 SlashGear | Nikon D800 and D800E DSLRs address low-pass filter debate SlashGear Nikon has confirmed pricing and availability for the new Nikon D800 DSLR, as well as revealing its D800E sibling that dumps the low-pass filter for higher-resolution shots. The D800 has a 36.3-megapixel sensor and Nikon's new EXPEED 3 image-processing ... Nikon D800 - The 36 Megapixel Monster Nikon woos the pros with long-awaited D800 Nikon's D800 Digital SLR Packs a 36-Megapixel Full Frame Sensor |
 SlashGear | Hackers tried to extort $50000 from Symantec SlashGear An e-mail exchange been posted to Pastebin that allegedly outlines an attempt by hackers to extort $50000 out of Symantec. According to the e-mail exchange, a Symantec employee named Sam Thomas was to negotiate payment with hackers who infiltrated ... Hackers wanted $50000 to keep Symantec source code private Anonymous Claims to have Released Source Code of Symantec's PcAnywhere Hackers sought $50000 from Symantec for anti-virus blueprint |
 Sydney Morning Herald | Facebook's Zuckerberg may face $2 billion tax hit CNN By Stacy Cowley @CNNMoneyTech February 7, 2012: 5:37 AM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Facebook's upcoming IPO will make founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg a billionaire -- but it will also stick him with an eye-popping tax bill that could reach as high as $2 ... Facebook's Zuckerberg May Face $2B Tax Hit Is Facebook Advertising Too Cheap? Mark Zuckerberg, the Hacker Way, and the Art of the Founder's Letter |
 Financial Times | Facebook looks to make mobile click Financial Times By Tim Bradshaw, Digital Media Correspondent When Facebook starts offering marketers the chance to highlight their messages in smartphone apps and other mobile devices in the run-up to its initial public offering, it will begin to tackle a problem that ... Facebook's Mobility Challenge Prepare Your Business for Facebook Mobile Ads As number of Facebook users surge on mobile, company faces new challenges |
 Daily Mail | Prehistoric cricket love songs recreated for your listening pleasure Register By Lewis Page • Get more from this author An international team of top boffins has quite literally left no stone unturned in its efforts to answer a highly unusual question: Just what did the love songs of the Jurassic era really sound like? Paleontologists listen in on 165-million-year-old song Audio: 165-Million-Year-Old Cricket Song Comes Back to Life Jurassic cricket's song recreated |
 Nanowerk LLC | Stanford Scientists Use Light to Weld Nanowires Tom's Guide The technique could turn out to be much more effective than the current method that uses heat or pressure to create a mesh nanowires, which usually damages the wires. “When two nanowires lay crisscrossed, we know that light will generate plasmon waves ... Stanford engineers use light to weld nanowires US researchers use light to weld meshes of nanowires Stanford sees the light with nanowire mesh |
 Daily Mail | Has Microsoft finally killed off Windows 8 Start button? Register By Gavin Clarke • Get more from this author Microsoft is reportedly killing the Start button in Windows, a staple of Redmond's PC operating system since the landmark Windows 95. Purported screen shots of Windows 8 Consumer Preview are reported to show ... Bing Teaser Hints to Windows 8 Beta Coming Soon Windows 8 Start button removed by Microsoft in 'Consumer Preview' RIP Windows Start Button: 1995-2012 |
 Fox News | Google unleashes 'Solve for X' confabs to save the world Register By Brid-Aine Parnell • Get more from this author Internet giant Google is once more trying to save the world, this time with its TED-rip-off "Solve for X" project. These are efforts that take on global-scale problems, define radical solutions to those ... 'Solve for X' to tackle world's biggest problems Google unveils “Solve for X,” a secret project to solve the world's biggest ... Google wants to make sci-fi a reality with “Solve for X,” a conference for ... |
 Los Angeles Times | IDC: The iPhone is once again the world's No. 1 smartphone Fortune By Philip Elmer-DeWitt February 7, 2012: 4:53 AM ET It will come as no surprise to Apple (AAPL) watchers that the company sold 37 million iPhones last quarter. Tim Cook reported that number two weeks ago. Getting comparable figures from Apple's ... Apple snares top smartphone sales spot Android nabbing more than half of new smartphone buyers Smartphones Dominate 2011, Driven by iPhone 4S |
 Stereogum | Thing Called Love? Careful Samsung, Apple owners aren't really lemmings TabTimes by David Needle February 6 2012, 8:15 pm Comment It is by far the lesser known of Apple's first two big Superbowl ads. The one most everyone knows is the famous 1984 ad directed by Ridley Scott (Blade Runner) that aired during the Superbowl in 1984, ... Samsung Wants Customer Loyalty Like Apple, Ribs Apple Fans Again in Super Bowl Ad Watch The Darkness's Super Bowl Commercial Check out The Darkness' Super Bowl ad |
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