Datamation Staff

Reuters: Facebook has reached a settlement with five plaintiffs who brought a class action lawsuit against the company. The plaintiffs alleged that Facebook’s “sponsored stories” which publish users’ “likes,” violated California laws which protect the right to control the use of your own name and likeness. Under the terms of the settlement, Facebook will pay […]

MSNBC: In its semi-annual Transparency Report, Google has revealed that government agencies have asked the company to remove content from its search results or YouTube more than 1,000 times since January. “Unfortunately, what we’ve seen over the past couple years has been troubling, and today is no different,” blogged Google’s Dorothy Chou. “We hoped this […]

The Wall Street Journal: Kwon Oh-hyun, the new CEO of Samsung Electronics, has issued a call for the company to beef up its software. “A particular focus must be given to serving new customer experience and value by strengthening soft capabilities in software, user experience, design, and solutions.” The announcement intensified speculation that the Samsung, […]

eWeek: Research firm IDC says that the high-performance computing (HPC) market is booming. Although unit shipments are down slightly, average selling prices are up. IDC predicts that HPC revenue will grow 7.1 percent this year to hit $11 billion. The market could top $14 billion by 2016. HP is the HPC market leader with 30.5 […]

The Verge: There’s a new leader on top of the list of the world’s 500 fastest supercomputers: an IBM system called “Sequoia” reached a sustained 16.32 sustained petaflops. That easily bested the previous champ, Fujitsu’s K computer, which hit 10.51 petaflops. IBM built the Sequoia for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). It sits across […]

PCWorld: Judge Richard A. Posner has changed his mind about dismissing a patent lawsuit between Apple and Motorola Mobility. Posner had tentatively dismissed the case because he said he couldn’t see a basis for injunctive relief, but he said he might change his mind in the course of writing his full opinion. He has now […]

SFGate: Market research firm IDC has increased its forecast for 2012 worldwide tablet shipments from 106.1 million to 107.4 million. It now predicts manufacturers will ship 142.8 million tablets next year and 222.1 million in 2016. IDC believes Apple’s iPad will continue its dominance, growing from 58.2 percent market share last year to 62.5 percent […]

PCMag: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has admitted that it mistakenly revealed personal information, including addresses and contact data, for those who applied for new generic top-level domains. ICANN temporarily disabled the portion of its website where the information appeared and immediately fixed the problem. We apologize for this oversight,” ICANN […]

The Washington Post: Microsoft has sent out invitations to a major announcement set for Monday, resulting in a flurry of rumors. Entertainment site TheWrap.com cites an unnamed source “with knowledge of the company” who says that Microsoft will unveil its own tablet to compete with Apple’s iPad. The rumored device would have an ARM processor […]

Reuters: Unnamed sources tell Reuters that Dell is the company making a $2.15 billion bid to purchase Quest Software. In March, Quest agreed to a purchase by Insight Venture Partners for $23 per share, with the provision that Insight would have the right to match rival offers. On Thursday, Dell revealed that it had received […]

ZDNet: A new report from market research firm Forrester finds that a majority of employees — 53 percent — use their own devices for work. That marks a five percent increase since the beginning of the year. The BYOD trend is particularly popular with senior executives; 77 percent of them buy their own devices. Forrester […]

Bloomberg: Unnamed sources say that Microsoft is negotiating with Yammer for the purchase of the enterprise social networking service. They said a deal, reportedly worth more than $1 billion, could be reached this week. Yammer provides Facebook-like features for use on internal enterprise sites and currently has more than 200,000 customers. Representatives from Microsoft and […]