HELSINKI: Apple’s iPad will continue to dominate surging media tablet market for years, with Google playing catch-up, research firm Gartner said.
WASHINGTON: The US Justice Department approved Google’s purchase of ITA Software with stiff conditions, and left the door open to a larger probe into whether Google manipulates search results to hurt rivals.
SAN FRANCISCO: Think twice next time you get an e-mail from Chase or Citi asking you to log in to your credit card account. The bank may not have sent it.
LOS ANGELES: YouTube, the video site owned by Google, has unveiled a page highlighting live programing and said users have asked for more live streams.
HELSINKI: Growing demand for smartphones running on Google’s Android platform will help the smartphone market grow 58 percent this year and 35 percent next year, research firm Gartner said.
PALO ALTO, California: Facebook says it will share the technology behind the servers that power its massive online social network.
SAN FRANCISCO: Microsoft and Toyota said they are partnering to integrate Web services with Toyota’s vehicles.
TOKYO: Elpida Memory said it had developed a 4-gigabit DRAM chip for smart phones, joining bigger rival Samsung Electronics as the only producers of the large capacity power-saving memory chip.
HELSINKI: Sales of camera phones will grow to more than 1 billion handsets this year, helped by fast growth at the high end of the market, research firm Strategy Analytics said.
WASHINGTON: A new, ultra-fast wireless Internet network is threatening to overpower GPS signals across the US and interfere with everything from airplanes to police cars to consumer navigation devices. The problem stems from a recent government decision to let a Virginia company called LightSquared build a nationwide broadband network using airwaves next to those used for GPS. Manufacturers of GPS equipment warn that strong signals from the planned network could jam existing navigation systems.
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA mega-rover, "Curiosity's" wheels and suspension are shown at the Mars Science Laboratory, at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL in Pasadena, California, in this April 4, 2011 photo. Technicians, dressed in protective suits, have been working around the clock inside a clean room at the JPL assembling the craft, testing its science instruments, before shipping it off to Florida for launch later this year. (AP)
SHANGHAI: Baidu, China’s top search engine, will launch a licenced music search service in May, in a move to legitimize its current music search that critics say enables music piracy.
NEW YORK: A Texas judge has overturned a $625 million patent infringement award against Apple Inc, saying the jury erred in finding the maker of Mac computers used technology owned by Mirror Worlds LLC illegally.
LONDON: British software company Misys posted a seven percent rise in third-quarter revenue, helped by new products serving banks and financial markets.
SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter experienced service disruptions on Tuesday, displaying an older version of the social networking website to some users and becoming completely inaccessible to others.
SAN FRANCISCO: Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers called his company’s recent stumbles “unacceptable” and vowed to take “bold steps” to narrow Cisco’s focus.
WASHINGTON: A US federal appeals court threw out challenges to controversial Internet traffic rules adopted in December, saying the complaints were filed too early.
NEW YORK: Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, who returned this week to the company after a two-year absence, wants to make the microblogging site more approachable to the masses, he said.
CHICAGO: BlackBerry maker Research In Motion says it has bought Ontario-based startup tinyHippos, creator of Ripple, a cross-platform mobile application development and testing tool.
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It's been almost two weeks since the Nintendo 3DS launched in the US. The gaming giant claims that the 3DS had stronger day one sales than any other handheld device the company has ever brought to market. Official sales figures won't be out till April 14 at NPD.com, so for now, we'll have to take Nintendo's word on that. The 3DS gains its popularity from its offering of glasses-free 3D — possible in part due to the small screen size of the 3DS and the fact that the console isn't a multiplayer platform.
SEOUL: Profits at Samsung Electronics are set to rebound on a recovery in the memory chip market after operating profit fell to its lowest level in almost two years in the first quarter on tumbling flat screen and TV prices.
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The latest scam focused on US immigrant visas is based on one of the best phishing e-mails I’ve ever seen. Those of you who forwarded these messages to me asking for verification on whether the e-mails were real or fake, further confirmed that this well-crafted fraud is the effort of professional criminals.
Free fun is the best fun of all, so let me tell you about some new free Facebook games. If you enjoy playing Bubble Island, then get ready for even more fun with Diamond Dash (http://apps.facebook.com/diamonddash). A new Facebook game from social game developer wooga, Diamond Dash is a fast-paced arcade puzzler with simple to learn, but hard to perfect gameplay. The game gives players just 60 seconds to match as many gems as possible in a race-against-time Diamond Dash. There has been some criticism that the game imitates certain elements of Bejeweled Blitz, but it's still a nice quick break if you're in the middle of a boring task.
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MOSCOW: One of the last things Yuri last things Gagarin did before making his pioneering voyage into space 50 years ago was make sure he had enough sausage to last him on the trip back home to Moscow.
This tidbit was among more than 700 pages of once-secret material linked to the life and times of the world’s first spaceman that were released by Russia ahead of the April 12 anniversary.
