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Three ‘flavours’ for Microsoft’s Windows 8 OS

04/17/2012

Microsoft's next operating system will come in just three different flavours, the company has announced...more

Stock Split for Google That Cements Control at the Top

04/17/2012

“It’s stupid,” Larry Page, Google’s co-founder and chief executive, exclaimed about the prospect of splitting the company’s shares. “If you own 10 shares at $40 or one share at $400, it’s the same thing! You just need to know how to divide"...more

Oracle and Google’s Android copyright row trial begins

04/16/2012

Oracle's claim that Google violated several of its patents and copyrights goes to trial in a San Francisco court on Monday...more

Google Is Faulted for Impeding U.S. Inquiry on Data Collection

04/16/2012

When Google first revealed in 2010 that cars it was using to map streets were also sweeping up sensitive personal information from wireless home networks, it called the data collection a mistake. On Saturday, federal regulators charged that Google had “deliberately impeded and delayed” an investigation into the data collection and ordered a $25,000 fine on the search giant...more

Apple releases tool to combat Flashback malware

04/13/2012

Apple has released a fresh Java update that it says removes the Flashback Trojan on infected Macintosh computers...more

Facebook Offers More Disclosure to Users

04/13/2012

Facebook, seeking to address concerns about the personal information it collects on its users, said Thursday that it would provide any user with more about the data it tracks and stores...more

Google+ revamped with Facebook and Twitter-like features

04/12/2012

Google has unveiled a revamp of its social network, Google+, borrowing heavily from rival networks Twitter and Facebook...more

Cut in E-Book Pricing by Amazon Is Set to Shake Rivals

04/12/2012

The government’s decision to pursue major publishers on antitrust charges has put the Internet retailer Amazon in a powerful position: the nation’s largest bookseller may now get to decide how much an e-book will cost, and the book world is quaking over the potential consequences...more

Facebook Plays Offense and Defense in a Single Deal

04/11/2012

Is it crazy for Facebook, a start-up that has not yet even gone public, to be throwing $1 billion at Instagram, an even younger start-up?...more

Apple develops tool to ‘detect and remove’ Flashback Trojan

04/11/2012

Apple has said it is developing a tool to "detect and remove" a Trojan that is said to have infected more than half a million Mac computers...more

Microsoft buys and licenses AOL patents in $1bn deal

04/10/2012

Microsoft is buying the majority of AOL's patents in a deal worth $1.06bn (£668m)...more

Facebook to Buy Photo-Sharing Service Instagram for $1 Billion

04/10/2012

Instagram, an Internet start-up in San Francisco, has no revenue and about a dozen employees. It has not yet celebrated its second birthday. But to Facebook, it is already worth a billion dollars...more

Half a million Mac computers ‘infected with malware’

04/09/2012

More than half a million Apple computers have been infected with the Flashback Trojan, according to a Russian anti-virus firm...more

Spam Invades a Last Refuge, the Cellphone

04/09/2012

Text message spam has started waking Bob Dunnell in the middle of the night, promising cheap mortgages, credit cards and drugs. Some messages offer gift cards to, say, Walmart, if he clicks on a Web site and enters his Social Security numberText message spam has started waking Bob Dunnell in the middle of the night, promising cheap mortgages, credit cards and drugs. Some messages offer gift cards [leer más]

AOL selling patents to Microsoft in $1 billion deal

04/09/2012

AOL said early Monday that it was selling hundreds of patents to Microsoft Corp. for more than $1 billion, sending shares of AOL surging in premarket trading...more