China punishes social media, websites on coup talk

BEIJING (AP) â€" China is closing a dozen websites, penalizing two popular social media sites and detaining six people for circulating rumors of a coup that rattled Beijing in the midst of its worst high-level political crisis in years.The extensive clampdown, announced late Friday by state media, underscores the authoritarian government anxieties over a public that is wired to the Internet and eager to discuss political events despite censorship and threats of punishment.A Xinhua News Agency report said Beijing police questioned and admonished an unspecified number of Internet users and detained six people not further identified. Aside from...

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Google car drives legally blind man around town

I challenge you to watch the below video and not sigh out loud. It features Steve Mahan, a man who has lost 95% of this vision sitting in Google’s self-driving car. With zero interaction from Mahan, the car rolls through suburbs, cruises onto the highway, stops by a drive-thru and takes Mahan on his errands. The video is one of the few public communications that Google has made about its self-driving car project, since announcing it back in 2010. We’ve seen a few videos peppered on the Internet, but this is the first time we’ve actually seen how a car like this can simply blend in with everyday life. ...

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Apple pledge could lead to China wage hikes

BEIJING (AP) â€" A pledge by the manufacturer of Apple iPhones and iPads to limit work hours at its factories in China could force other global corporations to hike pay for Chinese workers who produce the world consumer electronics, toys and other goods.Foxconn Technology promise comes as Beijing is pushing foreign companies to share more of their revenues with Chinese employees. It follows a report by a labor auditor hired by Apple Inc. that found Foxconn was regularly violating legal limits on overtime, with factory employees working more than 60 hours per week."I think whatever Foxconn did will have an impact, certainly, on all Chinese workers...

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United introduces Brocade to deliver HDTV and Online Viewing Services

Press Release: As the broadcast industry faces up to the challenge of delivering multiplatform content and high definition (HD) video to consumers, United â€" part of the Euro Media Group (EMG) and a full-service company providing facilities, technical and creative support for multimedia audiovisual productions â€" has turned to Brocade (Nasdaq: BRCD) to deliver an end-to-end data center networking solution based on Ethernet fabric technology and its 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) core routing platform. The new deployment will provide the performance, elasticity and resilience needed to support higher traffic volumes and daily data volumes in its video production environment that are approaching 16 terabytes. The Brocade® network will also reduce operational cost and complexity...

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Millennial Media shares double in market debut

NEW YORK (AP) â€" Shares of Millennial Media doubled in the mobile advertising company market debut Thursday, as the IPO market heats up this spring.Millennial quick ascent follows pasta maker Annie Inc. splash Wednesday. Shares jumped 89 percent in Annie debut â€" that had been the biggest opening day since jobs networking site LinkedIn Corp. went public in May 2011, closing up 109 percent in its first day of trading.Millennial, trading under the "MM" ticker symbol on the New York Stock Exchange, is one of four companies going public Thursday and 10 this week.Consumers' fast-growing demand for smartphones and tablets and appetite for the apps...

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Globally the internet is still mostly used for emails

In a recent survey conducted by research firm Ipsos on behalf of Reuters, some interesting trends were found out for global internet usage. The survey was conducted in 24 countries, including Saudi Arabia, with a total sample size of 19,216 people. The key findings were that 85% of global respondents still use the internet to send and receive emails. Saudi Arabia is an exception to this, with only 46% using the internet for emails. Meanwhile 62% use the internet for social networking around the world, with Japan showing exceptional resilience with only 35% using the net for social networking. VOIP remains...

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Nokia launches China smartphone, hopes for rebound

BEIJING (AP) â€" Struggling cellphone maker Nokia Corp. launched its first smartphone for China on Wednesday, looking to the world biggest mobile market to help drive its 1-year-old turnaround effort.Nokia said its Lumia 800C will be supported by China Telecom Ltd., one of the country three major state-owned carriers.The Finnish company, once the global industry leader, launched a corporate turnaround effort after falling behind Apple Inc. and other competitors in tapping into the popularity of smartphones.China is the world biggest mobile phone market with about 900 million accounts, and is Nokia biggest market. Nokia is one of China most...

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GFI launches VIPRE Business Antivirus 5.0 in the UAE

Press Release: GFI Software today launched GFI VIPRE Antivirus Business 5.0 and GFI VIPRE® Business Premium 5.0 in the UAE, the latest evolutions of the company’s flagship antivirus solutions. Following extensive development and the integration of many new features and enhancements based on user feedback and requests, VIPRE Business 5.0 proves that comprehensive malware protection does not have to be difficult to deploy, time-consuming to manage or a drain on system resources to be effective. “At a time when IT security in the workplace has never been more critical, our philosophy and approach to antivirus software continues to be in stark contrast to our competitors,” said John Spoor, Channel Sales Manager MEA, GFI Software. “Our focus continues to be on refining...

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Hon Hai buying 10 percent stake in Sharp

Taiwan electronics manufacturer Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. is taking a 10 percent stake in struggling Japanese rival Sharp Corp.Hon Hai, owner of the Foxconn factories in China, is a key producer of iPads and iPhones for Apple Inc., the world most valuable company.Sharp and Hon Hai will form an alliance in liquid crystal displays and other electronics sectors to cut costs. Like other Japanese electronics makers, Sharp has struggled in its flat-panel TV business and with a stronger yen.Sharp is issuing 66.9 billion yen ($806 million) of new shares for Hon Hai to buy. ...

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Rovio buys Futuremark

Rovio, the company that has developed the super popular Angry Birds announced today that it has bought Futuremark [update: not the parent company but Futuremark Games Studio, the gaming arm of software developer Futuremark]- the company reponsible for benchmarks in the PC industry such as 3DMark and PCMark (both of which are used at t-break to benchmark components and computers). Both the companys are based in Finland, however, details of the deal havent been announced. “They are an incredibly talented and experienced team, and we are thrilled to have them on board,” said Mikael Hed, Rovio Entertainment’s...

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Windows Phone Smoked!

Microsoft has a public challenge going on in the US called Smoked by Windows Phone” that puts you with your smartphone against a Microsoft employee with Windows Phone. The challenge is that if you can do tasks faster on your phone than the MS employee, then you get a Hunger Games PC (HP Folio 13 Special Edition) valued at $1,049.00. However, a recent challenger, Sahas Katta with his Galaxy Nexus, managed to win the challenge. Lady luck was smiling on Katta when his challenge was to bring up the weather of two different cities as he had two weather widgets on his home screen and no lock on the phone. The store manager where...

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Harvard emails show Zuckerberg's business side

NEW YORK (AP) â€" Emails from Mark Zuckerberg Harvard days show the dropout-turned-Facebook CEO as a young entrepreneur losing patience with a client delayed payments."I contracted out my services for money, and even though I seem to continually be providing services, I don't seem to be receiving money from you guys," he wrote on Sunday, January 25, 2004, according to court documents filed on Monday by Facebook lawyers. The deal, writes Zuckerberg, was for $18,000, plus a side project for $1,500. He was still owed $10,000. Zuckerberg founded Facebook the following month.The client, Paul Ceglia, sued Zuckerberg in 2010, claiming that a contract...

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Space Soon Angry Birds 'Fly' to Windows Phone

Once present in Apple IOS and Android handsets, confirms Rovio popular game Space Angry Birds also immediately flew to Windows Phone. This Finnish company rectify their earlier statements. Previously, Peter Vesterbacka Rovio as Head of Marketing said, need extra work in developing another game for the Microsoft operating system that is looking for that momentum. So they decided to not release a new series Angry Birds for Windows phones. "We're number one in the Windows Phone application store, but became a major effort to support it. And you really have to develop the game application again," said Vesterbacka time. This public statement was interpreted as a call to Microsoft and its partner Nokia to be more aggressive memplokamirkan itself as a serious challenger to the same level with...

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Need coffee? Make it in your car

I’m not quite sure if this classifies as ‘tech’ news, but it’s about a gadget so I’m going to run with it. Ever gone through those long drives and felt ridiculously tired? Missed your morning caffeine kick and craving the perfect roast? Well look no further – you can now grab a piping hot espresso from the comfort of your car with the Handpresso, a device that takes just a bit of water and an espresso pod to deliver your beverage. Why on earth you can’t just pull up to a Starbucks is beyond me, but if you fancy drinking espresso around the world with each sip as the bizarre video below demonstrates, then fork out the € 149.00...

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Facebook warns employers not to demand passwords

NEW YORK (AP) â€" Facebook is warning employers not to demand the passwords of job applicants, saying that it an invasion of privacy that opens companies to legal liabilities.The social networking company is also threatening legal action.An Associated Press story this week documented cases of job applicants who are being asked, at the interview table, to reveal their Facebook passwords so their prospective employers can check their backgrounds.In a post on Friday, Facebook chief privacy officer cautions that if an employer discovers that a job applicant is a member of a protected group, the employer may open itself up to claims of discrimination...

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Nokia files patent for ‘vibrating tattoo’

Today’s ‘bizarre news’ item is surely one to make you chuckle. If you think you’re already overwhelmed by notifications and sounds from your phone, prepare for another treat. It was revealed earlier today that phone giant Nokia has filed a patent for…vibrating tattoos. The tattoo would interact with your mobile phone and gently vibrate to notify you of a new email, sms, or phone call. To dismiss the alert, a user would have to simply scratch their skin. While the patent was originally filed back in 2010, it has only just been made public and has been met with plenty of amusement so far. The tattoo would be inserted under the...

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HP combines printer, PC units in turnaround effort

NEW YORK (AP) â€" Hewlett-Packard Co. is combining its printer and PC divisions as it tries to overcome dragging profits, growing competition and the lack of clear identity.The move announced Wednesday will help the company streamline its business and save money to invest in growing areas. HP, a Silicon Valley pioneer, is hoping a renewed focus on innovation will re-establish the 73-year-old company as a technology trailblazer"We have got to place a few bets where we can fundamentally change the name of the game," HP CEO Meg Whitman told shareholders Wednesday at the company annual meeting in Santa Clara, Calif. The Associated Press monitored...

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Adobe Photoshop CS6 beta available for downloading

Adobe has gone ahead and released a beta version of their super-popular photo-editing application. Moving up from SC5.5, Photoshop CS6 beta is available for downloading for free on both the Mac and the PC and brings with it a redesigned UI as well as over 65 features. New features include a new crop tool, ability to search for specific layers and auto-saving of projects in the background. We’ll publish a nads-on preview some time next week as wel get more time to play with it, but here is the official press release. First Major Release Since April 2010 Packed with New Features and Huge Performance Enhancements SAN JOSE, Calif.,...

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Hewlett-Packard to merge printing, PC divisions

NEW YORK (AP) â€" Hewlett-Packard Co. will combine its printer and PC divisions to save money, part of the technology company effort to turn around its business.The move announced Wednesday comes at a time when sales of printers and ink, once HP lifeblood, are falling as people increasingly share documents and photos online. HP, the world No. 1 maker of personal computers, is also facing declining PC sales as people turn their attention to tablet computers and smartphones.The combined unit will be led by Todd Bradley, the executive vice president of the PC group since 2005. Vyomesh Joshi, the head of the printing group, is retiring after 31...

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Adverts in free apps take a lot of battery to run

You know those naggy advertisement that pop-up below the app you are running but don’t mind it because the app is for free and you can’t/don’t want to shell out for it? Yeah, those advertisements are draining your phone’s battery more than the actual app itself. This is according to a research conducted by Purdue University’s computer scientist Abhinav Pathak, who has revealed some startling numbers to present his case. For his research, he compared apps on Android and Windows Mobile (that’s Windows Phone, we assume) with a tool called eprof to monitor the energy consumption of each. He tested apps like Angry Birds, Facebook,...

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Verizon CEO 's pay rose in 2011, despite retiring

NEW YORK (AP) â€" Despite retiring as CEO of Verizon Communications Inc. in August, Ivan Seidenberg earned more in 2011 than he did in the last two full years of work.According to an analysis of a Monday regulatory filing from the New York-based phone company, Seidenberg earned $26.4 million in 2011. That compares with the $18.1 million he earned in 2010 and the $17.5 million he received in 2009.He was CEO for seven months of 2011, and then remained as executive chairman until the end of the year.Seidenberg didn't receive a severance payment. In calculating executive compensation, The Associated Press includes salary, bonus, performance-related...

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Cisco helping to set new land speed record

At the Cisco Expo UAE 2012 event yesterday Cisco showcased the Bloodhound project, a project it is helping to support which aims to set a new land speed reecord of 1,000mph (mach 1.4) in the Hakskeen Pan Northern Cape located in South Africa. The project’s mission is to inspire future generations to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Cisco’s involvement helps to provide the video and network support that such a project needs, and they are keen to support the Bloodhound Ambassador Programme, which targets young students to understand the physics behind the project and also encourage students...

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Apple to pay dividend, start stock buybacks

NEW YORK (AP) â€" After amassing a huge cash hoard, Apple Inc. is finally acknowledging that it doesn't need all that money, saying Monday that it will start paying some of it out to shareholders in the form of a dividend and share buyback program.Investors had been expecting the announcement, driving up Apple shares 37 percent since management hinted in January that a dividend was in the works.Apple, the world's most valuable company, sits on $97.6 billion in cash and securities. For years, CEO Steve Jobs resisted calls to reward shareholders with some of that money. He used to say that the money was better used to give Apple maneuvering room,...

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The new iPad unofficially available in the UAE

The new iPad has landed in the UAE for potential buyers and surprisingly, the deals are much better for the end consumer compared to iPad 2. You can pick one up from online sites like souq.com or jadopado.com where the units start from AED 2200 onwards. I personally picked my unit up from Jadopado.com and it was delivered on the same day I ordered. The following are the prices from their website: 16GB- Wifi- AED 2349, Wi-Fi + 3G: AED 3,199 32GB- Wifi- AED 2749, Wi-Fi + 3G: AED 3,649 64GB- Wifi- AED 3149, Wi-Fi + 3G: AED 3,999 If you compare these prices to the prices in the US, you are paying a premium between...

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Solar storms join floods, terrorism as risks to UK

LONDON (AP) â€" Britain has added volcanoes and solar storms to floods, flu and terrorism on a list of threats to national security.The highest-priority risks to Britain are pandemic influenza, coastal flooding, terrorist attacks and â€" a new addition â€" volcanic eruptions in countries like Iceland, according to the recently published 2012 edition of the government's National Risk Register for Civil Emergencies."Severe space weather" poses a threat to communications systems, electronic circuits and power grids, the list said. Solar storms â€" eruptions of magnetic energy and charged particles â€" are part of the sun's normal 11-year cycle,...

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Official Google + app coming to Windows Phone

Though Google Plus may not have caught on quite as well as Google might have hoped, they’re still thoroughly supporting the platform. Now, it will be getting a Windows Phone app soon. WPCentral.com reports on the tweet of Stefan Keuchel, an official Google PR rep for Germany, which pretty much says that they’re working on a Windows Phone app for Google Plus but there’s no other details mentioned. Makes sense why Google would want to promote their service on every platform that they could and Windows Phone is a major one in itself. We’ll keep you posted....

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Leader of 'Kony' video group to focus on health

SAN DIEGO (AP) â€" Jason Russell may be the most public face of Invisible Children, the nonprofit group he co-founded to stop African war atrocities. He narrates a 30-minute video on warlord Joseph Kony that went viral on the Internet.Less than two weeks after the video's smashing success, Invisible Children is facing the prospect of carrying on without Russell â€" at least for a while. He was briefly detained by police and hospitalized after witnesses saw him running through streets in his underwear, screaming and banging his fists on the pavement.Danica Russell said late Friday that her husband "did some irrational things brought on by extreme...

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Microsoft wants you to fall in love with IE9

For the record, I’m typing this blog post on Chrome. Why? Because I’d rather eat charcoal than try to use Internet Explorer. And apparently I’m not alone in skimming over IE and using the plethora of other web browsers available for download. So in an attempt to woo people back to the world of IE, Microsoft has started a campaign called The browser you loved to hate”, where people download and try out Internet Explorer 9 and realize just how much better their web experience becomes. I’ll reserve my skepticism for another day, but in the mean time – cat video! ...

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Apple fans buy iPad on 1st day, some wait hours

Apple's latest iPad drew die-hard fans to stores in the U.S. and nine other countries Friday, many of whom lined up for hours to be among the first to buy one.The third version of the iPad went on sale there at 8 a.m. local time, with 25 other countries getting it a week later. The new model, at prices starting at $499 in the U.S., comes with a faster processor, a much sharper screen and an improved camera, though the changes aren't as big as the upgrade to the iPad 2."I don't think it's worth the price but I guess I'm a victim of society," Athena May, 21, said in Paris.About 450 people lined up outside Apple's Ginza store in downtown Tokyo....

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Sourceforge takes Anonymous-OS offline

Less that twenty-four hours since it’s upload, the now famed ‘Anonymous-OS‘ has been taken offline from SourceForge.net. In a blog post, the company clearly states that though SourceForge remains committed to making open-source projects successful, it would not allow a potential security risk to be hosted. The blog post notes that the Anonymous-OS is supposedly filled with various trojans and security risks and that …as the day progressed, various security experts have had a chance to take a look at what’s really in this distribution, and verify that it is indeed a security risk, and not merely a distribution of security-related utilities, as the project page implies.” It’s a no-brainer that SourceForge would want to keep the community risk-free and open to everyone, but...

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Trading dengan cara Pivot Point

Walau sering dibahas atau anda sering menemukan teknik Trading dengan menggunakan Pivot Point, Tidak salah jika kami menuliskannya kembali teknik trading dengan menggunakan Sistem ini. Pivot point adalah teknik yang dikembangkan oleh para pialang saham di lantai bursa, yang dapat membantu kita melihat dimana letak suatu level harga secara relatif terhadap situasi dan dinamika pasar yang terjadi sebelumnya. ***** Sesuai dengan arti katanya, pivot point berarti titik atau batas dimana suatu pergerakan harga akan berbalik arah. Dalam forex, pivot point adalah level dimana sentimen pasar berubah dari 'bullish' (naik) menjadi 'bearish' (turun)...

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Yahoo board battle may begin within the next week

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) â€" A potentially nasty battle to reshape Yahoo's board of directors will begin within the next week unless the troubled Internet company submits to the demands of a major shareholder.Third Point LLC, a hedge fund that owns a 5.8 percent stake in Yahoo, issued its ultimatum in a letter Wednesday to company CEO Scott Thompson.The letter, released in a regulatory filing, comes a month after Third Point first announced that it wanted four seats on a Yahoo board already undergoing an overhaul.The board currently consists of 11 directors, but Chairman Roy Bostock and three other members announced they will step down at Yahoo's...

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ZOTAC Announces GeForce GTX 560 SE

ZOTAC International, a global innovator of graphics cards, mainboards and mini-PCs, today announces the GeForce® GTX 560 SE. The new ZOTAC® GeForce® GTX 560 SE gives gamers a taste of stunning 1080p gaming on a budget. “1080p resolution displays and Microsoft® DirectX® 11-enabled titles are affordable and become quite popular among gamers. Our new ZOTAC® GeForce® GTX 560 SE provides an excellent value for gamers that want to get their feet wet with 1080p and DirectX® 11 gaming,” said Carsten Berger, marketing director, ZOTAC International. Packing 288 unified shaders and 1GB of video memory, the ZOTAC® GeForce®...

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NewsRight lands first customer to license news

NEW YORK (AP) â€" NewsRight, a company created by The Associated Press and other publishers to scour the Internet for unauthorized use of their content, said it has secured a licensing agreement with a company that monitors how its clients are portrayed in the media.The multiyear agreement with Moreover Technologies Inc., announced Wednesday, is the first licensing deal by NewsRight. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.Moreover, which is based in Reston, Va., will obtain the right to use content from hundreds of newspaper websites, according to NewsRight. Moreover's clients will also receive data about how stories and photos are viewed...

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