Facebook updates data use policy to give more info
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: May 11, 2012
Tags: cookies, data use policy, european union, facebook, information, initial public offering, ireland, privacy, users
NEW YORK — Facebook is updating its data use policy in an attempt to give people more clarity on how the company uses information they share. As part of the changes, Facebook is also signaling that it may start showing people ads on sites other than Facebook, targeting the pitches to interests and hobbies that [...]
Phone subscribers hang up on contracts
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: May 10, 2012
Tags: at&t, cellphone, consumers, contract-based phone plans, family data plans, metropcs wireless inc., no-contract plans, phones, smart energy meters, smartphone, sprint nextel corp, t-mobile usa, trade show, Verizon Wireless, wireless
NEW ORLEANS — U.S. consumers have had their fill of expensive, contract-based phone plans. Figures from T-Mobile USA on Thursday, added to earlier reports from other companies, indicate that the U.S. wireless industry lost subscribers from contract-based plans for the first time in the first quarter. Contract-based plans are the most lucrative ones for phone [...]
GlaxoSmithKline in takeover bid for Human Genome
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: May 9, 2012
Tags: benlysta, drugs, GlaxoSmithKline PLC, human genome sciences, lupus, Nasdaq, offer, price, shareholder, takeover
LONDON — GlaxoSmithKline PLC has made an offer to take over Rockville-based drug maker Human Genome Sciences Inc. which values the company at nearly $2.6 billion. GlaxoSmithKline, which has profit-sharing agreements with HGS on three drugs but a minimal shareholding, said Wednesday it is offering $13 cash per share for the company. A private offer [...]
Yahoo shareholder demands records on CEO’s hiring
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: May 7, 2012
Tags: academic credentials, documents, firing, internet, resume, scott thompson, shareholder, third point llc, yahoo!
SAN FRANCISCO — A major Yahoo shareholder has made a legal demand for internal records about the embattled Internet company’s hiring of CEO Scott Thompson. Activist hedge fund Third Point LLC took the unusual step Monday as part of its effort to oust Thompson for an inaccuracy about his academic credentials. After exposing the fabrication [...]
AT&T barges into home security and automation
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: May 7, 2012
Tags: adt, at&t, comcast corp., control panel, home automation, home security, installation, phones, security services, security system, Verizon Communications Inc., xanboo
NEW YORK — AT&T Inc. will start selling home automation and security services nationwide, taking on incumbents led by Tyco International Ltd.’s ADT. The installations and services will be sold in AT&T stores, starting with a trial this summer in Dallas and Atlanta. Several of AT&T’s competitors, including cable TV company Comcast Corp. and phone [...]
Yahoo CEO faces calls for ouster after inaccuracy
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: May 4, 2012
Tags: bachelor, chief executive officer, daniel loab, eBay, facebook, google, paypal, resume, scott thompson, search engine, securities and exchange commission, shareholder, silicon valley, stonehill college, third point llc, yahoo!, zuora
SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson faces calls for his ouster after just four months leading the troubled Internet company because of inaccuracies with his academic credentials. A major Yahoo shareholder who exposed the misrepresentation Thursday is now leading the charge to oust Thompson for unethical conduct. In a Friday letter, activist hedge fund [...]
Samsung’s new Galaxy: bigger, thinner, lighter
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: May 3, 2012
Tags: galaxy, iPhone, samsung, smartphone
NEW YORK — Samsung Electronics Co.’s latest Galaxy phone will have a high-definition touch screen that’s nearly twice the size of the iPhone, while being thinner and lighter than Apple’s phone. The Galaxy line has emerged as the biggest competitor to the iPhone. Samsung said the Galaxy S III will go on sale in Europe [...]
BlackBerry-maker unveils prototype
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: May 1, 2012
Tags: android, blackberry, blackberry 10, iPhone, jim balsillie, keyboard, mike lazaridis, operating system, research in motion, rim, smartphone, thorsten heins, touchscreen
TORONTO — Research In Motion’s new chief executive unveiled Tuesday a prototype BlackBerry smartphone powered by a new operating system, the very software that the company has pinned its future on. Thorsten Heins, who took the CEO job in January, revealed features of the BlackBerry 10 operating system running on a prototype device at the [...]
Six Md. firms get $450K for tech transfer 
BY: Maria Zilberman
POSTED: April 30, 2012
Tags: Business, es&t inc., firms, grant, joe foley, maryland, Maryland Technology Development Corp.’s Joint Technology Transfer Initiative, Mitigate Explosive Devices USA, tech transfer, TEDCO, U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command
After about 10 years and $500,000 in research and development, Joe Foley hopes his explosive-neutralizing technology will be ready to come to market within a year and a half. Foley, who co-founded Boonsboro-based ES&T Inc. in 2005, has been working on the technology since before he started the company. “We started a long time ago [...]
Popularity of BlackBerry is waning in D.C.
BY: Capital News Service
POSTED: April 29, 2012
Tags: blackberry, d.c., iPhone, popularity, smart phones
WASHINGTON — On a warm, bright Thursday morning, Jim Green sits on a park bench in Lafayette Square, intently poking and prodding his iPhone screen, engrossed in an intense game of “Angry Birds.” For Green, a St. Mary’s County native working as an engineer in Washington, the popular iPhone game affords him the opportunity to [...]
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