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PCMag: Apple CEO Tim Cook is currently in China meeting with government representatives, making him the first Apple CEO to visit the country in an official capacity. On Monday, Cook “had great meetings with Chinese officials,” said Apple’s China-based spokesperson Carolyn Wu. “China is very important to us and we look forward to even greater […]

BBC News: A Japanese court has ordered Google to remove certain terms from its autocomplete function. An unnamed man sued the search giant in that country because the autocomplete feature linked him with crimes he did not commit, making it difficult for him to find employment. Another man with the same name actually committed the […]

FOXNews: Microsoft is taking credit for a raid on hardware and hackers behind the Zeus botnet. On Friday, Microsoft investigators and U.S. Marshals entered office buildings in Pennsylvania and Illinois and seized servers infected with the Zeus malware. Thirty-nine people known only by their hacker handles have been charged with offenses related to the malware. […]

Bloomberg: Unnamed sources say that Facebook has purchased 750 patents from IBM. The social networking giant is the target of a high-profile patent lawsuit filed by Yahoo and said in its IPO filing, “We expect the number of patent and other intellectual property claims against us to grow.” Building up its arsenal of patents is […]

PCWorld: Dr. Raymond Soneira of Displaymate Technologies has a message for new iPad owners: keep the tablet plugged in for a while after it says the battery is fully charged. In his tests, Soneira found that the new iPad continued to charge for at least an hour after the device claimed to be done charging. […]

CNNMoney: T-Mobile, the fourth largest mobile carrier in the U.S., has announced that it will eliminate 1,900 positions and reduce its number of call centers from 24 to 17. Although the network provider is still profitable, it has been struggling as customers defect to rival carriers. In addition, regulators recently turned down T-Mobile’s plans to […]

TGDaily: For the first time ever, RIM’s Blackberry smartphones are not the most popular brand in its home country, Canada. The once-dominant mobile phone maker sold 2.08 million units in Canada in 2011, but Apple sold 2.85 million iPhones in the country last year. As recently as four years ago, RIM was selling five times […]

SmartMoney: A new study by mobile security company LookOut found that someone in the U.S. loses a cell phone every 3.5 seconds. Over the course of a year, all those lost phones add up to $30 billion dollars. People were most likely to lose their phones between 9pm and 2am. The top five places to […]

ZDNet: A survey conducted by StopBadware and Commtouch found that website owners often remain unaware after hack attacks. In fact, 90 percent of hacked website owners said they didn’t notice when their sites were being used to send spam, host phishing pages or distribute malware. In addition, 63 percent of those surveyed didn’t know how […]

All Things D: According to research firm In-Stat, Apple could soon top Intel as the company that ships the most mobile processors. In 2011, Apple shipped 176 million chips in the mobile devices it sold, giving Apple a 13.5 percent market share. That put Apple in second place behind Intel, which shipped 181 million chips–a […]

InfoWorld: A new report from Verizon finds that hacktivists were responsible for the theft of 58 percent of all digital records stolen in 2011. Other key findings included the following: Outsiders committed 98 percent of data breaches. 70 percent of breaches originated in eastern Europe. 97 percent of data thefts could have been prevented with […]

Cnet: ComScore’s February data found Google remaining the website visited the most often; it had 186.6 million visitors during the month. It was followed by Microsoft Sites (174.4 million visitors), Yahoo sites (173.5 million visitors) and Facebook (158.6 million visitors). Among the sites growing most rapidly was Pinterest, which increased its visitors 52 percent between […]