By Mikael Ricknäs, IDG News Service\Stockholm Bureau 23 Jan, 2012
RIM's new CEO, Thorsten Heins, wants the company to improve its product development while also becoming better at marketing, he said during a conference call on Monday. read more »
By Grant Gross, IDG News Service\Washington Bureau 10 Jan, 2012
Government officials worldwide should stop fighting against the use of social media and embrace conversations with their citizens, except in the case of terrorist groups, a U.S. Department of State official said Tuesday. read more »
By Grant Gross, IDG News Service\Washington Bureau 5 Jan, 2012
Early this year, the U.S. Congress appears likely to move forward with two controversial copyright enforcement bills, even with vocal and widespread opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act in the Internet community. read more »
By Lucian Constantin, IDG News Service 23 Nov, 2011
Google has modified the encryption method used by its HTTPS-enabled services including Gmail, Docs and Google+, in order to prevent current traffic from being decrypted in the future when technological advances make this possible. read more »
By Stephen Lawson, IDG News Service\San Francisco Bureau 10 Nov, 2011
Cisco Systems has completed most of a major restructuring that began early this year, and on Wednesday posted revenue and profit for its fiscal first quarter that exceeded analysts' expectations. read more »
New research suggests the Kindle Fire could chomp into over a quarter of the iPad's sales -- an impressive feat, considering Apple's iPad currently has 67 percent dominance over the tablet market. read more »
Research in Motion extended an apology for last week's multi-continent BlackBerry outages last by offering free premium apps and one month of free technical support for its enterprise customers. read more »
By Joab Jackson, IDG News Service\New York Bureau 7 Oct, 2011
The next version of Canonical's Ubuntu Linux distribution, to be released next week, will be the first to run on the Arm architecture, as well as the first edition to offer a new cloud service orchestration engine, called JuJu. read more »
By John Ribeiro, IDG News Service\Bangalore Bureau 29 Sep, 2011
T-Mobile USA asked a court on Wednesday leave to submit a brief of amicus curiae ("friend of the court") to prevent a preliminary injunction asked by Apple against the sale in the U.S. of Samsung's Galaxy S 4G smartphone and Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet, citing its impact on holiday sales this year. read more »
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