Silicon Valley: The rise of the adolescent CEOs Reuters - Tue, Feb 21, 2012SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Josh Buckley, chief executive of an online gaming start-up, is looking forward to next month's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, … More »Silicon Valley: The rise of the adolescent CEOs
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Josh Buckley, chief executive of an online gaming start-up, is looking forward to next month's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, particularly for the parties and the accompanying schmoozing with industry A-listers. There's one problem: Buckley, who will turn 20 this week on February …
Was Einstein wrong - or was the cable loose? Reuters - 14 hours agoLONDON/GENEVA (Reuters) - The world of science was upended last year when an experiment appeared to show one of Einstein's fundamental theories was wrong - but now the … More »Was Einstein wrong - or was the cable loose?
LONDON/GENEVA (Reuters) - The world of science was upended last year when an experiment appeared to show one of Einstein's fundamental theories was wrong - but now the lab behind it says the result could have been caused by a loose cable. Physicists at the CERN laboratory near Geneva appeared to contradict Albert Einstein …
Sony's Vita arrives just as market may be fading Reuters - 16 hours ago(Reuters) - Sony Corp's Vita hits the United States on Wednesday, the latest in a long line of mobile gaming gadgets in the spirit of Nintendo's Game Boy and Atari's … More »Sony's Vita arrives just as market may be fading
(Reuters) - Sony Corp's Vita hits the United States on Wednesday, the latest in a long line of mobile gaming gadgets in the spirit of Nintendo's Game Boy and Atari's Lynx. But with gaming habits rapidly changing, it may also be the last of its breed. Vita will be a tough sell to gamers who may already jam smartphones in …
Zimbabwe teenager to be caned over Facebook slur AFP News - Mon, Feb 20, 2012A court in Zimbabwe has sentenced a 17-year-old boy to be caned after he posted a picture of a woman on Facebook with a caption that called her a prostitute, state media … More »Zimbabwe teenager to be caned over Facebook slur
A court in Zimbabwe has sentenced a 17-year-old boy to be caned after he posted a picture of a woman on Facebook with a caption that called her a prostitute, state media said Monday.
HP profit plummets, CEO urges patience Reuters - 14 hours agoSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co's earnings fell nearly 44 percent and the world's No. 1 computer maker forecast a second-quarter profit below Wall Street … More »HP profit plummets, CEO urges patience
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co's earnings fell nearly 44 percent and the world's No. 1 computer maker forecast a second-quarter profit below Wall Street estimates as it struggles with weak sales of PCs and printers. The storied Silicon Valley company, which has been trying to move past the internal upheaval …
- British student jailed for hacking Facebook AFP News - Sat, Feb 18, 2012
A student who infiltrated Facebook in what prosecutors called "the most extensive and flagrant" case of social media hacking ever heard in a British court was jailed for eight months on Friday.
- Tablet computers the new electronic babysitter AFP News - Fri, Feb 17, 2012
Move over TV. Tablet computers are the new electronic babysitter.
- HP shares fall on sharp profit decline Reuters - 1 hour 21 minutes ago
(Reuters) - Shares of Hewlett-Packard Co were down 2 percent in premarket trading on Thursday after the world's No. 1 computer maker posted a sharp decline in quarterly earnings and warned it would take several years to turn around its sprawling businesses. The storied Silicon Valley company, which has been trying to move …
- CERN turns up power to answer Higgs riddle in 2012 Reuters - Tue, Feb 14, 2012
GENEVA (Reuters) - Scientists hunting the Higgs boson, the sub-atomic particle believed to have played a vital role in the creation of the universe, decided on Monday to turn up the power in their Large Hadron Collider to try to prove its existence this year. The CERN research centre near Geneva wants to prove or disprove …
- Apple shareholders to meet as stock at record high Reuters - Wed, Feb 22, 2012
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook is in an enviable position - market leading products, a $98 billion warchest and a seemingly gravity-defying stock price. But as he gears up for the annual face-to-face meeting with shareholders, a few issues may be causing him angst. Chief among them are in China, …
- HP, Dell watch rising China labor costs for Apple Reuters - 9 hours ago
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard and Dell Inc are keeping a close eye on a big jump in wages for workers that assemble Apple Inc's iPhone in China, and could be forced to nudge up prices for their own products if labor costs keep rising. Major contract manufacturer Foxconn Technology Group -- which counts Apple, …
- China computer maker seeks Shanghai iPad sale ban AFP News - Wed, Feb 22, 2012
A Chinese computer maker on Wednesday asked a Shanghai court to bar the sale of Apple's iconic iPad in the commercial metropolis in a long-running trademark dispute.
- French preschoolers post messages to Twitter AFP News - Tue, Feb 21, 2012
French preschoolers near Bordeaux are posting daily updates to the micro-blogging website Twitter, despite not yet knowing how to read or write.
- Rise in identity fraud tied to smartphone use Reuters - 21 hours ago
(Reuters) - Nearly 12 million Americans were victims of identity theft in 2011, an increase of 13 percent over 2010, according to a report released on Wednesday by the research firm Javelin Strategy & Research. The rise in the use of smartphones and social media by incautious consumers fueled the increase in identity fraud, …
- CIA to software vendors: A revolution is coming Reuters - Wed, Feb 22, 2012
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency told software vendors on Tuesday that it plans to revolutionize the way it does business with them as part of a race to keep up with the blazing pace of technology advances. Rather than stick with traditional all-you-can-eat deals known as "enterprise licensing …
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