| Amazon gets FCC's OK to sell Kindle Fire 4G tablets Posted: 10 Oct 2012 04:43 PM PDT  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc received approval from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to sell its high-end Kindle Fire 4G tablets, a company spokeswoman said on Wednesday. Amazon unveiled the new tablets last month, but the devices had not secured FCC clearance. The company had to put disclaimers on Web pages and emails promoting the products. FCC approval is required for wireless communications devices to assure that they operate safely and do not improperly interfere with other signals. ...
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| Google versus Apple the industry's "defining fight": Schmidt Posted: 10 Oct 2012 08:57 PM PDT  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt expects more than a billion mobile devices around the world to be running its Android software within a year, intensifying a battle with Apple Inc that he called a "defining fight" of the industry. Schmidt said there were already four times as many Android mobile gadgets - smartphones and tablets made by the likes of Samsung Electronics - and that the scale of their battle was unprecedented. "We've not seen ... ...
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| Worker's injury casts harsh new light on Foxconn and China Posted: 10 Oct 2012 06:16 PM PDT  HONG KONG (Reuters) - Apple Inc's largest contract manufacturer has been pushing for a Chinese worker left brain-damaged in a factory accident to be removed from hospital in a case that throws a harsh new spotlight on labor rights in China. Zhang Tingzhen, 26, an employee of Taiwan firm Foxconn, had nearly half his brain surgically removed after surviving an electric shock at a plant in southern China a year ago. He remains in hospital under close observation by doctors, unable to speak or walk properly. ...
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| ThisLife makes online photo storage and organization a breeze Posted: 10 Oct 2012 10:17 AM PDT Use this cloud solution for sharing and organizing your photos and videos. |
| $13 Txtr Beagle Is World's Cheapest and Smallest E-Reader Posted: 10 Oct 2012 02:30 PM PDT  If you thought the Amazon Kindle Paperwhite e-reader was a great deal at $119, take a look at the Txtr Beagle Read|Only, undercutting it by more than a C-note -- it sells for a mere $13.
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| Crowdsourcing goes to Hollywood as Amazon makes movies Posted: 10 Oct 2012 04:03 AM PDT  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc is producing its own movies and TV programming using the consumer tracking and data crunching skills it developed while becoming the world's largest Internet retailer. Essentially, Amazon is crowdsourcing the creation of original content -- movies such as "Zombies versus Gladiators" and the children's TV series "Magic Monkey Billionaire." The retailer hopes the approach will result in more hits and fewer flops than the traditional Hollywood practice of filtering creative ideas through three-martini lunches with studio bosses and movie stars. ...
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| Lenovo knocks HP off top of global PC market: Gartner Posted: 10 Oct 2012 07:50 PM PDT  SAN FRANCISCO/HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's Lenovo Group Ltd edged out Silicon Valley icon Hewlett-Packard Co to become the world's No. 1 PC maker in the third quarter, according to data released by research house Gartner on Wednesday. A rival to Gartner, IDC, still ranks HP in the lead - but by less than half a percentage point - in terms of PC shipments worldwide. Both studies reinforce HP's struggles against rivals as new chief executive Meg Whitman tries to overhaul the stalled 73-year-old company. ...
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| ThisLife makes online photo storage and organization a breeze Posted: 10 Oct 2012 10:17 AM PDT Use this cloud solution for sharing and organizing your photos and videos. |
| Baseball fans are quick to adopt Apple’s Passbook, digital ticket sales on the rise Posted: 10 Oct 2012 08:59 PM PDT  Major League Baseball is a big fan of Apple (AAPL) when it comes to the company's Passbook application in iOS 6. In the final two weeks of the regular season, four teams tested Passbook and found that fans were quick to utilize the service. Out of all e-ticket buyers, 1,500, or 12%, chose to receive their tickets through Passbook when given the opportunity, Market Watch reported. "That adoption rate really floored us – there is no question our fans want digital tickets," CEO of MLB Advance Media Bob Bowman said. "Fans can use the tickets, forward them to a friend, resell them, or even donate them to charity – and they never get lost or left at home." Major League Baseball
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| Google versus Apple the industry's "defining fight": Schmidt Posted: 10 Oct 2012 08:57 PM PDT SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt expects more than a billion mobile devices around the world to be running its Android software within a year, intensifying a battle with Apple Inc that he called a "defining fight" of the industry. Schmidt said there were already four times as many Android mobile gadgets - smartphones and tablets made by the likes of Samsung Electronics - and that the scale of their battle was unprecedented. "We've not seen ... ... |
| Phony version of Bad Piggies installs malware; 82,000 victims so far Posted: 10 Oct 2012 07:54 PM PDT  This could be a new low for malware developers: Using the unbridled goodness of Bad Piggies to spread ad-injecting software. Security firm Barracuda Networks has spotted a rogue version of Rovio's latest game out in the wild that is offered as a free download but that also "installs a plug-in that displays additional advertisements in some popular websites" such as Yahoo (YHOO) and MSN that are viewed within the Chrome browser. The game is advertising itself as a free version of Bad Piggies under the moniker of "Angry Birds Bad Piggies," so the lesson here seems to be that it's worth forking over $1 to buy games from the safety of app stores if you don't want your computer to get
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| Lenovo knocks HP off top of global PC market: Gartner Posted: 10 Oct 2012 07:50 PM PDT SAN FRANCISCO/HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's Lenovo Group Ltd edged out Silicon Valley icon Hewlett-Packard Co to become the world's No. 1 PC maker in the third quarter, according to data released by research house Gartner on Wednesday. A rival to Gartner, IDC, still ranks HP in the lead - but by less than half a percentage point - in terms of PC shipments worldwide. Both studies reinforce HP's struggles against rivals as new chief executive Meg Whitman tries to overhaul the stalled 73-year-old company. ... |
| Virginia Beach McDonald’s provides complimentary iPad usage with burgers Posted: 10 Oct 2012 06:47 PM PDT  McDonald's (MCD) is the latest company to incorporate Apple (AAPL) iPads into its business. According to The Virginia-Pilot, a new McDonald's in Virginia Beach is the first U.S. fast food restaurant of its kind to provide free iPads for customers to use while they eat Big Macs and eat McNuggets. Hugh Fard, the owner of the iPad-equipped McDonald's told The Virginia-Pilot that he got the idea while attending a worldwide McDonald's convention in Florida. Fard said he discovered a French company that provided and maintained iPads for international McDonald locations and thought it would be a perfect idea to bring the U.S. While most McDonald's do have free Wi-Fi, Fard says he's seeing people stay in that particular fast food restaurant for longer
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| Worker's injury casts harsh new light on Foxconn and China Posted: 10 Oct 2012 06:16 PM PDT HONG KONG (Reuters) - Apple Inc's largest contract manufacturer has been pushing for a Chinese worker left brain-damaged in a factory accident to be removed from hospital in a case that throws a harsh new spotlight on labor rights in China. Zhang Tingzhen, 26, an employee of Taiwan firm Foxconn, had nearly half his brain surgically removed after surviving an electric shock at a plant in southern China a year ago. He remains in hospital under close observation by doctors, unable to speak or walk properly. ... |
| Canadian government may block Huawei from its network Posted: 10 Oct 2012 05:57 PM PDT  Tensions between Huawei, China and various Western governments are heating up. Earlier this week, the United States government revealed that the rapid expansion of the Chinese telecom equipment maker could pose as a potential threat to national security and urged American companies to stop doing business with Huawei. It is widely believed that the company has close ties to the Chinese government, although Huawei has denied these claims. Canada is planning to build a government network for phones calls, emails and data services,like the U.S., the country may also exclude the Chinese telecom equipment giant. A spokesperson for Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper say that "the government's going to be choosing carefully in the construction of this network, and it has
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| T-Mobile halts marketing campaign targeting iPhone users Posted: 10 Oct 2012 05:02 PM PDT  T-Mobile may have received a boost with its pending acquisition of MetroPCS but the company is still missing a major piece of the puzzle that will help it remain competitive: the iPhone. For a while T-Mobile had cobbled together a contingency plan of trying to entice GSM-based iPhone users into bringing their unlocked devices to T-Mobile stores for a try-out. But now TmoNews reports that T-Mobile has decided to cancel this endeavor and is now pushing a "bring your own device" campaign that doesn't specifically mention the iPhone. Specifically, TmoNews acquired a purported memo to employees telling them that "the Apple (AAPL) iPhone name and image can no longer be used in merchandising and collateral to drive sales and customer
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| Amazon gets FCC's OK to sell Kindle Fire 4G tablets Posted: 10 Oct 2012 04:43 PM PDT SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc received approval from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to sell its high-end Kindle Fire 4G tablets, a company spokeswoman said on Wednesday. Amazon unveiled the new tablets last month, but the devices had not secured FCC clearance. The company had to put disclaimers on Web pages and emails promoting the products. FCC approval is required for wireless communications devices to assure that they operate safely and do not improperly interfere with other signals. ... |
| Confidential records breached at Fla. college Posted: 10 Oct 2012 04:42 PM PDT Computer hackers broke into a Florida college's computer system and stole the confidential information of nearly 300,000 students statewide and the school's president, officials said Wednesday. |
| Apple’s newly acquired fingerprint technology exposes Windows passwords Posted: 10 Oct 2012 04:18 PM PDT  Fingerprint-reading software that comes pre-installed on laptops sold by Dell (DELL), Sony (SNE) and at least 14 other manufacturers has been independently confirmed to contain serious vulnerabilities. It has been discovered that hackers with physical control of select PCs can potentially access Windows account passwords. The vulnerability is found within multiple versions of fingerprint-reading software in the UPEK Protector Suite, which is marketed as a secure means of logging into Windows computers. In reality, the software actually makes Windows computers less secure compared to using a traditional password. When activated, the program stores Windows account passwords to the registry, however the encryption key is easy for hackers to retrieve and once acquired, it takes only seconds to decrypt the password.
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| Review: Tablet apps fill in gap, won't replace PCs Posted: 10 Oct 2012 04:12 PM PDT  There's nothing I like more than getting some writing done at my favorite neighborhood coffeehouse. It's relaxing, I'm more productive and the place makes a great cappuccino.
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| 21 Remarkable Pics of Patterns From the Mashable Community Posted: 10 Oct 2012 04:07 PM PDT  Geometric Windows
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| News Summary: EBay unveils big redesign Posted: 10 Oct 2012 03:29 PM PDT  NEW LOOK: EBay has redesigned its website to encourage visitors to browse and collect items they might want to buy later with something it calls the "feed."
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| The iPhone 5 ‘raises the bar for smartphone design’ Posted: 10 Oct 2012 03:29 PM PDT  To say consumers, carriers and analysts are raving about the iPhone 5 would be an understatement. Apple's (AAPL) flagship smartphone has been met with near universal praise from consumers and has sold out across nearly all networks. And according to Display Search analyst Shawn Lee, the iPhone 5 has raised the bar for smartphone design as a whole. Lee notes that the handset is able to pack power efficiency and advanced performance in an ultra-slim form factor, while other competing manufacturers struggle to do the same. Apple's use of in-cell technology in the iPhone 5′s touchscreen display allowed the company to make the device thinner than before. In addition, its custom-built A6 system on a chip CPU is able to "achieve the
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| News Summary: Records breached at Fla. college Posted: 10 Oct 2012 03:28 PM PDT THE BREACH: The confidential information of nearly 300,000 students, faculty and employees at a Florida Panhandle college has been accessed by computer hackers. |
| News Summary: Netflix to caption all content Posted: 10 Oct 2012 03:23 PM PDT THE PROMISE: Netflix will offer closed captions on all TV and movie content by September 2014. |
| News Summary: PC shipments fall Posted: 10 Oct 2012 03:21 PM PDT HEADING DOWN: Worldwide shipments of PCs fell sharply in the third quarter, as some consumers spent their electronics dollars on smartphones and tablets and others held off for a new version of Windows. |
| Netflix pledges to caption all content by 2014 Posted: 10 Oct 2012 03:20 PM PDT Netflix will offer closed captions on all TV and movie content by September 2014 as part of a settlement with a deaf Massachusetts viewer who sued the company. |
| PC shipments fall, 1 firm says Lenovo overtakes HP Posted: 10 Oct 2012 03:13 PM PDT Worldwide shipments of PCs fell sharply in the third quarter, as some consumers spent their electronics dollars on smartphones and tablets and others held off for a new version of Windows. |
| EBay unveils big redesign with a nod to Pinterest Posted: 10 Oct 2012 03:05 PM PDT EBay has redesigned its website to encourage visitors to browse and collect items they might want to buy later with something it calls the "feed." |
| Top 5 manufacturers of personal computers in 3Q Posted: 10 Oct 2012 02:55 PM PDT PC shipments fell sharply in the third quarter. One research firm also says Lenovo has overtaken HP as the world's largest manufacturer of personal computers, although another disagrees. |
| Sprint reportedly backs off counteroffer for MetroPCS Posted: 10 Oct 2012 02:45 PM PDT  Just after T-Mobile announced its merger agreement with MetroPCS last week, we started hearing rumblings that Sprint (S) was poised to make a compelling counteroffer that would get MetroPCS to break off its deal with T-Mobile and merge with Sprint instead. But now unnamed sources tell Bloomberg that Sprint is at least temporarily backing away from its plans "to gain time to scrutinize the carrier's planned combination with T-Mobile." This doesn't mean Sprint is leaving the table all together, however, since Bloomberg says the company "may have as much as three months to bid before MetroPCS investors vote on the T-Mobile deal," so it's entirely possible that Sprint could swoop in to gobble up MetroPCS at a later date. Read
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| Mitt Romney Google Bombed Himself Posted: 10 Oct 2012 02:31 PM PDT  Mitt Romney has managed to achieve something other politicians only got after having cajoled pranksters into doing it for them: He has his very own Google bomb... that he created himself. A Google image search of the term "completely wrong" brings up images of Romney, implying that his face most represents "completely wrong." Romney is not the first politician to get his name associated with something unsavory on Google—Rick Santorum and George W. Bush had bombs of their own. ...
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| $13 Txtr Beagle Is World's Cheapest and Smallest E-Reader Posted: 10 Oct 2012 02:30 PM PDT If you thought the Amazon Kindle Paperwhite e-reader was a great deal at $119, take a look at the Txtr Beagle Read|Only, undercutting it by more than a C-note -- it sells for a mere $13. |
| PC sales fall, 1 firm says Lenovo overtakes HP Posted: 10 Oct 2012 02:26 PM PDT Worldwide sales of PCs fell sharply in the third quarter, two research firms said Wednesday, as consumers held off for the new version of Windows and spent their electronics dollars on smartphones and tablets instead. |
| Lenovo overtakes HP as biggest PC maker Posted: 10 Oct 2012 02:24 PM PDT Worldwide sales of PCs fell sharply in the third quarter, two research firms said Wednesday, as consumers held off for the new version of Windows and spent their electronics dollars on smartphones and tablets instead. |
| Research firm: Lenovo trumps HP as No. 1 PC maker Posted: 10 Oct 2012 02:09 PM PDT Research firm Gartner says PCs from Lenovo are outselling Hewlett-Packard for the first time, making the Chinese company the world's biggest maker of PCs. |
| PC shipments are set to decline in 2012 for the first time in over a decade Posted: 10 Oct 2012 02:02 PM PDT  Worldwide PC shipments are set to decline in 2012 for the first time in 11 years, according to a report from IHS iSuppli. Shipments are expected to fall from 352.8 million units in 2011 to 348.7 million in 2012, representing a drop of 1.2%. The research firm notes that the release of Windows 8 could help boost the PC market in the fourth quarter. Sales may remain at bay, however, as consumers continue to spend money on tablets and smartphones. "There was great hope through the first half that 2012 would prove to be a rebound year for the PC market," said Craig Stice, senior principal analyst for computer systems at IHS. "Now three quarters through the year, the usual
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