• DealBook: After Buildup, a Modest Start for Facebook
  While disappointing new investors who were betting on fast gains, Facebook had a wide winner’s circle, creating huge paper gains for scores of early insiders, hundreds of employees and some stragglers who bought stakes recently.

  

• Facebook Builds Network of Friends in Washington
  Over the last five years, Facebook employees have met with members of Congress and walked them through ways to best to use the Web site.

  

• It’s the Economy: Making Choices in the Age of Information Overload
  The Internet was supposed to make us smarter shoppers. So why should we still listen to the signals that brands send us?

  

• Microsoft opines: Vista was ‘cheesy’; three devices too many
  The evolution of Windows wasn’t alway graceful.
• Ed Felker: Dogged: How Perseverance (and Facebook) Saved 11 Puppies
  "Network" is such an overused word that it feels like it’s lost some of its meaning. But on the third night of the puppies’ saga, a network of supporters came together to collect a dog and transport her hundreds of miles to her hungry charges.
• DealBook: Facebook Shares End Day With Scant Gain
  After initially rising 11 percent on its first day, the stock closed at $38.23, just above its offering price, in heavy trading.

  

• Microsoft wins import ban on some Motorola phones
  The U.S. International Trade Commission ruled that the handset maker infringed on a Microsoft patent and blocked the import of relevant Moto phones.
• Limbaugh Defends Facebook Co-Founder
  Rush Limbaugh praised Eduardo Saverin, the Facebook co-founder who has been accused of attempting to dodge millions of dollars in taxes, for having business savvy…
• Facebook’s Newest Addition: Karma
  Shortly after markets closed on Facebook’s first day as a publicly traded company, the social network bought another startup. Social gifting service Karma announced the…
• VIDEO: Facebook shares see modest debut
  Facebook shares ended their first day of trading at $38.23, barely above the company’s initial pricing of $38.
• Mark Zuckerberg, Role Model
  Mark Zuckerberg may be the toast of Silicon Valley and Wall Street, but there’s another constituency saluting him these days: young entrepreneurs roaming the halls…
• Facebook shares see modest debut
  Facebook shares end a volatile first day of trading at $38.23, barely above the company’s initial pricing, having initially jumped more than 10%.
• Ö Case: The iPhone Case With A Built-In Cleaner
  As the iPhone continues to soar in popularity, so too does the market for iPhone cases. It’s a truly diverse market, one where you can…
• Oracle-Google: Another juror falls as impasse looms (again)
  Verdict deliberations in Oracle v. Google have been mixed up as the jury looks like it might be stuck on the question of infringement once again.
• Facebook Flop? Stock Only Up Slightly In Public Debut
  NEW YORK — It was barely a "like" and definitely not a "love" from Facebook investors as the online social network’s stock failed to live…
• ElcomSoft’s Phone Forensics Software Offers Near Real-Time Access to iCloud Backups
  Russian forensics firm ElcomSoft earlier this week announced that it has discovered a way to easily access iCloud backups of iOS devices, incorporating the functionality into its Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker software. While the Apple ID and password must be known in order to access the iCloud data, once that information has been obtained the software makes it easy for investigators to download full iCloud backups and then follow incremental backups in near real-time to track a device’s use without the knowledge of the user.
  

  ElcomSoft researchers analyzed the communication protocol connecting iPhone users with Apple iCloud, and were able to emulate the correct commands in order to retrieve the content of iOS users’ iCloud storage. It’s important to note that, unlike offline backups that may come encrypted and must be broken into (a time-consuming operation), data retrieved from iCloud is received in plain, unencrypted form . The 5GB of storage space can be retrieved in reasonable time, while receiving incremental updates is even faster.

  Obtaining a user’s Apple ID password may not always be trivial, but ElcomSoft tools can also be used to capture that information from offline backups stored in iTunes. And of course if the user disables iCloud syncing on its device or changes the Apple ID password, remote access is lost.

  ElcomSoft has been at the forefront of development of password-cracking tools, last year incorporating a tool to bypass hardware encryption included in iOS 4. Such tools are increasingly being used by law enforcement to aid their investigations as smartphones become increasingly common and collect a growing amount of information about users and their activity.

  ElcomSoft offers several levels of its software, with the most powerful versions restricted to certain governmental agencies, including law enforcement, intelligence services, and other qualified forensic organizations.

  
  

  

  

• Kaiser Permanente launches comprehensive patient app My Health Manager app for iOS
  KP recently announced the launch of its iOS health management app, available free of charge in the Apple iTunes store.
• PHOTOS: Five Most Promising Private Spacecraft Designs
  By: Mike Wall Published: 05/18/2012 02:59 PM EDT on SPACE.com The private spaceflight company SpaceX is set to launch its Dragon capsule toward the International…
• Jim Thomas: Who Owns Your Business-Related Social Media?
  There is a time bomb in your company that you had better defuse. It’s your failure to be clear about, or even consider, ownership of the business connections represented by social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

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• Wall Street Braces For Facebook Debut
  SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK, May 17 (Reuters) – Facebook Inc is set to raise up to $18.4 billion in its IPO and become the first U.S….
• Money, Connections Help The Wealthiest Snag Facebook Shares
  By Joseph A. Giannone NEW YORK (Reuters) – A lot of loyal Facebook fans and occasional investors are discovering a hard truth this week: Money…
• A Start-Up Is Gold for Facebook’s New Millionaires
  At Facebook, ground zero for the nouveau tech riche in Silicon Valley, peer pressure dictates that consumption be kept on the down low.

  

• Twitter Is Now Tracking You Around The Web
  In the interest of helping you figure out who to follow, Twitter is following you. Twitter announced Thursday that it will use information it collects…
• Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin on Steve Jobs Screenplay
  In an interview with Reuters, screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, the man behind “The Social Network” and the soon-to-be Steve Jobs screenplay disclosed the production will not be “a straightforward biography.” On Tuesday, movie studio Sony Pictures announced Sorkin will be adapting Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs, the former CEO of Apple who died at 56…
• Facebook Finds Greatest Number of Friends in America: Nielsen
  As Facebook’s global reach continues to grow, U.S. users are still far and away its largest audience, Nielsen reports. – As social
  networking behemoth Facebook prepares for its epic initial public offering, the
  analysts over at Nielsen took a look at where Facebooks user base of more than
  900 million people hangs out. Unsurprisingly, the United States was home to the
  most unique visitors to Facebook from home or w…

  

  
  

  

  

• DealBook: Long Odds on a Big Facebook Payday
  If history offers any lesson, average investors may find they face steep odds if they hope to make big money in a much-hyped stock like Facebook.

  

• Japan launches S Korea satellite
  Japan completes its first successful commercial launch of a foreign-made satellite early on Friday, marking its entry into the launch business.
• 9 Facebook Features We Used To Hate, And Some We Still Do
  Since 2004, Facebook has gone through dozens of makeovers, some — like the recent revamp that converted all profiles to the new timeline format –…
• Facebook’s first female engineer
  The social networking giant’s first female engineer
• DealBook: Facebook Raises $16 Billion in I.P.O.
  The initial public offering, priced at $38 a share, values Facebook at $104 billion, putting the social networking company on par with McDonald’s, Citigroup and Amazon.com.

  

• Steve Jobs ‘Worked Closely’ on Design of Next-Generation iPhone with Larger Display
  Bloomberg reports that Steve Jobs was intimately involved in the design work for the next-generation iPhone scheduled for release later this year, reiterating claims that the device will be a substantial change from previous designs in part because of a larger display.
  

  Apple, based in Cupertino, California, has placed orders from suppliers in Asia for screens that are bigger than the 3.5- inch size now on the smartphone, said one of the people, who asked not to be identified because the plans aren’t public. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs had worked closely on the redesigned phone before his death in October, one person said. [...]

  Apple has been working on the new device since before the current iPhone 4S model was introduced last October, said one person with knowledge of the project. Jobs, who had gone on medical leave from Apple starting last January, played a key role in developing the phone, this person said.

  Bloomberg becomes the third major publication to offer an independent report this week regarding a larger display for the next iPhone, following The Wall Street Journal and Reuters yesterday.

  
  

  

  

• Oracle v. Google jury grapples with tech terms, illness
  Jury in highly watched trial is facing some tough times over highly technical terminology and even personal illness.
• Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin Shares Some Thoughts About Steve Jobs Biopic, Woz Hired As Advisor
  Aaron Sorkin, the creative genius behind The Social Network, The West Wing, and upcoming HBO show The Newsroom was recently confirmed as the screenwriter for Sony’s upcoming movie based on Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs — though, Sorkin himself says he has a lot of work to do.

  Reuters reports that Sorkin held an interview with reporters and said he was still looking for something in Jobs’ life to hang the movie on.

  Sorkin noted that “The Social Network” saw the Facebook story through the lens of an acrimonious lawsuit that pitted CEO Mark Zuckerberg against his Harvard friends over the creation of the social media network.

  “Drama is tension versus obstacle. Someone wants something, something is standing in their way of getting it. They want the money, they want the girl, they want to get to Philadelphia – doesn’t matter … And I need to find that event and I will. I just don’t know what it is,” Sorkin said.

  He noted that it won’t be a “straight ahead biography” because a biography has a natural “cradle-to-grave structure” that is very hard to overcome.

  Sorkin also disclosed that Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has been hired as a consultant by Sony Pictures to advise the filmmakers on the technical aspects of computers and about Jobs himself.

  
  

  

  

• Senator Asks Homeland Security To Bar Facebook Co-Founder From U.S.
  WASHINGTON — A Democratic senator has asked the Obama administration to immediately bar Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin from re-entering the U.S., based on a previously…
• Facebook shares valued at $104bn
  Facebook prices its shares at $38 each ahead of one of the most eagerly anticipated share flotations in recent stock market history.
• Facebook IPO Bingo: Finally, A Way To Enjoy All The Cliches
  Facebook the world’s largest social network, is poised to write history Friday when it makes its stock market deb — Nah, just kidding. This isn’t…
• Country Sues Over Google Maps Dispute
  TEHRAN, Iran — Iran says it will sue Google over dropping the name of the Persian Gulf on Google Maps. The threat comes after the…
• Aaron Belz: Literary Twitter: @prodigalsam
  Add his position as a Christian campus minister at University of South Carolina to his wicked sense of verbal and situational irony, and Sammy Rhodes (@prodigalsam) has both the raw materials and intellectual giftedness to cultivate a Twitter following.

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• Time Warner Cable and Viacom Settle Lawsuit Over iPad Television Streaming
  Time Warner Cable and Viacom have settled their legal entanglements regarding Time Warner’s streaming of Viacom video content on its iPad app, according to the New York Times.

  The breakthrough comes as a result of a settlement between Time Warner Cable and Viacom, which owns cable channels like Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, MTV and others. For months there had been a heated dispute over whether the cable company should have access to Viacom programs through its TWCable TV app.

  On Wednesday, Viacom said that the companies had agreed “to resolve their pending litigations” and that “all of Viacom’s programming will now be available to Time Warner Cable subscribers for in-home viewing via Internet protocol-enabled devices such as iPads.”

  The companies have been fighting over streaming rights for more than a year. Time Warner argued that its existing agreements give it the right to provide video streams on any screen, rather than just the television. Viacom said the app was “unlicensed distribution of Viacom’s programming.” Viacom still has a pending lawsuit with Cablevision over its Optimum live TV app.

  Viacom’s programming will roll out on the Time Warner Cable app over the next few weeks.

  Time Warner’s app, TWC TV, is available free on the App Store for its cable customers. [Direct Link]

  
  

  

  

• Security Firm Symantec Analyzes the Profitability of the OSX.Flashback Botnet
  Security firm Symantec previously estimated that the authors of the Flashback malware that affected hundreds of thousands of Macs at its peak could have been generating up to $10,000 per day by hijacking users’ ad clicks. Further analysis from the company suggests that the developers may have only earned $14,000 over the three weeks the malware was active.

  From our analysis we have seen that, for a three-week period starting in April, the botnet displayed over 10 million ads on compromised computers but only a small percentage of users who were shown ads actually clicked them, with close to 400,000 ads being clicked. These numbers earned the attackers $14,000 in these three weeks, although it is worth mentioning that earning the money is only one part of the puzzle—actually collecting that money is another, often more difficult, job. Many PPC providers employ anti-fraud measures and affiliate-verification processes before paying. Fortunately, the attackers in this instance appear to have been unable to complete the necessary steps to be paid.

  It is estimated the actual ad-clicking component of Flashback was only installed on about 10,000 of the more than 600,000 infected machines. In other words, utilizing less than 2% of the entire botnet the attackers were able to generate $14,000 in three weeks, meaning that if the attackers were able to use the entire botnet, they could potentially have earned millions of dollars a year.

  Symantec notes that the malware developers displayed more than 10 million hijacked ads and could have delivered many more if the developers had been more successful in their attacks.

  Some security specialists have said that the Mac OS is “really vulnerable” to further infections, though these claims should perhaps be taken with a grain of salt — those security specialists make their living off vulnerabilities and it is in their best interest to promote awareness of them.

  
  

  

  

• Marshall Headphones Pitch Black Series Delivers Shock and Awe
  Today, Marshall Headphones released its “dark horse” of the company, the Pitch Black series. Among these new “black” products lies The Major and Minor. The Major symbolizes much of what makes up the Marshall Legacy; It is a powerful set of headphones designed with non-stop all day listening in mind. It comes equipped with an…
• A Facebook Co-Founder Reflects on the Path Forward
  Eduardo Saverin, who left the company after two years, has settled in Singapore and is assessing how best to manage the extraordinary wealth that will come his way in Facebook’s initial public offering.

  

• Samsung loses $10 billion market value on Apple report
  South Korean electronics giant loses $10 billion in market value — all because of a report in DigiTimes.
• Microsoft bolsters parental controls with Windows 8
  Aiming to give parents the option of keeping an eagle eye over their kid’s computer use, Microsoft revamps its parental controls in a “monitor first” approach that includes weekly reports.
• DealBook: Ahead of Facebook I.P.O., a Skeptical Madison Ave.
  Despite the overwhelming level of interest in its I.P.O., Facebook is facing fresh concerns over its ability to attract enough advertising revenue. Will the social network reach its advertising potential?

  

• VIDEO: Ad boss on Facebook’s power
  Sir Martin Sorrell explains to Rory Cellan-Jones the strengths and weaknesses of Facebook when it comes to advertising, as the company prepares to float on the stock exchange.
• Firefox gets a ‘reset’ button
  A new option in the latest Firefox beta will let you ‘reset’ Firefox without scrapping your personal data.
• Hillel Fuld: StartApp Brings Search Revenue to Mobile, Pays Out Its Millionth Dollar to Android Developers
  The oversaturated space of app monetization clearly needs some out-of-the-box thinking, and StartApp definitely brings a unique angle here.
• Eric K. Clemons: "Say It Ain’t So, Joe, Again, and Again, and Again …": A Legacy of Continued Bad Behavior at Google
  I believe, as I have believed for some time, that more active regulation of Google is warranted. Google has demonstrated that it cannot be trusted. In fairness, no one could be trusted or should be trusted with so much power.
• Andy Plesser: (Video) Most Americans Multitask on Other Screens When Watching TV, Industry Study
  Nearly two-thirds of media-savvy U.S. consumers say they used an Internet-connected device for at least a few minutes the last time they watched TV,…
• Andrew Z. Cohen: When All Our Problems Disappear
  Highly educated, thoughtful, sensitive men and women are gradually becoming more and more aware of the fact nobody seems to know how human life is supposed to be lived in this second decade of the 21st century.
• Larry Magid: Privacy Is Important But What’s Wrong With Letting People Share?
  People worry about what they choose to share on Facebook but may not even think about what they’re already sharing with corporations.
• Government to miss cookie cut-off
  Most government websites will miss the UK’s deadline for complying with EU regulations over cookies, the Cabinet Office tells the BBC.
• Fold To Unlock Concept Extremely Sharp
  Artist and designer Anton Kudin has created what I believe to be the best looking concept for a replacement of Apple’s “Slide to Unlock” feature: Fold To Unlock. As noted by Cult of Mac, it brings a Smart Cover-esque fold to the iOS homescreen. Kudin’s creation was inspired by Dribbble user, ididi’s Android concept which was based…
• Solar-Powered Implants Could Help The Blind
  For anyone who needed further evidence for the benefits of solar power: A new device being developed at Stanford University relies on solar-powered implants to…
• Sarah Lacy: Poke By Poke: How Facebook Ate Your Life, One Feature At A Time
  Former TechCrunch senior writer Jason Kincaid is just young enough to remember those days and, in the book, he explains feature-by-feature how Facebook went from something most "grown ups" said they’d never use to something nearly 1 billion people can’t live without.
• Facebook Billionaire Might Not Be Allowed Back In U.S.
  Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin might not be allowed to return to the United States. Billionaire Saverin, who ditched his U.S. citizenship ahead of Facebook’s mega…

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• The power of cool: Whatever became of Starlite?
  Two decades ago, Maurice Ward invented a fireproof substance that outperformed all known materials. Why wouldn’t he reveal its secret, asks Richard Fisher

  

• A Russian Facebook Bet Pays Off Big
  Alisher B. Usmanov’s investments in the social media giant could be worth at least $6 billion when the company goes public.

  

• G.M. to Quit Facebook Ad Campaign Worth $10 Million a Year
  The loss of $10 million in ad dollars does not represent a financial disaster for Facebook, but it is a public relations headache so close to the company’s initial stock offering this week.

  

• Aaron Sorkin Writing Steve Jobs Movie
  LOS ANGELES — Aaron Sorkin is going from Facebook to Apple. Sony Pictures officials say the Oscar-winning writer will write a screenplay based on the…
• Sina swings to loss on expenses
  Sina Corp, China’s largest internet portal and media website, posts a loss in the first three months of the year.
• Aaron Sorkin Confirmed as Screenwriter for Film Adaptation of Steve Jobs’ Biography
  Sony Pictures today announced that Aaron Sorkin will indeed serve as the screenwriter for the studio’s upcoming film adaptation of Walter Isaacson’s authorized biography of Steve Jobs. Sorkin, who is famous for his work on The West Wing, The Social Network, Moneyball, and A Few Good Men, noted late last year that he was “strongly considering” taking on the project.
  

  Commenting on the announcement, [Sony Pictures Co-Chairman Amy] Pascal said, “Steve Jobs’ story is unique: he was one of the most revolutionary and influential men not just of our time but of all time. There is no writer working in Hollywood today who is more capable of capturing such an extraordinary life for the screen than Aaron Sorkin; in his hands, we’re confident that the film will be everything that Jobs himself was: captivating, entertaining, and polarizing.”

  Casting for the film has yet to be determined, but rumors have suggested that George Clooney and Noah Wyle may be in the running for the role of Jobs. Wyle portrayed Jobs in the 1999 made-for-TV film The Pirates of Silicon Valley, which focused on the early days of Jobs and Bill Gates.

  The project is a completely separate effort from an independent film about Jobs that has Ashton Kutcher starring in the lead role. Just last week, Kutcher was spotted wearing Jobs’ trademark wardrobe en route to the film’s set, where filming is currently underway while Kutcher is on a break from his television show Two and a Half Men.

  
  

  

  

• Facebook’s IPO Could Generate Billions For California
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Facebook’s public stock offering this week is projected to generate between $1.6 billion and $2.1 billion through mid-2013 for California’s budget as…
• Is Anyone Clicking On Facebook’s Ads?
  NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook’s reach is wide but not deep. Few users surveyed in an Associated Press-CNBC poll say they click on the site’s…
• Thomas Kruczek: How Peter Diamandis Left Me Feeling Better About the World’s Future
  I still know that there are problems with the global economy, that America’s unemployment is still high, and that the housing market is still unsettled. Despite these facts, I feel better, because I’ve just spent the last 24 hours with Dr. Peter Diamandis.
• Facebook Reportedly Expands IPO Size
  By Olivia Oran and Alexei Oreskovic NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc will increase the size of its initial public offering by 25 percent,…
• The Best Business Signs (Submit Your Favorites!)
  A sign can make or break your business. Size, design and wording can be the deciding factor as to whether a new customer walks through…
• Flipboard starts making noise
  Flipboard starts making noise in world of mobile apps
• Tim Cook Meets With Speaker of the House John Boehner
  
  
  Tim Cook met with Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) today. It is unknown what the topic of discussion was, but it’s possible that Cook was lobbying Boehner to pass a tax holiday that would allow Apple and other companies with large overseas tax holdings to bring back their earnings at a lower corporate tax rate.

  
  
  As of its most recent earnings call, Apple held $74 billion of its $110 billion in cash and marketable securities offshore.

  
  

  

  

• Nvidia accelerates gaming in the cloud
  The GPU company is putting some serious horsepower in the data center to power gaming on the go.
• Honda Shows Off UNI-CUB Unicycle
  Honda unveiled an updated version of a robotic unicycle which it said could revolutionize travel for people with disabilities. The UNI-CUB uses what Honda calls…
• Andy Plesser: Branded Sponsorship with Stephen Colbert Drives Social Buzz for Wheat Thins
  Stephen Colbert’s on-air routine taking Wheat Thins and its advertising memo to task in a branded sponsorship earlier this year was deliberate, says Amanda…
• Airline Lifts Ban On In-Flight Cellphone Calls
  NEW YORK — The phrase "Can you hear me now" has entered the jet age. Passengers on certain Virgin Atlantic flights are now able to…
• Jared Gutstadt: Tips From the Rock ‘n’ Roll CEO #2: Be a Punk, Start a Company (And Wear a Hoodie While You’re At It)
  By the ’70s, rock had become a bloated mass with few points of entry. That paradigm was smashed by punks like the Clash, who, armed with talent, bypassed the existing machine. Visionary CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg have done the same.
• Oracle could end up with nothing in its Java suit, judge warns
  Oracle makes a last-stand effort on trying for infringer’s profits, but possibly reopens the door for accepting statutory damages.

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• In Pictures: UK top engineering award
  Three finalists fight for UK’s top engineering award: a multinational car firm, a small flood consultancy and a high-tech camera manufacturer
• Twitter vows to ‘protect’ users
  As it marks its first year operating in the UK, Twitter tells the BBC it is to work more closely with government and other policymakers.
• ‘Bones’ Finale: All The Evidence Points To Brennan
  It’s a good thing "Bones" (Mon., 8 p.m. ET on Fox) has already secured its same time slot on Fox’s Fall 2012 schedule. There is…
• What kind of heat is the future 15-inch MacBook packing?
  What does Apple have planned for the new 15-inch MacBook? Oh, the possibilities.
• Facebook Needs to Turn Data Trove Into Investor Gold
  As the company goes public, it has to figure out how to use its vault of information to enrich its shareholders.

  

• Chairman of Best Buy, Richard Schulze, to Step Down
  The company’s audit committee said Richard Schulze, also the chain’s founder, failed to report an inappropriate relationship between the former chief executive and an employee.

  

• Increase in Customer Base Helps Groupon Narrow Loss
  The company’s revenue surpassed Wall Street’s expectations and Groupon’s stock rose nearly 18 percent in after-hours trading.

  

• Retina Displays Also Coming to Next-Generation iMac?
  As part of ABC News‘ roundup of the latest MacBook Pro rumors, Joanna Stern claims that not only the MacBook Pro family but also the iMac line is set to gain ultra high-resolution “Retina” displays.
  

  The laptop will see the introduction of the “Mac Retina Display,” which is said to have a very high resolution. ABC News has similarly heard from its own sources that both the next MacBook Pro and the iMac would be getting very, very high resolution displays. Apple refreshed its new iPad with a Retina Display in March.

  The MacBook Pro has long been the focus of the Retina or HiDPI display rumors, but it seems natural that Apple would want to move all of its displays to the standard. What is unclear, however, is just how Apple will implement the increased resolution given that most Macs already approach Retina resolution at typical viewing distances.

  Many have assumed that Apple will follow the model used in the iPhone and iPad, doubling the resolution in each dimension with a screen carrying four times the pixels of its predecessor. That specific suggestion has already been made in regards to a rumored 15-inch MacBook Pro with 2880×1800 display compared to the 1440×900 display in the current model.

  But as screen sizes get even larger, quadrupling the number of pixels starts to bump up against the hardware capabilities of graphics chips and display interface standards. While a 17-inch MacBook Pro coming in at a Retina resolution of 3840×2400 might be possible, the more significant issues surface with the iMac, which is also gaining higher-resolution displays according to today’s report.

  The 21.5-inch iMac would see a pixel count in the range of the 17-inch MacBook Pro as its 1920×1080 resolution would be bumped to 3840×2160, but the 27-inch iMac would move from its current resolution of 2560×1440 to a monster Retina display at 5120×2880. The same panel could also be used in a revised Apple Thunderbolt Display should hardware be able to support the resolution.

  
  
  Consequently, some have suggested that Apple would increase display resolution on its Mac lines by a smaller amount than seen on iOS devices, with current variation in pixel density among Mac models already introducing some flexibility in interface element sizes. But with most Mac models offering pixel densities in the range of 100-130 pixels per inch (ppi), moving to a somewhat higher density such as 160-170 ppi to qualify as a Retina display still imposes some difficulties for developers and users.

  While user interface elements do vary in physical size depending on the machine they are displayed on, they are designed to be usable in the typical range of 100-130 ppi. Moving to something in the range of 160-170 ppi, for example, could result in user interface elements becoming too small for users to click on with ease unless applications are specifically updated with new elements designed for that pixel density range. Otherwise, elements could be scaled to approximate the physical size seen on lower-resolution displays, but this scaling would undoubtedly degrade image quality.

  David Barnard has argued that Apple could still use the pixel doubling motif on larger Mac displays without necessarily having to quadruple the number of actual pixels if users would be willing to accept a smaller workspace than seen on current machines. In one example, Barnard describes how rather than moving the current 2560×1440 27-inch iMac all the way to 5120×2880, Apple could instead offer a display at 3840×2400 that would present itself with a Retina workspace of 1920×1200.
  

  Apple could build a 3840 by 2400 pixel 27-inch screen that presented itself as a pixel doubled 1920 by 1200 pixel display. That’s effectively an 84ppi screen @1X and 168ppi screen @2X. [...]

  What you should notice is that the text and UI elements are physically smaller on the current 109ppi iMac than they’d be on the hypothetical 84/168ppi 27-inch iMac. This may be frustrating to some users, but I actually prefer my old 94ppi 24-inch Cinema Display to any of Apple’s higher PPI displays. I like that the system default 12pt text is larger. The sacrifice is in the usable workspace, and that’s a matter of taste.

  So while Apple appears to face some challenges in bringing its Retina display concept to the Mac, the company seems to be committed to making the transition. It simply remains to be seen how the company will implement the move, hardware rumors and hints within OS X Lion and Mountain Lion are certainly pointing toward Retina Mac displays sooner rather than later.

  
  

  

  

• AMD unveils Trinity processors
  AMD unveils its latest PC chip boasting more graphics power than Intel’s Ivy Bridge and new ‘energy recycling’ tech.
• More Reports of NVIDIA Graphics Chips in Next-Generation MacBook Pro
  As long ago as last November, SemiAccurate claimed that Apple would be switching back to NVIDIA from AMD for the graphics chips in the next-generation MacBook Pro. With MacBook Pro rumors flooding out today, that claim is gathering renewed momentum from several sources.

  In its roundup of the latest MacBook Pro rumors, ABC News specifically claims that Apple will be using NVIDIA graphics chips in the new MacBook Pro reportedly set for introduction at next month’s Worldwide Developers Conference.
  

  The new laptops are expected to be powered by Intel’s latest processors, called Ivy Bridge. Those processors will be faster than the current generation of Intel processors and improve graphics. However, the laptops will also get a graphics boost from Nvidia’s latest graphics, the GeForce GT 650M card. ABC News has heard the same from its sources, which say Apple will move from AMD to Nvidia graphics chips in this version of the MacBook Pro.

  The Verge offers similar claims, with the growing reports suggesting that the switch from AMD to NVIDIA may indeed be taking place.
  

  Apple’s updated MacBook Pro rumored to arrive this summer will feature Nvidia graphics alongside Intel’s Ivy Bridge processors, a switch from the AMD GPUs in the current models. The news comes to us directly from a trusted source, and it’s further corroborated by Joanna Stern at ABC News, whose sources also tell her that the new machines will indeed feature high resolution Retina Displays.

  Apple has moved back and forth between NVIDIA and AMD several times over the years, taking advantage of whichever graphics chip firm is offering the better product with the right pricing and timing. Consequently, a shift to NVIDIA should not be taken as an indication that it is a long-term decision, although Apple has been rumored to be making a similar move for the Mac Pro.

  
  

  

  

• Facebook Raises The Bar
  NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO, May 14 (Reuters) – Facebook Inc has raised the price range on its initial public offering to $34 to $38 a share…
• Loss widens at ‘China’s Facebook’
  Renren, known as China’s Facebook, reports wider losses for the first three months of the year because of weak advertising revenues.
• Robot can scent online activity
  A web-connected robot that emits a puff of perfume is helping people gauge how connected they are online.
• 25 San Francisco Bars To Install ‘Creepy’ Facial Detection Cameras
  This article comes to us courtesy of SF Weekly’s The Snitch. By Erin Sherbert Last year, San Franciscans were pretty freaked out when they learned…
• Evan Ross Katz: Xtra, Xtra: The Grindr Chronicles
  Hunky goodness is (really) great and all, but the problem for me became the heartbreak. "NSA" means "No Strings Attached," and not the Mila Portman/Ashton Timberlake film but the reality that this encounter will never happen again.
• VIDEO: Philippines call centre success
  The Philippines has recently overtaken India as the country with the most call centre workers – and it is due in no small part to technology.
• Megaupload Founder’s Wife: Return My Property
  What do a $157,000 Mercedes-Benz, a Chanel diamond watch and a Christian Colin sculpture have in common? According to the New Zealand Herald, they were…
• VigiVU: an app to increase the efficiency of anesthesiologists in the OR
  The efficiency of anesthesiologists in the OR is always something that hospitals are looking into. In response to this need, researchers at Vanderbilt University recently reported the creation and successful implementation of a medical app that can be used to increase their situational awareness of patients. Their implementation of the app focused on its use by anesthesiologists, but the app could be replicated in concept to meet the needs of other health professionals
• RxDrop app helps find a nearby prescription drug disposal center
  Highlighting a CDC Report, which states that prescription drug abuse results in one death every 19 minutes, the American Medicine Chest Challenge (AMCC) has launched an app to encourage safe disposal of prescription drugs and thus lower this risk by removing unused prescription drugs from the home.

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• Facebook’s Direction May Be Foretold by Its Shopping List
  Because Facebook tends to be tight-lipped about its plans, the company’s string of acquisitions may reveal a lot about the course it is charting.

  

• VIDEO: Guide to developing mobile games
  With mobile gaming becoming an increasingly lucrative sector, young entrepreneurs are focusing their attentions on this growing industry.
• Unreleased 2012 MacBook Pro and iMac Models Showing Up in Benchmarks
  As noted in our forums, two new benchmark results appearing in Geekbench’s database within the past few days are sparking discussion about imminent upgrades to Apple’s MacBook Pro and iMac lines.

  The first item of interest is a MacBookPro9,1 entry, which would correspond to an unreleased MacBook Pro model of unknown size coming as a successor to the current MacBookPro8,x line. While such results can be faked, the result in question is consistent with what is known or assumed about the forthcoming models.

  This new MacBook Pro is listed as carrying an Intel Ivy Bridge Core i7-3820QM quad-core processor running at 2.7 GHz. That processor has long been viewed as the natural successor to Apple’s current offerings in high-end 15-inch and 17-inch MacBook Pro models. With the i7-3820QM being a 45-watt chip, it is extremely unlikely that Apple would be using it in a new 13-inch MacBook Pro model.

  
  
  The unreleased system carries a benchmark of 12,262, compared to scores in the range of 10,500 for the corresponding current MacBook Pro processor, the Core i7-2860QM.

  The motherboard identifier included with the new entry corresponds to one of several unreleased Mac configurations identified in the first OS X Mountain Lion developer preview back in February. In addition, the Geekbench result lists the test machine as running OS X Mountain Lion build 10A211, which would be newer than the 12A193i build seeded to developers on May 2.

  On the iMac side is a new iMac13,2 entry, which would appear to correspond to a new 27-inch iMac model. The machine is listed as running an Intel Ivy Bridge Core i7-3770 quad-core processor running at 3.4 GHz, which would correspond to a relatively high-end option in a new model. The system carries a benchmark of 12,183, only slightly higher than typical scores in the range of 11,500 for current iMac models using the top-of-the-line Core i7-2600 processor.

  
  
  Like the MacBookPro9,1, this iMac13,1 carries a motherboard identifier first seen in the initial OS X Mountain Lion developer preview back in February. The machine used for benchmarking is listed as running build 10A2040 of OS X Mountain Lion, and while a four-digit suffix on the build number is somewhat unusual for OS X, such patterns have been observed in special builds in the past.

  Such pre-mature benchmarks have shown up in Geekbench’s database prior to new hardware launches from Apple in the past. Consequently, it is feasible that these results do represent genuine machines due for launch in the near future.

  
  

  

  

• DealBook: Yahoo’s Chief to Leave as Company Strikes a Deal With Hedge Fund
  Yahoo’s embattled chief executive, Scott Thompson, will leave his post after a controversy over his embellished academic credentials. Yahoo also reached an agreement with Third Point’s Daniel S. Loeb to end the hedge fund manager’s proxy fight.

  

• WATCH: Space Shuttle Enterprise Separated From 747 Carrier Plane
  – The space shuttle Enterprise has been separated from the NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier at John F. Kennedy International Airport, just weeks after flying…
• In-flight internet to take off?
  Using satellites to provide planes with fast reliable wi-fi
• Intel Windows 8 tablets to hit retail stores in November
  Windows 8 should available by November when Intel-based devices hit retail stores.
• Change.org targets UK petitions
  The campaign site Change.org is localising its service to help publicise UK-based campaigns.
• Shira Lazar: How Jermaine Dupri Is Connecting With Fans Online 24/7
  I recently sat down down with Grammy-award winning writer and producer Jermaine Dupri and talked with him about his social network, Global 14, engaging fans, finding new talent, and what the future holds for the music industry.
• Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, at a Turning Point
  Facebook’s founder and 28-year-old C.E.O. will soon face the unfamiliar landscape of running a public company, monitored by a merciless stock market.

  

• Watch The 9 Most Popular Viral Videos Of The Week
  If you’re looking to see the most popular YouTube videos of the week, look no further. Once again, we’re bringing you the week’s most-watched videos,…
• Yahoo CEO Thompson quits his post
  Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson has stepped down, the company confirms, amid accusations a fake computer science degree was included on his CV.
• Yahoo Boss Steps Down After He Lied On His CV
  Yahoo chief executive Scott Thompson is to step down after it was revealed he had lied on his CV. The controversy came to light more…
• ‘Solar panel’ eye implant promises sight without wires
  Tiny panels implanted in the eye could restore vision to the blind without the need for external power sources

  

• CONFIRMED: Yahoo CEO Out After Just 4 Months
  UPDATE: Yahoo confirmed in a Sunday afternoon press release that CEO Scott Thompson will step down, effective immediately. As AllThingsD predicted earlier, the company’s board…
• Bianca Bosker: Don’t Search, Just Absorb: The Dawn Of The Couch Potato Web
  A world where we’re surrounded by alerts — everywhere, anyplace, anytime — suggesting ideas for what we might want to do or buy next. Sure sounds a lot like advertising, doesn’t it?
• WATCH: Meet Touchy, The Human Camera
  According to Eric Siu, we humans have lost our touch. Touchy, a "phenomenological social interaction experiment" developed by the Hong Kong-based new media artist is…
• Post Office Bans Shipment Of iPads To Troops Overseas
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Postal Service is banning international shipments of electronics with lithium batteries such as smartphones, laptops and iPads, citing the risk…
• WATCH: Google Celebrates Mother’s Day
  Google on May 13 once again made over its homepage logo, this time in celebration of Mother’s Day. The interactive doodle begins with a lone…

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• Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, at a Turning Point
  Facebook’s founder will soon face the unfamiliar landscape of running a public company, monitored by a merciless stock market.

  

• ‘iPhone 5′ Headphone Jack and Earpiece Component Surfaces
  Part leaks from the next-generation iPhone are beginning to ramp up, with component vendor SW-BOX.com having recently added a new headphone jack/earpiece/Wi-Fi cable part claimed to be from the device (via Cydia Blog). The new part joins a claimed micro-SIM tray that surfaced on the site several weeks ago and home buttons that appeared on several sites late last month.

  
  
  If the new part is indeed legitimate, it does represent a significant departure from the component organization in the current iPhone. In the iPhone 4 and 4S, the headphone jack, volume buttons, and mute switch are grouped together on a single component, while this new part associates the headphone jack with the earpiece speaker and Wi-Fi cabling.

  It is not terribly unusual for Apple to tweak the organization of components, and the new part leak offers essentially no information on any potential changes to the device’s form factor, but with part leaks beginning to accelerate it may not be long before more substantial parts begin showing up.

  
  

  

  

• Ashton Kutcher Spotted Wearing Steve Jobs’ Trademark Wardrobe [Mac Blog]
  The casting of Ashton Kutcher in the role of Steve Jobs in an upcoming independent film focusing on the Apple co-founder’s life has certainly generated a significant amount of attention for the project, despite the fact that the film is a completely separate effort from the high-profile planned Sony Pictures film to be based on Walter Isaacson’s authorized biography of Jobs.

  
  
  With filming on the indie film starring Kutcher having already begun with the star on break from his work on the TV show Two and a Half Men, TMZ shares a few photos of Kutcher seen wearing Jobs’ trademark outfit of a black turtleneck, jeans, and sneakers. The photos were reportedly taken on Friday while Kutcher was walking to the set of the film.

  
  
  Kutcher has been said by some to bear an uncanny resemblance to a young Steve Jobs, particularly with having adopted a close copy of Jobs’ hairstyle and facial hair from those days. Jobs did not adopt his trademark wardrobe until a number of years later, but Kutcher is clearly taking on that aspect of Jobs’ identity for the role as well.

  
  

  

  

• Prototype: An I.B.M. Computer Program Rewards Healthy Diets
  A computer program developed at I.B.M. uses game techniques and psychology to influence dieting: eat a salad, for example, and you could win 50 cents.

  

• What Facebook’s America-Ditching Co-Founder Owes America
  When Eduardo Saverin was 13, his family discovered that his name had turned up on a list of victims to be kidnapped by Brazilian gangs….
• Apple Interested In Acquiring German Television Maker Loewe?
  Apple is in talks to acquire German luxury television manufacturer Loewe, according to an unconfirmed report from AppleInsider. The site claims Apple has offered €87.3 million for the company, a 48% premium from Loewe’s Friday close on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
  
  

  Word of the negotiations was exclusively revealed to AppleInsider, and although the offer has yet to be accepted, a source claims that Loewe “has been advised by its financial advisor to accept the offer and a final decision is scheduled to be announced internally before 18 May 2012.”

  Loewe makes sleek, minimalist televisions that would seem to fit well with Jony Ive’s product designs. The company also makes speaker systems, including the AirPlay-compatible AirSpeaker, as well as a sleek app that controls the Loewe television set via an iPad.

  Loewe’s largest shareholder is Sharp, the same company that has been rumored to be Apple’s choice to work with Foxconn to build a television set. Foxconn and Sharp announced a partnership to work together in March. AppleInsider says a decision on the acquisition will be announced internally by the end of this week.

  
  

  

  

• App City: Taxi Rides Are Getting Smarter by the App
  The most ambitious projects are smartphone apps that book and pay for taxi cabs directly.

  

• Digital Domain: On Nextdoor.com, Social Networks for Neighbors
  Nextdoor.com provides social networks for neighborhoods, offering members a chance to exchange ideas and recommendations with those who live nearby.

  

• Poll: Windows 8 or Windows RT device?
  Which upcoming Windows device seems more appealing? One running on Windows 8 or one on Windows RT?
• William Bradley: Nuclear’s Once Bright and Shiny Future Blinks Out
  Where, outside of Iran, will new nuclear power plants be contemplated? Wherever that may be, it looks to be increasingly few and far between.
• Apple Co-Founder Admits He Doesn’t Have Broadband At Home
  Steve Wozniak shocked a business forum in Australia recently when he revealed his house in California doesn’t have broadband, according to the website News.com.au. Although…
• Queen Is Bringing Freddie Mercury Back On Stage
  Queen is getting into the digital resurrection game, but the band insists it won’t be using a hologram to bring Freddie Mercury back on stage….
• Inside The World’s First Underwater Hotel
  By Karissa Rosenfield Click here for the original article. Courtesy of Deep Ocean Technology Dubai shipbuilder Drydocks World has signed on with Switzerland’s BIG InvestConsult,…
• Acoustic graphene could act as a sonic cloak
  The amazing electrical properties of graphene have inspired the creation of a perspex material with remarkable sound-channelling characteristics

  

• Whatever happened to carbon capture?
  Carbon capture battles money, politics and technology

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• Bits Blog: A Facebook Founder Renounces His U.S. Citizenship
  Unfriending the I.R.S.? A Facebook co-founder decamps to tax-friendlier shores, but Eduardo Saverin’s spokesman says it isn’t about the money. When you are investing in lots of countries, apparently, it’s better in Singapore.

  

• Bits Blog: Why Is Everyone Focused on Zuckerberg’s Hoodie?
  Over the last two days, there has been a great deal of mud-slinging and hand-wringing about the significance of what Mark Zuckerberg, 27, the chief of executive of Facebook, wore when he went courting would-be investors in New York. Why the fascination and why did some take offense?

  

• Intel to investors: Now we’re serious about smartphones
  Intel says it’s ready to apply its considerable development and manufacturing resources to smartphones. What took it so long?
• Wargaming a fight against hackers
  Training the next generation of digital defenders
• Andreas Bernström: 5 Great Last-Minute Mother’s Day Gifts for Your Tech-Savvy Mom
  So while Mom will always appreciate a card and a lovely spring bouquet on Mother’s Day, it’s a safe bet that she’s just as eager to get her hands on the hottest new tech gadgets as you are.
• New iPhone Rumors Reiterate Claims of Smaller Dock Connector, No Change to Screen Aspect Ratio
  Apple is planning on implementing a new, smaller dock connector, according to a report by iMore. The site has been reliable in the past and correctly predicted the release of an LTE equipped iPad. iMore also reported that Apple is still in the prototyping phase for the next iPhone and that the design is not yet set in stone.

  
  

  Despite some rumors to the contrary, according to our sources Apple still hasn’t finalized the design of the next generation iPhone 5 (or whatever Apple ends up calling iPhone 5,1). No giant screen. No 16:9 aspect ratio. No metal back.

  […]

  Once again we’re hearing that if the screen size does change, it won’t be by a lot (no larger than 4-inches). We’ve heard nothing to indicate a planned change in the aspect ratio either way (and such a change still doesn’t make much sense to us).

  iLounge previously claimed that the next iPhone would have a smaller, redesigned dock connector as well as a 4″ screen that is larger in height only — this would result in an adjustment to the screen’s aspect ratio. The iPhone 4′s design has served Apple very well, with the company selling millions upon millions of units. It is possible that the company will choose to stick with the successful design, albeit with some minor changes, rather than a wholesale redesign.

  Other recent iPhone rumors include a claims that the next iPhone will launch in September; another that it would use the same micro-SIM as current iPhones, rather than a new nano-SIM concept; and that the next iPhone will retain its physical home button — a claim that iMore reiterates.

  
  

  

  

• Hilarious Prom Theme Fails (TWEETS)
  Prom season is upon us. It’s that time of year again where girls pour themselves into Pepto Bismol colored dresses and high schools choose ever…
• HP to Reenter Tablet Market with Windows 8
  Among Apple’s early competitors in the tablet market, HP gained a significant amount of attention as it initially sought to build its niche around webOS, which it acquired along with Palm in early 2010. HP introduced its webOS-based TouchPad in early 2011, launching the device on July 1 of that year only to exit the tablet and smartphone business just six weeks later.

  HP then successfully sold off its backlog of TouchPads at $99 fire sale prices, announcing that it would make webOS an open source project.

  The Bangkok Post now reports that HP has decided to reenter the tablet market, this time taking advantage of Microsoft’s forthcoming Windows 8 platform in a fresh attempt to make an impact in the rapidly-growing tablet market.
  

  Restarting production is a strategic move aimed at capitalising on the extraordinary growth in tablet sales, chief executive Meg Whitman said yesterday at the Global Influencer Summit 2012. [...]

  Todd Bradley, the executive vice-president for printing and personal systems, said HP’s Windows 8 tablets will come equipped with cloud-based technology, enabling users to share and store content online between different devices.

  Apple continues to dominate the tablet market two years after the debut of the original iPad, with its shipment share even rising to 68% in the first quarter of 2012 as early momentum from Amazon’s Kindle Fire seems to have faded.

  Google’s Android operating system as had only limited success in the tablet market, led by Samsung’s Galaxy Tab offerings, while Amazon’s heavily-customized Kindle Fire implementation of Android has also attempted to stake a claim to the market. Other competitors have had less success, with webOS falling by the wayside almost before it got started.

  Microsoft is the latest entrant into the tablet market since Apple reinvented the segment, banking on its Windows 8 products to bridge the gap between PCs and tablets. The company showed off Windows 8 last September and earlier this year revealed its plans for bringing Windows to ARM processors in a further effort to blur the lines between desktop and mobile. HP, the world’s largest PC manufacturer, could play a key role in working to spread Windows to the tablet market, but it remains to be seen whether Microsoft will have success with its efforts.

  
  

  

  

• Art Brodsky: Going Dutch a Great Idea for the Internet
  Earlier this week, the Dutch government gave final approval to one of the strongest open Internet laws in the world. Imagine that. A government guaranteeing through law that Internet connections can’t be manipulated by big telecom companies.
• Shakira Hits 50 Million Facebook Fans
  If her newly released music video for her song "Addicted To You"–which is quite possibly her sexiest video ever– doesn’t prove Shakira is a pop-star,…
• Hackers Vandalize Tea Party Website
  Hackers managed to seize the reins of a Tea Party PAC’s website this week, replacing existing material with a variety of offensive messages, before it…
• New medical training app being developed by game developers for DARPA
  Video and computer games are something that most children living in the developed world have been exposed to. From the early days of Super Mario on the Nintendo Entertainment System, to the engrossing, cinematic-like titles that are part of today’s game consoles and computers, gaming is something that is familiar to many. Because of this, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) wants to tap into this gaming expertise to apply the interactive techniques found in video games to create an educational app that can be used on mobile devices that will specifically teach medical first responders.
• Nick Offerman Is So Nick Offerman Here
  Funny Or Die is releasing the second issue of their iPad-only humor magazine "The Occasional" on Monday, and fans of "Parks and Recreation" should be…
• Tammy Nelson, Ph.D.: Is ‘Unfollowing’ Someone on Twitter the New ‘Dis’?
  On Twitter you’re just following someone from afar, sort of like stalking but in a distant and unattached kind of way. So why should it matter whether she’s following him or not? It’s not like they were friends on Facebook.
• Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Ph.D.: A Bold New Chance for Mars Exploration!
  Certainly, there is no replacement for Earth, and Mars will never be a replacement for Earth. But we do need to move forward, and mission proposals, such as BOLD, will be the first step toward a grand vision.
• CTIA show signals future of wireless
  week in review This year’s wireless show was less about introducing a bevy of new phones and more about future trends like ICS and LTE. Also: Oracle may get just a fraction of what it hoped for in ongoing Oracle v. Google trial.
• Facebook Co-Founder May Have Sidestepped Taxes By Dropping U.S. Citizenship
  One of Facebook’s billionaire co-founders may have found a way to sidestep taxes on the money he’ll get when the social network goes public later…
• Against judge’s advice, Oracle goes after infringed profits
  In what the judge described as the “height of ridiculousness,” Oracle turned down statutory damages and is going to try for an infringer’s profit case.
• Spotify Updates Mac App With Pandora-esque Radio Stations [Mac Blog]
  Spotify has updated its Mac app to version 0.8.3, bringing Pandora-like playlist-based radio stations to the music service. Users can start a new radio channel from any playlist or album in order to listen to similar songs.

  
  Among other new features, users can now get HTML embed codes to easily share Spotify songs on websites, as well as new sharing links to post songs directly to Facebook, Twitter or Tumblr.

  Current users can download the update from within the Spotify app, or directly from Spotify’s website.

  
  

  

  

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• Texas Tribune: In Texas, Political Chicanery Finds a Home on the Web
  Social media sabotage is in high gear in Texas’ later-than-usual primary, from fake Twitter feeds to deceptive Web site domains to allegations of e-mail and Facebook forgery.

  

• Jonathan Handel: Review: Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0" – Sweet!
  This tablet is a great entry into the Android world at an aggressive price. Simply put, it rocks, especially for social apps, productivity apps,…
• ‘I’m Not Anti-Porn,’ Says The MP Seeking Restrictions
  I spent much of Thursday morning repeatedly searching "Claire Perry Porn" on Google. Luckily all the results were safe for work but there are huge…
• European Parliament Approves Lower Roaming Charges
  The move, which includes caps on roaming fees for data downloads, ensures that the charges for calling and surfing the Internet abroad will decline in each of the next three years.

  

• New York City’s Green Book Becomes Online Directory
  The Green Book, which generations of lobbyists, journalists and others have used to find out who does what in New York City, has been converted to an online directory.

  

• Sony shares tumble to 31-year low
  Sony shares tumble to a 31-year low, a day after the company reported a record annual loss of 456.7bn yen ($5.7bn; £3.5bn).
• Bing Search Engine Revamped as War Against Google Intensifies
  A Microsoft-Facebook alliance plans an overhaul of Bing in an effort to loosen Google’s grip on the search engine market.

  

• Xbox 360 Kinect said to add Internet Explorer browsing
  Rumor has it users may soon be able to surf the Web on Microsoft’s gaming console and do so with voice and gesture commands.
• Real-world beaming: The risk of avatar and robot crime
  Virtual visitors are coming – what if they commit crimes?
• Facebook Steers Into New Terrain
  Today Facebook begins rolling out file sharing to all Groups, and while it’s got many restrictions, it could be good enough to limit the long-term…
• Danny Groner: Posting on The Listserve: 3 Dos and 3 Don’ts
  After signing up a few weeks ago, I have read an array of daily messages from people all over the world. Based on what I’ve seen so far, here’s some advice I’d offer to someone who is panicked for his or her turn to speak.
• DealBook: Yahoo’s Chief Said to Tell Executives He Did Not Submit a Résumé
  Yahoo’s embattled chief executive, Scott Thompson, told the company’s senior management on Thursday that he never submitted a résumé or falsified his academic credentials, a person briefed on the matter said.

  

• Apple Updates Apple TV to Version 5.0.1
  
  Apple has released a new update for the generation 2 and 3 Apple TV models. The update allows movies and TV show previews from the iTunes Store to be viewed in HD and fixes a few other minor issues.

  Apple TV Software Update 5.0.1

  iTunes previews – Previews for movies and TV shows from the iTunes Store can now be viewed in HD.
  AirPlay – Fixes an issue that caused some iOS apps to have trouble connecting via AirPlay.
  Home Sharing – Improves the reliability of Home Sharing connections.
  Netflix – Addresses an issue affecting Netflix login and navigation.
  Stability and performance – Includes fixes for issues affecting stability and performance.

  The update can be performed directly on the Apple TV by going to the Settings menu, then General, then selecting Update Software.

  
  

  

  

• Welcome to the social revolution
  Salesforce’s Marc Benioff says social media has changed everything
• Bing brings Facebook to searches
  Microsoft is revamping its Bing search engine to include advice from Facebook and other social media platforms.
• VIDEO: How to ‘beam’ a robot avatar
  The BBC has been given an exclusive demonstration of how the technology of robot avatar ‘beaming’ works, allowing a kind of ‘physical’ interaction at a distance.
• Mobile Payments Expected To Surge (INFOGRAPHIC)
  Mobile payment technology is making it unnecessary to carry a wallet or maintain a bulky cash register at your checkout counter. By using devices and…
• WATCH: Steve Jobs In Apple’s 1984 ‘Ghostbusters’ Spoof
  They year was 1984. Steve Jobs was young, "Ghostbusters" was huge and IBM bigger than Apple. Sometime that year the streams were crossed and Apple…
• Facebook Stock Could Soon Be In Your Mutual Fund
  BOSTON — Facebook can be a terrific way to connect with friends and family, a colossal drain on your time and productivity, or a little…

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• A Circle of Tech in Silicon Valley: Collect Payout, Do a Start-Up
  The windfall from Facebook’s public offering may prompt some employees to leave, in what could be one of company’s lasting legacies — a new generation of tech tycoons looking to create or invest in, well, the next Facebook.

  

• Cisco Cautious Despite 22% Rise in Income
  Cost-cutting measures aided profitability, but the company warned that it faced “a cautious” environment for corporate spending on information technology.

  

• Adobe Brings Photoshop Lightroom 4 to Mac App Store
  Two months after the public release of Photoshop Lightroom 4, Adobe has now brought the software to the Mac App Store [Direct Link]. The release marks the most substantial Mac App Store release yet for Adobe, joining Photoshop Elements 10 Editor and Premiere Elements 10 Editor as well as the subscription-based Revel (formerly known as Carousel) in Apple’s online marketplace for OS X software.

  
  
  Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 is priced at $149.99 in the Mac App Store, identical to Adobe’s suggested pricing for the boxed version, although Adobe also offers a $79 boxed upgrade version for users of previous Lightroom versions. Adobe also offers the boxed Lightroom 4 at a discounted $99 when purchased with one of the company’s new Creative Suite 6 bundles. Per its standard policy, Apple takes a 30% cut of purchases made through the Mac App Store.

  The Creative Suite package has of course been one of the major software titles users have been looking for to come to the Mac App Store, with Microsoft Office being another popular software package high on users’ wish lists. And while Adobe has not yet made the leap to offering any of the Creative Suite packages or even standalone applications from those bundles available through the Mac App Store, the addition of Lightroom is certainly a significant step for Adobe in the direction of offering higher-end titles through the marketplace.

  
  

  

  

• Qualcomm: We’re ready for quad-core ‘ARM’ race
  Qualcomm says it provides dual-core chips that match rivals’ quad-core performance. And its own quad-core silicon is on the way.
• On-demand music gets own chart
  The popularity of songs streamed on services like Spotify will be measured in a new weekly top 100, compiled by the Official Chart Company.
• Brad Spirrison: How One Venture Capitalist Compares Today’s App Economy to the ’90s
  When pre-revenue startups with less than 15 employee, such as Instagram, have 10-figure exits in less than two years, it’s reasonable to ponder how today’s app economy compares to the dot-comedy of the late ’90s.
• Mars Rover Moving Again After Five-Month Winter
  PASADENA, Calif. — The Mars rover Opportunity is on the go again. After spending nearly five months conducting experiments in one spot, the NASA rover…
• Microsoft bans Firefox on ARM-based Windows, Mozilla says
  Raising the specter of last-generation browser battles, Mozilla launches a publicity campaign to seek a place for browsers besides IE on Windows devices using ARM chips.
• Judge rejects attempt to derail Google’s ‘fair use’ defense
  Oracle and Google’s attorneys battle it out in the face of a potential mistrial on whether or not fair use can be even used as an argument in this lawsuit.
• VIDEO: X-rays probe world’s oldest ‘computer’
  Scientists using X-ray imaging find out some of the secrets of the world’s oldest ‘computer’ – the Antikythera Mechanism.
• Idle home PCs raise charity cash
  Efforts to turn PCs’ downtime into cash for charities
• Carmageddon comeback seeks cash
  Notorious violent nineties video game Carmageddon is attempting a comeback with the help of a Kickstarter project.
• Guess Who’s Got A New App ‘Store’?
  Facebook is taking a giant leap toward making app discovery a more user friendly experience. On Wedesnday, Facebook announced that it will open an App…
• Jim Steyer: Why I’m Talking Back to Facebook
  Technology companies must take responsibility for their contributions to the challenges created by our 24/7 always-on culture and seize the opportunity to be part of the solution.
• Hands-on Boot to Gecko: Interesting, but far from baked
  The makers of Firefox have a new baby on the way, a Firefox-driven mobile OS called Boot to Gecko. CNET’s Seth Rosenblatt shares his thoughts on the “Mozillaphone” after some hands-on time with the very rough, very in-development device.
• Brett Greene: Firefox Collusion Tracks the Companies Tracking You Online
  With each click of the mouse we leave breadcrumb trails of our interests, needs and websites we stumble upon. But the majority of the companies that track us online and collect data on our activities never asked for permission.
• Evan Bleier: The Digital Ballpark Is Here to Stay
  With the Internet churning out all these new ways for sports fans to consume information and connect with their teams, are the more traditional means of fan interaction, like attending a game or watching on television, going to end up like the XFL?
• What Apple Looks Like In Numbers (INFOGRAPHIC)
  After Apple announced its earnings for the second quarter of 2012 on April 24, it became clear the tech giant won’t be slowing in growth…
• The Hard Drive Of The Future Is…
  Recent microbe research found that a certain type of iron-eating bacteria has the ability to produce tiny magnets. Enter magnetic bacteria. Similar to the magnets…

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