Antitrust: Commission seeks feedback on commitments offered by Google to address competition concerns
The European Commission invites comments from interested parties on commitments offered by Google in relation to online search and search advertising. The Commission has concerns …
China court fines Apple $118K for copyright breach
Summary: A Beijing court has ordered Apple to compensate three Chinese writers for selling their works via its app store without getting their permission. — Kevin Kwang — Apple will have to compen...
LinkedIn Turns Its Contacts Section Into A Personal Assistant
Make way for another major update to the LinkedIn platform: today the company is relaunching its Contacts section as a smart contact management system …
Nokia Plans May 14 London Event to Talk About Its Next Windows Phones
Nokia is planning to hold a May 14 press conference in London to talk about where it is headed with its Lumia line of Windows Phones. — An invitation to journalists on Thursday offered few details.
Strategy Analytics: 3 million Windows tablets shipped in Q1 2013
Microsoft may not be talking about how many of its Surface tablets it has shipped or sold since the Surface RT launched in late October. However, a report claims that three million Windows-based tabl...
Google: government censorship requests jumped 20% in last six months
Google has published its latest Transparency Report and the results are not encouraging for free speech advocates: governments around the world are asking to remove more content than ever before.
MacBook Pro declared ‘best performing’ Windows laptop
A PC services company placed Apple computers in the No.1 and No. 6 slots as the best performing Windows laptops. — The MacBook Pro 13 was rated the best performing Windows laptop. One of the bigges...
Pirate Bay Finds Safe Haven in Iceland, Switches to .IS Domain
It has been a busy month for The Pirate Bay's IT department thus far, with the site skipping from domain to domain. — Two weeks ago the notorious BitTorrent site traded in its .SE domain for the Gre...
Yahoo's Chairman Is Out Because Marissa Mayer Was Not His First Choice For CEO
Yahoo just announced that chairman Fred Amoroso will step down in June. — We've communicated with three Yahoo sources since the news broke. — Given what they told us, we think this is why Amoroso ...
Solar Chargers Advance in Mobile Device Market
WHETHER you're comparing restaurant menus while sitting in the park or turning on the air-conditioner before getting home, life is becoming increasingly mobile thanks to smartphones and tablets. And ...
Court Denies Motorola the Billions It Wanted From Microsoft for Standards-Essential Patents
A federal court in Seattle issued a ruling Thursday that could help settle the question of just how much a company can expect to reap from standards-essential patents. — Source: Microsoft
IHS: Expect 9.4 million ‘smart’ glasses units shipped by 2016
Summary: Are “smart” glasses the new wave of mobile? Based on the fervor around Google Glass, IHS analysts seem to think so. — The pending launch of “smart” glasses as a new mobile category might n...
In the Wired World, Feeds Drive Trading
When the words “explosions” and “White House” popped up Tuesday on a verified Associated Press Twitter account, computers in the bare-bones offices of a New York City startup sprang into action. — T...
LG promises smartphone with flexible OLED display this year
In a call discussing the company's recent financial results, LG announced it will introduce a smartphone with a flexible OLED screen in the fourth quarter of this year. The company's vice president o...
McAfee Patents Technology to Detect and Block Pirated Content
For years copyright holders have urged search engines and Internet providers to make it harder for users to access infringing content online. — Thus far these efforts have been in vain, but anti-vir...
A Messenger for the Internet of Things
The vision of the Internet of Things is inspiring, if much-hyped. Billions of digital devices, from smartphones to sensors in homes, cars and machines of all kinds, will communicate with each other t...
Exclusive: Yahoo's Marissa Mayer Officially Joins Jawbone Board
As I had reported last fall that she might, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has officially joined the board of Jawbone, the high-profile wireless gadget maker whose nifty products include Jawbone wireless hea...
MightyText, “The iMessage for Android,” Targets iCloud With New Cross-Device Photo And Video Sync
Today, our lives are spread across a growing array of digital devices, from smartphones and laptops to tablets and connected TVs. While each device tends to perform certain tasks better than others …
Digg Owner Betaworks Buys Instapaper To Go Big On Social Reading And Discovery
Last summer, New York-based hybrid investor / incubator / holding company thing Betaworks acquired social news site Digg and relaunched it soon after, hoping to bring back some of its mojo in the proc...
Fifth Amendment shields child porn suspect from decrypting hard drives
A federal judge refused to compel a Wisconsin suspect to decrypt the contents of several hard drives because doing so would violate the man's Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.