As Investors Fawn Over Facebook, Poll Finds User Distrust, Apathy  —  Facebook's initial public offering will be the largest and perhaps the most highly anticipated Internet deal in history.  —  Faced with great expectations, however, Facebook is staring down some unnerving obstacles …

Google's Chrome Browser Is Coming For iOS, Says Macquarie  —  Macquarie analyst Ben Schacter has a surprising report out this morning.  —  He writes, “Google Chrome browser for iOS is coming.”  —  He adds, “Apple may already be reviewing Google's submitted code for a Chrome browser for iOS.”

Please Don't Learn to Code  —  The whole “everyone should learn programming” meme has gotten so out of control that the mayor of New York City actually vowed to learn to code in 2012.  —  A noble gesture to garner the NYC tech community vote, for sure, but if the mayor of New York City actually needs …

Apple also working on MacBook Airs and iMacs with Retina Displays  —  Mockup showing Retina Display 11 and 13 inch MacBook Airs  —  On Monday we broke the news that Apple is readying a brand-new 15-inch MacBook Pro with cornerstone features like an ultra-thin design and USB 3 ports for incredibly fast data transfers.

Disney's ESPN in Talks With Apple to Expand Digital Access (Update 1)  —  Walt Disney Co. (DIS)'s ESPN sports network is talking with Apple Inc. (AAPL) about including the WatchESPN application on the computer maker's television device, network executive Sean Bratches said.

T-Mobile USA's Philipp Humm announces restructuring, ‘difficult decisions’ to staff  —  T-Mobile USA CEO Philipp Humm had previously announced a round of layoffs with a net loss of some 1,000 jobs back in March, and the company's restructuring continues today with another memo sent to employees.

How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet  —  Web startups are made out of two things: people and code.  The people make the code, and the code makes the people rich.  Code is like a poem; it has to follow certain structural requirements, and yet out of that structure can come art.

Those suave Google glasses are now patent-protected  —  Google has successfully patented the “ornamental design” of its augmented reality eyewear.  To you, me and Aunty Dee they might look almost like regular Ray-Bans, but there's a lot of secret technology concealed within those sleek lines …

Lenovo announces ThinkPad X1 Carbon, calls it the world's lightest 14-inch ultrabook (hands-on)  —  Lenovo unveiled a blitz of refreshed ThinkPad laptops today, each sporting a redesigned keyboard and Intel Ivy Bridge chips, but it had one surprise in store: the ThinkPad X1 Carbon.

Facebook Hires Team From Android Photosharing App Dev Lightbox To Quiet Mobile Fears  —  Facebook has just closed a deal to hire the full team of seven employees from Android photosharing app developer Lightbox, which should reduce worries that mobile will be its downfall.

Exclusive: New Google+ Study Reveals Minimal Social Activity, Weak User Engagement  —  Larry Page recently called Google+ the company's “social spine.”  If that's the case, then Google's backbone might be much weaker than Page has been letting on, at least according to a new report from RJ Metrics.

Yahoo, AOL vet Garlinghouse named CEO of YouSendIt  —  Brad Garlinghouse, who once headed up AOL's Silicon Valley operations, is now CEO of YouSendIt, a provider of file sharing and storage software for businesses.  —  In early April, reports surfaced that the current CEO …

Audiences Now Rarely Drawn to Live Television  —  This week, when they ring the bell on the television upfronts, the annual orgy of advertising buying, I hope the industry isn't counting on my house to lift ratings.  —  So far in the month of May, our household has watched exactly two minutes and one second of live television.

Sony VAIO S upgraded with Intel's Ivy Bridge CPUs and Nvidia's Kepler GPUs  —  Sony has announced a refresh of its VAIO S Series laptops, along with a pair of new E Series models.  The S Series will come with a choice of 13.3- and 15.5-inch displays; the 15.5-inch model has a 1080p IPS screen …

EXCLUSIVE: How Mark Zuckerberg Booted His Co-Founder Out Of The Company  —  Ahead of Facebook's $15 billion IPO later this week, Billionaire Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin has renounced his US citizenship in order to avoid a boatload of taxes.  —  One reason this is possible: Saverin no longer works at Facebook.

Look Out: Pinterest Marketing Platform Curalate Lands $750k Seed From NEA, First Round, MentorTech  —  A new breed of social media sites led by visual rather than text-based interactions is now spawning a new breed of marketing service catering to the new format.

Supreme Court denies Psystar's appeal in Mac clone case  —  One of Psystar's early “OpenMac” models.  —  (Credit: Psystar)  —  The U.S. Supreme Court today denied Psystar's request to review a lower court decision that keeps it from selling computers that run Apple's OS X but that are not made by Apple.

Browsers and Apps in 2012  —  It's like this: The browser's doomed, because apps are the future.  Wait!  Apps are doomed because HTML5 is the future.  I see something almost every day saying one or the other.  Only it's mostly wrong.  [If you don't want to read my opinions …

If You Can Copyright an API, What Else Can You Copyright?  —  Oracle's Larry Ellison says APIs can copyrighted - and that raises questions across the computer industry.  Photo: Oracle  —  What does an API look like?  —  Sometimes, says Brian Pagano, it looks like this: /users.  Or this: /products.

Does Yahoo even know how to be a modern media company?  —  Now that Yahoo has managed to make its way through yet another CEO shuffle — its sixth in just five years — the former portal has to get back to the main task at hand: namely, figuring out what its future looks like.

It's Official: Cellphone Owners Love Apple Hardware  —  According to the latest ACSI report, cellphone users are most satisfied with Apple's iPhone.  Photo: Jim Merithew/Wired  —  Hey, Apple — it turns out the world does love you.  RIM?  Not so much.  —  The American Customer Satisfaction Index …

Baidu's New Forked Android Phone: China's Search Giant Wants To Make Windows Phone, iOS Versions Too  —  Big mobile plans afoot for Baidu, the Google of China that leads in search and has launched a host of other services in the wake of that business.  The company today unveiled the first smartphone …

Fox and NBC: Dish's commercial-skipping DVR ‘a strange thing to do’ at best, ‘an insult’ at worst  —  Customers may be impressed by Dish Network's commercial-skipping Auto Hop feature on the Hopper DVR, but at least two networks aren't so happy.  In a press call, Fox entertainment chairman Peter Rice …

Flickr launches new ‘liquid’ layout, brings high-resolution images to the main photo pages  —  A couple of weeks ago, Flickr added a new uploader supporting larger images to its desktop webpage, and now we're seeing the next step in this redesign.  The high-res images you upload …

Social inbox Engagio becomes a social conversations network  —  Engagio, an email-like inbox that organizes social media conversations, is taking a big step toward becoming more of a social network of its own.  The Toronto-based start-up seed funded by Union Square Venture's Fred Wilson …

.Pirate Domains Now Available Through OpenNic  —  Despite the best efforts of Dutch lobby groups, and American entertainment cartels, the internet is a place where barriers don't stay barriers for long.  —  Throw a roadblock out and a new route is recalculated.  So it is with DNS.