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Yesterday we introduced a new version of our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service that will take effect in thirty days. These two documents help communicate as clearly as possible our relationship wit...
Samsung drops Apple injunctions in Europe
Samsung has today announced it will drop its inunction requests against Apple for standards-essential patent infringement in Germany, the UK, France, Italy and the Netherlands. In a statement given t...
iOS 6 Adoption Grows 29% Over The Weekend As People Finally Update After Google Maps Arrives
Apple Maps was so bad that people refused to upgrade to iOS 6 until they could get Google Maps, says data from massive mobile ad exchange MoPub. The 12,000 apps it supports saw a 29 percent increase ...
Samsung unveils new 5-inch dual-SIM Galaxy Grand, with dual-core 1.2GHz processor and 8MP camera
Adding yet another Galaxy S III (or maybe Note) clone to its collection of Android smartphones, Samsung today launched its new Galaxy Grand handset, offering a dual 1.2 GHz processor …
How spyware on rental PCs captured users' most intimate moments
Enlarge / As Brian Byrd played poker using a PC purchased from an Aaron's rent-to-own store, PC Rental Agent surreptitiously captured this screen shot. It is one of hundreds of thousands of images si...
Foxconn Workers Say, ‘Keep Our Overtime’
SHENZHEN, China—Nets to catch would-be jumpers still sag ominously from Hon Hai Precision Industry Co.'s buildings. — But two years after a spate of suicides at the Apple Inc. supplier's campus here...
Google Antitrust Decision by FTC Delayed Until Next Year
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will delay a final decision on how to resolve its 20-month antitrust investigation of Google Inc. (GOOG) until next year, said two people familiar with the situ...
Microsoft, Motorola millions apart on royalty payment case
(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp and Google Inc's Motorola phone unit remain millions of dollars apart in their respective valuations of video and wi-fi patents at issue in a pivotal case before a federal j...
No, Let's Talk About Video Game Violence
Gaming's soul is sick. And gamers hate talking about it. — Adam Lanza was a gamer. — This fact has been reported, re-reported, and rehashed to the extent that it's now part of the killer's capsul...
DARPA begins work on 100Gbps wireless tech with 120-mile range
DARPA has begun development of a wireless communications link that is capable of 100 gigabits per second over a range of 200 kilometers (124mi). Officially dubbed “100 Gb/s RF Backbone” (or 100G for ...
Report: data caps just a “cash cow” for Internet providers
Why do so many Americans now live with Internet data caps—and what are these caps doing to the future of broadband? Those are the questions posed by a new paper from the New America Foundation, which...
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Apple Wins Ruling in Motorola Mobility Patent Case at ITC
Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s iPhone didn't violate patent rights owned by Google Inc. (GOOG)'s Motorola Mobility for a sensor that prevents accidental hang-ups, a U.S. International Trade Commission judge said...
Tor: An Anonymous, And Controversial, Way to Web-Surf
For more than four years, William Weber has helped run a free service called Tor that makes Web surfing anonymous for anyone. — Then on Nov. 28, the police showed up at the 20-year-old's home in Gra...
Instagram's latest app update fixed my biggest pet peeve, and people hate it
As a long time user of Instagram, I have come to loathe a certain thing that people do on the service. No, it's not duckface or Throwback Thursdays. It's not even the fact that most people will neve...
Letterpress 1.2 Brings HTML5 Replay Feature
Loren Brichter's Letterpress is my favorite iOS game. It's no surprise that the game has been adopted so quickly and listed by Apple as a runner-up for Game of the Year on the “Best of App Store” lis...
German privacy regulator orders Facebook to end its real name policy
Facebook said it would vigorously fight the order — A German privacy regulator ordered Facebook to stop enforcing its real name policy because it violates a German law that gives users the right to ...
Trustonic: a way for mobile apps to benefit from ARM's hardware-level security
This here narrative begins back in April, when ARM, Giesecke & Devrient and Gemalto teamed up and gave themselves precisely nine months in which to find the perfect brand name for their newly merged m...
Sony Yuga phablet prototype detailed, boasts 5-inch full HD display
Sony's Yuga smartphone has been rumored for awhile now, and we've seen it pop up on various parts of the Internet, including on the German website Android Schweiz on November 2. Now the smartphone ha...
Xbox introduces SportsPicks app, new SmartGlass experience for ESPN, NBA
For sports fans, the Xbox was once just a device for scoring touchdowns on Madden or making birdies with Tiger Woods. — But as Microsoft continues to turn the Xbox into an entertainment hub, its spo...
Tumblr for Android adds support for tablets, as the wait continues for iPad owners
Tumblr has pushed an update to its Android app that brings support for tablet devices, such as Google's Nexus 7. That's a nice win for Android since it wasn't long ago that newer devices — like said ...
Sony confirms 10 of its Xperia range will get Jelly Bean from February 2013, 4 will miss out
Sony has provided an update on where it stands on providing Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) updates for its Xperia family of devices, reiterating that most of the smartphones will be upgraded within the firs...