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Google agrees to court order in India to remove content
Google has agreed before a court in Delhi to remove religious and other content considered objectionable, though some other Internet firms are likely to appeal the court's decision, plaintiff...


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How to protect online transactions
The trusty telephone is emerging as one of the key elements in new multifactor authentication schemes designed to protect online banking and other web-based financial transactions from rapidly...
Symantec releases faster next-gen NetBackup, Backup Exec software
Symantec on Monday unveiled new versions of its flagship NetBackup enterprise-class and Backup Exec midrange backup applications -- Backup Exec 2012 and NetBackup...
HTC aims to improve on its past smartphones with better 4G products this year
After facing a disappointing financial fourth quarter, HTC has reviewed its under-performing products from last year, making changes in design and components for its future smartphones, according to...
NEHTA admits to errors in e-health identifiers
The National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA) has conceded there have been errors in its Individual Healthcare Identifiers (IHI) service, following claims by industry that the service is...
SureWest Communications calls up a sale
Follow this company (Nasdaq: CNSL) for $23 a share in a cash and stock deal. That represents a 47 percent premium to SureWest's closing share price on Friday. SureWest, which bought...
Google testing new Internet devices that could come to Kansas City
Follow this company 's test of a super-fast fiber Internet network, but the city could also be a testing ground for other devices. ...
SureWest Communications acquired by Consolidated Communications
Follow this company . SureWest (NASDAQ: SURW) announced the acquisition Monday. Consolidated Communications (NASDAQ: CNSL) will acquire outstanding shares of the Roseville-based company in...
Nearly 100 million in the U.S. now own smartphones
Follow this company 's iOS both made gains in the number of mobile phones using the operating platforms in the U.S., while...
Palo Alto Networks seen IPO-bound
Mark McLaughlin to run the company last August, saying at the time that quarterly sales had doubled year-over-year to $50 million and that it had been cash flow positive for five consecutive...
Zipcar to trick out City of Boston fleet vehicles for car sharing
Boston Business Journal by Galen Moore, Web Editor Date: Monday, February 6, 2012, 8:29am EST - Last Modified: Monday, February 6, 2012, 8:31am...
SureWest Communications will sell for $340.9M
Follow this company (Nasdaq: CNSL), is offering $23 a share in a cash and stock deal that lets Surewest (Nasdaq: SURW) shareholders choose either cash or an equivalent amount of...
Smartphone ownership nears 100 million in U.S.
Follow this company 's iOS both made gains in the number of mobile phones using the operating platforms in the U.S., while...
Iomega Steps Up Its Small Businesses Offering
enterprise-like storage offerings with pricing for SMBs. The StorCenter ix12-300r supported up to 4 TB of storage for less than $5,000. The new PX series aims to push beyond that coming out of the...
Test Version of Windows 8 Going to PC Makers?
Windows 8 is still at least a year or more away from release, but Microsoft has already started sending early builds of the code to major PC manufacturing partners, according to one report. The...
Fourth Quarter PC Sales Hit New Record
Reports of the PC's pending demise may be a little premature, according to the findings of the latest PC sales report from tracking firm IHS iSuppli. In fact, sales of new PCs hit a new high...
Intel Unveils Latest vPro CPUs
Intel rolled out the second generation of its Core vPro processor line on Monday, adding new encryption and identity protection features as well as enhanced performance. Among the additions is...
New Nikon Cameras Include Whopping 36X Zoom
will ship three new digital cameras in March. The Coolpix P500 ($400) combines a 12.1-megapixel CMOS sensor with a 36X wide-angle (22.5mm to 810mm equivalent) zoom lens and an Expeed C2 dual image...
Samsung Intros Multifunction Printer Trio
has announced a new line of network, duplex printers for small and midsized businesses. The multifunction SCX-4835FR (33 ppm, $449), SCX-5639FR (37 ppm, $549) and wireless SCX-5739FW (37 ppm, $699)...
Affordable Projectors from Epson and InFocus
have unveiled new projectors optimized for tight spaces and tight budgets. The InFocus IN146 ($825) is a 2,700-lumen projector with WXGA (1,280 by 800) resolution to project today's widescreen...
Plextor Ships 6Gbps Solid State Drives
is now shipping one of the fastest solid state drives available. The M2 Series SSD, offered in 64GB, 128GB and 256GB capacities, combines the latest Serial ATA 6Gbps interface with a Marvell 88SS9174...
New HP Touchscreen PCs Lean Back, Get Comfortable
's and other touchscreen desktop PCs has been that your arm gets tired holding your hand out to tap and drag on the vertical display. But the new TouchSmart 610 Consumer PC and TouchSmart 9300...
4G Meets 3D: T-Mobile Touts LG G-Slate Tablet
has officially announced its Android 3.0 ("Honeycomb")-powered tablet, the G-Slate with Google by LG. Expected to ship this spring, the 8.9-inch tablet will feature built-in support for 3D...
Fujifilm Announces 5TB Enterprise Tape Cartridge
has announced that it will manufacture the data cartridge for Oracle's newest enterprise tape drive, the StorageTek T10000C. Using Fujifilm's unique barium ferrite particle, the cartridge...
Sony Digicams Deliver Mega Zoom, Panorama
has introduced two new Cyber-shot digital still cameras that offer full HD video shooting capability -- 1,920 by 1,080 video at 60 progressive frames per second -- at the touch of a dedicated movie...
Epson Premieres Pair of Ultra-Bright Projectors
's two newest PC projectors include a built-in 16-watt speaker and microphone input to help engage an entire conference room or classroom with no need for external speakers or voice strain. The...
Apple Closes Chapter on Xserve Hardware Today
Thanks to a lack of sales, Apple announced a couple of months ago it would stop selling its Xserve series of rackmount servers. Well, that day is now upon us today. Moving forward, Apple is...
Report: Apple Now Third Largest PC Maker
In its fourth quarter report on the global PC market, market research form Canalys revealed that Apple is now the third largest market of PCs on the planet. How did Apple pull this seemingly amazing...
Lenovo, NEC Merging PCs and Tablet Resources
NEC Lenovo Japan Group will merge Lenovo and NEC's PC businesses for the Japanese market to develop not just laptop and desktop computers but tablet PCs as...
Hitachi Outs Highest Capacity Enterprise Drive
The 3.5-inch enterprise-class drive series is available in 6Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI and Serial ATA interfaces. It is supposed to deliver a 40 percent lower annualized failure rate than enterprise...
Toshiba Issues 1.8-Inch HDDs with LIF SATA Connectors
The new drives will come in 160GB, 200GB and 220GB capacities, in a total package measuring only 5 x 54 x 71 millimeters. They sport a 16MB buffer and use only 0.35-watts of power at low power idle,...
Appliance Juices Up Ancient Hardware
The idea is to allow financially-challenged institutions, such as schools, to continue to use ancient hardware no matter how old. The Juicebox a100 can deliver Windows 7 to up to a hundred of these...
Tablet Boom Boosting NAND Memory Market
IHS iSuppli research predicts the NAND flash memory market will enjoy another year of double-digit percentage growth over the next 12 months. This coming off the storage medium's biggest year...
Dell Hopes to Catch Acer With Help from China, India
lagging behind Acer in market share for the first time ever. As of the fourth quarter of 2009, Dell had just 12.4% of the global market, according to market research firm IDC, compared with 13.4% for...
Wi-Fi in flight has yet to soar
Launched four years ago, the use of Wi-Fi on U.S. airlines has yet to catch on, with estimates that the wireless technology is still used by only 7% of the flying...
Micron appoints new CEO after plane crash
Steve Appleton in an plane accident in Boise, Idaho. Micron is based in Boise. It is a worldwide provider of advanced semiconductors for many industries. Micron makes DRAM, NAND and NOR flash memory...
Tebow, YouTube, Apple, ABC top marketing polls
Marketing firms, advertisers and sponsirs might want to hitch their wagons to brands such You Tube, Nickelodeon, Apple Computer, Capri Sun drinks, Sprite, ABC/Disney...
Teens move from Facebook to Twitter
Follow this company for more of their social media needs and communications. Twitter sometimes offers a bit more privacy than Facebook which has cross-generational market penetration...
Startup advice from a $1 billion venture firm
The most successful IT companies usually have solutions built around their software. This was just one bit of advice doled out to startup managers...
Chapel Hill Students Earn Free Computers
About 185 fifth-graders at Kissam Intermediate School in Chapel Hill ISD received free computers through Mustard Seed Ministries ';Computers for Kids'; program. The students, who received...
Telstra reports issue with BigPond email accounts
Telstra (ASX: TEL) has confirmed that a small number of BigPond email customers have not been receiving mail since the weekend beginning 4 February. A spokesman said in a statement that it had been...
NEHTA admits to errors within its e-health identifiers
The National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA) has conceded there have been errors within its Individual Healthcare Identifiers (IHI) service, following claims by industry that the service is...
Nicira debuts with its SDN baby
Nicira was founded in 2007 and has raised $50 million from investors Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners, NEA, and industry luminaries Diane Greene and Andy Rachleff. Greene is the...
Cloudyn monitors and optimizes AWS usage
Cloudyn is launching a hosted service on Monday that aims to monitor a company's cloud usage and recommend ways to optimize that usage in order to cut...
Samsung Galaxy Galaxy S II vs. Samsung Galaxy Nexus
In our review of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, we described it as the best Android phone ever. But does that mean you should automatically buy it instead of the Galaxy S II? Not necessarily. Let's...
E-Health Records marred by project, governance failures: APF
Australian Privacy Foundation warns of dire project and governance failings in the government's personally controlled electronic health records (PCEHRs)...
Australian retail, digital gaming markets battle for dominance
Despite the rise of digital games distribution platforms such as Steam and Origin and the growth in massively multiplayer online (MMO)gaming and mobile gaming, the Australian retail game market...
UC services market to grow 13.8 per cent year-on-year: Report
Managed services and hosted offerings are forecasted to drive unified communications (UC) growth of 13.8 per cent year-on-year up to 2018, according to Frost &...
Britain warns of internet meltdown
British businesses are being warned of possible internet breakdowns, data caps and "unavoidable" mobile phone problems during the London 2012 Olympics, in official advice from the Games...
SA minister urges change to Facebook ban
Women should be able to post pictures of themselves breastfeeding their children on Facebook, South Australia's minister for the status of women, Gail Gago,...