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Verizon to set up streaming service with Redbox (AP)
Monday, February 6, 2012 10:11:39 AM CST
AP - Phone company Verizon Communications Inc. will challenge Netflix and start a video streaming service this year with Redbox and its DVD rental kiosks.
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Google, Facebook remove content on India's order (AP)
Monday, February 6, 2012 7:34:37 AM CST
AP - Google India has removed web pages deemed offensive to Indian political and religious leaders to comply with a court case that has raised censorship fears in the world's largest democracy, media reported Monday.
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For Facebook 'Hacker Way' is way of life (AP)
Saturday, February 4, 2012 10:12:33 AM CST
AP - Facebook's billionaire CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls himself a hacker.
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Facebook Timeline feature unpopular, especially among Baby Boomers (Yahoo! News)
Friday, February 3, 2012 5:15:40 PM CST
Yahoo! News - The new mandatory Facebook Timeline is a surprisingly controversial feature. You either love it, or you hate it. And according to a new poll, it appears that almost all of you hate it. Overall, only 20% of those surveyed said they liked …
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Super Bowl bust: U.S. government seizes 307 domains for violating NFL copyrights (Yahoo! News)
Friday, February 3, 2012 5:08:23 PM CST
Yahoo! News - While many sports fans are preparing for Sunday's Super Bowl by organizing parties and shopping for TVs, the U.S. government is preparing in a different way. Just yesterday, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency seized 307 different domains suspected of violating NFL copyrights. …
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NASA Launches Facebook Game to Test Space Program Knowledge (Mashable)
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 5:45:44 PM CST
Mashable - How much do you know about the NASA space program, Earthling?
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Cyberplex unit to pay $4.8 million to Yahoo for poor traffic (Reuters)
Monday, February 6, 2012 10:31:32 AM CST
Reuters - Cyberplex Inc said its debt-laden unit Tsavo Media is required to pay Yahoo Inc $4.8 million for what the U.S. search company called "low quality traffic" from ads on Tsavo-run websites last year.
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Internet giants pull content after warning in India courts (Reuters)
Monday, February 6, 2012 8:44:59 AM CST
Reuters - Internet giants Google Inc and Facebook removed content from some Indian domain websites on Monday following a court directive warning them of a crackdown "like China" if they did not take steps to protect religious sensibilities.
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Taiwan smartphone maker HTC sees Q1 revenue lagging (Reuters)
Monday, February 6, 2012 4:36:12 AM CST
Reuters - Taiwan smartphone maker HTC Corp expects to post much lower-than-expected revenue in the first quarter, underscoring analyst views that it will face another weak quarter and an uphill struggle to prove to investors it still retains its innovative touch.
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Fresh Android Apps for Feb. 6: The Call of Sedona, iDatank, Infected (Appolicious)
Monday, February 6, 2012 7:58:00 AM CST
Appolicious - It’s a new week and a new set of fresh Android apps. Find your Zen in The Call of Sedona, explore the dangerous universe with iDatank, and stop spread the disease in INFECTED.
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As Facebook grows up, it courts Madison Avenue (Reuters)
Monday, February 6, 2012 9:04:21 AM CST
Reuters - About a year ago, when it became clear that taking Facebook Inc public was a matter of when not if, Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg went out and poached Caroline Everson, then global advertising head at Microsoft Corp.
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Android Alternatives to Apple's Siri Personal Assistant (ContributorNetwork)
Sunday, February 5, 2012 10:40:38 PM CST
ContributorNetwork - When it was announced in October, one of the headline features of Apple's iPhone 4S was Siri, an "intelligent assistant" which answers spoken questions and takes orders given in natural English. It was less like Google's Voice Actions for Android, an app which understands a limited set of specific commands, and more like the computers on Star Trek.
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Android’s internal rivalry caused HTC’s downfall (Appolicious)
Monday, February 6, 2012 9:19:00 AM CST
Appolicious - It doesn’t always pay to be a first mover. When Android first hit the market, it was HTC that had enough faith in Google’s initial OS to manufacture handsets, but two year’s later the inaugural Android device maker has fallen to increasing competition within the Android community. Today HTC reported a 26 percent drop in fourth quarter profits, warning investors that revenues could drop 36 percent this quarter. ...
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Going mobile: Travel's eventual high-tech future (Reuters)
Friday, February 3, 2012 11:50:33 AM CST
Reuters - Welcome to the airport terminal of the future.
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TiVo shares appear to be discounted: report (Reuters)
Sunday, February 5, 2012 2:28:01 PM CST
Reuters - TiVo Inc is trading at a compelling discount and could be a possible acquisition target by Microsoft or Google, Barron's financial newspaper reported on Sunday.
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Fresh iPhone Apps for Feb. 6: Vanity Fair Hollywood, Game Your Video, Tank Battalion Blitz, Order Up!! To Go (Appolicious)
Monday, February 6, 2012 7:37:00 AM CST
Appolicious - It’s almost time for this year’s Academy Awards, so get primed up for your Oscar ballot with Vanity Fair Hollywood, an app full of information about the nominees so you can make informed picks. After you’re done thinking about the best in Hollywood, you can make videos of your own with effects app Game your Video. In games, we’ve got Tank Battalion Blitz, a top-down tank battling game that includes offline and online multiplayer play. After that, there’s Order Up!! To Go, a time-management restaurant game that uses gesture controls for your cooking.
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CommVault says will go it alone, despite M&A buzz (Reuters)
Sunday, February 5, 2012 5:50:21 PM CST
Reuters - CommVault Systems Inc has managed to skirt rampant consolidation in the fast-growing storage software market, and CEO Bob Hammer is planning to keep it that way.
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Group seeks to save data on Megaupload servers (Reuters)
Thursday, February 2, 2012 3:15:24 PM CST
Reuters - The Electronic Frontier Foundation on Thursday asked federal prosecutors and lawyers for the Megaupload.com file-sharing service to allow users who uploaded material to retrieve it as long as it was not copyrighted material.