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Saturday, February 04, 2012
Anonymous has published a recording on Friday of a
confidential call between FBI agents and London
detectives on Youtube, in which the
law-enforcement agents discuss action they are taking
against hacking.
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Mozilla released today updates to its Aurora and Beta
versions that introduce some changes for the Firefox
on PCs.
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Micron Technology Inc Chief Executive and Chairman Steve Appleton died in a small plane crash on Friday, a major loss for the struggling memory chipmaker.
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Friday, February 03, 2012
Motorola Mobility said that approximately 100 out of a batch of 6,200 Motorola XOOM Wi-Fi tablets that were refurbished by Motorola Mobility may not have been completely cleared of the original owner's data prior to resale.
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LG has released a new external BDXL writer named BP40NS20, available for $143.
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Apple's German online store shows that all 3G models of its iPad 2 are today (Friday) unavailable for purchase, after Motorola Mobility enforced a patent injunction against the company.
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Earlier this month Google announced that it was updating its privacy policies. Today France?s data-protection agency is leading an EU analysis into the changes, and is asking the Internet giant to stop the roll out.
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Google today revealed a service codenamed 'Bouncer,' which provides automated scanning of Android Market for potentially malicious software.
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Fujitsu today released in Japan of the STYLISTIC M350/CA2, an Android OS-based tablet for the enterprise market.
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Corning and Samsung Mobile Display have signed an
agreement to establish a new equity venture for the
manufacture of specialty glass substrates for the
expanding organic light emitting diode (OLED) device
market.
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Skype has just released an update to Skype for Windows
(version 5.8).
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Thursday, February 02, 2012
Samsung Electronics is allowed to continue to sell the Galaxy Tab 10.1N, after a regional court in Munich rejected an Apple motion to block sales of the product due to a patent violation, Samsung said Thursday.
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At its annual Financial Analyst Day, AMD detailed a
new "ambidextrous" strategy that builds on the
company's long history of x86 and graphics innovation
while embracing other technologies and intellectual
property to deliver differentiated products.
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The worldwide mobile phone market grew 6.1% year over year in the fourth quarter of 2011 (4Q11), as the feature phone market declined faster than anticipated, dragging market growth down to its lowest point in over two years.
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC) will announce 3-D IC assembly service as a general offering at the beginning of next year.
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There may be times when you don't have an Internet connection on your Android device, but you still want access to a file you?ve saved in Google Docs. Now you can select any file in Google Docs to make it available offline.
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The DVD6C Licensing Group (DVD6C) filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in order to collect patent royalties due from American Media International, LLC, a DVD disc replicator.
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Taiwan's AU Optronics said on Thursday it would form a strategic alliance with Japan's Idemitsu Kosan to develop next-generation OLED flat screen technology.
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Sony on Thursday kept its annual LCD TV sales forecast unchanged but cut its forecasts for digital camera and PlayStation 3 hardware sales.
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Sony said that its PlayStation Network will be offline for routine scheduled maintenance on Thursday, February 2nd from approximately 6am until midnight PST.
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ASUS today launched the DRW-24B5ST, a DVD writer bundled with two disc burning solutions.
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Kinect for Windows Version 1.0 of Microsoft's SDK and runtime were made available for download, and the company's distribution partners in twelve launch countries are starting to ship Kinect for Windows hardware.
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Microsoft slammed search rival Google with newspaper ads Wednesday, saying that recent changes at Google that allow it to merge the data it collects on user activity across services such as YouTube and Gmail are meant to allow advertisers to better target customers.
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Facebook has filed to raise $5 billion in an initial
public offering.
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Wednesday, February 01, 2012
Internet Explorer's share jumped by its largest-ever increase and Chrome posted its biggest one-month loss, Net Applications Web metrics company said today.
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Nikon today introduced twelve (!) new digital cameras
to the COOLPIX S-series, L-series and P-series
lineup.
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LG Electronics Inc swung to a profit in the fourth quarter as its latest smartphone model helped its ailing handset unit post a small profit after six consecutive quarterly losses.
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Sony said on Wednesday that Vice President Kazuo Hirai will take over the roles of CEO and president on April 1 from Howard Stringer, who will retain the chairman's post.
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Later this month Pioneer will release the BDR-S07J series of BDXL burners in Japan this month. The drive supports 6x recording with BDXL and 12x with BD media and will retail for about $200.
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Intel is sampling an Atom-based system-on chip for servers and announced a new system using one of its Xeon processors.
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Symantec ahs released a patch that eliminates known vulnerabilities affecting customers using pcAnywhere 12.0 and pcAnywhere 12.1.
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Firefox 10 for Windows, Mac and Linux adds built-in developer tools and delivers smoother updates by making add-ons compatible by default.
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The NVIDIA GeForce 295.51 beta drivers are available to download.
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Apple today released Final Cut Pro X v10.0.3, an update to its professional video editing application.
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The European Commission has opened a formal investigation to assess whether Samsung Electronics has used certain of its standard essential patent rights to distort competition in European mobile device markets, in breach of EU antitrust rules.
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Panasonic today introduced the LUMIX DMC-ZS20, the LUMIX DMC-TS4 and the waterproof LUMIX TS20 digital cameras.
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CyberLink today launched the new PowerDVD 12 Ultra, the latest version of its Blu-Ray and Media Player.
The software includes the PowerDVD Mobile v.4 and PowerDVD Remote v.2 apps to offer a universal multimedia player for the Windows, iOS and Android platforms.
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Canalys today announced that Apple, after reporting
stellar results, became the leading worldwide client
PC vendor in Q4 2011.
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Promoting its alternative language to JavaScript,
Google is working to bridge JavaScript to Google Dart,
with the release Monday of an application that the
company is calling its JavaScript to Dart Synonym app.
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AMD today announced the release of the Radeon HD 7950
graphics card, built on the latest AMD 28nm Radeon
HD7950 "Tahiti PRO" GPU with PCI Express Gen 3
support.
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A court in California rejected Oracle's bid to use a
fraud claim to undo an agreement to support the
Itanium processor, that it is said to have made with
Hewlett-Packard.
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McAfee today announced the next generation of McAfee
Mobile Security software, providing smartphone and
tablet owners with more controls to preserve their
privacy and protection against financial fraud,
identity theft and viruses.
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Previously announced at AT&T's Developer Summit, the
Samsung Galaxy Note arrives in carbon blue and ceramic
white at AT&T stores beginning Feb. 19 for $299.99
with a two-year agreement.
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Monday, January 30, 2012
Intel has released seven new Sandy Bridge based CPUs.
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The DVD Forum will go into hybernation after 15 years of operations.
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Research In Motion (RIM) today announced general availability of BlackBerry Business Cloud Services for Microsoft Office 365 ? a new service for business and government organizations that extends Microsoft Exchange Online to BlackBerry smartphones.
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This morning, Microsoft annoucned the beginning of the "Office 15" Technical Preview Program, the codename for the next generation of the Microsoft Office products and services.
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Fifteen email service and technology providers today announced DMARC.org, a technical working group that has been developing standards for reducing the threat of deceptive emails, such as spam and phishing.
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Micron Technology will reportedly buy a US$500 million share stake in Japan rival Elpida Memory, according to a Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) report.
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Tilera on Monday announced availability of its new 36-core processor, which the company says can trump traditional x86 server chips from Intel in performance-per-watt.
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Sony's newest Cyber-shot digital cameras include three models, the DSC-TX200V model from the ultra-thin Cyber-shot T series and the DSC-WX70 and DSC-WX50 models from the stylish W series.
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Sunday, January 29, 2012
The digital music business saw unprecedented global expansion in 2011, while key steps forward were taken in several markets to help tackle digital piracy, IFPI reported.
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Globalfoundries CEO Ajit Manocha has praised his firm
for what he called a "remarkable quarter" in Q411, and
promised that the foundry was on track to "keep the
momentum going," after a year plagued with difficulties and setbacks.
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SanDisk has begun production of NAND flash memory
using 19nm process technology and hopes that
transition to the new process will generate a further
cost reduction and higher performance.
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Friday, January 27, 2012
Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna and Facebook today announced a lawsuit against the co-owners of Adscend Media, LLC, an ad network that is alleged to develop and encourage others to spread spam through misleading tactics, including the one known as "clickjacking."
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Twitter announced Thursday that it would begin restricting Tweets to conform to the demands of specific countries.
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Apple overtook Samsung Electronics as the world's top smartphone maker in the fourth quarter of last year, with the South Korean company selling about half a million fewer smartphones than its rival, research firm Strategy Analytics said on Friday.
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As part of its corporate goal to meet the demands of a changing marketplace, Onkyo today announced a strategic alliance with TEAC.
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Samsung Electronics on Friday reported a record
operating profit of 5.3 trillion won ($4.72 billion)
in the fourth quarter, thanks largely to booming
smartphone sales.
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Thursday, January 26, 2012
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) plans to create an application that would allow it to better mine social media content, in an attempt to more accurately identify, target and fight threats in real-time.
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Google is taking bird's eye view to a whole new level
with the latest version of Google Earth, released
today.
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NVIDIA today released a new version of its CUDA
parallel computing platform, which will make it easier
for researchers and engineers to advance their
simulations and computational work by using GPUs.
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Apple could be working on a new touchscreen universal remote control that works with your TV. The company has filed a patent for such a device last year, according to AppleInsider.
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RealNetworks has signed an agreement to sell a significant number of its patents and its next generation video codec software to Intel for a purchase price of $120 million.
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According to the latest research from Strategy
Analytics, global tablet shipments reached 27 million
units in the fourth quarter of 2011. Android jumped to
a record 39 percent global share, while Apple iOS
maintained its strong leadership at 58 percent.
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Western Digital will demonstrate the fast data transfer rates of its upcoming My Book Thunderbolt Duo dual-drive storage system at the Macworld/iWorld show.
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Toshiba is aiming at making e-readers popular in Japan with the release of the Android-based BookPlace DB50.
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Nintendo posted a 61 percent drop in quarterly
operating profit on Thursday and forecasted an operating loss for the year to March. The company also confirmed plans to launch Wii U along with Nintendo Network - an online platform similar to that of the Xbox 360 and the PS3 - in time for the year-end shopping season.
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Sony's 'CLEFIA,' cryptography technique was adopted as
one of the ISO/IEC 29192 International Standards in
lightweight cryptography.
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HP today began executing its plan to deliver an open
webOS by committing to a schedule for making the
platform?s source code available under an open source
license.
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Samsung Electronics has fully incorporated S-LCD, its
joint venture with Sony established in 2004, as one of
its fully-owned subsidiaries.
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LG said Thursday that it would release a new 5-inch
smart device, which will combine the charatceristics
of a smartphone and a tablet computer.
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Motorola Mobility has filed a new lawsuit against Apple accusing the company of infringing its technology patents.
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Symantec aknowledged the risks of using its pcAnywhere software for accessing remote PCs due to known vulnerability risks.
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Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), an Amazon.com company , today announced the AWS Storage Gateway, a service that provides enterprises with a new option to upload data to the AWS cloud.
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Despite the excitement surrounding the introduction of active matrix organic light emitting diode (AMOLED) TVs at this month's CES, global shipments of the sets will be limited during the next few years because of high prices caused by manufacturing challenges and expensive materials.
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The European Commission has today proposed a reform of the EU's 1995 data protection rules to strengthen online privacy rights and boost Europe's digital economy.
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LG Electronics announced today that sales of its Optimus LTE smartphone have exceeded over one million units.
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Over the next few weeks, every Facebook user will get
timeline as Facebook will start requiring people to switch to the new profile format.
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Toshiba today announced the latest status of the resumption of manufacturing at Toshiba Group facilities in Thailand, in the aftermath of the flooding that inundated the country last year.
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Google has started alerting users of its products that
it's changing the way it treats users' data, combining
even more information it knows about them from all of
its products, from Gmail to YouTube.
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NVIDIA today announced that it expects revenue for the
fourth quarter ending Jan. 29, 2012, to be lower than
the company's previous outlook, saying it has been hit
by a shortage of hard drives.
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Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) reported a fourth-quarter
net loss Tuesday on weak sales of graphics chips and
charges related to a restructuring.
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Apple's quarterly results blew past Wall Street's
expectations after U.S. consumers purchased
unprecedented numbers of iPhones and iPads.
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Dell OEM Solutions division will offer customizable, integrated systems based on SUSE Linux Enterprise with services and support for its customers worldwide.
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Strangeloop, a Vancoover company that provides website acceleration solutions, today announced a commercial product that automatically offers the benefits of Google's experimental SPDY protocol without requiring changes to the site owner's code or servers.
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Apple has lost a bid on Tuesday to have Samsung Galaxy
Tab 10.1 tablet computer banned in the Netherlands in
a Dutch appeals case over infringing copyrights of its
iPad tablet computer.
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Google's researchers claims that they will speed up the Internet by improving the transport layer of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) protocol.
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Popular open source content management system (CMS)
Joomla has just released Joomla 2.5. Along with new
features such as advanced search and automatic
notification of Joomla core and extension updates, the
Joomla CMS for the first time includes multi-database
support with the addition of Microsoft SQL Server.
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B&O PLAY, Bang & Olufsen?s new brand, has announced
its first product offering, the Beolit 12 portable
music system.
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Other World Computing (OWC) will showcase its new OWC
Mercury Enterprise Pro 6G Solid State Drive at
Macworld.
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File-sharing site The Pirate Bay is expanding its reach into letting users download "physical objects"
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The Australian Communications and Media Authority
(ACMA) have fined Nokia A$55,000 ($58,000) for
spamming customers and said the Finnish company should
change its text message (SMS) marketing.
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Hewlett-Packard will pay US$425,000 to settle a claim
that it knowingly sold laptops with hazardous
batteries that could overheat or catch fire, the U.S.
Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced
Monday.
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Although Texas Instruments reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter chip sales, the company will close older factories to cut costs.
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Western Digital today reported revenue of $2.0
billion, hard-drive unit shipments of 28.5 million and
net income of $145 million, or $0.61 per share, for
its second fiscal quarter ended Dec. 30, 2011.
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Google+ is set to finally allow users to create accounts using pseudonyms, although the company will still require users to prove their identity behind their pseudonym.
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Elpida Memory, Inc. today announced the development of
its first high-speed non-volatile resistance memory
(ReRAM) prototype.
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