"A look at key players in Yahoo's CEO succession"
Associated Press 8:23 PM
"Timeline: Controversy over Yahoo CEO's resume"
Associated Press 8:44 PM
"Oracle and Google make competing proposals for determining copyright damages"
Foss Patents 8:32 AM
"An explanation for geeks: why Google hasn't won anything against Oracle's Java APIs"
Foss Patents 8:32 AM
"Judge, Jury Ill-Equipped To Handle Google -Oracle Patent Lawsuit – Analysts"
MobileBloom 8:50 AM
"Oracle Chairman Makes $50 Million Gift To Study Energy Efficiency"
AllThingsD 8:35 AM
"Oracle chairman gives $50m gift to UCSB"
Bloomberg 8:50 AM
"SAP Seen Boosting Cloud to Vindicate SuccessFactors Deal"
Bloomberg 8:26 PM
"Mozilla cites 'Windows monopoly power' in ARM browser debate: Mozilla says that's why it's more concerned about restrictions on Windows 8 than iOS"
Ars Technica 10:24 PM
"Senate to look at Mozilla's browser competition allegations: Sen. Herb Kohl's office to examine Mozilla's complaint against Microsoft over browser API access in Windows RT"
Computerworld 8:19 PM
"Microsoft Pledges to Go Carbon Neutral in July"
Computerworld UK 1:02 PM
"Wanted: More apps for Windows Phone/Because there are so few Windows Phone users, developers are reluctant to sink resources into creating a product that will reach a limited audience."
Seattle Times 8:38 AM
"Microsoft Decision For IE-only Windows 8 RT Irks Google, Mozilla"
MobileBloom 8:45 AM
"Microsoft Funded Startup Aims to Kill BitTorrent Traffic"
TorrentFreak 8:45 AM
"Windows Thunderbolt previewed: A mighty potent port"
SlashGear 8:43 AM
"Bing teams up with Facebook and LinkedIn in latest redesign"
Examiner 8:46 AM
"Bing fires at Google with new social search: Search adds your Twitter and Facebook streams"
CNNMoney 8:45 AM
"Microsoft Redesigns CHKDSK for Windows 8, Improves NTFS Health Model"
HotHardware 8:45 AM
"Microsoft Implements Cap & Trade to Cut CO2"
CleanTechnica 8:46 AM
"New iPad Beware! HP To Sell Tablets Again"
ITProPortal 8:44 AM
"IBM program ups the ante for losing weight"
New York Times 8:42 AM
"Intel's Ultrabook Focus Is Huge Upside Momentum For 2013"
Seeking Alpha 5:15 PM
"Intel And Its Dividend Growth"
Seeking Alpha 8:44 AM
"AMD looks to ride new 'Trinity' chip to new heights"
Austin American-Statesman [Free Registration Required] 8:42 AM
"The White House is Spending Big Money on Big Data"
Forbes 8:39 AM
"Mobiles with computing speed of PCs 4 years ago by year-end"
Financial Express 8:43 AM
"Judge holds Google to infringe 8 more Java files -- FOSS Patents was first to publish 6 of them"
Foss Patents 5/12
"Microsoft: Dividend Dynamo or Blowup?"
The Motley Fool 5/12
"Views Clash on Tech Outlays: CEO Chambers blames weakened corporate tech spending for Cisco's earnings miss, but Intel's Otellini sees no change."
Barron's 5/12
"Still in the Chips: Intel boosts payout third time in 18 months, by 7%."
Barron's 5/12
"Why Barclays and Hewlett-Packard Are Good Bets"
Barron's 5/12
"The connected car: coming to your street soon/Intel is investing in 'connected cars', which are the logical precursor to self-driving models. Matt Warman looks at the ways tech is getting into the car."
Telegraph 5/12
"Facebook and Microsoft: Friends against Google/Analysts see ties around search, mobile and enterprise software"
MarketWatch 5/12
"Boy in the Hood(ie): I had no idea that Mark Zuckerberg's hoodie would be such a big deal. I bet you even he didn't think it would be such a big deal."
GigaOM 5/12
"Mad About Facebook! Investor frenzy continues to grow, with the IPO imminent. But those who climb aboard now may be setting themselves up for disappointment."
Barron's 5/12
"ChipMOS Arises From the Dead: By focusing on the hottest electronics markets, the test-and-assembly outfit has made a remarkable comeback...and the best may be yet to come."
Barron's 5/12
General Interest
"New Tech Spenders in Feeding Frenzy: Facebook, Groupon and Zynga Snapped Up 21 Firms in First Quarter, Looking to Gain a Mobile Edge"
WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 8:26 PM
"Facebook is more than the year's hottest stock story -- it's a cultural phenomenon"
Inside Bay Area 8:41 AM
"A parent's guide to teen social media slang: Definitions for 7 popular abbreviations, from 'yolo' to 'oomf'"
Baltimore Sun [Free Registration Required] 8:39 AM
"Will 3-D Printing Change the World? Yes, But Not the Way Some Expect"
Forbes 8:38 AM
"Ailing Nokia falls back on patents legacy"
Reuters 8:29 AM
"A UK woman is taking Facebook to court to unmask anonymous trolls who made her life a misery"
The Next Web 8:29 AM
"Woman launches legal action to identify Facebook trolls: A woman abused on the internet so badly that she was falsely portrayed as a paedophile has launched a landmark legal action to bring her tormentors to justice."
Telegraph 8:29 AM
"Explosion Of Text-Message Spam Creates Space For Cloudmark"
WSJ Blogs 5/12
"The Brave New World of Driverless Cars"
Yahoo! News 5/12
"Facebook censors members after unjustly labeling them spammers"
ZDNet 5/12
"Facebook Creating Decline In Text Usage? New study shows social media to blame for text slump"
WebProNews 5/12
"Bombshell: Yahoo CEO's Excuse Is 'Verifiably Not True'"
Business Insider 5/12
"Zuckerberg Hammered With Questions About Mobile, Instagram At Valley IPO Roadshow Lunch"
Business Insider 5/12
"Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says mobile apps the top focus, we say it's about time"
Engadget 5/12
"Americans Now Spend More Time On Facebook Mobile Than Its Website"
TechCrunch 5/12
"Twitter users given legal warning in Britain"
AFP 5/12
"Verizon to expand LTE in 27 new markets on May 17th"
BGR 5/11
"Linus Torvalds Invented Git, But He Pulls No Patches With GitHub"
Wired Magazine 5/11
"Nintendo phases out Aqua Blue 3DS"
CNET News 5/11
"Adobe makes users pay to fix Photoshop flaw"
ZDNet UK 5/11
"Richard M. Stallman, free software leader falls ill at conference"
ZDNet 5/11
"Unrepentant Hippie and World Networker Randy Bush Enters Net's Hall of Fame"
Wired 5/11
"Cars of the future will be computers on wheels"
USA Today 5/11
"Snapkeys 2i: 'Invisible' Touchscreen Keyboard for Phones and Tablets"
Techland 5/11
"Citrix snaps up Virtual Computer for VDI: Project Avalon mashes up XenDesktop, CloudStack"
The Register 5/11
"Quest for the holy algorithm: Last year Google made more than 520 changes to its search algorithm software and conducted about 58,000 experiments, 7000 of those on live users."
Fairfax NZ News 5/11
"Instagram's insta-surprise: Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook is getting an assist, of sorts, from the most unlikely place in its $1 billion acquisition of photo-sharing app Instagram — Google, The Post has learned."
New York Post 5/11
"Facebook co-founder renounces U.S. citizenship"
CNNMoney 5/11
"Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin renounces US citizenship ahead of IPO, possibly reducing tax bill"
New York Post 5/11
"Want Your Facbook Status Seen? Pay Up."
PCWorld 5/11
"Facebook running tests to see if users will pay to highlight posts"
New York Post 5/11
"Fun New Facebook Feature: Pay $2 To Get Your Friends' Attention"
Forbes 5/11
"Facebook tests 'pay to promote post' tool: Facebook has started testing a system that lets users pay to highlight or promote posts."
BBC 5/11
"Samsung launches low-end Windows Phone with 4-inch display"
IDG News Service 5/11
"Samsung launches the Omnia M Windows Phone to Europe"
CNET News 5/11
"Huawei Aims to Be Smarter About Its Phone Branding"
AllThingsD 5/11
"Nvidia Surges After Microchip Forecast Tops Estimates"
Forbes 5/11
"Nvidia Shares Soar On Earnings Beat, Bullish Outlook"
AllThingsD 5/11
"Sony to sell Modern Warfare 3-branded PS3 bundle"
TG Daily 5/11
"Sony slides to three-decade low on strategy doubts"
Reuters 5/11
"Sony, Panasonic Fall to 30-Year Lows as TV Losses Mount"
Bloomberg 5/11
"Panasonic Books US$10 Billion Annual Loss, Largest Ever by Japan Manufacturer"
IDG News Service 5/11
"Panasonic posts record fiscal-year loss"
MarketWatch 5/11
"Panasonic Posts Record Annual Net Loss"
WSJ.com 5/11
"Video apps battle to be the next Instagram"
CNNMoney 5/11
Press Releases
"Dell Boomi Wins SIIA CODiE Award for 'Best Web Services Solution'"
Business Wire 5/11
"Team of Three to Be Named Winner at IBM-Sponsored International College Programming Contest: 112 Teams of Students from Around the World Meet in Warsaw, Poland to Compete in 'Battle of the Brains' computer programming contest"
PRNewswire 5/11
"IBM Team Finds Innovative Use of Technology Could Ease Nairobi's Traffic Jams"
PRNewswire 5/11
Microsoft
"Former Xbox 360 exec's $1B pain and advice to entrepreneurs"
VentureBeat 12:57 PM
"How would you change Windows Phone's notification system?"
PhoneDog 8:45 AM
"Active Directory: Tips from the front line"
ZDNet UK 5/11
"Microsoft India rules out Windows Phone handsets from local OEMs"
ZDNet 5/11
"Mary Jo Schrade From Microsoft and Ramsom Koay From Thermaltake to Be Featured on Let's Talk Computers (R)"
Marketwire 5/11
"Microsoft: Undervalued With Strong Growth Potential"
Seeking Alpha 5/11
"Microsoft: No Longer A 'Boring' Investment"
Seeking Alpha 5/11
Government/Law/Politics
"Verizon Defends Customer Privacy in Publisher's Suit"
PCWorld 1:02 PM
"Verizon refuses to give up customer info in pirate hunt"
CNET News 5/11
"Alleged LulzSec hackers' plea date moved"
ZDNet UK 5/11
"Dutch court orders five more ISPs to block Pirate Bay"
V3 5/11
"Megaupload files motion to delay civil suit: The defunct file-sharing site, under financial pressure, wants to deal with the pending criminal case first"
IDG News Service 5/11
"Beyoncé's 'joystuck': $100M suit for video-game 'snub' OK'd"
New York Post 5/11
"The FBI took -- and mysteriously returned -- their server. Here's their story"
MSNBC 5/11
"California moves to stop employers demanding Facebook passwords: The move is part of a wave of legislative activity to block the practice"
IDG News Service 5/11
"Court won't order Google-NSA interactions released"
Associated Press 5/11
"Court Rules NSA Doesn't Have To Reveal Its Semi-Secret Relationship With Google"
Forbes 5/11
"Sky's the limit for new IT options at NASA's Goddard center"
Federal Computer Week 5/11
"Facebook's $1bn Instagram deal could be delayed by a year"
V3 5/11
"Facebook's Instagram buy to face regulatory questions"
TG Daily 5/11
"FTC quizzed Google, Twitter in probe into Facebook's Instagram purchase"
Reuters 5/11
"Senator seeks DOJ cellphone tracking data"
IDG News Service 5/11
"Clinton Says Mobile Tech, Cooperation Key to Tackling Global Problems"
CIO 5/11
"Bill Clinton Thinks Mobile Connectivity Is The Future"
BYTE 5/11
"Online music storage firm MP3tunes files for bankruptcy"
Reuters 5/11
"Pentagon to expand cybersecurity program for defense contractors"
Washington Post 5/11
"India Court to Hear Presidential Reference in Telecom Ruling July 10"
WSJ.com 5/11
Analysis/Editorial/Help/Opinion
"12 Tips to Cut Your Cell Phone Bill: Why pay more than you have to every month? These tips, tricks, and services can help you save plenty of dough on that monster cell phone bill."
PCWorld 8:44 PM
"Why Facebook may soon cost you money: Now that Facebook has conducted a small test of charging users to promote their status updates, isn't it inevitable that, as a public company, Facebook will have to start dinging users in earnest?"
CNET News 9:01 PM
"Facebook's Purchases May Hint at Its Future"
New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 9:01 PM
"Facebook's worst idea yet: Paid post promotion"
ZDNet 8:41 PM
"Yahoo ousts CEO Scott Thompson, and I ask: 'What the frak?'"
BetaNews 8:45 PM
"Yahoo Mess: More Proof That Media Companies Don't Know Anything About Dealing with the Media"
Techland 8:44 PM
"Ross Levinsohn's Yahoo Plan: Back to the Future"
AllThingsD 8:42 PM
"Does a new CEO mean Yahoo will drop its Facebook lawsuit?"
ZDNet 8:42 PM
"Yahoo's Light At The End Of The Tunnel"
Forbes 8:22 PM
"Here's What Yahoo's Next CEO Must Do"
Forbes 8:22 PM
"An Empowering Trip to cure Digital Overload"
Forbes 1:02 PM
"For De-Friending The U.S., Facebook's Eduardo Saverin Is An American Hero"
Forbes 8:23 PM
"Facebook's delicate balance between revenue and privacy"
GigaOM 1:05 PM
"Facebook CEO turns 28: Does age matter? Don't let the hoodie and sneakers fool you. Mark Zuckerberg is no wet-behind-the-ears CEO."
Associated Press 12:57 PM
"Android economics: An introduction"
asymco 12:49 PM
"On Facebook, deleting an app doesn't delete your data from their system"
Ars Technica 12:47 PM
"Device Battles Over, Let The Ecosystem Wars Commence: What Do Smart Phone Buyers Really Want?"
Seeking Alpha 8:29 AM
"Will my 3G phone work on 4G networks? When 4G mobile internet access arrives, what will become of my 3G smartphone?"
Telegraph 8:29 AM
"High-tech vs. no-tech: D.C. area schools take opposite approaches to education"
Washington Post 5/12
"Plenty of Reasons to Be Wary of the Facebook Hype"
The Motley Fool 5/12
"Oops! 5 CEOs Who Should Have Already Been Fired (Cisco, GE, WalMart, Sears, Microsoft)"
Forbes 5/12
"For Mother's Day this year, stop being your parent's tech support"
The Verge 5/12
"Elgan: How I publish from Google+/I use only Google+, yet my posts appear on Twitter, Facebook and more. Here's how I do it."
Computerworld 5/12
"The Case For And Against Discrete Graphics Cards"
Forbes 5/12
"Why Facebook's Co-Founder Just Defriended America"
Forbes 5/12
"Help! I'm confused about storage on my smartphone: In this edition of Ask Maggie, I explain how to store media on the expandable memory on a smartphone."
CNET News 5/12
"Don't Infringe On My Social Space Friend"
Forbes 5/12
"Do LED TVs have a viewing angle disadvantage? Why is the picture so poor when my LED TV is viewed from an angle?"
Telegraph 5/12
"The End of the Traditional Telcos: How LTE could help Verizon and AT&T, hurt Sprint-Nextel."
Barron's 5/12
"Huawei, Cisco Battle Heats Up: Huawei's CloudEngine line, launched at Interop, puts Cisco on notice that the Chinese behemoth has big U.S. data center ambitions."
InformationWeek 5/11
"Why are HDTV prices rising as economy continues to struggle?"
ZDNet 5/11
"Connected Moms: Nielsen Says 54% Own Smartphones; 75% Use Facebook; 5M Visit Pinterest Monthly"
TechCrunch 5/11
"American moms love Facebook, Nielsen survey shows"
Network World 5/11
"Would you pay to promote a Facebook post?"
Washington Post 5/11
"Facebook file-sharing could be security, piracy nightmare: Users won't be able to pass along music or .exe files -- but infected PDFs and other forms of pirated content are permissible"
InfoWorld 5/11
"9 cloud development platforms on the rise" [Slideshow]
InfoWorld 5/11
"Open source suites go beyond Microsoft Office"
InfoWorld 5/11
"10 must-have gadgets for the traveling executive" [Slideshow]
CIO 5/11
"Who owns what when employees use their own tech"
InfoWorld 5/11
"BlackBerry 10's open secret: It's aimed at the walled garden"
The Globe and Mail 5/11
"China Churns Out Mobile Phones. Can It Build A Better Browser?"
Forbes 5/11
"9 Tips To Block Hotel Wi-Fi Malware: FBI issues warning to people traveling abroad that free Wi-Fi systems can pose a threat. Learn how to keep systems locked down and safe while traveling."
InformationWeek 5/11
"Patients Like Active Video Games As Fitness Tools: Most consumers believe that video games that force them to get up and move around can improve their health, says study from UnitedHealth Group."
InformationWeek 5/11
"Is Facebook Too Dependent on Zuckerberg?" [Video Report]
FOXBusiness 5/11
"Why Is Everyone Focused on Zuckerberg's Hoodie?"
New York Times 5/11
"Why we need to keep talking about women in tech"
CNET News 5/11
"Facebook IPO has halo effect for venture capitalists"
Reuters 8:38 AM
"Google eyes Meebo buy: Google is looking to buy social-products company Meebo for about $100 million, according to a report in All Things Digital."
CNET News 5/12
"Google May Be Close to Acquiring Meebo for $100 Million [Report]"
Mashable 5/12
"Stocks end lower as bank shares weigh"
CNNMoney 5/11
"Dow Logs Worst Week of 2012; JPMorgan Skids"
CNBC 5/11
"Dow Has Its Worst Week in 5 Months: The Dow industrials edged lower to cap their biggest weekly retreat of the year, as big trading losses at J.P. Morgan Chase JPM -9.28% weighed on sentiment."
WSJ.com 5/11
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