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The Federal Trade Commission is looking at it as a possible breach of antitrust laws, but Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google, is adamant that he won’t quit his position on the board of Apple. Schmidt said: "If there are issues on competitiveness, I recuse myself." And those issues are definitely there, given that Google has the Chrome and Android OS, while Apple offers Safari – he also leaves the boardroom when talk… Read More

The number of people in the UK going online from their PCs is slowing, while the figures are soaring for mobile Internet use, according to a new survey conducted by Nielsen Online. The figure for PC users accessing the Net grew by just 3% in the second and third quarters, while for mobile users the numbers soared by 25%, for a total of 7.3 million people, according to the BBC. The most popular sites for mobile users was BBC News,… Read More

It was supposed to begin in April, but was put on hold, supposedly for technical reasons. It’s drawn a massive fallout of criticism and it’s being investigated by the European Commission. But now British Telecom (BT) is going ahead with its third trial of the Phorm ad-serving technology, known as Webwise. Those taking Phorm will get a unique identifier that tracks their browsing habits online and targets ads to them, according to… Read More

Since it signed up three British ISPs – BT, Virgin, and CarphoneWarehouse – to a trial of its online ad system, Phorm has been coming under fire.   The idea itself is very clever, as it matches a user’ssurfing habits with ad channels in order to produce personally targeted ads, using keywords in the sites visited.   However, although Phorm has been praised by some for its data protection, itwas rapped at a meeting for… Read More

Antivirus and security vendor McAfee is one o more than 100 U.S. companies (including Apple and Dell) to have been investigated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in regard to option backdating, a practice whereby stock options granted to executives and employees are backdated in a way which makes the grant most advantageous to the employees. There's nothing illegal about backdating, per se, so long as its impact on a… Read More

AT&T is exclusively offering the Pantech Duo smartphone, combining Windows Mobile 6 functionality with a slim profile and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard for mobile messaging needs. AT&T characterizes the Duo as a “new breed of mobile handset,” meeting both business and lifestyle mobile needs. The phone is also one of AT&T's first Windows Mobile 6 devices, although the carrier has a large stable of products running… Read More

Recent revelations of stolen and missing laptops from corporations and government agencies—some of which have carried personal information on millions of Americans—has strengthened demands for data security technologies…particularly for notebooks and other portable systems. To that end, drive maker Seagate announced today that it is shipping its Momentus 5400 FDE.2 drive to ASI Computer Technology for use in the… Read More

SpiralFrog, a new digital music service, announced today that it plans to launch a music download service which will make Vivendi Universal's music catalog available for free, legal download in the United States and Canada. Universal is home to some of the world's top-selling music acts, including Irish supergroup U2, as well as pop diva Gwen Stefani and “indie” sensation The Killers. SpiralFrog expects to enter a… Read More

From the press release: “Yahoo! is one of the most recognized and well-respected brands in the world, and Diamond Electronics is pleased to be able to license the equity of the Yahoo! brand for our consumer electronics products,” said Russell Herring, vice president and general manager of Diamond Electronics. “These products will be very stylish, high-quality and reasonably priced, with cutting-edge features and designs… Read More

Effective August 30 in the U.S. market, the 50-photo* (32-megabyte) card, priced previously at $14.99, now has a suggested retail price of $9.99. The price of a 100-photo* (64MB) Shoot & Store card has been reduced from $24.99 to $14.99. These price changes are being applied throughout the Shoot & Store product lineup, which consists of CompactFlash(R), SD(TM), Memory Stick PRO(TM) and, in the next 30 days, xD-Picture Card(TM) (in… Read More

NVIDIA Corporation today announced that its top-to-bottom family of PCI Express graphics processing units (GPUs) are now being offered with the industry's leading PCI Express motherboards from AOpenInc., ASUSTeK, Gigabyte Technology, and MSI. Together with its partners, NVIDIA is helping to push the visual envelope and deliver seamless multimedia experiences with cinematic-quality graphics atits core. "We believe PCI Express bundles… Read More

The suits were part of a new round of legal action by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), which has filed 341 lawsuits since it launched a crackdown against individuals in September. The association filed 41 new lawsuits this week and sent 90 lawsuit-notification letters to those targeted for legal action. The RIAA said the Washington residents being sued were allegedly sharing thousands of songs online illegally,… Read More