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Microsoft Profit Falls Below Apple's as IPad Eats Into Sales

Bloomberg - Dina Bass - ‎1 hour ago‎
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s Windows sales slumped last quarter as the iPad crimped demand for consumer laptops, marking the first time in 20 years that the software maker reported a smaller quarterly profit than ...

Giffords, Obama add to interest in launch

Leader-Telegram - ‎13 minutes ago‎
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - On the eve of the next-to-last space shuttle launch, thousands of people streamed to the region for a chance to watch today's fiery spectacle.

Stolen info from PlayStation hack reportedly up for sale

Sydney Morning Herald - Asher Moses - ‎10 minutes ago‎
More than 77 million Sony PlayStation costumers are at the risk of identity fraud, with the theft of users' personal information, possibly including credit card details.

Android Phone Users Sue Google Over Alleged Location Tracking

BusinessWeek - Edvard Pettersson - ‎1 hour ago‎
April 29 (Bloomberg) -- Two Android phone users sued Google Inc. over claims their phones secretly recorded and stored data about their movements.

SETI Pulls the Plug on the 42-Telescope Allen Array - What's Next?

Big Think - Michio Kaku - ‎4 hours ago‎
Last Friday, donors for the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute received a letter from CEO, Tom Pierson stating that the Allen Telescope Array was being placed into a state of hibernation.

Apple's White iPhone 4 Could Affect Android Rivalry

eWeek - Nicholas Kolakowski - ‎2 hours ago‎
Apple's white iPhone 4 could change the short-term makeup of the smartphone marketplace, and allow Apple to hold its own against Google Android's device family.

Al Gore's Our Choice is now an app

USA Today - Edward C. Baig - ‎6 hours ago‎
Al Gore is bringing his climate crisis campaign to the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. On Thursday, Gore unveiled the digital iOS version of Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis, a rich interactive app that enhances ...

TomTom is sorry about a wrong turn

Kansas City Star - Scott Canon - ‎45 minutes ago‎
TomTom, the largest maker of navigation devices in Europe, has apologized for giving driving data that it gathered from customers to police.

HP starts work on $2.5B NASA contract

Computerworld - Patrick Thibodeau - ‎5 hours ago‎
Computerworld - The weak first quarter growth in gross domestic product announced by the government Wednesday was blamed, in part, by a decline in public sector spending.

Yahoo! Finds! Buyer! For! Doomed! Delicious!

Register - Richard Chirgwin - ‎Apr 27, 2011‎
YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen have found something to do with some of the $1.6 billion they made selling the service to Google, buying bookmarking service Delicious from Yahoo!

LTE Outage Irks Users, Dents Verizon's Reputation

PCWorld - Stephen Lawson - ‎5 hours ago‎
Verizon still hasn't disclosed the cause of the network outage that plagued LTE users this week, but at least one effect is clear: embarrassment.

Migrant-smuggling game rejected

Boston Globe - Hiawatha Bray - ‎36 minutes ago‎
An iPhone game that allows users to drive a truck full of immigrants through what appears to be the US-Mexican border has been rejected by Apple Inc., the software's developer said yesterday.

Study: Google to take Apple's app crown by July

CNET - Josh Lowensohn - ‎Apr 27, 2011‎
Apple frequently touts the number of applications available to iOS users, which now sits north of 350000. But that number could be in danger of coming in second place to rival Google in just a few months time.

Apple Buys iCloud.com as a Home for New Service

Technorati - Tim Grover - ‎9 hours ago‎
Apple may have taken a big step toward the impending launch of its cloud-based music service today. The California-based company is rumored to have put 4.5 million bucks on the table to purchase the URL icloud.

Sleep Can Wait. The Birds Are Angry.

New York Times - Rick Marin - ‎8 hours ago‎
Mine wouldn't have known what it was. And even if he did, it would have felt like a transgression of the respect/dignity boundary that used to separate men from boys.

Cyberespionage: US finds FBI agents in elite unit lack necessary skills

Christian Science Monitor - Mark Clayton - ‎Apr 27, 2011‎
With US increasingly vulnerable to cyberespionage, a Justice Department report finds that many agents attached to the FBI's elite cyber unit lack the skills to investigate such cases.

Motorola Mobility revenue beats

Reuters - Sinead Carew, Kenneth Li - ‎4 hours ago‎
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Motorola Mobility Inc (MMI.N) posted higher than expected quarterly revenue driven by improving smartphone sales, and said it may turn a profit in the second quarter, sending its shares up 3 percent.

Pepsi Experimenting with Social Vending Machines

PC Magazine - Hilary Scott - ‎13 hours ago‎
PepsiCo this week announced the launch of a Social Vending System, which will allow users to gift beverages to friends. The interactive, touch-screen machine lets users tap and swipe their way to buying a Cherry Pepsi, Mountain Dew, ...

Google Chrome 11 Kills Bugs, Adds Speech Input

InformationWeek - Thomas Claburn - ‎9 hours ago‎
The company paid out a record $16500 in rewards to security researchers who helped to eliminate more than two dozen bugs. By Thomas Claburn InformationWeek Google on Wednesday updated the general use version of its Chrome Web browser to version 11, ...

Hulu Plus hits Xbox Live April 29, free for a week

CNET - Jeff Bakalar - ‎9 hours ago‎
Xbox Live users can rejoice tomorrow--not just because it's still working--but because Hulu Plus will be hitting the console. Even better, the normally $7.99-a-month service will be absolutely free for an entire week thanks to a spicy ...

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