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Technology Is Never Neutral

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 ...

India Latest to Pump RIM for BlackBerry Access Info

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 ...

Samsung Gives 3D TV a Push

Samsung on Wednesday announced a portable Blu-ray disc player with 3D capabilities for the United States market ...

Rogue Android Devs Plant SMS-Crazy Trojan in App

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 ...

Verizon and Motorola Do the Droid Dance Again

Motorola and Verizon Wireless jointly announced the Droid 2 smartphone Tuesday, confirming weeks of speculation and leaks in the media ...

Dangerous Liaisons End Mark Hurd’s Tenure as HP CEO

HP Chairman, CEO and President Mark Hurd resigned Friday in a move that shocked the market ...

Telecoms Fret Over Bust-Up of FCC’s Net Neutrality Huddle

The Federal Communications Commission has reportedly ended a series of talks with major players in the Internet industry on the question of Net neutrality ...

Microsoft’s Mobile Morass, Part 2

Part 1 of this series discusses Microsoft's smartphone forays ...

Google Wave, We hardly Knew Ye

Google announced on Wednesday that it has killed off Google Wave, the sharing and communication Web app it kicked off last year ...

Kaspersky: Sham Certificates Pose Big Problem for Windows Security

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 ...

X Prize Foundation Seeks Oil Cleanup Breakthrough

Entrepreneurs, engineers and scientists worldwide are being offered US$1 million for developing a better way of cleaning up crude oil spills from oceans ...

Ballmer: The Windows 7 Tablet Will Have Its Day

Microsoft's tablet project is a top priority for the company, CEO Steve Baller told financial analysts at a presentation Thursday ...

Microsoft’s Mobile Morass, Part 1

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 ...

Hacker Makes ATMs Cough Up Cash Willy-Nilly

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 ...

Amazon Kindles Lose Weight, Pack On Features

Amazon has announced two new Kindle models, one with 3G and WiFi connectivity, the other offering WiFi access only ...

Adobe Gets Its Say on Microsoft’s MAPP Security Channel

Adobe has joined Microsoft's MAPP program, which provides members with information about security vulnerabilities before Microsoft releases its monthly patches ...

Google Gears Up for Government Work

Google on Tuesday unveiled Google Apps for Government. It also announced that Google Apps has received federal information security (FISMA) certification ...

Judge on DRM: Non-Pirates May Hack Away

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 ...

FCC Raises the Broadband Bar

The Federal Communications Commission has redefined broadband speeds as 4 Mbps (megabits per second) for downloads and 1 Mbps for uploads ...

New Amazon Kindle Deal Elbows Out Publishers

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 ...

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