Don’t want anyone searching for you on Google+ ? No problem! Just leave your profile marked as private and Google will punt your page from the cloud after July 31st.
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Google+ to require that profiles be visible to all, will boot private profiles after July 31st
The Semantic Web is all about structuring data so that humans and computers can more easily interpret the Web and discover relevant data for a wide variety of purposes. Google , a company built on its ability to advertise based on contextual data, announced today a major acquisition in the Semantic Web space.
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Google Makes Major Semantic Web Play, Acquires Freebase Operators Metaweb
The New York Times editorial board calls for Google to show its secret sauce to the government, but fails to make its case. The money’s not in the rankings, at least not the way the Times thinks it is.
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TimesCase for Gov Regulation of Google Search is Weak
Late last month, Google News changed its design to be more personalized and the reaction was quick and seemingly unanimous – everyone wanted the old version back . Users lamented the design as hard to scan and rued the disappearance of custom sections . Today, it looks like Google has heard the cries and complaints, and changed the Google News homepage to “reflect your feedback”.
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Google Redesigns its Redesign of Google News
Earlier this year, the hot news in technology was all about who or what was going to acquire Palm. At the end of the fiasco, HP was the one who walked away victorious with Palm’s secret blueprints, acquiring the company for $1.2 billion in late April. However, word on the street is that the competition for Palm was probably greater than we thought.
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Apple May Have Put Down a Bid for Palm
A week ago, social news and bookmark site Reddit sent out a call for help to its users. While some questioned who would just give money to a website for an undefined service in return, more than 6,000 people paid to join Reddit Gold . Now, the website is saying that “‘Experts’ misunderestimate our traffic, and we don’t know why”
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Reddit Calls Out "Experts" for "Misunderestimating" Its Traffic
IDC has just released sales statistics for computer purchases in the U.S. and, as far as the top few players go, nothing much has changed. Hewlett-Packard – Dell – Personal computer – Acer – Toshiba
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HP and Dell Still Dominating U.S. PC Sales
Most people know that Intel’s Atom is a slow, low-cost processor. But does it even offer enough performance to take it beyond desktop processors nearly a decade old?
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Intel Pentium 4 Vs. Atom: A Battle Of The Generations
The rather low system requirements means that nearly everyone with a modern computer should be able to play Starcraft 2. StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty – StarCraft II – Strategy – Blizzard Entertainment – StarCraft
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The Final StarCraft II System Requirements Are…
Trying Bing can help someone in school. Bing – search – Google – Search Engines – Apple
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Would You Switch to Bing for $3 to a Good Cause?
Services for file sharing and storage often will include collaboration features. Smith Micro Software has a new cloud-based service called SendStuffNow that has at its core one major purpose.
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Smith Micro: When You Just Want To Send a File
With the introduction of 1GHz CPUs in smartphones, the devices could replace PCs in the future claims Verizon. Central processing unit – Personal computer – Smartphone – Droid – Business
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Verizon Says Smartphones Can Replace PCs
Jagex is working on Stellar Dawn, a hot sci-fi MMORPG that looks to be the next generation of browser-based MMOGs. RuneScape – Jagex – Massively multiplayer online game – Free-to-play – Games
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RuneScape Developer Working on Sci-Fi MMORPG
HP may be shelving its Android tablet project to focus on its webOS tablet. Android – WebOS – tablet – HP – Hewlett-Packard
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HP May Have Nuked its Android Tablet Plans
When you’re at the top of the heap, everybody watches you closely. Many people are sure to think you’re in the wrong.
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Google vs. World: 79 Places Google is Being Sued or Blocked (Map)
Lawyers love the recording industry. Recording Industry Association of America – Law – Copyright – Intellectual Property – Digital Millennium Copyright Act
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RIAA Paid $16M+ in Legal Fees to Collect $391K
Now I don’t have to worry about trucks running over my USB key. Finally! LaCie – LacieXtremkey – USB flash drive – Universal Serial Bus – USB
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LaCie XtremKey USB Drive is Almost Indestructible
Hackers broke into NZXT’s website and distributed an email claiming that the manufacturer was shutting down. Website – NZXT – Hacking – Ethics – Computer Science
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Hackers Nip NZXT, Distributes Damaging Emails
Unless developers have a huge bank account, developing AAA titles is apparently pointless. BioWare – Greg Zeschuk – Dragon-Age-Origins – Star Wars The Old Republic – Mass Effect
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BioWare: Developing Triple-A Titles Is Pointless
The FCC is currently accepting comments about the replacement for CableCARD and amongst the usual suspects of cable companies, consumer electronics manufactures, and industry groups is a comment by one company that stuck out — don’t worry, we’re still going to read the rest. Now obviously with the announcement of Google TV , it makes sense that Google has something to say about how 3rd parties should be able to work with cable and satellite TV providers, but there are plenty of others in the space that don’t stick their neck out for consumers. Basically Google puts its support behind the new IP video gateway solution ( nicknamed AllVid ) that TiVo and Sony originally championed , but goes on to say that the goals of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 have not been achieved and that “parties from all corners of the video space agree that the current navigation device marketplace is wholly inadequate” (hey, Google and Apple do still agree on some things )
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Google is the latest to support the FCC’s new IP video gateway
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Read more here: TinyTap App Lets Kids Create Customized iPad Books & Games
Read more: MoPub Launches A “Buy It Now” Private Marketplace For Mobile Advertisers
Continued here: Exec, The YC-Backed Mobile App For Instantly Doing Your Errands, Raises $3.3M
While the upcoming Huawei myTouch may not be the phone at their top of everyone’s want list, it did just pass through the FCC on its way to T-Mobile store shelves in the near future. The FCC filing actually provides some details surrounding/confirming the phones specs as well including a 4″ WVGA display, 1.4GHz Qualcomm MSM8255T processor, 1GB RAM, 4GB internal storage, and a microSD card slot. Pretty much all the [read full article]
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Keep your eye on Wirefly.com tomorrow as they drop a nice little deal on the HTC One S for Memorial Day weekend. Beginning tomorrow, May 25th through May 28th, Wirefly is offering an extra $25 off their HTC One S pricing for T-Mobile. So what kind of pricing are you looking at — how about $125 for new activations and qualifying upgrade customers
Developers are uniting this weekend and putting a number of awesome Android titles on sale this weekend and if you’re a mobile gamer, you should be excited. They have a number of my own personal favorites including World of Goo, Canabalt HD, Anomaly Warzone Earth HD, Great Little War Game, Fieldrunners and more.
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Read more from the original source: Kayak Teams Up With Skyhook To Bring Reliable Location Services To Its Kindle Fire App
We’re checking out IDC’s newest report for the first quarter of 2012 showing Google’s Android platform continuing it’s march toward global domination as its market-share climbs to 59%, with Apple a distant second at 23%.
Deutsche Telekom CEO Rene Obermann spoke this morning during his company’s investors call and said that a T-Mobile merger is still an option, though an outright sale is more than likely off the table.
Excerpt from: Autodesk Launches The Pen-And-Ink SketchBook Ink App for iPad
The rest is here: Big Apple Leads Millennial Q1 Device Ranks By Wide Margin: 28% For Brand, 15% For iPhone
On the heels of a Wall Street Journal report indicating Google is prepared to announce a variety of partnerships for their exclusive Nexus lineup of smartphones — comes news that these five devices will all arrive on November 5th. Remember, remember the fifth of November
Read more: Sonar Rolls Out “Here-Now” Mobile Social Network, Adds Status, Messaging, Notifications
Read more from the original source: The Verdict Is In: Google Did NOT Infringe On Oracle’s Patents
Some low-key news today as the T-Mobile Prism has already been available through the likes of Best Buy and Walmart since the beginning of May. Today does the mark the day however, that the Prism is available through T-Mobile owned retail stores as well T-Mobile.com. Interestingly enough, T-Mobile’s official press release back on May 2nd indicated the Prism would retail for $149.99 sans contract
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Go here to see the original: Rubicon Project Acquires Mobsmith To Expand Into Mobile Ads
More: Target Rolls Out Shopkick Integration Nationwide
Read the original here: McAfee: Mobile Malware Explodes, Increases 1,200% In Q1 2012
See original here: 9M Users Strong, MapMyFitness Brings Check-Ins, Advanced Google Maps Integration To Fitness Tracking
Read more here: Betaworks Acquires And Relaunches Hownow, The Semi-Anonymous Hyperlocal Social Network iPhone App
Original post: About Last Night Wants To Improve Your Nightlife By Making It Even More Social
I wish I could say that you’re preparing to watch a twelve minute walk-through of a T-Mobile branded Galaxy S III, sadly that isn’t the case. Unfortunately, we’ve yet to see any of the US branded handsets appear in the wild but, this video courtesy of Tech65.com is a great 12 minute walk-through showing off plenty of Samsung’s flagship smartphone features. At the very least, you’ll have something to do for 12 minutes ..
Original post: Clueful Scans The Apps On Your iPhone, Tells You Which Ones Are Doing Naughty Things With Your Data
Read more: Appcelerator Partners With Geoloqi To Bring Location Services To Its 1.6 Million Developers
Read the rest here: Forget Those Scraps Of Paper, SnipSnap Lets You Save And Share Coupons From Your iPhone
Here is the original post: Zimride’s Lyft Is Going To Give Uber Some Lower-Priced Competition
See original here: Quikr, India’s Spin On Craigslist, Gobbles Up $32M From Warburg Pincus, eBay & More
