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- Tuesday, 29 May 2012 5:53 PM ETBy:
AP
Russian fans of the videogame Angry Birds will soon be able to get special debit cards – or "Angry Cards" – giving them discounts on the game's products.
Source: AppleAngry Birds iPhone appMoscow-based Promsvyazbank said Tuesday it will start issuing the new MasterCards [MA Loading... ()
] on June 4. They will be printed with images of the various characters and will give users a 10 percent discount on all Angry Birds-branded products. » Read More - Tuesday, 29 May 2012 4:45 PM ETBy:
Reuters with CNBC 
Nsd / APResearch In Motion on Tuesday warned it could report its second consecutive quarterly operating loss and said it had engaged bankers to help it review its business, the latest in a string of dismal messages from the once-dominant BlackBerry maker.
After being halted briefly, RIM shares [RIMM Loading... ()
] fell sharply in after-hours trading. The stock, already down nearly 80 percent over the past 12 months, fell more than 10 percent after-hours to below $10 a share. (Click here for the latest quote). - Tuesday, 29 May 2012 3:27 PM ETBy:
Courteney Palis, The Huffington Post
The date's already been set for Apple's [AAPL Loading... ()
] much-anticipated Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), but the company has managed to drum up even more hype with the release of the event's official schedule, which includes a time for the keynote address, during which the company usually unveils its newest products and plans.
» Read More - Tuesday, 29 May 2012 12:09 PM ETBy:
Reuters
Sprint Nextel said on Tuesday it arranged a credit facility of $1 billion to buy network equipment from Ericsson for its high-speed wireless project.
David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe Sprint Nextel Corp. sign is seen on the facade of a Sprint Nextel Corp. store in San Francisco, California.Sprint [S Loading... ()
], the No. 3 U.S. mobile provider that has been working to eliminate a estimated funding gap of $5 billion to $7 billion, said it entered the credit agreement, which expires in March 2017, with Deutsche Bank and a syndicate of other banks. » Read More - Tuesday, 29 May 2012 10:21 AM ETBy:
AP
Social media sites and blogs have lit up after eagle-eyed viewers spotted a surprise cameo in a Chinese TV documentary about the country's police force: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his now-wife, Priscilla Chan.
Getty ImagesMark ZuckerbergThe documentary by CCTV was part of a series on Chinese police and high-tech crime-solving methods. A few seconds of footage showing Zuckerberg and Chan walking behind two police officers were shown included in a brief clip posted online by the Hebei province satellite station. » Read More
- Friday, 25 May 2012 10:51 AM ETBy:
AP The privately bankrolled Dragon capsule made a historic arrival at the International Space Station on Friday, triumphantly captured by astronauts wielding a giant robot arm.
SpaceX is the first private company to accomplish such a feat: a commercial cargo delivery into the cosmos.
APOne giant leap for private enterprise: SpaceX's Dragon is captured by the International Space Station's arm."There's so much that could have gone wrong and it went right," said an elated Elon Musk, the billionaire maestro of SpaceX.
- Friday, 25 May 2012 10:43 AM ETBy:
Matthew Shae, Christian Science Monitor
Siri: Beloved by Zooey Deschanel and John Malkovich. Not so beloved by IBM [IBM Loading... ()
Source: apple.com].
In an interview with MIT's Technology Review, IBM CIO Jeanette Horan revealed that Siri, Apple's [AAPL Loading... ()] voice-activated personal assistant app, is banned on IBM-issued iPhones. The reason IBM bans Siri? The company has no control over where or how the spoken queries are stored. "We're just extraordinarily conservative," Horan told a reporter with the Technology Review. "It's the nature of our business."
» Read More - Friday, 25 May 2012 10:30 AM ETBy:
Reuters
Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook will not be earning dividend income on the more than 1 million shares to which he is entitled, which will cost him about $75 million. » Read More
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