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Ubuntu And Android, Both Running On The Same Phone

You get to the office, pull out your dual-core Android phone, and dock it to your monitor, mouse and keyboard. But the operating system that appears on the screen isn’t.

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Google Updates Google News With Google Plus Comments, Realtime Developments

Google rolled out a handful of new features and updates to news aggregator Google News this week, mostly designed to introduce more content from Google Plus to the site, in.

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Discovery Network Acquires Internet TV Service Revision3

Today Discovery Communications announced that it will be acquiring the popular web series hosting service Revision3 for a sum reported to be between $20 and $40 million.

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LinkedIn Announces $119 Million SlideShare Acquisition

Linkedin announced today that it will close on a deal to acquire SlideShare for $119 million next month.

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Microsoft Sends Open Source Skype Developers DMCA Takedown (And It’s Not Their First)

Microsoft has sent a series of takedown notices to a team of independent developers working to reverse engineer the company’s video chat service Skype

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Pinstagram: The Pinterest For Instagram

Pinstagram, known as the “Pinterest for Instagram,” launched yesterday as a new way of easily viewing your Instagram photos on the web.

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New “Noise Sponge” Foam Dampens Loud Combustion Machinery

Researchers at the University of Alabama in Birmingham have developed a noise absorbing foam that will greatly reduce the loud combustion process in jet engines and large machinery.

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Pinterest Traffic Drops Due To Copyright Issues

Google Trends shows that Pinterest search traffic has dipped since March, when the company’s copyright issues were reported in the news.

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Google Docs Gets 450 New Fonts (But Don’t Be Fooled; It’s Really Promoting The Cloud)

Google Docs looks prettier with more than 450 new fonts, another sign that the company is really pushing the service along with Drive.

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Eco-Friendly, Biodegradable Robot In Development At University Of Bristol

Researchers at the University of Bristol have received a grant to develop an environmentally friendly, completely biodegradable robot.

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