The phone is poised to usurp the PC’s throne
By John SanGiovanni, Zumobi, gigaom.com

No one dis­putes the trans­for­ma­tive change that desk­top and mobile com­put­ing plat­forms have had on human com­mu­ni­ca­tion in recent years. While the hier­ar­chy of these devices is con­tin­u­ous­ly evolv­ing, phones are increas­ing­ly…

Students Studying Abroad: Take Advantage of Video Job Interviews
Josh Tolan, mashable.com

Josh Tolan is the CEO of Spark Hire, which com­bines a video job board and online inter­view­ing plat­form to enrich inter­ac­tion between job seek­ers and employ­ers. Con­nect with him and Spark Hire on Face­book and Twit­ter.

Study­ing…

Full FCC report on Google Street View reveals new details
By Jessica Guynn, Los Angeles Times, latimes.com

The Google engi­neer who wrote the code enabling Street View cars to cap­ture data from unpro­tect­ed wire­less net­works told fel­low engi­neers and a man­ag­er that he had done so, the FCC report says.

SAN FRAN­CIS­CO — New rev­e­la­tions in a…

Ranger 12? A 1964 Proposal to Extend the Ranger Lunar Program
By David S. F. Portree, wired.com

In the sum­mer and fall of 1962, NASA Head­quar­ters planned at least 18 mis­sions in the Ranger series. Some would have imaged the moon’s sur­face to cer­ti­fy poten­tial Apol­lo land­ing sites, while oth­ers would have had a more pure­ly…

HP’s Pavillion dv6t and dv7t laptops updated with Ivy Bridge processors, shipping on May 8th
By Nathan Ingraham, theverge.com

Intel offi­cial­ly launched its long-awaited Ivy Bridge proces­sors last week, and since then a num­ber of man­u­fac­tur­ers have released new prod­ucts tak­ing advan­tage of this new archi­tec­ture. HP’s already launched some new desk­tops, and n…

Why solar will thrive in India: coal is a mess
By Katie Fehrenbacher, gigaom.com

India is strug­gling to add more elec­tric­i­ty capac­i­ty for the coun­try’s rapid­ly grow­ing econ­o­my, but the domes­tic coal indus­try is an absolute mess, points out arti­cles in the New York Times and the Econ­o­mist this month. That…

Mobile data is growing, but voice & sms slowing
By Om Malik, gigaom.com

The iPhones, the Androids, the iPads and hot-spots — what­ev­er might be the devices, but one thing is for sure: the demand for mobile broad­band is con­tin­u­ing to grow unabat­ed. Two dif­fer­ent reports, one from Aka­mai and anoth­er from Cheta…

Australia is investigating why its software and downloads are more expensive than in the U.S.
Jon Russell, thenextweb.com

The Aus­tralian gov­ern­ment inves­ti­gat­ing the price of down­loads and soft­ware in the coun­try, as it bids to under­stand why com­pa­nies like Apple and Microsoft charge Aus­tralian cus­tomers more.

The House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives is…