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| Verizon Wireless to Curb Unlimited Data Plans | Wed, May 16 04:44 PM |
| Verizon Wireless will no longer allow customers to keep their unlimited data plans when they upgrade to its high-speed mobile network, known as 4G LTE. | WSJ.com: What's News Technology |
| Dish Runs Ads to End All Ads | Wed, May 16 04:37 PM |
| Dish Network is promoting its new "Auto Hop" ad-skipping DVR with a marketing campaign that, ironically, uses a TV commercial. Some networks are refusing to run the spot. | WSJ.com: What's News Technology |
| Best Buy: Write down your e-mail password (and give it to us) | Wed, May 16 04:36 PM |
As part of its "New Computer Set-Up" service, Best Buy's Geek Squad asks customers to write down their e-mail password in a box. Which some might find a little odd.
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| Best Buy: Write down your e-mail password (and give it to us) | Wed, May 16 04:36 PM |
| As part of its "New Computer Set-Up" service, Best Buy's Geek Squad asks customers to write down their e-mail password in a box. Which some might find a little odd. | CNET News.com |
| Apple Moves to Larger iPhone Screens | Wed, May 16 04:33 PM |
| Apple is likely to increase the screen size on its coming iPhone. The company is asking Asian suppliers to make screens measuring at least 4 inches diagonally. The current iPhone has a 3.5-inch display. | WSJ.com: What's News Technology |
| Facebook's Saverin: I'm a 'global citizen,' not a tax dodger | Wed, May 16 04:25 PM |
Company co-founder Eduardo Saverin, who recently renounced his U.S. citizenship, says the decision had nothing to do with the blockbuster IPO and taxes.
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| Facebook's Saverin: I'm a 'global citizen,' not a tax dodger | Wed, May 16 04:25 PM |
| Company co-founder Eduardo Saverin, who recently renounced his U.S. citizenship, says the decision had nothing to do with the blockbuster IPO and taxes. | CNET News.com |
| Is J.C. Penney the new Sears? | Wed, May 16 04:10 PM |
 J.C. Penney shares tumbled Wednesday after the retailer reported a much wider-than-expected first-quarter loss, suspended its dividend and saw weakness across all core metrics.
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| This interactive map will show you what disappeared from the Earth because of humans | Wed, May 16 04:08 PM |
| We've made such a huge impact on our planet, and we've affected it in different ways... many of which aren't anything to be proud of. We have, for instance, driven several plant and animal species to extinction, or at least to … Continue reading → | Tech News Headlines - Yahoo! News |
| Flashback makers missed out on their payday, Symantec says | Wed, May 16 04:06 PM |
According to the security firm, the makers of the Flashback malware made $14,000 from click fraud last month, but can't collect on it.
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| Tips for Facebook millionaires | Wed, May 16 03:59 PM |
Congratulations, you're officially rich. But before you splurge on a winter getaway in Aspen or some sporty wheels, take a breath. CNET's Sumi Das speaks to a financial expert who says the best thing to do is follow three simple steps.
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| Tips for Facebook millionaires | Wed, May 16 03:59 PM |
| Congratulations, you're officially rich. But before you splurge on a winter getaway in Aspen or some sporty wheels, take a breath. CNET's Sumi Das speaks to a financial expert who says the best thing to do is follow three simple steps. | CNET News.com |
| Facebook IPO doesn't mean the end of privacy | Wed, May 16 03:51 PM |
Privacy experts say that just because the company is going public, doesn't mean that it's game over for user privacy. In fact, it might shine a brighter light on privacy concerns.
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| Existing unlimited data plans' days are numbered, Verizon says | Wed, May 16 03:45 PM |
| Shared data plans and 4G access conspire to bring unlimited users down. | Ars Technica |
| T-Mobile sees a net 350 jobs eliminated from restructuring | Wed, May 16 03:29 PM |
The company plans to eliminate 900 jobs, but hire 550 new positions as part of an overhaul of the business.
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| T-Mobile sees a net 350 jobs eliminated from restructuring | Wed, May 16 03:29 PM |
| The company plans to eliminate 900 jobs, but hire 550 new positions as part of an overhaul of the business. | CNET News.com |
| Facebook IPO: Insiders Cashing Out | Wed, May 16 03:20 PM |
| Some of Facebook's biggest holders are selling up to $3.8 billion in extra shares in Friday's IPO, in some cases at Facebook's request. Goldman Sachs and Tiger Global will now sell 50% of their stakes. | WSJ.com: What's News Technology |
| Best Buy's surprisingly insecure approach to new PC setup | Wed, May 16 03:14 PM |
| Somewhere in the march toward "easy," security got blindsided. | Ars Technica |
| Google Makes Its Search Engine Smarter | Wed, May 16 03:14 PM |
| Google said it is rolling out an extensive update to its dominant search engine by using troves of data to refine the answers it provides to user queries on specific topics. | WSJ.com: What's News Technology |
| From battery covers to bat caves | Wed, May 16 02:54 PM |
GM is repurposing old Volt battery covers as habitats for owls, ducks, and bats.
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| For Tech Firms, the Desk Matters | Wed, May 16 02:43 PM |
| Custom-furniture designers who sell to tech companies say business is on a tear, driven by a flood of funding for start-ups, shifting fashions and new ideas about how employees work together. | WSJ.com: What's News Technology |
| Paralyzed woman controls robotic arm, sips coffee | Wed, May 16 02:25 PM |
| Electrodes implanted in the brain were used to control mechanical motion. | Ars Technica |
| Facebook.com received 9% of all U.S. Internet visits in April | Wed, May 16 02:24 PM |
| The social network's users are mostly women, they're very loyal, and they've given Facebook.com more than 400B page views this year. | CNET News.com |
| Kucinich opts out of Wash. race, will retire | Wed, May 16 02:10 PM |
 Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich announced Wednesday he has decided against running for Congress in Washington state, where activists had urged him to launch a campaign. In a statement, Kucinich signaled the end of his 16-year congressional career: Because of my love of public service, I have given a great deal of time and much thought [...]
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| Jellyfish Hunt Hurts Pacific Leatherback Turtles | Wed, May 16 02:06 PM |
 When it comes to leatherback turtles, the world's largest species of sea turtle, there's a conundrum: The species itself is critically endangered, but at least one leatherback population is stable — on the rise, even — while others plummet.
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| Coffee Drinkers May Live Longer | Wed, May 16 02:03 PM |
| Drinking coffee might help you live longer, a new study suggests. | Science News Headlines - Yahoo! News |
| Robert Kennedy Jr.'s estranged wife dead | Wed, May 16 02:01 PM |
 Click image to see more photos. (Atlantic Wire) Mary Kennedy, ex-wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was found dead at her New York home Wednesday, a source told the Associated Press. Kerry Lawrence, an attorney, confirmed her death, but did not know the cause. The Bedford, N.Y. police department said that at approximately 1:36 p.m. [...]
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| FBI investigates media leaks in Yemen underwear bomb plot | Wed, May 16 01:59 PM |
| FBI director Robert S. Mueller III today disclosed that the FBI is investigating leaks to the news media about the recently disrupted plot by Al Qaeda’s Yemen affiliate to smuggle a bomb designed to be concealed in underwear onto a U.S. bound jet. The plans... | Yahoo! News - Latest News & Headlines |
| Time Warner Cable, Viacom Settle iPad Dispute | Wed, May 16 01:48 PM |
| Time Warner Cable said it will resume live streaming of some Viacom-owned TV channels to customers' iPads following a legal settlement with Viacom. | WSJ.com: What's News Technology |
| Money! That's what Flashback's creators want (but they can't get it) | Wed, May 16 01:45 PM |
| Generating fraudulent ad clicks and getting paid are two different things. | Ars Technica |
| Zynga coy on next version of FarmVille | Wed, May 16 01:26 PM |
| Zynga has its 2013 game pipeline largely set. Will FarmVille 2.0 be part of it? | CNET News.com |
| Why Verizon 4G LTE smartphones are a bad choice for world travelers | Wed, May 16 01:20 PM |
| None of Verizon's new 4G LTE smartphones offers global roaming. Ask Maggie explains why. | CNET News.com |
| Kimmel cut WHCD joke per Jake Tapper’s advice | Wed, May 16 01:03 PM |
 Jimmy Kimmel delivered a barrage of edgy jokes at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner (WHCD) late last month in Washington. But after consulting with ABC News senior White House correspondent Jake Tapper, Kimmel decided several were too over-the-top to make the cut. "I had some jokes about Rick Santorum," Kimmel told Howard Stern in [...]
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| Who is behind murky DDoS attack against The Pirate Bay? | Wed, May 16 12:56 PM |
| The Pirate Bay is getting pounded with a denial-of-service attack and most of the likely suspects deny involvement. | CNET News.com |
| Vietnam War hero receives posthumous Medal of Honor | Wed, May 16 12:56 PM |
 Leslie Sabo Died a Hero at Age 22 in 1970
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| Netflix: Disgruntled customers rejoining service | Wed, May 16 12:51 PM |
| A third of Netflix's new customers are people who quit the service and signed up again in less than a year, says the company's CFO at an investor conference. | CNET News.com |
| Halo 4 Limited Edition, Spartan Ops mode announced | Wed, May 16 12:45 PM |
| Get your weekly multiplayer missions and early specialization access right here. | Ars Technica |
| Twitter: Here's How to Hide Your Tweets from Google | Wed, May 16 12:13 PM |
| Want to keep your tweets among your tweeps and hidden from any old Google searcher? Twitter has some tips for you. | Tech News Headlines - Yahoo! News |
| HTC One X delay benefits Lumia 900 at AT&T | Wed, May 16 11:31 AM |
| The One X is being held up at customs because of a dispute between Apple and HTC, extending the Lumia 900's window as AT&T's flagship smartphone. | CNET News.com |
| Is this what a run on Greek banks looks like? | Wed, May 16 11:01 AM |
 In the last few weeks, market analysts have ratcheted up fears about a run on Greek banks. Now, some experts say those fears are beginning to materialize.
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| Verizon to kill unlimited data plans for existing subscribers | Wed, May 16 11:00 AM |
| At an investor conference, an exec says the carrier is killing the plan for "grandfathered" customers and will force existing and new customers to sign up for a tiered "data share" plan on its 4G LTE network. | CNET News.com |
| Why Lumia, Siri? The perils of sorting a 27-way smartphone tie | Wed, May 16 10:20 AM |
| After the kerfuffle over whether Siri believes that the Nokia Lumia 900 is better than her own iPhone 4S, objectivity comes to the rescue, courtesy of the brains at Wolfram Alpha. | CNET News.com |
| Fiat pulls epic prank on Volkswagen rivals using Google Street View | Wed, May 16 09:44 AM |
| If there's one thing we can say about European car makers, it's that most of them seem to have a great sense of humor. Nowhere is this more apparent than on a trip past Volkswagen's Swedish headquarters in Google Street View, where … Continue reading → | Tech News Headlines - Yahoo! News |
| Nielsen: 1 in 2 own a smartphone, average 41 apps | Wed, May 16 09:34 AM |
| According to the latest report published by Nielsen, 1 in 2 mobile subscribers owns a smartphone of some kind and those smartphone owners average 41 apps per device. | CNET News.com |
| Apple on Siri lawsuits: Throw them out and be done with it | Wed, May 16 06:34 AM |
| The iPhone maker says that the claims against its Siri offering are based on "vague" claims and therefore should be thrown out by the court. | CNET News.com |
| Facebook raises IPO price as offering nears | Tue, May 15 12:37 PM |
 Already expected to be the largest-ever initial public offering for an Internet company, Facebook is making its IPO even bigger.
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| April 2012 heats up as 5th warmest month globally | Tue, May 15 09:10 AM |
| Unseasonable weather pushed last month to the fifth warmest April on record worldwide, federal weather statistics show. | Science News Headlines - Yahoo! News |
| Poll: Half of Americans call Facebook a fad | Tue, May 15 06:26 AM |
 Half of Americans think Facebook is a passing fad, according to the results of a new Associated Press-CNBC poll. And, in the run-up to the social network's initial public offering of stock, half of Americans also say the social network's expected asking price is too high.
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| Saverin dumps US citizenship ahead of Facebook IPO | Mon, May 14 11:55 PM |
| Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin has renounced his U.S. citizenship, a move expected to save him hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes stemming from the company's impending initial public offering. | Tech News Headlines - Yahoo! News |
| Three-man Soyuz crew departs for space station | Mon, May 14 11:25 PM |
 A three-man crew blasted off from a space center in southern Kazakhstan Tuesday morning on board a Russian-made Soyuz craft for a four-and-half-month stay at the International Space Station.
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| AP Photos: Enterprise's final journey continues | Sun, May 13 12:58 PM |
 The space shuttle Enterprise has been separated from the NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier at John F. Kennedy International Airport, just weeks after flying over New York City.
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| Expo opens in South Korea with robots, ocean theme | Sat, May 12 03:22 AM |
 Expo 2012 has opened in South Korea's coastal city of Yeosu for a three-month run.
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| Apple Execs Get Bonuses, Jobs Still at $1 | |
| Several senior executives at Apple Inc took home 2007 cash bonuses that doubled their salaries but Chief Executive Steve Jobs maintained his annual pay of $1 and took no additional compensation. | eWEEK Technology News |
| Motorola Forecasts Loss on Struggling Phone Biz | |
| Motorola said it will post an operating loss in the current quarter as recovery in its cell phone business is taking longer than expected, dashing Wall Street expectations.
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| Yahoo Plans to Cut Hundreds of Jobs: Source | |
| Yahoo is planning to announce cutbacks later this month that will likely lead to hundreds of job losses at the nearly 14,000 employee company, a source familiar with the plan said. | eWEEK Technology News |
| Fed Slashes Interest Rates | |
| The U.S. Federal Reserve slashed interest rates by a hefty three-quarters of a percentage point, the biggest rate cut in more than 23 years, in an emergency bid to lend support to a U.S. economy some fear is on the verge of recession. | eWEEK Technology News |
| Bill Would Help States Ditch Electronic Voting | |
| New Jersey Democrat Rep. Rush Holt recently introduced a measure that would provide financial relief for states that jumped into electronic voting only to find those systems increasingly unreliable. | eWEEK Technology News |
| Sprint to Cut 4,000 Jobs, Close 8 Percent of Stores | |
| Sprint Nextel, the #3 U.S. mobile service, will cut about 4,000 jobs and close 8 percent of its stores, predicting further pressure on its ability to attract subscribers and turn a profit in 2008.
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| IBM Growth in Americas Slower than Overseas | |
| IBM said that revenue from the Americas rose 5 percent, slower than other regions as overseas units showed the strongest gains, and said computer hardware sales declined. | eWEEK Technology News |
| Time Warner to Test Internet Billing Based on Usage | |
| Time Warner Cable Inc said it is planning a trial to bill high-speed Internet subscribers based on their amount of usage rather than a flat fee, the standard industry practice. | eWEEK Technology News |
| Bernanke Backs Quick Fiscal Stimulus | |
| Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke threw his support behind efforts to craft a fiscal stimulus package and repeated that the U.S. central bank was ready to act aggressively to counter recession risks. | eWEEK Technology News |
| Brocade Ex-CEO Sentenced to 21 Months in Options Case | |
| Brocade Communications former CEO was sentenced to 21 months in prison for backdating stock-option grants in a scandal that has ensnared scores of U.S. companies and led to billions of dollars of restatements. | eWEEK Technology News |
| Bernanke Faces Grilling on Fiscal Stimulus Stance | |
| Ben Bernanke has tried hard not to follow his predecessor Alan Greenspan into the political arena by commenting on fiscal policy, but the Federal Reserve chief will find it difficult to stay above the fray. | eWEEK Technology News |
| Economic Worries Grow Among Voters: Poll | |
| Voters are growing increasingly concerned about a recession, and the malaise is filtering into their views on the presidential election, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll. | eWEEK Technology News |
| BEA Accepts $8.5 Billion Oracle Offer | |
| Oracle won a three-month-long campaign to buy BEA Systems by raising its bid for the business software maker by 14 percent to $8.5 billion. | eWEEK Technology News |
| Boeing to Announce Further 787 Delay: Report | |
| Boeing Co is close to announcing a further delay to its 787 Dreamliner, The Wall Street Journal reported, threatening to push deliveries of the new, hot-selling plane even further back and increasing the risk of costly penalty payments to airlines. | eWEEK Technology News |
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