Today's Top Technology Headlines
- For Facebook 'Hacker Way' is way of life
Facebook's billionaire CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls himself a "hacker". - Hackers apparently hit Swedish government site
A group linked to the hacker network Anonymous on Saturday said it had attacked the Swedish government's website, bringing it down for periods of time by overloading it with traffic. - Hackers intercept FBI, Scotland Yard call
Trading jokes and swapping leads, investigators from the FBI and Scotland Yard spent the conference call strategizing about how to bring down the hacking collective known as Anonymous, responsible for a string of embarrassing attacks across the Internet. - Facebook Timeline feature unpopular, especially among Baby Boomers
The new mandatory Facebook Timeline is a surprisingly controversial feature. You either love it, or you hate it. And according to a new poll, it appears that almost all of you hate it. Overall, only 20% of those surveyed said they liked … Continue reading - Super Bowl bust: U.S. government seizes 307 domains for violating NFL copyrights
While many sports fans are preparing for Sunday's Super Bowl by organizing parties and shopping for TVs, the U.S. government is preparing in a different way. Just yesterday, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency seized 307 different domains suspected of violating NFL copyrights. … Continue reading - Super Bowl XLVI: The Ads [LIVE BLOG]
Some will go home heroes, some will fail miserably. Reputations will be built and destroyed tonight. - EU probes new Google privacy policy
The European Union's data protection authorities have asked Google to delay the rollout of its new privacy policy until they have verified that it doesn't break the bloc's data protection laws. - HP awards new CEO Whitman with $16.5M pay package
Hewlett-Packard Co. ushered in Meg Whitman as its CEO with a $16.5 million compensation package that hinges on the one-time politician's ability to lift the stumbling technology company's stock price during the next two years. - Pew study: Facebook users get more than they give
The goody-two-shoes among us say it's better to give than to receive. That's not true for the average Facebook user, though. - Glitches plague free Evi app for Android
The free Evi app for Android eluded me for days while I was testing it out. Every time I tried to search using the app, it told me all circuits were busy. But the super friendly voice assured me that they were working to correct the issue in the near future. In this day and age, a few days are a lifetime. - UK Supreme Court to take up tweeting
The halls of Britain's Supreme Court are becoming a bit more high-tech, as the highest court in the land joins Twitter. - CommVault says will go it alone, despite M&A buzz
NEW YORK (Reuters) - CommVault Systems Inc has managed to skirt rampant consolidation in the fast-growing storage software market, and CEO Bob Hammer is planning to keep it that way. CommVault, which has a market value of about $2.3 billion, is considered one of the few acquisition targets left in the publicly traded storage software space. Hewlett-Packard Co, IBM Corp and Dell Inc each spent billions of dollars last year buying CommVault's rivals, including 3Par Inc, Isilon Systems Inc and Compellent Technologies Inc, to build out their data centers. ... - National Research Council Highlights Need for NASA Technology Development
Information Week reports the National Research Council has issued a report describing the top 16 technologies that NASA needs to work on in the next five years in order to advance the science of space exploration. - Olympus ex-CEO Woodford sees more revelations
TOKYO/LONDON (Reuters) - Official investigations into a massive fraud at Japan's Olympus Corp are highly likely to lead to further revelations on the scandal soon, according to the firm's former chief executive, Michael Woodford, who blew the whistle on the affair. The maker of cameras and medical equipment is trying to put the $1.7 billion scandal behind it, having wrapped up its own third-party investigation late last year. It is seeking out investment partners and looking to vote in a new board in April. ... - Android Alternatives to Apple's Siri Personal Assistant
When it was announced in October, one of the headline features of Apple's iPhone 4S was Siri, an "intelligent assistant" which answers spoken questions and takes orders given in natural English. It was less like Google's Voice Actions for Android, an app which understands a limited set of specific commands, and more like the computers on Star Trek.