Technology News
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Facebook updates data use policy to give more info
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:00PM May 11, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — Facebook is updating its data use policy in an attempt to give people more clarity on how the company uses information they share.
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Facebook wraps up IPO road show in Silicon Valley
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:58PM May 11, 2012 CommentPALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other executives addressed about 200 prospective investors Friday at a hotel luncheon in Silicon Valley.
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Court won't order Google-NSA interactions released
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:25PM May 11, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court has turned down a Freedom of Information Act request to disclose National Security Agency records about the 2010 cyberattack on Google users in China.
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Post Office Will Not Ship Laptops, iPads Abroad
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:24PM May 11, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Postal Service is banning international shipments of electronics with lithium batteries such as smartphones, laptops and iPads, citing the risk of fire.
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Facebook in your mutual fund? It could be soon
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:08PM May 11, 2012 CommentBOSTON (AP) — Ask people what they think about Facebook, and you're likely to hear everything from "It's a terrific way to connect with friends and family," to "It's a colossal drain on time and productivity."
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Panasonic Loss Balloons for Record Red Ink
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:19AM May 11, 2012 Comment
Hi-definition playback, but not display, goes portable in this Panasonic player.
TOKYO (AP) — Panasonic's January-March losses ballooned 10-fold to 438 billion yen ($5 billion), completing a year of record red ink at the Japanese electronics maker battered by natural disasters and an ailing TV business.
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Source: Yahoo CEO says he didn't mislead company
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:03PM May 10, 2012 CommentSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson is assuring his colleagues that he didn't supply the incorrect information that led the troubled Internet company to list a bogus college degree in his official biography, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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Digital 'wallets' proliferate at cellphone show
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:57PM May 10, 2012 CommentNEW ORLEANS (AP) — Cash, coins and credit cards are so Twentieth Century.
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Bing to duel Google with Facebook-friendly format
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:47PM May 10, 2012 CommentSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Microsoft's Bing search engine is heading in a new direction as it drills deeper into Facebook's social network and Twitter's messaging service to showcase information unlikely to be found on Google.
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NY judge wants to hear victims in cyberbully case
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:37PM May 10, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — A judge delayed the sentencing of an eyewear website operator who intimidated customers, saying he first wants to hear testimony from dozens of victims who reported they were threatened with violence, including murder and rape.
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US phone subscribers hang up on contracts
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:42PM May 10, 2012 CommentNEW ORLEANS (AP) — U.S. consumers have had their fill of expensive, contract-based phone plans.
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News Corp shares rise on doubled share buyback
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:13PM May 10, 2012 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — Shares in Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. rose Thursday after the company posted upbeat quarterly results and doubled its commitment to buying back shares.
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Free Potter e-books to be offered through Kindle
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:02PM May 10, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — Harry Potter has joined the Kindle lending library.
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What if Apple Were Part of the Dow?
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:17AM May 10, 2012 Comment
A police officer stands watch near a Apple's logo after they sealed off the area of its store in Beijing Friday, Jan. 13, 2012. An angry crowd shouted and threw eggs at Apple's Beijing flagship store after it failed to open on schedule to sell the popular smartphones.
Apple is the world's most valuable company. The Dow Jones industrial average is probably the world's best-known stock index. So don't they deserve each other?
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AP NewsBreak: Ubisoft assembling Avengers for game
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:58AM May 10, 2012 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — Now that they've saved the world on film, "The Avengers" are teaming up for a motion-control video game.
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Court Blocks Pirate Bay Website
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:59AM May 10, 2012 Comment
Close-up of female hands touching buttons of black computer keyboard.
AMSTERDAM (AP) — A court in The Hague, Netherlands has ordered Internet providers to block the The Pirate Bay website or face large fines, a ruling that means accessing the Swedish-born site directly will soon be impossible for most Dutch consumers.
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Foxconn building Shanghai HQ, aims at China market
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:59AM May 10, 2012 CommentSHANGHAI (AP) — Foxconn Technology Group, the world's biggest assembler of consumer electronics, began work Thursday on a Shanghai headquarters that it says will help spearhead its efforts to sell more in the China market.
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China's Huawei hopes to make a name for itself
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:01AM May 10, 2012 CommentNEW ORLEANS (AP) — Will Americans buy a Chinese smartphone? We're about to find out, as Huawei, one of the world's biggest phone makers, is planning a big push into U.S. cellphone stores.
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Review: No real point to Foursquare, yet addictive
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:52PM May 09, 2012 CommentBRANDON, Miss. (AP) — It took a return to the South to get me back on Foursquare.
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Cisco's sobering forecast overshadows 3Q earnings
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:32PM May 09, 2012 CommentSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Cisco raised the specter late Wednesday of a jarring slowdown in technology spending, alarming investors already fretting about the economy's fragile condition.
