablet Trump Card, Is Coming This Year [REPORT] Posted: 03 Jul 2012 03:36 PM PDT ![The iPad Mini, Apple's Tablet Trump Card, Is Coming This Year [REPORT]](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_v4b8LfwSqwoC-9J-E9SsluFzYhGAXspWLYltsQy0ya9g8Nj5gefzOZgU_whKcw5SbBo9xtRev-_2z2hE-jAf-XBzRVJj4KqmzE3mT4fZN_WxlYbjnMlHxfTa5kWyqeDSQQ50v-b2RZWumqUwjZ0cMYG0gtNFAhfnaegyYfHL4tcpUiU-kIEkdh2HZb8FaMiqKkVr5Y2H6KL51qtTUoJrTw3p442MrcC28OX1vK9PETEKf2-FQo6qEly4fy_RwVrR-oh-U=s0-d "The iPad Mini, Apple's Tablet Trump Card, Is Coming This Year [REPORT]") is preparing to release a smaller version of the iPad in time for the 2012 holiday season, according to a report just weeks after competitors and announced their own tablet offerings.
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| Toshiba hit with $87 million verdict on LCD prices Posted: 03 Jul 2012 03:23 PM PDT  (Reuters) - Japan's Toshiba Corp conspired to fix prices in the liquid crystal display market and is liable for $87 million in damages, a jury in northern California decided. Customers brought a civil class action lawsuit against Toshiba and other LCD producers, alleging anticompetitive practices. Most other defendants settled the case, while Toshiba decided to take it to trial in San Francisco federal court. Toshiba must pay $70 million to consumers who bought finished products, and $17 million to manufacturers that used LCD panels, according to a court document filed on Tuesday. ...
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| HBO Go app updated to support Ice Cream Sandwich tablets Posted: 03 Jul 2012 03:00 PM PDT  HBO on Monday updated its popular content streaming app to support tablets running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. HBO GO allows HBO subscribers with select cable providers to stream HBO content such as Game of Thrones, True Blood, The Sopranos and a wide range of movies to their mobile devices. The application was previously available for Android 4.0-powered handsets, although tablets were suspiciously left unsupported until HBO last month updated the app with support for Amazon's Kindle Fire. The latest update, however, does not include support for Google's upcoming Nexus 7 tablet — the first device to run Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. Read
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| Spotify For BlackBerry Is Here. Does It Matter? Posted: 03 Jul 2012 02:54 PM PDT  Already available for the iPhone, Android, Windows Phone, Symbian devices and even the ill-fated Palm series, Spotify officially arrived in the BlackBerry App World Tuesday.
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| Tweeting your debit card? New account aims to shame you Posted: 03 Jul 2012 02:48 PM PDT  A six-week-old Twitter account is making apparent progress in its mission to get people to stop tweeting pictures of their bank cards, often with full numbers visible.
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| Twitter shares info on gov't demands for user data Posted: 03 Jul 2012 02:45 PM PDT Twitter will provide biannual reports about U.S. and foreign government demands for information about its users, just as Google has been doing for the past two years. |
| Euro 2012: Who Won on Twitter? [INFOGRAPHIC] Posted: 03 Jul 2012 02:20 PM PDT ![Euro 2012: Who Won on Twitter? [INFOGRAPHIC]](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_tZwMHXoIKCq5ALFbJeHvYnKvun2-8kMdEJWRPXumZMhhASDsyOhdzM9uHP2JrCuP4NVxkFzrI1Vk46xAGD7kFhaXPm0qX8nsW-z_wvS7TcaJIKGBcB3zugaIhkAXmn6ickcK3t55RA9wELdN7CirQLUXw4EaOnz6OaQu9Sgddmg296Yk9tOAu6kLD5bmjhfNjiM6ol5huKZYGqMSTbCvQbUbuo_ulPjuevRQNHBCvRA_LHhqZk2LFWKyFek0tnlMOK20pGcdWUTH4cw5CbZ_7rpZpGHglVCyMTcpSzr9uNKHwqi5MYXZkYjo-mfnnc4TEuvsjIy-JNMo_XsA=s0-d "Euro 2012: Who Won on Twitter? [INFOGRAPHIC]") is history, with Spain taking home its third straight major international tournament.
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| Netflix's monthly video streaming tops 1B hours Posted: 03 Jul 2012 02:16 PM PDT Netflix subscribers watched more than 1 billion hours of online video last month as the advent of high-speed Internet connections and high-powered mobile devices change people's viewing habits. |
| Google+ is an uninviting digital man cave, say female technologists Posted: 03 Jul 2012 02:15 PM PDT  Google+ was apparently designed by guys who have never lived with a woman. Or, at least that's the impression that five female technologists gave during a panel at Google I/O last week, Wired reports. During a panel focused on designing web pages that appeal to women, the designers were asked by an audience member why men outnumber women on Google+ by a ratio of around 2 to 1. The following are some choice responses as reported by Wired. "I think the seed of that community is very very important. Polyvore was seeded on fashion forums," said Jess Lee, an entrepreneur who founded the fashion-photo community website Polyvore. "Google+ was actually seeded with Google employees, so it was tech, and honestly mostly male. That's part of
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| 'Seventeen' Agrees to Feature 'Real Girls' Following Online Petition Posted: 03 Jul 2012 02:07 PM PDT  Seventeen magazine has pledged to always feature "real girls" in its pages following a popular online petition from 14-year-old Julia Bluhm (pictured center).
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| RealNetworks CEO Nielsen leaves after 8 months Posted: 03 Jul 2012 01:58 PM PDT Digital media provider RealNetworks Inc. said Tuesday that President and CEO Thomas Nielsen resigned after less than a year with the company. |
| An Alternative to Embryonic Stem Cells; Some Fish Can Handle Climate Change Posted: 03 Jul 2012 01:56 PM PDT  Discovered: An alternative to embryonic stem cells, some fish can handle all that CO2, a photo of an atom's shadow, and the salmon aren't spawning so much anymore. An alternative to embryonic stem cells. Here's something for the anti-stem cell crowd: Amniotic fluid -- a.k.a birthing goo -- might act as a replacement for embryonic stem cells, which some people don't approve of for ethical reasons. ...
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| Mermaid Myth: Government Blog Debunks 'Aquatic Humanoids' Posted: 03 Jul 2012 01:48 PM PDT  Get ready for a shock: mermaids don't exist, according to the U.S. government's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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| GM talking with Facebook about advertising again: sources Posted: 03 Jul 2012 01:46 PM PDT  DETROIT/SAN FRANCISO (Reuters) - General Motors Co and Facebook Inc are discussing the return of the U.S. automaker as a paid advertiser almost two months after GM said it would stop running ads on the social networking website, sources close to the situation said on Tuesday. Although the two companies remain far from reaching an agreement, Facebook executives have assiduously courted the world's largest carmaker. One source said Facebook was not pushing for GM's immediate return, but offered to provide data showing the effectiveness of the website's paid ads. ...
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| Cartoon Explains Higgs Boson [VIDEO] Posted: 03 Jul 2012 01:38 PM PDT So what is this thing all about again? |
| Peru's ambitious laptop program gets mixed grades Posted: 03 Jul 2012 01:37 PM PDT Peru's distribution of more than 800,000 low-cost laptop computers to children across the country easily ranks as one of the world's most ambitious efforts to leverage digital technology in the fight against poverty. |
| Verizon laying off 950 workers at Houston call center Posted: 03 Jul 2012 01:30 PM PDT  Verizon Wireless notified one of its call centers in Houston, Texas about plans to close the facility. The center houses 943 employees, all of whom will lose their current jobs. Verizon spokeswoman Sheryl Sellaway told The Wall Street Journal that the total number of layoffs will likely be less, however, as some employees may accept other jobs within the company. The nation's largest carrier in March announced plans close three different call centers in Texas, Michigan and Washington. A total of 2,600 workers will be affected by the closures, although Verizon has invited all employees to relocate and has offered to pay those who move to new centers $10,000 in after-tax dollars. Those who do not continue with the company will be
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| Delaware Law to Give Students Increased Online Privacy Posted: 03 Jul 2012 01:18 PM PDT  Delaware has become the first state to passed a law banning public and private schools from requiring students to give administration access to social media accounts.
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| Samsung loses appeal to lift Galaxy Tab 10.1 sales ban Posted: 03 Jul 2012 01:05 PM PDT  A judge with the United States District Court for Northern California has rejected Samsung's appeal to a lift a sales ban of its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet, Reuters reported. The rulings is the third and latest legal setback to hit the South Korean manufacturer over the past week. "Samsung is disappointed with the court's decision that denied our motion to stay," the company said in a statement. "We believe today's ruling will ultimately reduce the availability of superior technological features to consumers in the United States." U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh on Friday also banned sales of Samsung's Galaxy Nexus smartphone; the move reportedly enraged Google, which then rushed to its partner's aid. Read
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