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Reuters: Samsung has a new ally in its ongoing legal battle against Apple. Apple has asked a U.S. judge to ban sales of Samsung’s Galaxy line of smartphones and tablets because they “slavishly” copy the iPhone and iPad. In a court filing, mobile carrier T-Mobile said that its business would be damaged by such a […]

Mashable: Just one day after Amazon introduced its $199 Kindle Fire tablet PC, RIM has dropped the price on its Playbook tablet. Best Buy is now selling the 16 GB PlayBook for $299, the 32 GB version for $399 and the 64 GB version for $499. HP’s TouchPad sold very well after its drastic price […]

PCWorld: Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 “Mango” update has finally started rolling out to end users. Although many of the new features of the operating system update had been well advertised, the update did include one surprise: Wi-Fi tethering. The update also offers 500 other new features, including the following: Messaging Threads Group Contacts Local Scout […]

InformationWeek: Security experts say the growth of smartphones will mean big changes for enterprise mobility. Here are four trends that mobile security pros should watch: More Alluring Means More Threats — “As more people put sensitive data on their phones or use their phones to do sensitive things, like banking or shopping online, then slowly […]

Wall Street Journal: Samsung Electronics and Microsoft have reached a cross-licensing agreement “providing broad coverage for each company’s products,” the two announced on Wednesday. Under the terms of the deal, Samsung will pay Microsoft royalties for each Android-based smartphone or tablet it sells, an arrangement that could have big implications for Google. “We recognize that […]

Wired: On Wednesday, Amazon unveiled its highly anticipated new tablet. The Android-based “Fire” features a 7-inch color screen, weighs 14.6 ounces, and has 8 GB of storage, but unlike many competing tablets, it doesn’t have a camera, a GPS or 3G connectivity. However, that may not matter to customers who are attracted to the Fire’s […]

TechCrunch: Mobile ad network InMobi has released the results of a new survey which found that 41 percent of current mobile users in the U.S., Mexico and Canada plan to buy an iPhone 5. Among those who plan to buy the iPhone 5,  50 percent plan to purchase the smartphone within six months of its […]

PCWorld: According to the latest research from Nielsen, about twice as many new smartphone buyers are opting for Android phones compared to those who are buying the iPhone. For the past three months, Google’s Android captured 56 percent of the market, while Apple’s iPhone had 28 percent of the market. However, Nielsen cautions that those […]

The Australian: Australian security consultant and blogger Nik Cubrilovic recently discovered that Facebook was tracking user activities even after they had logged out of the social networking site. Instead of deleting or deactivating, Facebook cookies were continuing to send personally identifiable information to the company servers after users logged out. Now, Cubrilovic says that after […]

PCMag: Experian Hitwise reports that traffic to the Google+ social networking site jumped up 1269 percent last week when Google opened the service to all users. That made Google+ the eighth most popular social network on Hitwise’s list, right behind MySpace. Meanwhile, Ancestry.com founder Paul Allen has been using census data to estimate the number […]

Computerworld: On Monday, MySQL.com was serving malware to visitors for several hours. Security vendor Armorize reported the problem around 5 am Pacific time on Monday, and Oracle had fixed the issue by 11 am. Site visitors who had not recently updated their browsers or other software may have been infected. Oracle, which owns the MySQL […]

InformationWeek: In an attempt to revive interest in the Sun line of servers and attract former HP Itanium users, Oracle has unveiled a new line of servers based on the Sparc T4 chip. According to the company, the new chip is five times faster than the T3; CEO Larry Ellison called it “a gigantic step […]