Hulu's Final 3 Bidders: Analyzing the Pros and Cons of Each - The Hollywood Reporter: Heading into the final stretch of bidding, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that Hulu has narrowed down the list of prospective bidders to three major suitors: DirecTV, The Chernin Group and Guggenheim Digital Media. The streaming-media company owned by Disney-ABC Television, Fox Broadcasting Company and NBC Universal collected $695 million in revenue in 2012 via advertising and 4 million premium subscribers, and the company could fetch more than $1 billion in the auction. Bidding was set to end at 2 p.m. PT on Friday. Here’s how the asset would fit with each of the potential new owners. (read more at the link above)
Microsoft to unveil big management reorganization Thursday: report
Reuters
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp will unveil on Thursday its biggest management reorganization in at least five years, to better compete in a world of mobile devices and Web-based services, ...
Amazon Drops Price Of EC2 Dedicated Instances By Up To 80%
TechCrunch
Amazon today announced that it is dropping the prices of dedicated instances on its EC2 cloud computing platform by up to 80%. Dedicated per region fees, which are charged on top of the regular EC2 fees, will now set developers back $2 per hour instead of ...
Apple guilty of conspiring to raise ebook prices, federal judge rules
The Guardian
Apple has been found guilty of conspiring with book publishers to raise ebook prices, in one of the biggest anti-trust lawsuits ever brought by US federal authorities. US district judge Denise Cote ruledon Wednesday that the company played a "central role" in ...
Coursera nabs $43M to bring online education to emerging markets
VentureBeat
Coursera today raised $43 million in funding to market online education to millions of students globally. In the new wave of education technology, online education providers like Coursera are generating a great deal of hype. It's not all that surprising, given ...
SanDisk's Extreme microSD cards promise 80MBps, live up to that claim
Engadget
No one likes waiting for a file transfer to finish, and thankfully SanDisk is doing something about it. The company's new "Extreme" line of microSD cards (16GB, 32GB, 64GB capacities) promises to deliver speeds of up to 80MBps. Benchmarks done by Android ...
Instagram Enables Photo, Video Web Embedding
PC Magazine
Get ready to see a whole lot more Instagram photos plastered all over the Web. The Facebook-owned photo- (and now video)-sharing service on Wednesday introduced Web embedding, an easy way to add Instagram content to any site across the Internet ...
It has been five years since Steve Jobs announced Apple's App Store. (Kimberly ...
ABC News
My assignment: Review apps that promised to place free calls on cell phones. Simple enough. But it was one that would take days to complete. There would be testing involved, yes, but first, I had to get those apps. I visited the various app websites (many of ...
BlackBerry CEO seeks patience with turnaround
USA TODAY
WATERLOO, Ontario (AP) -- Research In Motion CEO Thorsten Heins pleaded for patience Tuesdayas the company faces questions about its growth and survival. BlackBerry shares were hammered last month after the company's financial results fell short of ...
AT&T to showcase 'what's next in wireless' on July 16
TechSpot
AT&T recently sent e-mails to members of the tech press informing them of a big announcement coming July 16. We're hearing that the company isn't planning a big event in a city like you'd see with a smartphone launch, which likely means AT&T will simply ...
Is Lake Vostok, buried in the Antarctic, bustling with life?
Christian Science Monitor
Beneath some 13,000 feet of Antarctic ice is a world that should be lonely and empty. But, if a new study is correct, this subglacial lake could be teeming with hardy bacteria buried in one of the world's most unusual environments. Skip to next paragraph ...
Why YouSendIt had to change its name
Fortune
FORTUNE – What do you do with a nine-year-old file-sharing service that trails behind startups like Dropbox and Box? If you're Palo Alto-based YouSendIt CEO Brad Garlinghouse, you change the name, experience and pricing. With "Hightail," Garlinghouse ...
IBM And Sprint Team Up On Smarter Connected Cars That Send Data When ...
Forbes
If you're lucky enough to drive a new luxury car, you're probably used to the idea of the car connecting to your iPhone to play music and of web-connected dashboards that can offer you maps and weather. But for many, the first use of a connected car is still ...
Google outage takes down Gmail, Docs, Calendar
Computerworld
Computerworld - Google and many of its services suffered an outage this morning, causing a ripple of frustration and confusion to show up on Twitter. Google's free, cloud-based email service, Gmail, along with Google Calendar, Google Drive, Google Docs ...
Here's A Tool To See What Your Email Metadata Reveals About You
Forbes
Earlier this week, Mike Masnick of Techdirt complained that anyone who dismisses the NSA's collection of metadata around people's phone calls and emails (as revealed in the Snowden Leaks) “because it's 'just metadata' doesn't know what metadata is.
Next Mars Rover Is First Step Toward Bringing Samples Back to Earth
Wired
The next NASA Mars rover, a twin probe to its current Curiosity rover, will undertake the first part of a long-sought dream of planetary scientists: a sample-return mission from the Red Planet. In December, a surprise announcement from NASA unveiled that it ...
First Images of Our Solar System's Tail Revealed
Space.com
Astronomers have gotten the first-ever peek at our solar system's tail, called the heliotail, finding that it's shaped like a four-leaf clover, NASA scientists announced today (July 10). The discovery was made using NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX), ...
Google killing off Latitude location-sharing service Aug. 9
VentureBeat
Latitude gave Google users a way to share their current location with friends and family. It also let you record where you went throughout the day so you could better track your movements. After August 9, the service will no longer function. Latitude was ...
3D-printed liquid metal brings stretchable gadgets closer
BBC News
Stretchable electronics may start appearing in the near future, after researchers created liquid metal structures on a 3D printer. A team at North Carolina State University used an alloy of two metals - gallium and indium - that are liquid at room temperature but ...
China to lift 13-year ban on video game consoles
Fortune (blog)
China is expected to lift a 13-year ban on the sale of video game consoles, as long as they are manufactured within Shanghai's new free trade zone, the South China Morning Post is reporting. Consoles have been available on the black market in China, but ...
When a Soviet Robot Raced Apollo 11 to the Moon
Discovery News
Fasting is common in certain religions, but today more people are trying to use it as a way to lose weight. What happens to the body when you deprive it of food? Trace shows us why fasting may or may not be the healthy way to go. Read More » · Earth.
NASA's polar robotic ranger passes first Greenland test
TG Daily
Defying 30 mph gusts and temperatures down to minus 22 F, NASA's new polar rover recently demonstrated in Greenland that it could operate completely autonomously in one of Earth's harshest environments. The robot known as GROVER, which stands for ...
Wildfires May Have Greater Impact on Global Warming: The Effect of Carbon
Science World Report
Scientists have discovered that the particles emitted by wildfires are having far more of an impact on climate change than we first thought. This image displays a eucalyptus tree during a wildfire. (Photo : Reuters). When wildfires sweep across an area, they ...
Modelling Indicates Future Shift in Melting Pattern of the Greenland Ice Sheet
Decoded Science
Global warming has implications for the extent of the planet's great ice sheets – and the loss of those ice sheets will have significant implications itself for the future – our future. But we don't yet understand the full extent of the effects, which we need in order to ...
WATCH: Primeval Forest Discovered Off of Alabama Coast
Ecorazzi
The remains of an ancient forest of bald cypress trees has been discovered in the Gulf of Mexico. Although composed mostly of stumps, there are hundreds of trees in the forest, and they are so well-preserved that they smell like cypress sap. Scientists suspect ...
Did Florida accidentally ban all computers and smartphones?
Fox News
Hide your laptops and iPhones if you live in Florida. A broadly-worded bill signed into law by governor Rick Scott in April bans the electronic devices in the Sunshine State. The law was intended to ban Internet cafes in an effort to crack down on illegal ...
Where do astronauts go when they need 'to go?'
Phys.Org
Alan Shepard became the first American to fly in space on May 5, 1961. Although NASA engineers had put considerable planning into his mission, dubbed Freedom 7, noticeably missing from this extensive preparation was a way for him to urinate in his ...
Agency destroys $170K worth of IT gear over non-existent malware threat
Computerworld
Computerworld - The U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration destroyed about $170,000 worth of IT equipment including computers, printers, keyboards and computer mice last year on the mistaken belief that the systems were ...
Astronomers find embryonic 'monster' star developing in a dark cloud
Science Recorder
An April 24, 2013 study featured in Astronomy & Astrophysics, “Global collapse of molecular clouds as a formation mechanism for the most massive stars,” addresses the importance of the formation process of massive stars, which has eluded the ...
iOS 7 Beta 3 Improves Font Readability, Adds New Animation and More
Touch Reviews
iOS 7 beta 3 was made available for download to registered developers earlier this week. Apple has been consistently releasing new beta updates of iOS 7 every two weeks in order to prepare for the final release date scheduled for later this fall. The new beta ...
Apple asks agency to halt iPhone and iPad ban set for August
GigaOM
A patent ruling that forbids Apple from importing older versions of the iPhone and iPad will soon take effect – Apple asked the ITC to take the unusual step of issuing a stay. iPhone4s. Less than four weeks before an import ban on popular Apple products will ...
New Study Reveals Chesapeake Bay Dead Zone Hits Fish Hard
Science World Report
The dead zones that characterize Chesapeake Bay during the summer may be having a major impact on fish. A 10-year study has recently revealed that these low-oxygen areas are impacting the distribution and abundance of fish that live and feed near the ...
Nissan to Add EV Quick Charging Stations at Over 100 Different US Dealerships
Auto World News
Nissan has announced plans to increase its charging station network nationwide at Leaf-certified Nissan dealerships. Over 100 new fast chargers will be added to 24 different locations around the country according to a company press statement. Like Us on ...
Chrome rich notifications go live for all Windows users; good luck using them
PCWorld
Richer notifications are now available in the latest stable version of Chrome for Windows, version 28. Chrome has offered notifications outside of the browser window for some time, first introducing the feature for Gmail in 2011. The difference now is the ...
Goodbye, old friend: Yahoo puts Internet relic AltaVista to sleep
Fox News
NEW YORK – Once up on a time, there was a popular search engine called AltaVista. It lives no more. On Monday, its owner Yahoo Inc. sent AltaVista.com to the Internet graveyard to rest alongside order-almost-anything venture Kozmo.com and the butler ...
Dropbox adds new tools to make syncing smarter
PCWorld
Dropbox is adding a suite of features to its file-hosting services to provide more syncing tools for app developers and make it easier for end users to access their data across devices. More on Dropbox's new APIs. The changes, which were announced ...
Vintage Apple-1 computer sells for $388K
Computerworld
Computerworld - A working Apple-1 computer fetched $387,750 on Tuesday at auction, well off the record price of $671,400 paid in May for another of the rare personal computers. The Christie's auction house hosted the online-only bidding, which opened ...
Intel, Samsung Kick Off App Contest for Tizen OS
eWeek
The tech giants are looking to ramp up the number of mobile apps for Tizen with a contest that will offer $4 million in prizes. Intel and Samsung Electronics are looking to boost their nascent Tizen mobile operating system with an app developer contest that will ...
New invention uses vibration to turn solid surfaces into cheap touchscreens
ExtremeTech
It's safe to say that touchscreens have become a normal part of everyday modern life. The input method is so ubiquitous that it's even appearing on standard computer displays — ones that have a keyboard and mouse within literal arm's reach. Perhaps the ...
Samsung Galaxy Note 3 : Release date and specs emerge to reignite war with ...
ITProPortal
The Samsung – Apple battleground has been decidedly quiet of late. While the Koreans continue to spew out a steady stream of phones, tablets, and indeed phablets, Apple's product roadmap has remained measured and sparse, leaving us a little short of ...
Lumia 1020: Next Windows phone from Nokia could pack 41-megapixel punch
Christian Science Monitor
On Thursday morning, at a press event in New York, Nokia is expected to unveil a new Windows Phone-powered smartphone. Skip to next paragraph. Related stories. The 10 weirdest uses for a smartphone · Saving Money The best smartphones for avid ...
Samsung Unveils Future Smartphone and Wearable Tech Concepts
Technology Guide
Samsung strategy chief Young Sohn displayed new technology in the future of wearable tech at the MobileBeat conference in San Francisco on Tuesday. The video demonstrated a patch sensor that monitors the user's health quickly and painlessly.
Bitcoin Stock: A Simple Explanation of the Winklevoss' Plan
PolicyMic
Trending In Our News Feeds – Facebook rolls out new search feature. Facebook officially rolled out its Graph Search feature at the beginning of the week, and it's going to have a big effect on your Facebook experience. Graph Search lets you perform custom ...
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