T-Mobile USA CEO Philipp Humm Resigns

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Google Takes On Apple TV With New Gadget

Google is coming to a living room near you.

At the Google I/O conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, Google outed a uniquely designed device, the ball-shaped Nexus Q.

Defined by Google as a "social streaming media player," the Nexus Q runs on the Android platform and lets users stream music, movies and more from their cloud-based Google Play accounts.

The Nexus connects to your television set and can be controlled by your Android devices. According to the New York Times, the orb will get online via WiFi or Ethernet connections.

AllThingsD describes what makes the Nexus Q social:

Directly from the phone, users pick tracks from their Google Play music libraries and add them to their playlist

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'Super Mario Brothers' Like You've Never Seen It Before

Whoever said video games kill your imagination was so short sighted.

Anthony Jones, an Irvine, Calif.-based video game concept artist behind the art blog Robot Pencil, has a fantastic imagination and a sharp style to match.

Jones, who has a flair for what he calls "mashups and redesigns," recently re-cast some of the main characters from the popular Nintendo franchise "Super Mario Brothers" as a motley, hard-boiled crew.

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The angular, shadowy representations offer an incredible contrast to the game's classic look, which is steeped in round, friendly curves. Take a good, long look at Mario and Princess Peach -- it's tough do decide if they're good guys, bad guys, or somewhere in between.

That sense of moral ambiguity is probably what led Reddit user DanM_Ro to describe the digitally-produced renderings as "noir style" when he posted them yesterday.

But, as its name suggests, Robot Pencil's bread and butter is a portfolio of super-sleek futuristic droids. Still, while Jones takes on a lot of projects -- some of them on commission -- he maintains that a lot of his output is just sweet release.

"When you spend all day painting and designing for other people, you get a little anxious about doing your own stuff. This is one of the ways I release that anxiety," Jones wrote in an e-mail to The Huffington Post.

Even if it's an escape, the line between work and fun can become gleefully blurred. For instance, after Jones made some fan art inspired by Adult Swim's "Robot Unicorn Attack," the cable network approached him about contributing to the online game's next iteration.

"I just like to go a little bit further and make something hilarious and awesome at the same time," Jones told HuffPost.

So far, it seems the effort has been well worth it.

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Stephanie Hodges: Atlanta -- Still Not Failing Fast Enough?

Stephanie HodgesSenior Fellow, Mayor's Office in Atlanta

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Chicago Richter lehnt Apple-Motorola-Patent-Streit

HUFFPOST SUPER Gustibus nicht est USERDarius Molarkde disputandum76 Fans schließlich vor 58 Minuten (13:54) und von der ikonoklastischen Posner. Sie Durcheinander mit dem falschen Kerl. Aber es macht sie Durcheinander auf sich selbst, zu stoppen, hin und her, hin und her. Dies ist nicht der Weg die Tech-Revolution ist wohl geschehen. Wenn besteht eine weitere Zusammenarbeit zwischen diesen beiden, liegt möglicherweise ein allgemeines System für leistungsfähige OS. Wie es aussieht, haben wir weitere ehemalige Invasoren und deutschen SAP mit Gebühren und verrückt-Programme für die Verwaltung aller losen Schrauben zu fegen. Eine weitere unnötiges Niveau auferlegt. Und die Fantasiepreise dieser mobilen Einheiten wird nur den Geldbeutel Werkman immer höheren Drücken!!

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Google ehrt Vater der modernen Computer mit intelligenten Code-Spiel

Google am Samstag herausgefordert suchende eines Puzzles in Hommage an was Alan Turing Hundertjahrfeier gewesen wäre.

Turing, ein brillanter britischer Mathematiker und Kryptoanalytiker, arbeitete für die britische Regierung während des zweiten Weltkriegs. Seine Arbeit Knacken von deutschen Code und Verbesserung der Technologien, die verwendet werden, dazu brachte ihm einen Auftrag des britischen Empire nach dem zweiten Weltkrieg. Nach der New York Times verändert den Turing-Beitrag "der Ausgang des Krieges da gab es den Alliierten ein Ohr in der deutschen Planung."

Unter seinen vielen anderen Leistung nach der Krieg Turing 1936, als er die Grundlagen für eine moderne EDV-Algorithmen, präsentierte zur Lösung von mathematischer Berechnungen Regeln, konnte zusammen mit einer hypothetischen "Turing-Maschine", die diese Regeln lesen.

In den 1950er Jahren Turing entwickelt einen Test zur Messung der Intelligenz der frühen Computersysteme und argumentierte, dass die Maschinen denken können. Der Turing-Test ist eine Nachahmung Spiel einem Menschen und einem Computer die Binärdaten in einem Terminal eingeben und ein Menschenrecht bestimmt, welcher Teilnehmer Mensch und Maschine ist.

Turing ", dass die Blaupause für den Bau einer Maschine, die einer Berechnung, dass tun konnte eine Person würde mark den ersten Schritt für das moderne Konzept eines Computers," nach einem Post auf der offiziellen Google-Blog geschrieben von Andrew Eland, Google Großbritanniens Direktor der Technik.

Das Turing-Leben nahm eine dramatische Wende 1952, als die britische Regierung ihn der Unsittlichkeit für Taten von Homosexualität verurteilt. Er beendete sein Leben in 1954 nach einer chemischen Kastration als Alternative zur Freiheitsstrafe.

Der britische Premierminister Gordon Brown hat eine Entschuldigung im 2009. Browns Aussage, pro CNET:

Während Herr Turing, gemäß dem Gesetz der Zeit behandelt wurde und wir können nicht die Uhr zurückgestellt, seine Behandlung natürlich völlig unfair war und ich bin froh, dass die Chance zu sagen wie tief traurig ich und wir alle sind für das, was mit ihm geschah.

Die Homepage von Google doodle Funktionen die Turing-Maschine Spiel nachempfunden. Der Benutzer muss klarstellen, dass die Gerät Anweisungen "Google" Binär. Ein nützliches YouTube-Nutzer hat ein paar Lehr-Videos, die Sie durch das Spiel sechs einfache Levels (siehe oben) führen hochgeladen und die harte sechs Ebenen (siehe unten). Lösen Sie können sie alle?

Auch auf die Huffington Post:

Blättern Sie durch die Galerie, um einige unserer Lieblings-Google-Doodles anzusehen. Slideshow laden

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Nicht fixierbaren Computern führen die Menschheit einen gefährlichen Weg

CBSLA macht war für 45 Minuten. Steuern, Zimmer und Computern an CBS Broadcast Center noch nicht wieder auf die Luft wieder auf. 15 Stunden aus Twitter für iPhone

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Richter riecht nach unten aus Apples Ansprüche gegen rivalisierende Telefon Hersteller

Von Jessica Dye
(Reuters)-ein US-Judge am Freitag entschieden, dass Apple Inc. eine einstweilige Verfügung gegen Googles Motorola Mobilität Einheit, ein wichtiges Thema effektiv beenden, denn der Hersteller des iPhone in der Smartphone-patent-Kriege nicht nehmen.
Das Urteil kam aus dem Richter Richard Posner in Chicago Bundesgericht. Er lehnte die Streitigkeiten zwischen Apple und Motorola Mobilität mit Vorurteilen, d. h. es kann nicht refiled werden.
Das Urteil ist ein Schlag für Apple, die gehofft hatte, dass ein entscheidendes Urteil gegen Motorola helfen würde ein Vorrang auf den Smartphone-Markt gegen Android.
Ein Vertreter für Apple lehnte eine Stellungnahme ab. Motorola zurück nicht sofort Anfragen für Kommentar Freitagabend.
Motorola verklagt Apple im Oktober 2010, ein Schritt, der in der Regel ein präemptiver Angriff gegen eine drohende Klage von Apple gesehen wurde. Apple diente eine eigene Ansprüche gegen Motorola gleichen Monat.
Posner ausgestellt eine Serie von Gefängnis Bedingungen Aussagen, die fast alle Motorolas Patentansprüche gegen Apple des potenziellen Prozesses, und gleichzeitig mehr von Apples Ansprüche gegen Motorola eliminiert. Das bedeutete, dass Apple dabei mehr erhalten, die entschlossen hatte musste, die letzte Woche starten.
Apple hatte eine einstweilige Verfügung blockieren den Verkauf von Motorola-Produkten. Am Freitag schrieb Posner Entscheidung, dass "keine der Parteien hat das Recht, einen Haftbefehl".
Jede Partei hat die Option herrschenden Posner ansprechen.
(Reporting von Jessica Farbstoff und Dan Levine; Bearbeiten von Gary Hill)

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Apple eBook Antitrust Suit Trial Datumseinstellung

Von Basil Katz
NEW YORK (Reuters)-ein US-Richter am Freitag legen einen Verhandlungstermin 2013 für eine Klage wirft der amerikanischen Regierung von Apple und Buch-Verlage Verschwörung, die Preise für elektronische Bücher zu beheben.
Nach einer Anhörung im Manhattan Bundesgerichtshof sagte US Bezirk Richter Denise Cote, Probe im Fall eine Bank startet, 3. Juni 2013 für Apple und zwei Verlage die kartellrechtlichen Gebühren kämpfen.
Das Justizministerium der USA verklagt Apple im April, sagen, dass es falsch oder Absprache mit fünf Verlagen zu e-Buch-Preise im Frühjahr 2010 zu steigern, wie der Silicon Valley-Riesen den Start ihrer beliebt iPad Tablet PC war.
Amazon Inc., wodurch die Kindle e-Reader, hatte e-Bücher für so wenig wie $ 9.99 lange verkauft. Die Beschwerde der Regierung zitiert Äpfel verstorbenen Mitbegründer Steve Jobs als Mittel zur Verlage stimulieren Preisen anbieten möchten und ' ein richtiger etablierten e-Bücher-Markt am $ 12.99 und $ 14.99 ".
Apple hat verschwor sich mit jemand oder nicht feste Preise für e-Bücher in einem Versuch zu vereiteln Amazons Dominanz dieses schnell wachsenden Marktes festgelegt.
Apple sagt, dass der Ausflug in die e-Bücher eigentlich Frage für e-Bücher von zwingen Amazon und Konkurrenten, einschließlich Barnes Noble Inc., &, aggressiver, konkurrieren angetrieben hat einschließlich der Instandsetzung e-Reader-Technologie.
Die Verlage Macmillan und Penguin Group Einheiten der Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck, welche jeweils GmbH und Pearson Plc, kämpft das Kartellverfahren.
News Corp, CBS Corp Simon Schuster und HarperCollins Publishers & Lagardère SCA der Hachette Book Group besiedelt den Fall mit dem Justizministerium der Vereinigten Staaten.
Die drei Verlage zunehmend auch Siedlung Vorschlag an das Gericht durch das Ende des Sommers Ansprüche einer Gruppe von amerikanischen Staaten, Rechtsanwälte für die Buch-Unternehmen und den Staaten, sagte am Freitag zu lösen.
"Ich bin überzeugt, dass bekommen wir alle 50 Staaten und sechs Gebiete und die gemeinsame Reichtümer zu unterzeichnen" bis zur Abrechnung, sagte Gary Becker, ein stellvertretender Attorney General von Connecticut.
Der Fall ist In Re: Elektronische Bücher Kartellrecht Rechtsstreitigkeiten, US-Bezirksgericht Southern District of New York, nr. 11-2293.
(Weitere Berichterstattung von Jessica Dye; Bearbeiten von Lisa Shumaker)

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Sicherheitseinschränkungen Online: 'es ist Chaos'

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Die 9 beliebtesten viralen Videos der Woche

Wenn Sie suchen, um die beliebtesten YouTube-Videos der Woche zu sehen, suchen Sie nicht weiter.

Noch einmal, wir bringen Sie die Woche meistgesehenen Videos, heiße aus den Charts über YouTube Trends, ein Feature, das ins Leben gerufen von YouTube das Video von der Website-Statistik aggregiert und zieht sich in "die Weisheit des oberen Kuratoren überall im Web" um den Besuchern einen Blick auf Echtzeit-Trends unter der YouTube-Community bieten.

Also was ist das Web gehen wild über diese Woche? McDonalds bietet einen Blick hinter die Kulissen des Foto-Shooting auf einem Quarter Pounder, "Call Me vielleicht" bekommt einen schmutzigen Remix, eine Gruppe von Kindern belästigt gnadenlos ihre Bus-Monitor-- und vieles, vieles mehr.

Die 9 beliebtesten YouTube-Videos der Woche ansehen und über Ihre Favoriten abstimmen. Dann schauen Sie vorige Woche nimmt, hier. Für weitere Spitzenvideos sahen unsere Slideshow der am meisten YouTube Videos ab 2011.

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Quelle: Google CEO Speaks Out über Gesundheitsrisiken

Von Alexei Oreskovic
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)-Google Inc-CEO Larry Page, wer plant, mehrere hochkarätige Veranstaltungen in den kommenden Wochen nach dem Verlust seiner Stimme zu retten, erzählte Arbeitern dort "nichts ernsthaft falsch mit mir," Laut einer Quelle, die einen Kredit Memo interne Mitarbeiter gesehen hatte.
Seite seines Unternehmens Generalversammlung saß am Donnerstag. Der 39 Jahre alte Google-Mitbegründer ruht seine Stimme infolge einer unbekannten Zustand, und er wird Googles jährlichen Entwickler-Konferenz nächste Woche, wie auch die Quartalsergebnisse Ankündigung im nächsten Monat Führungskräfte sagte am Donnerstag ohne Ausarbeitung verpassen.
Die Seiten längerer Abwesenheit von dem öffentlichen Rampenlicht wirft Fragen über seinen Zustand und des Unternehmens verpflichtet Anliegen an die Aktionäre zu markieren.
Corporate-Governance-Experten sagen, dass Google getroffen hat, aber minimal Informationspflichten werden Gesicht steigt der Druck aus den Augen zu bleiben, während die Seite erhalten bleibt.
Am Freitag stieg transformierten Anteile 1,1 Prozent auf $ Googles 571.48, zusammen mit dem Rest der Nasdaq.
"Es wird sie über die erste Hürde für die Weitergabe, dass sie Aktionäre darauf gewarnt habe, die er diesen Effekt Gesundheit haben wird", sagte James Post, Professor für Management an der Boston University, die schwerpunktmäßig mit Themen der corporate Governance.
"Es ist OK, nicht zu sagen, dass für sie. Weitere Informationen aus anderen Quellen geht hervor, die schwierigen Fragen liegen immer noch und es wird weitergeführt Druck zu halten diese knifflige Fragen. "
Google würde seine Erkrankung CEO am Freitag nicht kommentieren.
Seite macht Mitbegründer Sergey Brin und Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt-Steuerelement eine Mehrheit der Internet-Unternehmen über spezielle Shares, die ihnen geben mehr Stimmen.
Die Kapitalstruktur, durch eine neue Generation von Web-Unternehmen Zynga Inc. emuliert, Facebook Inc. Gründer gewährt enorme Auswirkungen auf ihr Unternehmen.
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Christopher De La Torre: Alan Turing, Vater von Informatik, trotzte Stereotypen, The Nazis und A Nation

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John Pavley: Internet Trolle: letzte und denke über Alan Turing

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Chicago Richter lehnt Apple-Motorola-Patent-Streit

HUFFPOST SUPER Gustibus nicht est USERDarius Molarkde disputandum76 Fans schließlich vor 58 Minuten (13:54) und von der ikonoklastischen Posner. Sie Durcheinander mit dem falschen Kerl. Aber es macht sie Durcheinander auf sich selbst, zu stoppen, hin und her, hin und her. Dies ist nicht der Weg die Tech-Revolution ist wohl geschehen. Wenn besteht eine weitere Zusammenarbeit zwischen diesen beiden, liegt möglicherweise ein allgemeines System für leistungsfähige OS. Wie es aussieht, haben wir weitere ehemalige Invasoren und deutschen SAP mit Gebühren und verrückt-Programme für die Verwaltung aller losen Schrauben zu fegen. Eine weitere unnötiges Niveau auferlegt. Und die Fantasiepreise dieser mobilen Einheiten wird nur den Geldbeutel Werkman immer höheren Drücken!!

Yall stop Schrauben um miteinander, Apple und Mic, wir wissen, dass Sie zusammen schlafen! Und Google, Ihre Hose wieder auf!

Windows 8 werden alle diesem Schlamassel überwältigen.Darius_Molark: Endlich, und von der ikonoklastischen Posner. Sie verwirrte mit www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Darius_Molark/apple-motorola-patent-dis_n_1621066_163383840.htmlHistory Beispielheadern: / /

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Google ehrt Vater der modernen Computer mit intelligenten Code-Spiel

Google am Samstag herausgefordert suchende eines Puzzles in Hommage an was Alan Turing Hundertjahrfeier gewesen wäre.

Turing, ein brillanter britischer Mathematiker und Kryptoanalytiker, arbeitete für die britische Regierung während des zweiten Weltkriegs. Seine Arbeit Knacken von deutschen Code und Verbesserung der Technologien, die verwendet werden, dazu brachte ihm einen Auftrag des britischen Empire nach dem zweiten Weltkrieg. Nach der New York Times verändert den Turing-Beitrag "der Ausgang des Krieges da gab es den Alliierten ein Ohr in der deutschen Planung."

Unter seinen vielen anderen Leistung nach der Krieg Turing 1936, als er die Grundlagen für eine moderne EDV-Algorithmen, präsentierte zur Lösung von mathematischer Berechnungen Regeln, konnte zusammen mit einer hypothetischen "Turing-Maschine", die diese Regeln lesen.

In den 1950er Jahren Turing entwickelt einen Test zur Messung der Intelligenz der frühen Computersysteme und argumentierte, dass die Maschinen denken können. Der Turing-Test ist eine Nachahmung Spiel einem Menschen und einem Computer die Binärdaten in einem Terminal eingeben und ein Menschenrecht bestimmt, welcher Teilnehmer Mensch und Maschine ist.

Turing ", dass die Blaupause für den Bau einer Maschine, die einer Berechnung, dass tun konnte eine Person würde mark den ersten Schritt für das moderne Konzept eines Computers," nach einem Post auf der offiziellen Google-Blog geschrieben von Andrew Eland, Google Großbritanniens Direktor der Technik.

Das Turing-Leben nahm eine dramatische Wende 1952, als die britische Regierung ihn der Unsittlichkeit für Taten von Homosexualität verurteilt. Er beendete sein Leben in 1954 nach einer chemischen Kastration als Alternative zur Freiheitsstrafe.

Der britische Premierminister Gordon Brown hat eine Entschuldigung im 2009. Browns Aussage, pro CNET:

Während Herr Turing, gemäß dem Gesetz der Zeit behandelt wurde und wir können nicht die Uhr zurückgestellt, seine Behandlung natürlich völlig unfair war und ich bin froh, dass die Chance zu sagen wie tief traurig ich und wir alle sind für das, was mit ihm geschah.

Die Homepage von Google doodle Funktionen die Turing-Maschine Spiel nachempfunden. Der Benutzer muss klarstellen, dass die Gerät Anweisungen "Google" Binär. Ein nützliches YouTube-Nutzer hat ein paar Lehr-Videos, die Sie durch das Spiel sechs einfache Levels (siehe oben) führen hochgeladen und die harte sechs Ebenen (siehe unten). Lösen Sie können sie alle?

Auch auf die Huffington Post:

Blättern Sie durch die Galerie, um einige unserer Lieblings-Google-Doodles anzusehen. Slideshow laden

View the Original article

Nicht fixierbaren Computern führen die Menschheit einen gefährlichen Weg

CBSLA macht war für 45 Minuten. Steuern, Zimmer und Computern an CBS Broadcast Center noch nicht wieder auf die Luft wieder auf. 15 Stunden aus Twitter für iPhone

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Richter riecht nach unten aus Apples Ansprüche gegen rivalisierende Telefon Hersteller

Von Jessica Dye
(Reuters)-ein US-Judge am Freitag entschieden, dass Apple Inc. eine einstweilige Verfügung gegen Googles Motorola Mobilität Einheit, ein wichtiges Thema effektiv beenden, denn der Hersteller des iPhone in der Smartphone-patent-Kriege nicht nehmen.
Das Urteil kam aus dem Richter Richard Posner in Chicago Bundesgericht. Er lehnte die Streitigkeiten zwischen Apple und Motorola Mobilität mit Vorurteilen, d. h. es kann nicht refiled werden.
Das Urteil ist ein Schlag für Apple, die gehofft hatte, dass ein entscheidendes Urteil gegen Motorola helfen würde ein Vorrang auf den Smartphone-Markt gegen Android.
Ein Vertreter für Apple lehnte eine Stellungnahme ab. Motorola zurück nicht sofort Anfragen für Kommentar Freitagabend.
Motorola verklagt Apple im Oktober 2010, ein Schritt, der in der Regel ein präemptiver Angriff gegen eine drohende Klage von Apple gesehen wurde. Apple diente eine eigene Ansprüche gegen Motorola gleichen Monat.
Posner ausgestellt eine Serie von Gefängnis Bedingungen Aussagen, die fast alle Motorolas Patentansprüche gegen Apple des potenziellen Prozesses, und gleichzeitig mehr von Apples Ansprüche gegen Motorola eliminiert. Das bedeutete, dass Apple dabei mehr erhalten, die entschlossen hatte musste, die letzte Woche starten.
Apple hatte eine einstweilige Verfügung blockieren den Verkauf von Motorola-Produkten. Am Freitag schrieb Posner Entscheidung, dass "keine der Parteien hat das Recht, einen Haftbefehl".
Jede Partei hat die Option herrschenden Posner ansprechen.
(Reporting von Jessica Farbstoff und Dan Levine; Bearbeiten von Gary Hill)

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Apple eBook Antitrust Suit Trial Datumseinstellung

Von Basil Katz
NEW YORK (Reuters)-ein US-Richter am Freitag legen einen Verhandlungstermin 2013 für eine Klage wirft der amerikanischen Regierung von Apple und Buch-Verlage Verschwörung, die Preise für elektronische Bücher zu beheben.
Nach einer Anhörung im Manhattan Bundesgerichtshof sagte US Bezirk Richter Denise Cote, Probe im Fall eine Bank startet, 3. Juni 2013 für Apple und zwei Verlage die kartellrechtlichen Gebühren kämpfen.
Das Justizministerium der USA verklagt Apple im April, sagen, dass es falsch oder Absprache mit fünf Verlagen zu e-Buch-Preise im Frühjahr 2010 zu steigern, wie der Silicon Valley-Riesen den Start ihrer beliebt iPad Tablet PC war.
Amazon Inc., wodurch die Kindle e-Reader, hatte e-Bücher für so wenig wie $ 9.99 lange verkauft. Die Beschwerde der Regierung zitiert Äpfel verstorbenen Mitbegründer Steve Jobs als Mittel zur Verlage stimulieren Preisen anbieten möchten und ' ein richtiger etablierten e-Bücher-Markt am $ 12.99 und $ 14.99 ".
Apple hat verschwor sich mit jemand oder nicht feste Preise für e-Bücher in einem Versuch zu vereiteln Amazons Dominanz dieses schnell wachsenden Marktes festgelegt.
Apple sagt, dass der Ausflug in die e-Bücher eigentlich Frage für e-Bücher von zwingen Amazon und Konkurrenten, einschließlich Barnes Noble Inc., &, aggressiver, konkurrieren angetrieben hat einschließlich der Instandsetzung e-Reader-Technologie.
Die Verlage Macmillan und Penguin Group Einheiten der Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck, welche jeweils GmbH und Pearson Plc, kämpft das Kartellverfahren.
News Corp, CBS Corp Simon Schuster und HarperCollins Publishers & Lagardère SCA der Hachette Book Group besiedelt den Fall mit dem Justizministerium der Vereinigten Staaten.
Die drei Verlage zunehmend auch Siedlung Vorschlag an das Gericht durch das Ende des Sommers Ansprüche einer Gruppe von amerikanischen Staaten, Rechtsanwälte für die Buch-Unternehmen und den Staaten, sagte am Freitag zu lösen.
"Ich bin überzeugt, dass bekommen wir alle 50 Staaten und sechs Gebiete und die gemeinsame Reichtümer zu unterzeichnen" bis zur Abrechnung, sagte Gary Becker, ein stellvertretender Attorney General von Connecticut.
Der Fall ist In Re: Elektronische Bücher Kartellrecht Rechtsstreitigkeiten, US-Bezirksgericht Southern District of New York, nr. 11-2293.
(Weitere Berichterstattung von Jessica Dye; Bearbeiten von Lisa Shumaker)

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Sicherheitseinschränkungen Online: 'es ist Chaos'

eine nigerianische e-Mail Betrüger Nxthompson plaudert mit und sucht nach neuen Microsoft Forschung über Cybersicherheit: http://t.co/AtWIrwmI 23 Stunden von HootSuite zeigen weitere Ergebnisse TOP EINFLUSSNEHMER ON THIS TOPIC

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Die 9 beliebtesten viralen Videos der Woche

Wenn Sie suchen, um die beliebtesten YouTube-Videos der Woche zu sehen, suchen Sie nicht weiter.

Noch einmal, wir bringen Sie die Woche meistgesehenen Videos, heiße aus den Charts über YouTube Trends, ein Feature, das ins Leben gerufen von YouTube das Video von der Website-Statistik aggregiert und zieht sich in "die Weisheit des oberen Kuratoren überall im Web" um den Besuchern einen Blick auf Echtzeit-Trends unter der YouTube-Community bieten.

Also was ist das Web gehen wild über diese Woche? McDonalds bietet einen Blick hinter die Kulissen des Foto-Shooting auf einem Quarter Pounder, "Call Me vielleicht" bekommt einen schmutzigen Remix, eine Gruppe von Kindern belästigt gnadenlos ihre Bus-Monitor-- und vieles, vieles mehr.

Die 9 beliebtesten YouTube-Videos der Woche ansehen und über Ihre Favoriten abstimmen. Dann schauen Sie vorige Woche nimmt, hier. Für weitere Spitzenvideos sahen unsere Slideshow der am meisten YouTube Videos ab 2011.

Slideshow laden

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Online Ads That Know Who You Know

Thanks to the efficiency of Web and database technologies, even small ad outfits are able to track staggering numbers of people. 33Across, for instance, says it has its cookies installed in 1.25 billion browsers at any given time, leading the 81-person company to claim more "users" than even Facebook or Google.

Kline says 33Across purchases data about people's sharing habits from smaller social networks. She declined to name those sites, saying they don't want to be identified. Technology Review found that 33Across's technology is present on Web pages including Lockerz.com (a photo-sharing page) and the dating site OKCupid.

This year, 33Across also purchased Tynt Multimedia, known as the "copy and paste" company. Its service is used by scores of publications, including Sports Illustrated and the New Yorker. Every time a person pastes article text from those sites into an e-mail or other application, the technology appends a URL to the copied text. If anyone clicks on such a link, 33Across records a social connection to the person who sent it.

33across, like RadiumOne, says it doesn't know the identity of the people it is tracking. It never collects names, Social Security numbers, or other personally identifiable information. In fact, it treats people not as individuals but as examples of any of about 250 consumer types, like soccer moms or "heavy sharers." Individuals are assigned to one of these groups in mere instants, Kline says.

"It's 'Can I categorize you into a group that is saleable?' And if not, good-bye," says Kline. "I don't know who you are. You are just a number in an algorithm."

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Novel Power Plants Could Clean Up Coal

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Elliott Negin: Wasting Time With Nuclear Waste

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Alan W. Silberberg: Artful Social Listening

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David Sack, M.D.: Social Networks and Social Media Can Help in Recovery From Addiction

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Gil Laroya: Did the Passing of Steve Jobs Interrupt the Apple Product Cycle?

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New Facebook Feature Lets You Go Back In Time

How many times have you posted a brilliant Facebook comment, only to realize that you made a ridiculous spelling mistake?

Facebook took note of this predicament and started rolling out a new feature today, allowing users to edit their comments without deleting them. While only select groups of people can currently access this update, Facebook said in an email to The Huffington Post that the edit tool should be live for everyone within the next several days.

"We'll also be showing the editing history for a comment so that subsequent commenters or likers have the full context of the conversation," Facebook reps said. This means that while you may correct a comment, the history of the post is still preserved.

TNW is reporting that those currently with access to the edit tool have a thirty-second time limit to make a correction to a new post. If you edit after that time window closes, other users will see that the post has been edited. It's also possible to go back in your Timeline and edit older comments -- including those terrible status messages you wish you'd never posted.

"The edit option appears in the form of a small pencil icon on the right side of your comment," Mashable noted yesterday, as the update came to light. "Clicking on the pencil will bring up a drop-down menu with the option to edit your comment as well as the option to delete it entirely."

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The Cool Thing This Wedding Video And 'Prometheus' Have In Common

Two-dimensional wedding videos are so last year.

A bride and groom in Montecito, Calif. had their recent wedding filmed in 3D using a 5K RED Epic camera -- the same equipment that Peter Jackson used to film the yet-to-be-released "Hobbit" and Ridley Scott used to film "Prometheus," the Daily Mail reports.

The wedding was filmed by Golden Gate 3D director and producer Peter Chang, who calls the experience of seeing people in 3D "breathtaking."

"Their faces become real and have extraordinary volume, roundness, and weight," Chang told the Daily Mail. "The results literally speak volumes!"

The video is 3D IMAX quality, and the newlyweds will receive their video on Blue-ray 3D. Chang told the paper that wedding videography in 3D will become more common as more devices begin to support its format.

While certainly ahead of the curve, this isn't the first 3D wedding video we've heard about. An Australian couple filmed their wedding video in 3D in 2010, and another couple had their wedding recorded on the RED Epic camera in 2011 by San Diego, California-based photographer Tonaci Tran.

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Why Age Doesn't Matter When It Comes To Technology

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Fly To The Moon In A Used Soviet Spacecraft For Just $155 Million

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WATCH: Bill Maher's New Rule For People Who Text While Crossing The Street

There's a texting epidemic in this country: we're texting while driving, while crossing the street, while getting married... It's all very dangerous, and Bill Maher knows this. So how do you play fair when everyone is guilty of doing the same thing?

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Shawn Amos: WATCH: 60 Seconds of Social Media

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Gita Kashani: Open Letter to Mr. Cook and Apple

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Elliott Negin: Wasting Time With Nuclear Waste

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Alan W. Silberberg: Artful Social Listening

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David Sack, M.D.: Social Networks and Social Media Can Help in Recovery From Addiction

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Gil Laroya: Did the Passing of Steve Jobs Interrupt the Apple Product Cycle?

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New Facebook Feature Lets You Go Back In Time

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"We'll also be showing the editing history for a comment so that subsequent commenters or likers have the full context of the conversation," Facebook reps said. This means that while you may correct a comment, the history of the post is still preserved.

TNW is reporting that those currently with access to the edit tool have a thirty-second time limit to make a correction to a new post. If you edit after that time window closes, other users will see that the post has been edited. It's also possible to go back in your Timeline and edit older comments -- including those terrible status messages you wish you'd never posted.

"The edit option appears in the form of a small pencil icon on the right side of your comment," Mashable noted yesterday, as the update came to light. "Clicking on the pencil will bring up a drop-down menu with the option to edit your comment as well as the option to delete it entirely."

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The wedding was filmed by Golden Gate 3D director and producer Peter Chang, who calls the experience of seeing people in 3D "breathtaking."

"Their faces become real and have extraordinary volume, roundness, and weight," Chang told the Daily Mail. "The results literally speak volumes!"

The video is 3D IMAX quality, and the newlyweds will receive their video on Blue-ray 3D. Chang told the paper that wedding videography in 3D will become more common as more devices begin to support its format.

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Gita Kashani: Open Letter to Mr. Cook and Apple

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Ad Men and Browser Geeks Collide Over Web Protocols

The W3C began looking at the idea of Do Not Track last year after two prominent members, Mozilla and Microsoft, implemented versions of the feature in their own Web browsers. In September, the W3C convened an 80-person Tracking Protection Working Group of industry, government, and academic experts to study the question, with the aim of thrashing out a single standard by mid-2012.

That goal now appears unlikely to be met, because the working group has run into major disagreements over how the technical standard could affect the $70-billion-a-year global online advertising market.

The technology of Do Not Track is relatively simple. When a browser accesses a Web page, it could send a signal—a 1 or a 0—to indicate whether the setting is enabled. What the working group hasn't been able to agree on is precisely how the signal should change the behavior of a page and its advertising technology.

One of the biggest sticking points: what even counts as "tracking." There's general agreement that users should be able to block third-party ad companies that record browsing behavior, using that information to serve up so-called targeted ads. However, advertisers insist they must still gather data on how many people—and in some cases which people—have viewed a particular ad on a website.

Some privacy activists in the working group say that allowing such data collection could eviscerate the standard, turning it into a "Do Not Target" technology rather than a means of protection for consumers who don't want their browsing monitored at all.

The result is a conflict that is pushing the standards body well beyond the nuts and bolts of the Web into hot-button economic and policy issues. "With Do Not Track, the technology issues are the least

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The Great German Energy Experiment

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Germany has set itself up for a grand experiment that could have repercussions for all of Europe, which depends heavily on German economic strength. The country must build and use renewable energy technologies at unprecedented scales, at enormous but uncertain cost, while reducing energy use. And it must pull it all off without undercutting industry, which relies on reasonably priced, reliable power. "In a sense, the Energiewende is a political statement without a technical solution," says Stephan Reimelt, CEO of GE Energy Germany. "Germany is forcing itself toward innovation. What this generates is a large industrial laboratory at a size which has never been done before. We will have to try a lot of different technologies to get there."

The major players in the German energy industry are pursuing several strategies at once. To help replace nuclear power, they are racing to install huge wind farms far off the German coast in the North Sea; new transmission infrastructure is being planned to get the power to Germany's industrial regions. At the same time, companies such as Siemens, GE, and RWE, Germany's biggest power producer, are looking for ways to keep factories humming during lulls in wind and solar power. They are searching for cheap, large-scale forms of power storage and hoping that computers can intelligently coördinate what could be millions of distributed power sources.

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A Better Way to Get Hydrogen from Water

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Fujitsu Cracks 300,000 Year Crypto Problem in Days

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Privacy Laws Turn Europe into Economic Laboratory

Advertisers say such privacy controls would hobble investment and innovation, bolstering their argument by pointing to studies showing that Europe's privacy rules have had negative effects on technology investment and on the eurozone's

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Flukeprints and Hydraulic White Holes

e de Nice-Sophia Antipolis in France says he's solved the mystery using the results from a unique set of experiments in which he uses an artificial fluke in a tank of water to recreate the patterns. 

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Using Your Smart Phone to Mix Video Clips with Others

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App Shows Promise for Hacking Eating Behavior

Lora Burke, a professor at University of Pittsburgh's school of nursing, says that many medical researchers too, herself included, are looking to mobile technology to make a better connection between patients' lives and medical interventions into lifestyle.

Burke and colleagues recently reported results from a two-year study (dating from before the smart-phone era) in which people used a PDA to log their food intake. An app kept track of the calories they consumed and would dish out advice once a day—for example, suggesting that a user on track to exceed the day's calorie allotment should opt for nonfat salad dressing at dinner.

People who received those notifications did significantly better at limiting their calorie intake than those who didn't, says Burke (although there were no significant differences in weight loss). Her results have led her to conclusions similar to Raskin's; she believes doctors could someday prescribe use of mobile apps. "We're very good at getting people to lose weight

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The Xbox 720: Too Good to Be True?

taking a page from Google. Though the document was uploaded to the site Scribd in early May (and purports to be from August 2010), it only attracted wide notice once the Verge and other tech blogs started taking note.

First, a quick sketch of the highlights of the document (which has since been removed from Scribd at the request of a law firm that represents Microsoft). I wrote recently about what I called the almost surreal transformation of the console that I bought to play

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The U.S. Could Run on 80-Percent Renewable Electricity by 2050

Wiser says.

Demand-response programs could help, too. Using smart-grid communications, utilities could send signals to electricity consumers to reduce demand during cloudy, windless periods, in return for some sort of compensation. This could be done automatically with smart appliances—now starting to become available—that can change their operation depending on pricing signals from the utility. Utilities could also send signals to increase electricity consumption, such as by signaling electric cars to start charging.

Technical feasibility is one thing. But all sorts of practical problems could arise that could prevent renewables from producing 80 percent of U.S. electricity. Landowners often resist transmission lines; unforeseen environmental problems could arise; and the costs may deter politicians. The researchers estimate it could be done at a cost of between 2.5 to 5 cents per kilowatt hour on top of what electricity prices would have been using conventional power production. Electricity costs on average about 10 cents per kilowatt hour in the United States.

The best way to keep the costs to the low end is to invest in R&D, Wiser says. The researchers considered several variables that impact cost, including the cost and difficulty of transmission and of integrating intermittent resources. But they found that the biggest impact on cost came from different assumptions about how quickly renewable energy technology improves. Major breakthroughs aren’t needed to keep the additional cost to 2.5 cents per kilowatt hour, but if progress stagnates, the costs will be on the high end. If breakthroughs do happen, costs could be lower than 2.5 cents per kilowatt hour.

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A Camera Made from Many Produces Gigapixel Images

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Why Is Ikea Making a TV?

my friends mockingly called it). All that supposed simplicity was for naught: any time I wanted to plug in a new console, it was a production of, in fact, agonizing complexity.

Want what Ikea’s offering? Willing to put in a tiny bit of work, and perhaps save hundreds of dollars, and future aggravation? You might just do best to buy a simpler piece of furniture (from Ikea, even, if you like), a better TV, and invest in those little strips of Velcro to bundle your wires. For the time being, at least, hardware and furniture are meant to be sold separately.

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An Invisibility Cloak With An On-Off Switch

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A Map of the Whole Genome Tracks Outbreaks

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Using Your Car to Power Your House?

(and your Leaf, of course).

Or not your Leaf--yet. First, the thing is going on sale in Japan, priced at 480,000 yet (about $6,000). A government subsidy reduces the actual price by about a third, though, to roughly $4,100.

Does that sound like a good deal to you? I don’t know how high your electricity bill runs, but I know I couldn’t save anything on the order of four grand through a bit of clever energy arbitrage, not even over the course of several years. But I'm in a New York City apartment/closet. Perhaps there are households that could--but if you come from a household that blows through so much electricity as to make this economical, it's somewhat puzzling why you bought a Leaf at all.

Survivalists, doomsday-predictors, and general sky-is-falling-ists might also take heart to know they could treat their car as an auxiliary generator in the event of an asteroid strike, zombie apocalypse, and the like. Though if the grid goes down all together, that’s only going to help you for so long.

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Pharma Seeks a Drug Discovery Fix

allows you to see your idea translated from innovation into the clinic," said Coyle.

Other models of collaboration are also being discussed. Janssen Research and Development, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, recently partnered with the Boston-area venture capital group Polaris in search of early-stage biotech companies.

"We are concerned about the pool of available products and companies that will help our future growth and our patients," said Michael Elliott, entrepreneur in residence at Janssen Pharmaceuticals. "There is always pressure to fill the pipeline." But new drug targets are hard to find, and given the tenuous nature of the biotech industry, "we are concerned whether those assets will be there in the future," Elliott said.

Other pharmaceutical companies, including Merck and Sanofi, have also partnered with venture capitalists, looking for better access to early-stage research. It may be years before the results of the partnership experiments are revealed. But given pharma's problems with innovation, will the leviathan companies squash the entrepreneurial spirit they seek?

That is a potential danger, agree biotech leaders like Sean McCarthy, CEO of CytomX, a startup developing antibody therapeutics. "There is a risk that when pharma comes in, it has the potential to stunt the very innovation they need," he said.

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Jay-Z Wants To Charge Your Cell Phone

The task of searching for an outlet with which to charge a cell phone may become a thing of the past, that is, if Jay-Z has anything to say about it.

Fox News reports the hip hop star has invested in a joint venture between Duracell and Powermat to render cell phone charging cords obsolete and usher in the era of wireless charging.

Business Week recently sat down with Duracell Powermat CEO Ron Rabinowitz at Jay-Z's 40/40 Club, where he spoke about the future of phone charging.

"All those cords and chargers and all that are just likley to disappear," Rabinowitz said. "Just like today we can't imagine a phone with a cord."

Jay-Z's 40/40 club in Manhattan is among the first venues to feature the mats. Eventually, the company plans to roll them out at coffee shops, bars, airports and in cars.

Mashable tested out the technology at the 40/40 Club earlier this month after the partnership was announced, and although they were impressed with the ease and convenience of the product, they did point out some potential pitfalls like forgetting your phone at the bar, leaving your phone out among other phones that all look alike, or someone spilling a drink on it.

But Durcaell's Powermat is far from the only wireless charging technology on the market. As Mashable noted, Energizer already has a similar product.

Business Week also noted that wireless phone charging is expected to grow from a $456 million industry today to as high as $7 billion over the next five years.

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Video Game Brings Obama, Clinton, Romney To Battlefield

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Sneak Peek: Megaupload Founder's New Service

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MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom may have had most of his assets seized as part of his indictment for criminal copyright infringement in January, but that apparently hasn’t stopped him from working on his next venture. Dotcom gave a first peak at Megabox, which is supposed to become a kind of cloud music service, on Twitter Wednesday, sharing a photo of what looks like a mobile app.

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Daniel Burrus: Do You Know the Hidden Goldmine Within Your Company?

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Can Tech Push Obama Over The Top In Colorado?

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How Does The New Samsung Galaxy S3 Compare?

Android fans, rejoice! The Samsung Galaxy S3 hit shelves in the U.S. on Thursday. Well, it was supposed to.

Both AT&T and Verizon have yet to release the device, which is currently on pre-order according to the companies' websites. Sprint has released a notice saying the Galaxy S3 is out of stock. According to T-Mobile's website, the carrier still has units in stock and isn't delaying orders; however, T-Mo's selling base unit S3 devices for $279 after a $50 mail-in rebate, while the three carriers will sell the device for $199.

Reviews for the device have been largely positive, with some of the biggest praise rolling in for battery life and download speed.

Engadget found the S3 to be a strong competitor to other mobile devices, such as the iPhone and Galaxy S2. "The power- and storage-hungry Android user simply cannot go wrong with this purchase," the review reads.

Our own Jason Gilbert raved about the S3 in his recent review of the handset. "

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Suren Ramasubbu: Learning Digitally: The Case for Mobile Learning

Suren RamasubbuCo-founder, Mobicip.com

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Trouble With Twitter? You're Not The Only One

Twitter users on Thursday flocked to other social networks when a service disruption struck the microblogging site.

Twitter's site became unavailable for many users after midday (ET) on Thursday; the outage was confirmed by the Twitter Status Tumblr blog.

"Users may be experiencing issues accessing Twitter. Our engineers are currently working to resolve the issue," read an update posted around 1 p.m.

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Microsoft Planning Another New Gadget?

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp is looking at making its own smartphone to kickstart sales of its Windows mobile software, according to a Wall Street analyst who has followed the company for many years.
The talk - unconfirmed by Microsoft - comes a day after the company unveiled its latest Windows Phone 8 software, and the same week it announced an own-brand tablet, signaling a break with 37 years of focusing on software and leaving hardware manufacturing to its partners.
"Our industry sources tell us that Microsoft may be working with a contract manufacturer to develop their own handset for Windows Phone 8," wrote Nomura analyst Rick Sherlund in a note to clients on Thursday.
"It is unclear to us whether this would be a reference platform or whether this may be a go-to market Microsoft-branded handset," wrote Sherlund, who covered Microsoft for Goldman Sachs when the bank brought Microsoft public in 1986.
Microsoft did not confirm or deny the speculation. A spokesman said the company was a "big believer in our hardware partners and together we're focused on bringing Windows Phone 8 to market this year."
Windows Phone 8 is the latest version of Microsoft's mobile software, set for release in autumn. So far, the software giant has struggled to make a mark, with Windows-powered smartphones taking only 2 percent of a worldwide market dominated by Apple Inc's iPhone and devices running Google Inc's Android system.
Microsoft built its business on creating software to be used on other companies' hardware, but the success of Apple's iPhone and iPad have demonstrated that making both and integrating the two smoothly has its benefits.
Microsoft charted a new course this week by announcing two own-branded tablet PCs, although doubts remain whether that was a move to invigorate hardware makers or a genuine attempt to compete with its partners.
A similar move in phones could make sense, and the company has little to lose by trying its own handset, said another analyst, considering the strategic importance of smartphones and poor sales of Windows phones.
"Microsoft can't afford not to have phones sell. They have to find a way of selling it," said Sid Parakh, an analyst at fund firm McAdams Wright Ragen. "It's a significant piece of their long-term vision of integrated devices."
If Microsoft did make its own phone, it would be a blow for struggling Finnish handset maker Nokia, which pledged to use Windows software in its smartphones under a multi-billion dollar pact last year. If Microsoft wanted to be in the handset business, it might even consider buying Nokia, suggested Parakh, although he said that was unlikely.
Such a move would also bring Microsoft into competition with Samsung Electronics, HTC Corp and Huawei, which are slated to bring out new Windows phones later this year.
Microsoft has experimented unsuccessfully with handsets before. It bought fashionable phone designer Danger and developed a phone in-house called Kin, which was pulled off the market months after launch in 2010.
(Reporting By Bill Rigby; editing by Carol Bishopric)

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How Social Media Saved the Bullied Bus Monitor [LIVE DISCUSSION]

More than 13,000 online strangers raised over $300,000 for the bullied bus monitor Karen Klein, who was verbally abused by middle schoolers in a shocking video that went viral Tuesday.

The story of the bullied, poorly-paid, hearing-impaired grandmother of eight captured the hearts and minds (and pocketbooks) of thousands of Americans. But perhaps more important, the story typifies how democratized media and crowd-sourcing can not only keep us informed of injustice, but also can make a difference.

Ben Doernberg created a Storify that chronicled the conversations around the story on social media and featured calls to action to raise money for Karen.

One of those calls to action came from Redditor Max Sidorov who posted about the video on Reddit and created a donation page on Indiegogo to fund a vacation for Karen.

Both Ben and Burt Herman, co-founder of Storify joined us for a live discussion about the profound role social media played in this developing story.

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How Drones Can Help Save Endangered Species

Nepal plans to unleash drones to help capture and stop poaching in the country

Poaching has long contributed to the dwindling populations of endangered species worldwide.

Now, conservationists in Nepal are combating the illegal trade by using unmanned drone aircraft in an effort to protect the country's endangered tigers and rhinos from poachers, Agence France-Presse reports.

According to a statement from World Wildlife Fund Nepal, the nonprofit tested two unmanned drones earlier this month in Nepal's Chitwan National Park:

The remote-controlled Conservation Drone is equipped with cameras and GPS to help capture images and video from hard-to-reach areas in the landscape thereby serving as a remarkable conservation tool. It is two meters in width and flies at a maximum elevation of 200 meters. It can cover a distance of up to 25 kilometers within a duration of 45 minutes.

"We hope these drones will be useful in detecting poachers as they enter the parks," Dr Serge Wich, a biologist with the Anthropological Institute at the University of Zurich and one of the innovators behind the project, told the BBC.

"If they see poachers in the area, they can send out a team to catch them."

Nepal's move toward the use of remote operated aircraft reveals how conservationists are stepping up their efforts to fight the increasingly sophisticated methods of poachers pursuing endangered species.

According to Wildlife Research Conservationists, poachers are moving away from tracking animals on foot with automatic weapons and snares and instead opting for helicopters, GPS and tranquilizers.

Nepal isn't the only country to change tactics in the fight against poachers. Last month, India introduced new legislation that makes it no longer a crime for forest guards to injure or kill suspected poachers.

The estimated total world population of Indian rhinos in May 2007 was at 2,575 individuals, with a total of 378 in Nepal and 2,200 in India.

Listed as an endangered species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the animal is thought to be in demand for its horn, which is used in traditional Chinese medicine.

As for the Bengal tiger, only 155 live in Nepal. Like the Indian rhino, it's also classified as an endangered species.

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James Dyson: A Sub-Standard Solution

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Google Hopes To Save 3,000 Languages

Google launched The Endangered Language Project to preserve 3,000 languages at risk of becoming extinct.

Though more than 7,000 languages are spoken throughout the world today, researchers believe half of those will fade over the next century.

To combat that gloomy prospect, Google's official blog announced the launch of its Endangered Language Project Thursday.

According to the website, the project is an online resource to record, access, and share samples of and research on endangered languages, as well as to share advice and best practices for those working to document or strengthen languages.

While Google led the development of the site, a number of organizations will take the lead in compiling the 3,000 languages at risk of becoming extinct, notes Sci Tech Today.

Of course, Google is no stranger to foreign language, with Google Translate is offered in 57 languages and search offered in more than 40, according to Engadget.

The Globe and Mail reports that the idea first came about two years ago when a group of users approached Google for support in kicking off an endangered-language preservation project they were running on YouTube.

Check out the YouTube video of Google's Endangered Language Project above.

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Bitta Mostofi: Apple Should "Think Different" on Sanctions

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Jay-Z Wants To Charge Your Cell Phone

The task of searching for an outlet with which to charge a cell phone may become a thing of the past, that is, if Jay-Z has anything to say about it.

Fox News reports the hip hop star has invested in a joint venture between Duracell and Powermat to render cell phone charging cords obsolete and usher in the era of wireless charging.

Business Week recently sat down with Duracell Powermat CEO Ron Rabinowitz at Jay-Z's 40/40 Club, where he spoke about the future of phone charging.

"All those cords and chargers and all that are just likley to disappear," Rabinowitz said. "Just like today we can't imagine a phone with a cord."

Jay-Z's 40/40 club in Manhattan is among the first venues to feature the mats. Eventually, the company plans to roll them out at coffee shops, bars, airports and in cars.

Mashable tested out the technology at the 40/40 Club earlier this month after the partnership was announced, and although they were impressed with the ease and convenience of the product, they did point out some potential pitfalls like forgetting your phone at the bar, leaving your phone out among other phones that all look alike, or someone spilling a drink on it.

But Durcaell's Powermat is far from the only wireless charging technology on the market. As Mashable noted, Energizer already has a similar product.

Business Week also noted that wireless phone charging is expected to grow from a $456 million industry today to as high as $7 billion over the next five years.

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Video Game Brings Obama, Clinton, Romney To Battlefield

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Sneak Peek: Megaupload Founder's New Service

GigaOM:

MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom may have had most of his assets seized as part of his indictment for criminal copyright infringement in January, but that apparently hasn’t stopped him from working on his next venture. Dotcom gave a first peak at Megabox, which is supposed to become a kind of cloud music service, on Twitter Wednesday, sharing a photo of what looks like a mobile app.

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Daniel Burrus: Do You Know the Hidden Goldmine Within Your Company?

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Can Tech Push Obama Over The Top In Colorado?

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How Does The New Samsung Galaxy S3 Compare?

Android fans, rejoice! The Samsung Galaxy S3 hit shelves in the U.S. on Thursday. Well, it was supposed to.

Both AT&T and Verizon have yet to release the device, which is currently on pre-order according to the companies' websites. Sprint has released a notice saying the Galaxy S3 is out of stock. According to T-Mobile's website, the carrier still has units in stock and isn't delaying orders; however, T-Mo's selling base unit S3 devices for $279 after a $50 mail-in rebate, while the three carriers will sell the device for $199.

Reviews for the device have been largely positive, with some of the biggest praise rolling in for battery life and download speed.

Engadget found the S3 to be a strong competitor to other mobile devices, such as the iPhone and Galaxy S2. "The power- and storage-hungry Android user simply cannot go wrong with this purchase," the review reads.

Our own Jason Gilbert raved about the S3 in his recent review of the handset. "

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Suren Ramasubbu: Learning Digitally: The Case for Mobile Learning

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Trouble With Twitter? You're Not The Only One

Twitter users on Thursday flocked to other social networks when a service disruption struck the microblogging site.

Twitter's site became unavailable for many users after midday (ET) on Thursday; the outage was confirmed by the Twitter Status Tumblr blog.

"Users may be experiencing issues accessing Twitter. Our engineers are currently working to resolve the issue," read an update posted around 1 p.m.

Around 1:30 p.m., a tweet from

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Microsoft Planning Another New Gadget?

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp is looking at making its own smartphone to kickstart sales of its Windows mobile software, according to a Wall Street analyst who has followed the company for many years.
The talk - unconfirmed by Microsoft - comes a day after the company unveiled its latest Windows Phone 8 software, and the same week it announced an own-brand tablet, signaling a break with 37 years of focusing on software and leaving hardware manufacturing to its partners.
"Our industry sources tell us that Microsoft may be working with a contract manufacturer to develop their own handset for Windows Phone 8," wrote Nomura analyst Rick Sherlund in a note to clients on Thursday.
"It is unclear to us whether this would be a reference platform or whether this may be a go-to market Microsoft-branded handset," wrote Sherlund, who covered Microsoft for Goldman Sachs when the bank brought Microsoft public in 1986.
Microsoft did not confirm or deny the speculation. A spokesman said the company was a "big believer in our hardware partners and together we're focused on bringing Windows Phone 8 to market this year."
Windows Phone 8 is the latest version of Microsoft's mobile software, set for release in autumn. So far, the software giant has struggled to make a mark, with Windows-powered smartphones taking only 2 percent of a worldwide market dominated by Apple Inc's iPhone and devices running Google Inc's Android system.
Microsoft built its business on creating software to be used on other companies' hardware, but the success of Apple's iPhone and iPad have demonstrated that making both and integrating the two smoothly has its benefits.
Microsoft charted a new course this week by announcing two own-branded tablet PCs, although doubts remain whether that was a move to invigorate hardware makers or a genuine attempt to compete with its partners.
A similar move in phones could make sense, and the company has little to lose by trying its own handset, said another analyst, considering the strategic importance of smartphones and poor sales of Windows phones.
"Microsoft can't afford not to have phones sell. They have to find a way of selling it," said Sid Parakh, an analyst at fund firm McAdams Wright Ragen. "It's a significant piece of their long-term vision of integrated devices."
If Microsoft did make its own phone, it would be a blow for struggling Finnish handset maker Nokia, which pledged to use Windows software in its smartphones under a multi-billion dollar pact last year. If Microsoft wanted to be in the handset business, it might even consider buying Nokia, suggested Parakh, although he said that was unlikely.
Such a move would also bring Microsoft into competition with Samsung Electronics, HTC Corp and Huawei, which are slated to bring out new Windows phones later this year.
Microsoft has experimented unsuccessfully with handsets before. It bought fashionable phone designer Danger and developed a phone in-house called Kin, which was pulled off the market months after launch in 2010.
(Reporting By Bill Rigby; editing by Carol Bishopric)

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How Social Media Saved the Bullied Bus Monitor [LIVE DISCUSSION]

More than 13,000 online strangers raised over $300,000 for the bullied bus monitor Karen Klein, who was verbally abused by middle schoolers in a shocking video that went viral Tuesday.

The story of the bullied, poorly-paid, hearing-impaired grandmother of eight captured the hearts and minds (and pocketbooks) of thousands of Americans. But perhaps more important, the story typifies how democratized media and crowd-sourcing can not only keep us informed of injustice, but also can make a difference.

Ben Doernberg created a Storify that chronicled the conversations around the story on social media and featured calls to action to raise money for Karen.

One of those calls to action came from Redditor Max Sidorov who posted about the video on Reddit and created a donation page on Indiegogo to fund a vacation for Karen.

Both Ben and Burt Herman, co-founder of Storify joined us for a live discussion about the profound role social media played in this developing story.

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How Drones Can Help Save Endangered Species

Nepal plans to unleash drones to help capture and stop poaching in the country

Poaching has long contributed to the dwindling populations of endangered species worldwide.

Now, conservationists in Nepal are combating the illegal trade by using unmanned drone aircraft in an effort to protect the country's endangered tigers and rhinos from poachers, Agence France-Presse reports.

According to a statement from World Wildlife Fund Nepal, the nonprofit tested two unmanned drones earlier this month in Nepal's Chitwan National Park:

The remote-controlled Conservation Drone is equipped with cameras and GPS to help capture images and video from hard-to-reach areas in the landscape thereby serving as a remarkable conservation tool. It is two meters in width and flies at a maximum elevation of 200 meters. It can cover a distance of up to 25 kilometers within a duration of 45 minutes.

"We hope these drones will be useful in detecting poachers as they enter the parks," Dr Serge Wich, a biologist with the Anthropological Institute at the University of Zurich and one of the innovators behind the project, told the BBC.

"If they see poachers in the area, they can send out a team to catch them."

Nepal's move toward the use of remote operated aircraft reveals how conservationists are stepping up their efforts to fight the increasingly sophisticated methods of poachers pursuing endangered species.

According to Wildlife Research Conservationists, poachers are moving away from tracking animals on foot with automatic weapons and snares and instead opting for helicopters, GPS and tranquilizers.

Nepal isn't the only country to change tactics in the fight against poachers. Last month, India introduced new legislation that makes it no longer a crime for forest guards to injure or kill suspected poachers.

The estimated total world population of Indian rhinos in May 2007 was at 2,575 individuals, with a total of 378 in Nepal and 2,200 in India.

Listed as an endangered species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the animal is thought to be in demand for its horn, which is used in traditional Chinese medicine.

As for the Bengal tiger, only 155 live in Nepal. Like the Indian rhino, it's also classified as an endangered species.

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James Dyson: A Sub-Standard Solution

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Google Hopes To Save 3,000 Languages

Google launched The Endangered Language Project to preserve 3,000 languages at risk of becoming extinct.

Though more than 7,000 languages are spoken throughout the world today, researchers believe half of those will fade over the next century.

To combat that gloomy prospect, Google's official blog announced the launch of its Endangered Language Project Thursday.

According to the website, the project is an online resource to record, access, and share samples of and research on endangered languages, as well as to share advice and best practices for those working to document or strengthen languages.

While Google led the development of the site, a number of organizations will take the lead in compiling the 3,000 languages at risk of becoming extinct, notes Sci Tech Today.

Of course, Google is no stranger to foreign language, with Google Translate is offered in 57 languages and search offered in more than 40, according to Engadget.

The Globe and Mail reports that the idea first came about two years ago when a group of users approached Google for support in kicking off an endangered-language preservation project they were running on YouTube.

Check out the YouTube video of Google's Endangered Language Project above.

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Bitta Mostofi: Apple Should "Think Different" on Sanctions

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The Most Manipulative Use of Kinect Imaginable

 

Good thinking, Kinect!

It’s undoubtedly true that we respond differently to ads, depending on our mood. The patent application gives several examples; here’s one of the more unintentionally amusing ones:

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Quantum Cryptography Outperformed By Classical Technique

4 Days Ago06/14/2012I was with you right up until you claimed that perpetual motion machines violate the laws of thermodynamics because they are "powered by heat from the environment" which is the absolute opposite of the actual problem with perpetual motion machines. This being a basic thermodynamical concept, I had to just stop reading the article there, because that indicates you might not actually grasp what you're talking about.

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What Facebook Knows

Zuckerberg. The group Marlow runs has escaped the public attention that dogs Facebook's founders and the more headline-grabbing features of its business. Known internally as the Data Science Team, it is a kind of Bell Labs for the social-networking age. The group has 12 researchers—but is expected to double in size this year. They apply math, programming skills, and social science to mine our data for insights that they hope will advance Facebook's business and social science at large. Whereas other analysts at the company focus on information related to specific online activities, Marlow's team can swim in practically the entire ocean of personal data that Facebook maintains. Of all the people at Facebook, perhaps even including the company's leaders, these researchers have the best chance of discovering what can really be learned when so much personal information is compiled in one place.

Facebook has all this information because it has found ingenious ways to collect data as people socialize. Users fill out profiles with their age, gender, and e-mail address; some people also give additional details, such as their relationship status and mobile-phone number. A redesign last fall introduced profile pages in the form of time lines that invite people to add historical information such as places they have lived and worked. Messages and photos shared on the site are often tagged with a precise location, and in the last two years Facebook has begun to track activity elsewhere on the Internet, using an addictive invention called the "Like" button. It appears on apps and websites outside Facebook and allows people to indicate with a click that they are interested in a brand, product, or piece of digital content. Since last fall, Facebook has also been able to collect data on users' online lives beyond its borders automatically: in certain apps or websites, when users listen to a song or read a news article, the information is passed along to Facebook, even if no one clicks "Like." Within the feature's first five months, Facebook catalogued more than five billion instances of people listening to songs online. Combine that kind of information with a map of the social connections Facebook's users make on the site, and you have an incredibly rich record of their lives and interactions.

"This is the first time the world has seen this scale and quality of data about human communication," Marlow says with a characteristically serious gaze before breaking into a smile at the thought of what he can do with the data. For one thing, Marlow is confident that exploring this resource will revolutionize the scientific understanding of why people behave as they do. His team can also help Facebook influence our social behavior for its own benefit and that of its advertisers. This work may even help Facebook invent entirely new ways to make money.

Contagious Information

Marlow eschews the collegiate programmer style of Zuckerberg and many others at Facebook, wearing a dress shirt with his jeans rather than a hoodie or T-shirt. Meeting me shortly before the company's initial public offering in May, in a conference room adorned with a six-foot caricature of his boss's dog spray-painted on its glass wall, he comes across more like a young professor than a student. He might have become one had he not realized early in his career that Web companies would yield the juiciest data about human interactions.

In 2001, undertaking a PhD at MIT's Media Lab, Marlow created a site called Blogdex that automatically listed the most "contagious" information spreading on weblogs. Although it was just a research project, it soon became so popular that Marlow's servers crashed. Launched just as blogs were exploding into the popular consciousness and becoming so numerous that Web users felt overwhelmed with information, it prefigured later aggregator sites such as Digg and Reddit. But Marlow didn't build it just to help Web users track what was popular online. Blogdex was intended as a scientific instrument to uncover the social networks forming on the Web and study how they spread ideas. Marlow went on to Yahoo's research labs to study online socializing for two years. In 2007 he joined Facebook, which he considers the world's most powerful instrument for studying human society. "For the first time," Marlow says, "we have a microscope that not only lets us examine social behavior at a very fine level that we've never been able to see before but allows us to run experiments that millions of users are exposed to."

Marlow's team works with managers across Facebook to find patterns that they might make use of. For instance, they study how a new feature spreads among the social network's users. They have helped Facebook identify users you may know but haven't "friended," and recognize those you may want to designate mere "acquaintances" in order to make their updates less prominent. Yet the group is an odd fit inside a company where software engineers are rock stars who live by the mantra "Move fast and break things." Lunch with the data team has the feel of a grad-student gathering at a top school; the typical member of the group joined fresh from a PhD or junior academic position and prefers to talk about advancing social science than about Facebook as a product or company. Several members of the team have training in sociology or social psychology, while others began in computer science and started using it to study human behavior. They are free to use some of their time, and Facebook's data, to probe the basic patterns and motivations of human behavior and to publish the results in academic journals—much as Bell Labs researchers advanced both AT&T's technologies and the study of fundamental physics.

It may seem strange that an eight-year-old company without a proven business model bothers to support a team with such an academic bent, but

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