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All Things D: Unnamed sources have revealed more details about the search deal Google and Mozilla signed earlier this week. Google will now pay nearly $300 million a year to be the default search engine for Firefox users. That’s about three times as much as Google paid under the old deal, and the arrangement will […]

Search Engine Land: A new report from Hitwise lists the top search queries of the year across all the major search engines. Four of the top 10 relate to Facebook, and Facebook-related searches increased 33 percent over last year. The complete list includes the following: Facebook Youtube Facebook login Craigslist Facebook.com Yahoo eBay www.Facebook.com Mapquest […]

PCMag: Several members of the U.S. House of Representatives have sent a letter to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), asking the organization to delay its plan to add more generic top-level domains (gTLDs). “Although we believe expanding gTLDs is a worthy goal that may lead to increased competition on the Internet, […]

PCWorld: A German district court judge has ruled that Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 does not infringe on Apple’s iPad design. Earlier, the court had ruled that the original Galaxy Tab 10 was too much like the iPad, and it banned sales in Germany. Apple felt that the Galaxy Tab 10.1 also copied the iPad, but […]

InformationWeek: The smartphone market changed dramatically in 2011. Here are five ways the mobile device you buy today is likely different than the one you might have bought a year ago: More smartphones use dual-core chips. Most new smartphones have screens larger than 4 inches. 4G has become the standard. The number of apps available […]

CIO: Akamai Technologies has confirmed that it will purchase Cotendo for $268 million in cash. Cotendo’s products include a content delivery network that makes it easier to access enterprise applications from a mobile device. In addition, the company offers a cloud computing traffic optimization platform called Cloudlet. The deal should close in the first part […]

TechCrunch: A three-month audit by the Office of the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) has determined that Facebook does comply with EU privacy regulations. However, the DPC made 45 recommendations that Facebook says it will implement. Some of the changes the social network has agreed to make include the following: Making it easier to find […]

ZDNet: According to a new report from market research firm IDC, Oracle was the top customer relationship management (CRM) software vendor in the first half of 2011 with $9.2 billion in revenue–13.2 percent of the market. Salesforce.com came in second and experienced 22.6 percent revenue growth versus the previous year. IDC also reported that the […]

Computerworld: The Mozilla Foundation has released version 9.0 of its open source Firefox browser. The new release renders JavaScript between 16 percent and 36 percent faster than Firefox 8, which was released only six weeks ago. The release also patched a number of security vulnerabilities. At the same time, Mozilla also released an Android version […]

The Wall Street Journal: Unnamed sources say that hackers based in China broke into the servers for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Although no one knows what data the hackers viewed, they apparently had complete access to the lobbying group’s systems, including information about its three million members. The hackers also stole six weeks’ worth […]

Bloomberg BusinessWeek: A judge with the International Trade Commission (ITC) has found that Motorola Mobility’s smartphones infringe on one Microsoft patent. However, the judge did not find that Motorola had violated the six other patents involved in the same case. It’s unclear whether Motorola will remove the offending technology from its products or if it […]

Washington Post: Several large technology companies have reportedly expressed interest in purchasing BlackBerry-maker RIM. The Wall Street Journal wrote that RIM had informal talks with Microsoft and Nokia, and Reuters cited unnamed sources who said that RIM also had casual merger talks with Amazon. RIM has had a particularly tough year, and its stock price […]