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RT @Techmeme: Retina MacBook screens: Already here - and pricey (@josh / CNET)

RT @Techmeme: Retina MacBook screens: Already here - and pricey (@josh / CNET)

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Editor’s note: Some savvy Facebook engineers rigged the NASDAQ button to automatically post “Mark Zuckerberg has listed a company on NASDAQ – FB” to the CEO’s Timeline as he rung the bell to open the NASDAQ’s day of trading. David Garcia, a senior software engineer at Facebook, explains how they turned the NASDAQ on to Open Graph.

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But no good deed goes unpunished. New hardware based on the nearly finished 802.11ac standard is about to debut, and it will make your existing wireless infrastructure feel as though it's mired in molasses.

Listen, I don't want to be apocalyptic about this, but if Facebook's revenue growth doesn't reaccelerate, it wouldn't surprise me at all to see Facebook eventually trade at, say, 20X-30X forward earnings estimates, or lower. That would be a perfectly reasonable price for an exciting, reasonably fast-growing tech company. If Facebook can earn $1 per share next year, therefore, it could presumably trade at $20-$30 ($50 billion to $85 billion) based on that.

The “world class” auditorium located at the very southern tip of the new campus will host product launches and corporate events.

Looking to usurp rival competitors like Spotify and MOG, Sony today launched its Music Unlimited streaming service as an iOS app. We told you in January that it was coming, but today the free app officially hits the App Store with subscriptions starting at $3.99 a month for varying access to the service’s 15 million+ songs and playback features. There is also a 30-day free trial of the premium service.

When a Rockstar engineer uncovers evidence of infringement, the company documents it, contacts the manufacturer, and demands licensing fees for the patents in question. The demand is backed by the implicit threat of a patent lawsuit in federal court. Eight of the company’s staff are lawyers. In the last two months, Rockstar has started negotiations with as many as 100 potential licensees. And with control of a patent portfolio covering core wireless communications technologies such as LTE (Long Term Evolution) and 3G, there is literally no end in sight.

The Supreme Court this morning declined (PDF) to hear the appeal of admitted file-swapper Joel Tenenbaum, who recently asked the court to consider the proper process for slashing his $675,000 damage award. The trial judge in Tenenbaum's case initially ruled that the jury verdict was unconstitutionally punitive, but the appellate court overturned this ruling and said that the judge first had to use the common-law process of "remittitur" to cut down the verdict before reaching the broader constitutional question. (Judges must typically try to address cases by dealing with lower-order issues, only reaching high-level claims about things like constitutionality when unavoidable.)

TeraHop flopped last year, filing for bankruptcy protection in September. A court-appointed receivership was established shortly thereafter to manage the assets, hiring Tangible IP to sell the portfolio. Now, GeekWire has learned that Google recently paid $10 million for dozens of TeraHop’s patents, many of them related to tracking technologies associated with shipping containers and RFID technologies, according to public records.

Google’s Larry Page today announced that the company would be giving over the use of 22,000 square feet of its New York City headquarters to CornellNYC Tech, while the university builds its new campus on Roosevelt Island. This space places Cornell right in the heart of New York’s tech center and should allow it easy access to the companies that it hopes will bolster the city’s reputation as a growing startup hub.

Uberconference is free, though users who sign up won’t necessarily get access immediately. It’s on the Web and in the U.S. at first, with iPhone and iPad apps coming. Premium services will include local dial-ins, outbound calls and larger conference groups, Walker said today at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York City.

Motorola said in a regulatory filing Monday that it expects the deal to close by Wednesday, but it looks like it will be sooner than that. S&P’s stock index unit said Monday afternoon that it expects the deal to close before the start of regular trading on Tuesday morning. S&P needs to know these things, of course, because Motorola is part of the S&P 500, at least until Thursday when it will be replaced by Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc.

RT @Techmeme: Google to Warn 500,000+ of DNS Changer Infections (@briankrebs / Krebs on Security)

RT @Techmeme: Google to Warn 500,000+ of DNS Changer Infections (@briankrebs / Krebs on Security)

RT @Techmeme: IBM Outlaws Siri, Worried She Has Loose Lips (@bobmcmillan / Wired)

RT @Techmeme: IBM Outlaws Siri, Worried She Has Loose Lips (@bobmcmillan / Wired)

RT @Techmeme: EXCLUSIVE: Here's The Inside Story Of What Happened On The Facebook IPO (@hblodget / Business... http ...

RT @Techmeme: ITC Judge: Xbox Should Be Banned From U.S. Over Motorola Patent Violation (@nateog / Wired) http://t. ...

RT @Techmeme: Clueful Scans The Apps On Your iPhone, Tells You Which Ones Are Doing Naughty Things With Your... htt ...

RT @Techmeme: VP of Palo Alto's SAP Arrested in LEGO Bar Code Scam (NBC Bay Area)

RT @Techmeme: VP of Palo Alto's SAP Arrested in LEGO Bar Code Scam (NBC Bay Area)

RT @hackernewsbot: Apple design chief Jonathan Ive is knighted...