tuesday morning
RIM CEO denies company is ‘in a death spiral’
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5,000 layoffs? Delays of major products? Quarterly losses totaling more than $500 million? “‘Tis but a scratch,” says RIM CEO Thorsten Heins. Canada.com reports that Heins gave his company a much-needed pep talk on a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation interview on Tuesday morning, and said that “there’s nothing wrong with...
Top LulzSec hackers arrested, group leader reportedly working for FBI
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The laughs are reportedly over for five top members of the hacker group LulzSec who were arrested on Tuesday and charged as part of a conspiracy case filed in New York federal court. FoxNews.com reports that the arrests were part of a multinational sting across the United Kingdom, Ireland and...
Apple’s next iPhone to feature 3.95-inch upgraded Retina display, report claims
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Apple’s next-generation iPhone will feature an upgraded high-definition Retina display, according to a report published on Tuesday morning. Without stating where its information came from, 9to5Mac on Tuesday reports that Apple is still testing multiple potential designs for the next-generation iPhone, which BGR reported will launch this fall. The...
UAE citizen arrested for criticizing security forces on Twitter
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Once again, a UAE citizen is facing trial for statements made online. Saleh al-Dhufairi, a self-described patriot and pro-democracy activist, has been arrested on charges of provoking strife in the country, after posting a series of tweets, in which he criticized UAE security forces. Reuters reports that al-Dhufairi was arrested in his...
Oreo's gay pride Facebook post prompts threats of boycott
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Most users praised the (unfortunately unavailable in stores) rainbow cookie, but a few swore off parent company KraftOreo, the self-proclaimed "world's favourite cookie", has stirred up controversy on Facebook by pledging support for gay pride.An image posted to the Oreo fan page shows rainbow layers betwixt its biscuity wafers, instead...
Is RIM the Next Palm?
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Research In Motion gave developers and partners the hard sell on its upcoming BlackBerry 10 platform at the annual BlackBerry World conference in Orlando, Florida, on Tuesday morning. And while the OS certainly looked promising, it wasn’t enough to appease investors and analysts who worry that the company’s struggle to...
When It Comes To Phones, Men Are More Price-Sensitive (According to Vuclip)
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For its latest user survey, mobile video service Vuclip decided to look at the why people buy the phones they do — specifically, at the differences between men and women. And indeed, there was a real contrast between male and female respondents. When men were asked about the most important...
Everything You Need To Know About Facebook’s Latest S-1 Filing In Less Than A Minute
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Facebook filed what will most likely be the last of seven amendments to its S-1 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday morning. The company is expected to stop taking orders for shares tonight and will likely begin trading when Nasdaq opens Friday morning. Here's a succinct,...
Larry Page, Eric Schmidt, James Cameron to announce potential asteroid mining outfit
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Just what the heck is Planetary Resources? Set to debut next Tuesday, the new company will “overlay two critical sectors — space exploration and natural resources,” according to a media alert from yesterday. We see plenty of startups and company ideas here at VentureBeat, and even to me that’s...
Decade-long Civ II game mired in 1700 years of nuclear war
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The year is 3991 AD, and the world's three remaining nations have been embroiled in military conflict for 1700 years. 90 percent of the world's peak population has died due to nuclear conflict, and Vikings wield ICBMs. Welcome to the future, as predicted by a 10-year-long game of Civilization...
Space Shuttle Discovery to make final in-air appearance in 1,500-foot DC flyover
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Folks lucky enough to be in the nation's capital next week will have one final opportunity to gawk at Space Shuttle Discovery as the decommissioned spacecraft makes its way to its final resting place in Washington D.C. The shuttle is scheduled for a 1,500-foot flyover between 10 and 11...
Engadget Giveaway: win a new iPad, courtesy of Kabam!
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What could be better than our usual Monday morning giveaway? Why, a Tuesday morning giveaway of a new iPad, of course. If you missed the pre-order madness or can't be bothered to hit your local bricks and mortar to pick up a new iPad, no sweat, Kabam's got you...
Teenage fiction and iPads now in official UK shopping basket
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The ONS said tablet computers such as iPads had been added as they represent a 'significant and growing market'Tablet computers and teenage fiction such as the Twilight books have been added to the basket of goods and services that is used to calculate UK inflation. Casserole dishes, step ladders and...
Track Who’s Tracking You With Mozilla Collusion
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LONG BEACH, Calif. — Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs took the TED stage Tuesday morning to introduce Collusion, a Firefox browser add-on that lets you track who’s tracking you across the web for behavioral targeting purposes. Describing the medium as “an area of consumer protection that’s almost entirely naked,” Kovacs...
Spotify hits Australia and New Zealand, can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
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Music fans in Australia and New Zealand are waking up some happy news this Tuesday morning. Spotify announced that it's bringing its streaming services to those markets, starting today, offering up access to some 16 million tracks via PC, smartphone and iPad, bringing Spotify's availability to a grand total...
How vinyl records & big data make Spotify sound better
gigaom.com
The next time you’re listening to Spotify, you might want to thank the world’s geeky record collectors and their shelves full of dusty vinyl albums. That’s because some of Spotify’s knowledge about music is powered by data that has been accumulated by DJs and other fans of the analog music...
Facebook IPO: Instagram Closing No Longer Expected in 2Q
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Facebook delivered a new filing bright and early Tuesday morning, including a new boosted valuation for the company, but also changing the disclosure around when it expects its $1 billion purchase of Instagram to close....
Opera Software shares surge on Facebook takeover talk
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Facebook is reportedly interested in the mobile browser firm as part of a plan to create a smartphoneSuggestions that Facebook is looking at acquiring mobile technology firm Opera Software propelled the Norwegian group's share price 26% higher on Tuesday morning.Opera makes one of the world's most widely used mobile phone...
Meet The Wii U Gamepad, Nintendo’s Answer To Gaming On The iPad
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Details are still just mainly technical, but Nintendo just took the wraps off the final version of the Wii U’s controller, now named Gamepad. This came during Nintendo’s somewhat surpassing pre-E3 press conference. The controller itself looks somewhat similar to the prototype unit Nintendo unveiled at last year’s E3. This...
Sony sees massive $6.4 billion annual net loss, its worst ever
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Sony has revised its full-year earnings projections for the fiscal year ended March 31st to include a tax hit that will see the company report a record $6.4 billion loss. The net loss will be twice what the consumer electronics giant projected, and it marks Sony’s fourth consecutive annual...
TxtRoo Launches A Yelp For The Feature Phone Market
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TxtRoo, a company that was invented and coded into existence from the Stanford StartupBus headed to SXSW in Austin, Texas last week, can best be described as a Yelp for the feature phone market. Like Yelp, which delivers user reviews and other local business information to both web and smartphone...
Will This BlackBerry Device Save Research In Motion?
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Research In Motion launched its annual developer and partners conference in Orlando this morning. While many developers have abandoned the BlackBerry and PlayBook maker for Apple and Google’s Android gadgets, new RIM CEO Thorsten Heins is making his latest push to win them back. On stage Tuesday morning, he unveiled...
Google launches Dropbox competitor
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If Google's new service sounds a lot like what's already available from companies like Dropbox, that's because it is nearly identical. FORTUNE -- After months of speculation, Google (GOOG) has finally unveiled its very own file sharing service, Google Drive. In a blog post Tuesday morning, the search company called...
★ Let’s Have Some Fun Reading Way Too Much Into the Preliminary Schedule for WWDC 2012
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“We’re going to double down on secrecy on products.” —Tim Cook, yesterday at the D10 conference I’ve long compared Apple punditry to Cold War-era Kremlinology — to predict or analyze an opaque, secretive organization, you’ve got to read between the lines of the few things they do say, and you’ve...
Greenpeacers Cuffed For Landing Giant iPod at Apple HQ
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Greenpeace landed a giant iPod at Apple HQ on Tuesday -- and then the cops came by (Photo: Greenpeace) Two Greenpeace activists were arrested outside of Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, California after staging a protest against the company’s use of “unclean” energy in the massive computing facilities that underpin its...
RIM: BlackBerry App World more profitable than Android
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RIM's Developer Relations VP Alec Saunders made aggressive claims about the state of BlackBerry App World at his company's DevCon Europe keynote on Tuesday morning. He contended that the store was the second-most profitable mobile app store after Apple's own and that Android lagged behind significantly. Along with having more...
Smartphone customer satisfaction is hard to get right
gigaom.com
The annual ratings of customer satisfaction with mobile phone manufacturers will be released by the American Customer Satisfaction Index Tuesday morning, and for the first time, feature phone makers will be judged right alongside smartphone makers, who are newcomers to the list. It’s not totally surprising, but Apple makes its debut on...
We’ll be reporting live from RIM’s BlackBerry World 2012 keynote today at 9:00AM
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Research In Motion’s annual BlackBerry World conference kicks off Tuesday morning and new president and chief executive officer Thorsten Heins will take the stage to greet the thousands of show goers in attendance. Heins’s company has a daunting mountain to climb as its struggles continue, and this year’s show...
Sprint posts $255 million loss in Q1, adds 263,000 net subscribers
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Sprint posted its first-quarter financial results on Tuesday ahead of the bell. Analysts were anticipating another rough quarter, and Wall Street’s consensus had the nation’s No.3 carrier losing $0.42 per share on revenue of $8.71 billion. The numbers are now in, and Sprint reported a loss of $0.29 per...
More like watch it later: video is huge on Read It Later
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Instapaper competitor Read It Later revealed a little secret Tuesday morning: Many times, its users don’t actually read anything at all, and instead bookmark videos to watch them at a later time. From the Read It Later blog: “In the past year alone, video saves using Read It Later have...
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