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TGDaily: HP has announced that it will lay off 275 workers, about half of the team that had been working on webOS. The news is fairly unsurprising as HP tablets based on the webOS mobile operating system failed to take off. HP had earlier announced that it would transition the technology, originally developed by Palm, […]

Bloomberg: According to Alliance@IBM, a group that has been working to organize IBM employees, the company has sent termination notices to more than 1,000 employees this week. The firings are part of what Big Blue calls “resource actions.” IBM’s Doug Shelton explained, “IBM is constantly rebalancing its workforce. That means reducing in some areas and […]

TechWorld: Interpol said that a major investigation of the group Anonymous resulted in the arrest of 25 suspected hackers and the seizure of 250 items. Authorities searched 40 different locations in 15 cities throughout Argentina, Chile, Columbia and Spain. The crackdown resulted from an investigation called “Operation Unmask” that examined cyberattacks on government and utility […]

PCMag: At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Microsoft executive Steven Sinofsky took to the stage to unveil the Windows 8 Consumer Preview. He called the release a “bold re-imagining of Windows,” as well as “beautiful, modern, fast, and fluid.” He added, “We think it will be a super fun experience and will come natural […]

Computerworld: This week, mobile device vendors, other tech companies and journalists have descended on Barcelona for the annual Mobile World Congress. As usual, a few themes have emerged from the deluge of product announcements, speeches and other interactions. Based on what companies have been showing at the event, your next smartphone is liking to include […]

Forbes: For the past three years, no one has found an exploitable bug in the Chrome browser during the annual Pwn2Own hacking contest–largely because not many people have tried–but that could change next week. Google has announced that it will pay up to $1 million dollars in bug bounties during the contest. Specifically, it will […]

Wall Street Journal: A new research report from comScore reveals that while Google+ has racked up a lot of users, those users don’t actually spend much time interacting with the social network. Between September and January, PC users spent an average of three minutes a month on Google+, compared to between six and seven hours […]

The New York Times: Yahoo is trying to force Facebook to pay for licenses on ten to twenty patents that cover key personalization, social networking and messaging technologies. The two companies met on Monday to discuss the issue. A Yahoo spokesperson noted, “Yahoo has a responsibility to its shareholders, employees and other stakeholders to protect […]

InformationWeek: At an event in San Francisco, Dell CEO Michael Dell announced, “We’ve transformed our business. We’re not really a PC company anymore. We’re an end-to-end IT solutions company.” Recently, Dell has been focusing increasingly on enterprise data center products, like appliances, high-end servers, storage arrays and virtualization products. In fiscal 2012, Dell earned $18.6 […]

Cnet: At the Mobile World Congress, a refreshingly candid Samsung executive, Hankil Yoon, told an audience, “Honestly, we’re not doing very well in the tablet market.” The company’s Galaxy Tab line of tablets has lagged behind Apple’s iPad and Amazon’s Kindle Fire in the U.S. However, the company believes its new Galaxy Note line could […]

Bloomberg: Apple iPads and iPhones are back on sale in Germany following a new development in the patent lawsuit brought by Motorola. Apple previously halted sales of the devices in order to comply with an earlier court ruling. Currently, Apple is appealing that ruling. However, in the meantime, Apple offered a revised licensing deal to […]

NetworkWorld: Cisco has announced its intention to purchase optical technology firm LightWire for $271 million. Lightwire specializes in integrating CMOS photonics connectivity into chips; the company’s technology provides higher-density, lower-cose optical connections in routers, switches and other networking gear. Cisco expects to close the deal during its current fiscal quarter. Lightwire employees will become part […]