Apple's Billion-Dollar Data Center Suddenly Appears on Google Earth; Sprint Intensifies Its Opposition to AT&T/T-Mobile Merger; Schmidt: Google, Apple, Amazon, Facebook Are Tech's 'Gang of Four'

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Apple's Billion-Dollar Data Center Suddenly Appears on Google
Earth; Sprint Intensifies Its Opposition to AT&T/T-Mobile
Merger; Schmidt: Google, Apple, Amazon, Facebook Are Tech's
'Gang of Four'
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Apple's Billion-Dollar Data Center Suddenly Appears on Google Earth

No, it's not an image from the set of the movie "Deliverance;"
it's a Google Earth shot of Apple's giant data center in the
boonies of North Carolina. The image was previously unavailable
on Google Earth, but as Apple's iCloud announcement nears, the
company seems to have allowed Google to show the massive,
500,000-square-foot facility to the world.

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Sprint Intensifies Its Opposition to AT&T/T-Mobile Merger

Recently, Sprint asked the government to block AT&T's proposed
acquisition of T-Mobile. On Tuesday, Sprint filed a formal
petition with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
against the merger.

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Schmidt: Google, Apple, Amazon, Facebook Are Tech's 'Gang of Four'

Google really doesn't like Facebook. That was probably the key
takeaway from an hour-long riff session between Google's
executive chairman and former CEO Eric Schmidt and All Thing D
executive editors Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg at the kick-off
to the D9 Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. Tuesday
evening.

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Zynga Launches Empires & Allies Combat Game

"Empires & Allies" is Zynga's first strategy combat game that
the company describes as a "CityVille Meets Risk." The combat
element departs from Zynga's bread and butter games like
FarmVille and Mafia Wars, which are mostly played by women aged
25 to 44, a Zynga executive said recently.

http://enews.pcmag.com/u.d?3YGmHxe7JrSrT78OddQo=160

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Apple's Very Own 'Patch Tuesday' Deals With MacDefender Scareware

Apple on Tuesday released a promised security update for Mac OS
X 10.6.7, aka Snow Leopard, and Mac OS X Server 10.6.7 that
identifies, quarantines and removes a system-crippling class of
rogue anti-virus malware commonly known as MacDefender.

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Space Shuttle Endeavor Completes its Final Mission

At 2:34 a.m. Eastern Time this morning the Space Shuttle
Endeavour completed its final journey to orbit and back when it
touched down at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It was the
penultimate mission for the 30-year shuttle program, with the
final mission--which Shuttle Atlantis will undertake--scheduled
for July.

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Nokia Warns of Unexpectedly Low Phone Demand

Nokia said Tuesday that net sales for its devices were expected
to be "substantially" below its earlier estimates, possibly
indicating waning interest in the company's phones.

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