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Saturday, April 21, 2012
Updated 11:20 PM CDT; 04:20 GMT
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Computer Industry

"Microsoft Surprises Business Pundits by Posting Strong Q1 Performance" Social Barrel 7:12 AM
"Did Microsoft run out of time with Windows RT? Analyst argues that Windows RT is all Microsoft could create before it fell further behind in tablet race" ITworld 7:54 AM
"Microsoft Windows RT tablets will be more security friendly than iPad, Android devices" ITworld 7:58 AM
"Microsoft Benefits From a Raft of Products" Barron's 7:54 AM
"Microsoft Files Patent for Kinect-Powered 3D Audio" Gizmodo UK 7:58 AM
"Windows 8 Consumer Preview" Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows 4:32 PM
"Windows 8 Consumer Preview usage twice as high as Windows 7 Beta" The Verge 8:39 PM
"Motorola told judge its $4 billion royalty demand from Microsoft 'was in fact reasonable RAND'" FOSS Patents 6:39 PM
"Xolo X900: India Gets First Intel-Powered Smartphone on April 23" Social Barrel 7:13 AM
"Intel Launches Smartphone Xolo X900 in Asia" Technorati 7:53 AM
"Intel Shark Bay Platform Roadmap Leaked, Haswell Engineering Samples already out – Mass Production beings in Q4 2012" WCCF Tech 7:54 AM
"AMD Reports Net Loss Of $590m" ITProPortal 7:46 AM
"Delighting in Dell's tools for businesses" Inquirer Business 8:28 AM
"Hewlett Packard fined for warranty goof-up" DNA 7:50 AM
"Larry vs. Larry" TechNewsWorld 7:58 AM
"PeopleSoft: The Cloud Years" Barron's 7:59 AM
"IBM's Creek Watch app joins others in letting citizen scientists protect environment, waterways" The Journal News 7:52 AM
"Plane crash-lands at IBM in Yorktown" The Journal News 7:52 AM
"Cisco unapologetic on spin-in model: By any means possible is the rationale for plundering morale" Network World 7:47 AM
"The Rumor That Won't Die: Facebook To Buy Bing From Microsoft" Business Insider 4/20
"Microsoft rises as better PC sales boost profit" Reuters 4/20
"Microsoft Over PC Market Blues" Zacks 4/20
"Microsoft Looks To Stall iPad With New Windows 8 VDI License" CRN 4/20
"Why Windows 8 Is a Huge Gamble for Microsoft" PC Magazine 4/20
"Microsoft Exchange 15 to include offline OWA access: Sources" ZDNet 4/20
"Microsoft Working On Web Version Of Skype To Expand Its Reach" Forbes 4/20
"Microsoft seeks Skype for Xbox engineering gang" Register Hardware 4/20
"Microsoft job ad hints at Skype for Xbox" TG Daily 4/20
"A New Tug Of War Over Microsoft Begins" Wall St. Cheat Sheet 4/20
"The real reason behind Microsoft's leap into open source" InfoWorld 4/20
"Verizon backs Microsoft in mobile war with Apple, Android" New York Post 4/20
"Apple iPhone subsidy costs push Verizon toward Windows phones" New Mexico Business Weekly 4/20
"Oracle, Google Struggle To Explain APIs To Jury: Day four of Oracle's copyright and patent lawsuit against Google's Android OS brings a lesson in API design and programming that even the judge declares 'confusing.'" InformationWeek 4/20
"Oracle and Google find common denominator for telling jury about use of Java APIs in Android" Foss Patents 4/20
"Android, Java, and the tech behind Oracle v. Google (FAQ)" CNET News 4/20
"Google's defence against Oracle in pictures" ZDNet UK 4/20
"Three things are clear in Oracle vs. Google/Three things are clear about Oracle's Java patent infringement suit against Google's Android: It will likely drag on for years, it poses a great but remote risk to Android and Java developers and it will make for lots of fascinating reading." EE Times 4/20
"No sign of Sun in Oracle conference rooms: Oracle's plan to dump unique room names at former Sun campus draws ire of current and former employees" InfoWorld 4/20
"Feds Banish Oracle From Popular Contract Vehicle: Federal government cancels Oracle's services contract on the General Services Administration's IT Schedule 70. Feds spent $388 million on Oracle products and services through Schedule 70 in fiscal 2011." InformationWeek 4/20
"IBM speeds push for 500-mile EV battery: Big Blue signs on partners for its Battery 500 Project to design an 'air-breathing' lithium air battery that would create a leap in energy density." CNET News 4/20
"IBM electric vehicle battery project adds two materials partners" ZDNet 4/20
"Is IBM Running Into a Buzz Saw?" The Motley Fool 4/20
"HP: Printed images can 'come alive' with Autonomy tech" ZDNet UK 4/20
"HP: Fewer security vulnerabilities reported, but risk escalating" ZDNet 4/20
"Intel supports China-based makers to promote ultrabooks" DigiTimes 4/20
"Why Intel Cove Point Ultrabook Is No iPad Killer" BYTE 4/20
"Chambers: 90% of Acquisitions in Hi-Tech Fail" [Video Report] Bloomberg 4/20
"Cisco Outlines Insieme Software Networking Venture" eWeek 4/20
"Security, privacy ideas emerge at Demo conference: Amid the companies presenting are startups doing two-factor authentication, Facebook profile-cleaning, and clearer terms of service" IDG News Service 4/20
"New process promises cheap, flexible electronics: Televisions as thin and flexible as a sheet of paper could be on the way, thanks to a new technique for printing electronics." TG Daily 4/20
"IT Administrators Experience High Stress Levels" eWeek 4/20
"Tech firms' offshore havens keep tax rates low" San Francisco Chronicle 4/20

General Interest

"Pixel Qi: our new screen better, lower-power than new iPad" Electronista 8:15 PM
"Facebook Clarifies, Explains, Confuses..with New SRR" Social Barrel 6:38 PM
"William Shatner Takes His Millionth Twitter Follower Out To Dinner [Video]" Yahoo! News 5:37 PM
"Verizon Galaxy Nexus likely to drop to $199.99 on-contract this Monday" The Verge 11:44 AM
"Mozilla 'Webmaking' Initiative to Teach Kids, Others 'Web Literacy'" Yahoo! News 10:11 AM
"Google to shut off a number of services in coming days" NewsPakistan 7:51 AM
"Chinese web giant Baidu working on its own Android-based smartphone" Android Authority 7:49 AM
"Adult websites responsible for as much as 30 percent of the data delivered on the web, says ExtremeTech" The Verge 7:40 AM
"Hillman Curtis, a Pioneer in Web Design, Dies at 51" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 7:15 AM
"Google Stock Split Earns Critical Judgment From Governance Experts" Social Barrel 7:15 AM
"Facebook flips the switch on its North Carolina data center, cooled with balmy mountain air" Engadget 7:05 AM
"Google app review Video shows Share to 'Drive' option" Engadget 7:05 AM
"RIM may be hiring lawyers to overhaul BlackBerry business" Electronista 7:04 AM
"Nintendo 3DS update bringing folders, quick patching" Electronista 6:59 AM
"3DS firmware update promises folders, less cluttered home screens on April 25th" Engadget 7:05 AM
"Secret Alan Turing papers released by GCHQ" Computerworld New Zealand 6:59 AM
"Google's ex-CEO gets $101M pay package in new job: Shifting from Google's CEO to executive chairman proved to be lucrative career move for Eric Schmidt." Yahoo! News 4/20
"Amazon adds '1-Click' software setup to its cloud" ZDNet UK 4/20
"Facebook tweaks terms over censorship fears" ZDNet UK 4/20
"Facebook enabling IPv6 on beta site next month" ZDNet 4/20
"Amazon brings forward UK shipping date for Kindle Touch" V3 4/20
"AT&T's AVP Of Technical Research Explains The New Watson Speech API" TechCrunch 4/20
"VLSI confab brings technology, circuits to the fore" EE Times 4/20
"Sony to Launch 5GB Online Photo Sharing Service Next Week" IDG News Service 4/20
"Freescale's Q1 points to upswing, says CEO" EE Times 4/20
"Riverbed Technology Tumbles After Cutting Sales Forecast" Bloomberg 4/20
"Mozilla smartphone to go on sale in 'late 2012''" BBC 4/20
"Tomorrow's Privacy Struggles, On Display Today" New York Times 4/20
"Galaxy S III Reportedly Revealed In Vietnamese Hands-On Video" TechCrunch 4/20
"Samsung may unveil iCloud competitor May 3rd" The Verge 4/20
"Samsung readying iCloud competitor for May 3? That's the latest report out of Korea, where Maeil Business says the company will be unveiling its S-Cloud service in two weeks." CNET News 4/20
"Nokia Plots Cheaper Lumia" WSJ.com 4/20
"SanDisk Drops After Sales Forecast Falls Short of Estimates" Bloomberg 4/20
"SanDisk shares fall as chip glut hurts prices" Reuters 4/20
"SanDisk Slumps as Earnings Plunge" TheStreet 4/20

Press Releases

"Cisco computer network training will be free in Bermuda" The Royal Gazette Online 7:47 AM
"Defense Information Systems Agency Selects HP to Enhance Assessment of Networks for Vulnerabilities" Marketwire 4/20

Microsoft

"Windows 8 Feature Focus: Xbox LIVE Games (App Preview)" Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows 4:20 PM
"Go ahead, bring your Windows 8 gadgets to work, says Microsoft" CNET News 4/20
"Windows opens way to pleasant Q3 surprise" Associated Press 4/20
"Did Microsoft run out of time with Windows RT? Analyst argues that Windows RT is all Microsoft could create before it fell further behind in tablet race" Computerworld 4/20
"Is Microsoft Already Dumping its AOL Patents?" Wall St. Cheat Sheet 4/20
"Why Windows Phone 7 could be the OS/2 of this generation" ZDNet 4/20
"Microsoft Earnings Show Enterprise Strength, Consumer Weakness" InformationWeek 4/20
"Xbox 360 sales down by almost half" ZDNet 4/20
"Five Outlook Shortcuts You Should Know" PCWorld 4/20
"Psst, Microsoft! Here's how you unseat the iPad" InfoWorld 4/20
"Relief for Microsoft as PC sales pick up" Financial Times 4/20
"Here's Why Microsoft Shares Are Surging" WSJ Blogs 4/20
"Microsoft: Davenport Ups to Buy; Full-Speed Ahead to Win 8" Barron's 4/20
"Why Microsoft Is Heading to $40" TheStreet 4/20

Government/Law/Politics

"A diVided Congress confronts a rising cyberthreat" Yahoo! News 7:40 AM
"America's cyber czar speaks" ZDNet 4/20
"Icann security chief rules out malicious attack behind gTLD submission glitch" V3 4/20
"iiNet wins High Court trial" The Register 4/20
"Step aside Siri, firefighting robot Octavia saves the day: The US Navy is developing a robot that can put out a fire, with a little help from voice and gesture inputs." PCWorld 4/20
"Hollywood loses final appeal in piracy case" Sydney Morning Herald 4/20
"Writer sues over Assassin's Creed story" Gameplanet 4/20
"Senate Passes Bill Requiring Black Boxes in All New Cars" PCWorld 4/20
"FCC launches website for wireless 'bill shock'" USA Today 4/20
"FCC Fights Carrier Bill Shock" PCWorld 4/20
"Maryland to become first state to ban employers from demanding job applicants reveal Facebook passwords" Associated Press 4/20
"FBI seizes anonymizing server in bomb threat probe: Groups using the server said there's little chance the FBI will be able to trace email sent by the machine" IDG News Service 4/20
"FBI Seizes Anonymizing Email Service Server" InformationWeek 4/20
"CISPA cybersecurity bill 'not being rushed through,' aide says" CNET News 4/20
"German Court Rules Nokia Infringes Patent" WSJ.com 4/20
"Nokia's older mobes infringe IPCom patent – court" The Register 4/20
"Nokia loses IPCom patent case in German court" Reuters 4/20
"More bad news for Nokia: IPCom wins patent case in German court" CNET News 4/20
"YouTube faces massive music royalty bill in German copyright case" ZDNet 4/20
"YouTube loses court battle over music clips" BBC 4/20
"German Rules Against YouTube In Rights Case" Associated Press 4/20

Analysis/Editorial/Help/Opinion

"Sony's fall and Japan's hang-ups: Sony's fall mirrors Japan's tech decline." CNET News 9:03 PM
"Through the Google looking glass" GigaOM 3:32 PM
"The Instagram of the 18th Century" Gizmodo 7:06 AM
"Why Google should be allowed to 'harvest' your Wi-Fi data: The hysteria around the Google 'WiSpy' case is based on an irrational double standard" Computerworld 6:59 AM
"Is It A Good Idea For Yahoo To Refocus Its Business Model?" Seeking Alpha 4/20
"Google Just Killed Some More Useless Products" Business Insider 4/20
"Would you pay for a shared data plan?" CNET News 4/20
"Western Digital refreshes VelociRaptor hard drive line, but can it compete against SSDs?" ZDNet 4/20
"The Nokia Phones You Loved ... and Hated" WSJ Blogs 4/20
"Video: The Most Insanely Important, Mind-Blowing Tech News of the Week" Techland 4/20
"What kind of LOSER sits in front of a PC..." Register Hardware 4/20
"Why you should stop using social reader apps" San Francisco Chronicle 4/20
"Can advanced technologies really help curb highway congestion?" Network World 4/20
"Nokia's Big Loss; Oracle-Google Trial Gets Technical; Facebook Eyes IPO Date" PC Magazine 4/20
"Pre-caffeine tech: Cutest Tumblrs, Terminator phones!" MSNBC 4/20
"Are zombies sucking the life out of your data center?" InfoWorld 4/20
"The BYOD era may be ending already" InfoWorld 4/20
"The most mortifying moments in IT security history: From Lockheed Martin and HBGary Federal to the U.S. government and Cornell University, no one is immune to humiliating security glitches" [Slideshow] Network World 4/20
"Share of Canadians who want a BlackBerry slips dramatically in survey" The Globe and Mail 4/20
"Diablo III goes open beta this weekend" TG Daily 4/20
"Diablo 3 Beta Open to Everyone This Weekend Only" Forbes 4/20
"NAND flash prices continue to fall" DigiTimes 4/20
"Apple vs. Google vs. Microsoft: Battle for digital supremacy" Computerworld 4/20
"Samsung Outsold Apple In Smartphones In Q1, Analyst Says" Forbes 4/20
"A Devastating Blow in the 3-D Printing War?" [Video Report] The Motley Fool 4/20
"Why men like social-media site Pinterest" MarketWatch 4/20
"Surprise! Walmart's Cloud Movie Service Is Pretty Good!" AllThingsD 4/20
"Law Must Be With Google in Java Dispute" TheStreet 4/20

Acquisitions/Deals/Investments/Mergers

"Larry Page And Eric Schmidt Have Funded A New Company To Mine Asteroids" Business Insider 4/20
"A Quixotic Quest to Mine Asteroids: A new company backed by two Google Inc. billionaires, film director James Cameron and other space exploration proponents is aiming high in the hunt for natural resources—with mining asteroids the possible target." WSJ.com 4/20
"Infoblox Busts Big IPO Move" TheStreet 4/20
"Texas Memory, DataCore Team for Alternative Midmarket Storage System" eWeek 4/20
"As Facebook IPO Draws Near, Instagram Buy Draws Scrutiny" E-Commerce Times 4/20
"Santa Clara software company Infoblox jumps higher in IPO" Silicon Valley 4/20
"Venture Capital Investments Fall 19 Percent In 1Q" Associated Press 4/20
"LightSquared Makes Inmarsat Payment to Win Time for Talks" Bloomberg 4/20
"LightSquared gains breathing space with Inmarsat payment" Reuters 4/20
"LightSquared Pays Inmarsat $56 Million To Resolve Default" WSJ.com 4/20

Tech Stocks

"Apple, in correction mode, drags techs down: Microsoft rises on strong results, but SanDisk, Riverbed retreat" MarketWatch 4/20
"U.S. stocks mostly up for week on earnings: Apple's fall helps propel Nasdaq to third week of losses" MarketWatch 4/20
"Dow Climbs, But Apple Weighs on Nasdaq" FOXBusiness 4/20
"U.S. Stocks Rise on Earnings Reports, Europe Optimism" Bloomberg 4/20
"Dow Gains During Big Earnings Week" TheStreet 4/20
"Dow, S&P 500 finish higher on earnings boost" CNNMoney 4/20
"Dow Rises to End Up 1.4% on Week" WSJ.com 4/20
"Stocks: German confidence, earnings lend support" CNNMoney 4/20
"Asian Stocks Fall on Europe Debt Concern, U.S. Economic Data" Bloomberg 4/20
"Asia Markets: Asia stocks mostly weak; China rises" MarketWatch 4/20
"European Stocks Rise Slightly" WSJ.com 4/20
"European Stocks Advance; Banks, Retailers Gain, Nokia Declines" Bloomberg 4/20
"Europe Markets: Europe stocks rise as banks rally after German Ifo/BP leads oil firms lower after an oil spill audit" MarketWatch 4/20
"Most active Nasdaq-traded stocks: Nasdaq's 10 most active stocks at the close of trading" Associated Press 4/20
"Midday Glance: Computer companies/Computer companies shares mixed at 1 p.m." Associated Press 4/20
"Final Glance: Computer companies/Computer companies shares mixed at the close of trading" Associated Press 4/20

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Associated Press (Updated 9:00 PM CDT)

"A Divided Congress Confronts A Rising Cyberthreat"
"Google's Ex-CEO Gets $101M Pay Package In New Job"
"Hundreds Of Thousands May Lose Internet In July"
"Rumors Swirl Of Smaller IPad, Which Jobs Detested"
"German Court Rules Against YouTube In Rights Case"
"Microsoft's Windows Propels Pleasant 3Q Surprise"
"Venture Capital Investments Fall 19 Percent In 1Q"
"Md. Becomes First To OK Password Protection Bill"
"DARPA Releases Cause Of Hypersonic Glider Anomaly"
"Delay In Internet Name Expansion Continues"

CNET News (Updated 9:00 PM CDT)

"Sony's fall and Japan's hang-ups"
"IBM Fellow Jeff Jonas on the evolution of Big Data"
"Seeing red? Future Toyotas will sense your mood"
"HTC One S and crazy-expensive headphones are the top-reviewed tech this week"
"Motorola CEO sees pay nearly quadruple, to $47 million"
"Why women prefer online meetings"
"Whoops: Firm's e-mail slipup fires 1,300 employees"
"Instagram follows Tumblr, Pinterest; bans self-harm posts"
"'Bad cable repair' causes gay porn on morning TV show"
"Italy to launch Ferrari-style high-speed train" ...

New York Times (Updated 9:10 PM CDT)

"Don't Be Evil, but Don't Miss the Train"
"Olympus Shareholders Shake Off Scandal"
"The Boom in Enterprise I.P.O.'s"
"Microsoft Beats Estimates as Windows Makes a Stand"
"Google Ordered to Stop Copyright Violations on YouTube"
"Nokia Logs Loss as Sales of Less Sophisticated Phones Slips"
"Mobile Data Service Fees Help Bolster Profit at Verizon"
"Tomorrow's Privacy Struggles, On Display Today"
"On Sundays, the DVR Runneth Over"
"A Welcoming Crew to Plug You In"

Reuters (Updated 9:10 PM CDT)

"Motorola CEO pay package rose to $47 million in 2011"

TechWeb (Updated 9:10 PM CDT)

"Samsung Preps New Phone, Tablet, Cloud Service"

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