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We're going live in Austin at . Quest #1 at SXSW... Find @scobleizer.

Josh Topolsky, the editor-in-chief of Engadget, is leaving the AOL-owned property, which one of the largest tech news sites on the Web. Also departing is Managing Editor Nilay Patel, said sources.

BITcrash44 has devised a way of hacking into Times Squares’ enormous screens using just his iPhone and a homemade transmitter and repeater. Plugging the transmitter into the headphone jack of his phone, he records a message using the camera. To ‘hack’ into the screens, he holds up the repeater and replays the video, disrupting the original content and replacing it with his own. As his magnum opus, he ties the repeater to a red balloon and floats it next to a screen playing movie trailers, broadcasting his image over the streets of New York. BITcrash44 humorously flouts what he calls one of the “most monitored and secured areas in New York City” in his description of the video. We wonder how many people actually noticed, or if at this point people are so desensitized by the bright lights of Times Square that nobody even looks up anymore.

HP announced it intends to leverage its position as a leading provider of cloud technology to develop a portfolio of cloud services from infrastructure to platform services. HP also signaled it plans to develop and run the industry’s first open cloud marketplace that will combine a secure, scalable and trusted consumer app store and an enterprise application and services catalog. HP intends to build webOS into a leading connectivity platform. As the world’s No. 1 maker of PCs and printers, HP has the potential to deliver 100 million webOS-enabled devices a year into the marketplace, and HP plans to use that scale along with leading development tools to build a robust developer community that is eager to access every segment of the market and every corner of the globe. At the event, highlighting an increasing focus to bring innovation to market faster, HP demonstrated a new “big data” appliance, leveraging the unmatched performance of HP computing power mated with real-time, high-speed analytics from Vertica Systems, which HP recently announced its agreement to acquire. HP expects to close the acquisition in its second fiscal quarter and have the HP-branded appliance ready for market immediately thereafter. The proposed HP Vertica solution will offer a choice of delivery options – from appliance, to software, and in the cloud.

Apple's iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad yet again had difficulty adjusting to daylight saving time. Frustrated U.S. iDevice users on Facebook, Twitter, and Apple forums griefed over the weekend that their gadgets fell back an hour instead of springing forward.

apanese suppliers have said factories producing these chips were largely unaffected by the temblor, nor are they in areas where blackouts will force production to stop. While it appears by their statements that the memory markets are overreacting to the earthquake, analysts say that the price increases may highlight a graver issue for the global chip industry: damage to Japanese component and material suppliers vital to chip production.

Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) will stop introducing new versions of the Zune music and video player because of tepid demand, letting the company shift its focus to other devices, according to a person familiar with the decision.

Yet another delay comes as stock of the iPad 2 around the U.S. is believed to be entirely sold out at all locations, including Apple's retail stores and partners. Some select Apple stores with new shipments of the iPad 2 are set to open early today, while many other stores await more stock in the face of crushing demand.

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A Microsoft backed anti-software-and-hardware piracy measure moving through the Washington state Legislature is drawing sharp opposition from other giant technology companies and a group of big-name retailers, setting up a contentious political fight among these multi-national companies that could spread to other states. Fifteen tech companies _ including IBM, Dell, Intel and Motorola _ sent a letter this past Friday urging lawmakers to reject the bill as they increase their lobbying following overwhelmingly supportive votes for the measure. Retailers like Wal-Mart and the Washington Retail Association have actively lobbied against it as well. Lawmakers said Apple has lobbied against it, too. The proposed measure would allow a company to sue businesses that use stolen or misappropriated software or hardware to manufacture products sold in Washington state, and allows the state to pursue legal action as well in such cases.

Creeper (named after a character in the old Scooby Doo cartoons) spread from BBN Technologies' DEC PDP-10 through Arpanet, displaying the message: "I'm the creeper, catch me if you can!" and messing with people's printers.

t turns out Rose really has tuned out. Because, say multiple sources, he’s already resigned from the company and is closing a $1+ million financing round for a new startup he’s founded.

"A lot of 20-percent time is being spent on Japan," Google spokesman Jamie Yood told AFP on Thursday. "There is definitely a group of people in our Tokyo office spending a lot more than 20 percent of their time on this, and that is supported by Google," he said.

Sony’s Sendai technology centre, where the tsunami hit, has ceased operations along with another seven manufacturing sites in affected areas. These produce items including semiconductors and lithium ion batteries. To conserve power Sony has also suspended operations in another three facilities across the country.

What's wrong with this picture? @ Chez Laporte