• Google mapping Waze takeover says report

  Google is considering a bid for the mobile mapping and navigation company, Bloomberg reports. Could this be a play to keep Facebook out of its ...

• Google like Facebook in talks to buy Waze for about $1 billion report

  (Reuters) - Google Inc is considering buying Israeli mobile satellite navigation start-up Waze Inc, which may lead to a bidding war with Facebook Inc, Bloomberg news reported, citing people familiar with the ...

• Six eye-catching things from CTIA 2013

  (Credit: CNET/Marguerite Reardon) LAS VEGAS -- When it comes to emerging tech, crazy accessories, and carrier news, you can always count on a mobile conference to deliver. CTIA 2013 was a much quieter show than in years past, with the biggest carriers and manufacturers largely opting out to focus on their own launch events. While this confab felt the brunt of companies' shifting ...

• ATT adds 61-cent mobility fee to wireless bills

  AT&T's new "Mobility Administrative Fee" is raising wireless bills by 61 cents a month -- a move that could reportedly raise half a billion dollars for the ...

• Hulu buyout heats up with four reported bidders

  (Credit: Hulu) Those companies looking to get a piece of the Hulu pie had until this week to put in their first round of bids for the video streaming service. And, it appears that so far four companies have gone in for a slice. Former News Corp president Peter Chernin, private equity fund Guggenheim Digital Media (which is headed the former interim Yahoo CEO by Ross Levinsohn), satellite ...

• Billionaire Icahn seeks up to US$7bil for Dell bid

  and Silver Lake Partners. Icahn and Southeastern are seeking at least $5.2 billion and as much as $7 billion in lender commitments, sources said. "They want the shareholders to know that they have an alternative," another source said. Jefferies is understood to have committed $1.6 billion to the bridge loan. The arranger is asking for commitments as large as $1 billion and is expected ...

• In risky new tack Microsoft stacks Surface against iPad

  (Credit: Microsoft) Microsoft's "iPad vs. Windows" campaign now includes iPad vs. Surface RT. Is Microsoft picking the right fight? On the back ...

• Two-factor authentication What you need to know

  Twitter just got it. Apple recently got it, too. Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon have had it for a while. But why's two-factor authentication important, and will it keep you ...

• iPhone 5S and low-cost iPhone said to be multicolored

  (Credit: eiphoneaccessories.com) Apple's rumored iPhone 5S and low-cost iPhone are said to be coming in a rainbow of colors, according to an article ...

• Game over for used games How Xbox One and PS4 could gut gamers wallets

  Xbox One . We now know a lot about it, but as with most game console launches, we were left with a few unanswered questions that my colleague Dan Ackerman summed up nicely in his ...

• Teen Wins Doodle 4 Google Contest

  Doodle 4 Google contest on Wednesday, where students grades K-12 from all over the country submit their artwork to the competition, hoping to see their masterpiece intertwined ...

• Hulu video site auction attracts four bidders sources

  Time Warner Cable Inc also put in bids, one of the people told Reuters. Hulu was put on the auction block this year for the second time after disagreement between ...

• Microsoft cleared in Xbox patent spat with Google

  The U.S. International Trade Commission on Thursday said it won't review a final ruling that found Microsoft to be in the clear of infringing on patents held by Motorola Mobility, which Google acquired last year. The ruling ...

• The kitchen countertop wants juice and smoothies

  (Credit: Williams Sonoma) The kitchen countertop is valuable real estate. With available counter space always at a premium, gadgets and appliances that are contenders for acreage require something to help them stand out from the crowd. Sometimes it's a matter of versatility and other times it's convenience that determines what gets to stay and what has to go. And sometimes ...

• Watch the planets dance in a triple conjunction

  (Credit: European Southern Observatory) Triple planetary conjunctions are relatively rare in the night sky, but astronomers are about to be in for a real treat. The three brightest planets in our solar system as seen from Earth -- Jupiter, Mercury, and Venus -- will be coming together in the sky, "dancing" around each other over the course of several nights, starting Friday, May ...

• Angies List eyes year of transition as cashflow turns positive

  expects cashflow to turn positive this year as it spends less on acquiring new paid customers for its consumer review website, the company's co-founder said, fending off criticism of its business model by short-seller Citron Research.Chief Executive William Oesterle said Angie's List, which compiles reviews on everything from plumbers to pediatricians, said a recovery in U.S. consumer ...

• Judge says leaning toward U.S. in Apple e-books case

  NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge expressed a tentative view that the U.S. Justice Department will be able to show evidence Apple Inc engaged in a conspiracy with publishers to increase e-books prices.U.S. District Judge Denise Cote, who is set to oversee a trial on June 3, gave her view during a pretrial hearing on Thursday. She stressed that the view was not final and that she had only so ...

• Foursquare partners with Gnip to sell check-in stream

  (Credit: Jason Cipriani/CNET) Foursquare is now selling unfettered access to its real-time stream of check-ins through Gnip, a popular reseller of social-media data. The companies announced the partnership Thursday in separate blog posts that celebrate the possibilities for ...

• Xbox Ones unexpected pitch Its the Dad Box

  (Credit: PRNewsFoto/Microsoft) For years we've heard about the ever-widening appeal of video games and game-playing devices. Women gamers, senior gamers, casual gamers, and even the kind of social/mobile gamers who would never refer to themselves with the dreaded G word. But, when it was time to reveal its first major gaming hardware of the post-iPhone era (the first-gen iPhone was ...

• Watch a brain surgery over Twitter Instagram and Vine

  , but it may be the first to employ 6-second video medium Vine as part of the proceedings. Surgeons on Thursday implanted a brain pacemaker to counteract the effects of Parkinson's disease in a patient and sent out Twitter updates using both Instagram and Vine. The procedure has generated such memorable tweets as "Removing the skin and drilling through the skull for electrode ...

• Google may face antitrust inquiry over display ads -- again

  Google has reportedly returned to the display ads hot seat with the Federal Trade Commission, after avoiding disciplinary action following an antitrust probe ...

• Pandora posts in-line 1Q loss upbeat sales

  Internet radio company Pandora reported higher-than-expected revenue in the latest quarter, with losses in line with analysts' forecasts, as the number of subscribers who pay for ad-free listening rose above 2.5 million.The net loss in the three months ending April 30 grew to $28.6 million, or 16 cents per share, from a loss of $20.2 million, or 12 cents per share, a year ago.Excluding ...

• Microsoft did not violate Google patent ITC says

  WASHINGTON | Thu May 23, 2013 5:25pm EDT WASHINGTON May 23 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp did not violate a patent owned by Google subsidiary Motorola Mobility when it made its popular Xbox, the International Trade Commission said on Thursday. The fight over the Xbox is related to the larger smartphone patent war between Apple, Microsoft and the mobile phone makers who use Google's ...

• Meet the 23-ton X-Wing the worlds largest Lego model

  There's big, then there's really big, and then there's colossal, which might be a good word to use when describing a near 46,000-pound Lego X-Wing that made a triumphant debut today in New York's Times Square. The full-size replica, about 42 times the size of the Lego "Star Wars" X-Wing (#9493) set available on store shelves, celebrates the debut of Cartoon ...

• Google faces new federal antitrust probe source

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators are in the early stages of an antitrust probe into whether Google Inc, which dominates web display advertising, has broken antitrust law in how it handles some ad sales, a source told Reuters on ...

• Open source development surges for Android and surprisingly iOS

  Open source developers launched 15,000 Android mobile projects in 2012, representing a 96 percent increase over 2011. By contrast, iOS developers launched nearly 2,500 open source projects for Apple's mobile platform, a 32 percent increase year over year, which isn't half bad when you consider that ...

• Lambda Labs readying Google Glass face-recognition API

  Based on its face-rec API released last year, Lambda Labs' Google Glass Face Recognition API could help you recognize people who are less famous than Tiger ...

• Twitter attempts to beef up security

  Twitter lets users add a second layer of password protection, Jennifer Lopez has a new mobile brand, and Nextdoor brings text alerts to the ...

• Is protecting intellectual property from cyberthieves futile

  Mandiant report earlier in the year linking China's People's Liberation Army to ongoing and massive cyberattacks against U.S. corporations, government agencies, universities, and other organizations, policy makers and industry experts have been trying to figure out how to better secure their intellectual property against cyberattacks. Call it a work in progress. "The frustration ...

• Facebook users share 1 billion stories through outside apps

  MENLO PARK, Calif. -- Facebook highlighted its developer platform on Thursday, throwing out some big numbers around how third-party apps benefit from connecting to users through the social network. The social network opened up its platform to independent developers six years ago Friday, Director of Product Manager Doug Purdy told journalists today at a press conference at Facebook's ...

• IBM Preps Smartcloud for Real-time Analytics

  IDG News Service (New York Bureau) - Deploying an update of its DB2 database, IBM is pitching its SmartCloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) for use in data reporting and analysis. "We're the only player in the marketplace that has [a cloud service] for data-in-motion -- being able to analyze data in real time," said Bob Picciano, IBM's general manager for Information ...

• Commodities Tomorrow Hurricane Forecast Energy

  CNBC's Sharon Epperson discusses the day's activity in the commodities markets. The hurricane forecast is for 7 to 11 hurricanes this season, which could be bullish for the energy markets. Nat gas was up on the day because storage levels rose less than ...

• Apple Android and a truckload of watermelons

  Two farmers bought a truckload of watermelons, paying five dollars apiece for them. Then they drove to the market and sold all their watermelons for four dollars each. After counting their money at the end of the day, they realized that they'd ended up with less money than they'd started with. "See!" said the one farmer to the other. "I told you we shoulda got a bigger ...

• Ashton Kutcher Media $ Twitter up

  "For lack of a better verb, the media came and @&$#%! [expletive deleted] it up," Kutcher said at the CTIA wireless industry trade show in Las Vegas on Thursday. "When I first got on, it felt like the democratization of media. Now it just feels like ...

• Google surfaces your photos in search

  (Credit: Google) Looking for a picture you took at your sister's bridal shower? Google's search engine will now help you find it -- so long as you've posted the shot to the company's companion social network. The company announced Thursday that Google+ members can log in to Google.com ...

• Could storm-chasing UAVs help predict tornadoes

  tornado that rampaged through 17 miles of central Oklahoma, plans for storm-chasing UAVs are taking on new significance. Students at Oklahoma State University have been working on ...

• Hydropower megaproject to dam River Congo

  Africa's greatest river is about to be tamed. The River Congo is set to succumb to a series of giant hydroelectric dams with twice the generating capacity of the world's most powerful hydro-plant, ...

• Can Microsofts Kinect finally deliver for gamers

  original Kinect and promised next-level gaming free of controllers. What happened? It turned out that the Kinect hardware wasn't quite as advanced as we ...

• EU plans $6.4 billion effort to boost chip manufacturing

  The European Commission is spending 5 billion euros to coordinate and advance the processor industry in Europe. The goal: a fifth of worldwide ...

• Pad this Apple Microsoft blasts iPad yet again in new ad

  After getting Siri to do its critical work, Microsoft releases another ad comparing the iPad and Windows 8 tablet. Guess which comes out looking ...

• Microsoft to launch Kinect for Windows sensor in 2014

  (Credit: Microsoft) Microsoft will finally deliver a Kinect sensor for Windows sometime next year. The company announced Thursday that the Kinect for Windows sensor will use the same set of technologies key to the new Kinect sensor for ...

• Prosecutor iPad theft defendants ambushed victim

  LAS VEGAS (AP) -- A prosecutor in Las Vegas is comparing two men accused of killing a high school student who refused to let go of his iPad to wild animals ambushing a weak ...

• ChannelAdvisor soars in debut

  (Reuters) - ChannelAdvisor Corp shares soared more than 40 percent in their market debut on Thursday as investors bet the e-commerce software company will benefit from the rapid global spread of online buying and ...

• Box buys iOS app to improve its own

  mobile front-end interface for the cloud storage and file management and sharing service as well as for competitors Google Drive and Dropbox. The Folders technology will be deeply integrated with Box's own iOS application, which will be upgraded with the Folders improvements later this year, Box's Vice President of Engineering Sam ...

• Missing the Xserve Sonnet has a rack-mounted answer

  Apple's Xserve computers were a rack-mountable line of Macintosh systems designed for enterprise use; however, in 2011 Apple abandoned the project, leaving only its Mac Pro and Mac Mini with available server options. Though anyone can download the OS X Server tools from the Mac App Store and convert any current Mac into a server system, some may wish to get a rack-mounted setup going ...

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