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Microsoft UFC giveaway backfires as Xbox 360 app fails during fight Ars Technica By Ben Kuchera | Published January 3, 2012 1:30 PM Mixed martial arts is a sport with an increasingly wide audience, and Microsoft's move to show UFC events on the Xbox 360 through a special app sounded brilliant at last year's E3. ... See all stories on this topic »

Car service Uber passes economics test, fails marketing VentureBeat Users of startup car service Uber got quite a shock from the company's demand-based pricing on New Year's Eve. The company implemented a New Year's surcharge that stuck San Francisco-based Uber user Dan Darcy with a $63 bill for traveling 0.73 miles. ... See all stories on this topic »

Yahoo poised to name CEO: AllThingsD website Reuters (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc is poised to name a new Chief Executive, web site AllThingsD reported, citing sources close to the situation, and named PayPal president Scott Thompson as the likely candidate. Thompson currently runs eBay's online payments unit. ... See all stories on this topic »

HP Announces Business Monitors, Docking Station PC Magazine By Natalie Shoemaker HP plans on showing off several business-oriented display solutions a this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which include a docking station and a budget-line of LED monitors. The HP Compaq L2311c is a 23-inch LED monitor ... See all stories on this topic »

Today in Tech: Did the Kindle Fire steal the iPad's holiday thunder? Fortune By JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter January 4, 2012: 5:00 AM ET Fortune's curated selection of tech stories from the last 24 hours. Sign up to get the round-up delivered to you each and every day. * Did the Kindle Fire steal sales away from the iPad ... See all stories on this topic » Fortune

Google bolsters patent stockpile with IBM buy TG Daily Google's boosted its growing patent portfolio by buying hundreds more from IBM, which it hopes will help it in its battle to fight off litigation. It's taken over 187 patents and 36 patent applications, on top of the many others it bought from IBM last ... See all stories on this topic »

Angry Birds downloaded 6.5 million times on Christmas Day alone Computerandvideogames.com Titles in the Angry Birds series of games were downloaded 6.5 million times on Christmas Day alone, according to developer Rovio. Impressively, the tally - which includes both paid and free downloads of Angry Birds and its spin-offs - is almost equal ... See all stories on this topic »

Ultrabooks: Four things that will make or break the category ZDNet (blog) By Larry Dignan | January 4, 2012, 2:13am PST Summary: If ultrabooks are going to be a huge success they will need to inspire a corporate and consumer upgrade cycle. A week from now you may never want to hear the word "ultrabook" again. ... See all stories on this topic »

Internap Acquires Enterprise Cloud Services Provider Voxel Server Watch By Vangie Beal (Send Email) Internap Network Services Corporation (NASDAQ: INAP) has announced its acquisition of Voxel Holdings, Inc., a provider of scalable hosting and cloud services for the enterprise. Voxel provides on-demand dedicated hosting and ... See all stories on this topic »

Google introduces mandatory Holo theme for Android 4.0 TechRadar UK By Kate Solomon Google has taken the surprising move of requiring all future Android devices, including those on Android 4.0, to feature its default theme, known as Holo. Essentially, the company is trying to standardise design features across the OS ... See all stories on this topic »

AT&T Settles TiVo Patent Infringement Lawsuit for $215 Million ITProPortal US wireless carrier AT&T has reportedly settled its patent infringement lawsuit with DVR giant TiVo for at least $215 million. The settlement comes months after Dish Network and EchoStar settled patent lawsuits with TiVo over the same patent - the time ... See all stories on this topic » ITProPortal

TV Market Seen Growing 2% In 2012 To 254 Million Units Forbes The global television market is expected to reach 254 million units in 2012, up 2% from last year, according to new data from market research firm NPD Display Search. In 2011, unit shipments are estimated to have grown a scant 0.1%. ... See all stories on this topic » Forbes

Cisco kills Umi consumer video conferencing system... again The Verge By Bryan Bishop on January 4, 2012 04:56 am 0Comments Cisco's home video conferencing solution Umi never found much success, and now Business Insider reports that the company is calling off sales altogether. Originally unveiled in October of 2010, ... See all stories on this topic »

Apple iTV Coming in 2012? Tapscape Apple plans to prepare iTV materials during the first quarter this year ahead of a third quarter launch, DigiTimes is reporting. The same website reported that Samsung began producing chips for the television back in November, leaving Sharp with the ... See all stories on this topic »

Impossible crystals are 'from space' BBC News Examples of a crystal previously thought to be impossible in nature may have come from space, a study shows. Quasicrystals have an unusual structure - in between those of crystals and glasses. Until two years ago, quasicrystals had only been created in ... See all stories on this topic » BBC News

Remotely pat your pet with Kinect and a Wiimote ExtremeTech By Sebastian Anthony on January 3, 2012 at 7:12 am Taylor Valtrop, an enterprising roboticist with a fondness for felines, has crafted the mother of all Kinect (and Wiimote!) hacks: The teleoperation of a robot to groom a cat. ... See all stories on this topic » ExtremeTech

Pepsi says Mountain Dew turns mice into 'jelly-like' substance ABC30.com FRESNO, California (KFSN) -- The Pepsi company may have succeeded in shocking its customers even further -- while trying to defend itself against a man who claims he found a mouse in his can of Mountain Dew. In 2009, Ronald Ball says he purchased a can ... See all stories on this topic » ABC30.com

iPhone 5 coming this fall, says analyst CNET by Brooke Crothers January 3, 2012 8:38 PM PST Follow @mbrookec A research note from an investment bank today sees an iPhone 5 coming this fall and sees strong growth for Apple's popular phone in the coming quarter. The iPhone will comprise roughly 50 ... See all stories on this topic » CNET

PostSecret iPhone app closed due to 'threatening' and 'pornographic' content msnbc.com By Athima Chansanchai Citing "content that was not just pornographic but also gruesome and at times threatening," PostSecret founder Frank Warren made a new year's decision to close the popular iPhone app, which allowed users to anonymously post and ... See all stories on this topic »

New Species Discovered on Antarctic Seafloor PlanetSave.com Entire communities of species that were previously unknown to science have been discovered on the Antarctic seafloor custering around the hydrothermal vents. The discoveries were made by teams led by the University of Oxford, University of Southampton, ... See all stories on this topic »

Nintendo 3DS Tops 4 Million in America Game Freaks 365 There's no doubt that the Nintendo 3DS finished 2011 strong. After a launch in March that was followed by a long drought, the system has managed to get its act together with major releases ranging from Star Fox 64 3D and Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of ... See all stories on this topic »

Apple To Celebrate Year Of The Dragon With Another Asia-Specific Offer AppAdvice Apple is planning on celebrating the Lunar New Year (which, this year, is the Year of the Dragon) with a "special one-day Apple shopping event" on January 6. The event, which the company is calling "Red Friday," sees numerous discounts and reductions ... See all stories on this topic »

Booking a flight to space, with travel insurance NDTV By Kenneth Chang, The New York Times, Updated: January 04, 2012 14:33 IST The first flights of the new airlines that will take tourists past the threshold of space are poised to take off in 2012, and getting a seat on one is not all that different from ... See all stories on this topic » NDTV

10 Social Networking Posts That Sink Careers InformationWeek This year, resolve to avoid social network updates that could put your career in trouble. Social networks are a veritable minefield for professionals these days. Saying the right thing on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and other social platforms requires ... See all stories on this topic »

Fly parasite turns honeybees into zom-bees msnbc.com By Joseph Castro, LiveScience Staff Writer If deadly viruses and fungi weren't enough, honeybees in North America now must also deal with a fly parasite that causes them to leave their hive and die after wandering about in a zombie-like stupor, ... See all stories on this topic » msnbc.com

5 Mobile Things That Won't Happen In 2012 InformationWeek Here are five things we probably won't see take place in the mobile industry in 2012, along with a few that might. By Eric Zeman InformationWeek Plenty of good things and plenty of bad things happened throughout 2011 in the mobile industry and the same ... See all stories on this topic »

Thefts Force Peer-to-Peer Car Sharing Service to Close Fox News By Nelson Ireson A ring of car thieves targeting luxury peer-to-peer car sharing service HiGear has caused the company to shut its doors. The thieves used fake identities and stolen credit cards to bypass the company's security and fees on the way to ... See all stories on this topic » Fox News

GymPact app pays you to workout, fines you for not going SlashGear With 2012 kicking off you can bet that one of the most common resolutions is to lose weight and get fit for many people. That can be hard to do though since finding the time and drive to go to the gym several times per week is more than many folks can ... See all stories on this topic » SlashGear

Toyota Camry gets a much-needed update for 2012 Globe and Mail Toyota is desperate to make a success out of its revamped 2012 Camry and the new year is starting well. Generally speaking, critics have given the new Camry good if not great reviews. Now Consumer Reports has chimed in. The magazine has rated the ... See all stories on this topic » Globe and Mail

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