Datamation Staff

The New York Times: In the past, Apple and its supplier Foxconn have come under harsh criticism for working conditions at Foxconn’s Chinese factories, but The Fair Labor Association says they are making steady improvements. Foxconn has already reduced average overtime to less than 20 hours per week and says that it plans to decrease […]

ZDNet: Opera and Google have renewed their existing deal for two more years. During that time, Google will continue to be the default search engine for both the mobile and desktop versions of the browser. Opera recently reported second quarter earnings of $52.1 million, a 32 percent increase that beat analyst expectations. The Norwegian company […]

PCMag: Amazon Web Services has announced that it is expanding its lineup of cloud computing services with Glacier, a new low-cost storage option for archive files. Glacier customers will pay just $0.01 per gigabyte per month, with no upfront costs. Amazon also offers another cloud storage option–Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). S3 is designed for […]

AFP: Apple’s stock price has climbed to $665.15 a share, pushing its market cap to approximately $623.51 billion. That not only makes Apple the world’s most valuable company, it makes Apple the world’s most valuable company ever. The previous record was set by Microsoft in 1999, when the Windows maker boasted a value of $619 […]

InformationWeek: Security experts have issued warnings about new malware that appears to be a signed Adobe Flash player installer. The rootkit, known as Crisis, Morcut or Maljava, is a Java archive (JAR) file that can attack both Windows and OS X systems. According to Symantec’s Takashi Katsuki, “The threat uses three methods to spread itself: […]

The Verge: As requested by the judge in their patent infringement lawsuit, the CEOs of Apple and Samsung spoke Monday but could not reach a settlement. Samsung attorney Kevin Johnson reported, “There was no resolution.” The lack of a settlement means closing arguments in the case will take place Tuesday, and jury deliberations will likely […]

PCWorld: Judge William Alsup, who has been overseeing the Android-Java copyright lawsuit brought against Google by Oracle, said Google “failed to comply” with his order to provide the names of people who received money from the company and wrote articles or blog posts about the case. Google said it didn’t pay anyone directly for favorable […]

TechSpot: Google’s Motorola Mobility unit has filed a new patent infringement complaint against Apple with the International Trade Commission (ITC). Specifically, Motorola alleges that features including location reminders, e-mail notifications, phone/video players and the Siri voice assistant violate seven patents it holds. It is seeking a U.S. ban on imports of iPhones, iPads and Macs. […]

PCWorld: StatCounter has published a new report which asserts that if current trends continue, Windows Phone could have more users than BlackBerry by November. In the third week of 2012, RIM’s BlackBerry platform had 6 percent of the smartphone market, but it has dropped steadily since then. By November, the OS will likely slip below […]

The Inquirer: A security researcher who uses the handle Pod2g has revealed that every version of the Apple iPhone, including the most recent, is vulnerable to an SMS spoofing attack. A bug in the way Apple implements SMS could allow a hacker to send a message that appears to come from anyone. A hacker could […]