Thursday 2 May 2013

Obama nominates Wheeler as new FCC chairman

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Obama nominates Wheeler as new FCC chairman

05.01.2013 12:42 PM

U.S. President Barack Obama has nominated telecom trade group veteran Tom Wheeler to be the next chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.

Facebook's "Trusted Contacts" lets friends bail you out of a hack attack

05.02.2013 11:08 AM

Facebook Thursday announced a new security tool called Trusted Contacts for users who suspect they've been hacked.

 

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Senator introduces legislation targeting patent trolls

05.01.2013 1:42 PM

A U.S. senator has introduced legislation allowing the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to review and invalidate controversial patents challenged by technology startups in an effort to discourage so-called patent trolls.

Hadoop gets more search with MapR, Cloudera releases

05.01.2013 2:00 PM

Users of the Hadoop data processing platform now have two more search engines to help them sort through their mountains of information.

Windows 8 grows slow, XP just won't go

05.01.2013 2:05 PM

Microsoft was hit with a double whammy last month as it made scant progress in either boosting the usage share of Windows 8 or depressing the share of Windows XP, data published today showed.

Facebook revenue rises 38 percent amid continued mobile growth

05.01.2013 2:11 PM

Facebook posted a revenue increase of 38 percent in the first quarter that was bolstered by broad engagement across the site, the company reported Wednesday.

Think tablets are popular? Shipments explode in Q1

05.01.2013 2:35 PM

Tablet shipments exploded by 142% in the first quarter of 2013 year-over-year as all Android tablets, including low-budget white box versions, dominated the market over Apple iOS tablets, IDC said.

SAP loses bid to overturn $345 million patent judgment

05.01.2013 2:45 PM

An appeals court has rejected SAP's attempt to overturn a $345 million judgment awarded to Versata Software, which had brought a patent-infringement case against the software maker.

Buyers beware: Many BlackBerry 10 apps aren't compatible with Q10

05.01.2013 3:00 PM

Many BlackBerry 10 apps are not yet compatible with the new BlackBerry Q10, expected to arrive in the U.S. later this month.

New Chromebooks coming this year from Asus and Acer, report suggests

05.01.2013 8:17 PM

Samsung, Lenovo, and HP are expected to release Chromebooks soon as well.

VMware sells WaveMaker assets to Pramati

05.01.2013 8:48 PM

A little more than two years after purchasing Java tool vendor WaveMaker, VMware has sold the assets of the company to the Pramati software engineering firm.

Intel's Haswell gets massive graphics performance boost

05.01.2013 10:02 PM

Intel is already teasing the graphics boost in Haswell, the next-gen series of chips due to launch in June.

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