Green homeowners may soon be able to say goodbye to unwieldy solar panels thanks to a new paint that generates electricity by harnessing energy from “power-producing nanoparticles, researchers have announced. The paint, dubbed “Sunbelievable” by developers at the University of Notre Dame, looks no different from any other paint used to coat home exteriors and other [...]
On Wednesday, mobile app analytics company Distimo released its year-end mobile app report. The top app across the seven biggest app stores? ”Angry Birds.” Variations on the popular Rovio game nabbed three of the top ten spots, while ”Talking Tom Cat” and”Fruit Ninja,” in eighth and ninth place respectively, rounded out the other games on the list. Games [...]
MOSCOW — A Soyuz spacecraft safely delivered a Russian, an American and a Dutchman to the International Space Station on Friday, restoring the permanent crew to six members for the first time since September. But just as concerns over the reliability of the Soyuz have eased, a different version of the Soyuz rocket failed Friday [...]
SAN FRANCISCO — The Federal Communications Commission approved wireless carrier AT&T Inc.’s $1.93 billion purchase of unused wireless spectrum from Qualcomm Inc. AT&T Inc. said a year ago that it planned to buy the spectrum to add capacity to its fourth-generation, or “4G” network, which it has been rolling out across the country. The network’s [...]
Why is it that each year feels more momentous than the last? Perhaps it’s that the increasing shareability of news keeps events in the collective consciousness much longer than in the newspaper days. Whatever the reason, the biggest stories of the past 12 months — from the Royal Wedding to the Arab Spring to the [...]
Facebook recently released a list of its most popular games this year. But some cried foul over the results and questioned how the social network collecting data for the list. Tech Crunch suggested that Facebook had purposefully used “cloudy methodology” to keep game-maker Zynga from dominating the rankings. While four of the top 10 games were developed [...]
NEW YORK — I’ve often joked that if something’s not on Facebook, it didn’t happen. Facebook’s new Timeline feature makes that adage even more apparent. Timeline is Facebook’s new way of presenting you to the world. It replaces your traditional profile page – the one with your headshot and a smorgasbord of personal musings, photos [...]
SAN FRANCISCO — Netflix CEO Reed Hastings will pay a $1.5 million penalty for blunders that alienated the video subscription service’s customers and pulverized its stock. The punishment will be delivered with a 50 percent reduction in his stock option awards next year, according to regulatory documents filed Thursday. Instead of the $3 million stock [...]
On Wednesday, Microsoft took to The Official Microsoft Blog to announce that 2012 will mark the software company’s last keynote presentation and booth at the world’s largest tech fair, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). The post, written by Corporate Vice President of Corporate Communications Frank X. Shaw, cited timing as the main reason for the decision. Shaw [...]
LOS ANGELES — A California appeals court has upheld a ruling that says user-generated video site Veoh is entitled to safe harbor from monetary damages in a copyright infringement case brought by Universal Music Group. Judge Raymond Fisher said in a decision filed Tuesday that Universal could not put the burden of finding and deleting [...]
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