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The Inquirer: The German judge overseeing Apple’s patent lawsuit against Samsung has issued a preliminary injunction. The ruling prevents Samsung from selling the 10.1-inch Galaxy Tab tablet PC in any country in the European Union except for Netherlands. Initially, Samsung seemed shocked by the decision. “The request for injunction was filed with no notice to […]

BBC: As rioters continue to use social media for coordinating their assaults, Prime Minister David Cameron says the British government is considering whether it is “right and possible” to shut down access to those services in order to quell the violence. Specifically, law enforcement is looking at shutting down Twitter, Facebook and text messaging services […]

PCWorld: A video posted to YouTube last month says that the hacktivist group Anonymous will “destroy” Facebook on Guy Fawkes Day, November 5. “Kill Facebook for the sake of your own privacy,” advises the voice on the video. However, security experts say the video may not really be the work of actual members of the […]

NYTimes: On Tuesday, Apple briefly passed Exxon to become the company with the world’s highest market capitalization. In the afternoon, Apple’s stock hit $366.62, giving the company a market cap of $337.11 billion. At the same time, Exxon’s stock was worth $68.90, giving it a market cap of $337.11 billion. By the end of the […]

International Business Times: Just days after a McAfee report blamed China for a large cyber-espionage operation, the Chinese government has revealed that the country was the target of nearly half a million cyber attacks last year. More than half of those attacks originated in other countries, most commonly the U.S. (15 percent) and India (8 […]

Forbes: Technology was blamed for helping rioters spread mayhem; now that same technology is helping coordinate cleanup efforts. The new Twitter feed @RiotCleanup is posting details about where and how Londoners can get involved in the efforts to put their city back in order. London’s Metropolitan Police said that Monday night was “the worst [it […]

PCMagazine: At a conference on Tuesday, Motorola Mobility CEO Sanjay Jha entertained the possibility of Motorola smartphones running Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system. “I would have to consider whether defocusing from Android to Windows will be the right thing for us to do, but if the capabilities on Windows are such that that is the […]

PCWorld: On Monday, Amazon’s data center in Virginia experienced connectivity issues, knocking many of the company’s cloud computing clients offline. The outage came while the company was still recovering from an outage in Europe that was caused by a lightning strike in Dublin. The outage lasted for approximately 30 minutes. Many Amazon Web Services customers, […]

The Register: At the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, researchers from iSec Partners said large networks of Macs are more vulnerable to advanced persistent threats (APTs) than their Windows counterparts. That’s because DHX, Apple’s proprietary authentication scheme, is very easy to compromise. “With a large enterprise, you have to assume that people are […]

Cnet: Security firm ViaForensics has released a new study of mobile apps for the iOS and Android platforms. It found that 76 percent of apps store usernames without encryption, and 10 percent of apps store passwords without encryption. The report authors assigned pass, fail or warn grades to each of the apps based on their […]

TGDaily: After 21 years at Microsoft, Charlie Kindel, who held the title of Windows Phone Developer Ecosystem General Manager, is quitting to form his own company. In a blog post, he made it clear that his leaving was not related to concerns about the Windows Phone platform. “To the Windows Phone team: I may stop […]

International Business Times: Rioters in London and elsewhere appear to be using BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) to communicate and coordinate their activities. For example, one BBM encouraged “everyone from all sides of London” to target shops on Oxford street. However, some observers say it’s not fair to blame the technology. “Certainly, it’s a lot easier for […]