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eWeek: In its newly released Adobe Digital Index, Adobe Systems says that Web traffic from tablets has grown ten times as fast as traffic coming from smartphones. At that rate, tablet traffic will become larger than smartphone traffic by early 2013, and by 2014, tablet traffic will account for 10 percent of all Web traffic. […]

The Inquirer: On the heels of its $1 billion purchase of Instagram, Facebook has snapped up another photo-app maker–Lightbox. For now, the Lightbox service is shutting down, and users have until June 15 to download their photos. Lightbox’s Thai Tran and Nilesh Patel announced, “Today, we’re happy to announce that the Lightbox team is joining […]

Wall Street Journal: Unnamed “people familiar with the matter” tell the Wall Street Journal that Google plans to work with multiple manufacturers to produce devices running the next version of Android and to sell those devices directly to consumers. That would give Google much more control over the design of Android smartphones and tablets, making […]

Bloomberg: A new report from market research firm Gartner says that Samsung overtook Nokia as the number one mobile phone manufacturer during the first quarter of the year. The Korean firm made 40 percent of all Android smartphones sold during the period. According to Gartner, 56 percent of all smartphones sold run the Android OS, […]

The New York Times: U.S. customers who would like to purchase the HTC One X or the HTC Evo 4G LTE are going to have to wait a while. The International Trade Commission (ITC) has blocked imports of the two smartphones from the Taiwanese manufacturer following a December trial which found that some HTC phones […]

eWeek: Today, AMD officially launched its Trinity line of processors, the second generation of itsA-Series accelerated processing units (APUs) designed to compete against Intel’s Ivy Bridge line. Systems built with the new chips could draw as little as 17 watts of power with batteries that last eight hours or more. Those kind of specs would […]

Cnet: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has overturned a ruling by a lower court and said sales of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 should be banned in the U.S. until the court makes a decision in the patent infringement case brought by Apple. Apple alleges that Samsung’s tablet copies the design and […]

ZDNet: Enterprise software vendor Compuware is rolling out its APM Spring 2012 Platform Release, which the company claims is the industry’s first “deep transactional management system” for dynamic clouds and big data platforms. The release includes an updated version of Compuware’s Dynatrace Enterprise, and it supports Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform, as well as Hadoop […]

All Things D: James Kleinberg, the judge overseeing the upcoming HP vs. Oracle trial about the Itanium platform, has dismissed summary judgement motions from both companies. Although that decision wasn’t surprising, both sides seized on the ruling as an opportunity to discredit their opponent. “HP cannot be happy with this decision,” said Oracle lawyer Dan […]

Mashable: Twitter has announced that it is adding a new e-mail digest feature to its service. Once a week, the micro-blogging site will send users an e-mail with a summary of the most important stories from their feeds. “Stories feature a design similar to the recently updated Discover tab, emphasizing who shared each story beneath […]

PCWorld: On Friday, Facebook unveiled some proposed changes to its privacy policy. According to the company, the new wording doesn’t signal a change in policy, but rather a clarification of existing policies, which was required by regulators in the U.S. and the E.U. However, critics say that the updated policy does include some significant changes, […]

The Register: Intel is dramatically extending its line of Xeon server processors. On Monday, it unveiled 17 new “Sandy Bridge” E5 processors that join the already extensive Xeon line. As a result, manufacturers and end users have more configuration choices than ever before. Many of the new chips are aimed at the high-performance computing (HPC) […]