iPhone 5: Reports of New Design
And the next iPhone chatter keeps on rolling. Over the last week the Wall Street Journal, Reuters, and Bloomberg have reported that the next iPhone will have a bigger screen. As previously reported by others, the WSJ and Reuters agree that the display will measure...
Pakistan briefly bans Twitter access for "blasphemy"
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan banned access to Twitter on Sunday because of "blasphemous" material, a Pakistani official said, but normal service was resumed after 12 hours. The government did not specify which users or messages had prompted the ban on the microblogging site or why it was allowed to operate again so quickly. Any representation of the Prophet Mohammad is deemed un-Islamic and blasphemous by many Muslims, who make up the overwhelming majority in Pakistan. ...
Where are Facebook friends? Stock sinks on 2nd day
Facebook's stock is sinking nearly 7 percent, falling below the $38 IPO price, in the social network's second day of trading as a public company Monday.
Water World: New 'Super-Earth' Found
Scientists report they have found an exoplanet -- a world orbiting a distant star, 22 light-years away -- that they call the best candidate yet to be the right temperature for liquid water and, perhaps, life. It is labeled GJ 667Cc, and it is located in the constellation Scorpio.
Who's to Blame for Facebook's Messy IPO Debut?
With a weekend to figure things out, we've got a few suspects to blame for the mess that was Facebook's IPO debut on Friday. After a late start due to glitches on NASDAQ and a possible scandal in which Morgan Stanley upheld the price of the stock, Facebook's stock ended the day just where it started. It had a mini-pop, but it didn't soar, as expected. That was not supposed to happen. ...
Google Graph Makes Search Smarter
Google's new Knowledge Graph is a new search tool that will begin rolling out starting today, and it it's meant to help you find search results faster. When you search now for popular or well-known people, places and things you'll get a box to the left of the results explaining more about that term.
