(Reuters) - Employers in California and Illinois will be prohibited from demanding access to workers' password-protected social networking accounts and teachers in Oregon will be required to report suspected student...
Monday, December 31, 2012
Zynga carries out planned games shutdown, including "Petville"
(Reuters) - Social games publisher Zynga Inc confirmed on Monday that it has carried out 11 of the planned shutdowns of 13 game titles, with "Petville" being the latest game on which it pulled the plu...
Angry Birds, YouTube among top apps of 2012
(Reuters) - Angry Birds, Instagram and Facebook continued to be among the most downloaded apps of the year but rising stars also earned coveted...
Microsoft gives Xbox Live users free month following outage
Microsoft is offering a free month of Xbox Live to subscribers affected by the company's Xbox Live and Cloud Saved Games outage over the weekend. XBL general...
Pakistan lifts YouTube ban, reinstates ban minutes later
When YouTube refused to take down a controversial video called "Innocence of Muslims" this summer, a small number of...
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Apple to drop patent claims against new Samsung phone
(Reuters) - Apple Inc has agreed to withdraw patent claims against a new Samsung phone with a high-end display after Samsung said it was not offering to sell the product in the crucial...
Exclusive: Huawei partner offered embargoed HP gear to Iran
(Reuters) - A major Iranian partner of Huawei Technologies offered to sell at least 1.3 million euros worth of embargoed Hewlett-Packard computer equipment to Iran's largest mobile-phone operator...
Amazon tops customer satisfaction survey for eighth straight year
A new report from ForeSee reveals that Amazon is once again the most popular online destination with regards to customer satisfaction. The store that claims...
IDC lowers semiconductor revenue outlook for 2012, 2013
IDC has lowered its outlook for global semiconductor revenue in 2012 and 2013. Previously, the outfit expected industry revenue...
Toshiba creating Lytro-like camera for smartphones and tablets
Toshiba is developing a new camera for mobile devices that will allow users to adjust the focus of shots after...
Saturday, December 29, 2012
Silicon Valley entrepreneur Krikorian quits Amazon board
(Reuters) - Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor Blake Krikorian has quit the board of Amazon.com Inc about a year and a half after joining to take up an unspecified role at the buyer of a company he owne...
Facebook Instagram use dived after photo fiasco: AppData
(Reuters) - Facebook Inc's Instagram lost almost a quarter of its daily users a week after it rolled out and then withdrew policy changes that incensed users who feared the photo-sharing service would use their...
OUYA ships developer consoles ahead of schedule
It’s a big day for fans of the Kickstarter-funded Ouya gaming console as we have learned that developer consoles are now shipping to early project backers. Those who laid down money for the console...
CMU wins $1.17 billion verdict against Marvell over HDD patents
Nine jurors have ordered Marvell to pay Carnegie Mellon University $1,169,140,271 in damages for infringing two hard...
Bug in Snapchat and Facebook Poke lets recipients save video files
A new bug has been discovered that allows the recipient of a Snapchat or Facebook Poke video to revisit and keep it forever without the sender ever knowing it. All that’s needed to...
Friday, December 28, 2012
Apple loses another copyright lawsuit in China: Xinhua
(Reuters) - A Chinese court has fined Apple Inc 1 million yuan ($160,400) for hosting third-party applications on its App Store that were selling pirated electronic books, the official Xinhua news agency...
Autonomy's Lynch defends record as HP confirms Federal probe
(Reuters) - Mike Lynch, the founder of the software firm sold to Hewlett-Packard last year in a deal tainted by accusations of accounting fraud, said he would defend the company's accounts to U.S. Federal...
Weekend Open Forum: What is your New Year's resolution?
We’re just a few days away from ringing in the New Year which of course means we all survived the Mayan apocalypse. And with that global catastrophe averted, it’s time to look ahead to 2013 with a fresh start. For many, that...
Blizzard abandons Diablo III Team Deathmatch mode
Blizzard game director Jay Wilson recently penned a post outlining the fact that there won’t be a Team Deathmatch mode for Diablo III – at least not anytime in the near future. The initial plan was to release...
Google outlines their top 12 Android apps of 2012
A new post in the Google Play store by merchandising manager Tavares Ford outlines the top 12 Android apps for 2012 in the eyes of the search giant. Those of you that picked up a new Android handset or tablet this...
Apple and Google activated 17 million devices on Christmas Day
Apple and Google likely have a lot to be happy about following this year’s holiday season. According to data recently released from mobile app analytics firm Flurry, the two companies combined to activate...
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Apple CEO's pay takes big hit vs. record 2011 package
(Reuters) - Apple Inc CEO Tim Cook's 2012 compensation package of $4.17 million is a huge cut on paper for the top executive of the most valuable U.S. corporation, after a 2011 package...
Analysis: For tech investors, it's hard to know when to bolt
(Reuters) - When Hewlett-Packard Co agreed to buy British software company Autonomy in August last year for $11.1 billion, two well-known investors made diametrically different bets on how the big deal would...
Hole in W3 Total Cache WordPress plugin exposes site database info
Security researcher Jason A. Donenfeld has revealed a security hole in a popular WordPress plugin that could...
Apple reportedly moving Mac mini production to the US
In a BusinessWeek interview earlier this month, Apple CEO Tim Cook confirmed plans to manufacturer some of the company's...
Samsung is planning to ship a half billion phones in 2013
A new report from The Korea Times points out that Samsung plans to increase handset shipments by 20 percent next year following a record-setting...
Apple and Intel rumored to be developing an iWatch for 2013
Apple and Intel are rumored to be working on a smartwatch that could be ready for production sometime in the first half of 2013. Some elements of this rumor do make sense from a business standpoint but...
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Analysis: Amazon's Christmas faux pas shows risks in the cloud
(Reuters) - A Christmas Eve glitch traced to Amazon.com Inc that shuttered Netflix for users from Canada to South America highlights the risks that companies take when they move their datacenter operations to the ...
Microsoft announces plans to open six new retail stores in 2013
Microsoft is planning to open six new retail stores in 2013 in addition to the 40 or so physical locations already spread across the country. It’s all part of an ongoing...
Instagram hit with class-action lawsuit following terms of service snafu
Instagram garnered a ton of negative publicity last week when the photo sharing service changed their terms of service to allow...
Rumor: Thinner, lighter next generation iPad coming in March 2013
The Apple rumor mill seemingly doesn’t take a break for the holidays as we are already hearing rumblings about what Cupertino’s...
Huawei executive shows off 6.1-inch smartphone ahead of CES reveal
Samsung’s Galaxy Note II currently holds the crown as the world’s largest smartphone with regards to screen size but that might not be the case for much longer. A recent report from Engadget sheds some light on Huawei’s upcoming 6.1-inch monstrosity known as the Ascend Mate before its official debt at the Consumer Electronics Show early next month. ...
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Carlyle takes on KKR in race for Reynolds and Reynolds: sources
(Reuters) - Private equity firms Carlyle Group LP and KKR & Co LP have emerged as the lead contenders to take over Reynolds and Reynolds, a software company hoping to sell itself for $5 billion, three people familiar with the matter sai...
China may require real name registration for internet access
(Reuters) - China may require internet users to register with their real names when signing up to network providers, state media said on Tuesday, extending a policy already in force with microblogs in a bid to curb what officials call rumors and vulgarit...
Netflix suffers Christmas Eve outage, points to Amazon
(Reuters) - An outage at one of Amazon's web service centers hit users of Netflix Inc.'s streaming video service on Christmas Eve and was not fully resolved until Christmas day, a spokesman for the movie rental...
Samsung Elec seeks U.S. sales ban on some Ericsson products
(Reuters) - Samsung Electronics said on Wednesday it had filed a complaint against Ericsson with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), requesting a U.S. import...
Monday, December 24, 2012
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Instagram furor triggers first class action lawsuit
(Reuters) - Facebook's Instagram photo sharing service has been hit with what appears to be the first civil lawsuit to result from changed service terms that prompted howls of protest last wee...
Mundie, one of Gates' successors, to retire from Microsoft
(Reuters) - Craig Mundie, one of two Microsoft Corp executives who took over Bill Gates' role at the company, has relinquished control of Microsoft's large research organization and is to retire from...
Apps to help achieve New Year's resolutions
(Reuters) - Whether it is improving health or managing finances better, about 87 percent of Americans will make resolutions for 2013 and there are plenty of apps to help them achieve their goal...
Wells Fargo Web site troubles persist, U.S. OCC issues cyber alert
(Reuters) - Wells Fargo & Co customers on Friday had trouble accessing the bank's Web site for a fourth day, as a federal regulator reiterated the need for banks to have systems in place to ward off cyber attack...
Acer may release $99 Iconia tablet
Following recent rumors of an Asus-made $99 Google Nexus 7, Acer is said to be prepping its own 7-inch, $99 tablet offering. The Wall Street Journal claims...
Analysis: Amazon, Google on collision course in 2013
(Reuters) - When Amazon.com Inc CEO Jeff Bezos got word of a project at Google Inc to scan and digitize product catalogs a decade ago, the seeds of a burgeoning rivalry were plante...
Sunday, December 23, 2012
HTC is planning to launch two unique Windows RT tablets in 2013
HTC is reportedly developing two Windows RT tablets that will debut sometime in 2013 according to sources familiar with the company’s...
Best Buy rolls out CinemaNow disc-to-digital program to use at home
Best Buy is now testing a program called CinemaNow that will convert your DVDs into digital movies from the comfort of your own home. The newly accessible videos are then added to your UltraViolet digital...
Spike in iOS 6 activity not related to Google Maps after all, says Chitika
Earlier this week several news outlets reported that iOS 6 adoption jumped 29 percent following the debut of the Google Maps app...
Weekend Open Forum: Technology predictions for 2013
Earlier this week, IBM shared what it expects to see over the next five years in technology, with several scientists predicting that computers will become more...
Outlook 2013 drops .XLS and .DOC from import, export features
On its Office blog, Microsoft announced several aging features to be whacked by the deprecation hammer in Outlook 2013. Amongst these imminent changes is the elimination of...
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