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Facebook Accuses Yahoo of Infringing on Patents

04/04/2012

In responding to Yahoo’s lawsuit last month accusing Facebook of violating 10 patents, the social networking giant on Tuesday argued that Yahoo itself had committed transgressions of its own...more

Skype hires 400 staff but Yahoo may be set to axe 2,000

04/04/2012

Skype has announced plans to create about 400 new jobs across five cities...more

Trip Advisor adds its voice to Europe’s Google probe

04/03/2012

Holiday review site Trip Advisor has joined the swelling ranks of firms complaining to the European Commission about Google...more

On Facebook, Some Friendly Energy Rivalry

04/03/2012

So, would you stop washing your clothes in warm water if your best friend tried doing it in cold and said her jeans were coming out clean? Would you be more likely to weatherize your house if your college roommate said that it had cut her heating bill by 30 percent? And if your mom got one of those power strips that turn off devices that suck electricity in the middle of the night, would you do [leer más]

Pastebin to hire staff to tackle hackers’ ‘sensitive’ posts

04/02/2012

The owner of Pastebin.com says he plans to hire more staff to help police "sensitive information" posted to the site...more

Apple’s Chief Puts Stamp on Labor Issues

04/02/2012

A day after Timothy D. Cook, Apple’s chief executive, toured a Chinese factory where the company’s products are made, an audit commissioned by Apple criticized the long hours and dangerous working conditions at plants run by Foxconn, the operator of the factory Mr. Cook visited last week...more

Case Based in China Puts a Face on Persistent Hacking

03/30/2012

A breach of computers belonging to companies in Japan and India and to Tibetan activists has been linked to a former graduate student at a Chinese university — putting a face on the persistent espionage by Chinese hackers against foreign companies and groups...more

Blackberry-maker RIM plans new focus amid $125m loss

03/30/2012

Blackberry-maker Research in Motion (RIM) has said it plans to refocus its business back onto corporate customers...more

New U.S. Research Will Aim at Flood of Digital Data

03/29/2012

The federal government is beginning a major research initiative in big data computing. The effort, which will be announced on Thursday, involves several government agencies and departments, and commitments for the programs total $200 million...more

Testing row delays delivery of Raspberry Pi machines

03/29/2012

Confusion over how much testing Raspberry Pi computers need has caused fresh delivery delays...more

EU acts to end ‘rip off’ roaming charges

03/28/2012

By July this year mobile firms will be forced to lower the prices of making a call or downloading data abroad...more

A Surge in Learning the Language of the Internet

03/28/2012

Foreign languages tend to wax and wane in popularity, but the language du jour is computer code...more

Social Media Wallflowers

03/27/2012

While many consumer goods companies have embraced social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube as new avenues to reach customers, financial institutions, and especially private banks, have been reluctant...more

Google under fire in UK MPs report into privacy

03/27/2012

An influential group of UK lawmakers has called on Google to introduce an algorithm to remove search links found to be in breach of privacy - or face legislation to force it to do so...more

Microsoft Raids Tackle Internet Crime

03/26/2012

Microsoft employees, accompanied by United States marshals, raided two nondescript office buildings in Pennsylvania and Illinois on Friday, aiming to disrupt one of the most pernicious forms of online crime today — botnets, or groups of computers that help harvest bank account passwords and other personal information from millions of other computers...more