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CNNMoney: On Thursday morning, Facebook’s stock price fell to a new low: $19.69. Trading volume was particularly high, with 78 million shares changing hands in the first hour and a half. Experts say the reason for the high volume and declining price is that 271 million more shares became available for trading. At the time […]

The Register: IBM has announced that it will buy Flash maker Texas Memory Systems for an undisclosed sum. The 100-person firm manufactures solid state memory, which is used in its RamSan solid state memory arrays and PCIe cards. Texas Memory had earlier stated that it hoped to be bought out by a larger tech company. […]

eWeek: Microsoft has launched the first major update for its SkyDrive cloud storage service since the end of 2011. “Today, we’re updating SkyDrive with a new, more modern web design, refined SkyDrive apps for PCs and Macs, a new SkyDrive app for Android devices, and improved developer offerings,” blogged Microsoft’s Chris Jones. “While there’s always […]

BBC News: Android users can no longer download Adobe’s Flash Player from the Google Play app store. Adobe had previously announced plans to discontinue further development for mobile Flash technology, but the company said it intended to continue offering security updates until September 2013. It appears those plans have changed. Many Android users expressed dismay […]

Network World: In its annual Hype Cycle report, Gartner says that some of the confusion about cloud computing could cause some organizations to turn away from the technology. Specifically, it accuses some vendors of “cloud-washing,” advertising services as cloud computing when they don’t have all the features usually associated with true cloud-based services. “Confusion remains […]

InformationWeek: Microsoft has temporarily stopped publishing new apps for the Window Phone platform due to a glitch with its security certificates. The same problem has prevented some Windows Phone 7.5 users from downloading certain apps, including The New York Times app, WhatsApp, and Bing Translator. “We’ve run into an issue with the digital certificates used […]

The Wall Street Journal: Samsung has launched a new full-size tablet with a couple of unusual features. The Galaxy Note 10.1 features a split screen, that is, it can display two apps on the screen at once. In addition, it comes with a stylus for use with note-taking and similar apps. It’s based on Android […]

Computerworld: Confirming an earlier report by IDC, market research firm Gartner says that Android widened its market share lead over iOS in the second quarter. Google’s mobile OS accounted for 64.1 percent of the market, up from 56.1 percent in the first quarter and 43.4 percent in the second quarter last year. Samsung was clearly […]

Bloomberg BusinessWeek: Researchers from IHS are reporting that iPad shipments totaled 17 million in the second quarter, a 44 percent increase. As a result, Apple enjoyed a 69.6 percent share of the tablet market, its highest since the first quarter of 2011, when it owned 70 percent of the market. “Apple is sending a clear […]

The Wall Street Journal: Google is purchasing the Frommer’s travel-guide business from publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc. An unnamed source puts the price tag at $25 million. For years, Google asserted that it only wanted to be in the search business, not the content business. However, the company has been moving into the content […]