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Apple denies that 'app store' is a generic term Inquirer By Dave Neal FRUIT THEMED GADGET MARKETER Apple is continuing to fight its corner over the use of the term 'App Store' and is still arguing that it is not a generic term. App maybe generic by now, and we are all used to the concept of a store, ... See all stories on this topic »

Amazon's Kindle E-Books Outselling Paper Books eWeek Amazon claims that its Kindle e-books are outselling hardcover and print books on its Website. Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) is claiming that Kindle e-books are outselling hardcover and paperback print books on its Website. "We had high hopes that this would ... See all stories on this topic »

Sony's Thai website pwned by phisher scoundrels Register By John Leyden • Get more from this author A fraudulent site running off the hdworld.sony.co.th domain is targeting an Italian credit card company, F-Secure reports. The incident means that another Sony property, in this case its Thai website, ... See all stories on this topic »

Shuttle Astronauts Perform Mission's First Spacewalk at Station Space.com HOUSTON — Two astronauts have ventured outside the International Space Station Friday (May 20) to begin the first of four tricky spacewalks planned for their mission to the orbiting lab. Endeavour shuttle astronauts Drew Feustel and Greg Chamitoff ... See all stories on this topic » Space.com

Mammals' large brains evolved for smell BBC News By Victoria Gill Science reporter, BBC Nature Scientists used very high-resolution scanning to study the skulls of two of the earliest known mammal species. Comparing the shape of their brain cases to those of slightly earlier animals, or "pre-mammals" ... See all stories on this topic » BBC News

Exchange Online having downtime problems again Computerworld By Juan Carlos Perez Thursday's problems apparently began at around noon Eastern Time, affecting users in North America, and at close to 5 pm seemed still unresolved, prompting frustrated IT administrators to post complaints on various discussion ... See all stories on this topic »

Playboy sneaks NAKED LADIES onto iPad Register By Lester Haines • Get more from this author Playboy has whipped open the bathrobe on its latest plan to combat falling sales and the ready availability of free net smut – an online version of the magazine's entire 57-year back catalogue. ... See all stories on this topic »

Symantec buys Clearwell tech that makes lawyers poorer Register By Chris Mellor • Get more from this author Days after Iron Mountain sells its way out of the eDIscovery market Symantec is buying its way in, with a $390 million purchase of Clearwell. Symantec, which sells backup, archiving, security, file and volume ... See all stories on this topic »

China's 'great firewall' creator pelted with shoes The Guardian A growing number of China's estimated 477 million internet users are frustrated by curbs on their online activities. Photograph: Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty Images Chinese police are seeking a man who said he threw eggs and shoes at the architect of ... See all stories on this topic » The Guardian

Storm batters Saturn and offers scientists an unprecedented view Daily Mail By Daily Mail Reporter Scientists have been given an unprecedented view of a once-in-a-generation storm in the atmosphere of Saturn. The planet's atmosphere normally appears placid and calm. But about once every Saturn year - the equivalent of about 30 ... See all stories on this topic » Daily Mail

Astounding 49 Million-Year-Old Face of Spider Frozen in Amber Fox News This is Eusprassus crassipes, a fossil huntsman spider in almost 50 million-year-old Baltic amber (shown in inset), as revealed by modern techniques of X-ray computed tomography. It's a face only a mother spider could love. The latest computer-imaging ... See all stories on this topic » Fox News

Google Social Search Global Debut International Business Times Google disclosed plans to make its social search available to global users in 19 languages over the next week, and more languages later. Despite its reign at the top of search engines, Google finds itself a step behind in social search, compared to the ... See all stories on this topic » International Business Times

Second Grader Wins 'Doodle 4 Google' Contest With Space-Inspired Drawing PC Magazine By Chloe Albanesius Google on Thursday selected a California second grader as the winner of this year's Doodle 4 Google competition. Matteo Lopez's doodle will appear on the Google homepage tomorrow, May 20, and he will take home a $15000 college ... See all stories on this topic »

Psst! The Human Brain Is Wired For Gossip NPR by Jon Hamilton Learning juicy details about someone can change the way you see them — literally, according to a new study. Hearing gossip about people can change the way you see them — literally. Negative gossip actually alters the way our visual ... See all stories on this topic »

Wow!: Unique $8.7m Ferrari revealed Stuff.co.nz SUPER CAR: Ferrari's one-off Superamerica 45, which was custom built for New York property magnate Peter Kalikow. If you've spent millions buying Ferraris over 45 years, what do you buy next? If you're New York property magnate Peter Kalikow, ... See all stories on this topic » Stuff.co.nz

US Botanic Garden in DC highlights rare, endangered plans for Endangered ... Washington Post By AP, WASHINGTON — The US Botanic Garden on the National Mall is hosting a special open house for Endangered Species Day to highlight the many plants that are in danger of disappearing. The event Friday from 10 am to 2 pm is hosted with the US Fish ... See all stories on this topic »

Siemens Says it Will Fix SCADA Bugs PCWorld By Robert McMillan, IDG News Siemens is working on a fix for some serious vulnerabilities recently discovered in its industrial control system products used to manage machines on the factory floor. The company said Thursday that it was testing patches ... See all stories on this topic »

Sprint Wants States to Review AT&T's Proposed T-Mobile Purchase Bloomberg By Todd Shields and Greg Bensinger - Fri May 20 04:00:03 GMT 2011 Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) said it wants state agencies in California and West Virginia to follow Louisiana in scrutinizing AT&T Inc. (T)'s proposed purchase of T- Mobile USA Inc. ... See all stories on this topic »

Apple's cloud streaming could rely on small, locally stored song segments Apple Insider By Neil Hughes Apple's anticipated cloud-based music streaming service could could offer faster playback of Internet-stored content by syncing just small snippets of songs via iTunes. The details were revealed this week in a new patent application ... See all stories on this topic »

Lawsuit accuses AT&T of inflating iPhone, iPad data usage TechSpot By Matthew DeCarlo, TechSpot.com A new class action lawsuit accuses AT&T of "systematically overcharging" iPhone and iPad users for data usage. Suspecting foul play, AT&T customer Patrick Hendricks and his lawyers hired an independent tech consultant ... See all stories on this topic » TechSpot

Your Results May Vary Wall Street Journal By PAUL BOUTIN Last year Eli Pariser, president of the board of the liberal-activist site MoveOn.org, had a shocking realization. A heavy Facebook user, he had become friends—at least on Facebook—with an assortment of conservative thinkers and pundits. ... See all stories on this topic »

Microsoft closes consumer skunkworks unit CNET by Jay Greene A little more than three years after opening Pioneer Studios, a skunkworks operation to develop consumer electronics and experiences, Microsoft has closed the unit, CNET has learned. Pioneer was the brainchild of J Allard, the executive ... See all stories on this topic » CNET

Outdoor Apps for Android Users Backpacker Magazine Don't let iPhone fanatics fool you: There are tons of great outdoor apps for the other operating system. Don't worry Apple lovers: We already reviewed a bunch of great iPhone apps. Users of those smartphones that start with the letter "i" like to think ... See all stories on this topic »

Nissan is mailing some cache to 2011 Juke owners Torque News Apparently having a small gas tank is worth some cash? Due to a marketing error owners of Nissan's sporty little crossover, the 2011 Juke, are receiving a rebate from Nissan. Owners should be on the look out for a check in their mailbox. ... See all stories on this topic »

Mobile money: Here at last BBC News From today, when you want to buy a coffee or a sandwich, instead of reaching for coins or a credit card you can just brandish your phone. Amazing, huh? Well, not really. While the new phone, using near field communication technology (NFC) to allow ... See all stories on this topic » BBC News

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 Adds Identity InternetNews.com By Sean Michael Kerner: More stories by this author: Red Hat (NYSE:RHT) is updating its flagship Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform with a new 6.1 release (RHEL). The RHEL 6.1 release provide improvements to networking connectivity, virtualization, ... See all stories on this topic »

Academy of Natural Sciences and Drexel strike deal to share resources Newsworks.org By Peter Crimmins The Academy of Natural Sciences was established in 1812. It's the oldest natural science research institution in America, with authoritative collections of specimens, and 18 staff scientists. But president George Gephart said they ... See all stories on this topic »

White House proposes cybersecurity legislation Lexology (registration) As we reported last week, on May 12, 2011, the Obama administration announced a comprehensive cybersecurity legislative proposal in a letter to Congress. The proposal, which is the culmination of two years of work by an interagency team made up of ... See all stories on this topic »

Patch Inbound For The Witcher 2 Next Week Gaming Union The first patch for The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, will be available next week according to the game's developer, CD Projekt RED. Features included in the new patch are, the ability for players to change the keyboard mapping and invert the mouse ... See all stories on this topic » Gaming Union

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