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Ericsson to buy Microsoft's TV software unit
Ericsson, the Swedish maker of telecommunications equipment, has agreed to buy Microsoft's Mediaroom business, which makes the software that powers ...
Facebook barges into Google turf with Home
Facebook Home, the new software that takes over the front screen of a smartphone, is a bit of a corporate home invasion. Facebook is essentially ...
Facebook tweaks Android phones to build new 'Home'
With its new "Home" on Android gadgets, Facebook is trying to prove that a company doesn't have to make a smartphone or operating system to define how ...
Google to deliver goods quickly to online shoppers
Internet search leader Google is taking another step beyond information retrieval into grocery delivery. The new service, called Google Shopping ...
British teenage whiz strikes deal with Yahoo
At 17, he's a tech whiz, he's rich — and he can even offer some advice on how to raise your kids. Teenage programmer Nick D'Aloisio's decision to sell ...
Yahoo buys startup run by 17-year-old entrepreneur
Yahoo is buying London startup Summly, the maker of a mobile application created by teenage entrepreneur seeking an easier way to read news stories ...
Experts: NKorea training teams of 'cyber warriors'
Investigators have yet to pinpoint the culprit behind a synchronized cyberattack in South Korea last week. But in Seoul, the focus is fixed on North ...
Judge: Aggregator of AP news can't have free ride
A federal judge concluded that an Internet news clipping service essentially resold stories from The Associated Press, saying in a decision released ...
What makes SKorea cyberattacks so hard to trace?
The attacks that knocked South Korean banks and media outlets offline this week appear to be the latest examples of international "cyberwar." But ...
South Korea: Chinese address source of attack
Investigators have traced a coordinated cyberattack that paralyzed tens of thousands of computers at six South Korean banks and media companies to a ...
McLaren apologizes to Red Bull for software glitch
McLaren has apologized for a software-related issue on an engine control unit it supplies to Formula One teams and which contributed to Red Bull ...
Software glitch delays 660,000 tax refunds
The Internal Revenue Service says 660,000 taxpayers will have their refunds delayed by up to six weeks because of a problem with the software they ...
Google's top Android exec unexpectedly steps down
Andy Rubin has stepped down as the executive in charge of Google's Android operating system for smartphones and tablet computers, ending a seven-year ...
Researchers find German-made spyware across globe
The discovery of a group of servers linked to an elusive espionage campaign is providing new details about a high-tech piece of spy software that some ...
Facebook tries to stay hip with jazzier News Feed
Facebook doesn't want to be dismissed as an Internet has-been before its social network even enters its adolescence. In an effort to remain hip, it ...
EU fines Microsoft $733M for breaking browser pact
The European Union has fined Microsoft €561 million ($733 million) for breaking a pledge to offer personal computer users a choice of Internet ...
Key dates in EU antitrust action against Microsoft
The European Union has fined Microsoft Corp. €561 million ($733 million) for failing to live up to the terms of a settlement that was to end the ...
Suit: 185K spyware images sent to rental computers
Spyware installed on computers leased from furniture renter Aaron's Inc. secretly sent 185,000 emails containing sensitive information — including ...
Report: Stuxnet cyberweapon older than believed
The sophisticated cyberweapon which targeted an Iranian nuclear plant is older than previously believed, an anti-virus company said Tuesday, peeling ...
Poland emerging as major European outsourcing hub
The first time Javier Bofarull Marques left Spain for Poland, it was for love. It was 2006, a boom time in Spain, and his friends thought he was crazy
Momentum grows for alternative phone system Tizen
The junior league of smartphone operating systems is getting more competitive. Phones from yet another contender — Tizen — will go on sale this year ...
HP finally parts with webOS in LG Electronics deal
Hewlett-Packard is selling its webOS software to South Korean electronics company LG Electronics, securing a new home for a technological orphan.
Correction: Wireless Show-Firefox Phones story
In a story Feb. 24 about the launch of phones using the Firefox web browser, The Associated Press reported erroneously that 13 phone companies around ...
Google adds new touch to line of Chrome laptops
Google is adding a new and more expensive touch to its line of Chrome laptops in an attempt to outshine personal computers running on software made ...
Microsoft's Outlook takes aim at Google's Gmail
Microsoft is so confident it has the Internet's best email service that it is about to spend at least $30 million to send its message across the U.S.