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YAHOO Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:06:06 GMT
(Reuters) - Jive Software Inc priced its initial public offering at $12 per share, above its expected price range of between $8 and $10 per share, according to an underwriter. Jive, which makes software that integrates online communities, microblogging, social networking, discussion forums, blogs, wikis, and instant messaging under one interface, had filed in August, to raise up to $100 million in its IPO. Jive's pricing kicks of what is expected to be the busiest week in the U.S. ...
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FASTCOMPANY Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:56:06 EST
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day.
Somali Terrorists Launch Twitter Feed. Al-Shabaab, a Somalian militant organization classified as a terrorist organization by the U.S. government, has launched a Twitter feed. The account, @hsmpress (Harakat al-Shabaab Al Mujhadeen Press Office), currently has over 500 followers and posts English-language tweets representing Al-Shabaab's positions. BBC reporter Mary Harper notes that the account is part of an ongoing English-language propaganda blitz on Al-Shabaab's part. --NU
--Updated 10:00 a.m. EST
Google remembers Mexican artist Diego Rivera on today, his 125th birthday, with an autobiographical Doodle, in the mural style the artist is remembered for.
Microsoft And GE Start Health Care Tech Company. The two companies are launching a joint venture health care IT company in Seattle, a short drive away from Microsoft's HQ in Redmond, WA. The goal of the venture is to create what sounds like a........
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ENGADGET Tue, 06 Dec 2011 12:41:00 EDT
Never heard of molybdenite? We're not shocked. Its not nearly as hyped as graphene or quantum dots, but it could be the key to smaller, bendable microchips. The problem with silicon is that, in layers less than two nanometers thick, it can become unstable, oxidize and quickly deteriorate. Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), on the other hand, can be laid down in sheets just three atoms thick. The semiconductor also earns bonus points for being an abundant, naturally occurring mineral. Earlier this year researchers at the Laboratory of Nanoscale Electronics and Structures (LANES) demoed the first molybdenite transistor, but the team is moving fast and has already whipped up the first prototype of a complete integrated circuit (we assume with the aid of an all girl army of Kung Fu engineers). Things are looking good for this potential silicon usurper. And best of all, molybdenite is flexible. So, hello bendable computers!
First molybdenite IC delivers silicon-crushing, chip-shrinking,.....
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GOOGLE Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:16:00 GMT
Research firm IDC issued 10 predictions for 2012 over the weekend.
One of them seems to predict that Windows 8 will be a flop on desktop PCs, while doing OK in tablets.
As Mary Jo Foley reports, the report says "Windows 8 will be largely irrelevant to the users of traditional PCs, and we expect effectively no upgrade activity from Windows 7 to Windows 8 in that form factor."
That irrelevance may be true in the context of the report, which was about corporate system infrastructure software -- that is, software that helps businesses upgrade or standardize software on the computers they already own.
But as a general statement, it's totally false.
Microsoft hardly EVER sees a lot of upgrades in place to a new version of Windows.
For example, with Windows 7, Microsoft recognized about $850 million in retail sales in the quarter it was released. Overall, Windows made about $5.2 billion in sales that quarter. (It's a little confusing because the reported number, $6.9........
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GUARDIAN Sun, 04 Dec 2011 20:29:01 GMT
How, exactly, do you go about writing a prize-winning book about cancer? Siddhartha Mukherjee, who has just won the Guardian First Book award for The Emperor of All Maladies, explains
It is the convention of awards-ceremony etiquette for the winner to perform a convincing impression of bashful disbelief. The man I meet just hours before he was awarded the Guardian First Book award last Thursday has just stepped off a flight from New York, however, only an hour ago, and his bearing doesn't say "What, little old me? Wow!" so much as "So what time is it here anyway?"
In fact, he conveys that precise blend of exhaustion, distraction and authority instantly recognisable from any hospital ward in the world. This should come as no surprise, for he is a senior oncologist – assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University, and staff cancer physician at Columbia University Medical Centre. And yet, until we met it had seemed scarcely possible that the author of The Emperor of All......
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GOOGLE Sun, 04 Dec 2011 01:53:00 GMT
The head of Russia's only independent political watchdog was held at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport on Saturday as elections in the world's biggest country began, The Associated Press reported.
Lilya Shibanova, the leader of Golos, was detained in Moscow after she refused to hand over her laptop to officials.
On Friday, Golos was fined the equivalent of $1,000 for violating a law that bans the publication of opinion poll results within five days of the election, CTV reported.
The United States has said it was concerned about the "pattern of harassment" against the watchdog, Reuters reported.
More from GlobalPost: Vladimir Putin silences political watchdog ahead of Russian elections
Golos — "vote" in Russian — is funded from Europe and the United States and runs a hotline for electoral violations. Its interactive map showed more than 4,500 reported violations linked to Sunday's vote, The New York Times reported.
The election could trim the number of seats Vladimir.....
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GOOGLE Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:01:52 GMT
[This is #2 in my series on inequality, starting here.]
The main reason—the outer layer of the onion, if you will—is the diminished ability of most Americans to claim as much of the economy’s growth as they once did.
I’ll explain what I mean by that in a moment, but it may sound like a different explanation than you’re used to hearing. Typically, we hear globalization (g), technological change (t), increased returns (ir) to high levels of education or superstar talents. All of which play a role, but all of which have existed forever. So something else must have changed.
Some of what’s changed relates to g, t, and ir themselves. US global trade, as measured by the sum of import and export shares of GDP, increased from around 10% in the 1960s to around 30% now, and the increased competition—and large, persistent trade deficits–with low-wage countries has held down wages and jobs in “tradable sectors.” Technology appears to have become more “labor saving” in recent years,..
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GUARDIAN Thu, 01 Dec 2011 09:06:02 GMT
Plus a death knell for the PC, and Windows Phone 7.5 vs iOS 5
A quick burst of 8 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology teamExclusive: comedy of errors led to false 'water-pump hack' report >> Wired.com
"Cyberwar watchers took notice this month when a leaked intelligence memo claimed Russian hackers had remotely destroyed a water pump at an Illinois utility. The report spawned dozens of sensational stories characterizing it as the first-ever reported destruction of U.S. infrastructure by a hacker. Some described it as America's very own Stuxnet attack. "Except, it turns out, it wasn't. Within a week of the report's release, DHS bluntly contradicted the memo, saying that it could find no evidence that a hack occurred. In truth, the water pump simply burned out, as pumps are wont to do, and a government-funded intelligence center incorrectly linked the failure to an internet connection from a Russian IP address months earlier." Why a Russian IP address? Because.....
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APPLE Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 PST
"Dance, dance, or we are lost." Pina Bausch's final words summarize her life and provide the inspiration for acclaimed director Wim Wenders' (WINGS OF DESIRE, BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB) breathtaking tribute to the legendary choreographer. Bausch and her Tanztheater Wuppertal elevated dance into brilliantly subversive new expressive realms, and in this exhilarating film Wenders captures the raw, heart-stopping intensity of the movement and in stunning 3D transforms it into a transcendent cinematic experience. An official selection of the Berlinale, Telluride, Toronto and New York film festivals, and now Germany's official entry for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, PINA features interviews with and performances by Bausch's beloved original company members, and offers an indelible image of an artist who went the full distance in her uncommonly rich creative life.
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ENGADGET Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:00:00 EDT
Welcome to the Engadget Holiday Gift Guide! We're well aware of the heartbreaking difficulties surrounding the seasonal shopping experience, so we're here to help you sort out this year's tech treasures. Below is today's bevy of curated picks, and you can head back to the Gift Guide hub to see the rest of the product guides as they're added throughout the holiday season.
Let's get this out of the way: a laptop is an intimate gift. Even if you were to get away with paying just $400, it's a lot to spend on even your spouse (ten years is the netbook anniversary, right?). Not to mention, your lucky giftee will be spending more time with it, perhaps, than they do their friends, families and pets. At the same time, the selection is nothing if not overwhelming, and if you were to make a spreadsheet tallying prices and specs, you'd notice an uncomfortable similarity across different brands. So, we rounded up some of the best we've seen -- everything from all-purpose notebooks to........
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ENGADGET Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:04:00 EDT
Don't get too excited just yet, but PCIe 4.0 is coming. PCI-SIG, the body that governs the standard, has announced the next evolution of the interface, which should start popping up in servers, desktops, laptops and even tablets around 2015. Sadly, details are pretty slim on the slot -- final specs aren't expected to be announced before 2014. All we know is that PCIe 4.0 will be able to perform 16 gigatransfers per second (GT/s), which tells us only slightly more than jack squat. It simply means that a PCIe 4.0 card will be capable of transferring 16 billion discrete chunks of data per second, twice that of PCIe 3.0. What that doesn't tell us though, is the size of those chunks. If they're the same size, 4.0 will provide double the current bit rate of 1 GB/s per-lane. If, for some reason, the channel width were halved there would be no speed increase -- but we seriously doubt that's the case. So, will we be looking at 32 GB/s PCIe 4.0 x16 GPUs in a few years? That is a definite....
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YAHOO Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:49:19 GMT
(Reuters) - Total Immersion, a pioneer in emerging field of augmented reality (AR), is working with Intel to bring AR features, like gesture recognition, into Intel's chipsets, an executive of the privately held firm said on Wednesday. Speaking at the Reuters Global Media Summit, Total Immersion's marketing chief Antoine Brachet said consumer acceptance will decide when products would reach the market, but he thinks this could happen in 2-3 years. Running on smartphones or computers, AR overlays digital information - text, graphics, games -- on images of the world around us. ...
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ECONOMIST Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:24:26 GMT
UK Only Article: standard article Fly Title: Business Rubric: Three unconquered parts of the technology landscape will be fought over in 2012 Main image: 20120123_WBD001.jpg In some parts of the new digital world, it is obvious who is in charge. Google rules in search; Facebook in social networking; Amazon in retail. These territories are still being fought over: Microsoft’s Bing is attacking Google in search, Google is attacking Facebook in social, and so forth. But these are all large, relatively mature fields. During 2012 the more interesting battles will be those taking place on the smaller, lesser-known territories on the fringes of the technology world, in areas such as mobile payments, location and augmented reality. They may seem marginal fields now, but it is worth remembering that social networking went from obscurity a decade ago to being used by hundreds of millions of people today, accounting for more time online than any other activity, according to a survey of.......
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GUARDIAN Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:15:07 GMT
Microsoft-linked private equity group Silver Lake Partners offers $16.50 a share, while TPG Capital says it will pay a dollar more
Yahoo has received bids for a stake in the company which value it at $20.6bn (£13bn), less than half the amount offered by Microsoft nearly four years ago.
The US internet group's board, which recently parted company with its chief executive Carol Bartz, is looking to sell a 19.9% stake and was considering offers on Wednesday from private equity group Silver Lake Partners, which is working with Microsoft, and TPG Capital.
Silver Lake is reportedly willing to pay $16.50 a share, and TPG a dollar more. The lower offer values Yahoo at $20.6bn, just 6% above yesterday's closing share price of $15.70, and well below the $44.6bn cash and stock bid made by Microsoft in February 2008.
"The offer is disappointing," said Hamilton Faber, an analyst at Atlantic Equities. "Investors who've been buying Yahoo recently were hoping for a significant premium and a....
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