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Stories by Peter Sayer

Article | 5/09/2012 French antipiracy authority 'happy' it has sent just 14 cases to court in the last year

Just 14 of the 1.15 million emails warning of copyright infringement sent out by the French online antipiracy authority have resulted in a case file b...

Article | 29/08/2012 Video site Dailymotion plans homepage refresh to boost video views

Video site Dailymotion hopes to show its visitors more videos with a redesign of its homepage that appears to draw inspiration from the checkered inte...

Article | 8/08/2012 Android and iOS dominate mobile market, says IDC

Android was on over two-thirds of smartphones shipped in the second quarter, with Apple's iOS on around a sixth of them -- more than all the remaining...

Article | 20/07/2012 Vodafone's Q2 revenue drops 7 percent

Vodafone Group reported a 7 percent year-on-year drop in revenue for the second quarter. The mobile phone giant saw year-on-year declines in almost ev...

Article | 19/07/2012 Nokia's Q2 smartphone sales fell 39 per cent, as loss widens

Nokia reported a 39 percent year-on-year drop in the number of smartphones it sold in the second quarter, to 10.2 million, while its net loss more tha...

Article | 17/07/2012 European Commission investigates Microsoft's browser choice commitments

The European Commission has launched a formal investigation of Microsoft's compliance with commitments it made to settle a browser antitrust case.

Article | 9/07/2012 French company fined €10,000 for failing to share GPS tracking data with employee

A French company must pay a €10,000 (US$12,281) fine for failing to provide an employee with GPS data tracking the movements of his company vehicle, t...

Article | 6/07/2012 Facebook buys a stake in $450M Asian undersea cable consortium

Facebook has taken a stake in a US$450 million project to link South Asian countries with an undersea cable, a company spokeswoman said Friday. The pr...

Article | 4/07/2012 French tax inspectors search Microsoft offices in dawn raid

French tax authorities have visited the headquarters of Microsoft France to conduct an inspection, a spokesman for the company confirmed Wednesday.

Article | 21/06/2012 New eBay data center will run on fuel cells

Biogas fuel cells will power an extension to eBay's data center in Utah, set to go online around the middle of next year.

Article | 13/06/2012 US companies show most interest in new top-level domain names

Seven companies want news, eight want music or a movie, and seven want love. Four want pizza, but none of them make it. Only two want sex, and one eve...

Article | 11/06/2012 Google strikes deal to end litigation with French authors and publishers

Google has struck a deal with two French organizations representing authors and book publishers, ending years of litigation over its unauthorized scan...

Article | 6/06/2012 Mojix sees virtualization as way to cut RFID cost for inventory management

RFID reader manufacturer Mojix is turning to virtualization to boost the performance of its long-range passive RFID system, used in manufacturing and ...

Article | 30/05/2012 WikiLeaks leader Julian Assange loses extradition appeal

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange may be extradited to Sweden for questioning about allegations of sexual offenses, the U.K. Supreme Court ruled on Wed...

Article | 24/05/2012 European privacy regulators want more detail on Google's policy changes

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