Provides the latest RSS feeds for Breaking Technology News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Birmingham Star.com http://www.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/10/id/d805653303cbbba8/ en-us Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:05:23 -0500 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:05:23 -0500 30 Cisco Systems , the world’s largest maker of computer networking equipment, reported higher-than-expected earnings for its most recent quarter, reflecting strong demand from businesses for its ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348139/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:33:07 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348139/ There are dozens of Android phones, and newer, better ones appear every few months. Google subscribes to the Microsoft Windows scheme: write the software, and let other companies build the ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348140/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:33:05 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348140/ The Web abounds with matchmaking sites like Match.com, eHarmony, Jazzed and Grindr, and all those services have apps for people who want to arrange dates ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348141/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:33:02 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348141/ Sonos should have been roadkill beneath Apple's tires.The Santa Barbara, Calif., start-up was formed by a software entrepreneur, John MacFarlane, in 2002 with a plan to reinvent the home stereo ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348142/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:33:00 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348142/ ] posted fiscal second-quarter earnings excluding items of 47 cents per share, up from 37 cents per share in the year-earlier period. Net income grew to $2.2 billion from $1.5 billion last year. ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203338709/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:16:24 -0500 CNBC http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203338709/ The report, which cites unnamed sources for the information, said the move would expand an existing partnership between the two retailers. Sam's Club already sells ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348163/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:16:12 -0500 CNBC http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348163/ Commentary - Anonymous may be falling victim to their very name. Because of it, it allows them the freedom to become larger than they otherwise could independently - while also protecting them from ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348153/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:04:07 -0500 ZDNet http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348153/ NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Welcome to the big leagues, Groupon. Shareholders punished the stock in after-hours trading Wednesday after the daily deals site posted a surprise loss for its first quarter ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348161/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:52:55 -0500 CNN Money http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348161/ FORTUNE -- Netflix isn't the only the web streaming service out there. As consumers migrate from physical to digital media, more companies are rushing to meet their needs. Apple has a robust ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348160/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:52:53 -0500 CNN Money http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348160/ Authentic Brands Group, the owners of Marilyn Monroe's estates, hope the actress' verified Twitter feed will fuel more interest in the actress' ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203346838/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:52:49 -0500 CNN Money http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203346838/ Facebook has ample access to capital and it's traded more shares per month than hundreds of Nasdaq-listed companies. Indeed, the de facto Facebook IPO happened long ago. By Joshua Brown, ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203346837/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:52:46 -0500 CNN Money http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203346837/ Fortune 500 ) last quarter as the third national carrier to sell Apple's iconic smartphone, and the company announced Wednesday that it sold a better-than-expected 1.8 million iPhones over the ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203347736/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:52:43 -0500 CNN Money http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203347736/ Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Sprint Nextel Corp. reported widening losses for the first quarter it offered the Apple Inc. iPhone, signaling the best-selling device may not be helping Chief Executive ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203347728/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:44:23 -0500 BusinessWeek http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203347728/ Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Rambus Inc., a memory-chip designer that gets most of its revenue from royalties, rose the most in 1 1/2 months after reaching a patent agreement with Nvidia Corp., ending a ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348137/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:44:20 -0500 BusinessWeek http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348137/ Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Groupon Inc., the largest daily-deal site, had a fourth-quarter loss after an expansion into lower- margin businesses sapped profitability during its first period as a publicly ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348138/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:44:16 -0500 BusinessWeek http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348138/ Just about a year ago, Nokia announced it would be partnering with Microsoft to deliver Nokia-branded Windows Phones. The plan was to jumpstart Microsoft’s fledgling smartphone platform, and ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348151/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:26:24 -0500 Wired News http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348151/ The FBI is taking a tough line on cloud vendors looking to do business with U.S. law enforcement agencies, saying Tuesday that there would be no compromise in its new rule that all such ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348150/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:26:20 -0500 Wired News http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348150/ , Acer said that it has initiated legal action against Gianfranco Lanci in Italy, his home country, for allegedly violating non-compete clauses in his contract with the firm. Acer said he violated ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348146/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:26:07 -0500 The Inquirer http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348146/ are looking to strengthen their anti e-crime resources with the opening of three facilities in the North and Midlands. The government has pledged £650m to help fight cybercrime, which is ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348147/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:26:04 -0500 The Inquirer http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348147/ , and today serial litigator Rambus said it had managed to get Nividia to toe its line. "This is an important license agreement as it settles our differences and allows us to move forward with ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348148/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:26:01 -0500 The Inquirer http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348148/ Google has acknoledged the concerns of the European Commission (EC) by sending out letters to several standards organisations saying it will fairly license Motorola Mobility's patents should ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348149/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:25:56 -0500 The Inquirer http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348149/ could be a thing of the past if Cambridge researchers can successfully bring new high efficiency cells out from the lab and onto our roofs. A significant jump in efficiency has been made that could ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348178/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:25:37 -0500 TechEye http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348178/ and Privacy International showed that even some rather surprising attendees, such as the Strathclyde Police and The US Fish and Wildlife Service, also turn up - paying over a thousand dollars per ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348179/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:25:35 -0500 TechEye http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348179/ Watch a cyborg moth respond to stimulation Half-moth, half machine, a new generation of remote-controlled insects could one day be used as ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348165/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:21:50 -0500 New Scientist http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348165/ Spammers are impersonating well-known Android software developers in order to distribute rogue apps through the official Android Market. Security researchers from antivirus firm Trend ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348170/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:16:30 -0500 InfoWorld http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348170/ lawsuit (PDF) filed in the Supreme Court of the State of New York. Femtocells like those Airvana developed extend capacity and coverage of mobile networks, which are under increasing strain. The ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348168/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:16:26 -0500 InfoWorld http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348168/ Google plans to remove online certificate revocation checks from future versions of Chrome, because it considers the process inefficient and slow. Browsers currently check if a website's SSL ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348167/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:16:23 -0500 InfoWorld http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348167/ open source Web application that lets them consolidate software vulnerability data from a range of scanning and test tools. With a centralized view, and reporting and management tools, ThreadFix ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348171/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:16:19 -0500 InfoWorld http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348171/ The future supercontinent, "Amasia," described in the journal Nature on Wednesday, will encompass Asia, Africa and the Americas. Driven by continental drift, the assemblies of such ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203341121/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:16:16 -0500 USA Today http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203341121/ Rambus and Nvidia have settled past lawsuits and signed a patent agreement covering a broad range of integrated circuit products, Rambus said on Wednesday. Under the patent agreement, Nvidia will be ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348173/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:16:15 -0500 InfoWorld http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348173/ European researchers may have found a way to speed up data storage 100-fold, breaking one barrier holding back how fast data can be transferred. If successfully translated to a storage product, the ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348174/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:16:11 -0500 InfoWorld http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348174/ Is the bloom already off the Ultrabook marketing rose? With little redeeming value and Intel Ivy Bridge processors coming, Ultrabook prices have hit the ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348176/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:16:08 -0500 InfoWorld http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348176/ Weave -- and more are on the way. Three years in development so far and still in beta, Weave is designed so government agencies, non-profits, and corporate users can offer the public an easy-to-use ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348177/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:16:03 -0500 InfoWorld http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348177/ Groupon, unveiling its first results as a public company, said its fourth-quarter net loss attributable to common stockholders was $42.7 million, or 8 cents a share. That compares to a loss of ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348129/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:11:55 -0500 Reuters http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348129/ (Reuters) - Network equipment maker Systems Inc said second quarter earnings and revenue beat average estimates, leading it to increase its ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348130/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:11:51 -0500 Reuters http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348130/ BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Google will pledge to license on fair and reasonable terms the patents it acquires through buying Motorola Mobility, said a person familiar with the matter, in a bid to allay ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348131/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:11:46 -0500 Reuters http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348131/ KOMAROM, Hungary (Reuters) - Veronika Szalai had just graduated from elementary school when Nokia, the Finnish phone maker, opened a factory by the Danube in Komarom. The 27-year-old, who has worked ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348132/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:11:41 -0500 Reuters http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348132/ Feb 8 - Electronic Arts Inc's chief financial officer is leaving the video game publisher to take a post at communications company Polycom Inc, both companies said in statements on ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348133/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:11:34 -0500 Reuters http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348133/ (Reuters) - Internet content delivery company Akamai Technologies Inc posted a fourth-quarter profit above analysts' expectations, helped by growing demand for online content, sending its ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348134/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:11:30 -0500 Reuters http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348134/ LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Cable TV network CNN said on Wednesday it has suspended commentator Roland Martin over a series of Twitter remarks during the Super Bowl game that offended America's gay ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348135/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:11:25 -0500 Reuters http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348135/ CANCUN, Mexico (Reuters) - Russia's Kaspersky Lab reported that sales growth slowed substantially last year as the world's No. 4 maker of anti-virus software said its business was starting ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348136/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:11:19 -0500 Reuters http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348136/ Networking giant Cisco Systems today reported a better-than-expected fiscal second quarter and said its renewed focus is paying off. Cisco reported fiscal second-quarter earnings of $2.2 billion, ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203338967/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:06:45 -0500 Cnet http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203338967/ . Whether Booktango should be called an "e-book generating app" or "self-publishing platform" is hard to say, but it basically provides a free and simple way to upload your ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203338968/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:06:43 -0500 Cnet http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203338968/ New, Cool Laptop . I've been encouraging forward-thinking laptop design, and yet I understand that laptops, in an age of ever-smaller, ever-cooler smart devices, just might for many be destined ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203338969/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:06:40 -0500 Cnet http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203338969/ (Credit: NBC Universal) The Web is getting re-Bourne today, as in Jason Bourne. NBC Universal released the trailer for the "Bourne Legacy," the latest installment in the popular ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203338970/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:06:37 -0500 Cnet http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203338970/ (Credit: ThinkGeek) Geek love can be a challenge on Valentine's Day. Roses are too old-fashioned, and chocolates are dull--unless they happen to be ThinkGeek's zombie head chocolates. ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203338971/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:06:35 -0500 Cnet http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203338971/ (Credit: Groupon) Groupon, the daily deals pioneer that's won plenty of skeptics as well as copy cats, today reported its first quarterly results as a public company, in which it fell short ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203338973/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:06:29 -0500 Cnet http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203338973/ (Credit: Google) Safer downloads and a cautious expansion of site pre-caching land in Chrome 17 today, continuing Google's two-tiered approach to browser speed and user ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203338974/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:06:27 -0500 Cnet http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203338974/ griped about e-book prices many times before, and I remain steadfast in my belief that publishers charge way too much for a product that requires no printing, consumables, shipping, storage (in the ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203338975/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:06:23 -0500 Cnet http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203338975/ absorbs iPhone address books to connect users together -- without asking users first for permission to use that data -- Path CEO Dave Morin has posted an apology. He also says that Path has deleted ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203338976/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:06:20 -0500 Cnet http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203338976/ Metro touch user interface . The Windows 8 tablet would also come in three models (16GB, 32GB, and 64GB) and feature an 8-megapixel camera, a rear-facing 2-megapixel camera, 512MB RAM, a ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203338977/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:06:19 -0500 Cnet http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203338977/ (Credit: Kent German/CNET) Sprint's Nextel network won't completely shut down until next year, but the company is already working to turn off the iDEN network. During the ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203338978/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:06:17 -0500 Cnet http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203338978/ tablet will soon be as simple as turning on your device. That means no more scrolling through lists of available Wi-Fi networks, and no more typing passwords to join ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203338979/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:06:15 -0500 Cnet http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203338979/ BioLite CampStove could change that for the power-hungry. This 2-pound portable device features a USB port that can power or charge devices while you burn biomass. So how does it work? Well, the ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203338980/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:06:13 -0500 Cnet http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203338980/ Studio Ve doesn't require special glasses. It didn't take a crew of 300 and a Hollywood budget to create. It's 3D in its purest form: real life. ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203338982/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:06:11 -0500 Cnet http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203338982/ GigaOm, one of Silicon Valley's best-known blogs, said today it has acquired the assets from ContentNext Media, parent company of media blog paidContent, from publisher Guardian News & ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203338981/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:06:08 -0500 Cnet http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203338981/ Android device, an oversize smartphone known as the Optimus Vu. Aside from its name and the fact that it features an unorthodox 4:3 aspect ratio, nothing else can be gleaned from a newly ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203338983/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:06:05 -0500 Cnet http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203338983/ About The 404 Podcast A pop-cult fix for a generation that grew up playing Nintendo and watching Saturday morning cartoons, the 404 podcast, with hosts Jeff Bakalar, Wilson Tang, and Justin Yu, ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203338984/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:06:02 -0500 Cnet http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203338984/ Technology can only be as good as the hands and eyes into which it is placed. Those hands and eyes can sometimes be overly aggressive or simply inexact. Please imagine, then, how those hands and ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203338985/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:05:54 -0500 Cnet http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203338985/ Three police cybercrime teams have been launched as part of a 6m regional effort to combat growing threats. Yorkshire and the Humber, the Northwest and East Midlands will each get its own dedicated ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348128/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:55:11 -0500 BBC http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348128/ Apple has warned that any developers found to be artificially inflating the rankings of apps will be kicked off the App Store. It follows a developer blowing the whistle on the practice of using ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203346862/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:55:07 -0500 BBC http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203346862/ The man behind political website Guido Fawkes has told how he avoided legal action by using foreign web hosts. Paul Staines said he published a Merrill Lynch memo about the potential 50bn cost of ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203339761/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:55:03 -0500 BBC http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203339761/ Off '; ascObj.innerHTML = ascntrlStr; } } userPref.autoStart = userPref.getAutoStart(); baseURL = 'http://a.abcnews.com/assets'; pageId = '15538105'; playlistIds = ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348180/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:53:38 -0500 ABC News http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348180/ Hollywood actor who needed emergency medical help because of a gerbil that went where no gerbil had gone before? That's all a bunch of bunk, or course. But we've heard those stories, or ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348181/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:53:32 -0500 ABC News http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348181/ (02-08) 11:12 PST VALLEJO -- Eleven crashes involving at least 31 vehicles driving through heavy fog on Highway 37 snarled traffic this morning in both directions near Skaggs Island Road west of ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203338526/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:37:22 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203338526/ (02-08) 10:33 PST SAN FRANCISCO -- A woman and a boy were injured Tuesday night in an explosion and fire at a home in San Francisco's Ingleside neighborhood that was apparently caused by drug ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348144/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:37:09 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348144/ Cash-strapped Oakland is on the verge of putting up $3 million for the designers of Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis - site of Sunday's Super Bowl - to work their magic and come up with a new ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203338528/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:37:09 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203338528/ Oh wait . Parents Television Council! I have a question for all four of you, along with your 19 cats: Do you plan in advance? Do you sit around in your drafty conference room in the back of the ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203338529/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:37:03 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203338529/ What doesn't change about Italy is that it's always changing. In 2012 some long-closed doors are opening again. Historic sights, newly scrubbed and restored, are coming out from behind ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203338530/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:36:56 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203338530/ Oakland's City Council, amid a rowdy crowd of protesters, narrowly backed off a resolution Tuesday that would have beefed up law enforcement at Occupy protests. The resolution, which lacked ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203338531/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:36:50 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203338531/ Republican presidential candidate former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum speaks during a primary night watch party Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012, in St. Charles, ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203338532/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:36:45 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203338532/ Proposition 8 unconstitutional. Judge Stephen Reinhardt stipulated that the ruling skirted the larger issue of whether same-sex couples have a right to marry. That's a shame, because at least ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203338533/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:36:40 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203338533/ LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Karaoke lovers typically fall into two categories: Those who enjoy it, and those whose arms have to be twisted to get up and sing in ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348154/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:14:31 -0500 Tampa Bay Online http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203348154/ NEW YORK (AP) -- Sprint dug deep into its pockets in the latest quarter to put iPhones in the hands of its customers. The perennially money-losing company on Wednesday posted its largest loss in ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203347735/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:14:26 -0500 Tampa Bay Online http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203347735/ NEW YORK (AP) -- Time Warner Inc. got a boost from its movie studio and cable TV networks in the last three months of the year, and the company expects growth to continue in 2012 even with the end ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203339912/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:14:24 -0500 Tampa Bay Online http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203339912/ HELSINKI (AP) -- Nokia Corp. plans to stop assembling cell phones in Europe by year-end as it shifts production to Asia and will cut another 4,000 jobs, its latest attempts to cushion itself from ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203340905/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:14:19 -0500 Tampa Bay Online http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203340905/ LONDON (AP) -- Rupert Murdoch's News International has settled nearly all the cases against the company in the first wave of lawsuits for phone hacking by its journalists, with a new round of ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203340665/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:14:17 -0500 Tampa Bay Online http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203340665/ CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- Hackers affiliated with the group Anonymous obtained personal information for more than 150 police officers from an old website of the West Virginia Chiefs of Police ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203338536/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:14:15 -0500 Tampa Bay Online http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203338536/ Teenagers now list using social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter as their number one pastime, overtaking watching television, according to a new report. Sixty-five per cent of the 16-24 ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203336858/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:48:37 -0500 Independent.ie http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203336858/ Roy Bostock and three other directors are to step down in a boardroom clear-out as the embattled US internet company attempts to win back investor support.The upheaval comes amid a strategic impasse ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203336859/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:48:34 -0500 Independent.ie http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203336859/ A protest against proposed laws to curb Internet piracy outside the offices of Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand and Senator Charles E. Schumer in New York last ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203336842/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:48:00 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203336842/ The yellow folder icons sitting out on the Windows 7 desktop usually offer a micro-thumbnail peek of some of the files inside the folder. If you would prefer to give your desktop folders a more ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203336843/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:47:57 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203336843/ Surgeons decided to replace an entire jaw of an elderly woman made using a 3D printing technique. (Credit: LayerWise)An elderly woman has received a replacement titanium jaw, an operation ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203336855/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:21:04 -0500 ZDNet http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203336855/ Since Apple's iPhone debuted on Verizon's network in February 2011, Verizon's "EBITDA service margin" -- a closely watched metric that carriers use to measure their core ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203330653/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:12:30 -0500 CNN Money http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203330653/ Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Sprint Nextel Corp., the third- largest U.S. wireless carrier, posted a narrower loss than analysts projected after Apple Inc.’s iPhone boosted ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203336584/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:06:54 -0500 BusinessWeek http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203336584/ Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Vodacom Group Ltd., the largest provider of mobile-phone services to South Africans, said sales rose 12 percent in the three months through December as it added a record number ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203336336/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:06:47 -0500 BusinessWeek http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203336336/ Motorola has announced the launch of its Motoluxe smartphone in the UK. The Android 2.3 Gingerbread powered smartphone has a 4in touchscreen, an 8MP autofocus camera with flash and incorporates ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203336850/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:52:49 -0500 The Inquirer http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203336850/ that threatened to blow up Robin Hood airport is in court challenging his conviction. Paul Chambers jokingly threatened to blow up the airport when bad weather threatened his travel plans. Although ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203336849/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:52:46 -0500 The Inquirer http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203336849/ Oregon has flirted with but rejected an attempt to criminalise the use of Twitter. A bill in the state legislature to criminalise messages sent over the micro-social networking application was set ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203336853/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:52:37 -0500 The Inquirer http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203336853/ Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) has another European Parliament rapporteur, after the last one resigned in protest. Minister of the European Parliament (MEP) David Martin has taken over ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203336852/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:52:33 -0500 The Inquirer http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203336852/ a letter to shareholders and explained that they are the result of a push to increase shareholder value. "These actions result from a process I initiated about six months ago in a special ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203336854/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:52:29 -0500 The Inquirer http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203336854/ a CPU-GPU integration technique that it reckons could boost processing power by over 20 percent. The method does not involve buckets of liquid nitrogen and waving goodbye to your PC warranty. ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203336869/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:52:19 -0500 TechEye http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203336869/ a family of OCTEON III MIPS64 multicore systems on a chip with anywhere from one to 48 cores that can produce more than 100Gbps of application performance per chip. The design allows for linear ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203336868/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:52:17 -0500 TechEye http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203336868/ , under a cunning plan being looked at by the US Senate, the DHS thinks that if it runs every corporate network in the Land of the Free the country will be much safer. We guess it will also mean ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203336867/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:52:14 -0500 TechEye http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203336867/ it is impossible to find a battery that lasts longer than a day because in areas with spotty 4G service, the phone spends an awful lot of battery power trying to hunt down a signal. While it is ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203336871/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:52:10 -0500 TechEye http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203336871/ said that Google has applied for a US Federal Communications Commission experimental licence to test an unnamed prototype which it says will connect to home electronics through wireless internet and ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203336872/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:52:08 -0500 TechEye http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203336872/ , the three have been seen locked in intense discussions in a smoke filled room trying to iron out a deal that they can all live with. The big idea is to spin off their system chip design and ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203336873/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:52:06 -0500 TechEye http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203336873/ Digital Certificate Authority (CA) Trustwave revealed that it has issued a digital certificate that enabled an unnamed private company to spy on SSL-protected connections within its corporate ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203336860/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:44:22 -0500 InfoWorld http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203336860/ In this paper, Forrester Consulting examines the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) realized by three Enterprise organizations as they virtualized mission-critical Oracle ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203336861/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:44:17 -0500 InfoWorld http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203336861/ Technology companies are not just making their products less carbon-intensive; they are also increasingly designing products to improve energy efficiency in the industries that they serve, according ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203336862/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:44:11 -0500 InfoWorld http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/203336862/