CEO says NBC set to 'break even' on Olympics

NEW YORK (AP) â€" Viewer excitement about the Olympics is translating into gold for NBC: The broadcaster now expects to break even on the London Games rather than taking a loss."We are way ahead of where we thought we'd be," NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke said Wednesday.Covering the Olympics was more challenging for NBC this year because of the time difference with Europe. With London five hours ahead of New York, NBC isn't able to show any events live in prime time. In Beijing four years ago, NBC was able to show morning events such as Michael Phelps' gold-medal swims live during its evening broadcasts.But instead of the expected 20 percent ratings...

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Android Console Game Design Revealed Ouya

Ouya, a video game console Android platform, is excited about the return of abundant support for the console open source development projects are being developed.After collecting $ 5.5 million, Ouya began to expose some technical detail, one of which the design of game controllers.This is revealed in their Kickstarter page, Friday (27/7). Ouya enroll in Kickstarter crowdfunding site pages and has won 5.5 million dollars from donors 43 444 people. There are still 12 more days to collect donations before the opportunity is truly closed.Through their sixth update, Ouya team finally unveiled the design of console controllers Ouya. At first...

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"Charge" Laptop USB Cable Will Can Use

Soon, not just smartphones and gadgets whose batteries can be charged via USB cable.A new USB 3.0 standard is being prepared reportedly will increase the amount of power that can be streamed through this data cable. Magnitude up to 100 watts, enough to charge large devices such as notebooks.This was stated in the announcement USB 3.0 Promoter Group consisting of a Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Microsoft, Renesas, ST-Ericsson, and Texas Instruments, dated July 18, 2012.The number is far greater than the maximum power that can be transmitted via USB 3.0 cable that already exist, which is 4.5 Watt. The USB 2.0 cable is only capable of supplying power...

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Marissa Mayer brings free food to Yahoo

(Mashable) -- How is new CEO Marissa Mayer going to revitalize Yahoo? By making it more like Google, the company she just left. According to AllThingsD's Kara Swisher, Mayer has instituted a few changes already at Yahoo's Sunnyvale, CA, headquarters. Among them: establishing a weekly all-hands meeting on Friday afternoons, and making all the food in its URLs Cafe, which previously priced egg white muffin sandwiches at $3.65 and teriyaki chicken paninis at $5.31, free. Of course, it's easy to say that all of this has been borrowed directly from Google, but these kinds of offerings have become standard at many Silicon Valley offices â€" the fact that Yahoo has, until now, lacked them has likely been a sore point for some of its engineers. Both Facebook and Twitter, for instance, serve...

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2 SKoreans arrested for mobile customer data theft

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) â€" South Korean police said they arrested two men who allegedly stole the personal details of about 8 million mobile phone subscribers and sold the data to marketing companies in one of the country's biggest hacking schemes.Police said in a statement Sunday that the two men developed the hacking program that was used to steal the names, residential registration numbers and phone numbers of customers of KT, which is South Korea's largest fixed-line telephone company and No. 2 mobile operator. The program was uploaded to the company's computer systems and harvested personal data for months.Police said the two made about...

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Facebook's stock sinks, so who should buy it?

NEW YORK (AP) Investors are dumping Facebook's stock, spooked by slowing revenue growth, the lack of a financial outlook and plans to spend more money in the coming months. Are they right? Only if they are thinking in the short term. Investors can expect Facebook's stock to be volatile for a few years. But analysts say those willing to wait will likely be rewarded — someday. "I view it as a tomorrow stock," says Christian Bertelsen, chief investment officer at wealth management firm Global Financial Private Capital. "The whole thing on Facebook is, look, if your time horizon is hourly, weekly or even monthly, this is not the stock...

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Facebook's stock sinks, so who should buy it?

NEW YORK (AP) â€" Investors are dumping Facebook's stock, spooked by slowing revenue growth, the lack of a financial outlook and plans to spend more money in the coming months.Are they right?Only if they are thinking in the short term. Investors can expect Facebook's stock to be volatile for a few years. But analysts say those willing to wait will likely be rewarded â€" someday."I view it as a tomorrow stock," says Christian Bertelsen, chief investment officer at wealth management firm Global Financial Private Capital."The whole thing on Facebook is, look, if your time horizon is hourly, weekly or even monthly, this is not the stock for you,"...

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