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The Verge: According to Google’s Andy Rubin, the company now activate 850,000 new Android devices every day. In all, users have purchased more than 300 million devices that run Google’s mobile operating system, including 12 million tablets. Those numbers don’t include Amazon’s Kindle devices, and Google doesn’t double-count devices that get re-sold or reset. Rubin […]

Reuters: Whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks has published 5 million e-mails stolen from the servers at Stratfor, a U.S.-based global security analysis firm. Hackers associated with the group Anonymous claimed responsibility for the data theft. Stratfor has been described as a “shadow CIA;” its clients include government officials and Fortune 500 companies. According to WikiLeaks founder Julian […]

Reuters: For some time, Proview Technology has been battling Apple in China’s courts, claiming that Apple does not have the right to use the trademark iPad in that country. Now, the dispute has spread to the U.S. with Proview filing a lawsuit in a California court. Proview alleges that Apple created a separate business entity […]

Bloomberg: If Salesforce.com’s quarterly results are indicative of a wider trend, it appears that more enterprises are embracing software as a service (SaaS). Salesforce reported fourth quarter sales of $631.9 million, beating analysts’ predictions of $624.1 million. Quarterly profits came in at 43 cents a share. During the quarter, Salesforce appears to have added a […]

The Guardian: Motorola Mobility has won a battle in its patent war against Apple. In order to comply with an earlier court ruling which found that Apple had violated some of Motorola’s patents, Apple has announced that it will disable push email functions for its mobile devices in Germany. That means German iPhone and iPad […]

All Things D: With privacy-related scandals in the news and government officials expressing concern about the issue, more people, particularly women, are paying attention to their privacy settings on social media sites. A new Pew Research Center report finds that more than 60 percent of users — 67 percent of women and 58 percent of […]

The Register: Responding to growing calls for a “Do Not Track” button, Google has released an optional extension for its Chrome browser that can prevent users from seeing targeted ads that rely on information gleaned from their browsing history. Called “Keep My Opt Outs,” the extension is now available through the Chrome Web Store. However, […]

Cnet: Despite its recent announcements of support for HTML5, Adobe isn’t giving up on Flash technology yet. The company has published a Flash Player road map in which it promised to continue developing the technology for five to ten more years. Striking a balance between the two competing technologies, it wrote, “Increasingly, rich motion graphics […]

Reuters: A Shanghai court has rejected Proview Technology’s request for a ban on sales of Apple’s iPad in the Chinese city. Observers say that while the decision is good news for Apple, a higher court will ultimately decide the fate of the iPad in the country. “It’s a great help to Apple by giving it […]

ZDNet: Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Julius Genachowski is calling on Internet service providers (ISPs) to do more to protect their customers from cybercrime. Specifically, Genachowski wants ISPs to notify users when their systems may have been compromised by malware, botnet attacks, IP hijacking or other kinds of attacks. “The cyberthreat is growing,” he said. […]

Computerworld: In its first full quarter with Meg Whitman as CEO, HP reported fourth quarter revenue of $30 billion and net income of $1.5 billion or $0.73 per share. Compared to the previous year, the company experienced a 7 percent decline in revenue and a 44 percent decline in profits. Much of the blame for […]

CRN: A half dozen of the largest mobile platform providers, including Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, HP and RIM, have agreed to follow California’s new mobile privacy protection standards. Under the the new state law, any app that collects personal information must have a privacy policy. In addition, before a user downloads an app from an […]