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'

Daily News June 1, 2011   View Online | Manage Subscription | Follow Us TOP STORIES 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. Share This: 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. Share This: 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. Share This: 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. Share This: 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. Share This: 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. Share This: 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. Share This: FEATURED OFFERS LATEST TOP-RATED PRODUCTS WebWatcher | Parental Control & Monitoring | Square | iPhone Apps | Livescribe Echo Smartpen (With Livescribe Connect) | Digital Voice Recorders | L.A. Noire | Console Games | Toshiba Satellite M645-S4118x | Laptops & Notebooks | Edifier Breathe iF600 | Speakers | Canon imageClass MF4450 | MFPs | More >>   eNewsletter Information You are subscribed to PCMag.com's Daily News with the email address toqeer4.games@blogger.com. Click here to unsubscribe from this newsletter. To subscribe to other e-mail newsletters from Ziff Davis, change your delivery format from HTML to text, or change your email address, click here. Copyright ©2011 Ziff Davis, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Ziff Davis, Inc., 28 East 28th Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10016