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Samsung has scored a victory against Apple in a legal skirmish in Australia that is part of a larger, global battle between the two over their respective patent rights. An Australian appeals court overturned a preliminary injunction that barred Samsung from selling its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet in the country. The court unanimously ruled that the jud...

My previous experience with book publishers was over 10 years ago when I wrote a book about buying a business. It wasn't a great experience because first I had to find an agent -- not an easy task. The agent then had to go through the long and arduous task of finding a publisher.

I recently discovered Intermap, a company that helps wireless networks solve a growing problem -- poor signal quality and strength. It has seen growth rates of 419 percent during the last year and, based on what I've seen so far, that may just be the beginning. ...

Each dollar spent on CRM yields US$5.60 in benefits, according to a recent report from Nucleus Research. Though the findings are interesting, the methodology is questionable. The 70 participating companies were customers of a firm that had been profiled in case studies, meaning that they were not necessarily typical CRM users. Still, it's worth n...

Think of the devices that have been made redundant by smartphones: landline phone, laptop computer, global positioning system (GPS) receiver, map, compass, flashlight, still camera, video camera, gaming console, calculator, wristwatch, electronic photo frame, newspaper, magazine, book, radio, weather radio, police scanner, MP3 player, television, home entertainment system remote control, main street bank, tape measure, bubble level, and coming up, your wallet...

Windows 8 tablets may have a very difficult time competing when they finally hit the market, according to the findings of a recent Forrester Research report U.S. consumer desire for Windows tablets halved between the first and third quarters of this year, said J.P. Gownder, one of the report's authors....

The Federal Communications Commission has released a report attacking AT&T's proposal to buy T-Mobile as a damper on competition. The 157-page report was released on Wednesday, after the FCC accepted AT&T's move to withdraw its request for approval of the US$39 billion deal The report evaluates the impact the merger would have on competition i...

The Federal Communications Commission has released a report attacking AT&T's proposal to buy T-Mobile as a damper on competition. The 157-page report was released on Wednesday, after the FCC accepted AT&T's move to withdraw its request for approval of the US$39 billion deal The report evaluates the impact the merger would have on competition i...

Online music service Spotify on Wednesday announced that it's launching a series of integrated apps from various partners These include apps from entities like Rolling Stone and Billboard and Songkick....

The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) and CTIA have unveiled a new rating system for mobile software applications intended to help parents monitor activity as the number of children with smartphones and access to wireless content increases The ESRB has had a similar system in place for computer and video games since 1994, and it said it ai...

Verizon and Microsoft announced details Tuesday of a deal between the companies for streaming video content from Verizon's FiOS television service to members of Microsoft's Xbox Live Gold service Verizon explained that Gold members who also subscribe to FiOS TV and Internet services will be able to stream 26 channels, most of them in high definitio...

Facebook has agreed to settle charges of privacy violations with the Federal Trade Commission. As part of the settlement, the social networking giant will submit to periodic independent privacy audits for the next 20 years. The company has also agreed to ask users for permission before changing the way their data is released. The agreement stems f...

Cookbooks have always been about sharing recipes, connecting with others and figuring out what to make for dinner. Now, however, digital cookbooks, apps and other new formats are bringing these activities into the 21st century Chefs and cookbook authors are starting to recognize that cookbooks -- and along with them, how we think about food -- are ...

Economics is a social science, much to the chagrin of neoclassical economists who prefer to think of it as a hard science, like physics, full of equations and certainty. I think of myself as a Keynesian, and while I can see the equations, the certainty eludes me. What I see mostly are people, all of us, with our reptile brains wrapped in a layer of mammalian sensibility trying to satisfy our needs. Economists refer to us as "rational actors," but we are hardly that...

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Researchers at Columbia University have demonstrated that a remote firmware update command in some HP LaserJet printers can be hijacked, according to a report from MSNBC. In one case, a hacked printer was reportedly given commands that might cause it to get hot enough to scorch paper loaded in it The researchers rewrote a test printer's firmware an...

Facebook is getting ready for an initial public offering in the second quarter of 2012, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The company is looking to raise US$10 billion, which would value it at more than $100 billion. The IPO papers will reportedly be filed by the end of the year The proposed valuation is double the value placed on Faceboo...

Research In Motion on Tuesday announced a mobile device management (MDM) solution that will include iOS and Android devices BlackBerry Mobile Fusion will consist of BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) version 5.0.3, new management capabilities for BlackBerry Playbook tablets, and MDM capabilities for iOS and Android mobile devices....

Online sales for Cyber Monday increased 33 percent from the same day last year, according to IBM's Cyber Monday Benchmark. The growth surpassed that of another banner day for e-commerce, Black Friday, which saw an increase of 29.3 percent in 2011 online sales compared with 2010's performance. "We expected the holiday season to be good this year," ...

The next generation of Microsoft's Kinect input device may be able to read users' lips and emotions, according to a Monday report on Eurogamer The forthcoming device, which is expected to come bundled with Xbox consoles, will not just sense motions the way the current Kinect generation does, but will also allow games to read lips, recognize which w...