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Today's Technology News: Lockheed attack highlights rise in cyber espionage Lockheed Martin hit by cyber attack Google, PayPal tussle over mobile payment secrets Green Your Tech: 5 excellent eco apps for your iPad or iPhone The 5 best smartphone apps for TV lovers Can Crowdsourcing Make Any Dream Come True? Writer urges Internet junkies to 'switch off' and think Chinese e-commerce giant opens furniture showroom Why Are Android Apps Ugly? Combine your IM conversations in one window with Trillian for Android China's LinkedIn, Ushi, eyes big growth over next two Amazon Kindle Tablet Rumor Roundup KAMI RETRO HD tops iPad Games of the Week Egypt's Mubarak fined for communications cut Dish slashes Blockbuster prices Taiwan show to feature Apple tablet challengers Facebook is Building a Desktop Software Team, Despite Lack of iPad App Cuba announces tax break for private businesses Lockheed attack highlights rise in cyber espionage Sun, 29 May 2011 06:07 pm PDT AP - This cyber attack didn't go after people playing war games on their PlayStations. It targeted a company that helps the U.S. military do the real thing. Full Story Top Lockheed Martin hit by cyber attack Sun, 29 May 2011 01:13 am PDT AP - Hackers launched a "significant and tenacious" cyber attack on Lockheed Martin, a major defense contractor holding highly sensitive information, but its secrets remained safe, the company said Saturday. Full Story Top Google, PayPal tussle over mobile payment secrets Fri, 27 May 2011 01:01 pm PDT AP - Google Inc.'s ambitious plan to supplant credit cards with smartphones has thrust the Internet search leader into a legal tussle with online payment pioneer PayPal, which contends Google stole its ideas by hiring away two key executives. Full Story Top Green Your Tech: 5 excellent eco apps for your iPad or iPhone Sun, 29 May 2011 07:42 pm PDT Yahoo! News - Apps that bring tree huggers and iPhone and iPad lovers together for the greater green are few and far between. While they might be in relatively short supply at the moment, there are a handful of green apps out there … Full Story Top The 5 best smartphone apps for TV lovers Sun, 29 May 2011 08:17 am PDT Yahoo! News - One-third of all smartphone owners use their phones while watching TV. Nearly half of all users spend the time logged in to social sites like Facebook and Twitter, but many are accessing one of these nifty apps that are designed with … Full Story Top Can Crowdsourcing Make Any Dream Come True? Thu, 26 May 2011 06:22 pm PDT Mashable - When's the last time you got something just because you asked for it? That's the premise behind Wish Upon a Hero, an online platform that allows anyone to post — or grant — a wish. It's an interesting experiment in crowdsourced social good. After registering, anybody can post a wish for anything, whether it's for a positive goal like sending a terminally ill child to camp or simply asking for help with rent. It is then up to the community at large to decide if and who it should help. Full Story Top Writer urges Internet junkies to 'switch off' and think Sun, 29 May 2011 11:41 pm PDT AFP - Like tens of millions of others, US technology writer Nicholas Carr found the lure of the worldwide web hard to resist -- until he noticed it was getting harder and harder to concentrate. Full Story Top Chinese e-commerce giant opens furniture showroom Sun, 29 May 2011 07:55 pm PDT AP - China's e-commerce giant is stepping up its heated rivalry with bricks-and-mortar retailers with the launch of a five-story home furnishings showroom in Beijing. Full Story Top Why Are Android Apps Ugly? Sun, 29 May 2011 09:46 am PDT ContributorNetwork - It's true that not all Android apps are ugly. But if you spend awhile using an Android smartphone or tablet, then switch to an iPhone or iPad, you can see the difference: iOS apps don't just look shinier, they work better and are easier to use. Even when an app is available for both iPhone and Android, the iPhone one usually looks better. Full Story Top Combine your IM conversations in one window with Trillian for Android Sun, 29 May 2011 08:00 am PDT Appolicious - Your time's too valuable. To communicate via multiple programs and windows is not only impractical, it probably will cause a headache. If you're on multiple sites, you should try downloading Trillian. Full Story Top China's LinkedIn, Ushi, eyes big growth over next two Sun, 29 May 2011 10:45 pm PDT Reuters - Ushi, China's answer to LinkedIn, hopes to have 10 million users in two years and to raise $5 million in its next round of fundraising, its chief executive said on Monday. Full Story Top Amazon Kindle Tablet Rumor Roundup Sat, 28 May 2011 11:50 am PDT ContributorNetwork - We should've known this was coming. The Kindle may have made it to the gate first, but pretty soon Barnes and Noble had the Nook, with its mini-color touch screen. Then came the iPad and Nook Color, and now more people are reading on color touch screens, and expecting games and apps and things like that. Full Story Top KAMI RETRO HD tops iPad Games of the Week Sun, 29 May 2011 03:00 pm PDT Appolicious - Fans of 1980’s Broadway musicals (Little Shop of Horrors, anyone?) and pixelated arcade gaming will fall for KAMI RETRO HD. Try not to take a tumble in this stunner, positioning fans, springs, and other objects across each level, helping your ever-faithful troops make their way from one end to the other. Along the way, man-eating plants are just waiting for a snack. Full Story Top Egypt's Mubarak fined for communications cut Sat, 28 May 2011 10:24 am PDT Reuters - An Egyptian administrative court fined ousted President Hosni Mubarak and two former officials 540 million Egyptian pounds ($91 million) on Saturday for cutting mobile and Internet services during protests in January. Full Story Top Dish slashes Blockbuster prices Fri, 27 May 2011 03:18 pm PDT Investor's Business Daily - The satellite TV company said its recently acquired Blockbuster movie rental business will expand its 99-cents-a-day rate to thousands more films and cut prices on new releases. Dish Network (NASDAQ:DISH - News) bought the video chain for $320.6 mil after Blockbuster entered bankruptcy proceedings. The discounting will increased competitive pressure on Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX - News) and Coinstar's (NASDAQ:CSTR - News) Redbox kiosks. Dish climbed 1.6% to 30.13, Netflix edged up 0.3% to 264.51 and Coinstar fell 0.8% to 52.82. Full Story Top Taiwan show to feature Apple tablet challengers Sun, 29 May 2011 07:53 pm PDT AP - Computer manufacturers of all sizes and descriptions have been pushing to get a piece of the ever-expanding tablet market created by the launch of Apple's iPad in April 2010. Full Story Top Facebook is Building a Desktop Software Team, Despite Lack of iPad App Sat, 28 May 2011 06:43 am PDT PC Magazine - Need a job? Give Facebook a call. The company is seeking engineers for a new desktop software team. Full Story Top Cuba announces tax break for private businesses Fri, 27 May 2011 08:43 am PDT AP - Cuba announced new measures Friday to spur the island's push into private enterprise, instituting a moratorium on payroll taxes for small business owners and loosening limits on the size of private restaurants. Full Story Top

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