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RIM's new CEO wants to focus more on consumers

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 »

State Dept. official: Governments can't fight social media

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 »

Lawmakers seem intent on approving SOPA, PIPA

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 »

IBM announces tech deals with five African banks

IBM today said it has signed IT service agreements with five African banks that are upgrading core systems or expanding products.  read more »

Google protects its current HTTPS traffic against future attacks

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 »

Cisco posts small revenue gain

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 »

Study Says Kindle Fire Will 'Delay' iPad Purchases -- Or Does It?

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 »

RIM Apologies for Recent BlackBerry Outages with Free Apps

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 »

Ubuntu 11.10 to feature Arm support, cloud orchestration

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 »

T-Mobile wants to prevent U.S. ban on Samsung products

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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