Provides the latest RSS feeds for Breaking Technology News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page San Francisco Star.com http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/cat/d805653303cbbba8/ en-us Sun, 26 May 2013 00:33:54 -0400 Sun, 26 May 2013 00:33:54 -0400 30 The Indian software industry is poised for a strong revenue growth driven by social media, mobility, analytics and cloud, said a report published by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). The Indian companies in the top 100 emerging markets list bring combined revenue of $797 million. India ranks fifth among the emerging markets based on revenues, according to the PwC Global 100 Software Leaders report, ... http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214756458/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Sat, 25 May 2013 05:00:02 -0400 http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214756458/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Apple A recent investigation by the US Senate shows that the maker of iPads and iPhones had paid just 2 per cent tax on income of $74 billion over the past three years, largely by exploiting an unusual loophole in Ireland's tax code. Ireland has said it is not to blame, ... http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214771851/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Sat, 25 May 2013 23:13:28 -0400 http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214771851/scat/d805653303cbbba8 -- Ryan Nakashima LOS ANGELES: Google's new music service offers a lot of eye candy to go with the tunes. The song selection of around 18 million tracks is comparable to popular services such ... http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214771852/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Sat, 25 May 2013 23:13:27 -0400 http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214771852/scat/d805653303cbbba8 iPad Mini is also very practical for a lot of people. And pretty too (consumers and reviewers seem to think so). Pretty and practical are two reasons Apple can sell tens of millions of ... http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214770261/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Sat, 25 May 2013 21:07:41 -0400 http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214770261/scat/d805653303cbbba8 (Credit: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory/Marilee Bailey) Several miscellaneous bits and pieces of the first moon mission have orbited back into our field of view lately. In March, it was pieces of the rocket that propelled Apollo 11 spaceward, ... http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214764413/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Sat, 25 May 2013 18:30:43 -0400 http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214764413/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Attorney General Eric Holder, shown testifying before Congress last week, personally approved the controversial search warrant for the contents of a Fox News correspondent's e-mail ... http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214763569/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Sat, 25 May 2013 16:23:38 -0400 http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214763569/scat/d805653303cbbba8 LOS ANGELES -- News Corp. said its board of directors has approved plans to split its entertainment and publishing businesses into two separate companies. The company also adopted a shareholder-rights plan designed to prevent a hostile takeover in the volatile trading period after the split is ... http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214762939/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Sat, 25 May 2013 15:09:36 -0400 http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214762939/scat/d805653303cbbba8 One of what's thought to be only six working Apple 1 computers -- hand-built by Steve Wozniak -- flies out of a German auction house for a tidy sum. The last one went for ... http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214762065/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Sat, 25 May 2013 13:26:02 -0400 http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214762065/scat/d805653303cbbba8 German auction house Breker said Saturday an Asian client, who asked not to be named, bought the so-called Apple 1, which the tech company's founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak built in a family ... http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214761255/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Sat, 25 May 2013 11:48:40 -0400 http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214761255/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Sotheby's sold an Apple-1 for $374,500 last year. A few months later in Germany, one sold for $640,000. An Apple-1 computer, made in 1976, sold for a record $671,400 on Saturday at an auction in Germany. That surpassed the $640,000 record for an Apple-1, set last November at a sale at the same auction house in Cologne, Germany. The fall 2012 sale was a sharp rise from the previous record ... http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214761253/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Sat, 25 May 2013 11:39:34 -0400 http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214761253/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Consciousness: The what, why and how " FROM C-3PO of Star Wars to Wall-E, the sentient garbage collector, the prevalence of conscious machines in the stories we tell seems to reflect humanity's deep desire to turn creator and design an artificial intelligence. It might seem as if we stand little chance of making an artificial consciousness when the natural variety remains such an ... http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214761254/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Sat, 25 May 2013 11:24:55 -0400 http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214761254/scat/d805653303cbbba8 ARTist 3 , took me by surprise last year. That little speaker is still in the line, but when I learned Adam just introduced a less expensive, but slightly larger desktop ... http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214760809/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Sat, 25 May 2013 11:22:05 -0400 http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214760809/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Audrie 's. Instead, the girls were having a party. A classic teenage ploy. By all accounts, Audrie was a gorgeous girl. Her lush brown hair framed a heart-shaped face. Light makeup outlined her sharp brown eyes, but round cheeks gave her a childlike charm. She was a soccer player, a painter, a girl who at age 4 had the gumption to stand in front of 1,000 people in church and belt out a ... http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214760271/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Sat, 25 May 2013 10:32:36 -0400 http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214760271/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Yet, with the flip of a switch earlier this year, Los Angeles became a worldwide leader by synchronizing all of its nearly 4,400 stoplights, making it the world's first major city to do ... http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214760616/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Sat, 25 May 2013 10:28:06 -0400 http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214760616/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Robert Sallin, producer of "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan," shares his experience working on the film, looks at the future of "Trek," and dishes on whether that was Ricardo Montalban's real ... http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214760275/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Sat, 25 May 2013 10:23:09 -0400 http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214760275/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Android platform -- Plustxt, an English-language messaging app similar to the globally popular Whatsapp, and Plustxt India, which allows users to communicate in eight regional languages. Within months, the apps have recorded 60,000 downloads encouraging Prasanna and his team to work on versions for other platforms like ... http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214760187/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Sat, 25 May 2013 09:34:09 -0400 http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214760187/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Grovo offer a glimpse into a horrifying future. An obnoxious, photo-obsessed Glass owner gets all up in everyone's grill to record everything with many, many blinks of the eye. I'd love to say this is all just hyperbole for the sake of getting a laugh, but then I think of the guy shouting at a person on speakerphone in the library, or the number of phone conversations had by people ... http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214759717/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Sat, 25 May 2013 09:21:58 -0400 http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214759717/scat/d805653303cbbba8 spam was being sent from India and the country stood second among the spam sending countries. The report added that 1.75% of computers in India were found accessing Botnet connected servers, ... http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214758964/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Sat, 25 May 2013 07:26:03 -0400 http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214758964/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mailbox CEO Gentry Underwood said that people have to use email whether they like it or not. So they target those people who feel crushed by it, and build an experience that is more delightful. ... http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214758965/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Sat, 25 May 2013 07:26:02 -0400 http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214758965/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Time Warner Cable's bid was fashioned as an equity investment, another person said, as the cable operator hopes to set up a joint venture with other cable companies to operate ... http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214758966/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Sat, 25 May 2013 07:26:01 -0400 http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214758966/scat/d805653303cbbba8 MOSCOW: Vkontakte, Russia's biggest social networking website, was put on a state registry of blacklisted websites by mistake on Friday, an official said. "This was a mistake. Our employee put a tick in the wrong place," said Vladimir Pikov, spokesman for Russia's telecom watchdog Roskomnadzor. "We will ... http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214758967/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Sat, 25 May 2013 07:26:00 -0400 http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214758967/scat/d805653303cbbba8 infertility specialist Dr Nandita Palshetkar says that the high-frequency electromagnetic radiation that cell phones emit may be associated with increased risk of brain tumours. "However, other tissues in the body such as the testes may also be sensitive to these cell phone radio frequency electromagnetic fields. Cellphone fields, because of their frequency and intensity, are prone to ... http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214758968/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Sat, 25 May 2013 07:26:00 -0400 http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214758968/scat/d805653303cbbba8 NEW DELHI: Nokia has slashed the price of its Lumia 920 flagship smartphone in India, barely a week after it introduced the Lumia 925 globally. Lumia 920 was launched in the country in January this year at Rs 38,199, but can now be purchased at Rs 32,639 from the Finnish manufacturer's partner website. The company is also offering a free wireless charger, priced at Rs 3,000, with the ... http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214758969/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Sat, 25 May 2013 07:25:59 -0400 http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214758969/scat/d805653303cbbba8 NEW DELHI: UPA at 9 may not have done very much but it has certainly tweeted a lot. In the last 200 days (since the last reshuffle) the government may have been challenged to find convincing explanations for the surge of new controversies but that has not stopped it from stepping up its act on social media. First movers ... http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214758970/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Sat, 25 May 2013 07:25:59 -0400 http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214758970/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Consumer demand for low-cost applications that can replace short text messaging on mobile phones helped spur the launch of a Bangalore-based start-up ... http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214758971/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Sat, 25 May 2013 07:25:57 -0400 http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214758971/scat/d805653303cbbba8 viruses and other molecules. The app and cradle system for smartphones has sensitive biosensing capabilities that could enable on-the-spot tracking of groundwater contamination and combine the phone's GPS data with biosensing data to map ... http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214758972/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Sat, 25 May 2013 07:25:57 -0400 http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214758972/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Trai has decided that telecom facilities given to subscriber would be immediately disconnected if it is found being used for sending unsolicited ... http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214758974/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Sat, 25 May 2013 07:25:56 -0400 http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214758974/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tiger Global . The investment comes on the heels of Yahoo's $1.1 billion acquisition of blogging company Tumblr, showing the high prices fast-growing services that targeting internet users can command. The valuation ... http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214758975/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Sat, 25 May 2013 07:25:55 -0400 http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214758975/scat/d805653303cbbba8 MUMBAI: India added net 3.5 million GSM subscribers in April largely driven by increase in rural areas, according to two statements released by the Cellular Operators Association of India. The association said rural India added 3.8 million subscribers, of which 1.66 million joined Bharti Airtel, making the Indian bellwether the largest rural player again. However, on an all-India basis, Bharti ... http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214758973/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Sat, 25 May 2013 07:25:55 -0400 http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214758973/scat/d805653303cbbba8 teenagers is moving away from social networking platform Facebook, and they prefer "parent-free" platforms, according to a survey. The survey, conducted by Pew Research Center, indicates how teenagers' enthusiasm ... http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214758976/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Sat, 25 May 2013 07:25:54 -0400 http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214758976/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Modis has conducted a survey in geek pride, finding that it’s no longer necessary for Americans today to ';sneak their geek.'; Modis reports that 68 percent of all respondents said they would date a geek, possibly because 67 percent of Americans associate geeks with being loyal. Ninety percent of all respondents said that if they were trying to impress someone, they would take ... http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214756899/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Sat, 25 May 2013 06:19:01 -0400 http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214756899/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Gujarat needs to retain its talent for the growth of Information Technology sector in the state, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) president ... http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214754894/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Sat, 25 May 2013 02:40:13 -0400 http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214754894/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Bill McDermott said. Ariba CEO Bob Calderoni will now take on more responsibility for SAP's overall cloud business, though he has not been appointed to the executive board. SAP just launched a cloud-based version of its HANA tool, which helps companies analyse large quantities of data quickly and competes with Oracle's new Exalytics ... http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214754896/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Sat, 25 May 2013 02:40:11 -0400 http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214754896/scat/d805653303cbbba8 and deliberate" disobedience of a judicial order by allegedly providing 3G facilities to new customers in circles where it lacked the requisite ... http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214754895/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Sat, 25 May 2013 02:40:11 -0400 http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214754895/scat/d805653303cbbba8 has surprised its employees, and many industry analysts, by giving a 10% salary increase, ending speculation about whether the company would give increments given its sluggish financial ... http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214754353/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Sat, 25 May 2013 01:35:19 -0400 http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214754353/scat/d805653303cbbba8 (Credit: Intel) How serious is Intel about battery life on its next processor? Very. On Thursday, the world's largest chipmaker hauled out two chip experts to brief journalists on how Intel's fourth-generation core processor, aka Haswell, reduces power consumption and boosts battery life. Intel is claiming a 50 percent improvement in battery life for devices using Haswell ... http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214750699/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Fri, 24 May 2013 20:57:55 -0400 http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214750699/scat/d805653303cbbba8 This week on Crave, NASA wants to 3D-print a pizza, and one man plays the guitar during his own brain surgery while another captures a terrifying BASE drive with his helmet ... http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214750719/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Fri, 24 May 2013 20:50:49 -0400 http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214750719/scat/d805653303cbbba8 (Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET) The HTC One will indeed get the Nexus treatment. HTC will sell a Google Edition version of its flagship One smartphone with the ... http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214750718/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Fri, 24 May 2013 20:50:49 -0400 http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214750718/scat/d805653303cbbba8 How much would you pay to get locked in a spaceship with DiCaprio? At an auction to benefit AIDS research, a man buys three days of training and a trip to suborbital space with the "Gatsby" ... http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214749711/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Fri, 24 May 2013 19:43:08 -0400 http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214749711/scat/d805653303cbbba8 LOS ANGELES - A person with direct knowledge of Hulu says the video site is again up for sale, with Yahoo and pay TV operators DirecTV and Time Warner Cable among the seven bidders.The person wasn't authorized to speak publicly and spoke Friday on condition of anonymity, after several news outlets reported on the bidding.The person didn't offer details on the prices offered. Published ... http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214749376/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Fri, 24 May 2013 18:57:52 -0400 http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214749376/scat/d805653303cbbba8 NEW DELHI: The industry body representing mobile phone companies on the GSM technology platform Friday asked the Centre to cancel 19 mobile permits issued ... http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214749613/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Fri, 24 May 2013 18:33:01 -0400 http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214749613/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Fri May 24, 2013 5:51pm EDT (Reuters) - Google Inc intends to finance, build and help operate wireless networks from sub-Saharan Africa to Southeast Asia, hoping to connect a billion or so people in emerging countries to the Internet, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. The Internet search giant - which has for years espoused universal Web access - is employing a patchwork quilt of ... http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214748840/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Fri, 24 May 2013 17:51:36 -0400 http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214748840/scat/d805653303cbbba8 This undated publicity photo released by Netflix shows David Cross, left, and Portia de Rossi in a scene from "Arrested Development," premiering May 26, 2013 on Netflix. The sitcom, also starring Jason Bateman and Will Arnett, was canceled by Fox in 2006 after three ... http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214748371/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Fri, 24 May 2013 17:48:02 -0400 http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214748371/scat/d805653303cbbba8 AAPL ) CEO Tim Cook is scheduled to be the opening night speaker at the annual D: All Things Digital conference, an invitation-only event that prides itself in assembling the people that really matter in the world of high ... http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214748677/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Fri, 24 May 2013 17:37:28 -0400 http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214748677/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Xbox One unveiling Tuesday, gamers have wondered how Microsoft will handle the resale of used games for the system. In the absence of a clear answer, speculation and rumors have flooded the Web. Microsoft is now telling gamers that the speculation and rumors aren't true. But it's not saying what the new policy will ... http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214747653/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Fri, 24 May 2013 17:27:07 -0400 http://www.sanfranciscostar.com/index.php/sid/214747653/scat/d805653303cbbba8