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Police reportedly plan to raid The Pirate Bay
Swedish authorities have reportedly secured warrants and are planning to raid The Pirate Bay. Unnamed Pirate Bay team members speaking with TorrentFreak claim to have …
Verizon to shutter three call centers [updated]
Approximately 3,000 people could lose their jobs following the shuttering of Verizon call centers in Texas, Michigan and Washington state. Local ABC affiliate ABC 13 …
Kindle Fire extinguishes eReader demand in Q1
Amazon’s popular Kindle Fire is seen as having a huge impact on eReader shipments in the first quarter of 2012. The 7-inch Android tablet burst …
OnLive and Microsoft butt heads over Windows virtualization
OnLive, a company known for its cloud-based gaming service, has been pushing its “Desktop App” for iPad and select Android tablets. The program uses virtualization …
In a post-PC world, Gartner sees PC growth accelerating in 2012
Apple on Wednesday unveiled its new iPad, a sleek slate with a stunning 2,048 x 1,536-pixel Retina Display, a speedy Apple A5X processor and embedded …
DOJ threatens Apple with antitrust suit over eBook price-fixing
The United States Department of Justice has warned Apple and five top U.S. book publishers that it plans to file an antitrust lawsuit against them, …
Redbox surpasses 2 billion movie and video game rentals
Redbox announced this week that the company crossed the two billion mark for movie and video game rentals. It will celebrate the milestone by offering …
Netflix in talks with cable companies to bundle streaming service
Netflix’s chief executive Reed Hastings has been meeting with some of the largest cable companies in the U.S. to discuss integrating the company’s streaming product …
Google reportedly looking to dump Motorola’s set-top box business
Google is reportedly looking to sell the set-top box business it will inherit from Motorola Mobility before its acquisition of the company closes, The New York Post …
Sprint to end deal with LightSquared, report claims
Sprint is reportedly planning to walk away from its planned network-sharing deal with LightSquared as early as next week, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. Sprint and …
Samsung files a new lawsuit against Apple in South Korea
Samsung on Wednesday confirmed that it has filed another lawsuit against Apple in South Korea, according to a report from Reuters. Since last year, the …
Nintendo 3DS sales in U.S. reach 4.5 million in first year
Nintendo on Tuesday announced that it has sold 4.5 million 3DS units in the handset’s first year of U.S. availability. Sales thus far have outpaced …
Gmail users claim Google is sending unauthorized spam emails from their accounts [updated]
In what can only be described as yet another set back for Google’s privacy battle, Gmail users are accusing the search giant of accessing their …
Apple seeks up to $15 per Samsung, Motorola Android phone sold in proposed settlement
Apple is currently locked in dozens of lawsuits around the world with various Android vendors, but the Cupertino-based company is apparently willing to negotiate terms …
HTC’s struggles continue, revenue plummeted 45% so far this year
HTC’s revenue during the first two months of 2012 has plummeted 45% compared to the same period last year. The popular vendor on Tuesday published …
Google, Motorola ordered to give Android data to Apple
A U.S. judge has ordered Google and Motorola Mobility to turn over information about the development of the Android operating system and Google’s pending $12.5 …
Top LulzSec hackers arrested, group leader reportedly working for FBI
The laughs are reportedly over for five top members of the hacker group LulzSec who were arrested on Tuesday and charged as part of a conspiracy …
‘Be Bold’ is a bust: Ad blitz didn’t help BlackBerry 7 sales in February
Research In Motion’s increased marketing efforts centered around its “Be Bold” campaign in North America have not paid off according to Canaccord Genuity. Sales of …
U.S. Air Force plans to order up to 18,000 iPads
The United States Air Force awarded a $9.36 million contract to purchase up to 18,000 Apple iPads, Bloomberg report on Friday. The military will use …
German court throws out two suits in Apple-Samsung patent spat
A German court has thrown out a third lawsuit Samsung recently filed against Apple regarding a 3G patent, along with one of two slide-to-unlock suits …
Apple claims to have created or supported more than half a million jobs in the U.S.
Apple on Friday updated its website with a new job creation section detailing the company’s role in creating American jobs. Since its inception, the Cupertino-based …
RIAA CEO says Google and Wikipedia ‘misinformed’ the public about SOPA, PIPA
The RIAA’s CEO Cary Sherman said that he hopes the Stop Online Piracy Act protest were a “one-time experience.” In an op-ed piece written in The New York …
Steve Jobs used patents to pressure Bill Gates into 1997 investment in Apple
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was no stranger to legal battles involving the patent system. Apple is currently waging war on a number of Android vendors …
Motorola: No big short-term changes following Google merger
Motorola Mobility does not expect any large changes following Google’s acquisition of the company. Alain Mutricy, Motorola’s senior vice president of portfolio and product management, …
HTC sees negative smartphone sales trend reversing thanks to HTC One phones
HTC is confident the company’s new One series smartphones will rescue the company from slowing sales, propelling it to the No.5 smartphone vendor spot and beyond. “We are confident …
Apple named ‘World’s Most Admired Company’
Fortune on Thursday published its list of the “World’s Most Admired Companies” and as expected, Apple came in on top. “To say it was another …
Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom: ‘I’m no piracy king’
Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom on Thursday questioned his accusers’ motives while speaking to The Guardian. “I’m no piracy king,” Dotcom told the paper. “I offered online …
Google Music said to be floundering as user count declines each week
Google’s answer to iTunes, Spotify, Pandora and other popular digital music services may be in serious trouble. Reports surfaced last week suggesting Google Music wasn’t …
Apple wins injunction against Motorola devices in Germany [updated]
Apple on Thursday won an injunction in Germany against all of Motorola Mobility’s Android devices, according to FOSSPatents. The ruling comes on the heels of …
