Is Facebook about to buy Opera to create own Facebook browser? A Facebook browser that would allow you keep up to date with yoursocial life from in-built plug-ins and features on the menu barcould be on the cards. Pocket-lint has heard from one of itstrusted sources that the social networking giant is looking to buyOpera Software, the company behind the Opera web browser. Accordingto our man in the know, the company could be about to expand intothe browser space to take on the likes of Google, Apple, Microsoft,Mozilla and now even Yahoo... Pocket-lint Meet the tireless entrepreneur who squatted at AOL It was 6 a.m. when Eric Simons was jolted awake by the yelling.After working until 4 a.m, the 19-year-old entrepreneur had finallypassed out. A few hours of sleep would help with the day ahead. Butunlike most people working at AOL's Palo Alto, Calif., campus whowere surely still hours from showing up at the sprawling complex,Simons was already there. He'd been living there for two months,hiding out at night on couches, eating the company's food, andexercising and showering in its gym. And now, with an angrysecurity guard bellowing at him, it was all over. CNET How Tim Cook is changing Apple In February of this year, a group of investors visited Apple aspart of a "bus tour" led by a research analyst forCitibank. The session started with a 45-minute presentation byPeter Oppenheimer, Apple's chief financial officer, and the 15 orso investors who attended the session were treated to Apple'sunique brand of hospitality: They met in a threadbare conferenceroom in Apple's Town Hall public conference center at the 4Infinite Loop building in Cupertino, Calif., where the refreshmentsconsisted of "three stale cookies and two Diet Cokes," inthe words of one participant. CNN Dataland: the MIT's '70s media room concept that influenced the Mac In research for our latest Future Passed piece, I came across themention of "Dataland" and a spatial data-managementsystem. Hardly the most exciting-sounding concept, couched inacademic technobureaucratese from the late '70s, but I starteddigging around in old forums and email lists, with the hope offinding more about this photo mentioned in The Computer Age: ATwenty Year View. I eventually hit internet gold, finding theoriginal spatial-data-management system study PDF deep in the MITarchives at the Speech interface Group. The Verge Revisiting why incompetents think they're awesome In 1999 a pair of researchers published a paper called"Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in RecognizingOne's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments(PDF)." David Dunning and Justin Kruger (both at CornellUniversity's Department of Psychology at the time) conducted aseries of four studies showing that, in certain cases, people whoare very bad at something think they are actually pretty good. Theyshowed that to assess your own expertise at something, you need tohave a certain amount of expertise already. Ars Technica Respawn's West And Zampella sound off on upcoming Activisionlawsuit We recently had the opportunity to sit down with RespawnEntertainment's Jason West and Vince Zampella, the one-time headsof Infinity Ward and creators of Call of Duty. During ourconversation we finally got to hear their version of the eventssurrounding their dismissal from Activision and the bitter legalbattle that has carried on for two years. This is the most personalaccount of the Infinity Ward story to date... Game Informer Against the future: inside the Jewish anti-internet rally This weekend I took a 45 minute train ride to Citi Field, whichtypically houses a baseball team called the Mets and some of itsfans. But me and my fellow passengers on the 7 train weren'tattending a baseball game: we were there, along with 40,000-ishultra-Orthodox Jews, to learn about the internet. Since I'mcurrently (for non-religious reasons) not using the internet for ayear, I seemed to be the right guy to tag along. The Verge Understanding the business impact of Windows XP migration plans For the last several months, we"ve been talking about theimportance of migrating from Windows XP to Windows 7. Much of thediscussion has focused on the two year countdown for end of supportfor Windows XP on April 8, 2014, however, we have also pointed outthat Windows XP is over a decade old -- two generations behindMicrosoft's current product technology and will soon be threegenerations behind. Microsoft Max Payne 3 PC: Developer interview After the success of the console release last week, the PC releaseof Max Payne 3 is highly anticipated. We caught up with KevinHoare, Lead PC Designer on Max Payne 3, to talk about thedifferences in this long-awaited sequel to Remedy Entertainment'sclassic noir-inspired action games. There's some good stuff inhere, so keep an eye on this space for our upcoming Max Payne 3review. PCWorld Data in the fast lane A new approach to managing data over a network has enabled aMicrosoft Research team to set a speed record for sifting through,or "sorting," a huge amount of data in one minute. Theteam conquered what is known as the MinuteSort benchmark -- ameasure of data-crunching speed devised by the late Jim Gray, arenowned Microsoft Research scientist, and deemed the "WorldCup" of data sorting. Microsoft Supercomputer to connect to 400PB of storage via Ethernet The National Center for Supercomputing Applications is rolling outa storage infrastructure that will include 380 petabytes ofmagnetic tape capacity and 25 petabytes of online disk storage madeup by 17,000 SATA drives. The massive storage infrastructure isdesigned to support of one of the world's most powerfulsupercomputers, called Blue Waters. Computerworld How Google can beat Facebook without Google Plus Out in the Mojave Desert, there's a place called California Citythat's fascinated me ever since Geoff Manaugh brought its story tothe Internet's attention. The city is one of the largest in thestate by land area, but its population sits at a mere 14,718. Thefacts together indicate the grandeur of the planned community'sconception and its failure. The Atlantic. We are high quality suppliers, our products such as China Portable Phone Charger , China Cellular Phone Batteries for oversee buyer. 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