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Motorola wins iCloud injunction in Germany, forces Apple to pull some iPhones, iPads
It's been a big day for Motorola in its legal battles with Apple—at least in Germany. The Mannheim Regional Court has granted Motorola a permanent injunction on the push email… →
Inside Facebook: What SEC documents reveal about the social-networking monolith
Facebook filing for an initial public stock offering isn't exactly a surprise, but it does provide a first-ever opportunity to look inside some of Facebook's business fundamentals. Guess what? Some… →
Google Maps draws fine in France for being free
Google has been ordered to pay a fine and damages to French mapping company Bottin Cartographes because it makes Google Maps available for free, undercutting companies that offer similar services… →
Resuscitating Sony: Why new CEO Kazuo Hirai has his work cut out for him
Sony has announced that former PlayStation chief Kazuo Hirai will be taking over as both president and CEO of Japanese electronics giant Sony, replacing former CBS executive Howard Stringer as… →
Amazon says Kindle sales tripled during holidays
Amazon.com has announced its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2011, and on the surface the numbers are rosey: sales were up 35 percent compared to a year ago… →
Ukraine shutters top file-sharing site
In the wake of the takedown of file-sharing site MegaUpload (and the ripple effect to sites like FileSonic and Uploaded.to), another popular file-sharing site has gone dark. Ukrainian police today… →
EU formally investigating Samsung; Galaxy tablets blocked in Germany
It hasn't been a good day for Samsung in its protracted, multinational patent battle with Apple: a German court has upheld (German) an injunction barring the sale of its Galaxy… →
Firefox 10 hits the streets
Mozilla has set loose Firefox 10, the latest version of its open-source Web browser for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. New features in the release are largely limited to… →
Apple picks Dixons’ John Browett as retail chief
Apple's famous retail stores are getting a new boss: the Cupertino company announced today that it is hiring John Browett to lead its retail operations. Browett has been the CEO… →
New DMARC email authentication aims to stop phishing
Email spam has been a problem for even longer than commercial activity has been permitted on the Internet, and thanks to botnet operators, scammers, and outright cybercriminals spam has ballooned… →
New Android malware? Or just an ad network?
Security firm Symantec raised eyebrows last week with a security notice about software it has dubbed Android.Counterclank, malware that the company claims can be found in over a dozen apps… →
Analyst: Amazon moved 6 million Kindle Fires over the holidays
Amazon has always kept sales figures for its Kindle product line under tight wraps, preferring only to gloat that the ereaders are its top-selling and top-gifted items. With the launch… →
Yahoo drops ten mobile apps
The industry is keeping a close eye on Yahoo as new CEO Scott Thompson comes up to speed and the company maybe looks to radically change its business structure now… →
Netherlands moves to block access to file-sharing sites
The Dutch government is moving to crack down on illegal file-sharing, but it's going after Internet service providers rather than individual file-sharers. A new proposal, due to be submitted to… →
Crack this: How to pick strong passwords and keep them that way
If there's one thing people associate with modern technology, it's passwords. They're everywhere, and most of us use them for dozens of things every day. Yet most people are shockingly… →
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