Datamation Staff

Reuters: In a ruling in the ongoing patent lawsuit between the two companies, a court in The Netherlands has granted Apple an injunction banning the sale of certain Samsung smartphones. The ban will apply to Galaxy S, S II and Ace smartphones and will take effect in The Netherlands and some other European countries beginning […]

eWeek: According to a new report from IDC, IBM had a 30.5 percent share of the server market in the second quarter, while HP had 29.8 percent of the market. Those figures are close enough that IDC considers them a statistical tie. IBM was able to catch up to the former number one server company […]

ComputerWeekly: A study published by Oxford University’s Said Business School finds that major IT projects are 20 times more likely to fail than other IT projects. On average, larger IT projects ran 27 percent over-budget and took 55 percent longer to complete than originally planned. However, some major projects, referred to in the report as […]

Mobiledia: Facebook has announced major changes to its privacy settings. Instead of visiting another page to control who can see which posts, those controls will now be “inline”–that is, a dropdown list will display privacy settings right on the page where users post status updates, videos, pictures, etc. “It is all about making it easier […]

Cnet: People who live near Stanford University are now live with Google’s ultra-fast-broadband test project. The service, which is free for one year, provides Internet access that is about 100 times faster than regular broadband connections. One person who lives in the test area reported download speeds of 150Mbps and upload speeds around 92Mbps. Google […]

eWeek: A new report from market research firm NPD group says that Android accounted for 52 percent of new smartphone sales in the U.S. during the second quarter. That’s the highest ever market share for Google’s mobile operating system. Apple’s iOS also grew its market share during the quarter, climbing to 29 percent. However, RIM’s […]

Reuters: Unnamed sources say that Apple’s Asian suppliers are working on producing a less expensive, 8GB version of the iPhone 4 that will debut within the next two weeks. Analysts speculate that the lower-end phone could help Apple penetrate into emerging markets. “Apple may want to push into the emerging market segment where customers want […]

AppleInsider: The release of the new MacBook Airs and Mac OS X Lion are credited with helping Apple achieve a 26 percent year-over-year increase in sales of Mac computers. That puts the company on track to sell 4.5 million Macs in the current quarter ending in September. That would be the company’s best ever quarter. […]

Cnet: A new report from security vendor McAfee says that the amount of malware targeting phones running Google’s Android OS has climbed 76 percent since last quarter. That means that for the first time ever, Android surpassed Symbian as the most targeted mobile platform. The report also noted that the amount of malware in general […]

Wall Street Journal: According to IDC, PC manufacturers shipped 18.5 million units to China in the second quarter, while they shipped just 17.7 million units to the U.S. That’s the first time China has ever overtaken the U.S. as the world leader for PC shipments during a single quarter. The market research firm believes that […]

Wall Street Journal: Unnamed sources tell the Wall Street Journal that Apple has ordered display panels and chips for iPad 3 test production, which will begin in October. They say the new tablet could hit retail shelves early in 2012. The iPad 3 is said to feature a higher-resolution (2048 by 1536) 9.7-inch display.   […]

BBC News: Former Wikileaks spokesman Daniel Domscheit-Berg says that he deleted numerous documents from Wikileaks’ servers when he left the organization in 2010. Those documents reportedly included a copy of the U.S. no-fly list, 5 GB of Bank of America data, the internal communications from 20 neo-Nazi groups and US intercept information for “over a […]