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Article | 23/05/2013 AMD willing to embrace Android

Advanced Micro Devices has opened the door to embrace Google's Android operating system, but said it would continue to focus on Windows with its upcom...

Article | 23/05/2013 Penguin settles with US states in e-book price-fixing lawsuit

Penguin has settled with U.S. states in an e-book price-fixing lawsuit, leaving only Apple now in the fray.

Article | 23/05/2013 Messaging application Line flags sensitive phrases in China

A mechanical engineering student in Taiwan has found the messaging application called Line warns and stops users in China from sending certain politic...

Article | 22/05/2013 Twitter aims to become safer with two-step sign-in

Twitter, in a much-needed move to keep its users safer from cyberattacks, is introducing a more secure login process.

Article | 22/05/2013 App development not keeping up with device updates

App development teams in companies are unable to keep up the updates rolled out by device vendors, according to a survey conducted by Vanson Bourne, a...

Article | 22/05/2013 HP profit falls 32 per cent as PC and server sales decline

Hewlett-Packard reported a 32 per cent drop in profit for its second fiscal quarter, due partly to slower sales of PCs and servers.

Article | 22/05/2013 Wal-Mart to send automated shopping lists to its mobile app

Wal-Mart plans to use big data about a customer's usual shopping to automatically create shopping lists for them on its mobile app.

Article | 22/05/2013 Verizon, Jennifer Lopez partner on Latino-focused wireless stores

Verizon Wireless is partnering with singer and actress Jennifer Lopez in creating a USretail distribution company that will offer Verizon's devices in...

Article | 22/05/2013 Google launching new fund for later-stage tech investments

Google is launching a new fund through which it will make later-stage investments in technology companies, a Google executive said Wednesday.

Article | 22/05/2013 Would you pay $US30 for a waterproof Android smartphone?

If you've ever dropped, broken or drowned your mobile phone, Kyocera Wireless has a deal for you: two new waterproofed Android phones, one of them rug...

Article | 22/05/2013 IP theft commission: US needs to take strong action

The U.S. government should bar foreign companies that repeatedly steal or use stolen U.S. intellectual property from selling their products in the cou...

Article | 22/05/2013 CIOs need to rethink their roles, MIT symposium panelists say

By now, it's become a tired old tech industry bromide: CIOs need to be business-savvy.

Article | 22/05/2013 Google Drive updates Android UI, adds document scanning

Google's Drive cloud storage service has been retooled for Android users and is now capable of capturing a document by converting a photo of it to tex...

Article | 22/05/2013 Study ranks US least risky place to open data center

Last year the U.S. was the least risky place in the world to open a data center, according to a study released this week.

Article | 22/05/2013 Nvidia, Citrix crank up virtual desktop delivery

Improvements to Nvidia's virtualization technology are aimed at turning graphics processors into a more important resource in data centers and could s...

Article | 22/05/2013 Citrix links cloud-based storage to SharePoint and Azure

Citrix Systems is making its cloud-based storage service ShareFile more Microsoft-friendly with SharePoint integration and the ability to store data o...

Article | 22/05/2013 Growing mobile malware threat swirls (mostly) around Android

Mobile devices are getting hit by a boom in malware similar to the one that hit PCs starting with the rise of the Web, a security software executive s...

Article | 22/05/2013 Blue Coat Systems to acquire security analytics firm Solera Networks

Blue Coat Systems, a provider of Web traffic filtering and business assurance products and services, plans to buy security analytics specialist Solera...

Article | 22/05/2013 Salesforce.com aims its customer service, social monitoring apps at governments

Salesforce.com is hoping to set the standard for how government bodies deliver online services to citizens using mobile devices.

Article | 22/05/2013 Samsung's Galaxy S4 infringes on 5 patents, Apple says

Samsung's Galaxy S4 infringes on 5 Apple patents, according to a court filing by Apple.