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Baseball and Twitter an evolving relationship Sacramento Bee "It's just a way for us to interact directly (with fans)," Blevins said of his use of Twitter. "You used to get letters in the mail. Now you get a tweet." As social media sites like Twitter and Instagram have gained traction with the public and Major ...

Microsoft knuckles under, yanks YouTube app for Windows Phone Computerworld Computerworld - Microsoft has bowed to pressure from Google and pulled the YouTube app from its Windows Phone Store that earlier this month triggered a cease-and-desist letter from the search giant. The two companies will instead collaborate on a ...

Who Are the 3 Big Winners in the Smartphone Market? Mashable If one looks at market share in smartphones, Google's Android platform is increasingly dominant. The Android operating system is grabbing an ever-larger share of an ever-larger market. "To put this another way, looking at 'smartphone share' or 'profit ... and more »

AndroidPIT.com Walmart starts selling Hisense Sero 7-inch Android tablets from $99 ZDNet While there have been lower-tier Android tablets available on the cheap for some time, Walmart's decision to promote Hisense's Sero 7 version for $99 starting this weekend marks an important next step in the tablet pricing wars. You might see other 7 ... Balling on a Budget? Try Hisense's New $99 and $149 Android tabletsAndroidPIT.com all 35 news articles »

Facebook phone launch put on hold The Independent It works around the Facebook Home software, launched by chief executive Mark Zuckerberg in the US in mid-April. He claimed it would "change the relationship" that people have with their mobiles. The Facebook Home app swaps a traditional homescreen ... and more »

All Things Digital Twitter's Michael Sippey Explains the Prescient Vine Acquisition (Full Dive Video) All Things Digital Tweet · Share on Facebook. Share. Print. At its heart, Twitter is the simplest of products, but these days, the company's product head Michael Sippey oversees all sorts of things: search and relevance, discovery, and new forays into short-form video ...

Ashton Kutcher: 'Media @&$#%! Twitter up' CNN "The bigger vision for Twitter when Jack created it was to empower communication to happen as things were taking place," Kutcher said. "Now it's just a ... He thinks the next phase of Twitter will be smart, connected appliances that tweet. For ...

Telegraph.co.uk Square is the shape of things to come, says Twitter founder Jack Dorsey Telegraph.co.uk Dorsey remains chairman of Twitter, which is thought to be focusing on increasing its own profitability with a view to a stock market flotation in the fairly near future. But with Twitter established as a global force, used by more than 500m people, it ...

Telegraph.co.uk Facebook pitches to UK firms for adverts Telegraph.co.uk Facebook has formed partnerships with third-party measurement firms in an attempt to get independent verification of its influence in the offline world. They include GfK, the German market research company, and Datalogix, an American company that aims ...

Oracle President Mark Hurd Joins Twitter, And He Already Has Almost As Many ... Seattle Post Intelligencer But at least Ellison has a Twitter account. Safra Catz, Oracle's other co-president, doesn't have one. Neither does SAP CEO Bill McDermott. There are at least 25 parody accounts for Steve Ballmer, but he's not on Twitter either. Meg Whitman's last ... and more »

Biz Beat: Cybersecurity forum set for Ada Lima Ohio He's hosting a cybersecurity seminar, in conjunction with the FBI's Counterintelligence Division, from 9 a.m. to noon Friday at Ohio Northern University's James F. Dicke Hall, 525 S. Main St. To reserve a spot, contact Bethany Goodman at 202-225-6405 ...

TechBit: Moldiv makes quick photo collages for your smartphone Washington Post Users can make collages by taking pictures with their smartphone cameras or by pulling pictures from the existing photo albums on their phones. Moldiv also lets you customize your collages by changing the color of the collage background, adding text or ...

NY student suspended after controversial Twitter hashtag CNN International (CNN) -- An upstate New York student said he got a three-day suspension for creating a controversial Twitter hashtag encouraging discussion of the school district's failed budget. Pat Brown, a senior at Cicero-North Syracuse High School, says he ...

How the Facebook Developer Platform Has Changed How We Use the Web Mashable Facebook has grown outside of the confines of Facebook.com and is not only a presence on many of the websites we visit — either through a Facebook log-in, or Share or Like capability. It's also a growing mainstay in the mobile world, allowing us stay ...

Oracle President Mark Hurd Joins Twitter, And He Already Has Almost As Many ... San Francisco Chronicle But at least Ellison has a Twitter account. Safra Catz, Oracle's other co-president, doesn't have one. Neither does SAP CEO Bill McDermott. There are at least 25 parody accounts for Steve Ballmer, but he's not on Twitter either. Meg Whitman's last ... and more »

Hackers That Were Barely Even Trying Stole 44 Million Records Last Year Gizmodo When you think of hackers, your mind might jump to something like a Boris Grishenko (aka "that dude from Goldeneye") typing away on a keyboard one-handedly with virtuosic skill. A criminal mastermind. Verizon's annual Data Breach Investigations Report ...

How Hackers Stole $45 Million in Two Days Mashable In two sprightly operations, on December 12, 2012, and February 19, 2013, an international team of hackers and thieves stole a collective $45 million from more than 5,000 ATMs across the world. Eight suspects were charged in connection with the crimes ...

How Apple's iPhone Could Be Best Again Cult of Mac The Galaxy S4 has the best feature set of the Android phones, including one of the only cameras that comes close to the iPhone's in picture quality, at least in bright light. In fact, it's hard to think of any technology or sensor ever put into any ... How To Customize the iPhone Notification Center for ProductivityGotta Be Mobile 7 handy tips to conserve iPhone battery lifeITProPortal all 5 news articles »

Droid Life Misfit Wearables Drops Android Support For Its Shine Activity Tracker Ahead Of ... TechCrunch Heads up, Android fans. If you took the plunge and backed the rather sleek Shine wearable activity tracker from Misfit Wearables, you may want to get your money back. According to a recent update posted to the project's Indiegogo listing, the Founders ... Misfit Shine Activity Tracker From IndieGogo Drops Android Support After ...Droid Life all 2 news articles »

The Xbox One is more or less a known quantity now, but its price has yet to be revealed by Microsoft. Price and ship date are always the biggest concerns when new gadgets or hardware hits the market, but in the case of the Xbox One, it’s likely to help determine whether the “homeentertainmentsystem,” as Microsoft is characterizing it, becomes the category-busting, revolutionary multi-purpose living room command center it’s being billed as, or ends up just another console with niche appeal that...

Heads up, Android fans. If you took the plunge and backed the rather sleek Shine wearable activity tracker from Misfit Wearables, you may want to get your money back. According to a recent update posted to the project’s Indiegogo listing, the Founders Fund-backed company has decided to drop Android support from the final version in a bid to better focus on polishing the experience for iOS users. Seriously, that’s the only reason they gave, which is likely little consolation to the backers who...

How Facebook Helps Me Reunite People With Their Pets After Natural Disasters Huffington Post (blog) Using Facebook, I've created pages dedicated to bringing pets home to their owners. Along with a network of dedicated animal lovers spread all across the country online, we've tried to help reunite displaced animals with their families after events ...

Business Insider Oracle President Mark Hurd Joins Twitter, And He Already Has Almost As Many ... Business Insider But at least Ellison has a Twitter account. Safra Catz, Oracle's other co-president, doesn't have one. Neither does SAP CEO Bill McDermott. There are at least 25 parody accounts for Steve Ballmer, but he's not on Twitter either. Meg Whitman's last ... and more »

Raw Story Hackers attack official Saudi websites Raw Story Cyber hackers attacked several official Saudi websites on Saturday, posting an Algerian flag on their homepages that later vanished, local media reported. The website of the information ministry was among the hacked sites, according to state news ... and more »

Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers possesses Europe September 13 Joystiq NIS America is bringing the updated 3DS version of Atlus' classic 1997 Sega Saturn RPG Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers to Europe this fall on Friday, September 13. The game's labyrinthine dungeons and too-cute-for-their-own-good ... Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers heading to Europe Sept. 13Polygon all 2 news articles »

Smarter Stand for iPhone Holds Headphones, Props Phone Ingeniously Gotta Be Mobile The Smarter Stand for iPhone holds an iPhone, or iPod Touch, user's earbuds in a tangle-free way while also propping up the iPhone/iPod Touch for comfortable viewing of videos, perfect at work on a desk or on an airplane tray. The Smarter Stand started ...

Walmart starts selling Hisense Sero 7-inch Android tablets from $99 ZDNet While there have been lower-tier Android tablets available on the cheap for some time, Walmart's decision to promote Hisense's Sero 7 version for $99 starting this weekend marks an important next step in the tablet pricing wars. You might see other 7 ... and more »

ThinkProgress Facebook Rejects Breast Cancer Ad For Violating Ban Against 'Adult Products' ThinkProgress Facebook rejected an ad this week that disputed scientifically unsound claims that abortion can cause higher instances of breast cancer, arguing that the advertisement violated the company's guidelines “by advertising adult products or services ...

Littlest orator moves people on both sides of CPS debate Chicago Tribune The reed-thin boy with big ears and gap teeth shot to celebrity last week when a video of him speaking passionately on behalf of his school went viral on YouTube. As of Friday night, the three-minute clip had been viewed 153,000 times, by people as far ... and more »

'Anonymous' a little less so, thanks to Israeli hackers WND.com (Times of Israel) After April's largely unsuccessful campaign by Anonymous and Arab hackers, #OpIsrael, to “remove Israel from the Internet,” a second round of hack attacks against Israeli sites, “OpIsrael Reloaded,” is planned for Saturday. The ...

Droid Life Misfit Shine Activity Tracker From IndieGogo Drops Android Support After ... Droid Life But where it stood out to Android users, was the fact that its creators were willing to support Android from the beginning, something that even Nike wasn't able to do after leading us on for months. Just before the campaign closed, they went as far as ...

Israeli expert says Syria hackers tried to access Haifa's water system in ... Washington Post JERUSALEM — An Israeli security expert says Syrian hackers tried to break into the computers of the water system of the city of Haifa. Speaking at a lecture on Saturday in the southern city of Beersheba, Yitzhak Ben Yisrael, Israel's former cyber ... Syrian Electronic Army Launched Cyberattack on Israeli City's Water Infrastructurelegal Insurrection (blog) all 12 news articles »

Israeli expert says Syria hackers tried to access Haifa's water system in ... Washington Post JERUSALEM — An Israeli security expert says Syrian hackers tried to break into the computers of the water system of the city of Haifa. Speaking at a lecture on Saturday in the southern city of Beersheba, Yitzhak Ben Yisrael, Israel's former cyber ... and more »

So Far, There Are Only 3 Big Winners in the Smartphone Market The Atlantic If one looks at market share in smartphones, Google's Android platform is increasingly dominant. The Android operating system is grabbing an ever larger share of an ever larger market. "To put this another way, looking at 'smartphone share' or 'profit ... and more »

Economic Times iPhone biosensor cradle brings us one step closer to having tricorders (video) Engadget Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have designed hardware and software that turns the iPhone into a powerful biosensor that's useful for toxin and pathogen testing as well as medical diagnosis. The package consists of a ... Smartphone app to act as cheap disease-detecting deviceEconomic Times iPhone biosensor does the work of a $50000 lab-based machineGizmag...

The Guardian Why marathon productions are big among the YouTube generation The Guardian What is particular about these cultural marathons is that they are happening now – when we are so distracted by email, Twitter, Facebook, etc, on our smartphones that we've lost the ability to concentrate on one thing only. Most theatre, TV and cinema ...

Hackers attack Saudi official websites: reports FRANCE 24 Cyber hackers attacked several official Saudi websites on Saturday, posting an Algerian flag on their homepages that later vanished, local media reported. AFP - Cyber hackers attacked several official Saudi websites on Saturday, posting an Algerian ... and more »

Nokia Lumia 928 for Verizon Review IGN But the newest Nokia handset isn't competing with the likes of HTC's Windows Phone 8X or the Samsung Ativ Odyssey, it's going up against the iPhone and Samsung's Galaxy line. Fortunately for both Nokia and Microsoft, the Lumia 928 is the first Verizon ...

Hottest job on market: Cybersecurity professionals Chicago Daily Herald "I cannot hire enough cybersecurity professionals, I can't find them, they're not qualified," said Ryan Walters, who founded mobile data security company TerraWi Inc. in 2009. The company, based in McLean, ... 21 percent increase at the Pentagon. U.S ...

Smartphone App Wrap: Games, movies, exercise, and Instagram ZDNet One of my favorite mobile websites is Android Central and for quite some time they had an application for their forums, but nothing to access their website. Last week, I wrote about the excellent CB10 app for their sister Mobile Nations website so I ... and more »

'KUWTK's' Kendall Jenner's tweet pits her against Frances Cobain Los Angeles Times Earlier this week, the "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" star posted an emo tweet on the social networking site that happened to capture the attention of Cobain, 20, the daughter of rockers Courtney Love and the late Kurt Cobain. PHOTOS: Meet the ... and more »

Mea Culpa! Best Twitter Apologies TIME Yet she apologized profusely – and individually – to the offended photographers via Twitter: @karon @johndphoto I worded my answer terribly. I really apologize for what it sounded like outside of the context and notion of Flickr Pro. — (@marissamayer ...

iPhone urine analysis app may require FDA approval, says agency The Verge In what may be a first for the Federal Drug Administration, the agency has sent a letter to the makers of an iPhone medical app asking why its approval wasn't sought before release. The uChek app analyzes photos of urine samples to give users quick ... iPhone Urinalysis App Draws US Government ScrutinyMac Rumors FDA Admonishes Developer For Releasing iPhone Urinalysis App Sans ...AppAdvice FDA begins cracking down on...

Android this week: Nexus 7 cloned for $149; Google Edition HTC One; Chrome ... GigaOM HTC may announce a “Google Edition” HTC smartphone and Chrome beta users gain some useful new features. android-this-week. Small slate shoppers have a new option to choose this week: Hisense debuted a tablet that looks like a Nexus 7. The Sera 7 ... and more »

Littlest orator moves people on both sides of CPS debate Chicago Tribune The reed-thin boy with big ears and gap teeth shot to celebrity last week when a video of him speaking passionately on behalf of his school went viral on YouTube. As of Friday night, the three-minute clip had been viewed 153,000 times, by people as far ... and more »

Is Sony Worried About Falling Android Sales or the Strength of Samsung? Forbes I think it comes down to another factor in the Android market. While the OS has a significant market share level, the majority of profits in the Android space flow towards Samsung and the Galaxy range of handsets and tablets. Sony's handsets are going ...