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Bloomberg: According to market research firm Gartner, Samsung sells about three times as many smartphones as Apple does in the world’s largest mobile phone market, China. Samsung currently owns 24 percent of the Chinese smartphone market, making it the number one smartphone manufacturer in the country. Apple enjoys just 7.5 percent of the market, making […]

FOX News: If you lose your phone, what will likely happen to it? To find out, security vendor Symantec placed 50 “lost” smartphones in highly trafficked areas in major U.S. cities. The good news: almost all of the lost mobile phones were found, and half of the people who found the phones tried to contact […]

USAToday: Demand for the new iPad is so strong that Apple has sold out of the stock it allocated for pre-orders. Online orders placed now will not ship until at least March 19. “Customer response to the new iPad has been off the charts and the quantity available for pre-order has been purchased,” read a […]

BGR: The media group Reporters Without Borders has published its annual “Enemies of the Internet” list for 2012. As in previous years, the list names countries whose governments are deemed hostile to the free flow of ideas. New to the list this year was Bahrain, which joins Belarus, Burma, China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Saudi […]

ZDNet: For months, hackers associated with Anonymous have claimed to be in possession of the source code for Symantec Norton Antivirus 2006 source code. Now the group has proved its claim by posting the code for the security software on the Internet. Although Symantec had previously admitted only that Anonymous had a portion of the […]

All Things D: Unnamed sources say that AOL will soon announce layoffs of 40 percent of its employees, most of them from its instant messaging and mail divisions. In addition, they say Eric van Miltenburg, SVP of business operations, and Jason Shellen, head of the AIM division, will be leaving the company. Several other top […]

DailyTech: U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Allan Gropper has ruled that Apple cannot proceed with a patent infringement case against Kodak at this time. Kodak has recently filed bankruptcy, and the judge said that it was an inappropriate time for the lawsuit. “The first 45 days are difficult in any bankruptcy case,” said Gropper. “The debtor has […]

NetworkWorld: Next week’s Patch Tuesday will be particularly light, with Microsoft releasing just six security bulletins, only one of them critical. The critical patch addresses a remote code execution vulnerability in Windows. Three of the other bulletins also fix bugs in Windows, one affects Visual Studio and one impacts Expression Design. Despite the light month, […]

USAToday: A new survey conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that 84 percent of respondents picked Google as their favorite search engine. That was a dramatic increase from 2004, when just 47 percent of those surveyed preferred Google. However, Google’s new privacy policies could soon erode its popularity ratings. Almost 75 […]

Ars Technica: IBM has unveiled a prototype CMOS chip that can transfer data at speeds up to one terabit per second. In order to achieve the speed breakthrough, the company drilled 48 tiny holes a standard CMOS chip; the resulting “Holey Optochip” technology allows for a much faster movement of light. Because optical technology transfers […]

Computerworld: Based on interviews with 1,400 CIOs, staffing firm Robert Half Technology expects a net IT staffing gain of 3 percent this quarter. The survey found that 8 percent of companies expect to increase their IT staffing levels, while 5 percent anticipate reductions. The vast majority of those surveyed, 85 percent, plan no changes in […]

Cnet: In a new report, market research firm Gartner predicts that PC manufacturers will ship 368 million units in 2012–just a 4.4 percent improvement over last year. Gartner blames the sluggish growth on the popularity of smartphones and tablets. “The use of applications such as e-mail, social networking, and Internet access, that were traditionally the […]