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Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs will hold his annual face-to-face meeting with shareholders on Thursday, and there will be no shortage of questions for a company famously stingy with information. Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) shares have been treading water around the $200 mark since last October, despite a strong December-quarter earnings report and massive hype around […]

Software giant Microsoft has won a U.S. court approval to deactivate a global network of computers that the company accused of spreading spam and harmful computer codes, the Wall Street Journal said. A federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia, granted a request by Microsoft to deactivate 277 Internet domains, which the software maker said is linked […]

Photo: Reuters Google’s assertion that its computers were attacked by hackers based in China was “groundless,” Beijing said on Tuesday, hardening its rhetoric in a spat with Washington over Internet freedom. The remarks from Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang were the first direct rejection of the firm’s allegations. China had previously defended its right to […]

The U.S. International Trade Commission said on Friday it has agreed to investigate Apple’s patent infringement complaint against Nokia, as the legal battle between the two technology heavyweights continues to play out. The companies have been locked in a legal tussle since last October, when Nokia (NYSE: NOK) sued Apple and said the iPhone maker […]

U.S. government analysts believe a Chinese man with government links wrote the key part of a spyware program used in hacker attacks on Google last year, the Financial Times reported on Monday. The man, a security consultant in his 30s, posted sections of the program to a hacking forum where he described it as something […]

Recent cyber attacks on Google and other American corporations have been traced to a top Chinese university as well as a school with ties to the Chinese military, the New York Times reported on Thursday, citing people involved in the investigation. Those people told the Times that the Chinese schools involved are Shanghai Jiaotong University […]

Google was lauded as a visionary intent on spreading the world’s knowledge and reviled as a copyright infringer cavalier about protecting users’ privacy in a hearing on Thursday to discuss its plan to digitize millions of books. Under the terms of the proposed settlement of a 2005 lawsuit brought by the Authors Guild, Google (NASDAQ: […]

The International Trade Commission said it launched an investigation of Research In Motion and Apple smartphones that contain digital cameras after receiving a complaint from Eastman Kodak. The trade body said on Wednesday it voted to open an investigation after Kodak alleged patent infringement by Canada’s Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) maker of BlackBerry smartphones, […]

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski on Tuesday said the agency will propose in an upcoming report a minimum Internet speed for American households. Dubbed the “100 Squared Initiative,” Genachowski said that he hopes to bring speeds of 100 megabits per second to 100 million households, a speed that is significantly higher than what many […]

A French judge has issued an arrest warrant against American rider Floyd Landis for suspected hacking into an anti-doping laboratory computer, French anti-doping agency head Pierre Bordry told Reuters Monday. In an interview, Bordry said the judge Thomas Cassuto believed Landis, whose 2006 Tour de France title was stripped after he failed a dope test, […]

Google must not be allowed to dominate and block cash from flowing more widely through the mobile telecoms system or else the network operators will not be able to invest to cope with the growing demand for data traffic, Vodafone said on Tuesday. Vittorio Colao, chief executive of the world’s largest cellphone networks operator, told […]

Besides the performance gains, alternative DNS providers like OpenDNS and Google’s Public DNS can give you a security advantage by blocking phishing attempts and malicious Web sites. The Domain Name System (DNS) is something we all use and depend on, yet don’t really pay much attention to; if you have some time to […]