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Mon, 31 May 10
4G wireless: It's fast, but outstripped by hype (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100530/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec4g_hype
AP - Cell phone companies are about to barrage consumers with advertising for the next advance in wireless network technology: "4G" access. The companies are promising faster speeds and the thrill of being the first on the block to use a new acronym.

Mon, 31 May 10
Bangladesh blocks Facebook over prophet drawings (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100530/ap_on_hi_te/as_bangladesh_facebook_ban


Bangladeshi Muslim protesters shout slogans as they burn a Swedish flag during a protest against social networking website facebook for holding a competition on caricatures of Prophet Mohammed, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, May 28, 2010. According to news reports, Swedish artist Lars Vilks has angered many Muslims by drawing highly blasphemous caricature of the Prophet. (AP Photo/Pavel Rahman)AP - Bangladesh has blocked the social networking website Facebook over a page urging people to draw images of Islam's Prophet Muhammad, joining Pakistan to become the second South Asian nation to ban the popular site over religious concerns.

Mon, 31 May 10
Report: Orascom-MTN talks to end in a week (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100530/ap_on_bi_ge/ml_egypt_orascom_mtn
AP - The chairman of Egyptian mobile phone giant Orascom Telecom says he expects talks with South Africa's MTN Group over the purchase of some of Orascom's units will be wrapped up within a week.

Mon, 31 May 10
Cash in with IdeaWallets, Writer's Studio and other iPad Apps of the Month (Appolicious)
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/appolicious_rss/rss_appolicious_tc/http___www_appolicious_com_articles2011_cash_in_with_ideawallets_writer_s_studio_and_other_ipad_apps_of_the_month/36331122/SIG=13kujev0e/*http://www.appolicious.com/articles/2011
Appolicious - May 2010 was a great month for iPad-specific apps. Here’s some of the best.

Mon, 31 May 10
Meg Whitman rebounds in California governor race: poll (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100530/pl_nm/us_california_poll
Reuters - Former eBay chief executive Meg Whitman recovered a wide lead over her rival for the Republican nomination in California's governor race after the pair stepped up their costly television campaigns accusing each other of being too liberal, a poll showed on Sunday.

Mon, 31 May 10
Piracy stifling Asian software industry, say experts (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100530/tc_afp/asiatechnologysoftwarecopyright


A shopper looks at counterfeit computer programmes in Dhaka on May 13. While global giants such as Microsoft and computer security firm McAfee are prominent targets of copyright thieves, what is less known is that start-up Asian software companies are notable victims, industry players said.(AFP/File/Munir Uz Zaman)AFP - Entrepreneur Binod Hariharan has big plans for his southern Indian firm, which develops astrology-based computer software to help users find a suitable spouse or plot their career paths.

Sun, 30 May 10
Bangladesh blocks Facebook over prophet drawings (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100530/ap_on_re_as/as_bangladesh_facebook_ban


Bangladeshi Muslim protesters shout slogans as they burn a Swedish flag during a protest against social networking website facebook for holding a competition on caricatures of Prophet Mohammed, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, May 28, 2010. According to news reports, Swedish artist Lars Vilks has angered many Muslims by drawing highly blasphemous caricature of the Prophet. (AP Photo/Pavel Rahman)AP - Bangladesh says it has blocked the popular social networking website Facebook over a page that urges people to draw images of Islam's prophet Muhammad.

Sun, 30 May 10
This Week in GeekTech: Hoverboards, Gaming, and Jailbreaking Fun! (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100529/tc_pcworld/thisweekingeektechhoverboardsgamingandjailbreakingfun
PC World - Another week has passed and your team of resident geeks have brought you yet another plethora of interesting and expectantly geeky stories. This week's update includes tips on how to jailbreak your iPad, how you can dance your way through Mortal Kombat, and how Sony plan to get rollable display on the roll. All this and more in your weekly geek fill:

Sun, 30 May 10
Facebook Learns Not To Step on Toes in Privacy Dance (NewsFactor)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20100529/tc_nf/73631
NewsFactor - In what may go down in Internet history as the Facebook Privacy Scandal, the leading social-networking site over the past week took the covers off a simplified privacy policy. But some privacy advocates say it's not enough. And some analysts expect more privacy changes to come.

Sun, 30 May 10
Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Should Rule Business Smartphones (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100529/tc_pcworld/microsoftwindowsphone7shouldrulebusinesssmartphones
PC World - Microsoft shook things up this week with some high-profile departures, and a reorganization of the Entertainment and Devices division that has CEO Steve Ballmer directly controlling the future of Microsoft's consumer technologies. When it comes to smartphones, Windows Phone 7 should arguably be the de facto platform for business professionals, but Microsoft may be delivering too little, too late.

Sun, 30 May 10
AP: Spill grew, BP's credibility faded (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100530/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill_low_estimates


In this May 28, 2010 photo, BP CEO Tony Hayward stands aboard the Discover Enterprise drill ship during recovery operations in the Gulf of Mexico, south of Venice, La. (AP Photo/Sean Gardner, Pool)AP - At nearly every step since the Deepwater Horizon exploded more than a month ago, causing the worst oil spill in U.S. history, rig operator BP PLC has downplayed the severity of the catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico.

Sat, 29 May 10
Long lines in Europe, Asia to buy Apple's iPad (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100528/ap_on_hi_te/apple_ipad


Apple store employees are silhouetted as they wait to help customers with iPad purchases in Vancouver, B.C., on Friday May 28, 2010. Apple Inc. launched the iPad in Canada and eight other countries on Friday. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Darryl Dyck)AP - Technophiles mobbed Apple Stores in Europe and Asia on Friday in a quest to snatch up the hottest gadget of the moment - the iPad.

Sat, 29 May 10
Violent video games touted as learning tool (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100528/ap_on_en_ot/us_games_for_learning


In this undated computer generated image released by Electronic Arts, Inc., animated solders attack a building in the 'Medal of Honor' video game. Some researchers have credited first-person shooter games like 'Medal of Honor' with the improving vision, attention and cognition. (AP Photo/Electronic Arts, Inc.)AP - You're at the front lines shooting Nazis before they shoot you. Or you're a futuristic gladiator in a death match with robots.

Sat, 29 May 10
Lawmaker seeks cooperation from Google, Facebook (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100528/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_google_facebook_privacy
AP - The head of the House Judiciary Committee is asking Google Inc. and Facebook to cooperate with any government inquiries into privacy practices at both companies.

Sat, 29 May 10
Era of anonymous prepaid cell phones may end (Christopher Null)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_wguy/20100528/tc_ytech_wguy/ytech_wguy_tc2314
Christopher Null - Prepaid cell phones with plans that can be purchased with cash and sans identification have long been the communication medium of choice for criminals and such, and for obvious reasons. Without a known cell phone number to tie a crook to, getting a wiretap becomes almost impossible, and such villains can generally operate with complete impunity, gabbing away in plain sight with no one able to listen in.

Sat, 29 May 10
Are standalone e-book readers doomed? (Christopher Null)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_wguy/20100528/tc_ytech_wguy/ytech_wguy_tc2313
Christopher Null - Devices like the iPad that let you read books and much more are likely to dominate the market so fully that standalone e-book readers have little hope of hanging on to much market share, new research suggests.

Sat, 29 May 10
Apple Needs to Jump on TV Opportunity, Analysts Say (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100528/tc_pcworld/appleneedstojumpontvopportunityanalystssay
PC World - Apple's success in mobile devices like the iPhone and iPad could spill over into the TV segment if the company decides to make a push for devices with larger screens, analysts said on Friday.

Sat, 29 May 10
Google Begins Integrating AdMob with Mobile Searches (NewsFactor)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20100528/bs_nf/73629
NewsFactor - Six months and a federal investigation later, Google has finally sealed the AdMob deal. On Thursday, Google announced that its acquisition of the mobile advertising company is complete.

Sat, 29 May 10
Apple inquiry focuses on price fixing (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100529/media_nm/us_apple


Hans-Henrik Duessel from Svendborg, Denmark, displays his old Apple Macintosh Classic computer from 1990 beside his newly purchased Apple iPad after being among the first to purchase the new device during an iPad launch event at the Apple retail store in Hamburg May 28, 2010. REUTERS/Christian CharisiusReuters - Seeking information on possible price fixing in the digital music marketplace, the U.S. Department of Justice contacted the legal departments of the major record labels as part of an initial inquiry into Apple, sources tell Billboard.

Sat, 29 May 10
PictureShow adds more ways to trick out your iPhone pics (Macworld.com)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/macworld/20100528/tc_macworld/pictureshowaddsmorewaystotrickoutyouriphonepics
Macworld.com - PictureShow, a mobile photo-editing app by Graf, has been updated to version 2.0. The new version adds new photo styles, a randomize mode in which you can mix various frame styles, light effects and noise effects to create wild and zany results, and the ability to share photos via Flickr in app.

Sat, 29 May 10
Online bidders hot for Napa Valley wines (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100529/tc_afp/usitinternetwineauctionnapa


File photo shows a vineyard worker dumping a bucket of zinfandel grapes into a bin while harvesting grapes at Tres Sabores Winery in St. Helena, California. Bidders around the world are vying online for tastes of Napa Valley wine country.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Justin Sullivan)AFP - Bidders around the world are vying online for tastes of Napa Valley wine country.

Sat, 29 May 10
Fitch raises Oracle outlook to 'positive' (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100528/ap_on_hi_te/us_oracle_credit_rating
AP - Fitch Ratings on Friday raised Oracle Corp.'s rating outlook as the business software giant continues to rake in cash from operations.

Sat, 29 May 10
Bull Bills Tera 100 as Europe's First Petaflop Computer (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100528/tc_pcworld/bullbillstera100aseuropesfirstpetaflopcomputer
PC World - French server and services company Bull has just turned on a new supercomputer for the French Atomic Energy Authority (CEA) that it hopes will reach a peak performance of 1.25 petaflops later this year.

Sat, 29 May 10
What You Don't Know about Your Online Reputation Can Hurt You (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100529/tc_pcworld/whatyoudontknowaboutyouronlinereputationcanhurtyou
PC World - Social networking, and the broader concept of online privacy, have been under some rather intense scrutiny over the past couple of weeks.

Sat, 29 May 10
'iPhone Killer' is Finally Here: It's Not Quite What You Think (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100529/tc_pcworld/iphonekillerisfinallyhereitsnotquitewhatyouthink
PC World - A new open-source device that will kill any past, current, or even future iPhones may soon make its way to the market. It is also compatible with all iPads...and any Apple product for that matter. Ronen Kadushin presents to you, the iPhonekiller!

Fri, 28 May 10
One Laptop Per Child's next move: the $100 tablet (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100527/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_hundred_dollar_tablet_computer
AP - The nonprofit organization that has tried to produce a $100 laptop for children in the world's poorest places is throwing in the towel on that idea __ and jumping on the tablet bandwagon.

Fri, 28 May 10
Q&A: What do you do when GPS or online maps are wrong? (Christopher Null)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_wguy/20100527/tc_ytech_wguy/ytech_wguy_tc2297
Christopher Null - Reader Paul Stokes writes: "I read with interest your article 'Massive GPS upgrade under way.' I am in a brand-new subdivision and cannot be found on any of the map sites such as Google Maps. While it would seem that this could be a good thing, it turns out that it isn’t. When I want any work done at my house or deliveries made, I have to give directions over the phone. I have contacted Google about this but no response yet. Who can I contact to get my house added to GPS systems and to show up in online maps? At least the U.S. Post Office now recognizes my address."

Fri, 28 May 10
Will Steve Ballmer appear for Apple keynote? (Update: Nope, says Microsoft) (Ben Patterson)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_gadg/20100527/tc_ytech_gadg/ytech_gadg_tc2293


Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer, pictured in January 2010, said he was unconcerned that his company had been overtaken by rival Apple as the world's biggest technology firm in terms of market value.(AFP/File/Robyn Beck)Ben Patterson - Just 13 years ago, the Apple faithful were howling in protest as Steve Jobs, back in from the cold after a dozen years in exile, introduced a most unwelcome visitor via satellite feed: a smug-looking Bill Gates, who observed from above as a humbled Jobs proclaimed that "competition between Apple and Microsoft is over."

Fri, 28 May 10
Opera says 2.6 million browser downloads on iPhone (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100528/wr_nm/us_opera_data
Reuters - Opera Software said its Internet browser for Apple's iPhone was downloaded more than 2.6 million times last month after the Norwegian firm got access to iPhone as the first rival browser firm.

Fri, 28 May 10
Google Wi-Fi Snooping Should Serve As Security Wakeup Call (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100528/tc_pcworld/googlewifisnoopingshouldserveassecuritywakeupcall
PC World - The continuing saga of Google's wireless snooping and the maelstrom it's generated won't end anytime soon. Peeved government officials in both Europe and the U.S. are pressing Google for more details on how the search company's Street View cars managed to cull personal data from Wi-Fi networks that weren't password-protected.

Fri, 28 May 10
Hulu-like Bitbop video app arrives for BlackBerry (Ben Patterson)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_gadg/20100527/tc_ytech_gadg/ytech_gadg_tc2294
Ben Patterson - A beta version of the streaming video app Bitbop, which was first announced in March and offers a slate of full-length streaming shows from the likes of NBC, CBS and Fox, has just been unleashed for BlackBerry users, and it's free — for now.

Fri, 28 May 10
PRINCE OF PERSIA Aims to Buck Lousy Videogame Movie Trend (Newsarama.com)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/newsarama/20100527/en_newsarama/princeofpersiaaimstobucklousyvideogamemovietrend
Newsarama.com - When "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time" arrives in theaters on May 28, it will do so with the usual questions that surround big-budget summer spectaculars. Will star Jake Gyllenhaal prove an able action hero? Will the CGI be up to par? Will the movie have a big opening weekend? If past history is any indication, "Prince of Persia" will do brisk box office. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer is a one-man hit factory, after all. ...

Fri, 28 May 10
Buyers flock as Apple's iPad hits Asia (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100528/tc_nm/us_ipad


A customer (R) buys an iPad at an electronic products store in Hefei, Anhui province April 22, 2010. REUTERS/StringerReuters - Apple Inc's iPad launched in overseas store shelves on Friday, with buyers storming Japanese and Australian shops to be among the first outside the United States to snap up the long awaited tablet PC.

Fri, 28 May 10
Adobe Reader, WordPress and more Android Apps of the Week (Appolicious)
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/appolicious_rss/rss_appolicious_tc/http___www_appolicious_com_articles2001_adobe_reader_wordpress_and_more_android_apps_of_the_week/36316887/SIG=133cijanh/*http://www.appolicious.com/articles/2001-adobe-reader-wor
Appolicious - It’s hard to top the releases that were rolled out during last week’s Google I/O conference, but the growing popularity of the Android Market means more apps from big names.

Fri, 28 May 10
Google completes AdMob purchase (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100527/tc_afp/usantitrustittelecomadvertisetakeovergoogleadmob


Google on Thursday said it has completed its purchase of mobile advertising network AdMob and is eagerly integrating its technology into the Internet giant's services.(AFP/File/Joel Saget)AFP - Google on Thursday said it has completed its purchase of mobile advertising network AdMob and is eagerly integrating its technology into the Internet giant's services.

Fri, 28 May 10
QAD fiscal 1Q loss narrows (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100528/ap_on_hi_te/us_earns_qad
AP - Business software maker QAD Inc. said Thursday that its fiscal first-quarter loss narrowed, despite a drop in revenue, as expenses dipped.

Fri, 28 May 10
Icahn's Stake in Lawson Means Likely Push for Sale (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100527/tc_pcworld/icahnsstakeinlawsonmeanslikelypushforsale
PC World - Billionaire Carl Icahn's stake in Lawson Software could lead to a sale of the ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor to larger rivals, a move that would take the already significant consolidation of the market to a new level.

Fri, 28 May 10
Security Suites Top Online Software Purchases (PC Magazine)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20100527/tc_zd/251223
PC Magazine - A study released Thursday by the NPD Group showed that consumers who purchase software online feel comfortable downloading it for their own use, rather than ordering a physical disc. But of those customers that shy away, most cite spam as a result.

Fri, 28 May 10
OLPC Rules out Windows for XO-3 (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100527/tc_pcworld/olpcrulesoutwindowsforxo3
PC World - One Laptop Per Child won't use Microsoft's Windows OS on its upcoming XO-3 tablet, which will run Linux, OLPC's CTO said Thursday.

Thu, 27 May 10
Image-conscious youth rein in social networking (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100527/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_online_reputation
Graphic shows study results of how age groups protect their privacy onlineAP - What's that? A young college grad lecturing her elders about online privacy?

Thu, 27 May 10
Chinese court hears novelist's Google lawsuit (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100527/ap_on_hi_te/as_china_google_lawsuit


Google CEO Eric Schmidt listens during a Google TV announcement, Thursday, May 20, 2010, at the Google conference in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - A Chinese novelist's lawsuit against Google over its online library is going ahead in court after settlement talks failed.

Thu, 27 May 10
Latest Foxconn suicide comes after visit by boss (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100527/ap_on_hi_te/as_china_foxconn_deaths


In this photo taken on Feb 24, 2010, a recruiter from Foxconn talks to job applicants outside the factory in Shenzhen in southern China's Guangdong province. A Chinese employee of Foxconn Technology Group fell from a building and died Tuesday, May 25, 2010, state-run media said, in the 10th such death this year at the world's largest contract maker of electronics, such as the iPod, Dell computers and Nokia phones. (AP Photo) ** CHINA OUT **AP - A young man became the 10th worker to jump to his death at a Foxconn Technology Group factory in southern China, just hours after the company's chairman toured the plant that makes iPods and other top-selling gadgets, state-run media said.

Thu, 27 May 10
Massive GPS upgrade under way (Christopher Null)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_wguy/20100526/tc_ytech_wguy/ytech_wguy_tc2273
Christopher Null - It’s no longer a novelty for geeks: GPS has become a ubiquitous part of the business and cultural landscape, an essential tool for millions of travelers (guilty!) who find themselves in a strange land with the most ridiculous of maps and zero sense of direction. Today, GPS is part of nearly every smartphone and is increasingly bundled right into all manner of products ranging from cars to cameras.

Thu, 27 May 10
Facebook rolls out new, simpler privacy options (Ben Patterson)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_gadg/20100526/tc_ytech_gadg/ytech_gadg_tc2276
Ben Patterson - Rocked by a series of privacy snafus and scrambling to regain the trust of his 400 million-plus users, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg today detailed a revamped, vastly simplified set of privacy options, which are slated to gradually go live over the "next few weeks."

Thu, 27 May 10
Facebook adjusts privacy controls after complaints (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100526/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_facebook_privacy


Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg talks about the social network site's new privacy settings in Palo Alto, Calif., Wednesday, May 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)AP - In Facebook's vision of the Web, you would no longer be alone and anonymous. Sites would reflect your tastes and interests — as you expressed them on the social network — and you wouldn't have to fish around for news and songs that interest you.

Thu, 27 May 10
Foxconn hit by 10th jumping death (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100527/tc_nm/us_china_foxconn_death
Reuters - An employee of iPhone-maker Foxconn jumped to his death late on Wednesday, Chinese state media reported, the tenth suspected suicide this year at the high-tech company's huge production base in southern China.

Thu, 27 May 10
Dell's Streak readies for battle with iPad (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100526/wr_nm/us_dell_tablet
Reuters - Dell Inc said its Streak tablet computer can double as a mobile phone and will have a front-facing camera for videoconferencing -- features it hopes will help the new gadget compete against Apple Inc's iPad.

Thu, 27 May 10
Pakistan partially lifts block on YouTube: official (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100527/wr_nm/us_pakistan_youtube
Reuters - Pakistan has partially unblocked the popular video sharing website YouTube, but links to "sacrilegious or profane material" will remain restricted, a top government official said on Thursday.

Thu, 27 May 10
To Natal or Not to Natal in October for $150? (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100526/tc_pcworld/tonatalornottonatalinoctoberfor150
PC World - Microsoft's Xbox 360 motion-control upgrade, Project Natal, will ship this October for a surprisingly steep $150. That's if you believe Edge, which claims a "trusted source" offered the tip that spawned the story that launched another speculative media pile-on.

Thu, 27 May 10
Remainders: Winnie the Pooh and Microsoft, too (Macworld.com)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/macworld/20100526/tc_macworld/remainderswinniethepoohandmicrosofttoo
Macworld.com - Apple celebrates exceeding Microsoft’s value by releasing a minor update to iBooks. And if you’ve got the sniffles, watch out: maybe you’ve got a computer virus. Dig into the chicken soup and enjoy the remainders for May 26, 2010.

Thu, 27 May 10
These iPhone apps will let you navigate South Africa like a native (Appolicious)
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/appolicious_rss/rss_appolicious_tc/http___www_appolicious_com_articles1978_these_iphone_apps_will_let_you_navigate_south_africa_like_a_native/36280797/SIG=13dilqgp2/*http://www.appolicious.com/articles/1978-these-
Appolicious - Maybe South Africa has been at the top of your destination wish list for a long time, or perhaps you’re like many millions of tourists checking South Africa off their list for the same, more of-the-moment reason -- the World Cup. For those who won't be there for the soccer, there is still plenty to do. Only thing is, where do you go and how do you get there? Below are some iPhone apps to help show you the way, and keep you safe to boot.

Thu, 27 May 10
Summary Box: Youth cautious about image online (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100527/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_online_reputation_summary_box
AP - YOUNG WISDOM: A new study from the Pew Internet & American Life Project adds to the evidence that young people might be more cautious than their elders when it comes to managing their reputation and privacy on social networking sites.

Thu, 27 May 10
Concur climbs after analyst upgrades stock (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100526/ap_on_bi_ge/us_concur_technologies_mover
AP - Shares of Concur Technologies Inc. rose Wednesday after an analyst upgraded the on-demand expense management software maker's stock, saying it faces little competition and predicting its revenue growth will speed up through next year.

Thu, 27 May 10
SGI Changes Tack, Builds Standard Data Center Containers (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100526/tc_pcworld/sgichangestackbuildsstandarddatacentercontainers
PC World - SGI is making some big changes to its ICE Cube family of containerized data centers, adding new models that will be able to house standard server racks for the first time.

Thu, 27 May 10
Man Infects Himself with (Computer) Virus (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100527/tc_pcworld/maninfectshimselfwithcomputervirus
PC World - We are one step closer to the future: a British scientist has become the first human being to contract a computer virus.

Wed, 26 May 10
Taking T-Mobile's speedy HSPA+ network for a test drive (Ben Patterson)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_gadg/20100525/tc_ytech_gadg/ytech_gadg_tc2244
Ben Patterson - No, you probably won't get bone-rattling cable-modem speeds from T-Mobile's upgraded HSPA+ data network, but I was still impressed by its consistently peppy download and even upload speeds, and the bargain-priced monthly data plans are hard to beat. That said, you might have to wait a while before T-Mobile HSPA+ coverage comes to your city.

Wed, 26 May 10
Widespread outage for AT&T's digital phone lines (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100525/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_at_t_phone_outage
AP - AT&T's new digital home phone service failed across the country Tuesday, illustrating continuing reliability issues with Internet-based phone service.

Wed, 26 May 10
Forbes buying online news startup True/Slant (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100525/ap_on_hi_te/us_forbes_online_startup
AP - Forbes Media is buying the online news startup True/Slant, marrying two companies with vastly different approaches to journalism and publishing.

Wed, 26 May 10
Amazon CEO: Color Kindle `still a long way out' (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100525/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_amazon_kindle


Amazon.com Inc. CEO and founder Jeff Bezos speaks Tuesday, May 25, 2010, at the annual Amazon.com shareholders meeting in Seattle. Bezos took questions from shareholders on topics that ranged from the Kindle book-reading device to the company's efforts to sell products with reduced packaging in efforts to lower shipping costs and be more environmentally friendly. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)AP - A color version of Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle e-reader may come eventually, but it won't be soon.

Wed, 26 May 10
Long-haul travel savior: MiLi Power Skin (Christopher Null)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_wguy/20100525/tc_ytech_wguy/ytech_wguy_tc2243
Christopher Null - The iPhone may be many things, but it’s legendarily sad — even notoriously so — in the battery-life department.

Wed, 26 May 10
NYC mayor announces $22M fund for tech startups (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100525/ap_on_bi_ge/us_bloomberg_high_tech
AP - New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has a message for computer geeks everywhere: Forget sunny Silicon Valley and launch your company here.

Wed, 26 May 10
Microsoft shakes up game and mobile device division (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100525/bs_afp/usitcompanytelecomvideogamesinternetmicrosoft


Vistors check out cell phones running on Microsoft's new mobile operation system AFP - Microsoft on Tuesday announced it is replacing top executives at its gaming and mobile devices division, which has stumbled in the smartphone and tablet computer markets.

Wed, 26 May 10
Feds looking into Apple's tactics for music: report (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100526/music_nm/us_apple


(L-R) Father Ma Zishan, mother Gao Zhaoying and sister Ma Liqun mourn the death of Ma Xiangqian outside a Foxconn factory in the township of Longhua in the southern Guangdong province May 26, 2010. Ma Xiangqian, one of Foxconn's workers, jumped to his death in January. A spate of nine employee deaths at global contract electronics manufacturer Foxconn, Apple's main supplier of iPhones, has cast a spotlight on some of the harsher aspects of blue-collar life on the Chinese factory floor. REUTERS/Bobby Yip (CHINA - Tags: BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT DISASTER)Reuters - The Justice Department is examining Apple Inc's tactics in the market for digital music and has talked to major music labels and Internet music firms, the New York Times said citing several people briefed on the conversations.

Wed, 26 May 10
Microsoft Risks Becoming Mobile Market Also-Ran (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100525/tc_pcworld/microsoftrisksbecomingmobilemarketalsoran
PC World - Today's reports of a managerial shakeup at Microsoft — specifically the departure of two key executives from the company's entertainment division that makes mobile phone software, Xbox game consoles, and Zune media players — is a yet another strong indication of Redmond's internal turmoil.

Wed, 26 May 10
Remains of the Day: Bach, Allard bid Microsoft bye-bye (Macworld.com)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/macworld/20100525/tc_macworld/remainsofthedaybachallardbidmicrosoftbyebye
Macworld.com - Microsoft may be losing two of its shining stars but not everything is looking bleak: the European Parliament is all getting new iPads! And the New York Mets trump their crosstown rivals a second time this week. It’s all in the remainders for May 25, 2010.

Wed, 26 May 10
App Industry Roundup: Get ready for iPhone video chat, Android's $100 tablet (Appolicious)
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/appolicious_rss/rss_appolicious_tc/http___www_appolicious_com_articles1982_app_industry_roundup_get_ready_for_iphone_video_chat_android_s_100_tablet/36288858/SIG=13k18vqq3/*http://www.appolicious.com/articles/1982
Appolicious - Less than two weeks until Steve Jobs unveils the next iPhone at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, it appears that the device will come equipped with video chat capabilities. Also in today's App Industry Roundup, we look ahead to a world with $100 Android tablets and $97 iPhones.

Wed, 26 May 10
US Ranks 26th in New Broadband Index (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100526/tc_pcworld/usranks26thinnewbroadbandindex
PC World - South Korea has the fastest home Internet service in the world, with a downstream speed 100 times faster than the average in Sudan, the operator of Speedtest.net reported on a new Web site that compiles results from consumers running its online test.

Wed, 26 May 10
McAfee to buy mobile security firm Trust Digital (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100525/ap_on_hi_te/us_mcafee_acquisition
AP - McAfee Inc., a maker of anti-virus software, said Tuesday that it's buying mobile security company Trust Digital.

Wed, 26 May 10
HP Tops IBM in Recovering Server Market, Gartner Says (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100525/tc_pcworld/hptopsibminrecoveringservermarketgartnersays
PC World - Hewlett-Packard knocked IBM from the top spot in worldwide server revenue during the first quarter, as the market for x86 systems picked up but sales of Unix and mainframe systems continued to decline, Gartner said on Tuesday.

Wed, 26 May 10
BAE looks to draw government cyber work (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100526/tc_nm/us_bae_cyber


A BAE systems sign is seen outside the company's Warton site near Preston, northern England, October 1, 2009. REUTERS/Phil NobleReuters - Threats to sensitive computer networks lurk everywhere and with a few mouse clicks, organized criminals and hackers could shut down vital networks that run the U.S. government, industry and military.

Wed, 26 May 10
VoltDB OLTP Database Exits Beta (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100525/tc_pcworld/voltdboltpdatabaseexitsbeta
PC World - VoltDB, a new open-source database for large-scale transaction processing, emerged from beta on Tuesday.

Tue, 25 May 10
Nokia to run Yahoo's maps in global partnership (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100524/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_yahoo_nokia


Carol Bartz, left, CEO of Yahoo, and Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, CEO of Nokia, talk following a news conference, Monday, May 24, 2010, in New York. The two companies announced a worldwide partnership Monday. Yahoo Inc. will provide e-mail and chat services on Nokia Corp. phones. The services will be co-branded. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)AP - Nokia Corp. will run mapping and navigation services for Yahoo Inc. in an acknowledgement that the slumping Internet company hasn't kept up with rival Google Inc. in the increasingly important area of location services.

Tue, 25 May 10
Web portal Warrior Gateway helps digital-age vets (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100524/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_veterans_internet
AP - For young veterans returning from duty in Iraq or Afghanistan, the process of re-entering society can be daunting, especially if they have been injured or have struggled with mental health problems.

Tue, 25 May 10
Owner: US cable service unhurt by rogue satellite (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100524/ap_on_hi_te/out_of_control_satellite
AP - The owner of a satellite that transmits programming to all U.S. cable systems says it avoided interference from another, out-of-control satellite that was drifting into its path.

Tue, 25 May 10
No third-party ads to be allowed on Twitter (Christopher Null)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_wguy/20100524/tc_ytech_wguy/ytech_wguy_tc2218
Christopher Null - Dashing the hopes of dozens of startups that had hoped to make money where Twitter had so far been unable to do so, the social mini-messaging company announced Monday that it would not allow third-party advertising on its platform henceforth.

Tue, 25 May 10
Contrite Facebook CEO promises new privacy controls (Ben Patterson)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_gadg/20100524/tc_ytech_gadg/ytech_gadg_tc2204


Australia's communications minister has called Google's privacy policy Ben Patterson - Buffeted by privacy snafus and the lingering fallout from a damning, years-old instant messaging thread, Facebook chief exec Mark Zuckerberg switched into full-on damage control Monday, confessing that the sprawling social network had "missed the mark" when it comes to its complex privacy controls — and pledging to do better.

Tue, 25 May 10
Google opens up, divulges its ad commission rates (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100524/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_google_ad_commissions
AP - Google Inc. has finally revealed one of its financial secrets and spelled out how it splits revenue with other websites that show its online ads.

Tue, 25 May 10
Microsoft to shake up phone, Xbox unit: report (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100525/tc_nm/us_microsoft


Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, right, interacts with community workers at Guleria village in Aulali, Khagaria District of Bihar state Wednesday, May 12, 2010. Gates, whose philanthropic foundation has committed nearly $1 billion for health and development projects in India, traveled to the remote village in eastern India to see the progress of the Indian government's campaign to eradicate polio. (AP Photo/Prashant Ravi)Reuters - Microsoft Corp is set to overhaul management of its division focused on mobile phones, videogames and other consumer devices, the Wall Street Journal said on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.

Tue, 25 May 10
Yahoo! buys mobile phone networking firm Koprol (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100525/bs_afp/usindonesiaitinternettakeoveryahookoprol


Yahoo! has announced that it has acquired Koprol, an Indonesian Internet service that lets people use mobile telephones to instantly tap into nearby people and places.(DDP/AFP/File/Michael Gottschalk)AFP - Yahoo! has announced that it has acquired Koprol, an Indonesian Internet service that lets people use mobile telephones to instantly connect with nearby people and places.

Tue, 25 May 10
Dish Network, Weather Channel end contract dispute (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100524/media_nm/us_dishnetwork
Reuters - Dish Network Corp will continue to carry the Weather Channel, ending disagreements over carriage fees and programing that threatened to bump the network from the satellite TV carrier's roster of channels.

Tue, 25 May 10
Halo: Reach Will Continue Top Series in September (NewsFactor)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20100524/bs_nf/73522
NewsFactor - Halo. It's a video-game franchise that stirs the hearts and minds of hard-core gamers everywhere. It's no surprise, then, that the next installment in the series, Halo: Reach, is making an impact on the video-game market -- before it even hits store shelves.

Tue, 25 May 10
Foxconn worker dies in China; 10th in a year (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100525/ap_on_bi_ge/as_china_foxconn_deaths


In this photo taken on Feb 24, 2010, a recruiter from Foxconn talks to job applicants outside the factory in Shenzhen in southern China's Guangdong province. A Chinese employee of Foxconn Technology Group fell from a building and died Tuesday, May 25, 2010, state-run media said, in the 10th such death this year at the world's largest contract maker of electronics, such as the iPod, Dell computers and Nokia phones. (AP Photo) ** CHINA OUT **AP - A Chinese employee of Foxconn Technology Group fell from a building and died Tuesday, state-run media said, in the 10th such death this year at the world's largest contract maker of electronics, such as the iPod, Dell computers and Nokia phones.

Tue, 25 May 10
Facebook’s interest in Android grows with Graph API support (Appolicious)
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/appolicious_rss/rss_appolicious_tc/http___www_appolicious_com_articles1977_facebooks_interest_in_android_grows_with_graph_api_support/36280614/SIG=1353n26tc/*http://www.appolicious.com/articles/1977-facebooks-inte
Appolicious - Facebook put itself in a position to “take over the Web” with its Graph API, and it’s looking to do the same on a mobile level. At the Google I/O conference in San Francisco last week, Facebook revealed its plans to unleash the Graph API on Android developers, making it possible to have deep-linking for Facebook within Android apps.

Tue, 25 May 10
Australia minister attacks 'creepy' Google in Web row (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100525/tc_afp/australiausitcompanyinternetgooglefacebook


Australia's communications minister has called Google's privacy policy AFP - Australia's communications minister has called Google's privacy policy "a bit creepy" in personal attacks against the head of the company and fellow Web giant Facebook in an Internet filtering row.

Tue, 25 May 10
IBM to buy AT&T's Sterling unit for $1.4B (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100524/ap_on_bi_ge/us_ibm_at_t_sterling


FILE - In this file photo made Jan. 11, 2010, a sign for IBM is shown in New York. IBM said Monday, May 24, 2010, it is buying AT&T's Sterling Commerce unit, which makes business software, for $1.4 billion. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)AP - IBM Corp. said Monday that it is buying AT&T Inc.'s Sterling Commerce unit, which makes software that helps businesses buy and sell to each other, for $1.4 billion.

Tue, 25 May 10
Columbia council endorses IBM project (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100525/ap_on_bi_ge/mo_ibm_columbia
AP - One week after city leaders hailed an incentive-laden effort to lure IBM and hundreds of new jobs to town, the project easily passed its first hurdle Monday night.

Tue, 25 May 10
Facebook told to set up warning system after new sex scam (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100525/tc_afp/technologyinternetfacebooksingapore


A major computer security firm urged Facebook on Tuesday to set up an early-warning system after hundreds of thousands of users were hit by a new wave of fake sex-video attacks.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - A major computer security firm urged Facebook on Tuesday to set up an early-warning system after hundreds of thousands of users were hit by a new wave of fake sex-video attacks.

Tue, 25 May 10
Microsoft eases access to Outlook data (InfoWorld)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20100524/tc_infoworld/124943
InfoWorld - Microsoft revealed on Monday two open source projects intended to improve interoperability with Microsoft Outlook files and even enable easier migrations from Outlook.

Mon, 24 May 10
Customers' revenge: Cable providers to play nice (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100523/ap_on_hi_te/us_fixing_cable_s_image
AP - For far too long, cable customers fumed as they waited in vain for the cable guy to show up. When he did come, sometimes it took multiple visits to fix outages. Some customers grappled with billing mistakes that took months to resolve. And cable prices went up every year.

Mon, 24 May 10
Summary Box: Web portal helps digital-age vets (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100523/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_veterans_internet_summary_box
AP - THE OFFERING: Warrior Gateway is a free site designed to help young veterans find services in an environment they are comfortable in: the Internet.

Mon, 24 May 10
Web portal Warrior Gateway helps digital-age vets (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100523/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_veterans_internet
AP - For young veterans returning from duty in Iraq or Afghanistan, the process of re-entering society can be daunting, especially if they have been injured or have struggled with mental health problems.

Mon, 24 May 10
Clock Ticking to AT&T Fee Hike (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100523/tc_pcworld/clocktickingtoattfeehike
PC World - AT&T announced that it is raising its early termination fee (ETF) for smartphones (a.k.a. the iPhone) from $175 to $325 effective June 1. That gives businesses that are current AT&T subscribers, but seriously considering paying the ETF to switch--especially if the speculation is true that Verizon may soon have the iPhone as well--just one week to decide before it gets much more costly.

Mon, 24 May 10
Sprint shares could rise on 4G phone: Barron's (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100523/tc_nm/us_sprint
Reuters - Shares of Sprint Nextel could rise to about $6 a share, helped by the introduction of a mobile phone that works on the carrier's new high-speed network, according to business weekly Barron's.

Mon, 24 May 10
Two weeks before WWDC, Apple and Google engage in game of Frogger (Appolicious)
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/appolicious_rss/rss_appolicious_tc/http___www_appolicious_com_articles1964_two_weeks_before_wwdc_apple_and_google_engage_in_game_of_frogger/36272426/SIG=13bd0pikm/*http://www.appolicious.com/articles/1964-two-week
Appolicious - Steve Jobs reportedly took time away from running Apple and serving as Disney's largest individual stakeholder this weekend to send email replies to strangers.

Mon, 24 May 10
Android apps for Memorial Day Weekend and the summer beyond (Appolicious)
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/appolicious_rss/rss_appolicious_tc/http___www_appolicious_com_articles1920_android_apps_for_memorial_day_weekend_and_the_summer_beyond/36195386/SIG=136km3m9f/*http://www.appolicious.com/articles/1920-android-apps-
Appolicious - Memorial Day Weekend marks the start of the summer season, so why not celebrate? There are a few Android apps that will get you in the holiday spirit, whether you’re commemorating the day itself, or going on a shopping spree.

Mon, 24 May 10
Good-Bye to Privacy? (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100524/tc_pcworld/goodbyetoprivacy
PC World - New Yorker Barry Hoggard draws a line in the sand when it comes to online privacy. In May he said farewell to 1251 Facebook friends by deleting his account of four years to protest what he calls the social network's eroding privacy policies.

Sun, 23 May 10
Meet the Makers: Q&A with GOGII CEO Scott Lahman (Appolicious)
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/appolicious_rss/rss_appolicious_tc/http___www_appolicious_com_articles1959_meet_the_makers_q_a_with_gogii_ceo_scott_lahman/36251307/SIG=12q8h3von/*http://www.appolicious.com/articles/1959-meet-the-makers-q-a-with-
Appolicious - Creator of the immensely popular textPlus text-messaging application, GOGII is one of the most accomplished and important developers for the iPhone (and more recently iPad and Android-powered devices). GOGII is a portfolio company of the iFund, the app-specific venture capital fund managed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Matrix Partners.

Sun, 23 May 10
These social networking iPad apps will help you stay connected (Appolicious)
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/appolicious_rss/rss_appolicious_tc/http___www_appolicious_com_articles1913_these_social_networking_ipad_apps_will_help_you_stay_connected/36192012/SIG=139cr2s3a/*http://www.appolicious.com/articles/1913-these-soci
Appolicious - Social networking isn’t going to go away, and it’s likely we’re destined for generations of people who don’t know how to look up from their mobile device and make actual eye contact. The upside, however, is that there are ever more increasing ways to keep in touch with others.

Sun, 23 May 10
Pakistan blocks 800 web pages over 'blasphemy' (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100522/tc_afp/pakistaninternetfacebookislamreligion


Pakistani Islamists shout slogans during a protest in Karachi on May 21. Pakistan has blocked 800 web pages and URLs to limit access to AFP - Pakistan has blocked 800 web pages and URLs to limit access to "blasphemous" material, extending a crackdown that has already banned access to Facebook and YouTube, an official said Saturday.

Sun, 23 May 10
iPad Shortages Reported as Demand Soars (LiveScience.com)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100522/sc_livescience/ipadshortagesreportedasdemandsoars
LiveScience.com - If you don't have your iPad yet, get in line.A new seat-of-the-pantssurvey by the research firm Piper Jaffray finds that Apple's popular tablet computer is in short supply. The analysts called 50 Applestores and found a "very limited" supply of iPads, Fortune magazine's web site reports. Specifically: 37 stores were sold out. 13 stories had only Wi-Fi models. All 50 stores were out of the 3G model.

Sun, 23 May 10
mSpot, SpringPad and other Android Apps of the Week (Appolicious)
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/appolicious_rss/rss_appolicious_tc/http___www_appolicious_com_articles1945_mspot_springpad_and_other_android_apps_of_the_week/36235556/SIG=12t4u4gbm/*http://www.appolicious.com/articles/1945-mspot-springpad-and-ot
Appolicious - The Google I/O conference is this week in San Francisco, giving Google and a number of other developers a forum in which they can present their apps to the world. That attitude has grown significantly from last year, when Google’s Android platform was still an afterthought in the mobile apps landscape.

Sun, 23 May 10
Facebook Page Banned by Pakistan Is Back Online (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100522/tc_pcworld/facebookpagebannedbypakistanisbackonline
PC World - The Facebook page that led the Pakistan government to ban the entire site was back online Saturday, at least for some users, after it was inaccessible for about two days.

Sun, 23 May 10
Bugs and Fixes: Security Woes for Windows, McAfee, Firefox (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100523/tc_pcworld/bugsandfixessecuritywoesforwindowsmcafeefirefox
PC World - The bugs keep marching in, with Microsoft, McAfee, and Mozilla all having to deal with serious security-related software problems in the past month.

Sat, 22 May 10
Facebook page that led to Pakistani ban removed (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100521/ap_on_hi_te/as_pakistan_internet_crackdown


Pakistani women participate in a rally against a Facebook page, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, May 20, 2010. Pakistan government ordered Internet service providers to block the social networking site amid anger over a page that encourages users to post images of Islam's Prophet Muhammad. (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash)AP - A Facebook page that was considered offensive to Islam and led to a Pakistani ban on the site has been removed, possibly by its creator.

Sat, 22 May 10
AT&T to raise fees for iPhone contract breakers (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100521/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_at_t_early_termination_fee
AP - AT&T Inc. is raising the fees it charges buyers of the iPhone and other smart phones if they break their two-year contracts, while lowering them for "dumb" phones to better align the fees with their real costs.

Sat, 22 May 10
FTC clears Google purchase of mobile ad service (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100521/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_ftc_google_admob


FILE - In this file photo made Dec. 8, 2009, Omar Hamoui, Founder and CEO of AdMob, poses at his company's offices in San Mateo, Calif. Federal regulators are clearing the way for Google to buy a mobile ad service called AdMob Friday's FTC approval paves the way for Google to extend its dominance of Internet marketing into the wireless arena. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, file)AP - Google Inc.'s $750 million acquisition of mobile ad service AdMob cleared its final hurdle Friday with a boost from AdMob's jilted suitor, Apple Inc.

Sat, 22 May 10
AT&T early-termination fee nearly doubling for iPhone, other smartphones (Ben Patterson)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_gadg/20100521/tc_ytech_gadg/ytech_gadg_tc2197
Ben Patterson - Thinking of getting a new iPhone this summer? If you do buy one, you'd better not change your mind, or you'll pay a hefty price.

Sat, 22 May 10
Facebook, MySpace caught releasing user data (The Newsroom)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100521/tc_ynews/ynews_tc2189
The Newsroom - In a seemingly never-ending string of damaging disclosures about its users' privacy concerns, Facebook has reportedly been releasing user data to ad companies that hadn't even asked for the info.

Sat, 22 May 10
Microsoft Kin concerts lead fans on merry chase (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100521/ap_on_hi_te/us_microsoft_kin_marketing


In this May 15, 2010 photo provided by exposureusa, Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys, performs at the Classic Car Club, in New York.(AP Photo/exposureusa, Jay Lewis) ** NO SALES **AP - Free concerts. Open bar. Big names. Small venues. The catch?

Sat, 22 May 10
AT&T To iPhone Users: Leave Early, Pay Dearly (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100521/tc_pcworld/atttoiphoneusersleaveearlypaydearly
PC World - Is AT&T acting like a soon-to-be-jilted lover? Ma Bell is boosting the early-termination fee it charges customers who tear up their smartphone contracts early.

Sat, 22 May 10
Bugnets Could Spy on You via Mobile Devices (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100522/tc_pcworld/bugnetscouldspyonyouviamobiledevices
PC World - Imagine sitting in a café and discussing the details of a business proposal with a potential client. Neither you nor the client has a laptop; you're just two people having a conversation. But unbeknownst to you, someone half a world away is listening to every word you say. Later, as you leave, you receive a text message referring to the proposal and demanding money in exchange for silence.

Sat, 22 May 10
Google chief suspects ulterior motive in Pakistan (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100522/tc_afp/uspakistaninternetfacebookislamreligiongoogle


Pakistani Islamists protest in Karachi on May 21against the published caricatures of Prophet Mohammed on Facebook. Google chief executive Eric Schmidt on Friday said he suspects suppressing political criticism is a factor behind the move to block YouTube and Facebook in Pakistan in the name of Islam.(AFP/Asif Hassan)AFP - Google chief executive Eric Schmidt said he suspects suppressing political criticism is a factor behind the move to block YouTube and Facebook in Pakistan in the name of Islam.

Sat, 22 May 10
First playable Google doodle marks 30 years of Pac-Man (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100521/ennew_afp/entertainmentusjapangameinternet30years


AFP - Internet giant Google marked the 30th birthday of Pac-Man by featuring the classic arcade videogame in the first-ever playable doodle on its home page.

Sat, 22 May 10
Remains of the Day: Steve Jobs in the e-mail with the URL (Macworld.com)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/macworld/20100522/tc_macworld/remainsofthedaystevejobsintheemailwiththeurl
Macworld.com - We play a little game of “what happened to the Microsoft employee?” And everybody seems to want to know what Steve Jobs is thinking. Here are the remainders for Friday, May 21.

Sat, 22 May 10
App Industry Roundup: Google TV and the Android update (Appolicious)
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/appolicious_rss/rss_appolicious_tc/http___www_appolicious_com_articles1955_app_industry_roundup_google_tv_and_the_android_update/36247790/SIG=130t9vru5/*http://www.appolicious.com/articles/1955-app-industry-roundu
Appolicious - In this special edition of App Industry News, we look at all the news Google has been making this week. That includes some perspective on Google's new Apple-bashing star, what Google TV means for the Android OS, and what you can expect from the coming Android update.

Sat, 22 May 10
US antitrust agency clears Google bid for AdMob (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100522/tc_afp/usantitrustittelecomadvertisetakeovergoogleadmob


A bicyclist rides by a sign outside of the Google headquarters March 2010 in Mountain View, California. US antitrust regulators on Friday gave Internet search titan Google a green light to acquire mobile advertising network firm AdMob, saying the deal was unlikely to harm competition.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Justin Sullivan)AFP - US antitrust regulators gave Internet search titan Google a green light to acquire mobile advertising network firm AdMob, saying the deal was unlikely to harm competition.

Sat, 22 May 10
Intuit completes $91M Medfusion acquisition (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100521/ap_on_bi_ge/us_intuit_medfusion
AP - Accounting, tax and personal finance software maker Intuit Inc. said Friday it completed its $91 million acquisition of privately held Medfusion, which makes products that help patients connect with doctors and other health care providers.

Sat, 22 May 10
This Week in Geek: Froyo-Free Edition (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100521/tc_pcworld/thisweekingeekfroyofreeedition
PC World - Google has dominated tech headlines this week with Google TV and the Froyo upgrade for Android. But let's take a look at some of the news stories that might have gotten missed this week: the world's smallest 1080p HD camera, Seagate dropping 32-bit OS support for its future 3 TB drives, a potential widescreen Nintendo 3DS, and supercomputers from IBM with Intel and Nvidia chips. Read on for more!

Sat, 22 May 10
Google's WebM May Not Be Patent-Free For Long (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100521/tc_pcworld/googleswebmmaynotbepatentfreeforlong
PC World - Google on Wednesday introduced a new, open source video format called WebM that Google hopes will become "a world-class media format for the open web." In other words, WebM is meant to be a video format that is not encumbered by patent claims from other technology companies and will be free to use by anyone who wants to put video on the Web.

Fri, 21 May 10
Google, partners hoping people want their Web TV (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100520/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_google_tv


Google CEO Eric Schmidt listens during a Google TV announcement, Thursday, May 20, 2010, at the Google conference in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - Google Inc. believes it has come up with the technology to unite Web surfing with channel surfing on televisions.

Fri, 21 May 10
ACLU helping keep Twitter users' IDs secret in Pa. (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100520/ap_on_hi_te/us_twitter_anonymity


FILE - In this March 31, 2010 file photo, Pennsylvania Attorney General and candidate for governor Tom Corbett addresses a question during a 90-minute debate at Harrisburg Area Community College in Harrisburg, Pa. The American Civil Liberties Union is helping two people fight a subpoena seeking their identities after they posted anonymous criticism on Twitter of Corbett. ACLU attorney Vic Walczak said Thursday, May 20, 2010, he will ask a judge to quash the subpoena if an agreement with Corbett's office can't be worked out. (AP Photo/Jason Minick, File)AP - An American Civil Liberties Union lawyer said Thursday his organization is helping two anonymous Twitter users fight an effort by prosecutors to unmask them after they tweeted criticism of the Pennsylvania attorney general, who is running for governor.

Fri, 21 May 10
Muslim concerns trigger Pakistani Web bans (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100520/ap_on_hi_te/as_pakistan_internet_crackdown


Pakistani women participate in a rally against a Facebook page, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, May 20, 2010. Pakistan government ordered Internet service providers to block the social networking site amid anger over a page that encourages users to post images of Islam's Prophet Muhammad. (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash)AP - Pakistan blocked YouTube and many other Internet sites Thursday in a widening crackdown on online content deemed offensive to Islam, reflecting the secular government's sensitivities to an issue that has ignited protests in the Muslim country.

Fri, 21 May 10
Google TV: Your TV and the Web, together again (Ben Patterson)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_gadg/20100520/tc_ytech_gadg/ytech_gadg_tc2170
Ben Patterson - The whole Web TV thing has been tried before ... just not very well, frankly. Now Google thinks it's hit on the right formula for letting couch potatoes easily switch back and forth between live TV and the Web, baking Google search results, Web and Android applications into HDTVs, Blu-ray players, and set-top boxes for a "single, seamless experience."

Fri, 21 May 10
New Android OS turns handsets into mobile hotspots (Ben Patterson)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_gadg/20100520/tc_ytech_gadg/ytech_gadg_tc2168
Ben Patterson - Coming soon to an Android smartphone near you, version 2.2 of Google's mobile OS boasts the ability to turn "certain" Android handsets into mobile Wi-Fi hotspots, capable of wirelessly sharing their 3G connections with up to eight other Wi-Fi-enabled devices. Also on tap: Flash support.

Fri, 21 May 10
Dell fiscal 1Q net income jumps 52 percent (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100521/ap_on_hi_te/us_earns_dell


FILE - In this March 1, 2007, file photo, Dell laptops are seen in North Andover, Mass. Computer maker Dell Inc. releases quarterly financial results Wednesday, May 19, 2010, after the market close. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)AP - Computer maker Dell Inc. said Thursday its first-quarter net income rose 52 percent, helped by sales of computers to businesses and technology services to public-sector customers.

Fri, 21 May 10
Android update turns Google phones into Wi-Fi hot spots (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100520/tc_afp/usitinternettelecomsoftwaregoogle


The Google Nexus One smartphone. Google on Thursday gave developers a peek at an Android software update that lets smartphones become Wi-Fi hot spots and support video based on a Flash program shunned by iPhone maker Apple.(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)AFP - Google on Thursday gave developers a peek at an Android software update that lets smartphones become Wi-Fi hot spots and support video based on a Flash program shunned by iPhone maker Apple.

Fri, 21 May 10
Does Google Have Wi-Fi Data from Your Company? (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100521/tc_pcworld/doesgooglehavewifidatafromyourcompany
PC World - Google is facing scrutiny and investigation around the world following revelations that it has been capturing and archiving wi-fi data collected by its Google Street View vehicles that drive around capturing the image data used by the Street View service. It is questionable whether Google should have done that, but what is not questionable is whether or not Google should have any data from your wi-fi network.

Fri, 21 May 10
Axl Rose countersues ex-manager for $5 million (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100521/ap_on_en_mu/us_people_axl_rose


FILE - In this Sept. 11, 2006, file photo, Axl Rose is seen backstage at the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards in New York. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin, file)AP - Axl Rose has filed a countersuit against his former manager, claiming the man and his music management company tried to sabotage Guns N' Roses to try to force Rose into a reunion tour with the band's original members.

Fri, 21 May 10
GameStop posts higher 1Q net income, sales (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100520/ap_on_bi_ge/ap_us_earns_gamestop
AP - GameStop Corp., the world's largest video game retailer, said Thursday its fiscal first-quarter net income climbed, boosted by strong sales of popular games like "Battlefield Bad Company 2" and "God of War III."

Fri, 21 May 10
Remains of the Day: Pig pile on Apple (Macworld.com)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/macworld/20100520/tc_macworld/remainsofthedaypigpileonapple
Macworld.com - Geez, it must be pile-on Apple day. Both Sony and Google have taken shots at Cupertino, but at least Apple managed to escape a crazy lawsuit and can rest assured in the knowledge that the iPad business is booming. Here are the remainders for May 20, 2010.

Fri, 21 May 10
Android 2.2 and what it means for apps (Appolicious)
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/appolicious_rss/rss_appolicious_tc/http___www_appolicious_com_articles1950_android_2_2_and_what_it_means_for_apps/36238272/SIG=12h942uto/*http://www.appolicious.com/articles/1950-android-2-2-and-what-it-means-for-
Appolicious - Android has flourished in the past year, with wild success and growth that has only begun to gain the attention of large developers and brand marketers. Yet the announcement of Android 2.2 “Froyo” at the Google I/O Conference this week has enabled us to envision new opportunities for the Android platform. The OS upgrade will be the first to support Adobe Flash 10.1, essentially making the full Web experience a mobile one. Check out Android's official introductory video:

Fri, 21 May 10
Google premieres Web television gamble (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100521/media_nm/us_google
Reuters - Web search king Google Inc on Thursday showed off a risky attempt to marry the Web to television and reach the $70 billion TV advertising market, chasing a dream that has eluded even archrival Apple Inc.

Fri, 21 May 10
Intuit 3Q profit jumps 19 percent, boosts outlook (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100520/ap_on_bi_ge/us_earns_intuit
AP - Intuit Inc. on Thursday said its fiscal third-quarter profit jumped 19 percent as more consumers and businesses turned to its tax and accounting software and websites.

Fri, 21 May 10
Oracle Will Acquire Secerno for Database Security (NewsFactor)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20100520/bs_nf/73481
NewsFactor - Oracle is still integrating Sun Microsystems into its fold, but that didn't stop it from making yet another acquisition. On Thursday, Oracle agreed to acquire database firewall-solutions provider Secerno.

Fri, 21 May 10
Alleged hacker sought in US to stay in UK for now (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100520/ap_on_hi_te/eu_britain_us_hacker
AP - Britain's Home Office says a man wanted in the U.S. for allegedly hacking into American military computers can stay in the U.K. for now because the new home secretary has agreed to grant more time to consider the case.

Fri, 21 May 10
Google's WebM Draws Praise, Critiques (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100520/tc_pcworld/googleswebmdrawspraisecritiques
PC World - The news this week of Google's open-source release of the HD video codec VP8 plays into the ongoing debate over which video codec browsers can use to display high-definition video without a plug-in, such as Adobe Flash or Microsoft Silverlight.

Thu, 20 May 10
Review: HTC's Evo 4G is a very good 3G phone (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100520/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_digital_life_tech_test_evo4g


In this product image provided by Sprint, the Sprint HTC EVO 4G mobile phone is displayed. (AP Photo/Sprint) NO SALESAP - HTC's Evo 4G phone is fast, powerful and fun to use — as long as your heart isn't set on tapping into the speedier new network it was designed for.

Thu, 20 May 10
Symantec buying VeriSign's Web-security arm (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100520/ap_on_hi_te/us_symantec_verisign


FILE - In this file photo taken July 20, 2005, an exterior view of VeriSign Inc. offices in Mountain View, Calif., is seen. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)AP - Symantec Corp.'s decision to pay $1.28 billion to buy a division of VeriSign Inc. that sells security technology to websites highlights how quickly the companies are moving in opposite directions.

Thu, 20 May 10
German prosecutors probing Google's mapping breach (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100519/ap_on_hi_te/eu_germany_google


FILE - In this Sept. 25, 2007 file picture a visitor passes an exhibition stand of Google company in Duesseldorf, western Germany. German prosecutors have launched an investigation of Google Inc. in connection with a privacy breach that involved it recording fragments of people's online activities through unsecured Wi-Fi networks. Hamburg prosecutor Wilhelm Moellers told the news agency DAPD on Wednesday May 19, 2010 that his office launched the investigation after a complaint was filed with their office against unknown Google employees. (AP Photo/Rene Tillmann, file)AP - German prosecutors are investigating Google Inc. on suspicion it violated privacy laws when it recorded fragments of people's online activities through unsecured Wi-Fi networks.

Thu, 20 May 10
HP floats the idea of WebOS-powered printers (yep, printers) (Ben Patterson)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_gadg/20100519/tc_ytech_gadg/ytech_gadg_tc2147
Ben Patterson - Now that it owns the touchscreen WebOS, HP has all kinds of plans for Palm's impressive mobile platform, including new WebOS-based smartphones, tablet PCs — and, oddly enough, printers. Sounds crazy, but it just might work.

Thu, 20 May 10
Android, Apple on the march in global smartphone market share (Ben Patterson)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_gadg/20100519/tc_ytech_gadg/ytech_gadg_tc2135
Ben Patterson - Nearly half of the world's smartphones are still powered by the Symbian OS, according to a new report, with the BlackBerry operating system coming in a solid second. Look in the rearview mirror, though, and you'll see the iPhone and Android platforms gaining ground at an impressive rate.

Thu, 20 May 10
Google to polish Chrome with Web apps store (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100519/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_google_chrome_web_store
AP - Google Inc. will open a Web applications store later this year in an attempt to make it easier to find and set up programs within the Internet search leader's Chrome browser.

Thu, 20 May 10
Summary Box: Review finds Evo 4G good as 3G device (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100520/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_digital_life_tech_test_evo4g_summary_box
AP - BIG DEAL: HTC's Evo 4G is an Android phone with a massive 4.3-inch multi-touch screen. It's fast and fun to use, and while its 8-megapixel camera and high-def video function don't measure up to stand-alone devices, they're better than on many smart phones.

Thu, 20 May 10
Google 'screwed up' in capturing private Wi-Fi data: Brin (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100519/tc_afp/uscongressitcompanytelecomprivacyinternetgoogle


Camera of a street-view car, used to photograph whole streets, on the Google street-view stand at the world's biggest high-tech fair, the CeBIT in the northern German city of Hanover. Google AFP - Google "screwed up" by accidentally gathering private wireless data while taking pictures for its "Street View" mapping service, co-founder Sergey Brin said Wednesday.

Thu, 20 May 10
Adobe embracing Apple-favored online video format (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100519/tc_afp/usitinternetsoftwarecompanyappleadobegoogle


Adobe Systems headquarters in San Jose, California. Adobe Systems on Wednesday put aside its tiff with Apple and told thousands of software developers it is embracing the online video format preferred by the maker of iPhones, iPods and iPads.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Justin Sullivan)AFP - Adobe Systems on Wednesday put aside its tiff with Apple and told thousands of software developers it is embracing the online video format preferred by the maker of iPhones, iPods and iPads.

Thu, 20 May 10
China, Canada among top five on US piracy watch list (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100519/ennew_afp/uschinacanadaspainrussiacopyrightfilmmusicinternet


Authorities destroy pirated DVDs and other publications seized during a recent crackdown in Beijing in April 2010. US legislators condemned Canada, China, Mexico, Russia and Spain on Wednesday for failing to crack down on piracy of movies, music, videogames and other copyrighted works.(AFP/File)AFP - US legislators condemned Canada, China, Mexico, Russia and Spain on Wednesday for failing to crack down on piracy of movies, music, videogames and other copyrighted works.

Thu, 20 May 10
Remains of the Day: Apple trademarks its stores, but Google Wave's for all (Macworld.com)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/macworld/20100519/tc_macworld/remainsofthedayappletrademarksitsstoresbutgooglewavesforall
Macworld.com - What do Google Wave, Apple Stores, and Vietnamese forums have in common? They all figure prominently into the remainders for May 19, 2010. Also, they’re all fun places to visit, though you probably wouldn’t want to live there.

Thu, 20 May 10
Twitter for iPhone has landed (Appolicious)
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/appolicious_rss/rss_appolicious_tc/http___www_appolicious_com_articles1934_twitter_for_iphone_has_landed/36222152/SIG=1284i7otb/*http://www.appolicious.com/articles/1934-twitter-for-iphone-has-landed
Appolicious - When Twitter acquired Tweetie 2 earlier this year, it established a precedent for the microblog as it delved deeper into the mobile realm. Since then, Twitter has launched an official app on Blackberry and Google Android devices, carrying through on its intentions to regain the mobile audience that had become so familiar with third party apps for their remote interaction with the site. With official apps now flanking either side of the iPhone, the re-branded Tweetie 2 has finally emerged onto the iTunes App Store scene as the Twitter iPhone app.

Thu, 20 May 10
Symantec buying VeriSign unit for 1.28 billion dollars (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100519/tc_afp/usitcompanycomputersecurityinternetsymantecverisign


US computer security giant Symantec said Wednesday it is buying a unit of VeriSign that secures online transactions for 1.28 billion dollars.(AFP/File/Gabriel Bouys)AFP - US computer security giant Symantec said Wednesday it is buying a unit of VeriSign that secures online transactions for 1.28 billion dollars.

Thu, 20 May 10
Adobe Releases HTML5 Add-On for Creative Suite 5 (NewsFactor)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20100519/tc_nf/73462
NewsFactor - Adobe Systems announced Wednesday that it is releasing a new HTML5 tool set for web designers and developers as an add-on to its Creative Suite 5. The move follows weeks of verbal jousts between Adobe and Apple over the latter's insistence that HTML5 and other solutions be used for interactive multimedia on the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad, rather than Adobe's popular Flash technology.

Thu, 20 May 10
IBM's Newest Supercomputer Mixes Intel, Nvidia Chips (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100519/tc_pcworld/ibmsnewestsupercomputermixesintelnvidiachips
PC World - IBM's utilizes both Intel and Nvidia chips--the first time that IBM has ever mixed the two processors in a supercomputer, according to a CNET report.

Thu, 20 May 10
Major operators to roll out LiMo phones this year (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100519/tc_nm/us_summit_limo
Reuters - Wireless Linux group LiMo expects three major operators to offer handsets using its platform this year, to compete with news rivals Google and Apple, its executive director said. So far only Vodafone has launched a model in Europe, using its Linux-based operating system, while 60 handsets were launched using the platform, mostly in Japan and South-Korea.

Wed, 19 May 10
HP net income surges amid mending computer market (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100518/ap_on_hi_te/us_earns_hewlett_packard


US computer giant Hewlett-Packard posted better-than-expected quarterly results on Tuesday as technology spending revived across all markets.(AFP/BELGA/File)AP - Hewlett-Packard Co.'s latest numbers show how deeply dependent the company is on personal computers even as it aggressively expands into more lucrative areas.

Wed, 19 May 10
Yahoo buys freelance news site Associated Content (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100518/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_yahoo_acquisition
AP - Yahoo Inc. is buying freelance news site Associated Content in a deal that will add a more folksy touch to one of the world's biggest Web sites.

Wed, 19 May 10
Apple's $999 MacBook gets speed boost, more battery life (Ben Patterson)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_gadg/20100518/tc_ytech_gadg/ytech_gadg_tc2107
Ben Patterson - Bummed that Apple's sub-$1,000 MacBook wasn't invited to last month's MacBook Pro refresh party? Never fear; Apple quietly unveiled a new, faster version of the MacBook early Tuesday, complete with a speedier processor, better graphics and improved battery life, all for the same $999 price.

Wed, 19 May 10
Rumorville: Sony to unveil 'premium' PSN subscriptions? (Ben Patterson)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_gadg/20100518/tc_ytech_gadg/ytech_gadg_tc2118
Ben Patterson - One of Sony's biggest selling points for the PlayStation 3 is the free PlayStation Network, the PS3's online hub for gaming downloads, video rentals and multiplayer gaming. Now rumor has it that Sony is poised to start charging for "premium" PSN subscriptions, complete with such enticements as free monthly games and streaming music.

Wed, 19 May 10
'Facebook' for kids keeps parents in the loop (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100519/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_techbit_social_network_for_kids
AP - Kids under 13 aren't allowed on Facebook, but that hasn't stopped many of them from joining.

Wed, 19 May 10
OS X 10.5, 10.6 get Java updates (Macworld.com)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/macworld/20100519/tc_macworld/osx105106getjavaupdates
Macworld.com - We’d be remiss if we let Tuesday pass without noting that Apple has released a pair of Java updates for OS X 10.5 and 10.6. Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 2 is aimed at Snow Leopard users, while Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 7 does the trick for those of us still using Leopard.

Wed, 19 May 10
Google beats Microsoft in smartphones: Gartner (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100519/bs_nm/us_cellphones_gartner
Reuters - Google's Android smartphone software took fourth place for the first time in the January-March quarter, beating Microsoft's Windows Mobile, research firm Gartner said on Wednesday.

Wed, 19 May 10
Skype Turns Panasonic HDTVs Into Videophones (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100518/tc_pcworld/skypeturnspanasonichdtvsintovideophones
PC World - The big-screen HDTV is looking more like an oversized smartphone every day--only without the mobility. Not only are Internet-enabled models that run Web applications becoming commonplace, but HDTV apps stores from top manufacturers like Samsung are opening their doors too. And now Panasonic's new line of Viera Cast HD sets will include Skype software for video calls.

Wed, 19 May 10
Nielsen: Exclusives Matter Least in PlayStation 3 Purchase (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100518/tc_pcworld/nielsenexclusivesmatterleastinplaystation3purchase
PC World - Have you recently snagged a PS3 because of some game, say Sony's God of War III? You're in the minority, according to consumer habit tracker Nielsen. The company interviewed over 700 gamers aged 7 to 54 around the time Sony's myth-marinated action mashup launched and found just 12 percent eyeing the PS3 for "a specific game."

Wed, 19 May 10
The New York Times on iPad just whets the appetite (Appolicious)
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/appolicious_rss/rss_appolicious_tc/http___www_appolicious_com_articles1900_the_new_york_times_on_ipad_just_whets_the_appetite/36164187/SIG=12tmnp1eb/*http://www.appolicious.com/articles/1900-the-new-york-times-on-
Appolicious - When the iPad launched last month, it came with big hopes for news apps seeking Kindle alternatives. Though The New York Times was among those publishers that got to create an app early, offering a sneak peek during the iPad demo months before it was available in stores, the resulting New York Times (free) iPad app actually leaves a lot to be desired.

Wed, 19 May 10
Ideal for small businesses, Square iPhone app will change the way we shop (Appolicious)
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/appolicious_rss/rss_appolicious_tc/http___www_appolicious_com_articles1929_ideal_for_small_businesses_square_iphone_app_will_change_the_way_we_shop/36209140/SIG=13jkm7ijk/*http://www.appolicious.com/articles/1929-
Appolicious - It’s been awhile since I’ve truly been excited about an iPhone app, which is why I was delighted to learn about the new Square financial iPhone app (free), created by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey. Square, which officially debuted in the iTunes App Store last week, makes it possible for anyone, anywhere to accept credit card transactions using a free card reader. ...

Wed, 19 May 10
Yahoo buys user-generated publisher (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100519/tc_nm/us_yahoo


A Yahoo! sign is seen in Times Square. Yahoo! announced Tuesday it is buying Associated Content, a website with a vast stable of freelance writers, in a major push by the Internet portal to offer more original content.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Chris Hondros)Reuters - Yahoo said on Tuesday it has agreed to acquire the user-generated publishing company Associated Content to add more pages to attract advertisers.

Wed, 19 May 10
Google Teams with Sony and Intel for Smart TV Initiative (NewsFactor)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20100518/tc_nf/73426
NewsFactor - Imagine a TV screen with windows or tabs displaying Monday Night Football and the day's stock quotes, e-mail and your Facebook profile all available at the same time, with the ability to toggle between them. Google wants to make that vision a reality, partnering with Sony, Logitech and Intel to expand its Internet presence and its Android operating system further into everyday American life with Smart TV.

Wed, 19 May 10
Hewlett-Packard raises outlook (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100519/bs_nm/us_hp_results


A logo of HP is seen outside Hewlett-Packard Belgian headquarters, January 12, 2010. REUTERS/Thierry RogeReuters - Hewlett-Packard Co's quarterly results beat expectations and it raised its full-year earnings outlook on demand for personal computers and servers as well as a resurgence in its printing business.

Wed, 19 May 10
Facebook users warned about 'sexiest video' attack (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100518/tc_afp/singaporetechnologyinternetfacebook


A computer security company on Tuesday warned Facebook users against clicking on a link claiming to be the AFP - A computer security company on Tuesday warned Facebook users against clicking on a link claiming to be the "sexiest video ever" which is actually a trap designed to infect computers.

Wed, 19 May 10
CodePlex Appoints Technical Director (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100518/tc_pcworld/codeplexappointstechnicaldirector
PC World - The CodePlex Foundation, the open-source projects initiative funded by Microsoft, has appointed a technical director, Stephen Walli.

Tue, 18 May 10
Microsoft upgrade aims to make Hotmail cool again (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100518/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_hotmail_upgrade
AP - Microsoft Corp. is trying to make Hotmail cool again.

Tue, 18 May 10
Study on cell phone link to cancer inconclusive (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100518/ap_on_hi_te/un_cellphones_and_cancer


A delegate talks on his cell phone during the 63rd World Health conference in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, May 17, 2010. A major international study suggests that using cell phones for more than 30 minutes each day could increase the risk of glioma, a form of tumor in the brain or spine, according to the study by the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer. But the authors added that problems with their research methods prevented them from directly blaming cell phone radiation for the tumor. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)AP - If there's one lifestyle tool that's ubiquitous, from American cities to remote villages of the developing world, it's the mobile phone.

Tue, 18 May 10
Heart group backs video games in obesity campaign (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100517/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_games_nintendo_heart_endorsement


Erica Maynard, left, and David Young demonstrate the Wii Fit Plus, Monday, May 17, 2010 in New York. The American Heart Association and Nintendo are working together to show how active-play video games contribute to healthy living. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)AP - Talk about strange bedfellows. The American Heart Association and Nintendo Co. are teaming up to promote the popular Wii video game console, as the health advocacy group concedes that its campaign for traditional exercise isn't working.

Tue, 18 May 10
Nearly one in three social networkers suffer from 'poster's remorse,' survey says (Ben Patterson)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_gadg/20100517/tc_ytech_gadg/ytech_gadg_tc2098
Ben Patterson - Ever post a catty, compromising, snippy, or otherwise ill-advised comment or photo on your Facebook wall, only to instantly regret it? Sure you have — and according to a new survey, you've got plenty of company.

Tue, 18 May 10
Latest next-gen iPhone rumors: sharper display, bigger battery? (Ben Patterson)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_gadg/20100517/tc_ytech_gadg/ytech_gadg_tc2093
Ben Patterson - The cat may already be out of the bag in terms of what the next iPhone will look like, but questions are still swirling as to what's inside that flat, glossy shell, not to mention the sharpness of the supposedly revamped display.

Tue, 18 May 10
Air Force: Tests didn't include troubled GPS unit (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100517/ap_on_hi_te/us_military_gps_glitch
AP - The military did no advance testing on a specific type of military GPS receiver that had problems picking up locator signals after a change in ground-control software, the Air Force said Monday.

Tue, 18 May 10
Nintendo, American heart group join to tackle obesity (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100518/tc_afp/lifestylejapanusnintendohealth


File photo shows a man posing inside an advertisement for Wii Fit by Japanese game console maker Nintendo in New York. The American Heart Association has teamed up with Nintendo to harness its Wii consoles and encourage Americans to exercise more to counter a soaring obesity problem.(AFP/File/Emmanuel Dunand)AFP - The American Heart Association has teamed up with Japanese entertainment giant Nintendo to harness its Wii consoles and encourage Americans to exercise more to counter a soaring obesity problem.

Tue, 18 May 10
Vodafone profit almost trebles to 8.6 billion pounds (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100518/bs_afp/britaintelecommobilecompanyearningsvodafone


British mobile phone giant Vodafone on Tuesday announced that group net profits almost trebled to 8.645 billion pounds (10.1 billion euros, 12.5 billion dollars) in the 12 months to March 31.(AFP/File/John Macdougall)AFP - British mobile phone giant Vodafone on Tuesday announced that group net profits almost trebled to 8.645 billion pounds (10.1 billion euros, 12.5 billion dollars) in the 12 months to March 31.

Tue, 18 May 10
Roku adds live pay-per-view UFC bouts (Macworld.com)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/macworld/20100517/tc_macworld/rokuaddslivepayperviewufcbouts
Macworld.com - Can one live on streaming television alone? With the multitude of video-streaming services now available, that’s an increasingly popular question. If you’re a die-hard fan of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, the answer may now be “yes”: Roku and UFC have struck a deal to bring all major UFC events to the streaming-video player for years to come.

Tue, 18 May 10
Summary Box: Heart group backs video games (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100518/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_games_nintendo_heart_endorsement_summary_box
AP - THE PARTNERSHIP: The American Heart Association and Nintendo Co. have forged an unlikely alliance. The health advocacy group is endorsing Nintendo's popular Wii products.

Tue, 18 May 10
Next iPhone May Get Display Upgrade (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100518/tc_pcworld/nextiphonemaygetdisplayupgrade
PC World - A new leak out of Vietnam suggests that the next version of the iPhone (expected to be released this Summer) may contain a higher-resolution display than found in the current model, the iPhone 3GS.

Tue, 18 May 10
Chalkboard Stunts, iTouch My Friends top Free iPhone Apps of the Week (Appolicious)
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/appolicious_rss/rss_appolicious_tc/http___www_appolicious_com_articles1916_chalkboard_stunts_itouch_my_friends_top_free_iphone_apps_of_the_week/36194395/SIG=13foo7lp8/*http://www.appolicious.com/articles/1916-chal
Appolicious - I’m just going to come out and say it: this week’s free iPhone app list is all about entertainment. No productivity apps, no business apps ... nothing that could be construed as constructive.

Tue, 18 May 10
Best Buy's Internet video service ready to debut (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100518/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_techbit_best_buy_cinemanow
AP - Best Buy Co. is about to give its customers one less reason to buy DVDs.

Tue, 18 May 10
Android and Flash May Star at Google's I/O Conference (NewsFactor)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20100517/tc_nf/73396
NewsFactor - With all the irons that Google has in various fires, there's a lot of speculation as to what will really catch fire in its third annual I/O developers conference, which starts Wednesday in San Francisco. Speculation about announcements and demonstrations include the next version of its open-source Android operating system, the new Google TV, Adobe's new Flash player on Android, enhancements to its browser-based Chrome operating system, and more.

Tue, 18 May 10
SAP Developing Collaborative CRM App (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100517/tc_pcworld/sapdevelopingcollaborativecrmapp
PC World - SAP is working on a new on-demand CRM (customer relationship management) application that will also incorporate social collaboration tools, a company executive said in an interview at the Sapphire conference in Orlando.

Mon, 17 May 10
Study: Cell phone-brain cancer link inconclusive (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100516/ap_on_he_me/un_cellphones_and_cancer
City workers make phone calls outside the London Stock Exchange in Paternoster Square in the City of London at lunchtime October 1, 2008. REUTERS/Toby MelvilleAP - Cell phone users worried about getting brain cancer aren't off the hook yet.

Mon, 17 May 10
Teens learn dangers of texting while driving (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100516/ap_on_bi_ge/us_no_text_while_driving


In this May 6, 2010 photo, Capt. Drew Bloom of the Vermont Department of Motor Vehicles, left, rides along with 10th-grader Trever Nadeau during a texting while driving event in White River Junction, Vt. While states pass laws banning texting while driving, some are going a step further, giving kids first-hand experience of the dangers of sending electronic messages while behind the wheel. They're sending kids through obstacle courses on golf carts while texting, keeping track of how many errors and fatalities they may cause. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)AP - Kamy Mayott has been told that texting while driving is dangerous. But the 15-year-old didn't know just how dangerous until she navigated a golf cart through an obstacle course while texting and took out a whole row of orange cones.

Mon, 17 May 10
US, Europe look to China for clean energy sales (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100516/ap_on_hi_te/as_china_clean_energy_challenge
AP - U.S. leaders want China's clean energy boom to drive technology exports and are sending a sales mission to Beijing this week. But Beijing wants to create its own suppliers of wind, solar and other equipment and is limiting access to its market, setting up a new trade clash with Washington and Europe.

Mon, 17 May 10
Apple's iPhone replaces Blackberry for some bankers (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100517/tc_nm/us_blackberry_iphone_banks


An Apple iPhone is shown at the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada January 5, 2010. REUTERS/Steve MarcusReuters - British bank Standard Chartered is replacing the Blackberry, currently its standard corporate communication device, with the iPhone, a move that could eventually result in thousands of its bankers switching to the Apple device for business communication on the go.

Mon, 17 May 10
4G wireless technology slowly starts out in Scandinavia (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100516/bs_afp/swedennorwayusjapantelecomstechnologymobile4g


People attending a 4G telecommunication connection conference at the Telia headquarters on May 4. Launched in the capitals of tech-savvy Sweden and Norway in December, fourth generation wireless technology is getting off to a slow start in Scandinavia, analysts say.(AFP/File/Olivier Morin)AFP - Launched in the capitals of tech-savvy Sweden and Norway in December, fourth generation wireless technology is getting off to a slow start in Scandinavia, analysts say.

Mon, 17 May 10
Stars help raise over $1.5M for Tenn. flood relief (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100517/ap_on_en_mu/us_music_nashville_floods_gac_telethon


This photo provided by Gaylord Hotels via The Tennessean shows extensive flood damage to the atrium at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel in Nashville, Tenn. The Gaylord Opryland Resort, the hotel next to the Opry house, was hit with up to 10 feet of water. Its first floor, power plant and technical hub were flooded. The resort won't be taking bookings from now through October so extensive repairs can be made. (AP Photo/Gaylord Hotels via The Tennessean)AP - Country music singers Brad Paisley, Keith Urban and Lady Antebellum joined other entertainment stars Sunday in performing and answering phones to help raise more than $1.5 million for flood relief for Tennessee.

Mon, 17 May 10
Free games lure new players including women, elderly (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100517/wr_nm/us_videogames_free
Reuters - The video game industry has weathered the economic slowdown better than most industries, but there could be a reason -- free games with new figures showing up to a third of gamers don't pay to play.

Mon, 17 May 10
LG Display banks on e-reader growth (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100517/tc_nm/us_summit_lgdisplay
Reuters - SEOUL (Reuters) -The global electronic book market will grow almost 80 percent this year, aided by Apple's iPad, but devices with limited multimedia functions will remain a mainstream segment thanks to consumers seeking a serious reading experience, LG Display said on Monday.

Mon, 17 May 10
The New York Times finally arrives on Android (Appolicious)
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/appolicious_rss/rss_appolicious_tc/http___www_appolicious_com_articles1909_the_new_york_times_finally_arrives_on_android/36186804/SIG=12ork0oo8/*http://www.appolicious.com/articles/1909-the-new-york-times-finally-
Appolicious - With The New York Times being among the first to adopt mobile devices for news delivery, Apple products and Amazon's Kindle took precedence. Now that the Android platform has proven its desire to stick around for a while, big brands are starting to take notice.

Mon, 17 May 10
EU's Kroes says China 'Great Firewall' a WTO issue (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100517/tc_afp/chinaeuinternetcensorshipcompetition


Vice president of the European Commission Neelie Kroes (C) poses with executives Mark van der Chijs (R) and Gary Wang (L) at the headquarters of Tudou.com, a popular Chinese video sharing web site founded by the Chinese and Dutch entrepreneurs, in Shanghai on May 17, 2010. Kroes said China's censorship of Internet sites constituted a trade barrier and should be dealt with by the WTO(AFP/Philippe Lopez)AFP - European Commission vice president Neelie Kroes said Monday that China's censorship of Internet sites constituted a trade barrier and should be dealt with by the World Trade Organisation.

Sun, 16 May 10
Google to stop selling smartphone online (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100516/wr_nm/us_google_nexus
Reuters - Google Inc is closing its 4-month-old online cell phone store, abandoning an ambitious plan by the Web search leader to redefine wireless retailing.

Sun, 16 May 10
Google says mistakenly got wireless data (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100516/wr_nm/us_google_wifi
Reuters - Google Inc said its fleet of cars responsible for photographing streets around the world have for several years accidentally collected personal information -- which a security expert said could include email messages and passwords -- sent by consumers over wireless networks.

Sun, 16 May 10
Cathay Pacific plane from HK escorted to Vancouver (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100516/ap_on_bi_ge/cn_canada_plane_threat


A CF18 Hornet fighter jet, acting under the North American Aerospace Defence Command, intercepts a Cathay Pacific passenger plane headed for Vancouver, Canada on Saturday, May 15, 2010. Two Canadian fighter jets escorted a Cathay Pacific passenger plane to Vancouver International Airport on Saturday due to a security threat. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Patrick Beaton)AP - Canadian fighter jets escorted a Cathay Pacific airliner coming from Hong Kong to a safe landing in Vancouver International Airport on Saturday following a bomb threat, officials said.

Sun, 16 May 10
Beer, betrayal, a lost iPhone in Apple device tale (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100516/wr_nm/us_apple_warrant
Reuters - Fearing "huge" losses in sales after pictures leaked of its fourth-generation iPhone, Apple Inc convinced police to launch a felony investigation and Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs contacted the offending Web site himself to try and recover the gadget.

Sun, 16 May 10
India slowly gets to grips with ecommerce (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100516/tc_afp/lifestyleindiainternetretail


File photo of Indian school children checking the results of the Jharkhand state secondary school examination board on their web-site in a Ranchi cyber-cafe. For a country with 1.1 billion people, India's use of computers and the Internet is still low, despite being a major player in global information technology and outsourcing.(AFP/null)AFP - Vipul Modi is a busy high court lawyer in India's financial capital Mumbai. Like many people, he uses the Internet to buy rail and airline tickets as well as pay his utility bills.

Sat, 15 May 10
Wireless users opt for service without commitment (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100514/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_wireless_subscribers


In this photo taken, Wednesday, May 12, 2010, a man on his mobile phone walks by a mobile phone store in New York. So far this year, customers have been making a big shift away from two-year contracts toward prepaid service without contracts. That signals a new era for the industry, where old recipes for growth will need to be replaced. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP - For wireless subscribers, commitment is out and short-term relationships are in.

Sat, 15 May 10
Jobs made phone call seeking return of lost iPhone (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100515/ap_on_hi_te/us_apple_gizmodo_lost_iphone


FILE - In this Thursday, April 8, 2010 picture, Apple Chairman and CEO Steve Jobs speaks at an event at Apple Inc. in Cupertino, Calif. Brian Hogan's world closed in fast almost as soon as he sold the next-generation iPhone he found in a Silicon Valley bar to a popular technology website for a stack of $100 bills, according to court documents released Friday. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)AP - Brian Hogan's world closed in fast almost as soon as he sold the next-generation iPhone he found in a Silicon Valley bar to a popular technology website for a stack of $100 bills, according to court documents released Friday.

Sat, 15 May 10
Google to sell Nexus One offline, close Web store (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100514/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_google_phone


The camera of a street-view car. Google said Friday it will no longer collect WiFi network information for its AP - Google Inc. will close an online store that it set up to sell its Nexus One phone and rely on traditional retailers instead.

Sat, 15 May 10
Google to abandon its Nexus One online store (Ben Patterson)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_gadg/20100514/tc_ytech_gadg/ytech_gadg_tc2078
Ben Patterson - Well, that didn't last long. Just four months after seeking to shake up the wireless world by selling its Android-based Nexus One phone direct over the Web, Google has cried uncle, announcing that it'll close its online store once it has "increased the availability" of the handset in regular retail stores.

Sat, 15 May 10
50,000 sued over "Hurt Locker" piracy (Christopher Null)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_wguy/20100514/tc_ytech_wguy/ytech_wguy_tc2074
Christopher Null - Tempted to see what the fuss over Oscar winner "The Hurt Locker" is all about? Tread lightly, and keep away from file-sharing networks, because Voltage Pictures, which produced the film, is suing upwards of 50,000 individuals who allegedly pirated the film online, according to the Hollywood Reporter's media-law blog.

Sat, 15 May 10
Google grabs personal info off of Wi-Fi networks (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100514/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_google_privacy
AP - Google Inc. has been vacuuming up fragments of people's online activities broadcast over public Wi-Fi networks for the past four years, a breach of Web etiquette likely to raise more privacy worries about the Internet search leader.

Sat, 15 May 10
Apple's Jobs involved in iPhone prototype search (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100515/tc_afp/usitcompanytelecomappleiphonegizmodo


Apple chief executive Steve Jobs, pictured, personally contacted the editor of a technology blog which obtained an iPhone prototype last month to ask for it back, according to newly released court documents.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Justin Sullivan)AFP - Apple chief executive Steve Jobs personally contacted the editor of a technology blog which obtained an iPhone prototype last month to ask for it back, according to newly released court documents.

Sat, 15 May 10
Google collecting personal WiFi data by mistake (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100515/tc_afp/usgermanyitcompanytelecomprivacyinternetgoogle


The camera of a street-view car. Google said Friday it will no longer collect WiFi network information for its AFP - Google has said that the cars used for its "Street View" mapping service had been mistakenly collecting personal data that people sent over unsecured WiFi networks for several years.

Sat, 15 May 10
Appeals court gives Dish a chance in TiVo case (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100514/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_dish_tivo_patent_lawsuit
AP - A federal appeals court Friday granted Dish Network Corp. a full-court review of a ruling that threatened to force the satellite TV company to disable millions of its customers' digital video recorders because of a patent dispute with TiVo Inc.

Sat, 15 May 10
Sector Snap: Video game stocks take a hit (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100514/ap_on_hi_te/us_video_games_sector_snap
AP - Shares of video game companies took a hit Friday after market researcher NPD Group reported a 26 percent drop in April video game sales, a weak showing for the industry after a slight uptick in March.

Sat, 15 May 10
Remains of the Day: Warrants unsealed, Apple unleashed (Macworld.com)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/macworld/20100514/tc_macworld/remainsofthedaywarrantsunsealedappleunleashed
Macworld.com - Ease yourself into the weekend with these stories, plucked fresh from the Internet just this afternoon and delivered straight to you.

Sat, 15 May 10
Square, Citysearch lead the pack for Best Android Apps of the Week (Appolicious)
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/appolicious_rss/rss_appolicious_tc/http___www_appolicious_com_articles1895_square_citysearch_lead_the_pack_for_best_android_apps_of_the_week/36151202/SIG=13cte9qqs/*http://www.appolicious.com/articles/1895-square-
Appolicious - This week brought a number of search and location-aware apps to the top of Android’s charts, including a social sharing update from Google Maps. Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey also made waves with the launch of Square for Android, turning your phone into a credit card reader.

Sat, 15 May 10
Google abandons smartphone Nexus One online store (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100515/tc_afp/usittelecominternetgoogle


The Google Nexus One smartphone. The Internet titan has said it is closing down the online store for its much vaunted smartphone in a strategic shift that signals the failure of its bid to market the device directly to consumers on the Web.(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)AFP - Google has said it is closing down the online store for its Nexus One smartphone in a strategic shift that signals the failure of its bid to market the device directly to consumers on the Web.

Sat, 15 May 10
GPS glitch hit some military systems in January (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100515/ap_on_hi_te/us_military_gps_glitch
AP - A software glitch in the military GPS network temporarily left some defense systems unable to lock onto locator signals from satellites in January, but the problem has been fixed, the Air Force said Friday.

Sat, 15 May 10
Ex-Sun CEO takes high road after Ellison attack (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100514/bs_nm/us_sun_oracle
Reuters - Former Sun Microsystems Chief Executive Jonathan Schwartz is taking the high road after getting a public tongue lashing from Silicon Valley's richest man, Larry Ellison.

Sat, 15 May 10
Hack: Overclock Your iPhone or iPod Touch (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100514/tc_pcworld/hackoverclockyouriphoneoripodtouch
PC World - The processor of the iPhone 3G is 600MHz, and the processor for the iPhone 3GS is 833MHz, but they are underclocked by Apple at 412MHz and 600MHz respectably. But a hacker discovered that you can overclock your iPhone in no time by simply renaming a file.

Fri, 14 May 10
Adobe makes 'love' not war in dispute with Apple (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100513/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_apple_adobe_flash


In this advertisement provided by Adobe Systems Inc., an ad countering Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs' recent jab at Adobe's Flash technology for Web video and games, is shown.(AP Photo/Adobe Systems Inc.) ** NO SALES **AP - Adobe is firing back at Apple with love.

Fri, 14 May 10
Facebook rolling out new security features (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100514/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_facebook_security


This screen shot provided by Facebook shows new features and security improvements to combat spam and scams on the site. (AP Photo/Facebook) NO SALESAP - Facebook's millions of users are a lucrative target for Internet criminals looking to steal passwords and more. To combat malicious attacks, phishing scams and spam, the online social network is rolling out new security features.

Fri, 14 May 10
China says Internet fully restored in Xinjiang (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100514/ap_on_re_as/as_china_xinjiang
AP - China's riot-torn western region of Xinjiang said it fully restored the Internet on Friday, 10 months after shutting down access over allegations that agitators used the Web to stir up ethnic violence that killed nearly 200 people.

Fri, 14 May 10
More PSP 2 rumors as E3 gaming conference looms (Ben Patterson)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_gadg/20100513/tc_ytech_gadg/ytech_gadg_tc2059
Ben Patterson - Rumblings of a true next-generation PlayStation Portable just won't go away, with the latest chatter pegging next month's E3 gaming conference in Los Angeles as the likely venue for its unveiling. Meanwhile, sales of Sony's current PSP models — including the new PSP Go — are taking a turn for the worse.

Fri, 14 May 10
Will Net neutrality drive up Internet access prices? (Christopher Null)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_wguy/20100513/tc_ytech_wguy/ytech_wguy_tc2058
Christopher Null - Are you prepared to pay an extra 50 bucks a month for your Web access? Ready to watch your Net service slow to a crawl? Or YouTube disappear?

Fri, 14 May 10
Online ad sales rose 7 percent to $5.9B in 1Q (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100513/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_online_advertising
AP - Internet ad sales are on the mend as first-quarter revenue rose 7 percent, marking the second straight quarter of increase, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau.

Fri, 14 May 10
Google CEO discusses China, mobile at meeting (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100514/ap_on_hi_te/us_google_meeting
AP - Google Inc. CEO Eric Schmidt seems more interested in keeping the peace with China than with Apple Inc. and other rivals in the rapidly growing smart phone market.

Fri, 14 May 10
Will 4G Fix Wireless Voice Quality? (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100514/tc_pcworld/will4gfixwirelessvoicequality
PC World - "Can you hear me now?" As much marketing hype as 3G wireless networks have received, the fact remains that customers of all the major wireless providers are frequently frustrated with their service's poor voice quality and dropped calls. With 4G looming on the horizon, can we look forward to better voice quality?

Fri, 14 May 10
April Video Game Sales Plunge, Splinter Cell Leads (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100514/tc_pcworld/aprilvideogamesalesplungesplintercellleads
PC World - From famine to feast to famine again, April 2010 retail video game sales plummeted 11 points in year-on-year numbers after last month's rally. According to NPD Group analyst Anita Frazier, April was the industry's worst year-on-year decline since July 2009 and the fourth worst in year-on-year percent declines since September 2000.

Fri, 14 May 10
Gameworld: Free games lure new players including women, elderly (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100514/wr_nm/us_videogames_free
Reuters - The video game industry has weathered the economic slowdown better than most industries, but there could be a reason -- free games with new figures showing up to a third of gamers don't pay to play.

Fri, 14 May 10
Summary Box: Adobe, Apple dispute escalates (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100514/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_apple_adobe_flash_summary_box
AP - THE OPENING JAB: A few weeks ago, Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs described Adobe Systems Inc.'s Flash as outdated, unreliable and unfit for Apple's mobile products.

Fri, 14 May 10
Stay synced with these Android apps (Appolicious)
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/appolicious_rss/rss_appolicious_tc/http___www_appolicious_com_articles1886_stay_synced_with_these_android_apps/36139469/SIG=12e0p2bct/*http://www.appolicious.com/articles/1886-stay-synced-with-these-android-apps
Appolicious - Almost everyone has to manage multiple devices in their day-to-day lives. Desktops, laptops, tablets and handsets are the usual suspects, each with its own purpose. With such an array of hardware, staying organized can be problematic. These Android apps will help streamline the digital media and services you use daily right to your phone so you can use your Android as the center of your multi-platform lifestyle.

Fri, 14 May 10
China allows Internet access in Xinjiang 10 months after riots (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100514/wr_nm/us_china_xinjiang_internet
Reuters - China restored full Internet access in its far western Xinjiang region Friday, the local government said, ending 10 months of blocked or limited access following deadly ethnic rioting there last July.

Fri, 14 May 10
65,000 Android phones shipping every day: Google (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100513/tc_afp/usittelecomcompanyinternetgoogle


A model displays smartphones with Google's mobile operating system Android during its first launch in Jakarta in February 2010. At least 65,000 mobile phones powered by Google's Android operating system are being shipped every day, Google chief executive Eric Schmidt said Thursday.(AFP/File/Bay Ismoyo)AFP - At least 65,000 mobile phones powered by Google's Android operating system are being shipped every day, Google chief executive Eric Schmidt said Thursday.

Fri, 14 May 10
Tibco Overhauls Software Line (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100513/tc_pcworld/tibcooverhaulssoftwareline
PC World - Enterprise messaging software company Tibco has revamped its software line, updating several key products and debuting new business process management (BPM) and enterprise social-networking applications.

Fri, 14 May 10
Eclipse partners with Google on projects portal (InfoWorld)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20100513/tc_infoworld/123770
InfoWorld - The Eclipse Foundation has launched Eclipse Labs, a portal hosted by Google that will feature open source projects that need exposure without going through the laborious processes of becoming an official Eclipse project.

Thu, 13 May 10
Sony's annual loss shrinks to $439 million (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100513/ap_on_hi_te/as_japan_earns_sony
AP - Sony Corp. stayed in the red last business year but shrank losses through cost cuts and better sales of consumer electronics.

Thu, 13 May 10
Cisco extends recovery, net income up 63 pct in 3Q (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100512/ap_on_hi_te/us_earns_cisco


FILE - In this Feb. 3, 2009 file photo, a Cisco Systems sign is shown at Cisco Systems headquarters in San Jose, Calif. Cisco Systems Inc. releases quarterly financial results Wednesday, May 12, 2010, after the market close. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)AP - Cisco said Wednesday that its net income for the latest quarter rose 63 percent from last year, as the economic recovery gave customers the confidence to spend on big-ticket networking gear.

Thu, 13 May 10
HTC swipes back at Apple in patent dispute (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100512/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_apple_htc_patent_dispute


FILE - In this March 3, 2010 file photo, advertisements for Taiwan's HTC mobile phone are seen in a popular computer market in Taipei, Taiwan. Taiwanese cell phone maker HTC has filed a legal complaint against Apple Wednesday, May 12, 2010, looking to block sales of the iPhone and other Apple products.(AP Photo/Wally Santana, file)AP - Taiwanese cell phone maker HTC Corp. is filing a patent complaint against Apple Inc. over its popular gadgets, escalating a legal dispute as new smart phones are threatening the iPhone's supremacy.

Thu, 13 May 10
Sprint set to unleash HTC Evo 4G (Ben Patterson)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_gadg/20100512/tc_ytech_gadg/ytech_gadg_tc2034
Ben Patterson - Set to be the first Android phone in the U.S. with support for Sprint's nascent, high-speed WiMax network, the HTC Evo 4G — complete with a jumbo-sized 4.3-inch display, video chat, and HD video recording — is coming to a Sprint store near you early next month.

Thu, 13 May 10
Bheestie Bag rescues wet gadgets (Christopher Null)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_wguy/20100512/tc_ytech_wguy/ytech_wguy_tc2030
Christopher Null - Aside from your small children and their grubby paws, the number-one menace to your electronic gadgets is water. In all its forms, moisture is bad news for electronics, whether it's a dunk in the toilet (it happens — we don't judge you), an impromptu dip in the ocean (guilty), or a single drop of coffee landing at just the wrong spot.

Thu, 13 May 10
EBay CEO envisions PayPal in more offline settings (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100512/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_techbit_paypal_offline
AP - The waiter comes to your table and asks: "Will you be paying by cash, credit or PayPal?"

Thu, 13 May 10
HTC sues to block iPhone, iPad, iPod sales (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100513/tc_nm/us_htc_apple
Reuters - HTC Corp fired back on Wednesday in its legal battle with Apple Inc, asking the U.S. International Trade Commission to ban sales of iPhones, iPads and iPods in the United States.

Thu, 13 May 10
Sprint to Make HTC's Evo 4G Phone Available in June (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100513/tc_pcworld/sprinttomakehtcsevo4gphoneavailableinjune
PC World - Wireless carrier Sprint on Wednesday said HTC's Evo 4G smartphone, which could provide unprecedented data transfer rates to smartphones, will debut in the U.S. on June 4.

Thu, 13 May 10
Music biz wins big in LimeWire copyright case (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100513/en_nm/us_piracy
Reuters - The music industry has landed a major punch in its fight against LimeWire, one of the oldest file-sharing networks on the Internet.

Thu, 13 May 10
Adam Sandler taking "Pixels" to big screen (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100513/en_nm/us_pixels
Reuters - "Pixels," the much-buzzed-about short film featuring 1980s video game characters attacking New York City, is heading for the big-screen.

Thu, 13 May 10
Comcast to make your iPad a giant remote (Macworld.com)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/macworld/20100512/tc_macworld/comcasttomakeyouripadagiantremote
Macworld.com - Thanks to its small size and weight, the iPad's place is not on our desks, but at our side—a constant companion that augments and enriches our daily lives. This seems to be inspiring all sorts of innovative apps that take advantage of everything our beloved tablet has to offer in new and exciting ways.

Thu, 13 May 10
oMoby, IMDb top Free iPhone Apps of the Week (Appolicious)
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/appolicious_rss/rss_appolicious_tc/http___www_appolicious_com_articles1865_omoby_imdb_top_free_iphone_apps_of_the_week/36109926/SIG=12m1u7ftk/*http://www.appolicious.com/articles/1865-omoby-imdb-top-free-iphone-ap
Appolicious - They always say there’s no such thing as a free lunch, but they never say that about iPhone apps. I can promise you these free iPhone apps really are free and – word has it – they’re eagerly awaiting your download.

Thu, 13 May 10
Microsoft launches new Office, duels Google online (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100513/wr_nm/us_microsoft_office
Reuters - Microsoft Corp launched an updated version of its Office software on Wednesday, aiming to keep its grip on the hugely profitable business application market while countering the challenge of free online alternatives from Google Inc.

Thu, 13 May 10
Big record labels win LimeWire copyright case (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100513/wr_nm/us_limewire_copyright_ruling
Reuters - The makers of file-sharing software LimeWire are liable to 13 major record companies that accused the service of infringing their music copyrights, a Manhattan federal judge has ruled.

Thu, 13 May 10
Free Office 2010 Apps Won't Arrive Until June (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100512/tc_pcworld/freeoffice2010appswontarriveuntiljune
PC World - Wednesday's launch of the newest versions of Microsoft Office and SharePoint had a decidedly business bent, and for good reason. Enterprise customers can buy the standalone, business-oriented versions of Office 2010 today, but home and small-business users will likely have to wait a month or more.

Thu, 13 May 10
U.S. struggles to ward off evolving cyber threat (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100512/wr_nm/us_usa_cybersecurity
Reuters - The United States is losing enough data in cyber attacks to fill the Library of Congress many times over, and authorities have failed to stay ahead of the threat, a U.S. defense official said on Wednesday.

Thu, 13 May 10
Firefox Aims to Make IE, Safari Browsing More Secure (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100512/tc_pcworld/firefoxaimstomakeiesafaribrowsingmoresecure
PC World - Mozilla has expanded a service that checks if a browser's plugins are current to now scan Internet Explorer, Safari Opera and Chrome in addition to its own Firefox.

Wed, 12 May 10
Game sales strong for EA but outlook hurts shares (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100511/ap_on_hi_te/us_earns_electronic_arts
AP - Video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc. said Tuesday that strong sales of games such as "Battlefield: Bad Company 2" and "Mass Effect 2" gave the company a quarterly profit above expectations. But its outlook fell short of Wall Street's forecast, and its shares slumped in after-hours trading.

Wed, 12 May 10
Drifting satellite threatens US cable programming (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100511/ap_on_re_us/out_of_control_satellite
AP - A TV communications satellite is drifting out of control thousands of miles above the Earth, threatening to wander into another satellite's orbit and interfere with cable programming across the United States, the satellites' owners said Tuesday.

Wed, 12 May 10
Firefox 4 has simpler design, more privacy control (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100511/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_techbit_firefox_browser
AP - The next version of the Firefox browser, set for release by the end of the year, will pare down the software's menus and certain user options while giving Web surfers more control over privacy.

Wed, 12 May 10
Google in the clear on e-book store (Christopher Null)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_wguy/20100511/tc_ytech_wguy/ytech_wguy_tc2008
Christopher Null - Reports are arriving this week that Google has all the permission it needs to open its recently announced e-book store, a credible threat to Amazon and Apple in the race to become the predominant electronic bookseller.

Wed, 12 May 10
When did Apple become uncool? (Christopher Null)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_wguy/20100511/tc_ytech_wguy/ytech_wguy_tc2000
Christopher Null - It's hard to remember a time when Apple wasn't the coolest company on the planet. In 1984, the company made its voice heard with a groundbreaking Super Bowl ad that launched the Macintosh to the world.

Wed, 12 May 10
Regulators seek to avoid surprises on cell bills (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100511/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_fcc_wireless_rule
AP - Federal regulators are considering rules that would require wireless phone companies to alert consumers before they reach roaming or data usage limits on their wireless plans.

Wed, 12 May 10
AMD Introduces New Laptop Chips to Close Gap With Intel (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100512/tc_pcworld/amdintroducesnewlaptopchipstoclosegapwithintel
PC World - Advanced Micro Devices on Wednesday announced new mobile processors as it tries to bridge the power and performance gap with Intel, while trying to lower laptop prices.

Wed, 12 May 10
China Mobile interested in bringing Apple iPad to China (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100512/tc_nm/us_chinamobile
Reuters - China Mobile (0941.HK), China's dominant mobile carrier, is interested in selling Apple's iPad tablet computer in China, the company's chairman said.

Wed, 12 May 10
Verizon Shows LTE Running at 8.5M Bps (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100511/tc_pcworld/verizonshowslterunningat85mbps
PC World - Verizon Wireless said in March that its 4G LTE network was showing higher speeds than expected in real-world tests near Boston. On Tuesday, it did what a lot of people do these days to prove it: posted a YouTube video.

Wed, 12 May 10
EA's profit beat not enough to satisfy investors (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100511/media_nm/us_electronicarts
Reuters - Electronic Arts Inc's fourth-quarter results topped analysts' estimates, helped by sales of hit video game "Battlefield: Bad Company 2," but its shares fell as investors were looking for an even stronger performance from the company.

Wed, 12 May 10
Goalbook iPhone app not much more than a glorified notepad (Appolicious)
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/appolicious_rss/rss_appolicious_tc/http___www_appolicious_com_articles1876_goalbook_iphone_app_not_much_more_than_a_glorified_notepad/36127629/SIG=135q7uq0a/*http://www.appolicious.com/articles/1876-goalbook-iphon
Appolicious - The Notes iPhone app is still on my home screen, just the way it was when I first started up my iPhone. It’s not out of habit, but out of use. I am constantly jotting things down on various Notes pages. Whether it’s grocery lists, small to-do’s, or just phone numbers I’ll need to reference quickly later, Notes is a very solid app. In theory, I could also easily put a few “goals” down as well, but the Goalbook iPhone app ($1.99) has other ideas.

Wed, 12 May 10
App Industry Roundup: Square's mobile payment service ready for iPhone and Android (Appolicious)
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/appolicious_rss/rss_appolicious_tc/http___www_appolicious_com_articles1873_app_industry_roundup_square_s_mobile_payment_service_ready_for_iphone_and_android/36120839/SIG=13s6fhpp9/*http://www.appolicious.com/artic
Appolicious - Do you have a problem with friends who don't pay up on their bets? Get the Square app for your phone and your buddies won't have a choice. Also in today's App Industry Roundup: Motorola has square ideas of its own while Engadget confirms that AT&T sells the iPhone.

Wed, 12 May 10
Microsoft updates Office, vies online with Google (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100511/wr_nm/us_microsoft_office
Reuters - Microsoft Corp launches an updated version of its Office software on Wednesday, aiming to keep its grip on the hugely profitable business application market while countering the challenge of free online alternatives from Google Inc.

Wed, 12 May 10
BSA Piracy Study: Quantifying Piracy Data Easier Than We Thought (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100512/tc_pcworld/bsapiracystudyquantifyingpiracydataeasierthanwethought
PC World - The Business Software Alliance (BSA), in conjunction with global market intelligence firm IDC, released its seventh annual study on software piracy on Tuesday. The study estimates that the commercial value of pirated software globally was $51.4 billion. According to the BSA, while losses due to piracy are hard to quantify, the $51.4 billion is most likely lower than the actual losses sustained due to piracy in 2009.

Wed, 12 May 10
IBM Points Predictive Analytics at Social Web (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100511/tc_pcworld/ibmpointspredictiveanalyticsatsocialweb
PC World - The next time you choose an emoticon to spice up a comment about a company, product or service online, know this: There's a chance that a software program is capturing the sentiment expressed by your smiley or frowny for analysis.

Wed, 12 May 10
Mozilla CEO Lilly to Step Down (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100512/tc_pcworld/mozillaceolillytostepdown
PC World - Mozilla CEO John Lilly will leave the nonprofit company as soon as it can find a replacement, ending his more than two years at the helm of the maker of Firefox.

Tue, 11 May 10
Samsung outlines $20.6 billion investment plan (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100511/ap_on_hi_te/as_skorea_samsung
AP - Samsung said Tuesday it plans to invest 23.3 trillion won ($20.6 billion) over the next decade in technologies including solar cells and medical devices, aiming to boost sales and increase its work force by tens of thousands.

Tue, 11 May 10
Twitter bug lets users fake followers (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100510/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_twitter_glitch


The internet homepage of the microblogging website Twitter. Twitter was bitten by a bug on Monday that caused users of the fast-growing micro-blogging service to temporarily lose the list of followers of their accounts.(AFP/File/Loic Venance)AP - A Twitter glitch has allowed users to game the popularity contest by making it appear that celebrities had subscribed to read their mini-blog postings known as tweets.

Tue, 11 May 10
New malware attack laughs at your antivirus software (Christopher Null)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_wguy/20100510/tc_ytech_wguy/ytech_wguy_tc1985
Christopher Null - How do you get a malware exploit to bypass antivirus protection? By making it work the same way the antivirus software does.

Tue, 11 May 10
Did Pres. Obama diss the iPad in commencement speech? (Ben Patterson)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_gadg/20100510/tc_ytech_gadg/ytech_gadg_tc1973
Ben Patterson - President Obama's commencement speech Sunday at Hampton University caused a little stir in tech circles after he took a swipe at some of our favorite toys — "iPods and iPads and PlayStations and Xboxes" — for turning "information" into a "distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment." Oh, and he admitted that he doesn't know how to make any of them "work," either. Shocking!

Tue, 11 May 10
Wi-Fi to come in a much faster, short-range flavor (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100510/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_tech_bit_super_wi_fi
AP - The industry group that supports Wi-Fi is adopting a new technology that should boost data speeds more than 10 times at short distances, which could replace video cables in the home entertainment center.

Tue, 11 May 10
Google's Android takes No 2 spot from iPhone (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100510/wr_nm/us_google_android
Reuters - Google Inc displaced iPhone maker Apple Inc to become the second most popular provider of smartphone software in the United States during the first quarter, the latest sign of the increasing competition in the fast-growing mobile market.

Tue, 11 May 10
Clever Verizon Service Cuts Mobile Roaming Fees in Europe (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100511/tc_pcworld/cleververizonservicecutsmobileroamingfeesineurope
PC World - Verizon Business says it can help European companies cut back on mobile service costs, including international roaming fees, with a new offering it plans to unveil on Tuesday.

Tue, 11 May 10
Dish Network faces DVR shutdown, 1Q profit falls (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100510/ap_on_hi_te/us_earns_dish_network


FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2009 file photo, a Dish Network turner and remote control device is shown at the Consumer Electronics Shows in Las Vegas. Dish Network Corp. said Monday, May 10, 2010, that its first-quarter net income fell 26 percent even as it gained new subscribers with promotions. The results managed to top Wall Street's expectations. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - Dish Network Corp. reported a 26 percent drop in first-quarter net income as the satellite TV company stepped up promotions to reel in customers. Its CEO also warned the company may shut down millions of digital video recorders in a dispute with TiVo Inc.

Tue, 11 May 10
iPad Usability Problems Revealed in New Report (LiveScience.com)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100511/sc_livescience/ipadusabilityproblemsrevealedinnewreport
LiveScience.com - The iPad's greatest strength is its ability to display amazing graphics. Unfortunately many of the first wave of applications created for Apple's tablet are designed in a way that leaves users in the lurchand clueless about where to click, according to a study just releasedby the usability gurus at the Norman Nielsen Group (NN/g).

Tue, 11 May 10
App Industry Roundup: Android overtakes iPhone in key measure (Appolicious)
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/appolicious_rss/rss_appolicious_tc/http___www_appolicious_com_articles1862_app_industry_roundup_android_overtakes_iphone_in_key_measure/36108583/SIG=137sma0mh/*http://www.appolicious.com/articles/1862-app-industry
Appolicious - Both Apple and Google gain traction in smartphone sales, as we note in today's App Industry Roundup. Also, you don't really need a mouse with that iPad and new Wi-Fi standards are coming. This time, look out video cables.

Tue, 11 May 10
Face-to-face time makes us happier than Facebook (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100511/wr_nm/us_happiness
Reuters - Nothing makes us happier than our families and loved ones, a new study shows, with face-to-face socializing beating reaching out to people online hands down.

Tue, 11 May 10
Nuance reports fiscal 2Q loss with higher expenses (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100510/ap_on_bi_ge/us_earns_nuance_communications
AP - Speech-recognition software maker Nuance Communications Inc. said Monday that it moved to a loss in its fiscal second quarter as expenses more than offset an increase in revenue.

Tue, 11 May 10
Microsoft Downplays VDI Benefits (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100510/tc_pcworld/microsoftdownplaysvdibenefits
PC World - While a virtualized desktop infrastructure (VDI) may promise some advantages for the enterprise, the approach is still more expensive and less responsive than standard desktop PC deployments, contends a Microsoft executive in a blog entry Monday.

Tue, 11 May 10
Windows 7 'compatibility Checker' Is a Trojan (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100510/tc_pcworld/windows7compatibilitycheckerisatrojan
PC World - Scammers are infecting computers with a Trojan horse program disguised as software that determines whether PCs are compatible with Windows 7.

Mon, 10 May 10
Twitter for Android starts making up for lost time (Appolicious)
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/appolicious_rss/rss_appolicious_tc/http___www_appolicious_com_articles1859_twitter_for_android_starts_making_up_for_lost_time/36103887/SIG=12tnvol24/*http://www.appolicious.com/articles/1859-twitter-for-android-st
Appolicious - It wasn’t long after Twitter launched an official BlackBerry app and acquired the makers of the popular iPhone app, Tweetie, before an official Android app was revealed. With a growing mobile empire, it’s also evident that Twitter is improving its usability with each official app.

Mon, 10 May 10
Wi-Fi, WirelessHD Cozy up to WiGig Standard (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100510/tc_pcworld/wifiwirelesshdcozyuptowigigstandard
PC World - The Wireless Gigabit Alliance may be on its way to dominating the market for multi-gigabit in-room wireless networks after the powerful Wi-Fi Alliance said it would study the group's specification as part of Wi-Fi certification and a key rival announced it would include WiGig in dual-mode chips.

Mon, 10 May 10
"Idol" creator Fuller marks iTunes milestone (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100510/en_nm/us_fuller
Reuters - "American Idol" creator Simon Fuller on Monday marked a digital music milestone, and said he was looking to the Internet and other digital platforms for the next big thing in global entertainment.

Mon, 10 May 10
Obama bemoans 'diversions' of IPod, Xbox era (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100509/tc_afp/uspoliticsobamaitmedia


Two iPhones being demonstrated at a store. US President Barack Obama lamented that in the iPad and Xbox era, information had become a diversion that was imposing new strains on democracy, in his latest critique of modern media.(AFP/File/Park Ji-Hwan)AFP - US President Barack Obama lamented Sunday that in the iPad and Xbox era, information had become a diversion that was imposing new strains on democracy, in his latest critique of modern media.

Mon, 10 May 10
Lyme Disease Tick Map iPhone app well worth the small price (Appolicious)
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/appolicious_rss/rss_appolicious_tc/http___www_appolicious_com_articles1853_lyme_disease_tick_map_iphone_app_well_worth_the_small_price/36102520/SIG=136ejn5ev/*http://www.appolicious.com/articles/1853-lyme-disease-
Appolicious - The Lyme Disease Tick Map iPhone app ($1.99) has so much more information than its name suggests, and is well worth its low price for anyone who finds themselves in areas of high tick concentration.

Mon, 10 May 10
College iPhone apps to make finals bearable (Appolicious)
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/appolicious_rss/rss_appolicious_tc/http___www_appolicious_com_articles1854_college_iphone_apps_to_make_finals_bearable/36102613/SIG=12mdcv9aq/*http://www.appolicious.com/articles/1854-college-iphone-apps-to-make-f
Appolicious - As a college student, my iPhone app personality fluctuates wildly, from mature and introspective adult, to antsy and impatient teenager. Sometimes, I like to pretend I'm a grown-up and explore Epicurious for a delicious recipe that I will fail at making. Other times, I just want to escape into the pseudo-challenges that games like The Moron Test offer me. (And no, you do not get to know how long it took me to beat that thing because that would just be embarrassing. ...

Sun, 9 May 10
Thailand censors more websites as protests persist (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100508/ap_on_hi_te/as_thailand_politics_censorship


Residents walk past rows of razor wire in downtown Bangkok, Thailand Saturday, May 8, 2010. New violence erupted overnight in the Thai capital, killing a policeman and marring tentative progress to resolving a sometimes bloody tow-month standoff between the government and protestors seeking new elections. Anti-government demonstrators say they agree in principle with a proposal by Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to dissolve Parliament and hold new elections. (AP Photo./David Longstreath)AP - George Orwell's "1984" had its Big Brother, and Thailand has Ranongrak Suwanchawee. The country's information minister stares down from billboards along Bangkok's expressways, warning that "Bad websites are detrimental to society" and should be reported to a special hot line.

Sun, 9 May 10
How an unfixed Net glitch could strand you offline (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100508/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_fragile_internet
AP - In 1998, a hacker told Congress that he could bring down the Internet in 30 minutes by exploiting a certain flaw that sometimes caused online outages by misdirecting data. In 2003, the Bush administration concluded that fixing this flaw was in the nation's "vital interest."

Sun, 9 May 10
Eight great iPhone apps for Mother's Day (Appolicious)
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/appolicious_rss/rss_appolicious_tc/http___www_appolicious_com_articles1837_eight_great_iphone_apps_for_mother_s_day/36067337/SIG=12jjn5kdj/*http://www.appolicious.com/articles/1837-eight-great-iphone-apps-for-moth
Appolicious - I can’t think of a better Mother’s Day gift than loading your special lady’s iPhone or iPad with “mom”-themed apps. Bonus points if you buy an iPhone or iPad for the lovely lady as well! Or ladies, just download these apps and spoil yourself this Mother’s Day.

Sun, 9 May 10
India's 3G licence auction sees stellar price rise (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100508/bs_afp/india3gauctiontelecom


An Indian woman speaks on a cellullar telephone in Allahabad, India. Bids for nationwide licences in India's sale of spectrum for superfast 3G mobile services have hit 2.65 billion dollars, a government website said Saturday.(AFP/File/Diptendu Dutta)AFP - Bids for nationwide licences in India's sale of spectrum for superfast 3G mobile services have hit 2.65 billion dollars, a government website said Saturday.

Sun, 9 May 10
This Week in Geek: iPhone Hacking, HTML5, and Fast New Drives (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100508/tc_pcworld/thisweekingeekiphonehackinghtml5andfastnewdrives
PC World - It's been a busy week for smartphone hackers: One of our contributors helped get Android to run on an iPhone 3G and a new jailbreak came on the scene for iPads/iPods/iPhones, but that's just the start for interesting news in the world of Geek. Read on for some stories about USB 3.0, solid state drives, a primer on HTML5 and CSS3, and yes, smartphone hacking: old school edition.

Sun, 9 May 10
Chavez rockets to No. 1 on Twitter in Venezuela (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100508/ap_on_hi_te/lt_venezuela_chavez_on_twitter


Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez smiles as he speaks to gathered diplomats inside Presidential Palace in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Wednesday May 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Manuel Diaz)AP - President Hugo Chavez is tops on Twitter in Venezuela less than 2 weeks after launching his account, surpassing Internet-savvy foes who dominate the social networking site and use it to oppose him.

Sat, 8 May 10
Some Palin Facebook fans unhappy with endorsement (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100508/ap_on_el_se/us_palin_facebook_pushback


FILE - In this April 14, 2010 file photo, Sarah Palin flashes a thumbs up towards her husband Todd as she begins to address a crowd during a stop of the Tea Party Express on Boston Common in Boston. Ex-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has outraged some of her fans with an endorsement of former Hewlett-Packard executive Carly Fiorina in the GOP's U.S. Senate primary in California. The former vice presidential candidate made the endorsement on her Facebook page, saying Fiorina's experience running a major corporation is sorely lacking in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)AP - Ex-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has outraged some of her fans with an endorsement of former Hewlett-Packard executive Carly Fiorina in the GOP's U.S. Senate primary in California.

Sat, 8 May 10
FCC allows blocking of set-top box outputs (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100507/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_fcc_movie_recordings
AP - Federal regulators are endorsing Hollywood's efforts to let cable and satellite TV companies turn off output connections on the back of set-top boxes to prevent illegal copying of movies.

Sat, 8 May 10
Nokia lodges another complaint against Apple (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100507/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_nokia_apple_lawsuit
AP - Finnish cell phone maker Nokia Corp. said Friday that it has extended its patent-infringement claims against Apple Inc. to include the new iPad.

Sat, 8 May 10
Archos' 7-inch Android tablet to debut in June (Ben Patterson)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_gadg/20100507/tc_ytech_gadg/ytech_gadg_tc1964
Ben Patterson - With all the hubbub over Apple and the iPad, longtime PMP (personal media player) and tablet maker Archos has been stuck on the sidelines, jumping up and down and shouting, "Hey — we make tablets, too!" Well, Archos has something new to crow about — the Archos 7 Home Tablet, which the company is billing as "the first large-screen Android-based tablet."

Sat, 8 May 10
Stock market plunge raises questions about computer trading (Christopher Null)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_wguy/20100507/tc_ytech_wguy/ytech_wguy_tc1961
Christopher Null - Chances are you are considerably poorer today than you were when you rolled out of bed yesterday.

Sat, 8 May 10
DirecTV CEO: Lead in 3-D TV is competitive edge (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100507/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_directv3d
DirecTV CEO Michael White reacts during an interview in New York, Friday, May 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)AP - In the race for supremacy in 3-D television, DirecTV Inc. wants to be king.

Sat, 8 May 10
Life Mobile app lets you explore history (Appolicious)
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/appolicious_rss/rss_appolicious_tc/http___www_appolicious_com_articles1817_life_mobile_app_lets_you_explore_history/36087163/SIG=12ju5t26h/*http://www.appolicious.com/articles/1817-life-mobile-app-lets-you-explore
Appolicious - Life magazine may not be printed any longer, but that doesn’t mean its legendary photojournalism didn’t have an impact on history. Whether you previously read Life weekly or you’re seeing its photos for the first time Time Inc.’s new app, Life Mobile, for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, can help you explore the annals of history.

Sat, 8 May 10
What's Causing The Apple iPad 3G Shortage? (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100507/tc_pcworld/whatscausingtheappleipad3gshortage
PC World - If you're planning to trot down to your local Apple Store this weekend and buy a shiny new iPad 3G, don't bother. Apple's retail outlets across the U.S. have already sold out of the 3G models, which went on sale just last week.

Sat, 8 May 10
Sony expands Music Ticket+ program to Latin tours (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100508/music_nm/us_latin
Reuters - Latin music fans will get song downloads and other bonus content along with their concert tickets this summer, as Sony Music Entertainment ramps up its "Music Ticket+" bundling program.

Sat, 8 May 10
Box to contain oil leak touches down on Gulf floor (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100507/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill


The containment vessel is lowered into the Gulf of Mexico at the site of the Deepwater Horizon rig collapse, Thursday, May 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - A BP-chartered vessel lowered a 100-ton concrete-and-steel vault onto a ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico on Friday, an important step in a delicate and unprecedented attempt to stop most of the gushing crude fouling the sea.

Sat, 8 May 10
Reuters Galleries iPad app good, but could be much better (Appolicious)
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/appolicious_rss/rss_appolicious_tc/http___www_appolicious_com_articles1811_reuters_galleries_ipad_app_good_but_could_be_much_better/36026244/SIG=1334fd40n/*http://www.appolicious.com/articles/1811-reuters-gallerie
Appolicious - A companion app to Reuters News Pro for iPad, Reuters Galleries (free) is an excellent way to see the news in pictures and video. That is, if you can keep it open.

Sat, 8 May 10
Pocket Agent, Twitter updated and other Best Android Apps of the Week (Appolicious)
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/appolicious_rss/rss_appolicious_tc/http___www_appolicious_com_articles1846_pocket_agent_twitter_updated_and_other_best_android_apps_of_the_week/36081528/SIG=13fru1kg8/*http://www.appolicious.com/articles/1846-pock
Appolicious - May brought several new apps to the Android Market, with many brands noting the continued growth of Google’s mobile platform. Given the worsening image of Apple due to its sometimes-touchy relationship with developers, the steady gains of Android continue to lure independent and large-brand developers.

Sat, 8 May 10
New Lindsay Lohan track leaks online (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100508/en_nm/us_lohan


On left Porn star Linda Lovelace, who starred in 'Deep Throat', arrives at the Academy Award in Los Angeles, Ca, in this April 3, 1974 file photo. Right Actress Lindsay Lohan arrives at Star magazine's Young Hollywood party in Los Angeles, in this March 31, 2010 file photo. One of the producers of an independent movie about 1970s porn star Linda Lovelace, Wali Razaqi, says Lindsay Lohan has landed the leading role. (AP Photo/File)Reuters - "Can't Stop, Won't Stop," a new song from Lindsay Lohan, has been leaked to the Internet.

Sat, 8 May 10
Samsung Releases Bada SDK (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100507/tc_pcworld/samsungreleasesbadasdk
PC World - Time will tell if Samsung can attract developers to its own smartphone operating system now that it has released the beta of its Bada software development kit.

Sat, 8 May 10
Kapow adds IDE to Web data integrator (InfoWorld)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20100507/tc_infoworld/122994
InfoWorld - Kapow Technologies will add next week a development environment to its Kapow Web Data Server for Web data access and enterprise integration.

Sat, 8 May 10
Symantec Study Mischaracterizes Linux Spam (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100507/tc_pcworld/symantecstudymischaracterizeslinuxspam
PC World - The latest MessageLabs Intelligence Report from Symantec Hosted Services is filled with interesting and useful information regarding the current state of malware and e-mail borne threats as well as the trends over time. Of particular interest to me is the assertion in the report that "any given Linux machine is five times more likely to be sending spam than any given Windows machine."

Fri, 7 May 10
Activision 1Q profit up, shoots past expectations (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100506/ap_on_hi_te/us_earns_activision


FILE - In this file video game image released by Activision, a scene from 'Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2' is shown. Continued strong sales of 'Call of Duty' and a steady stream of revenue from 'World of Warcraft' subscribers helped double Activision Blizzard Inc.'s first-quarter net income, according to reports Thursday, May 6, 2010. The results easily surpassed Wall Street's expectations, but the company's guidance for the current quarter was below analysts' estimates. (AP Photo/Activision, File) ** NO SALES **AP - Continued strong sales of "Call of Duty" and a steady stream of revenue from "World of Warcraft" subscribers helped double Activision Blizzard Inc.'s first-quarter net income.

Fri, 7 May 10
Nintendo Wii sales plummeting (Christopher Null)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_wguy/20100506/tc_ytech_wguy/ytech_wguy_tc1948
Christopher Null - Everyone loves that Nintendo Wii, don’t they? Why, just this weekend I went to a housewarming party, and sure enough, Wii Sports was up and running for the kids to play with. You can’t get away from it. Wii is everywhere.

Fri, 7 May 10
Can't translate the menu? Let Google Goggles give it a shot (Ben Patterson)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_gadg/20100506/tc_ytech_gadg/ytech_gadg_tc1949
Ben Patterson - I must have studied French for, oh, five years or so, but I have to admit: Drop me into a Parisian cafe with a non-English menu and I'm hopeless. Luckily, help for monolingual misfits like me is here in the form of the just-updated Google Goggles for Android, although the app — which translates text captured by your phone's built-in camera — is still rough around the edges.

Fri, 7 May 10
First non-Latin Internet domain names activated (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100506/ap_on_hi_te/ml_egypt_arab_domain_names
AP - Three Mideast countries have become the first to get Internet addresses entirely in non-Latin characters.

Fri, 7 May 10
AMD chips to be in many more computers this summer-sources (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100507/tc_nm/us_amd_back_to_school
Reuters - Advanced Micro Devices Inc may make some of its largest inroads into the fast-growing laptop computer market thanks to a new generation of power-efficient chips to be unveiled next week.

Fri, 7 May 10
Android Now Running On iPhone 3G (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100506/tc_pcworld/androidnowrunningoniphone3g
PC World - After just a couple more weeks of work, we've made tremendous progress and brought Android to the iPhone 3G. Although this port is slightly more rough than the previous Android on first-generation iPhone port, this marks an important milestone for the more DIY-minded owners of the millions of iPhone 3G devices that are out there.

Fri, 7 May 10
Summary Box: Cable, satellite firms post 1Q profit (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100506/ap_on_hi_te/us_earns_pay_tv_summary_box
AP - STRONG EARNINGS: DirecTV Inc.'s first-quarter net income nearly tripled to $558 million, or 59 cents per share. Cablevision Systems Corp.'s earnings more than tripled to $74.2 million, or 24 cents per share. Charter Communications Inc. swung to a profit of $24 million, or 21 cents per share.

Fri, 7 May 10
Blizzard Brings Battle.Net and StarCraft II to Facebook (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100506/tc_pcworld/blizzardbringsbattlenetandstarcraftiitofacebook
PC World - What do you get when you plug Blizzard's Battle.net online gaming service into the most popular social networking service on the planet? Human sacrifice (by the three prime evils of hell)? Orcs and humans living together? Mass hysteria? A glimpse of Diablo's mythological Cow Level at last?

Fri, 7 May 10
Prosecutors oppose unsealing iPhone search details (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100507/ap_on_hi_te/us_apple_gizmodo_lost_iphone
AP - California prosecutors have opposed unsealing details of a search warrant used in the unfolding iPhone prototype saga, saying it contains the names of two individuals of interest to investigators.

Fri, 7 May 10
App Industry Roundup: iAd details emerge, Sony misses with the Dash and a host of reviews (Appolicious)
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/appolicious_rss/rss_appolicious_tc/http___www_appolicious_com_articles1836_app_industry_roundup_iad_details_emerge_sony_misses_with_the_dash_and_a_host_of_reviews/36065461/SIG=1423ppfri/*http://www.appolicious.com
Appolicious - Marketers have been waiting for clues on how Apple's iAd platform will work, and in this edition of the App Industry roundup, we find one. Also, we look at Sony's "half-baked" app gadget and a review of iPad accessories.

Fri, 7 May 10
Arabic websites make history with native script addresses (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100507/tc_afp/usmiddleeastitinterneticannlanguage


A Saudi university student is pictured checking out his internet blog on a laptop at a cafe in Riyadh. Internet addresses written in Arabic are making history as the first online domains in non-Latin characters, with Chinese and Thai expected to follow close behind.(AFP/File/Fahd Shadeed)AFP - Internet addresses written in Arabic are making history as the first online domains in non-Latin characters, with Chinese and Thai expected to follow close behind.

Fri, 7 May 10
Google adds language translation to Android smartphones (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100506/tc_afp/usitinternetlanguagetelecomsoftwaregoogle


The Google Nexus One smartphone. Google on Thursday released free software that lets smartphones based on its Android operating systems be used as language translation tools.(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)AFP - Google on Thursday released free software that lets smartphones based on its Android operating systems be used as language translation tools.

Fri, 7 May 10
Intel to Exceed Eight Cores With Nehalem-EX Successor (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100506/tc_pcworld/inteltoexceedeightcoreswithnehalemexsuccessor
PC World - Intel on Thursday said it would release a successor to its eight-core Nehalem-EX chips next year with more cores and faster speeds as it tries to push the limits of server performance.

Fri, 7 May 10
Facebook's new features secretly add apps to your profile (Macworld.com)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/macworld/20100506/tc_macworld/facebooksnewfeaturessecretlyaddappstoyourprofile
Macworld.com - When a piece of software is automatically installed on your computer without your knowledge, it's called malware. But what do you call it when Facebook apps are added to your profile without your knowledge? We discovered Wednesday that this is actually happening, and stopping it isn't as easy as checking a box in your privacy settings.

Thu, 6 May 10
Sprint Nextel Corp. to revamp Virgin Mobile (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100506/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_sprint_prepaid
AP - Sprint Nextel Corp. is revamping Virgin Mobile, the prepaid wireless service it bought last year, and making it focus on inexpensive plans for young people who would rather text or send Facebook messages than talk.

Thu, 6 May 10
Project puts 1M books online for blind, dyslexic (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100506/ap_on_hi_te/us_books_for_the_blind
AP - Even as audio versions of best-sellers fill store shelves and new technology fuels the popularity of digitized books, the number of titles accessible to people who are blind or dyslexic is minuscule.

Thu, 6 May 10
FCC aims to set some new regulations on broadband (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100506/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_internet_rules
AP - Federal regulators plan to change the way they govern broadband services to ensure they can pursue their efforts to bring high-speed connections to all Americans and require phone and cable companies to treat all Internet traffic equally.

Thu, 6 May 10
Netflix subscribers exploding (Christopher Null)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_wguy/20100505/tc_ytech_wguy/ytech_wguy_tc1939
Christopher Null - Haven’t you heard? Physical media are dead.

Thu, 6 May 10
AT&T chatterers report more dropped calls, yet few want to switch (Ben Patterson)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_gadg/20100505/tc_ytech_gadg/ytech_gadg_tc1937
Ben Patterson - AT&T subscribers in a March survey griped that about 4.5 percent of their calls were dropped over the previous three months, and only 23 percent said they were "very satisfied" with the carrier. So why are so few customers ready to dump AT&T once and for all? (Hint: It has something to do with the iPhone.)

Thu, 6 May 10
Media wants affidavit in iPhone raid unsealed (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100506/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_apple_gizmodo_lost_iphone
AP - The Associated Press and other news organizations asked a judge Wednesday to unseal the search warrant affidavit used to raid the home of a blogger who posted pictures and details of an iPhone prototype.

Thu, 6 May 10
News Anchor reads RSS feeds aloud (Macworld.com)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/macworld/20100506/tc_macworld/newsanchorreadsrssfeedsaloud
Macworld.com - If you’re a multitasker who wants to catch up on the latest news while doing half a dozen other things, Basil Salad Software may have a Mac app for you. The company has just released News Anchor, an RSS/Atom feed manager that reads the stories aloud. 

Thu, 6 May 10
Sprint to unveil new text-centric cell plan (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100506/tc_nm/us_sprint
Reuters - Starting next week Sprint Nextel Corp's Virgin unit will sell a new cellphone service plan to cater for the increasing number of young people who prefer to use their phone for text messaging rather than talking.

Thu, 6 May 10
Indie films await sign of VOD, Web download success (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100505/en_nm/us_distribution


A scene from Reuters - Like an actor waiting for a big break, the nascent market for watching independent movies on TV video-on-demand channels or online via streaming or downloads still needs a big hit to make believers out of moviemakers.

Thu, 6 May 10
THQ narrows 4Q loss, aided by sales of new games (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100505/ap_on_hi_te/us_earns_thq
AP - Video game developer THQ Inc. on Wednesday reported a narrower loss for its fiscal fourth quarter, thanks to brisk sales of new video game titles, but forecast lower-than-expected earnings for the current period.

Thu, 6 May 10
The top iPad apps for getting things done (Appolicious)
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/appolicious_rss/rss_appolicious_tc/http___www_appolicious_com_articles1833_the_top_ipad_apps_for_getting_things_done/36054900/SIG=12ks26h1k/*http://www.appolicious.com/articles/1833-the-top-ipad-apps-for-getting-t
Appolicious - The iTunes App Store is riddled with to-do iPad apps. From free to just shy of $20, you can grab something that will help you get things done. The challenge is to find a to-do iPad app that fits your style and doesn't further complicate your busy schedule.

Thu, 6 May 10
App Industry Roundup: Flash on a Google tablet, Google Editions go on sale this summer and iPhone gifts for mom (Appolicious)
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/appolicious_rss/rss_appolicious_tc/http___www_appolicious_com_articles1832_app_industry_roundup_flash_on_a_google_tablet_google_editions_go_on_sale_this_summer_and_iphone_gifts_for_mom/36051321/SIG=14oeqhh03/*http
Appolicious - Even though Adobe Flash won't appear on the iPad, it is starting to appear on other tablets. That story leads today's App Industry Roundup, where you'll also learn about a new ebook service for PCs and iPhone cases mom will love.

Thu, 6 May 10
Google sues indie label over copyright claims (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100506/en_nm/us_media_google
Reuters - Google has taken the rare step of asking a California judge to declare that by linking to copyright-infringing works on Rapidshare, the search giant is not facilitating the illegal distribution of copyrighted songs.

Thu, 6 May 10
Facebook glitch exposes chat messages (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100506/tc_afp/usitinternetsoftwarefacebook


Facebook on Wednesday temporarily shut down its online chat feature after a software glitch let people's friends in the online community see each others' private chat messages.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - Facebook temporarily shut down its online chat feature after a software glitch let people's friends in the online community see each others' private chat messages.

Thu, 6 May 10
With Consumer Business Boost, Symantec Turns a Profit (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100505/tc_pcworld/withconsumerbusinessboostsymantecturnsaprofit
PC World - Although sales were flat in its enterprise businesses, a jump in consumer sales helped Symantec boost earnings by about 5 percent during its most recent quarter.

Thu, 6 May 10
Hacker Develops Multi-platform Rootkit for ATMs (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100506/tc_pcworld/hackerdevelopsmultiplatformrootkitforatms
PC World - One year after his Black Hat talk on Automated Teller Machine security vulnerabilities was yanked by his employer, security researcher Barnaby Jack plans to deliver the talk and disclose a new ATM rootkit at the computer security conference.

Wed, 5 May 10
Feds to look at Apple policy on programming tools (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100504/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_apple_antitrust_inquiry
AP - Federal regulators plan to examine whether Apple Inc. is violating antitrust rules by requiring software developers to use Apple programming tools to create applications for the iPhone and iPad.

Wed, 5 May 10
Roger Ebert, Jim Carrey among Webby Award winners (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100504/ap_on_hi_te/us_webby_awards


FILE - In this March 5, 2010 file photo, Roger Ebert arrives at the Independent Spirit Awards in Los Angeles. The film critic was chosen as person of the year by the Webby Awards. The 13th annual Webbys, which celebrate Internet achievement, were announced Tuesday, May 4, 2010 by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a 550-member group of Web experts. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)AP - Though Roger Ebert lost his ability to speak after surgery for cancer, he has found a new and powerful voice online. The film critic was chosen as person of the year by the Webby Awards.

Wed, 5 May 10
Time Warner Cable, Cox asked to drop ad claims (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100504/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_cable_ad_claims
AP - An advertising watchdog on Tuesday asked Time Warner Cable Inc. and Cox Communications Inc. to drop claims that they run fiber-optic networks.

Wed, 5 May 10
Kindle upgrade adds Facebook and Twitter (Christopher Null)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_wguy/20100504/tc_ytech_wguy/ytech_wguy_tc1926


A woman shows a Kindle during a news conference for the presentation of the device in Madrid in this October 14, 2009 file photo. REUTERS/Dani Cardona/filesChristopher Null - Reading an e-book that you just can’t put down? Now you can tell the world about it directly from your Kindle.

Wed, 5 May 10
Craigslist faces new prostitution investigation (Christopher Null)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_wguy/20100504/tc_ytech_wguy/ytech_wguy_tc1923
Christopher Null - The unfathomably popular online classifieds (and everything else) site Craigslist is back in the news, coming under fire in yet another state over its thinly veiled sex worker ads.

Wed, 5 May 10
Airport security speedup program to relaunch (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100504/ap_on_hi_te/us_airport_security_program_relaunch
AP - The Clear program, which allowed members to breeze through airport security before it abruptly shut down last year, is expected to be up and running again by the fall.

Wed, 5 May 10
HP refreshes PC lines, adds AMD chips (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100505/tc_nm/us_hp_notebooks
Reuters - Hewlett-Packard Co is rolling out a back-to-school lineup of notebook personal computers in what will be its largest single launch of laptops featuring processors from Advanced Micro Devices.

Wed, 5 May 10
Iran 'Twitter Revolution' comes to Paris (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100505/tc_afp/entertainmentiranpoliticsinternettwitterfrance


Dancers of AFP - Iran's so-called "Twitter Revolution" came to a Paris shopping street Thursday in an exhibition that takes some of the thousands of mobile phone videos shot by anti-government protestors and turns them into art.

Wed, 5 May 10
Studios still trying to figure out mobile video (Macworld.com)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/macworld/20100504/tc_macworld/studiosstilltryingtofigureoutmobilevideo
Macworld.com - The already dizzying array of options for watching video on anything but your living room TV may soon make your head spin even faster. In the age of HD-everything, some TV and film studios initially balked at the concept of watching content on pocketable screens. But inspired in part by the iPhone’s success, the major studios are ramping up to go mobile in so many ways, you might have to sit down to catch your breath.

Wed, 5 May 10
For First Time in Six Years, Nintendo's Profits Drop (NewsFactor)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20100504/bs_nf/73132
NewsFactor - Has Nintendo's ascendancy peaked? On Thursday, the video game maker will report earnings from the fiscal year that ended March 31, and it is expected to show the first drop in profits in six years.

Wed, 5 May 10
Google set to launch e-book store this summer (Macworld.com)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/macworld/20100504/tc_macworld/googlesettolaunchebookstorethissummer
Macworld.com - It’s official—according to the Wall Street Journal (paywall applies), Google will begin selling e-books in June or July 2010. Chris Palma, Google’s manager for strategic-partner development, announced the timetable at a Book Industry Study Group-sponsored panel entitled “The Book on Google: Is the Future of Publishing in the Cloud?”

Wed, 5 May 10
App Industry Roundup: Apple and the FTC, Iron Man on the iPhone, Android's Mint.com app (Appolicious)
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/appolicious_rss/rss_appolicious_tc/http___www_appolicious_com_articles1826_app_industry_roundup_apple_and_the_ftc_iron_man_on_the_iphone_android_s_mint_com_app/36038290/SIG=13vhagtl6/*http://www.appolicious.com/ar
Appolicious - According to unnamed sources with the Federal Trade Commission and Justice Department, Apple may be playing an entirely new version of monopoly on the iPhone. Also in today's App Industry Roundup, Marvel's Iron Man breaks through on the iPhone, Android gets personal with Mint.com, and the popular Dropbox productivity app is now tailor-made for the iPad.

Wed, 5 May 10
Governments and human rights warriors battle online (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100505/tc_afp/uschinaitinternetrightscompanyyahoo


The Google logo is reflected in windows of the company's China head office in Beijing, in March, soon after the US web giant said it would no longer filter results and was redirecting mainland Chinese users to an uncensored site in Hong Kong.(AFP/File/Li Xin)AFP - Governments are ramping up online attacks on human rights advocates as the Internet becomes a key battleground for fights against oppression and censorship.

Wed, 5 May 10
Competitors Force Down Usage of Internet Explorer (NewsFactor)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20100504/tc_nf/73154
NewsFactor - Microsoft may be losing its grip on the Internet browser market. The software behemoth has lost a significant percentage of market share for its Internet Explorer browser according to browser usage reports from market watchers NetApplications and StatCounter. Their research shows Microsoft's IE browser holding less than 60 percent of the market share.

Wed, 5 May 10
MarsEdit 3.0 brings rich-text editing, syntax coloring (Macworld.com)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/macworld/20100504/tc_macworld/marsedit30bringsrichtexteditingsyntaxcoloring
Macworld.com - There was a time when every blog post I composed was in Red Sweater’s fabulous MarsEdit. Due to technical restrictions on Macworld’s current servers, those days have been put on forcible hold, but I’ll admit that Tuesday’s release of version 3.0 of the Weblog editing software does have me sighing wistfully. I mean, blog editing and spaceships—that’s the future right there.

Wed, 5 May 10
Lawmakers Unveil Online Privacy Legislation (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100504/tc_pcworld/lawmakersunveilonlineprivacylegislation
PC World - Two U.S. lawmakers have released a draft bill that would require companies that collect personal information from customers to disclose how they collect and share that information, but several privacy and consumer groups said the proposal would legalize current privacy violations online.

Wed, 5 May 10
WSO2 upgrades OSGi middleware (InfoWorld)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20100504/tc_infoworld/122695
InfoWorld - WSO2, builder of open source software for SOA deployments, on Tuesday is launching version 3.0 of Carbon, its componentized middleware platform based on OSGi technology.

Tue, 4 May 10
Apple sells 1 million iPads, outdoing first iPhone (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100503/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_apple_ipad


FILE - In this April 3, 2010 file photo showing customer uses an Apple iPad on the first day of Apple iPad sales at an Apple store in San Francisco. Apple said Monday, May 3, 2010, it has sold 1 million of its new iPad tablet computers in the month after its launch, meaning it's been selling more than twice as fast as the iPhone did when it was new.(AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)AP - Apple Inc. said Monday that is has sold 1 million of its new iPad tablet computers in the month after its launch, meaning it's been selling more than twice as fast as the iPhone did when it was new.

Tue, 4 May 10
Google expands VC staff to do more deals this year (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100503/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_techbit_google_ventures
AP - Google Inc. plans to feed its appetite for tantalizing new technologies by investing in more startups while it devours others by buying them outright.

Tue, 4 May 10
Nintendo launches dark Wii, expanded bundle in US (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100503/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_techbit_nintendo_wii
AP - Nintendo Co. is trying to expand U.S. sales of the Wii by throwing in an extra game and its MotionPlus accessory for making the console's signature motion-sensing wand more precise. The company is also offering a black version of the system as an alternative to the game system's white casing.

Tue, 4 May 10
iPad sales cross million mark twice as fast as original iPhone (Ben Patterson)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_gadg/20100503/tc_ytech_gadg/ytech_gadg_tc1901


Apple iPads are prepared for purchase during an iPad launch event at an Apple store in San Francisco, April 3, 2010. REUTERS/Robert GalbraithBen Patterson - Whether you love it or hate it, the iPad is a hit, with Apple claiming Monday that it has already sold a million of the "magical" tablets — and at a pace more than double that of the first iPhone.

Tue, 4 May 10
Tech industry exploding: Chips sales up more than 50 percent (Christopher Null)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_wguy/20100503/tc_ytech_wguy/ytech_wguy_tc1914
Christopher Null - The tech world is absolutely flying out of recession and into recovery.

Tue, 4 May 10
China targets `foreign forces' in Web crackdown (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100503/ap_on_hi_te/as_china_internet_controls


A man talks on his mobile phone next to a surveillance camera notice on display at a building in Beijing, Friday, April 30, 2010. China on Thursday strengthened a law to require telecommunications and internet companies to inform on customers who discuss state secrets, an area so broadly defined that both companies and Chinese citizens have struggled to know justwhat a state secret is. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)AP - China will target online information from "overseas hostile forces" in its next crackdown to tighten Internet controls, a government spokesman said in comments reported Monday.

Tue, 4 May 10
Apple Tweaks Wi-Fi in IPhone to Use China Protocol (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100504/tc_pcworld/appletweakswifiiniphonetousechinaprotocol
PC World - Apple appears to have tweaked its iPhone to support a Chinese security protocol for wireless networks, as companies increasingly adopt Chinese government-backed technologies to break into the country's huge market.

Tue, 4 May 10
3G v. Wi-Fi: Which iPad is Right for You? (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100504/tc_pcworld/3gvwifiwhichipadisrightforyou
PC World - The iPad has been available for a month now in the United States, but the 3G-capable version of Apple's tablet device just launched this past Friday. Apple has reportedly sold more than one million iPads thus far--less than half the time it took the original iPhone to reach that same milestone. If you aren't one of the million plus that already has one, here are some things to consider when choosing between the Wi-Fi only or 3G-capable models.

Tue, 4 May 10
Black Eyed Peas break digital sales record (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100503/music_nm/us_peas
Reuters - The Black Eyed Peas continue to steamroll their way into the record books. This week the group's "I Gotta Feeling" surpassed Flo Rida's "Low" as the best-selling digital song of all time, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Tue, 4 May 10
Sony Adds Extended Warranties for PS3, PSP (PC Magazine)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20100503/tc_zd/250573
PC Magazine - Gamers worried about accidentally dropping their PSPs or spilling Red Bull on their PlayStation 3s can rest a bit easier: Sony began offering extended warranties for each on Monday. But there's a catch.

Tue, 4 May 10
Starcraft II launches July 27 (Macworld.com)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/macworld/20100503/tc_macworld/starcraftiilaunchesjuly27
Macworld.com - On Monday, Blizzard gave millions of sci-fi strategy fans the news they’ve been waiting for.

Tue, 4 May 10
Android apps in anticipation of Google TV (Appolicious)
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/appolicious_rss/rss_appolicious_tc/http___www_appolicious_com_articles1806_android_apps_in_anticipation_of_google_tv/36019331/SIG=12kimka4d/*http://www.appolicious.com/articles/1806-android-apps-in-anticipation-of
Appolicious - Google TV is close to becoming a reality, with expectations for the set-top box steadily rising as mobile devices and multimedia access become more integrated with our daily activities.

Tue, 4 May 10
HTC Droid Incredible: $50 Off (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100504/tc_pcworld/htcdroidincredible50off
PC World - The HTC Droid Incredible hit Verizon customers less than a week ago, and it's already sold out (the Verizon website features a notice that says "Due to high demand, this device will ship by 5/14"). But if you can't wait and you don't want to drop $200, CNNMoney.com's Fortune blog reports that you can get it for $50 less than the advertised price at Amazon.com.

Tue, 4 May 10
Microsoft Fixes Bug in Producer Software (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100503/tc_pcworld/microsoftfixesbuginproducersoftware
PC World - Microsoft has released a new version of its Producer software, fixing a critical security problem that plagued the product for several months.

Tue, 4 May 10
Startup Wants to Be R Alternative to IBM, SAS (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100504/tc_pcworld/startupwantstoberalternativetoibmsas
PC World - A company focused on R, the open-source language for statistical analysis, relaunched under a new name Tuesday and gave a preview of its technology roadmap for 2010.

Tue, 4 May 10
Sarah Palin email hacker found guilty (Christopher Null)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_wguy/20100503/tc_ytech_wguy/ytech_wguy_tc1909
Christopher Null - One of the more memorable stories (at least to us tech types) to come out of the 2008 presidential campaign was the compromise of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s email account.

Tue, 4 May 10
Novell, Red Hat Prevail in User-interface Patent Case (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100503/tc_pcworld/novellredhatprevailinuserinterfacepatentcase
PC World - A U.S. federal jury found last Friday that Novell and Red Hat were not guilty of infringing on user interface patents held by IP Innovation LLC.

Mon, 3 May 10
Computer-security event seeks to spur int'l talks (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100502/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_world_cybersecurity_conference
AP - As governments around the world amass armies of hackers to protect their countries' computer networks and possibly attack others, the idea of getting officials together to discuss shared threats such as cybercrime is challenging.

Mon, 3 May 10
Does Online Banking Need its Own iPad App? (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100502/tc_pcworld/doesonlinebankingneeditsownipadapp
PC World - First Apple came out with the iPhone and it changed the landscape for mobile devices. People began to see the power of TIME (technology, information, media, and entertainment) converging in a device that could fit in their pocket.

Mon, 3 May 10
Apple's iPad 3G Dropping Quality on Media Streams (PC Magazine)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20100502/tc_zd/250541
PC Magazine - A number of common applications on the Apple iPad 3G, including its YouTube viewer, Netflix, and ABC's TV viewer, are running at downsampled resolutions over the device's 3G connection--or not at all.

Mon, 3 May 10
Let's Hope Bungie's Activision Deal Helps Them Outgrow Halo (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100502/tc_pcworld/letshopebungiesactivisiondealhelpsthemoutgrowhalo
PC World - I've always felt a shade conflicted about Bungie's Halo games.

Mon, 3 May 10
Best iPad Apps of April (Appolicious)
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/appolicious_rss/rss_appolicious_tc/http___www_appolicious_com_articles1804_best_ipad_apps_of_april/36019062/SIG=12298fgic/*http://www.appolicious.com/articles/1804-best-ipad-apps-of-april
Appolicious - In just a month, my iPad has become an intrinsic part of my daily routine. And though the device itself has proven to be somewhat magical in its ease of use, it’s the apps that make it extraordinary.

Mon, 3 May 10
Erasing Your Digital Tracks on the Web (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100503/tc_pcworld/erasingyourdigitaltracksontheweb
PC World - The Internet never forgets. Search engines crawl and index every last byte of information available on the Web; and once a piece of information goes online, some digital echo of it is virtually guaranteed to persist on a server somewhere.

Sun, 2 May 10
“The Lorax” e-book iPhone app a delight for readers of all ages (Appolicious)
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/appolicious_rss/rss_appolicious_tc/http___www_appolicious_com_articles1766_the_lorax_e_book_iphone_app_a_delight_for_readers_of_all_ages/36011577/SIG=138gqsn6i/*http://www.appolicious.com/articles/1766-the-lorax-e
Appolicious - I liked Dr. Seuss books as a kid. But now that Oceanhouse Media is bringing Dr. Seuss to life on the iPod, iPad and iPhone, I absolutely love the digital e-books! The Dr. Seuss classic "The Lorax" comes to the iPhone as the “The Lorax” app, which is now available to download for $3.99, a fraction of the price of the hardcopy book.

Sun, 2 May 10
New, Tougher HDTV Energy Star Standard Takes Effect (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100501/tc_pcworld/newtougherhdtvenergystarstandardtakeseffect
PC World - It's about to get a lot harder for televisions to earn that familiar Energy Star logo. On May 1, the new Energy Star 4.0 standard for televisions, published last September, becomes effective. The maximum amount of power an Energy Star TV can consume will drop by about 40 percent.

Sun, 2 May 10
iPad 3G Teardown: An Overview (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100501/tc_pcworld/ipad3gteardownanoverview
PC World - Apple fans might want to look the other way -- this post contains links to photos that may be disturbing to some readers.

Sun, 2 May 10
These branded iPad and iPhone apps have the goods (Appolicious)
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/appolicious_rss/rss_appolicious_tc/http___www_appolicious_com_articles1783_these_branded_ipad_and_iphone_apps_have_the_goods/35972043/SIG=12s889g8b/*http://www.appolicious.com/articles/1783-these-branded-ipad-and-
Appolicious - While iPad apps can be an ideal form of advertising, the consumer experience must be great in order to justify the download. Here are examples of major brands getting it right in these early days of the iPad.

Sun, 2 May 10
Privacy vs profit at Facebook (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100502/tc_afp/usitinternetrightscompanyfacebook


Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers the opening keynote address at the f8 Developer Conference April 21, 2010 in San Francisco, California last month. Facebook's evolution from online club house to Internet powerhouse is raising fears that the social network is trading privacy for profit.(AFP/Getty Images/Justin Sullivan)AFP - Facebook's evolution from online club house to Internet powerhouse is raising fears that the social network is trading privacy for profit.

Sun, 2 May 10
Governments, businesses to discuss cybersecurity threats (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100501/tc_afp/usitcomputersecurityinternet


The Worldwide Cybersecurity Summit, hosted by the EastWest Institute (EWI), opens in Dallas on Monday and will feature three days of discussions on ways to protect the world's digital infrastructure from electronic threats.(EWI)AFP - Government officials and business leaders from around the world are meeting in Texas this week to discuss what all agree is an area of common and growing concern: cybersecurity.

Sat, 1 May 10
Apple shutting Lala; `Cloud' music on horizon? (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100430/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_apple_lala


Lala founder Bill Nguyen speaks during the AP - Apple Inc. is shutting down its newly bought Lala online music service amid speculation it is creating a way for iTunes customers to listen to songs stored on distant computers.

Sat, 1 May 10
Amazon adding Twitter, Facebook to Kindle e-reader (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100430/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_amazon_kindle
AP - Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle e-reader is getting access to Facebook and Twitter, along with several other enhancements, as part of a software update being sent wirelessly to the devices.

Sat, 1 May 10
Cell phone sales up 22 pct as economy recovers (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100430/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_cell_phone_sales
AP - The number of cell phones sold worldwide rose 22 percent in the first quarter compared with a year earlier, as both the economic recovery and an appetite for smart phones drove a rebound in sales, according to research firm IDC.

Sat, 1 May 10
Are you ready for a GPS app store? (Christopher Null)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_wguy/20100430/tc_ytech_wguy/ytech_wguy_tc1889
Christopher Null - It’s the hottest thing to come along in the tech world since blogging: The app store. And soon you might just have an app store for every gadget in your arsenal.

Sat, 1 May 10
3G iPad goes on sale: Everything you need to know (Ben Patterson)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_gadg/20100430/tc_ytech_gadg/ytech_gadg_tc1888
Ben Patterson - Been waiting patiently to snap up an iPad with built-in support for 3G? Then today's your lucky day. If you're a newcomer to all the iPad hoopla, however, make sure to check out these basic tips before heading out to the Apple Store.

Sat, 1 May 10
Adobe Strikes Back at Steve Jobs' Flash Attack (NewsFactor)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20100430/tc_nf/73093
NewsFactor - Adobe Systems is not taking lightly attacks on its technology by Apple CEO Steve Jobs. On Friday, Adobe responded to accusations by Jobs that Flash is behind Mac crashes and battery draining.

Sat, 1 May 10
Apple launches 3G iPad, looks to maintain momentum (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100501/wr_nm/us_apple_ipad


Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs speaks about the iPad at a special event at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California April 8, 2010. REUTERS/Robert GalbraithReuters - In the second stage of a two-part rollout, Apple Inc on Friday began selling the pricier, high-speed wireless version of the iPad in the United States, following the successful launch of the short-range Wi-Fi tablet earlier this month.

Sat, 1 May 10
Apple stops Lala's music, Web-based iTunes expected (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100430/media_nm/us_lala
Reuters - Lala, the online music service, will be shut down on May 31, just five months after Apple Inc bought the start-up fueling speculation the iPod maker plans to launch a new Web-based version of iTunes.

Sat, 1 May 10
Call of Duty 7 Unveiled As 'Black Ops' (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100430/tc_pcworld/callofduty7unveiledasblackops
PC World - In a short but sweet reveal, game developer Treyarch cracked the lid on the seventh Call of Duty title, dubbing it Black Ops and teasing a release date of November 9, 2010. Expectations were that Activision would reveal the game's title tonight on SpikeTV, but the game dev opted to lead early with the title and launch date this morning.

Sat, 1 May 10
Another Tablet Falls: HP Slate Canceled (LiveScience.com)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100430/sc_livescience/anothertabletfallshpslatecanceled
LiveScience.com - The Apple iPad has had very little competition in the tablet computermarket so far, and it may stay that way for quite some time if rival tablet makers can't bring a device to market. The latest tablet candidate to fall was one of the most promising: The HP Slate.

Sat, 1 May 10
Want Google TV? Your Wait May Soon Be Over (PC World)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100430/tc_pcworld/wantgoogletvyourwaitmaysoonbeover
PC World - We've been hearing about the rumored Google TV for more than two months now, and it appears that May could bring an official unveiling of sorts. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google plans to debut its Web-meets-television software to some 3,000 developers at the Google I/O conference, which runs May 19-20 in San Francisco.

Sat, 1 May 10
Microsoft echoes Apple view on Adobe's Flash (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100430/wr_nm/us_microsoft_adobe
Reuters - Microsoft Corp joined archrival Apple Inc in criticizing Adobe Systems Inc's widely used Flash multimedia software, creating a rare bond among the two computing giants.

Sat, 1 May 10
Symantec Will Centralize Encryption with Acquisitions (NewsFactor)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20100430/bs_nf/73092
NewsFactor - Symantec said Thursday it will pay $370 million in cash to acquire encryption technology providers PGP and GuardianEdge Technologies, with the deals expected to close during the company's June quarter. Symantec sees its acquisition of standards-based encryption capabilities from the two firms as a natural extension of its strategy for securing and managing information on any device -- across both the enterprise and consumer segments as well as in the cloud, said Symantec CEO Enrique Salem.

Sat, 1 May 10
Palin E-Mail Hacker Convicted Of Unlawful Access, Obstruction (PC Magazine)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20100430/tc_zd/250534
PC Magazine - A college student accused of hacking into former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's e-mail account has been convicted on two counts of destroying records and unlawful access to a computer.

 

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