Woodstock Wire: Tech Tickler

9to5 Google -- Today T-Mobile announced new "worry-free No Annual Contracts" for its mobile broadband service, expected to launch through T-Mobile retail stores and online May 20. The plans will start at...

TIME -- Data is the lifeblood of any business, so keeping it safe and accessible should be a top priority for even the smallest startup. Keeping your data safe can seem like a daunting process, but...

Life Scoop -- Productivity is almost 100% dependent on being able to access information wherever and whenever you need to, and wireless connectivity has allowed us to become spoiled with convenience. It...

CNN - Technology -- A record of the Android phones and tablets that downloaded a single app over 6 months

GigaOM -- A new homescreen app for Android tablets called Chameleon is like widgets on steroids, offering multiple home screens based on time and location. Chameleon is raising funds on Kickstarter,...

TMCnet -- Yottaa, a website optimization company, recently launched Yottaa Solution for Mobile Acceleration which will help ensure a great user experience for mobile-savvy companies.

Business Wire: Technology News -- GEICO has made it a lot easier for cycle enthusiasts to shop for insurance with GEICO Mobile Cycle. Riders can now get an ATV or motorcycle quote and purchase a policy from their smartphones...

eWeek -- IBM teams up with the University of Rochester to put the IBM Watson technology to the test in a competition amongst the schools MBA students. - The University of Rochester (UR) Simon School...

InformationWeek -- StorCenter px12-450r networked attached storage appliance features Intel Ivy Bridge processor and incorporates McAfee VirusScan Enterprise for security.

BYTE -- In order to insure that its Android mobile operating system comes out on top in the mobile device wars, Google is going to change the way it works with its partners.

CDN Advisor.com -- This Tuesday (on May 15, 2012), Akamai Technologies, the leading provider of cloud based web optimization services and Content Delivery Network, announced that its Akamai HD Network would be...

IT Business Edge -- The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google is planning some interesting moves that potentially will nudge wireless carriers and vendors a bit to the side. Google, according to eWeek's...

InfoQ -- This article shortly explains what Web Intents are and why they are useful. Google has enabled Web Intents in Chrome 19, the implementation being available to Safari via WebKit, and Mozilla...

ReadWriteWeb -- This is Part One of a two-part series on Disassembling Android.

Android conquered the world in 2011. Hundreds of thousands of users activated Google's mobile operating system every day, a...

LinuxBSDos.com -- One tool that has seen very little or no change over the past several releases in Ubuntu Desktop is the installation program. So it is somewhat surprising that some users are having problems...

AddictiveTips -- It's May, meaning launch time for the French Open Tennis Tournament month for the year, and yet another chance for Rafael Nadal to stake his claim of being the real champion of the red clay...

CNET News.com -- Rumor has it that Amazon is toying with the idea of letting advertisers buy space on the welcome screen of its most popular tablet, but it comes with a high price tag.

CNET News.com -- On May 20, T-Mobile will sell monthly 4G data access sans contracts.

CNET News.com -- New iPad mini intel suggests the tablet will hit the market in the third or fourth quarter as Apple has lined up suppliers for the LCD panel.

Redmond Pie -- More details have now emerged regarding Samsung's latest Galaxy S III device; notably when it will release, and how much it'll cost. Given that it is - without doubt - one of the most eagerly-awaited...

Forbes - Technology -- Mozilla has introduced a new feature into the Firefox 13 betas called Reset Firefox which allows users to reset browser settings while retaining personal data.

DigiTimes -- Sony on May 18 unveiled Z1050, its first Android-based Walkman, for launch in the Taiwan market on May 24 at a recommended retail price of NT$10,990 (US$373), according to Sony Taiwan.

DigiTimes -- Deliveries of PCs taken by distributors and retail channels in Europe in May have so far fallen short of original expectations by 5-10% probably because of the impact of potential financial...

DigiTimes -- The latest market rumors indicate that Amazon is likely to launch a 10.1-inch Kindle Fire in the third quarter, while tentatively suspending the launch of a speculated 8.9-inch model.

Analog Devices Inc - YouTube -- Visit this page www.analog.com to register for the Analog Devices Guess the G's contest. Guess the G-force on the...

Defense Systems -- White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt plans to step down at the end of May after serving as the Obama administration's point person for efforts to develop a national and international...

Portfolio.com: Tech Observer -- Marketers thrive relative to what they know about their users—and according to the chair of Mozilla, they aren't too thrilled about the search engine's Do Not Track feature.

Marketwire - Computers and Software -- Yammer Receives Top Score in Current Offering and Among the Highest Scores in Market Presence and Adoption Strategy by Independent Research Firm

Business Wire: Science News -- UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science is currently ranked highly in several research areas by Microsoft Academic Search: Electrical, aerospace engineering and computer...

Google Webmaster Central Blog -- At Google we're obsessed with speed. We've long known that even seemingly minor speed increases can have surprisingly large impacts on user engagement and happiness....

Rich Murnane -- DataGeek has been busy working quite hard lately, he did however take a few minutes off this morning to create a new Google Search Story.

DomainIncite.com -- Sint Maarten's new .sx country-code top-level domain has been online for at least a couple months now, but Google's Chrome browser appears to be still a bit wary of it. Typing "registry.sx"...

InfoQ -- Dmitriy Setrakyan introduces GridGain, comparing it and outlining the cases where it is a better fit than Hadoop, accompanied by a live demo showing how to set up a GridGain job. By Dmitriy...

Discovery Channel -- After surviving its fifth Martian winter, NASA's tenacious rover is off to a rolling start.

TechCrunch -- When it comes to business social networking products, Convo, created by Scrybe Labs, probably doesn't have the name recognition (or the funding) of Yammer. But judging from the demonstration...

FOX News - Sci/Tech -- Google and Microsoft are battling to make a better search engine, simultaneously releasing the biggest changes to Internet searches in years -- and you stand to reap the benefits.

GigaOM -- With a reported 11 teens killed while texting and driving per day, parents are turning towards apps to limit their kids phone use behind the wheel. SecruaFone offers one for iPhone and Android...

GigaOM -- Google just launched an iOS app for its other social network: iPhone users can now access the social activity service Schemer with an app that allows them to find things to do and share those...

The Inquirer -- Four Nexus phones and a tablet incoming

TMCnet -- Skype in the Classroom has just joined forces with Penguin Group, Save the Children, the New York Philharmonic, Peace One Day and the Science Museum London to deliver access to expert speakers...

Seeking Alpha -- By Mel Daris:If you're looking for a good stock long

Betanews -- The figure is so important, I'm breaking it out from the long analysis posted mid-afternoon about the smartphone market consolidating around Apple and Samsung. The South Korean electronics...

MIT Technology Review -- It's the first study to show that brain chips can assist paralyzed people to perform complex real-world tasks.

A paralyzed patient equipped with an implanted brain chip has been able to use...

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Google today launched the Knowledge Graph, a new search engine feature that helps users quickly find relevant information...

Sam Johnston -- Ironically many Google employees have even given up on Google+ (though plenty still post annoying "Moved to Google+" profile pics on other social networks)



One of those sneaky tweets that...

InfoWorld -- Google on Tuesday released Chrome 19, patched 20 vulnerabilities in the browser, and doled out $16,500 in bug bounties and rewards to independent researchers. Chrome 19's most obvious change...

Linux Today -- ZDnet: Got design chops? Love Linux? Want to go to LinuxCon in San Diego or Barcelona, Spain later this year on the Linux Foundation's dime?

eWeek -- Surprisingly, many companies still use spreadsheets to calculate employee compensation, which can be error-prone. Also surprising is the relative handful of software companies that have automated...

The VAR Guy -- If the steadily growing user base and market share of Skype are any indication, the service, which is now nearly a decade old, will remain widespread on PCs, smartphones and other devices for...

CDN Advisor.com -- This Monday (on May 14, 2012), Yottaa Inc., one of the leading providers of Content Delivery Network services, announced the launch of its Mobile Acceleration solution, which would allow mobile-savvy...