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Article | 8/03/2013 Google, MPEG LA resolve dispute over VP8 video format
Patents management company MPEG LA announced agreements with Google, granting the Internet giant a license to techniques that may be essential to the ...
Article | 7/03/2013 General Motors to hire 1,000 in Arizona as it moves IT jobs in-house
General Motors is hiring 1,000 IT staff for a center in a suburb of Phoenix, Arizona as part of its strategy to move more high-value IT work in-house.
Article | 7/03/2013 US Attorney General defends handling of Aaron Swartz case
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has defended the role of the prosecution in the case of the late Internet activist and innovator Aaron Swartz, stati...
Article | 6/03/2013 U.S. lawmaker introduces bill to legalize cellphone unlocking
A U.S. senator has proposed a bill that will allow consumers to unlock cellphones for use in other networks, after the administration of President Bar...
Article | 5/03/2013 Pew: Twitter not an accurate measure of public opinion
Opinions expressed on Twitter differ from public opinion measured by surveys on key political events and policy issues, reflecting that users of the I...
Article | 5/03/2013 Microsoft acquires cloud monitoring startup MetricsHub
Microsoft has acquired MetricsHub, a startup focused on technology for automating cloud performance management.
Article | 1/03/2013 UK court orders block of three torrent sites
A court in the U.K. has ordered key Internet service providers in the country to block three torrent sites on a complaint from music labels including ...
Article | 28/02/2013 PayPal accepts coins and paper currency at Coinstar kiosks
A PayPal alliance with Coinstar is being expanded to some parts of the U.S., allowing customers to deposit, withdraw and transfer funds to PayPal acco...
Article | 27/02/2013 Tata agrees to pay $30 million to settle employees' lawsuit in the US
Indian outsourcer Tata Consultancy Services has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit by paying US$30 million to employees deputed for work in the U...
Article | 27/02/2013 HP shareholder revolt targets two directors, auditor over Autonomy purchase
An investor advisor group is asking shareholders of Hewlett-Packard not to re-elect two long-standing board members and to oppose the ratification of ...
Article | 26/02/2013 Apple to settle class action lawsuit on in-app purchases by minors
Apple has reached a settlement in a class-action lawsuit that claimed that its app purchase policy did not prevent minor children from running huge ex...
Article | 26/02/2013 Six-strikes piracy alert system being rolled out in the US
A system that aims to curb Internet users from sharing copyrighted content is being rolled out in the U.S. after a number of delays.
Article | 26/02/2013 Twitter to offer app for Firefox OS
Twitter plans to offer an official app to run on the new Firefox OS, in a significant endorsement of the operating system.
Article | 23/02/2013 Microsoft's Azure service hit by expired SSL certificate
Microsoft's Azure cloud platform faced a worldwide outage in its storage services from Friday afternoon because of an expired SSL (secure sockets laye...
Article | 22/02/2013 Intel acquires appMobi for HTML5 developer tools
Intel has acquired appMobi's HTML5 developer tools division and hired its tools-related technical staff, to likely boost its presence in the mobile ap...

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