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Bloomberg: Last week, HTC purchased nine patents related to mobile technology from Google. Now HTC has sued Apple for infringing on those patents. Apple had previously sued HTC for infringing on patents it holds. “Google knows that HTC is under tremendous legal pressure from Apple and clearly on the losing track,” said patent blogger Florian […]

CIO: SWC Technology Partners has published the results of a new survey which suggests all the talk about cloud computing may just be hype–at least for midmarket companies. Only 3.7 percent of the mid-size businesses surveyed said they had adopted a company-wide cloud computing solution. And more than half (54.2 percent) said they weren’t planning […]

Reuters: Apple has filed a lawsuit against Samsung in Japan, claiming that the Galaxy S and S II smartphones and the Galaxy Tab 7 tablet “slavishly” copy the iPhone and iPad. Apple is seeking a ban on sales of the products and 100 million yen ($1.3 million) in damages. Apple has launched similar lawsuits in […]

Cnet: In an interview with Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff, Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt said that the next version of Android should debut in October or November. The release is code named ice cream sandwich and combines elements of the Honeycomb and Gingerbread versions of the mobile operating system. A previous report on the topic […]

The Register: Security vendor Norton has issued a new report which claims that cybercrime costs the global economy more than the illegal trade in marijuana, heroin and cocaine does. The report authors say that cybercrime results in direct costs of $114 billion and indirect costs of $274 billion, for a total of $388 billion. By […]

Cnet: South Korea’s antitrust agency, the Korean Fair Trade Commission, has raided Google’s Seoul offices. The investigators were reportedly looking for evidence that might show that Google unfairly limits access to other search engines from its Android mobile operating system. Google responded by saying, “We will work with the KFTC to address any questions they […]

ZDNet: Through a series of tweets, Microsoft’s Bing and Twitter hinted that the two companies have extended their agreement which allows the search engine real-time access to Twitter feeds. A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed, “We are pleased to announce that we are extending our collaboration with Twitter,” but added, “We are not sharing terms of the […]

AllThingsD: Former Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has sent an e-mail out to all employees stating, “I am very sad to tell you that I’ve just been fired over the phone by Yahoo’s Chairman of the Board.” Yahoo confirmed the news with a press release which also announced that CFO Tim Morse will take over as […]

PCMagazine: The hacker who claims responsibility for the attacks on Comodo and DigiNotar says that he has also hacked four other certificate authorities (CAs)– companies that have the ability to issue SSL certificates used in Web traffic encryption. He named one of those CAs: GlobalSign. In response, the company said, “GlobalSign takes this claim very […]

ZDNet: Security vendor Symantec has released a new report analyzing Facebook “likejacking” attacks–malicious attempts to post “likes” to a user’s wall, without his or her knowledge. After analyzing 3.5 million posts involving video content, the company concluded that 15 percent of posts with videos were likejacking attempts. Typically, clicking on these fake video links does […]

NY Times: Many small business owners have recently been complaining that Google Places listed their shops as “closed permanently” when, in fact, they were open. In some cases, the misinformation was posted for weeks, during which time it turned away many potential customers. Google Places relies on crowdsourcing for information about closed businesses–if enough users […]

Reuters: Chinese media outlets are reporting that Dell will work with Baidu, China’s largest search engine, to create tablet PCs and smartphones for the Chinese market. Last week, Baidu announced plans to create its own mobile operating system. Reports say that new Dell-Baidu mobile devices could be available for purchase by November.   SEE ALL […]