Thursday, April 28, 2011

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Sci/Tech News


Microsoft's 3Q earnings grow 31 pct; stock falls - The Associated Press

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 02:40 PM PDT


USA Today

Microsoft's 3Q earnings grow 31 pct; stock falls
The Associated Press
Microsoft Corp.'s latest quarterly earnings rose 31 percent even as sales of its Windows operating system sagged. The fiscal third-quarter results released Thursday exceeded analyst estimates. Still, it marks the second straight quarter that revenue in ...
Video Game Products Lift Microsoft in QuarterNew York Times
Microsoft's 31 percent profit gain meets expectationsThe Seattle Times
Microsoft Windows revenues in rare slipFinancial Times
AFP -San Francisco Chronicle -BBC News
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NASA's Youngest Shuttle: The Historic Endeavors of Space Shuttle Endeavour - Space.com

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 02:23 PM PDT


The Guardian

NASA's Youngest Shuttle: The Historic Endeavors of Space Shuttle Endeavour
Space.com
Twenty years after exiting its assembly facility for its maiden mission, space shuttle Endeavour is poised on the launch pad to fly its final flight. NASA's youngest orbiter, born from a tragedy, Endeavour made its debut on April 25, 1991, ...
Recommended: Shuttle outlook gets slightly cloudiermsnbc.com
Space Shuttle Endeavor Ready for its Last MissionVoice of America
Programmer-turned-astronaut to lift off on NASA's EndeavourComputerworld
The Associated Press -Fox News -Patch.com
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RIM Cuts Profit Forecast for Quarter - New York Times

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 03:17 PM PDT


CBC.ca

RIM Cuts Profit Forecast for Quarter
New York Times
By REUTERS Research In Motion, the maker of BlackBerry device, cut its profit forecast by 11 percent for the current quarter Thursday because of slower BlackBerry shipments. In an unusual warning just a month after RIM reported quarterly earnings and ...
RIM cuts expectations amid weak BlackBerry salesCNET
PlayBook tablet sales surpass Best Buy's expectationsComputerworld
RIM Cuts Earnings Guidance; Blames Slow Smartphone SalesWall Street Journal
CNN -Bloomberg -Reuters
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Google Chrome 11 Kills Bugs, Adds Speech Input - InformationWeek

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 01:11 PM PDT


Siliconrepublic.com

Google Chrome 11 Kills Bugs, Adds Speech Input
InformationWeek
The company paid out a record $16500 in rewards to security researchers who helped to eliminate more than two dozen bugs. By Thomas Claburn InformationWeek Google on Wednesday updated the general use version of its Chrome Web browser to version 11, ...
Google Chrome 11 adds speech-to-text featuremsnbc.com
Google Patches 27 Chrome Vulnerabilities, Pays Bug BountiesITProPortal
Google Chrome 11 Squashes Bugs, Adds HTML Speech, New LogoPC Magazine
Computerworld -Mashable -CNET
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Our Choice for IOS Pushes Digital Book Boundaries - PCWorld

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 11:35 AM PDT


Macworld

Our Choice for IOS Pushes Digital Book Boundaries
PCWorld
The first time former US vice president Al Gore issued his warning about the dire state of our environment, he used the traditional format of bound paper. To follow up on his first book and explore some of the renewable ...
Al Gore's "Our Choice" Hits iPad As Interactive Book [Said To Be Sequel To "An ...TFTS (blog)
Check Out Al Gore's New iPad Book [Video]Cult of Mac
Al Gore's 'Our Choice' highly interactive ebook hits the App Store9 to 5 Mac
Huffington Post -Publishers Lunch Deluxe (subscription) -Wired (blog)
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Can Nokia Build a Compelling Tablet? (Spoiler: Yes) - TIME

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 02:31 PM PDT


CTV.ca

Can Nokia Build a Compelling Tablet? (Spoiler: Yes)
TIME
Nokia is building a tablet, which shouldn't surprise anyone. But don't expect this tablet to be another me-too tablet. It'll be different! "We have a number of options in the tablet computing space given the changing ...
Nokia axes 7000 jobs to cut costsReuters
Nokia announces layoffs and Symbian outsourcingZDNet UK
Nokia to Cut 7000 Jobs in Cost-Cutting MoveNew York Times
InformationWeek -Wall Street Journal -PCWorld
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NVIDIA announces SLI support for the AMD platform - Ars Technica

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 02:39 PM PDT


DailyTech

NVIDIA announces SLI support for the AMD platform
Ars Technica
For the past few years, if you've wanted to gang together two NVIDIA cards in an SLI configuration, you've been restricted to using an Intel CPU. But that's soon going to change. ...
SLI Arrives on AMD 9-Series MotherboardsTom's Hardware Guide
Nvidia Licenses SLI for AMD PlatformsPC Magazine
NVIDIA Licenses SLI for Upcoming AMD ChipsetsDailyTech
Geek.com -Gizmodo Australia -X-bit Labs
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White iPhone 4 flies off shelves in China - Computerworld

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 12:47 PM PDT


ABC News

White iPhone 4 flies off shelves in China
Computerworld
Computerworld - Apple's new white iPhone 4 has sold out in some Asian markets, analysts and sites reported today. The long-delayed white iPhone 4, which went on sale in 28 countries earlier Thursday, sold out in Beijing, ...
Apple`s White iPhone 4 Finally Released on Verizon, ATandTeWeek
White iPhone 4 is Here (Finally)PC Magazine
White iPhone finally launching worldwide tomorrowCNET
msnbc.com -PCWorld -Fortune
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