Datamation Staff

SlashGear: Following a temporary sales halt earlier today, all Apple products are once again on sale in Germany. In December, Motorola won a sales injunction against Apple because of violations of a 3G/UMTS patent. Motorola took steps to enforce that injunction today, leading Apple to suspend online sales of the iPhone and iPad. However, Apple […]

All Things D: For several months, Google has been secretly using a technology called “Bouncer” to scan Android apps for malware and block them from the Android Market. Bouncer searches app code for known malware and spyware, as well as simulating the behavior of apps on Android devices to search for anything malicious. When Bouncer […]

Computerworld: Two economists from the non-partisan Public Policy Institute of California have published new research that challenges some commonly held beliefs about H-1B workers. According to the report, foreign IT staffers who come into the U.S. on the H-1B visas actually make about 10 percent more than U.S. workers with similar ages, job titles and […]

Telegraph: A leaked video prepared by Microsoft for staff at Nokia has revealed more information about the forthcoming Windows Phone 8 mobile operating system. According to the video, Windows Phone 8 will share a lot of code with Windows 8, making it easier for developers to create cross-platform apps that work on smartphones, tablets and […]

PCMag: Google had planned to roll out a new simplified, unified privacy policy for many of its services on March 1, but the EU wants the company to wait. In a letter, the EU’s data protection agency wrote, “Given the wide range of services you offer, and popularity of these services, changes in your privacy […]

Computerworld: According to a new report from market research firm IDC, Apple became the third largest phone manufacturer in the fourth quarter of 2011, thanks to strong sales of the iPhone 4S smartphone. The company sold 37 million iPhones during the period, a 128 percent year-over-year improvement. Nokia remained the world’s largest phone maker with […]

DigiTimes: Researchers from IHS report that the wireless industry spent more on semiconductors in 2011 than PC manufacturers did. Mobile device makers spent $58.6 billion on chips during the year, a 14.5 percent increase from 2010. By comparison, PC makers spent $53.7 billion on chips, a 4 percent year-over-year increase. IHS predicts that this marks […]

Fox News: Unnamed sources tell Fox News that WikiLeaks plans to move its servers outside national borders in order to escape prosecution. The servers could move to Sealand, a WWII anti-aircraft platform in the North Sea, or they could simply place the servers on barges in international waters. “Then they can keep running WikiLeaks and […]

Wall Street Journal: On Wednesday, Facebook filed the necessary paperwork for an initial public offering (IPO) that could raise as much as $10 billion for the social networking company. Insiders say the IPO will likely value the company between $75 billion and $100 billion, making it one of the biggest IPOs of all time. Company […]

Mashable: In order to find out what kinds of posts Twitter users actually like to read, researchers from Carnegie Mellon, MIT and Georgia Tech set up a website called “Who Gives a Tweet?“. Over the course of 19 days, 1,443 people visited the site and rated 43,738 Twitter posts. The researchers found that followers liked […]

The Guardian: Just days after Apple reported record-breaking quarterly profits, numerous media outlets are calling for a boycott of the iPhone and iPad because of working conditions at the factories which make the Apple devices. It began when The New York Times ran a story focusing on the long history of problems at the Foxconn […]

InformationWeek: According to research firm Canalys, Apple is now the world’s largest PC manufacturer–if you count tablets as PCs. In the fourth quarter, Apple sold 20 million computing devices (approximately 15 million iPads and 5 million Macs), giving it a 17 percent market share. HP came in at number two on Canalys’ list with 12.7 […]