John Biggs / TechCrunch:
GameStop To Sell SIM Cards — GameStop is hurting. Same store sales fell 5%-11% and revenue was down 17% to $2 billion. Profit fell to $72.5 million. Arguably, those are still huge numbers and presumably a new console refresh should push the company out of the doldrums.
Dan Rowinski / ReadWriteWeb:
Computer Programming for All: A New Standard of Literacy — Everyone ought to be able to read and write; few people within the global mainstream would argue with that statement. But should everyone be able to program computers? The question is becoming critically important …
Josh Lowensohn / CNET:
Steve Jobs TV movie to film at the original Apple garage — For those wondering how authentic the upcoming made-for-TV movie about Steve Jobs will be, maker Five Star Feature Films says it's going to actual locations, including Jobs' childhood home, where the first Apple computers were pieced together in the garage.
Wall Street Journal:
Facebook's IPO Sputters — Underwriters Forced to Prop Up IPO of Social Network; Only a 23-Cent Rise — Facebook Inc. took eight years to stage one of the most anticipated initial public offerings ever. The anticlimax came Friday, as Wall Street bankers struggled to prevent …
Nick Wingfield / Bits:
Closure in Disappearance of Computer Scientist — Just over five years ago, Jim Gray, a computer scientist then working for Microsoft, vanished with his sailboat somewhere in the waters off in San Francisco beyond the Golden Gate Bridge. Because no trace of Dr. Gray or his boat, Tenacious …
Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:
Windows 8's desktop UI changes unveiled — If you have been following Windows 8 for any amount of time, you must have run across the Building Windows 8 Blog, the official organ of the Windows team. It is not for massive, Internet-bending pieces of non-fiction that pack in enough context …
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
BitTorrent Piracy Boosts Music Sales, Study Finds — For more than a decade researchers have been looking into the effects of music piracy on the revenues of the record industry, with mixed results. — None of these researchers, however, used a large sample of accurate download statistics …
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
SceneTap Interview: San Francisco's Least Welcome Start-Up Explains Itself (Video) — Late yesterday afternoon, I was supposed to meet SceneTap CEO Cole Harper at a bar in San Francisco, so I could get an in-person view of his company's nightlife monitoring system that was set to debut today at various local venues.
Sue Marek / FierceWireless:
Dish won't launch its LTE Advanced network until 2016 - or later — Dish Network said that it will not be able to launch its proposed LTE Advanced network using 40 MHz of S-Band spectrum until 2016 or later. This is about 12 months longer than the FCC's current proposed buildout schedule …
Stu Horvath / Wired:
The Imagination Engine: Why Next-Gen Videogames Will Rock Your World — An image from Epic Games' upcoming Unreal Engine 4 demo. Image: Courtesy of Epic Games — When Tim Sweeney is out in the world discussing pedestrian things—the sweet tea at a particular barbecue restaurant, say …
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
US “Six Strikes” Anti-Piracy Scheme Delayed — In the coming months the Center for Copyright Information (CCI) will start to track down ‘pirates’ as part of an agreement all major U.S. Internet providers struck with the MPAA and RIAA. — The parties agreed on a system through …
Quentin Hardy / Bits:
Facebook Wins Oregon Tax Break — Facebook's I.P.O. wasn't the only thing to cheer about at Facebook. The company also got an important break in keeping its business profitable, by keeping its costs down. — A few hours after the I.P.O. Friday, Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber was scheduled …
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
ITC orders import ban against Motorola Android devices that infringe a Microsoft patent — The United States International Trade Commission ("USITC", or just “ITC") today ordered an import ban against all Android-based Motorola Mobility devices that infringe a particular Microsoft patent …
Meghan Kelly / VentureBeat:
Facebook amends S-1 with share allotments for IPO underwriters — Facebook released the amount of shares allocated to each of its underwriters today, following its less than stellar IPO day. — The company went public on the Nasdaq today, to an EKG-like performance, ending in a .38 cent gain today.
Reuters:
ZTE confirms security hole in U.S. phone — (Reuters) - ZTE Corp, the world's No.4 handset vendor and one of two Chinese companies under U.S. scrutiny over security concerns, said one of its mobile phone models sold in the United States contains a vulnerability that researchers say could allow others to control the device.
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