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Netflix Drops Bomb by Lifting Prices For DVD & Streaming Membership International Business Times By IB Times Staff Reporter | July 13, 2011 6:49 AM EDT Netflix Inc. announced significant price increases by separating unlimited streaming plus unlimited DVD plans into separate packages, and hiking the price of the DVD plans. ... See all stories on this topic »

Electronic Arts buys PopCap in $1.3bn deal Telegraph.co.uk Electronic Arts, the video game publisher, is buying PopCap Games in a deal worth up to $1.3bn (£817m) as it tries to ramp up its social and casual games portfolio and better compete with Zynga. PopCap makes easy-to-play games such as 'Bejewelled' for ... See all stories on this topic » Telegraph.co.uk

Encryption defense attorney fights DOJ demands (Q&A) CNET by Declan McCullagh The US Department of Justice is determined to make sure that a case in Colorado will set a legal precedent allowing it to force Americans accused of crimes to decrypt their computers' hard drives. Phil Dubois is equally determined ... See all stories on this topic » CNET

Safer Robots Will Improve Manufacturing MIT Technology Review Robots have been considered too unpredictable and dangerous to work alongside humans in factories—advances in artificial sensing and motion could change that. By Kristina Grifantini Last winter, NASA technicians sent a humanoid robot dubbed Robonaut 2 ... See all stories on this topic » MIT Technology Review

New DroidDream Light Invades Android Market Tom's Guide A variant of the DroidDream Light malware was discovered on the Android Market this past Friday. Yay Google. Friday Lookout Security said that a new variant of the DroidDream Light malware was discovered on the Android Market. ... See all stories on this topic »

Verizon Opens LTE Innovation Center in Mass. PC Magazine By Jamie Lendino WALTHAM, MA—Nearly fifteen months after first breaking ground, Verizon has opened its brand-new research center in Waltham, MA, about 10 miles northwest of downtown Boston—and showed off some pretty impressive tech at a launch event to ... See all stories on this topic »

Closing the three metre gap BBC News The question is one of the most hotly contested in palaeontology and revolves around an apparent gap in the fossil record immediately prior to the KT boundary - the distinct layer of geological sediments separating the Cretaceous and Tertiary periods, ... See all stories on this topic » BBC News

Avaya Integrates Social Media, Contact Center Products InformationWeek Want to track a social complaint just as if it came in via the phone or any other channel your business uses? Avaya is breaking down the walls between social media and other customer contact channels with products and services announced Tuesday. ... See all stories on this topic »

Neptune celebrates one-year anniversary since discovery The Tech Herald by Steven Mostyn - Jul 13 2011, 10:20 Here's a little science factoid that might bake your noodle for a moment: It has been one year since the planet Neptune was first discovered. Specifically, although the distant icy world was initially spied in the ... See all stories on this topic »

Survey finds that a lot of iPhone, RIM, and Android phone owners think they ... SlashGear There is a lot of confusion in the smartphone realm with people thinking a phone has a particular feature it doesn't have. Many people in stores that sell phones are also telling shoppers things that are wrong and often misleading adding to the ... See all stories on this topic » SlashGear

Computer learns human language to teach itself to play games TG Daily MIT's developed a machine-learning system that allows a computer to read the instructions for playing Civilization - in one of several different languages - and improve its game. It's worth noting that game manuals don't give specific instructions for ... See all stories on this topic » TG Daily

FCC Proposes Rules to Combat Phone Cramming PCWorld By Grant Gross, IDG News The US Federal Communications Commission has proposed new rules designed to make it more difficult for telephone carriers and other companies to insert mystery fees onto customers' phone bills. The proposed rules, released by ... See all stories on this topic »

Dancing To The Drumbeat Of HTML5, New Pandora Is Brilliant, Beautiful TechCrunch MG Siegler has been writing for TechCrunch since 2009. He covers the web, mobile, social, big companies, small companies, essentially everything. And Apple. A lot. Prior to TechCrunch, he covered various technology beats for VentureBeat. ... See all stories on this topic »

Google Science Fair Winners Announced National Geographic Shree Bose(left), Naomi Shah(center), and Lauren Hodge(right) react to the annuncement of Shree as the Grand Prize Winner of the inaugural Google Science Fair. Photo by Megan Seldon/NGS. Last night at Google headquarters, some of the world's smartest ... See all stories on this topic »

Citrix Buys Cloud.com for More Than $200 Million; Redpoint Is on a Roll TechCrunch Sarah Lacy currently works at TechCrunch as a senior editor. She is also an award winning journalist and author of two critically acclaimed books, "Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0" (Gotham ... See all stories on this topic »

VMware unveils 'complete' cloud infrastructure suite ZDNet Asia By Kevin Kwang , ZDNet Asia on July 13, 2011 (4 mins ago) New vSphere 5 platform builds on company's IT-as-a-service strategy and offers quicker virtual machine provisioning, "intelligent" policy management and better security for apps running in ... See all stories on this topic »

Two New 4G LTE Devices Launched by AT&T ITProPortal Telecom giant AT&T has rolled out two brand new 4G LTE devices - the AT&T Mobile Hotspot Elevate 4G, which will be accompanied by the AT&T USBConnect Momentum 4G- a USB modem. The two devices, which are compatible with both the Mac and Windows OS ... See all stories on this topic »

Gov. Cuomo signs bill that cracks down on drivers who are caught texting New York Daily News BY Alex Katz Gov. Cuomo on Tuesday signed into law a bill that will toughen penalties for drivers who are caught texting on the road. "This will be enforced aggressively," said Cuomo, who spoke against a backdrop of police cruisers and a giant ... See all stories on this topic » New York Daily News

Microsoft kills Windows Vista SP1 support Register By Kelly Fiveash • Get more from this author Microsoft is once again trying to bump the 10 per cent market share of people and businesses still lumbered with the company's unloved Windows Vista over to its latest operating system. ... See all stories on this topic »

New York City Charges Ahead With 50 Chevrolet Volts PaddockTalk The Volt will be the first electric car used by the New York City Police Department, which also uses electric scooters and golf cars. The Volts represent the majority of 70 new electric vehicles joining the city fleet, which now has 430 electric ... See all stories on this topic »

Google To Tie Google Offers, Shopper to Google+ PC Magazine By Mark Hachman Perhaps not surprisingly, expect Google to integrate its new Google+ social network with its mobile commerce apps, Google Shopper and Google Offers. Stephanie Tilenius, the vice-president of Google Commerce, told the MobileBeat ... See all stories on this topic »

Google Voice Adds Spam Filter, Identifies "Problem" Callers Washington Post By TechCrunch.com, As someone who hates phone calls in the first place, Google Voice has been a boon to my workflow. Calls go in and I rarely, if ever, check them. It's truly a marvelous invention. However, Google Voice now has global spam filtering ... See all stories on this topic »

Facebook, Time Warner Take On Bullying PC Magazine By Leslie Horn Facebook and Time Warner are teaming up to tackle bullying with a joint campaign that encourages people to speak out. "We believe that by working together with parents and teachers, we can teach young people to speak up and stop bullying ... See all stories on this topic »

View: Google Requires Oversight but Not US Probe Bloomberg By the Editors Wed Jul 13 04:01:26 GMT 2011 Comments When Google Inc. (GOOG) went public in 2004, its founders declared that the search-engine leader wasn't a conventional company and didn't intend to become one. This maverick attitude has defined ... See all stories on this topic »

Facebook for Every Phone boosts mobile access, offers free data SlashGear Is Facebook feeling the heat from Google+? It certainly looks that way; the social network is pushing its ubiquity message hard with the new release of Facebook for Every Phone, promising that the new app – which will apparently work on over 2500 ... See all stories on this topic » SlashGear

Salesforce.com`s Heroku Lands Ruby Language Creator eWeek Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, creator of the Ruby programming language, has joined Salesforce.com's Heroku Platform-as-a-Service company as chief architect of Ruby. Landing Matsumoto, also known as "Matz" in the Ruby community, is a coup for Heroku, ... See all stories on this topic »

Facebook's Privacy Settings Loosening Up With U.S. Law Enforcement Technorati According to Reuters, the FBI, DEA and ICE have found hope in federal judges, who are authorizing warrants to search individuals' Facebook accounts, following up on investigations from rape to terrorism. Law enforcement agencies already have manuals on ... See all stories on this topic » Technorati

10 Crazy Stories About Google's Early Days From An Insider Who Was There (GOOG) San Francisco Chronicle Doug Edwards was employee #59 at Google, and today his memoir of his time at the company goes on sale. There are plenty of other recent books about Google's early days from journalists like Ken Auletta and Steven Levy, but "I'm Feeling Lucky" has more ... See all stories on this topic »

Cisco Refreshes Top Catalyst Switch Line CRN By Chad Berndtson, CRN Cisco on Tuesday confirmed a refresh of the Catalyst 6500, Cisco's most popular switching line. The move comes at a critical time for Cisco's switching business, which has seen year-over-year revenue declines in recent quarters ... See all stories on this topic »

Apple's iOS 5 Beta 3 Available for Download Touch Reviews Apple on Monday released iOS 5 beta 3 to developers which address a number of bugs, makes the iOS devices a lot more stable and brings some minor tweaks. The new beta is available for download from the iOS developers portal. ... See all stories on this topic » Touch Reviews

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