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Wall Street Journal: Lenovo has reported that net profits for the most recent quarter reached $108.8 million, up from $54.86 million the year before. Revenue rose 15 percent year over year. Those results make Lenovo the third largest PC manufacturer, behind HP and Dell. Lenovo bought IBM’s PC business in 2005.   SEE ALL ARTICLES […]

PCMagazine: Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a new cloud computing service for U.S. government agencies. Known as “GovCloud,” the offering complies with the specific rules that affect government entities. Those regulations include the International Traffic in Arms Regulations which require that government data only be accessible from within the U.S.’s borders. So far, more […]

NetworkWorld: During the recession when companies stopped hiring, many of those companies laid off their IT recruiters. Now that they’re hiring again, those layoffs may hurt them, observers say. “When you start to recruit back, you start to experience all the signs of the hiatus, the laziness and the remission,” says Paul Rowson, managing director […]

InformationWeek: In a blog post, Microsoft’s Steven Sinofksy explained that the company plans to reveal more details about the next version of Windows at its upcoming BUILD conference for developers. “Building the next release of Microsoft Windows is an industry-wide effort that Microsoft approaches with a strong sense of responsibility and humility,” wrote Sinofksy. “Windows […]

Bloomberg: Around 27,000 iPhone owners in South Korea have joined a class action lawsuit against Apple. They claim the company violated their privacy by collecting location data without their consent. They are asking for one million won per person, or about $930. Apple has previously been fined and ordered to change its location data practices […]

Cnet: A new report from security vendor Webroot finds that 18 percent of social network users have been hit by social networking malware this year. That’s an increase from 13 percent in 2010 and 8 percent in 2009. “Threats targeting social networks are continuously being regenerated in new versions so their makers can evade detection […]

GigaOm: Last week’s lightning-caused outages for Amazon and Microsoft customers have re-confirmed the risk involved in using public cloud computing services. Although Amazon Web Services customers affected by the outage received credits for 10 days of service use, that might not cover their costs, specifically the opportunity cost of lost business during that outage. The […]

Forbes: Facebook has submitted new evidence in the lawsuit brought by Paul Ceglia, who claims he is entitled to a 50 percent stake in the company. Facebook says it found the original contract embedded in a file in Ceglia’s computer, and that contract does not mention Facebook at all. In addition, the social network says […]

Reuters: In yet another lawsuit involving patents for mobile devices, HTC is suing Apple for violating two patents it obtained in 2008 and 2010. In this new case, HTC is seeking to halt the importation and sale of Macs, iPads, iPhones and other Apple devices in the U.S. It also asks for compensatory damages and […]

PCMagazine: When Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) shut down cell service in its stations in order to prevent planned police protests, it may have have done more than anger the hacktivists of Anonymous–it may have broken the law. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has confirmed that it is investigating the incident. “Any time communications services […]

Cnet: According to a Dutch publication, photos submitted by Apple in its patent dispute with Samsung appear to have been doctored. While the actual Samsung Galaxy Tab has an aspect ratio of 1.46, Apple’s “evidence” includes a picture of a Galaxy Tab with an aspect ratio of 1.36, which makes it look more like the […]

Cnet: Adobe is taking the wraps off a new AIR-based application that aims to make it possible to create a website without writing any code. Called “Muse,” the new software is targeted at designers who use the company’s InDesign and Photoshop software. “What we’re seeing is that the tools that have been made available for […]