• Microsoft to build Australian cloud computing centers

  SYDNEY (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp is expanding its services for hosting and processing online data in Australia with the establishment of two new "cloud" computing data centers in the ...

• Flickrs new $499.99 per year Doublr service explained

  (Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET) Yahoo on Monday increased the amount of storage Flickr users get by 70-fold, and at the same time quietly introduced a new pro tier that costs users 20 times as much as the one it replaces. That ...

• Flickrs free terabyte not big enough

  languish with a fresh coat of paint and a free terabyte of space. Too bad today's photo-sharer has found a home elsewhere and is already accustomed to free. Monday at a press event in New York, Yahoo announced major changes ...

• NY official Airbnb stay illegal host fined $2400

  (Credit: Screenshot by Donna Tam/CNET) New York City officials have determined that a man who rented out part of his apartment on Airbnb should pay $2,400 for violating the city's illegal hotel law, despite Airbnb stepping in on the host's behalf. The city initially asked host Nigel Warren ...

• Google Checkout to check out

  blog post Monday . Even though Checkout was replaced by Wallet in 2011, it still has been an option for those merchants who are adamant about using the old service in their operations. But on November 20, that will come to an end. Google said by that time merchants who use Checkout will have two options: (1) move to another service, such as Google partners Braintree, Shopify, or Freshbooks, if ...

• Samsung Galaxy Tablet may run on Intel chip

  Android tablet allegedly will sport a dual-core 1.6GHz Intel Atom CloverTrail+ chip, industry sources familiar with the product told CNET. The plus sign means the CloverTrial chip packs a high-performance PowerVR SGX544 MP2 graphic processing unit from Imagination Technologies. Other specs include Android 4.2.2 and a 1,280 x 800 display. Samsung is expected to reveal the Galaxy Tab at ...

• Apple dodged paying billions in taxes subcommittee says

  report Monday detailing how it believes the tech giant has avoided paying its fair share of U.S. taxes. "Apple is an American success story," the report reads. "Today, Apple Inc. maintains more than $102 billion in offshore cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities (cash). Apple executives told the Subcommittee that the company has no intention of returning those funds to ...

• How to create custom PDF compression filters in OS X

  Apple's Preview program is the default PDF viewer in OS X, and has a number of options for annotating and otherwise managing PDF files. One of its features is support for Quartz filters, which can be applied to PDFs and image files to convert them, for example into sepia, black-and-white, or gray scale. A Quartz filter can be used to reduce the PDF's file size, but while it's ...

• Yahoo Looks To Regain Its Cool With $1.1 Billion Tumblr Deal

  SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/AP) –After falling woefully out of fashion, Yahoo wants to be cool again while catering to the capitalistic demands of its shareholders.That goal led CEO Marissa Mayer to make a $1.1 billion bet on online blogging forum Tumblr in a risky acquisition that revolves around the vision and instincts of a 26-year-old entrepreneur who dropped out of high school to pursue his ...

• New Research Tools Kick Up Dust in Archives

  Now, however, his tool of choice is the high-resolution camera on his iPhone. When he found a document of interest, he quickly snapped a photo and instantly shared his discovery with a colleague working hundreds of miles away. Indeed, Mr. Fernstedt, who conducts his research on several continents, now packs his own substantial digital Popper library on the disk of his MacBook Air laptop computer ...

• Under Mayer Boosting mobile buying companies

  Yahoo Inc. lured Marissa Mayer from Google in July to become its fifth CEO in as many years. Her task: Help the Internet pioneer regain its stature after years in a financial funk. In her 10 months leading the company, she has overseen a redesign of Yahoo services and orchestrated several acquisitions, including a deal to buy online blogging forum Tumblr for $1.1 ...

• Yahoo rolls out update to make Flickr awesome again

  The new Flickr homepage offers "endless scrolling," a la Pinterest and features huge photos on the left side of the page, with smaller pictures and social options on the right. Personal photo pages also got a revamp that focuses on big images. Photos won't lose any fidelity when they're uploaded and shared, and all Flickr users now get a whopping one terabyte of storage, ...

• Smart necklace is key to secret iPad diary

  iPad to lock down digital diary entries and keep secret crushes and innermost thoughts safe from prying eyes. The gold heart necklace, designed with preteens and teens in mind, works with the iHeart Locket Diary App for iOS. The diary app holds text, pictures, speech-to-text audio, and written notes, making it more of a digital scrapbook than a simple ...

• U.S. Navy dolphins find antique torpedo

  , the U.S. military's dolphin program, active since the 1960s, has had quite a bit of success. Dolphins, you see, are capable of producing sonar, and have an aptitude for learning commands, proving to be much more useful than machines for aquatic mine detection. "Dolphins naturally possess the most sophisticated sonar known to man," explains Braden Duryee, operations supervisor ...

• Yahoo Gives Flickr a Makeover

  $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr , Yahoo announced some major updates to its Flickr photo-sharing service. "Tonight is about Flickr," Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer said at an event in New York City Monday evening. "It is about that other 'R' brand and how we can make Flickr awesome again." To that end, Yahoo announced three main changes to Flickr: a cleaner ...

• Tumblr CEOs mom gushes over billion-dollar baby

  Macy's has announced it will close its downtown store in the 100-year-old Railway Exchange Building, where over the years customers have ...

• Meet AOI Apples mysterious Irish subsidiary

  , it's in the southern Irish city of Cork that Apple pioneered its famous "double irish with a Dutch sandwich" -- a tax avoidance technique designed to take advantage of a quirk in Ireland's tax laws that allows foreign corporations to move money around the world tax free. Perhaps anticipating that this is what the senators want to talk about, Apple spent nearly half of the ...

• Apple calls for tax reform defends tax practices ahead of Senate hearing

  Apple executives are set to defend the company's tax practices and call for corporate tax reform that would allow it to bring some of the billions of dollars in cash it has overseas back to the ...

• Yahoo’s Past Big Buys Tell a Tale of Mediocrity and Failure

  Yahoo’s narrative arc as a company can be defined by its acquisitions, which taken together also serve as one take on the history of the web itself. In the Yahoo version of that history, founders and backers of overvalued companies enjoy huge exits while the buyer tends to learn too late that its exuberance was irrational. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer will soon find out whether her ...

• Leap Motion shows off Windows compatibility

  Windows users, rejoice! Leap Motion is coming to a PC near you, and for the first time, you can see what it will be like. Today, Leap Motion released ...

• 13.3-inch Sony tablet is like Etch A Sketch on steroids

  Digital Paper touch-panel display was recently shown off at Educational IT Solutions Expo (EDIX) in Tokyo. Sony is planning to try it out at Japanese universities and bring it to the general market this year. It incorporates ...

• Dish said to bid $2B for Lightsquared spectrum

  (Credit: Screenshot by Dan Farber/CNET) LightSquared's wireless spectrum could be getting a new owner, according to a new ...

• Facebook simplifies sharing for iOS apps

  (Credit: Facebook) Sharing is caring -- if your Facebook and your network depends on it. Monday, the social network simplified the process for sharing activities from third-party iOS apps to Facebook. The company rolled out something called the ...

• Yahoo-Tumblr is among top 10 tech deals in 2013

  Yahoo has agreed to pay $1.1 billion to buy blogging forum Tumblr, ranking it in among the top 10 tech deals announced this year, according to research firm Dealogic. Here's a list of the top 10 tech mergers and acquisitions in 2013. Valuation is based on Dealogic's criteria and includes ...

• At a glance comparing Yahoo and Tumblr

  Yahoo is paying $1.1 billion to buy the popular blogging site Tumblr. It's part of Yahoo's comeback efforts, after years in a financial funk. Tumblr will give Yahoo more opportunities to sell advertising. Here's how the two companies compare:- TUMBLRFOUNDED: February 2007 by software consultant David Karp and Web developer Marco Arment.HEADQUARTERS: New YorkLEADERSHIP: Founder ...

• Panel Apple uses firms outside US to avoid taxes

  Commuters who manage to make it from southwest Connecticut to New York City for work should consider staying in the Big Apple all week as crews begin rebuilding 2,000 feet of track following a commuter ...

• We wont screw it up Yahoo buys New York-based social network Tumblr for $1.1bn as chief executive Marissa Mayer rules out radical changes following negative reaction

  The statement from Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer begins with a promise "not to screw it up", whilst assuring users that David Karp will remain CEO and that Yahoo! will "operate Tumblr independently".The deal went through for $1.1 billion (723 million) in cash, a sum justified by Tumblr's impressive numbers as one of the world's fastest growing social-media networks.The ...

• Square adds PayPal-like cash by e-mail feature

  Square Cash, which is invite-only for now, lets anyone send money simply by sending an e-mail. It's not known whether either party in the transaction has to have a Square ...

• Social | How Yahoo Will Wring $1.1B Out of Tumblr

  The Connective is a crowd-sourced digital magazine made in just 48 hours, chronicling how our conversations with our things are thoroughly changing our world. Learn more ...

• Alleged robbers butt-dial 911

  car . Police in Fresno, Calif., say that a 911 operator received a call. No one was on the other end. However, the dispatcher decided to keep listening and ...

• Let your shoes do the charging

  harness energy from the force of the heel hitting the ground . The prototype -- while admittedly big, unattractive, and impractical to wear 100 percent of the time (think sleeping, showering, etc.) -- demonstrates that the simple act of walking may one day power a wide range of electronics, including medical devices such as pacemakers and artificial hearts. "Theoretically, it would be ...

• Google+ app for Android gets post-IO overhaul

  Android provides users with options such as automatic photo enhancements and Auto Awesome. Other features include the instant hashtagging, quick access to Hangouts, and improved notifications. Building off of the tools that came ...

• HTC One makes video call from summit of Everest

  HTC One to be on top of the world, but thanks to British mountaineer Daniel Hughes, the high-end Android phone is the first to make a video call from the highest point on Earth. Hughes, who's trying to raise $1.5 million for Comic Relief -- it's also the highest ever Red Nose -- spoke ...

• Tumblr and Yahoo How It Affects You

  see Facebook and Instagram ) there are big questions about what will happen to Tumblr as its users know it today. Some have started to jump ship by ...

• Idaho couple and Sun Valley land in Twitter tussle

  BOISE, Idaho -; An Internet entrepreneur and former Wall Street derivatives analyst contends that central Idaho's Sun Valley resort and the Twitter Inc. social media site have heisted his ...

• Potential Upside For Nat Gas Producer Pro

  Natural gas is the top performing commodity after President Obama approved a $10 billion natural gas export facility last week. Andrew Lipow, Lipow Oil Associates, shares his outlook for the ...

• Social | With Tumblr Gone the Last Great Prize Is Pinterest

  The Connective is a crowd-sourced digital magazine made in just 48 hours, chronicling how our conversations with our things are thoroughly changing our world. Learn more ...

• Shots leaked of Galaxy S4 Active

  Galaxy S4 variant is meant to be resistant to dust and water, which is fortunate for those times when you feel compelled to tweet while rolling down a sand dune into a rushing ...

• Teens science project could charge phones in 20 seconds

  An 18-year-old's science fair project leads her to create an improved supercapacitor with technology that could provide super-fast phone charging in the ...

• Haunting Melissa App-only film delivers horror to mobile

  (Credit: Hooked Digital Media) In recent years, we've seen people dabble in bringing a narrative film experience to mobile phones. It makes sense -- there's an interactive personal screen in your pocket that allows you to pick up content wherever you go. But neither the interactive film ...

• Googles new Hangouts cant make phone calls

  As the company integrates Google Voice into its social network, the latest update for Hangouts is missing the ability to make outbound phone calls. Users can still receive calls to their Google Voice ...

• Key events involving Yahoo and its performance

  FILE - In this April 18, 2011 file photo, the Yahoo logo is displayed outside of the offices in Santa Clara, Calif. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, ...

• Guantanamo hack threat prompts WiFi shutdown

  MIAMI - The U.S. military has shut down wireless internet service at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba because of online hacking threats.A spokesman for the Guantanamo Bay prison says that officials have also blocked access to social networks such as Facebook and Twitter through military computer networks because of the threat.Army Lt. Col. Samuel House says the precautions were taken ...

• Bits Blog Cisco Big Data Is The Network Too

  John Chambers says the profits from Cisco Systems’ new strategy are still one to three years away. The strategy, however, is already becoming more clear: Big Data will only work if it's delivered through the network, and that could go hand-in-hand with consolidation among companies that specialize in data analysis and networking or traditional computing. "You can't ship the ...

• Gadgetwise Blog Power and Protection in One Case

  The Freedom 2000 battery case from MyCharge. Knowing that power and protection are a constant necessity for personal devices, technology companies have lately been combining both into a single case. MyCharge, a maker of backup batteries, has joined the competition with a model for the iPhone 5, the Freedom 2000. Named for the 2,000-milliamp-hour battery inside, the Freedom 2000 provides power ...

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