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Insanity: CISPA Just Got Way Worse, And Then Passed On Rushed Vote — Up until this afternoon, the final vote on CISPA was supposed to be tomorrow. Then, abruptly, it was moved up today—and the House voted in favor of its passage with a vote of 248-168. But that's not even the worst part.
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The House passes CISPA with a vote of 248 to 168 — CISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, has just passed the House by a vote of 248 to 168. The vote was largely along partisan lines, with some leaking. — The bill attracted several amendements along the way to passage today …
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Former Sun CEO says Google's Android didn't need license for Java APIs — Jonathan Schwartz (Credit: Stephen Shankland/CNET) — SAN FRANCISCO — Former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz took the stand here today as a witness for the defense, and disputed Oracle's claim that Java APIs were proprietary code from Sun.
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Google tries to win on a technicality, claims Oracle's Java copyrights were filed wrong — Things just took a very interesting turn in the Oracle vs. Google courtroom. Google's attorneys just asked to introduce two documents into evidence from the US Copyright Office that show there's …
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Amazon's Q1 2012: Revenue Up 34 Percent To $13.2B, Net Income Down 35 Percent — Amazon just reported earnings for the first quarter of 2012. Net sales increased 34% to $13.18 billion in the first quarter, compared with $9.86 billion in first quarter 2011.| AJ Glasser / Inside Social Games: |
Zynga reports highest ever bookings for Q1 at $329M — Zynga's made $329 million in bookings and $321 million in revenue for the first quarter of 2012, an increase of 15 percent and 32 percent year-on-year, respectively. The developer reported a net loss at $85.4 million, compared to a net income of $16.8 million for Q1 2011.| Electronista: |
comScore: Amazon Kindle Fire is 54.4% of US Android tablets — comScore shows Kindle Fire propping up Android — Amazon's Kindle Fire now makes up the absolute majority of the Android tablet platform in the US, comScore found in a fresh study. The e-reader and tablet crossover represented 54.4 percent … | Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Apple planning to build private off-campus restaurant to stop competitors from overhearing staff conversations — Apple has had a planning request approved for a new off-campus restaurant by the Cupertino Planning Commission, providing employees with a place to eat and discuss company plans …
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Verizon's Summer / Fall 2012 smartphone roadmap — While Samsung's Galaxy S3 has been the star of the rumor show for the past few months — with BGR leading the pack — we now have a clear picture of the smartphone landscape for late summer and early fall this year.| Josh Lowensohn / CNET: |
Why has Forrester's CEO become an Apple doomsayer? — According to the CEO of market research firm Forrester, Apple only has a few more good years left in it if Tim Cook's at the helm. Apple's having a pretty good week. After reporting what can only be described as blowout earnings yesterday …
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Providence Said Selling Hulu Stake at $2 Billion Value — Hulu.com owners Walt Disney Co. (DIS), Comcast Corp. (CMCSA) and News Corp. (NWSA) are close to buying out Providence Equity Partners Inc.'s stake at a price that values the company at $2 billion, said two people with knowledge of the matter.| Andy Fixmer / Bloomberg: |
Spotify Said Developing Pandora-Like Online Radio Service — Spotify Ltd., the London-based online music provider, is developing a U.S. Internet radio service that would directly challenge Pandora Media Inc. (P), said two people with knowledge of the situation.| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Apple: $1,111 Per Share and a $1 Trillion Market Cap in the Next Year — The blowout earnings Apple reported Tuesday inspired a number of big upgrades on the company's stock, but none so bullish as that of Topeka Capital Markets analyst Brian White. — White, who made headlines back in April …
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Google X founder takes Charlie Rose's picture from Project Glass headset — Google's Project Glass heads-up display was announced weeks ago, but nobody is sure whether the glasses are actually functional or if, as Sergey Brin has said, “you really just see [them] reboot.”
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New York Times R&D Group Launches First Commercial Product (and It's for Brands) — Ricochet Helps Brands Drive Traffic to Relevant Articles, Surrounded by the Right Ads — The New York Times R&D Lab has spent the last six and a half years building what its chief calls the equivalent of “concept cars” for the media world.| Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
Walmart.com Lets You Pay With Cash When Shopping Online — Walmart.com is launching today “Pay with Cash,” a new feature that enables users to place orders online and then pay for them at a nearby Walmart. — In an interview, Joel Anderson, president and CEO of Walmart.com …
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Trimble Navigation to buy Google's SketchUp — (Reuters) - Trimble Navigation Ltd has agreed to buy SketchUp 3D modeling platform from Google Inc for an undisclosed price, the companies said. — As part of the SketchUp platform, Trimble will partner Google in developing SketchUp's 3D Warehouse … | Brad Molen / Engadget: |
Best Buy Connect no longer accepting new activations, service to end June 1st (update: confirmed) — Remember Best Buy Connect? If so, you'll soon have a few more megabytes of humanized DDR3 freed up, as it appears that the retail giant is ready to put the kibosh on its own branded mobile …
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Netgear announces first 802.11ac router, offers up to 1.3Gbps and is coming in May for $199.99 — Early adopters, take note: Netgear is officially going to make your 802.11n router out of date next month. The company has announced that it'll ship the first 802.11ac (also known as “5G Wi-Fi” … | Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
Clearwire launching TD-LTE in early 2013 in 31 ‘hot zones’: New York, LA, Chicago, and more — Clearwire is preparing to upgrade its 2.5GHz WiMAX network to support a variant of LTE, TD-LTE, that it's co-developing with China Mobile — and the broadband wholesaler has just announced … | Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Steve Jobs' Plan for a Willy Wonka-Style Celebration of the Millionth iMac — Among the many anecdotes about Steve Jobs included in Ken Segall's new book, Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success, one in particular stands out for its glimpse into Jobs' character …
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Twitter Updates iPhone and Android Apps: Improves Discover Tab, Search & Push Notifications — Twitter just announced the latest updates to its mobile apps for Android and iOS. With these updates, these apps get a number of much-needed new features, including an improved Discover tab …
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BetaNews, Computerworld, CNET, GeekWire, Twitter Blog, The Verge, WebProNews and Mashable!
| Steve Evans / Computer Business Review: |
Apple ‘10 years’ behind Microsoft on security: Kaspersky — Welcome to Microsoft's world, Eugene Kaspersky tells Apple — The recent Flashback/Flashfake malware outbreak targeting Apple's Mac computers is likely to be just the start of a new wave of attacks aimed at the system … | Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
Exclusive: Amazon Starts Bringing the Art of Recommendations to Daily Deals — Amazon is taking its first step in bringing the recommendation technology that the e-commerce site is known for to the daily deals space. — To be sure, no one has yet solved targeting in the space …
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