Google challenges surveillance court on First Amendment grounds

Reuters - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Google Inc asked the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on Tuesday to allow it to publish aggregate numbers of national security requests it receives separately from criminal requests, on First Amendment ...

Adobe profit beats as Creative Cloud subscriptions soar

Reuters - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Shantanu Narayen, president and chief executive officer of Adobe Systems Inc., speaks during the Reuters Global Technology, Media and Telecom Summit in New York May 21, ...

To the end of the world

Cnet - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

user-generated content . Nevertheless, there's always, inevitably, an end to the road. Naturally, sometimes this is because the land just plumb runs out. But there are a number of other reasons Google's cameras have not been able to proceed, from the natural to the man-made. The Atlantic's Alan Taylor took ...

Cape Wind gets $200M investment from Danish fund

Boston Herald - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

BOSTON -- The Cape Wind offshore wind project has secured a $200 million investment from a Danish pension fund in what its president says is a milestone for the proposed 130-turbine project.The $2.6 billion Cape Wind project aims to be the nation's first offshore wind farm. But Cape Wind, proposed in 2001, has been delayed by lengthy review and entrenched opponents and has been looking for ...

Facebook reportedly delays release of video ads

Cnet - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

(Credit: Facebook) Facebook is postponing the release of video advertisements that automatically play in News Feed, according to Ad Age. The social network wants to release the specialized units alongside new social-networking features and is now targeting an unofficial mid-October launch date, Ad ...

UPDATE 1-Hewlett-Packard moves printer PC exec Bradley into new job

Reuters - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Tue Jun 18, 2013 6:18pm EDT By Poornima Gupta June 18 (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co on Tuesday named Todd Bradley, the head of its largest unit, printing and personal computers, to take on the new job of improving the company's China business and extending distribution partner relationships around the world. Bradley, who was among the people considered for the chief executive post after the ...

CORRECTED-FEATURE-From the ashes of Webvan Amazon builds a grocery business

Reuters - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Tue Jun 18, 2013 5:29pm EDT (Corrects to remove reference to Mark Zaleski in paragraph 18) By Alistair Barr SAN FRANCISCO, June 16 (Reuters) - The online grocery start-up Webvan may have been the single most expensive flame-out of the dot-com era, blowing through more than $800 million in venture capital and IPO proceeds in just over three years before shutting its doors in 2001. Twelve years ...

Huawei says has no plans to buy Nokia

Reuters - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

At the Reuters Tech Summit, Trulia chief executive Pete Flint says private equity investors are starting to pull back from buying U.S. real estate, while overseas buyers are coming on strong once ...

Exclusive Facebook reaches 1 million active advertisers

Reuters - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

(Reuters) - Facebook Inc said on Tuesday it now has 1 million active advertisers globally who used the platform in the last 28 days, a milestone for the company that is seeking to revive its revenue ...

Nvidia updates programming tools to boost mobile device speed

InfoWorld - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Nvidia wants to accelerate mobile-device performance with underlying tools that enable CPUs and graphics processors to work in a coherent manner. The company released on Tuesday its CUDA 5.5 programming tools, which will for the first time support ARM CPUs used in most smartphones and tablets. The tools could bring the type of performance gains that have helped supercomputers surpass petaflops ...

Internet-facing SAP systems suffering increased attacks

InfoWorld - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Hundreds of organizations around the world are running unpatched, Internet-facing versions of SAP software, exposing them to data theft, APTs (advanced persistent threats), and other unpleasantness, according to security analyst Alexander Polyakov, CTO of ERPScan and founder of ZeroNights. Polyakov also said that SAP exploits are part of a thriving underground trade, particularly as ...

How to hide your data from Internet snoops

CNN - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

>Editor's note: Doug Gross covers consumer technology and the Web for CNN.com. Follow his updates on Twitter or add him to your Circles on Google+.(CNN) -- Let's face it: Most of us don't e-mail, tweet, text or post anything worthy of clandestine scrutiny. But having concerns about NSA cybersnooping doesn't mean we must surrender all privacy -- what's left of it -- in our day-to-day online ...

Adobe beats analyst profit expectations mulls subscription changes

Cnet - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

The company's Creative Cloud subscriber base grew to 700,000 in the second quarter, but Adobe is considering other options to woo those who don't like the monthly payment ...

Google challenges DOJs surveillance gag order

Cnet - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Search company asks to clear its name by arguing it has the First Amendment right to reveal how many Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act orders it receives from the U.S. ...

NASA issues asteroid Grand Challenge to all

Cnet - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

issued a Grand Challenge aimed at locating all asteroid threats to Earth and figuring out what to do about them. It seems the asteroid threat has really picked up steam lately. We've had ...

NASA Challenges You to Fight Asteroids

ABC News - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

NASA is looking for asteroids and wants you to join the hunt. But don't expect to be starring in a real-life version of "Armageddon" any time soon. NASA unveiled some of ...

Yahoo discloses number of US govts data requests

Times of India - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

With the Aadhaar unique identity number at its core, the scheme is heavily dependent on banks, which in turn are relying on technology firms to implement the ...

Google asks U.S. surveillance court permission to publish request data

West Australian - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Reuters © The Google logo is seen on the top of its China headquarters building behind a road surveillance camera in Beijing January 26, 2010. REUTERS/Jason ...

NYC to offer free phone-charging stations in parks

San Diego Union-Tribune - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

The city is teaming up with AT&T to install 25 solar-powered charging stations in parks across the five boroughs. The charges will provide a free boost to dying phones and other mobile ...

Worlds Largest Solar Boat Docks in NYC

CNBC - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

The world's largest solar boat, a catamaran called Turanor, reached New York City Monday afternoon, docking at the North Cove Marina in downtown Manhattan at about 5 p.m. New York is the boat's sixth stop in a trans-Atlantic expedition that began in March in the south of France. The boat's upper decks are covered in 5,554 square feet of solar paneling. The photovoltaic cells get ...

Is the Energy Revolution Hype

CNBC - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

U.S. energy independence is seen as something of a holy grail by many economists and policy makers, and soaring shale production has heightened hopes that the United States may actually get there. But some energy watchers are questioning how much the world's largest economy can realistically produce--and whether some estimates may be too lofty.To be sure, most market watchers are true ...

Want to curb texting and driving Turn it into a joke

Cnet - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

An Australian train safety campaign called "Dumb Ways to Die" is winning big at this week's Cannes Advertising Festival. Might such a jokey style persuade those who cannot help texting at the ...