IDG News Service-Samsung's Galaxy Tab 7.7 was banned in Europe by the higher court of DA>>A3AY=A!A$?orf on Tuesday because it found the tablet infringes on Apple's design rights and looks too much like the iPad. The appeals court also ...
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Twitter is teaming with NBC to make it easier for users to take in all the tweets about the upcoming Olympic Games. NBC Olympics , an arm of the NBC Sports Group, announced this week that Twitter will gather tweets about the London 2012 ...
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Electronic Arts and nine other game developers are being sued by Uniloc which claims that some of their Android applications infringe a patent for preventing unauthorized access to electronic data Uniloc has claimed for example that ...
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Close your eyes and think of the cloud.Odds are Amazon quickly comes to mind--for good reason.By some estimates,Amazon Web Services holds 70 percent of the IaaS(infrastructure as a service)market,providing compute,storage,and networking ...
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Microsoft on Thursday released code for its Entity Framework database mapping tool via open source in an effort to increase transparency. The move is being handled by Microsoft Open Technologies,a company subsidiary launched in April to ...
Government-sponsored cybercriminals are using hacking techniques to steal commercial secrets from businesses,KPMG has warned. Confidential information,including product designs and bid documents,are at risk from states seeking to win ...
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Twitter plans to appeal a ruling to turn over the once-public tweets of an Occupy Wall Street protester charged with disorderly conduct, a case the company says threatens the First Amendment rights of its users. A New York Criminal Court ...
It has been revealed that the London Eye will host a lightshow powered by tweets every evening during the Olympics and Paralympics. Taking place every evening at 9pm,the lightshow will be a reflection of 24 hours'worth of Olympic-related ...
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Bank of America topped a list of 23 large or regional banks to be named the best in online customer experience best practices in consumer banking by Keynote Competitive Research. Additionally, Keynote said BB&T ranked number one in a bank ...
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IDG News Service-Attorneys general from 24 states on Thursday announced they have reached settlement agreements with LCD makers LG Display,AU Optronics and Toshiba,who will pay close to$571 million end the price-fixing case against them. ...
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IDG News Service - The U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration's first step toward developing a consensus on mobile privacy standards may be the wrong step, privacy advocates said. The NTIA's first multistakeholder ...
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The news-sharing website Digg will be acquired by technology investment firm Betaworks, according to blog posts put out by both companies. Betaworks paid $500,000 for the social media pioneer that once secured $45 million in financial ...
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Train operator Eurotunnel, which runs Le Shuttle, is using business analytics applications built with QlikView, to analyse data from its SAP system. QlikView is being used by the sales team to help Eurotunnel Le Shuttle understand its ...
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Computerworld-Smartphone owners plan to vote for President Barack Obama by a wide margin over those favoring GOP rival Mitt Romney for president,according to a recent Harris Interactive survey of 776 smartphone owners. If the election ...
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Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom has offered to do a deal with U.S. prosecutors, who are seeking his extradition from New Zealand to the U.S. "Hey DOJ, we will go to the US. No need for extradition. We want bail, funds unfrozen for lawyers & ...
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