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Cisco beats estimates with 2Q earnings, sales (AP)

AP - Cisco, the world's largest maker of computer networking equipment, on Wednesday said its net income jumped 44 percent in the latest quarter as it continues to put last year's slump behind it.

Review: Soulo converts iPad into karaoke machine (AP)

AP - Karaoke lovers typically fall into two categories: Those who enjoy it, and those whose arms have to be twisted to get up and sing in public.

Lawsuit seeks to block Google's privacy changes (AP)

AP - A consumer watchdog group is suing the Federal Trade Commission in an attempt to prevent Google from making sweeping changes to its privacy policies next month.

Watch the contenders for DARPA?s flying robot competition take to the sky (Yahoo! News)

Yahoo! News - DARPA was on the hunt for the best unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or drone designs, so it launched the UAVForge competition in late 2011. While helicopter and plane-like designs were expected, a few of the entries were actually rather unique. Take for example ?

Relax, the PlayStation Network isn?t going anywhere (Yahoo! News)

Yahoo! News - Any time you tweak the vocabulary surrounding a network that millions of people use every day, there is bound to be some confusion. That's just what happened earlier this week when Sony announced it would be renaming PlayStation Network accounts as Sony ?

British Cabinet Warns of Possible Internet Outages During Summer Olympics (Mashable)

Mashable - The British Cabinet Office has warned businesses in England that the country may not be able to fully accommodate a surge in Internet use during the 2012 Olympics in London this summer. Businesses have been told that Internet providers may be forced to ration access to the web during certain times of day and service may fall out altogether at other times.

Akamai Q4 beats as demand for online content soars (Reuters)

Reuters - Internet content delivery company Akamai Technologies Inc posted a fourth-quarter profit above analysts' expectations, helped by growing demand for online content, sending its shares up 12 percent in trading after the bell.

Hackers post W.Va. police officers' personal info (AP)

AP - Hackers affiliated with the group Anonymous obtained personal information for more than 150 police officers from an old website of the West Virginia Chiefs of Police Association and posted the data online.

Facebook afterglow lights up IPO markets (Reuters)

Reuters - The excitement generated by Facebook's IPO filing rubbed off on companies listing on U.S. stock exchanges on Wednesday, with four of them seeing strong first-day gains.

Gameloft releases new social platform app for Android (Appolicious)

Appolicious - Mobile game maker Gameloft is responsible for some of the biggest-budget, biggest-name games on Google?s Android operating system (as well as Apple?s iOS), which is probably why it has 7 million registered players in its proprietary gaming network. Today the company released a new app that lets dedicated Gameloft fans access that network even when they?re not playing Asphalt 6 or Modern Combat.

Sheriff: Facebook spat led to 2 shooting deaths (AP)

AP - Authorities say a father who was upset after a Tennessee couple deleted his adult daughter as a friend on Facebook has been charged with killing the couple.

Washington Footing the Cell Phone Bill for Millions of Low Income Americans (Time.com)

Time.com - Last year, a federal program paid out $1.6 billion to cover free cell phones and the monthly bills of 12.5 million wireless accounts

Lights, camera, Action Movie FX iPhone app (Appolicious)

Appolicious - I first heard about Bad Robot Interactive?s app Action Movie FX for iPhone and iPod Touch when my loving fiancé said ?Hey, look at this!? and proceeded to show me a video clip of a missile blowing up our living room with me in it. Neat.

Electronic Arts' CFO leaves for Polycom (Reuters)

Reuters - Electronic Arts Inc's chief financial officer is leaving the video game publisher to take a post at communications company Polycom Inc, both companies said in statements on Wednesday.

Pinterest is profiting off your 'pinspired' purchases without a disclosure (Digital Trends)

Digital Trends - Pinterest has become entirely unavoidable. In its mere 23-month existence, the site has managed to create (or rather, curate) a cult-like following of devoted, pinning-obsessed users. It was recently reported that Pinterest drove more referral traffic last month than Google, Reddit, YouTube, LinkedIn, and MySpace combined.

Sprint posts deeper 4Q loss on iPhone costs (AP)

AP - Sprint dug deep into its pockets in the latest quarter to put iPhones in the hands of its customers. The perennially money-losing company on Wednesday posted its largest loss in three years.

Kaspersky Lab's sales growth slowed in 2011 (Reuters)

Reuters - Russia's Kaspersky Lab reported that sales growth slowed substantially last year as the world's No. 4 maker of anti-virus software said its business was starting to mature.

The U.S. and China: A Duel to the Debt (The Motley Fool)

The Motley Fool - In this period of "exceptional uncertainty" (to quote Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke), where can investors turn for a considered perspective on the current environment? Produced to feed the beast of the 24-hour news cycle, the bulk of financial journalism and commentary today isn't worth the servers it is stored on. One notable exception to that rule is Buttonwood, the financial markets column of The Economist. Philip Coggan is the columnist -- arguably the most influential position in financial journalism (along with the head of Lex at the Financial Times).