Didn't have a chance to check out tech headlines over the weekend? Here's what you missed:
Google's ambitious plan to step into the tablet market with its own 7-inch device isn't going to be an independent affair. The company is expected to directly sell a tablet co-created by Asus. As for when, exactly, well… The Verge reported that Google's bumping the tablet back to no earlier than a July release.
Meanwhile, the Nokia Lumia 900 officially launched in the U.S. on Sunday. But interested purchasers likely found it difficult to actually get their hands on Nokia's "flagship" device as plenty of AT&T stores and Microsoft stores were closed due to the Easter holiday.
New numbers from Experian Hitwise, meanwhile, suggest that visits to Google+ were up 27 percent between February and March, reaching a total of more than 61 million visits. The new statistic comes just days after Google CEO Larry Page mentioned that Google+ is home to more than 100 million active users — whatever the company technically defines as an "active user."
Also making headlines over the weekend:
- YouTube Founders Building Mysterious Magazine Publishing App: First, there came an easy, efficient, and sprawling site for uploading, editing, sharing, and watching videos. Now, magazines.
- Minecraft Creator Building Emulated CPU Into New Space Sim: The newest game that Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson has up his sleeve tips its hat to some of the more advanced creations that gamers have built within the sandbox-themed Minecraft universe.
- Flashback Central: How to Find, Protect Against, and Eliminate Scary Apple Malware: Protecting yourself against Flashback is a relatively simple affair.
- Cracks in the Hype: Can Google's Glasses Actually Do What it's Promoting?: The physical construction of Google's glasses doesn't appear to be able to deliver the same experience that Google's touting in its YouTube video.
- Ex-Intel Engineer Pleads Guilty to Stealing Itanium Trade Secrets: Biswamohan Pani, 36, left Intel in June 2008 and was indicted by a federal grand jury in November of that year for downloading files related to the chip maker's Itanium processor technology.
- Robert Bork Rushes to Google's Defense Over Anti-Trust Claims: Google has been facing increased scrutiny from regulators in the United States and abroad for a hodge-podge of allegedly dodgy practices.
- Report: Verizon to Bundle Landlines with DSL Service: Verizon is ending its "naked DSL" service to push a DSL package that comes with attached local voice service.
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