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Apple to offer refund to Australian buyers of new iPad
Tue,27 Mar 2012 10:48 PM PDT
Reuters -  MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Apple Inc will email all Australian buyers of its new iPad to offer them a refund, a lawyer for the company said on Wednesday, after the nation's consumer watchdog accused it of misleading advertising over one key aspect of the product. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has taken legal action to ensure Apple makes consumers aware its third-generation iPad cannot connect to a 4G mobile data network in Australia due to technical incompatibility. ...
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Sony: won't invest further in Sharp's Sakai plant
Tue,27 Mar 2012 07:24 PM PDT
Reuters - TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp said on Wednesday it will not make any further investments in Sharp Corp's main Sakai plant in Osaka. Sony holds a 7.04 percent stake in the LCD production plant. Sharp said on Tuesday it will form a tie-up with Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry on LCD production, in which the Japanese manufacturer will sell a 46.48 percent stake in Sakai plant to the Taiwanese maker. (Reporting by Miki Kayaoka) Full Story | Top |
Amazon Kindle store buy buttons vanish for hours
Tue,27 Mar 2012 04:04 PM PDT
Reuters -  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Maybe Lord Voldemort put a spell on Amazon.Com Inc on Tuesday. On the same day that Amazon started selling Harry Potter e-books in a landmark deal, buy buttons on the company's dominant Kindle e-book store disappeared for several hours. Top-selling e-books, including The Hunger Games series and the Fifty Shades trilogy, instead had bigger green buttons saying "This title is not available for customers from: United States." Several Amazon customers complained about the mysterious button disappearance on the company's online Kindle forum. ...
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Deals increase with need for more network security
Tue,27 Mar 2012 03:32 PM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - Advanced hacking attacks by groups such as Anonymous and the prevalence of mobile devices like Apple Inc's iPhone are spurring demand for more sophisticated protection, making niche network security firms prime takeover targets, analysts and experts said. "Mergers and acquisitions will become more prominent," said Ben Ramirez, an analyst at Frost and Sullivan. "Predators will be those with high capital expenditures and high market share and the prey will be those that have little market share and weak product diversification. ... Full Story | Top |
RIM delays analyst meeting
Tue,27 Mar 2012 03:00 PM PDT
Reuters -  TORONTO (Reuters) - Research In Motion has delayed its annual presentation to financial analysts, usually held during the BlackBerry World conference in May, until it launches its next-generation smartphones. "We decided to make BlackBerry World more focused on customers, developers and partners," RIM spokeswoman Tenille Kennedy said on Tuesday. "We will hold a separate session targeted at the interests of the investment community later this year, once BlackBerry 10 is launched." A date and location for the meeting have not yet been decided. ...
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Twitter coverage of court gets struck down
Tue,27 Mar 2012 02:56 PM PDT
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A lawyer discovered how far the U.S. Supreme Court will go to close itself off from the public when it hears a case, no matter how many people on Twitter may be interested. Casey Mattox went to the court on Tuesday to see historic arguments over whether to strike down the Obama administration's healthcare law. His plan was to give live updates and the idea appeared to work as descriptions from the arguments showed up on the Twitter feed of the Alliance Defense Fund, a conservative legal group where Mattox is a senior counsel. ...
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House Republicans push info-sharing cyber bill
Tue,27 Mar 2012 02:50 PM PDT
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. companies and the federal government would be able to share information about cybersecurity threats more easily under a bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday. The proposed legislation and related bills before Congress respond to widespread and growing concern about incursions into U.S. networks by hackers looking to steal everything from state secrets to credit card numbers to intellectual property. ...
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U.S. willing to share airwaves with commercial users
Tue,27 Mar 2012 02:06 PM PDT
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The government is willing to share some of its airwaves with wireless service providers to help them meet increasing demand for services such as mobile Web surfing. The proposal made on Tuesday, would give wireless companies access to another 95 megahertz of spectrum - almost 20 percent of the target set by the Obama administration for freeing up airwaves for broadband use. ... Full Story | Top |
Apple, Sony, 4 others sued by Graphics Properties
Tue,27 Mar 2012 11:51 AM PDT
Reuters -  (Reuters) - Apple Inc, Sony Corp and four other companies were sued by Graphics Properties Holdings Inc, formerly known as Silicon Graphics Inc, for allegedly infringing a patent through their sale of mobile phones and other electronic devices. The lawsuits against Apple, Japan-based Sony, Taiwan-based HTC Corp, South Korea-based LG Electronics Inc and Samsung Electronics Co were filed in the U.S. District Court in Wilmington, Delaware. The patent at issue relates to a computer graphics process that turns text and images into pixels to be displayed on screens. ...
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OTI sues T-Mobile USA, alleges patent infringement
Tue,27 Mar 2012 08:07 AM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - Payment technology company On Track Innovations Ltd said on Tuesday it filed a patent infringement lawsuit in the United States against mobile service provider T-Mobile USA related to mobile payments technology. On Track Innovations (OTI) said in a statement that T-Mobile's Near Field Communication-enabled (NFC) phones infringed one of the company's patents. A spokesman for T-Mobile USA was not immediately available for comment. ... Full Story | Top |
Apple CEO in China mission to clear up problems
Tue,27 Mar 2012 08:03 AM PDT
Reuters -  HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) - Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook has jetted into China for talks with government officials as he seeks to clear up a pile of problems in the firm's biggest growth market, from its contested iPad trademark to treatment of local labor. Cook is on his first trip to the country since taking over from late co-founder Steve Jobs in August, keeping to a closely guarded agenda that has included talks on Monday with Beijing's mayor and a visit to one of Apple's two stores in the capital. "Tim is in China meeting with government officials. ...
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China's Huawei down but not out in Australia
Tue,27 Mar 2012 06:43 AM PDT
Reuters - SYDNEY (Reuters) - China's Huawei Technologies still hopes to win contracts to build Australia's $38 billion National Broadband Network, despite being blocked from bidding on cyber security concerns, and is ready to make concessions to do so. Huawei, which denies being involved in cyber espionage, said on Tuesday these concessions could include opening up the source code its devices use and ensuring only Australian citizens who are security cleared work on the project. ... Full Story | Top |
Apple supplier Hon Hai to take 11 percent stake in Sharp
Tue,27 Mar 2012 04:30 AM PDT
Reuters -  TOKYO (Reuters) - Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry Co will take an 11 percent stake in Japan's Sharp Corp , the Japanese company said on Tuesday, under a tie-up in LCD production that includes Sharp issuing 66.5 billion yen ($803 million) worth of its shares to four Hon Hai group companies. Hon Hai, an Apple supplier, will hold a 46.48 percent stake in Japan's main Sakai plant, in western Japan. ($1 = 82.8300 Japanese yen) (Reporting by Miki Kayaoka; Editing by Edmund Klamann)
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Angry Birds maker buys Finnish gaming studio
Tue,27 Mar 2012 03:59 AM PDT
Reuters -  (Reuters) - Angry Birds maker Rovio said on Tuesday it had bought Futuremark Games Studio, the gaming arm of Finnish benchmarking software firm Futuremark, for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition of the studio - known for its space-games Unstoppable Gorg and Shattered Horizon - comes a week after Rovio launched its latest Angry Birds Space game. Its new game was downloaded more than 10 million times within first three days, topping the sales charts on Apple platforms in 104 countries. ...
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Fraud costs Asia $1 billion a year: Progress Software
Tue,27 Mar 2012 03:37 AM PDT
Reuters - SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Many banks still do not have enough teeth to tackle fraud, which costs Asia around $1 billion a year, but social media could be a game changer due to the reputational risk, said a top official from business software firm Progress Software Corp . Fraud cases include bank card skimming or copying of card data, security issues in Internet banking and theft of credit card details, Progress Software's deputy chief technology officer Giles Nelson told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday. ... Full Story | Top |
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