Datamation Staff

The Inquirer: Facebook and Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna have filed separate lawsuits against Adscend Media. McKenna’s case accuses the company of violating the CAN-SPAM act, Washington’s Commercial Electronic Mail Act and the state’s Consumer Protection Act by running a clickjacking campaign. We don’t ‘like’ schemes that illegally trick Facebook users into giving up […]

ZDNet: According to a new report from Forrester Research, 20 percent of information workers now use at least one Apple product. Specifically, 11 percent own an iPhone, 9 percent have iPads, 8 percent use Macs and 6 percent use more than one Apple device. For workers with a title of director or higher, those owning […]

Washington Post: In a blog post, Twitter announced that it has a new tool it will use to block tweets in certain countries when those tweets violate local laws. In response, a group of Twitter users is planning a boycott of the service to begin Saturday. “Starting today, we give ourselves the ability to reactively […]

Wall Street Journal: Intel will pay RealNetworks $120 million to purchase approximately 190 patents and 170 patent applications. Also included in the deal is software that compresses and decompresses video for streaming. In addition, seven RealNetworks employees will go to work for Intel. The deal is “about realizing this unused asset we’ve been sitting on […]

FOSS Patents: One week after dismissing a related case, a German court today also rejected a second Samsung lawsuit against Apple. The two lawsuits related to Samsung patents on 3G technology. The judge did not explain the reason for the decision from the bench. Samsung can still opt to appeal the ruling if it so […]

InformationWeek: Making good on an earlier promise, HP has begun to open source the code for the WebOS mobile operating system. It will release the code for the platform’s various tools a little bit at a time, with all of the code becoming available by September. To begin the process, HP has released the source […]

The Guardian: According to Strategy Analytics, Google’s Android operating system captured 39 percent of the tablet market in the fourth quarter of 2011. Still, Apple’s iPad maintained a sizable lead with 58 percent of the market. In all, the research firm believes manufacturers sold 26.8 million tablets during that quarter. That means the tablet market […]

Reuters: Motorola has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple in a Florida federal court. Motorola, which is in the process of being acquired by Google, claims that Apple’s products violate six of its patents on wireless antennae, software, data filtering and messaging. Apple and Motorola have been engaged in a patent war for some […]

Wall Street Journal: In the most recent quarter, phone maker Nokia sold more than 1 million of its Lumia smartphones, which are based on Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system. Despite that good news, overall sales for the company were down 31 percent for the period. Nokia CEO Stephen Elop said the company hopes to use […]

PCMag: Security vendor Symantec is warning users of its pcAnywhere remote access software to stop using the product until the company releases a security patch. The hacktivist group Anonymous claims to have stolen the source code for pcAnywhere, and the company believes users could be at risk for an attack. “Upon investigation of the claims […]

GigaOm: Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a new cloud computing service known as Storage Gateway which allows enterprises to upload data directly from their on-premise storage systems to Amazon’s cloud. The feature makes it easier for companies to use Amazon’s cloud for backup, and the technology eliminates some of the latency problems inherent in […]

Investor’s Business Daily: For the quarter that ended December 31, Apple earned $13.87 a share, a 116 percent year-over-year increase. Total sales for the company reached $46.33 billion, a 73 percent increase. Apple’s results were “amazing in all caps,” said ISI Group analyst Brian Marshall. “It’s just a blowout across the board. This business model […]