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According to the Department of Justice, Taiwan-based HannStar Display , a maker of liquid crystal displays, has pleaded guilty to participating in a global conspiracy to fix prices of the displays. ... More >
PCWorld.com reports that recently unsealed court documents show that Dell has been accused of selling thousands of its OptiPlex PCs despite knowing the machines contained faulty components . ... More >
Amazon.com had uptime problems yesterday, which is just a convoluted way of saying it was down for several hours. The shopping site seems to be working now. TechCrunch reported it was switch... More >
Alcatel-Lucent has acquired ProgrammableWeb, which hosts an on-line directory of over 2,000 open Web APIs, for an undisclosed price, reports Computerworld . ReadWriteCloud says Programmab... More >
Google has announced it will stop automatically redirecting searches to Hong Kong as it tries to renew its Internet Content Provider license in China, reports The New York Times . Without that lic... More >
Microsoft is facing a patent-infringement lawsuit from Salesforce.com, Computerworld reports. Salesforce claims that a number of Microsoft products, including its .NET platform and SharePoint coll... More >
According to Computerworld , the U.S. International Trade Commission is investigating four patent complaints filed against Apple by computer graphics hardware maker S3 Graphics. S3 claims t... More >
Cisco has announced plans to invest $1 billion over the next decade in Russia, specifically to transform the town of Skolkovo into a technology and innovation hub, reports Palo Alto Online . ... More >
BlackBerry sales in its most recent quarter disappointed Wall Street and stock in its parent, Research in Motion, dropped as much as 8 percent in early trading Friday, reports Bloomberg . RI... More >
Oracle reported profits rose 25 percent in its fiscal fourth quarter, aided by a return to corporate spending and its acquisition of Sun Microsystems. In the earnings call, CEO Larry Ellison reitera... More >
Hewlett-Packard has bought music streaming company Melodeo, a competitor to Lala, which Apple recently acquired, reports TechCrunch . The purchase price was not made public. It describes Mel... More >
Following an out-of-court settlement with Microsoft in a patent-infringement case, VirnetX says that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has found the patents at issue valid and enforceable , rep... More >
A judge has dismissed Viacom's $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against Google's video-sharing site YouTube. According to Computerworld , Judge Louis L. Stanton of the U.S. District Court... More >
Creative Suite 5 provided a much-needed boost to Adobe Systems' bottom line, boosting sales and profit, reports SiliconValley.com . Creative Suite 5, which includes design software such as Photosh... More >
AMD has launched its Opteron 4100 line of low-power chips for cloud computing servers, including one that costs just $99, reports Computerworld . The chips come with either four cores or six. ... More >
The Federal Communications Commission has approved AT&T's $2.35 billion purchase of assets from Verizon Wireless, reports Reuters . Verizon was required to divest the assets as part of its $28... More >
As users flocked to Facebook in 2009, so did advertisers, bringing Facebook revenue of as much as $800 million, reports Reuters in a story on ABC News. Last July, Facebook board member Mar... More >
Private equitiy firm Silverlake Partners had bought one of Intel's data centers and plans to develop an 18-acre site in Santa Clara, Calif., as a data center campus as part of a company called Vant... More >
When Motorola splits into two companies next February, it plans to buy back most of its debt and pump the bulk of its remaining cash -- $3 billion to $4 billion -- into its cell phone business, ... More >
Microsoft is returning to its Iowa data center project, though it's been vastly scaled back, according to InformationWeek. In 2008, the company announced plans to build a $500 million data center... More >
Flash memory array maker Violin Memory has bought out the technology assets of high-end NAS vendor Gear6, which has fallen on hard times, reports The Register. Financial details were not disclose... More >
Consona has acquired ERP vendor Compiere, which is both cloud-based and open-source, for an undisclosed price, according to an IDG story in BusinessWeek . Consona said it found Compiere's te... More >
The National Music Publishers’ Association says eight music publishers have filed suit against LimeWire , alleging copyright infringement, according to a New York Times article on boston.com. &nbs... More >
Unable to compete with the likes of Facebook and Twitter, AOL has made a deal to sell its social-networking site Bebo to turnaround specialist Criterion Capital Partners, according to The Wall St... More >
An outage that began Tuesday making Intuit’s accounting and tax software inaccessible has left thousands of small businesses in the lurch, reports Barron's. Not surprisingly, customers are ticke... More >
The U.S. government has joined an earlier complaint filed by Oracle employee Paul Frascella for allegedly overcharging the government by millions of dollars . Computerworld reports that the ... More >
IBM has two acquisitions in the works. It's buying Web analytics company company Coremetrics, whose "software portfolio includes Web and mobile analytics, targeted e-mail and advertising tracking a... More >
According to a press release , RPost and Swiss Post have settled their legal dispute. In March , RPost, which provides legal proof of e-mail transmissions, sued the Swiss post office for pate... More >
The U.S. International Trade Commission has agreed to investigate HTC's allegations that Apple's iPhone technology infringes on some of its patents, according to V3.co.uk . The ITC says: The produc... More >
A judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah has ruled against SCO and granted Novell's request for declaratory judgment , according to Computerworld . The judgment follows a ... More >
Research in Motion and Motorola have settled their legal actions with a cross-licensing agreement to share intellectual property on a range of patents. The dispute began in 2008 , when RIM an... More >
ComScore's May report on search market share shows gains by Yahoo and Bing and a decline for Google, but the audience measurement company says there have been some tricks involved, reports TechCru... More >
According to Computerworld , Google has filed a motion with the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation to consolidate the eight "Wi-Fi" lawsuits it is facing into one, and for that single... More >
An undersea cable stretching 17,000 kilometers (more than 10,000 miles) from France to South Africa, will provide Internet access to 20 countries in western Africa including Mauritania, Gabon and ... More >
Twitter adds analytics with its acquisition of Smallthought Systems, whose product Trendly tracks real-time changes and user trends for Web site owners, according to The New York Times . Terms of ... More >
Hewlett-Packard will buy the HyperSpace, HyperCore and Phoenix Flip virtualization software lines from Phoenix Technologies for $12 million, reports Network World . It calls HyperSpace a Li... More >
Akamai has acquired Velocitude, a company that uses cloud computing to deliver content to smartphones, reports NewTeeVee . Terms of the deal, which will allow Akamai to fit all sorts of websites o... More >
As it reasserts its right to control the Internet within its borders, China has begun licensing map makers , which could spell the end of Google and other online map sites, reports CNET News . &... More >
According to Computerworld , EDS has agreed to pay a whopping $460 million to settle a long-standing lawsuit filed by U.K.-based British Sky Broadcasting Group over a failed customer relationship ... More >
In a 31-page policy paper released Wednesday, China declared sovereignty over cyberspace within its borders and defended its tight control over it, reports Voice of America . It demands that its p... More >
Handset maker HTC has acquired Abaxia, a French company that operators and phone makers use to design screens on mobile phones, reports Venture Beat . The deal is reportedly valued at around $13 m... More >
LimeWire lawyers have two weeks to respond to a motion filed Friday by the Recording Industry Association of America to close down the file-sharing site, reports CNET News . Last month, U.S.... More >
Microsoft plans to ditch the Bing Cashback feature that offered users cash for using the search engine to make purchases, reports InformationWeek . It's saying people just didn't warm up to it. PCW... More >
Yahoo is furthering its integration with Facebook, reports v3.co.uk . It explains: The integration also means that Facebook news feeds, contacts and 'like' functions can be viewed in the user's sa... More >
According to Datamation , the Israel-based firm BackWeb Technologies has reached a settlement with Microsoft over patent infringement. Last year , the company filed suit against Microsoft ... More >
Google says there is no relation between a 2008 patent application and the current privacy debacle over its Street View vehicles sniffing information from unsecured wireless networks, reports Comp... More >
Two reports by IDC, on global server sales and the storage market, showed both bouncing back in the first quarter. Server revenue reached $10.4 billion in the quarter, up 4.7 percent over the... More >
A class-action suit filed by an Oregon woman and a Washington man has been amended to claim that Google's secret Wi-Fi snooping was powered by new sniffing technology that the company wants to paten... More >
Microsoft officially opened a cloud computing center in Taiwan on Thursday in conjunction with Taiwan's economics ministry, reports InfoWorld . Its first project: Collaboration with laptop m... More >
California's Marin County has filed suit against Deloitte Consulting over an allegedly botched SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) project, reports Computerworld . The $30 million suit a... More >
According to figures from iSupply, the crown for being the No.1 supplier of hard-disk drives goes to Western Digital, which now prefers to be called WD, according to eWEEK . WD shipped 51.1... More >
Foxconn, the giant electronics manufacturer that has been in the spotlight for a series of suicides at its plant in southern China, plans to increase wages by 30 percent, reports PCWorld.com . &nb... More >
All Things Digital has confirmed Google's acquisition of Invite Media, whose platform helps buyers of display advertising navigate high-volume exchanges like the one Google already has. All Things... More >
Google is facing a lawsuit by a Los Angeles woman who was struck by a car after following Google Maps directions. According to ChannelWeb , Lauran Rosenberg claims that Google should have kn... More >
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