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Earlier this month, Intel entered a settlement with the United States Federal Trade Commission to resolve charges that the company unfairly used its market clout to hurt competitors You could sum up the agreement by saying Intel agreed not to use its weight to squash the competition. The chip giant has a long history of bullying its rivals and forc...
India has joined the list of countries putting the squeeze on Research In Motion, citing security concerns as reason to give them access to the encryption technologies protecting corporate email and messaging services on the BlackBerry platform The Indian government has reportedly given RIM until Aug. 31 to provide its security agencies access to B...
Samsung on Wednesday announced a portable Blu-ray disc player with 3D capabilities for the United States market ...
Android smartphone users in Russia have been hit by a Trojan that, once installed, starts spouting off SMS text messages to premium numbers, Kaspersky Labs revealed on Tuesday The attack is sent through a fake codec -- a media player application -- that users are asked to download and install....
Motorola and Verizon Wireless jointly announced the Droid 2 smartphone Tuesday, confirming weeks of speculation and leaks in the media ...
HP Chairman, CEO and President Mark Hurd resigned Friday in a move that shocked the market HP announced the decision following an investigation of a sexual harassment claim by a former contractor to the company. The probe found there was no sexual harassment, but that there were violations of HP's standards of business conduct....
The Federal Communications Commission has reportedly ended a series of talks with major players in the Internet industry on the question of Net neutrality This followed allegations that Google and Verizon are privately wheeling a deal that would let the latter give preferential treatment to Web traffic from Google on its network for a fee. Google d...
Part 1 of this series discusses Microsoft's smartphone forays Microsoft rekindled its on-again, off-again love affair with tablet PCs late last month, as CEO Steve Ballmer told financial analysts that it's giving top priority to its tablet project....
Google announced on Wednesday that it has killed off Google Wave, the sharing and communication Web app it kicked off last year Wave "has not seen the user adoption we would have liked," wrote Urs Holzle, Google's senior vice president of operations. Google won't continue developing Wave as a standalone product, but it will maintain the site at lea...
Microsoft Windows doesn't have a good way to handle digital certificates that have been tampered with, Roel Schouwenberg, senior antivirus researcher at Kaspersky Lab, said Tuesday at the company's North American Virus Analyst Summit in San Francisco One problem is that it doesn't clearly indicate when such certificates have been tampered with, he ...
Entrepreneurs, engineers and scientists worldwide are being offered US$1 million for developing a better way of cleaning up crude oil spills from oceans The competition is being organized by the X Prize Foundation, and it will run for one year.
Microsoft's tablet project is a top priority for the company, CEO Steve Baller told financial analysts at a presentation Thursday However, he remained coy on the details....
Microsoft recently announced record revenues of US$16.04 billion for its fourth fiscal quarter of the year, which ended June 30. This was 22 percent up year over year. Operating income, net income and diluted earnings per share for the quarter were up 49 percent, 48 percent and 50 percent, respectively, year over year The company provided relativel...
Security researcher Barnaby Jack demonstrated remote hacks against two automated teller machines (ATMs) that made them spew out money at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday A large number of ATMs are vulnerable to remote and physical attacks, said Jack, who works for IOActive....
Amazon has announced two new Kindle models, one with 3G and WiFi connectivity, the other offering WiFi access only ...
Adobe has joined Microsoft's MAPP program, which provides members with information about security vulnerabilities before Microsoft releases its monthly patches This will let Adobe, which has been plagued by security flaws, notify MAPP members about vulnerabilities in its apps so they can fix those problems more quickly....
Google on Tuesday unveiled Google Apps for Government. It also announced that Google Apps has received federal information security (FISMA) certification "With Google Apps for Government, we've gone beyond FISMA certification," Google spokesperson Andrew Kovacs told TechNewsWorld....
Hacking the technological protections built into copyrighted digital material in order to view or use the content does not necessarily contravene the provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), the Fifth Circuit Court in New Orleans ruled on Friday The move could send shock waves through the music, TV and movie industries, as well as...
The Federal Communications Commission has redefined broadband speeds as 4 Mbps (megabits per second) for downloads and 1 Mbps for uploads Characterizing the move as "overdue," the FCC pointed out that the previous standard of 200 Kbps (kilobits per second) in both directions was set in 1999....
Amazon.com has signed a deal with the Wylie Agency to offer 20 books from big-name authors exclusively on the Kindle Store for two years, effectively cutting publishers out of the equation The titles include Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead, Philip Roth's Jewish-American literary masterpiece Portnoy's Complaint, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, and...
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