Datamation Staff

Bloomberg: Television commercials for Nokia’s new Lumia 920 smartphone give the impression that video and still images demonstrating the camera’s image-stabilization technology were shot with the Lumia 920, but that isn’t the case. A company spokesperson said its ethics and compliance officer had launched an investigation “to understand what happened.” She added, “What we understand […]

eWeek:  In a new marketing campaign, Microsoft is claiming that its Bing search engine offers better results than Google and that people only continue to use Google out of habit. “We asked an independent research company to do a statistically significant similar challenge test and our findings were confirmed—people preferred Bing Web search results nearly […]

The Wall Street Journal: Apple has sent out invites for an event to take place Wednesday, September 12, in San Francisco, where the company will likely introduce the next iPhone. The text reads, “It’s almost here,” and the invitation features an image of the number 12 with a shadow that looks like the number five. […]

Computerworld: The FBI has issued a statement denying that it was the source of Apple UDIDs posted by hackers associated with AntiSec. It stated, “At this time, there is no evidence indicating that an FBI laptop was compromised or that the FBI either sought or obtained this data.” Hacktivist group AntiSec claimed that it obtained […]

Ars Technica: Microsoft has officially unveiled Windows Server 2012. The new operating system shares the same kernel as the Windows 8 desktop editions, and it also offers the same dual interfaces, although users aren’t required to install them. It’s also like Windows 8 in that it’s built for cloud computing. Key updates in Windows Server […]

The Verge: Nokia has unveiled two new smartphones that run Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 operating system. The Lumia 920 is the top-of-the-line model and features a dual-core 1.5GHz processor, 32GB of device storage, a 4.5-inch display and an 8-megapixel camera. The mid-range Lumia 820 has the same processor and camera, but a 4.3-inch screen and […]

Reuters: There’s a new competitor in the mobile browser wars: Baidu, China’s number one search engine, has launched a mobile browser. The company claims the browser is 20 percent faster than competitors like Apple’s Safari and Google’s Chrome and Android browsers. The software will also provide access to apps and play HD video. China currently […]

CNNMoney: In its most recent quarterly “Threats Report,” security vendor McAfee reported that it found 8 million new strains of malware in the second quarter, a 23 percent increase over Q1. The company said it represented the biggest increase in malware detections in the last four years. While Windows PCs continue to be the most […]

eWeek: Polish firm Security Explorations says that Oracle’s recently released emergency Java patch has a security vulnerability of its own. They say the update could allow attackers to bypass the JVM sandbox. “I cannot share more details about the nature of the new bug. [But] when combined with some of the Apr 2012 issues, this […]

Cnet: According to Canaccord Genuity analyst T. Michael Walkley, Samsung’s Galaxy S3 is now the most popular smartphone in the U.S., replacing Apple’s iPhone 4S. The iPhone 4S had held the top spot since its launch last October. “We believe this is the first month since the iPhone 4S launched in October 2011 that it […]