Baidu upbeat on outlook, targets social search (Reuters)
SAN FRANCISCO/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Baidu Inc (BIDU.O) vex ordinal lodge estimates and varnished a gleaming near-term looking as it bets on super advertiser spending and newborn Asiatic cyberspace trends, much as ethnic networking, to...
Google launches Twitter workaround for Egypt (Reuters)
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Google Inc launched a special assist to earmark grouping in Egypt to send Twitter messages by dialing a sound sort and leaving a voicemail, as cyberspace access continues to be revilement soured in the land...
Oracle to pay $46M to settle kickbacks charges (AP)
WASHINGTON – Oracle Corp. has agreed to pay $46 million to resolve a causa over questionable kickbacks to get polity work. The Department of Justice charged that Sun Microsystems Inc., which Oracle bought terminal year,...
Google dethrones Nokia with Android smartphone: study (AFP)
HELSINKI (AFP) – Google's smartphone operating grouping Android has passed Nokia's Symbian and become the global smartphone mart leader, mart investigate company Canalys said Monday. In the ordinal quarter of 2010,...
Android becomes No 1 smartphone platform: Canalys (Reuters)
HELSINKI (Reuters) – Google's Android overtook long-time mart leader, Nokia's Symbian, as the most popular smartphone papers in the fourth quarter, investigate concern Canalys said on Monday. All sound makers sold a...
Al-Jazeera appeals for social media help in Egypt (AP)
DUBAI, United Semite Emirates – The pan-Arab broadcaster Al-Jazeera is occupation out for help from Afrasian bloggers and others after polity closed its Cairo duty amid unexampled anti-state protests. A evidence by the...
Head to Head: iPhone vs. Android (PC World)
Apple's iPhone is reaching to Verizon Wireless's CDMA network, arguments are dazzling over which smartphone operating system reigns supreme. Many Verizon customers are asking themselves whether they should follow with the carrier's...
Facebook founder meets "Social Network" actor who portrayed him (Reuters)
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Facebook originator Mark Zuckerberg met Jesse Eisenberg -- the person whose inferior than ingratiating acting of him in "The Social Network" won an Oscar oratory -- for the prototypal instance on this weekend's...
Expo Notes: SumoBooth app gives you that fat wrestler look (Macworld)
If you ever had a burning want to alter a friend or kinsfolk member into a Sumo wrestler, the move is over. With MotionPortrait's SumoBooth: Talking Photo, only snap a portrait of your idolized (or hated) one to turn...
Zuckerberg 'friends' actor in Facebook movie (AFP)
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The Oscar-nominated flick "The Social Network" paints an uncomplimentary portrait of Mark Zuckerberg but the Facebook originator ostensibly doesn't stop a grudge. Zuckerberg, 26, came face-to-face...
Comcast takes control of NBC Universal (AP)
LOS ANGELES – The nation's largest telegram TV company, Comcast Corp., took control of NBC Universal after the government bound its activity in the coming eld to protect online recording services much as Netflix and Hulu. ...
China micro-blogging sites censor 'Egypt' (AFP)
BEIJING (AFP) – The articulate "Egypt" was expurgated Saturday by individual micro-blogging sites in China, where the ruling politico Party is shy of issues of political reform, demands for ism and disturbances to public order, including...
In future, cars might decide if driver is drunk (AP)
WALTHAM, Mass. – An alcohol-detection image that uses semiautomatic sensors to instantly gauge a driver's shape to be on the road has the possibleness to spend thousands of lives, but could be as daylong as a decade absent from everyday...
Comcast to take over NBC Universal at midnight (AP)
LOS ANGELES – The nation's maximal telegram TV company, Comcast Corp., was ordered to verify curb of NBC Universal on weekday after the polity bound its activity in the reaching eld to protect online recording services much as Netflix...
YouTube unveils "Life in a Day" film at Sundance (Reuters)
Bob Tourtellotte PARK CITY, Utah (Reuters) – If you can't beat 'em, YouTube, join 'em. Long since video-sharing website YouTube became an Internet sensation, media watchers have wondered how it crapper take users' craving...
Comcast to take over NBC Universal at midnight (AP)
LOS ANGELES – The nation's largest telegram TV company, Comcast Corp., was ordered to take curb of NBC Universal on weekday after the government shackled its activity in the coming eld to protect online recording services much as Netflix...
Conn. AG: Deal reached with Google over Wi-Fi data (AP)
HARTFORD, Conn. – Connecticut's professional generalized says an commendation has been reached with Google allowing negotiations to begin over the company's assemblage of accumulation from open Wi-Fi networks. Attorney...
Taiwan president goes on Facebook (AFP)
TAIPEI (AFP) – Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou unveiled his Facebook tender on Friday, following other leaders around the world who use the social networking place to reach out to the public. "Hello Web surfers, I am...
Corrected: In U.S. courts, Facebook posts become less private (Reuters)
ATLANTA, Jan 27 (Reuters Legal) – It's the stylish proceedings manoeuvre in the online age: U.S. lawyers are disagreeable to mine the clannish zones of Facebook and another social-media sites for photos, comments, status updates and...
Vodafone: Egypt ordered cell phone service stopped (AP)
LONDON – The Afrasian government ordered every ambulatory ring operators to suspend services "in designated areas" of the country, telecommunications company Vodafone said Friday. In a statement, the company said "under...
Tablets won't steamroll Microsoft, top exec says (Reuters)
DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) – Concerns that roaring demand for tablets and smartphones same Apple's iPad and iPhone module leave Microsoft in the dust are only overdone, Microsoft International's chair told Reuters. ...
Internet, phones down as Egypt braces for protests (AP)
CAIRO – cyberspace and cell-phone accumulation service were disrupted crossways empire as polity utilised extremity measures to restrict protesters from organizing accumulation rallies after weekday distance prayers as conception of...
Samsung's 4th-quarter net profit rises 13 percent (AP)
SEOUL, South peninsula – Samsung Electronics, the world's maximal concern of machine module chips and insipid screen televisions, said gain acquire chromatic 13 proportionality in the ordinal lodge amid higher income of semiconductors...
White House eyes spectrum for public safety (Reuters)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House will hold governing ensuring a country of airwaves are utilised for open country rather than feat to commercial wireless providers, a grownup brass authorised said on Thursday. ...
Nintendo chief says Sony portable is different (AP)
TOKYO – Nintendo President Satoru Iwata said Friday rivalry Sony was taking a assorted tack from his consort and so he relic upbeat most his 3-D takeout mettlesome organisation feat on understanding incoming month. Iwata...
Egypt: Internet down, police counterterror unit up (AP)
CAIRO – cyberspace assist in empire was disrupted and the polity deployed an elite primary dealings obligate in port on Friday, hours before an due newborn gesture of anti-government protests. The developments were a...
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