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Fox, CBS and NBC filed lawsuits against Dish Network Thursday over a feature found in a new digital video recorder that lets subscribers automatically skip the advertisements on recorded shows from major networks Dish countered by asking a judge to declare that the feature does not infringe on any copyrights as claimed by the networks....

Tablets are now a solid fixture in the mobile ad ecosystem, according to a new report. However, the format hasn't been fully exploited yet, in spite of the tablet's strong presence in the mobile world, thanks to Apple's iPad Non-phone mobile devices -- primarily, tablets -- accounted for 20 percent of all impressions for Q1 2012, compared to 15 pe...

Salesforce.com is adding more functionality to its Chatter tool -- in this case, real-time communication capabilities. The two new features soon to be available are Chatter Messenger and Chatter Screensharing Chatter Messenger is an instant messaging application to be used within the Chatter application. When it launches as part of Salesforce.com'...

SwiftKey X Keyboard, an app from TouchType, is available for US$2.99 at Google Play. I've got fond memories of physical keyboards embedded in smartphones. My PalmTreos -- I had three -- were superb at composing email and SMS text responses. I evenmade notes for a book I was writing on one Treo....

A giant but unseen planet may lurk on the outer edge of our solar system, making its presence known only by disrupting the orbits of nearby celestial objects, according to Rodney Gomes, an astronomer at the National Observatory of Brazil, who presented a paper on the topic earlier this month ...

While it sounded like a sure thing, it was apparently anything but. Investors lined up to take part in last week's Facebook IPO with hopes of skyrocketing returns, but instead of blasting off, the stock lost ground. For Facebook, it might as well have crashed and burned. Nothing is certain with stocks, of course. But this week it was reported tha...

Yahoo on Thursday launched Axis, a new mobile browser and plug-in ...

HP has posted its second quarter earnings and announced it will lay off 27,000 workers worldwide in an effort to simplify its business and increase efficiency HP beat Wall Street expectations with its earnings but still faces questions about how it will compete in a changing tech industry....

HP has posted its second quarter earnings and announced it will lay off 27,000 workers worldwide in an effort to simplify its business and increase efficiency HP beat Wall Street expectations with its earnings but still faces questions about how it will compete in a changing tech industry....

Executives at Google no doubt are heaving signs of relief at the outcome of the latest -- and possibly last -- phase of the Java copyright and patent trial: The jury unanimously found that Google did not infringe Oracle's patents U.S. District Judge William Alsup, who is presiding over the trial in the U.S.District Court of Northern California, dis...

When AOL made a US$1 billion deal to sell patents to Microsoft last April, its stock jumped up about 43 percent on the news. After all, AOL could use a $1 billion shot in the arm. Who couldn't? But what is behind this string of sales of patents? Why are patents so important to large tech firms like Microsoft, Google and Apple? Let's take look at w...

A quick look at the wireless industry over the last several years shows wave after wave of innovation and success. In fact, success has been bigger than anyone's wildest dreams. However, success does not come to all. Why do some companies, like AT&T and Verizon, seem to hit the ball out of the park, while Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile keep striking o...

I remember being an impatient kid when something I really wanted was on its way.The first time I was aware of my parents mail-ordering something for me (I thinkit was a baseball jersey I especially coveted) I can recall bombarding them with achorus of the phrase, "when is it going to get here?" I realize now that hearing asix-year-old ask that que...

If your device is having difficulty completing tasks like file downloading, it's a dead giveaway that it needs some maintenance. We're used to the idea of spending abit of time running hard disk defragmentation, spyware scans and other tools on our PCs,but we may not be so au fait with what's needed on the limited-memory phones and PC-substituting...

Dell took a hard hit on Wall Street Wednesday after it revealed sluggish PC sales and a disappointing quarterly earnings report Shares of Dell were down 17 percent Wednesday, Dell's biggest one-day drop since 2000. The stock, already down 15 percent on the year, closed at US$12.49.

Before Apple and Samsung launched a new chapter in their multicountry, multiargument patent dispute, Judge Lucy Koh of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, told the two sides to sit down and try to iron out their differences. Apple CEO Tim Cook and Samsung CEO Choi Gee-sung duly complied with the judge's orders, spendin...

Motorola Mobility this week unveiled its DreamGallery video navigation software for content providers at a cable industry trade show DreamGallery lets users search hundreds of channels in seconds, bookmark and store their favorite content in one place, and discover new content tailored to their preferences....

After last weekend's delayed launch, the Falcon 9 rocket built by SpaceX blasted off Tuesday, carrying the unmanned Dragon capsule into low-Earth orbit While the launch itself could have been considered breathtaking, there will be more "hold your breath" moments ahead. The next one will come on Thursday when the craft is scheduled to dock with the ...

SAP has revealed plans to acquire Ariba, an enterprise e-commerce network, for US$4.3 billion as part of the German company's expansion into cloud computing. SAP will purchase Ariba for $45 per share -- about 20 percent more than its market price. Ariba's board approved the purchase unanimously. The sale is expected to be completed during the thi...

After dropping to US$31 per share on Tuesday, Facebook's stock is hinting at a turnaround Wednesday morning, hovering around $32.15 per unit. Unless the stock surges past its $38 per unit launch price, however, it is hard to imagine how those responsible for its disappointing debut -- a group that includes lead underwriter Morgan Stanley, Nasdaq o...