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| Facebook Offers App for Mobile Messaging Wall Street Journal By SHAYNDI RAICE Facebook Inc. launched a rare piece of standalone software, a messaging app for smartphones that highlights a widening battle over mobile users. Facebook Messenger, which was announced Tuesday on the company's blog, is designed to ... | ||
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| Apple briefly surpasses Exxon as most valuable U.S. company San Jose Mercury News By Troy Wolverton Apple (AAPL) is already the most valuable technology company in the world. For a brief period on Tuesday, it was the top valued company of any kind -- a position it may reach again as soon as Wednesday. The iPhone maker ended regular ... | ||
| Newspaper giant Tribune Co. developing tablet device CNN By Mark Milian, CNN The Los Angeles Times' app is available for download in the Android market, seen here on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. (CNN) -- Hoping to take a small slice from Apple's big pie, newspaper publishers are developing tablet computers ... | ||
| Amazon Cloud Outage: What Can Be Learned? InformationWeek Primary and backup power systems fail when lightning strikes EC2 data center in Dublin. Could customers have braced for this unusual event? By Charles Babcock InformationWeek A lightning strike in Dublin, Ireland knocked Amazon's European cloud ... | ||
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| Biggest solar flare in years erupts on sun but there's limited impact Washington Post By AP, LOS ANGELES — The sun unleashed a powerful solar flare early Tuesday, the largest in nearly five years. Scientists say the eruption took place on the side of the sun that was not facing Earth, so there'll be little impact to satellites and ... | ||
| Microsoft patches 1990s-era 'Ping of Death' Computerworld By Gregg Keizer Computerworld - Microsoft today issued 13 security updates that patched 22 vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, Windows, Office and other software, including one that harked back two decades to something dubbed "Ping of Death. ... | ||
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| Google's Ice Cream May Arrive in October Tom's Guide With Microsoft's Mango update and Apple's iPhone 5 slated for an October release, it's no wonder that Google wants Android 2.4 on devices during that same timeframe. BGR has reportedly received word that Google is pushing to get Android 2.4 "Ice Cream ... | ||
| "Anonymous" vows to "kill" Facebook CBS News <[> The drama queens are at it again - and this time, the target of their collective ire is none other than...Facebook? "Your medium of communication you all so dearly adore will be destroyed," a speaker representing the hacktivist group Anonymous says ... | ||
| Perseid meteor shower peaks in the early hours of Saturday San Jose Mercury News By Jane J. Lee A 30-minute exposure of meteors over Joshua Tree National Park in 1998. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon) Although it's not raining spacemen, the Perseid Meteor Shower has been raining space dust on us earthlings since mid-July. ... | ||
| Rodinia Supercontinent Evidence: Study Points To Pre-Pangea Mega Landmass Huffington Post Scientists have found further evidence that North America and East Antarctica were linked 1.1 billion years ago, forming a supercontinent called Rodinia. It would have existed before the more widely know supercontinent of Pangaea had formed. ... | ||
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| Ten-year old hacker finds vulnerabilities in mobile games Digitaltrends.com A 10-year old California girl is the world's newest famous hacker. Going by the name CyFi, the preteen found a way to exploit a vulnerability in numerous mobile apps by tinkering with mobile devices' system clocks. She presented her work at the first ... | ||
| DirecTV Defeats Comcast Bid for Court Order Blocking Ads for NFL Programs Bloomberg By Andrew Harris - Tue Aug 09 23:58:54 GMT 2011 DirecTV (DTV), the largest US satellite- television provider, defeated a bid by Comcast Corp. (CMCSA) for a court order blocking its advertisements for National Football League game packages. ... | ||
| Motorola: We'd Work With Microsoft If We Could Get That Nokia Deal (MMI, MSFT ... San Francisco Chronicle In other words -- a big up-front payment of at least $2 billion, marketing assistance, freedom to customize the software, and early looks at future versions of Microsoft's phone software. A sweet deal to be sure, but it's a change in tone for Motorola ... | ||
| China says it's being attacked, too ZDNet Australia By AAP on August 10th, 2011 (43 mins ago) Nearly 500000 cyber attacks were aimed at computers in China last year, and almost half originated overseas, the government said, following recent suggestions that Beijing might be behind long-term security ... | ||
| Video: The National - “Exile Vilify” TwentyFourBit The winners of Portal 2 and the National's “Exile Vilify” video contest were announced today, despite weeks spent trapped in a “seemingly intractable stalemate” between organizers over the recipients of the first and second place prizes. ... | ||
| Apple demands role in Lodsys lawsuit case against app developers Pocket Gamer.Biz by Keith Andrew It's little wonder Lodsys requested Apple be barred from its multifaceted case against developers employing in-app purchases (IAPs), given the power of its corporate lawyers. It's the firm's view that Apple's interest in the case is ... |
10 August 2011
Symbian handsets will soon be pulled from US shelves, Nokia says
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