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New Facebook details reveal Zuckerberg’s $500,000 salary and 45% bonus
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New IPO information submitted by Facebook has revealed that founder Mark Zuckerberg will be paid half a million dollars this year, while is he eligible to receive two bonuses up to the value of 45 percent of this base salary, as The Sydney Morning Herald reports. The dual performance-based bonus set-up...
'Smaller, cheaper' iPad coming this year, Bloomberg says
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Along with the mythical iTV, a smaller iPad is perhaps Apple's most heavily-rumored device right now — and Bloomberg is saying this afternoon that it's coming with a launch date in 2012, just in time to put a damper on the Nexus 7's plans. The new model would allegedly...
Roku adds BBC iPlayer to bolster UK launch
gigaom.com
When Roku said it would start shipping its media streaming boxes to the U.K. for the first time last month, there was a significant omission from the lineup of services it was offering — the BBC’s iPlayer. The iPlayer is the dominant force in Britain’s streaming TV landscape, available everywhere...
RIM announces 'budget' BlackBerry 9220 for Indian socialites
www.engadget.com
There are a lot of Indian hands out there, hands in which there could also be a BlackBerry smartphone. A fact not lost on RIM it would appear, as it's set to released its "most affordable" Curve -- the 9220 -- over there. Naturally, the ubiquitous BBM service takes...
Music streaming service Deezer goes live in 35 Latin American territories today
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Back in December, we reported that Spotify competitor Deezer was to begin rolling out in 200 countries (but not the USA). And it has taken a big step towards this goal today by launching in 35 Latin American territories. Deezer was launched in France in August 2007, and it reached...
Apps Uploading Address Books Is A Privacy Side-Show Compared To DPI
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While the hand-wringing over the future of journalism, blogging, the nature of conflicts of interest, yada yada, has been deeply interesting (alongside the personal attacks – we all like a good public fight don’t we?), it’s worth recalling that the furore was kicked off by a fairly pertinent point. To...
RIM gets funky, patents fuel cell manufacture for mobile devices
www.engadget.com
If the engineers in Waterloo have their way, your future mobile handset may be able to recharge itself on-the-go with the help of fuel cells. A new patent from RIM describes a method of manufacture that sandwiches a fuel cell assembly between the keyboard and printed circuit board, wherein...
Pew: Papers' Biggest Revenue Threat Is Inertia; Second Biggest Is Action
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Before we get into the results of the latest detailed look at how U.S. newspapers are faring on the digital revenue front, let’s get one serious qualm out of the way: the Project for Excellence in Journalism’s 16-month study that cuts across an intensely active time for experiments in charging...
Matrox DS1 docking station: $249 buys you Thunderbolt but no daisy-chaining
www.engadget.com
Thunderbolt has leant its air of celebrity to yet another device: the Matrox DS1 docking station, due out this fall for $249. The laptop dock has room for pretty much everything you'd want to plug in when you reach your desk, including DVI, gigabit Ethernet, audio in and out,...
Yorkshire gets the world's first gritter museum
www.guardian.co.uk
And where better than in Ripon, home of the UK's biggest manufacturer of winter road maintenance vehicles?If there is one thing the north of England has lacked all my life, it is a gritter museum. At last, this omission (which is shared by the rest of the planet because the...
Nintendo's Reggie Fils-Aime: Wii U GamePad won't feature multi-touch
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The Wii U's 6.2-inch killer feature might look a whole lot like a tablet, but prospective buyers shouldn't expect it to function like one at all. In a recent interview with Kotaku, NOA prexy Reggie Fils-Aime confirmed that multi-touch capabilities will indeed be purposefully absent from the upcoming GamePad....
Facebook Names COO Sheryl Sandberg to Its Board of Directors (Finally)
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In a post on its newsroom blog, Facebook just announced that it has named long-time COO Sheryl Sandberg to its board of directors. Sandberg will be the eighth member of the board and its first female member to date. But what took so long? Facebook has been criticized for a...
Google wants developers to take a leap with Project Glass
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Sergey Brin’s extreme sports demonstration of Project Glass at Google I/O will likely go down in history as one of the most daring tech conference stunts of all time: The Google co-founder stormed on stage Wednesday, interrupting the regular keynote to show off Google’s wearable computing project by joining a...
Roy Hodgson's calls give form to his and Gary Neville's England
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New manager's assistant had urged a clean-out so a young generation could offer the nation a fresh approach at Euro 2012If Roy Hodgson shares the same philosophy as Gary Neville it may actually be that John Terry and Rio Ferdinand are both cut loose when the names pop up on...
The Smart TV Alliance: LG and TP Vision create a unified software ecosystem
www.theverge.com
LG and TP Vision (the new owner of Philips’s TV business) are officially establishing the Smart TV Alliance, providing a common software ecosystem that allows developers to write apps once for multiple smart TV platforms. The sparse members list (just LG and TP Vision) can be expected to grow...
2012 Mazda MX-5 Miata: wonderfully simple... to a fault
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The 2012 Mazda MX-5 Miata PRHT Special Edition adds rarity to one of the best drivers' cars of this generation, but the omission of the most basic cabin-tech options severely hurts its score. [Read more]...
Amazon updates Nokia 808 Pureview listing with July 8th release date
www.theverge.com
Pre-orders for Nokia's 808 Pureview went up on Amazon a couple of days ago, and the product listing has now been updated to include a July 8th release date. Available in the United States exclusively through the online retailer, the unlocked smartphone will cost $699 and is 3G compatible...
Looks Like Amazon Will Enter the Mapping Wars With UpNext Purchase
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Once a boring utility, mapping is now the scene of the latest turf war between tech giants, with Apple, Google and Microsoft, plus start-ups and open alternatives — and now Amazon — fighting to offer the most elaborate and complete global imagery and navigation tools. Today Amazon reportedly purchased 3-D...
Hulu Plus available on "select" 2012 Toshiba Blu-ray players and Sharp TV sets
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Hulu keeps rolling out its streaming service to more and more devices, and it's just made some further additions to the team. You'll be able to put your $7.99 monthly Hulu Plus subscription to use on "select" models of 2012 Toshiba Blu-ray players and Sharp TV sets along with...
Comcast Xfinity TV for Android app updated with ICS support, still lacks streaming
www.theverge.com
Comcast has updated its Xfinity TV app for Android to include support for devices running version 4.0 of the OS. That means Ice Cream Sandwich users can now utilize the app to browse listings, set DVR recordings, and surf channels on any TV with a compatible set-top box. The...
Constitutional Law Professor: Search Results Protected by the First Amendment
www.theatlantic.com
In a Google-funded report on the constitutional rights of an Internet search, UCLA law professor -- and blogger -- Eugene Volokh makes a lofty claim about the legal rights of any given Google search: The weight, placement, and even omission of search results deserve the same free speech protection as...
Iran accuses Google of ‘fabricating lies’ for leaving Gulf nameless on its maps
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Iran has lashed out at yet another Internet giant, this time going after Google for what it sees as an egregious omission on Google Maps, AFP reports. The body of water separating Iran from the Arabian peninsula has been a point of contention between Iran and the Gulf nation states, who choose...
T-Mobile CMO: subsidized pricing hurts wireless competition, undermines hardware value
www.engadget.com
Could an end to unsubsidized smartphones be on its way for US carriers? If T-Mobile's Chief Marketing Officer Cole Brodman had his way, that familiar on-contract pricing would've gone the way of the Dodo a long time ago. Speaking at this week's GeekWire Summit in Seattle, the Magenta exec...
Mario Balotelli must improve his behaviour, says Roberto Mancini
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• Manchester City manager warns his maverick striker• Balotelli reportedly pictured outside strip club in early hoursRoberto Mancini, the Manchester City manager, admits Mario Balotelli needs to improve his behaviour but hopes his side reap the benefits from the striker's controversial axing by Italy.The Italy coach, Cesare Prandelli, left the...
Kindle Fire Dominates U.S. Android Tablet Sales
www.pcworld.com
Comscore credits Amazon's popular tablet with more than half of Android tablet sales, but the results are skewed by a significant omission....
Rovio: no plans for Angry Birds Space on Windows Phone 7
www.ipodnn.com
A notable, and somewhat surprising, omission from yesterdayís global launch of Angry Birds Space across multiple platforms was a Windows Phone 7 version. In what may amount to a significant blow to the prestige and perceived value of the Windows Phone 7 platform, Angry Birds Space developer Rovio told Bloomberg...
Supposed next-gen iPod Nano with camera leaks again, clip back in tow
www.engadget.com
If you'll recall, it was April of last year when we reported on pictures from Apple.pro, which claimed to show a seventh-generation iPod Nano chassis with room for a camera. Not long after, the site posted a second leak of the device, hinting at the omission of the Nano's...
Goldman Trying To Get SEC Charge Knocked Down To "Material Omission" Instead Of Fraud
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NBC Tells Concerned Senator That Its Olympics Coverage Was Great... According To Itself
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As you may recall, NBC was widely slammed for its ridiculous Olympics coverage, which included time delayed programming for no reason at all, extremely limited online programming, and -- in some cases -- requirements to prove you were a particular cable company subscriber to get access to the internet streams....
Why the iPad is Perfect for Schools
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Why the iPad is Perfect for Schools is a post from Chris Pirillo Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS FeedDuring live phone calls recently, Craighton gave me a buzz. @Craighton is a great kid, who happens to live fairly close to my house....
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