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China is stepping up efforts to keep the security systems that protect its critical infrastructure in the hands of local firms, and that could be bad news for companies based outside the country.
Is the Internet, with its blogs, tweets, e-mail, Web and social networking sites, a force to change places such as Iran, China, Vietnam and Russia into Western-style democracies with the West's ideas about freedom of expression and political rights?
Upcoming Microsoft, Google and Hewlett-Packard tablets might be too little competition, too late, analysts say. But consumers stand to benefit from competition driving down prices.
One year after the Conficker botnet was front-page news around the world, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is preparing a report looking at the worldwide effort to keep it in check.
The European Commission's decision to launch an antitrust investigation into Google Inc.'s activities has intensified that company's already heated competition with Microsoft Corp.
The U.S. Department of Justice has launched a new task force on intellectual property in an effort to crack down on a "growing number" of IP crimes in the U.S. and elsewhere, the agency announced.
Level 3's proposed $1.9 billion Global Crossing buyout will boost the carriers' global presence and enterprise services portfolio, though analysts say success is far from a sure thing.
In June, Apple shipped the iPhone 4 with front- and rear-facing cameras, and it added the FaceTime app for video calling. That same month, Sprint began shipping the HTC Evo 4G, its first 4G Android-based smartphone, which also featured front- and rear-facing cameras and the ability to make video calls with an app called Qik.
The U.K.'s domain name registry is examining its policies around suspending domain names, a move occasionally undertaken in order to prevent criminal activity on the Internet.
Microsoft Thursday said more than 240 million Windows 7 licenses have been sold during the first year of the operating system’s availability, a record the company says makes it the fastest selling OS in history.
Apple has delayed shipping new 27-in. iMacs until it can figure out the cause of flickering screens and other display problems, according to reports from authorized resellers.
There were a lot of rumors and expectations ahead of Apple's much-hyped music event yesterday. As expected, Apple unveiled a new touch-based iPod Nano, and an iPod Touch sporting the company's A4 processor, its super-high-resolution Retina display, and front and rear cameras offering HD video recording and video chat via FaceTime. There was also a new iPod Shuffle, which thankfully returns to the previous iteration's design with on-device buttons and a clip to make it wearable.
We asked the team at Perfect Apology to rate the quality of the apologies issued by top tech companies and executives this year (Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, among them) for their assorted mistakes and misdeeds. And yes, we did this BEFORE Tiger Woods issued his apology today.
A roundup of the week's biggest smartphone news, including BlackBerry Bold 9700's debut, Verizon coming after iPhone with Droid and Microsoft updating Windows Mobile.
Strong sales of netbook computers, combined with plummeting sales of Microsoft Office to consumers, hurt Microsoft Corp.'s otherwise-strong first-quarter 2010 results.