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Online financial transactions titan PayPal has started to allow merchants across the world to take payments using smartphones in a direct challenge to startup Square. http://phys.org/news251040350.html Technology Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:25:59 EST news251040350 Zynga shareholders may sell up to $400 million of stock through a public offering, three months after the online game maker went public, to try to avoid a drop in its stock price. http://phys.org/news250948079.html Technology Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:48:08 EST news250948079 (AP) -- A Taiwan company and two of its top executives have been found guilty of working with competitors to inflate prices of liquid screen display screens used in computer monitors and televisions. http://phys.org/news250874458.html Technology Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:21:04 EST news250874458 Sweeping medieval fantasy game "Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim" and addictive puzzle play in "Portal 2" won accolades at the world's largest gathering of game makers that wraps up Friday in San Francisco. http://phys.org/news250450046.html Technology Thu, 08 Mar 2012 17:27:31 EST news250450046 (AP) -- Apple says nearly a third of the apps available for its mobile devices have been built specifically for the iPad. http://phys.org/news250357838.html Technology Wed, 07 Mar 2012 15:50:44 EST news250357838 (AP) -- Apple is going to start letting users store movies on its iCloud remote storage service, allowing them to access their movies from PCs, iPhones and other Apple devices through the Internet. http://phys.org/news250350001.html Technology Wed, 07 Mar 2012 13:40:07 EST news250350001 (AP) -- In announcing the new iPad, Apple CEO Tim Cook described a "post-PC" revolution that surprised even the company. http://phys.org/news250348466.html Technology Wed, 07 Mar 2012 13:14:31 EST news250348466 (AP) -- Apple is expected to unveil a new version of the iPad at an event in San Francisco next week. http://phys.org/news249655654.html Electronics Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:47:51 EST news249655654 (AP) -- Daniel Macias is the face of Silicon Valley seldom seen by those who don't live there. http://phys.org/news249541561.html Technology Mon, 27 Feb 2012 05:06:12 EST news249541561 (AP) -- Protesters are coming by the thousands to Chicago, armed with smartphones, video cameras and social media links that will allow them to instantly map strategy, share plans and disseminate images of what's happening - right in front of a police force renowned for responding with tough tactics. http://phys.org/news248518353.html Technology Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:52:40 EST news248518353 Apple's stock Monday topped $500 for the first time on Wall Street even as a probe started looking into work conditions at a Chinese factory that cranks out the California company's coveted gadgets. http://phys.org/news248376829.html Technology Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:34:00 EST news248376829 Apple will unveil a new version of its market-ruling iPad table computer in March, according to a report in Dow Jones-owned technology blog All Things D. http://phys.org/news248008452.html Electronics Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:14:23 EST news248008452 The Brazilian government has filed a lawsuit against Twitter and its users in a bid to stop publication of messages alerting drivers to police speed traps and drunk-driving checkpoints. http://phys.org/news247895520.html Technology Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:00:01 EST news247895520 (AP) -- The computer networks of a San Francisco community college have been infected with software viruses that illegally transmitted personal data from students and employees overseas, school officials said Friday. http://phys.org/news245724747.html Technology Sat, 14 Jan 2012 01:10:01 EST news245724747 The Los Angeles tech scene has buzz, glitzy backers and even a catchy nickname: Silicon Beach. http://phys.org/news243190100.html Technology Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:50:01 EST news243190100 (PhysOrg.com) -- Four self propelling robots, called Wave Gliders,from the company Liquid Robotics were launched last week from San Francisco for a 33,000 nautical mile journey. The robots took off from the St. Francis Yacht Club. The robots will swim together to Hawaii and then will split into pairs. One pair will be off to Japan (“Piccard Maru” and “Fontaine Maru”). The other pair will be off to Australia (“Benjamin” and “Papa Mau). http://phys.org/news241536604.html Electronics Sat, 26 Nov 2011 13:30:15 EST news241536604 South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor, the world's number two memory chipmaker, on Thursday welcomed a US court's rejection of claims by American firm Rambus for billions of dollars in damages. http://phys.org/news240724372.html Technology Thu, 17 Nov 2011 04:30:01 EST news240724372 Alfred Hitchcock would have appreciated this twist: The birds in central California are getting bigger. http://phys.org/news240241922.html Biology Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:40:03 EST news240241922 California's water problems and the ecological pressure on the West Coast's largest estuary will intensify in a warming world, according to a first-of-its-kind scientific study. http://phys.org/news239551945.html Space & Earth Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:20:01 EST news239551945 (AP) -- Steve Jobs urged people to think different, and wowed them when his own different thinking put thousands of songs in their pockets, the power of the Internet at their fingertips and a whole world of possibilities in the palm of their hands. http://phys.org/news237180121.html Technology Fri, 07 Oct 2011 04:22:17 EST news237180121 After the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and resulting tsunami in Japan on March 11, 2011, the Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant was severely compromised and radioactive material was found in the water in many of the surrounding areas, but the extent of this contamination remained unknown. http://phys.org/news235846611.html Space & Earth Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:57:05 EST news235846611 (AP) -- President Barack Obama is again turning to a social networking website to host a town hall meeting. http://phys.org/news235833092.html Technology Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:11:51 EST news235833092 (AP) -- A rediscovered San Francisco plant once thought to be extinct is being proposed for the federal government's list of endangered species. http://phys.org/news234674387.html Biology Thu, 08 Sep 2011 04:19:54 EST news234674387 (AP) -- A federal grand jury in San Francisco has charged a San Antonio man with harassing a high-ranking Google executive with more than 20,000 Twitter posts, some of which were threatening. http://phys.org/news234551289.html Technology Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:08:17 EST news234551289 (AP) -- San Francisco police officers helped Apple Inc. investigators look for a missing iPhone prototype that was left in a city restaurant in July, the police chief said, the second time in two years the company has lost an unreleased smartphone. http://phys.org/news234461265.html Technology Mon, 05 Sep 2011 17:07:57 EST news234461265 (AP) -- The transit agency in the San Francisco Bay area hopes to ease tensions with a public meeting over whether there should be a policy on cutting wireless access to its stations during protests. http://phys.org/news233400584.html Technology Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:30:02 EST news233400584 (AP) -- The head of the Bay Area Rapid Transit agency is defending the system's move to cut wireless service to thwart a planned protest last week. But he says the tactic likely won't be used again. http://phys.org/news232731152.html Technology Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:32:49 EST news232731152 (AP) -- A growing number of critics are complaining that a San Francisco Bay area transit agency acted illegally when it cut off wireless service in an effort to stifle a protest. http://phys.org/news232640262.html Technology Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:18:02 EST news232640262 (AP) -- Fewer things seem out of place at the rough-hewn DefCon hacker convention than a swarm of kids. http://phys.org/news232020361.html Technology Mon, 08 Aug 2011 11:20:36 EST news232020361 A draft plan to conserve habitat for endangered and threatened fishes in the California Bay-Delta while continuing to divert water for agricultural and personal use in central and southern California has critical missing components, including clearly defined goals and a scientific analysis of the proposed project's potential impacts on delta species, says a new report from the National Research Council. In addition, the scientific information in the plan is fragmented and presented in an unconnected manner, making its meaning difficult to understand. http://phys.org/news223822638.html Space & Earth Thu, 05 May 2011 13:57:35 EST news223822638