Grants OK’d to aid Maryland technology projects
BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: February 8, 2012
Tags: chesapeake bay, grants, maryland, Maryland Industrial Partnerships Program, Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute, MIPS, mtech, projects, Technology
The Maryland Industrial Partnerships Program announced grants for 16 technology product development projects worth $4.1 million.
The projects include: floating islands to clean the Chesapeake Bay; an electronic baseball home plate; pest-resistant soybeans; low-inertia running shoes; and a synthetic filtration system for stormwater runoff.
They also include treatments for anthrax, esophageal cancer, stress and autoimmune disease. Grants [...]
Status update: Facebook to go public, raise $5B
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: February 1, 2012
Tags: advertising, facebook, farmville, google, google plus, ipo, linkedin, mark zuckerberg, securities and exchange commission, social media, social network, wall street, Zynga
NEW YORK — Facebook made a much-anticipated status update Wednesday: The Internet social network is going public eight years after its computer-hacking CEO Mark Zuckerberg started the service at Harvard University.
That means anyone with the right amount of cash will be able to own part of a Silicon Valley icon [...]
Google and Facebook teaming up to combat phishing
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: January 30, 2012
Tags: Domain-based Message Authentication, facebook, google, LinkedIn Corp., phishing, Reporting and Conformance, Return Path, tech, Trusted Domain Project
Google, Facebook and other big tech companies are jointly designing a system for combating email scams known as phishing.
Such scams try to trick people into giving away passwords and other personal information by sending emails that look as if they come from a legitimate bank, retailer or other business. When Bank of America customers see [...]
Tech companies team up to combat email scams
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: January 30, 2012
Tags: american greetings corp., AOL, Bank of America, domain-based message authentication reporting and conformance, email, facebook, fidelity investments, google, linkedin, microsoft, paypal, phishing, scams, sender, spam, yahoo!
NEW YORK — Google, Facebook and other big tech companies are jointly designing a system for combating email scams known as phishing.
Such scams try to trick people into giving away passwords and other personal information by sending emails that look as if they come from a legitimate bank, retailer or other business. When Bank of [...]
Report: Facebook IPO filing could come next week
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: January 27, 2012
Tags: amazon, Bank of America, facebook, google, initial public offering, ipo, larry wu, mark zuckerberg, mcdonalds, visa, wall street journal
LOS ANGELES — Facebook could file regulatory papers as early as Wednesday for its highly anticipated initial public offering of stock, according to a newspaper report.
Facebook’s expected launch as a publicly traded company is the most hotly anticipated tech IPO in more than a decade. It would vault it into [...]
O’Malley seeks to boost technology transfer 
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: January 24, 2012
Tags: college park, gov. o'malley, Government, innovation, maryland, Maryland Innovation Initiative, Maryland Technology Development Corp., Technology, transfer, University of Maryland
ANNAPOLIS — Gov. Martin O’Malley will call for more than $6 million to spin research conducted at university labs into new companies, aides said Tuesday.
The proposal seeks to address the gulf between the state’s strong track record in attracting research dollars and relative lack of success in turning that funding into commercial ventures, an issue [...]
Apple doubles iPhone sales in 1Q
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: January 24, 2012
Tags: Apple, apple inc., apple iphone, cupertino, factset, iphone 4, iPhone 4s, nextel corp, samsung, smartphones
NEW YORK — After uncharacteristically tepid sales in the July-to-September quarter, Apple came back with a vengeance in last three months of 2011, vastly exceeding analyst estimates and setting new records.
Apple Inc. on Tuesday said it sold 37 million iPhones in the quarter, double the figure of the previous quarter and more than twice as [...]
Study finds tablet, e-book ownership soared
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: January 23, 2012
Tags: amazon, americans, Apple, barnes and noble, e-book, iPad, kindle, nook, pew internet and american life project, study, tablet, Technology
SAN FRANCISCO — Tablets and e-readers were a popular gift over the holidays, so much so that the number of people who own them nearly doubled between mid-December and January, a new study finds.
A report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project set to be released Monday found that [...]
BlackBerry maker co-CEOs step down
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: January 23, 2012
Tags: android, Apple, blackberry, google, iPad, iPhone, jim balsillie, mike lazaridis, phones, playbook, research in motion, rim, smartphone, software, thorsten heins
TORONTO — The new chief executive of BlackBerry maker Research in Motion said Monday drastic change is not needed after he assumed his new job following the departure of Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, who stepped down as co-CEOs and co-chairmen of the once-iconic, but now struggling company.
The RIM founders have been replaced by Thorsten [...]
Panetta lifts ‘probation’ on Marines’ F-35
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: January 22, 2012
Tags: aircraft, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, f-35, fighter, jet, lockheed, military, patuxent river naval air station, pentagon, probation
PATUXENT RIVER NAVAL AIR STATION — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says the U.S. military is committed to developing the Marine Corps version of the next-generation strike fighter jet, but he warned that the program is “not out of the woods yet.”
Standing in front of one of the fighter aircraft at Patuxent River Naval Air Station, [...]
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