Thursday 5 July 2012

HTC Fends off Apple in UK Patent Lawsuit Involving 'Slide to Unlock' Feature

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July 5, 2012
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HTC Fends off Apple in UK Patent Lawsuit Involving 'Slide to Unlock' Feature A High Court in the U.K. has ruled that HTC did not infringe on Apple's photo management patent.
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DNSChanger Malware Set to Knock Thousands Off Internet on Monday Here's how to find out if your computer is infected, and what to do if it is.
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Google Glass Launches New Age of Personal Computing If Google's latest computing plan stays on track, the definition of a computer could broaden significantly.
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Olympics Facing Threat From Cyberattacks, Says UK Official A Home Office official has warned once again that with the Olympic Games only weeks away the country faces an unprecedented threat from cyber-attacks.
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New Android Malware Uses Phones as Spam Botnet The messages are being propagated through Yahoos mail service and promote counterfeit Viagra and other pharmaceuticals.
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Watch Out: Trojan Horse Found in the iOS App Store Security software company Kaspersky discovered a Trojan Horse in the iOS App Store that sends your contacts to a remote server and spams people you know.
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Olympus Follows Google Glass with Wearable Display Prototype The MEG4.0 clips on to standard eyeglasses and projects a 320-by-240 QVGA display right in front of your eyes.
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Targeted Attacks Against Aerospace Industry Use Sykipot Malware New email-based attacks, some of which target the aerospace industry, are distributing new variants of the Sykipot information stealing malware, according to researchers from security firm AlienVault.
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Crashing iOS Apps Blamed on Flaw in Apple App Store The developer of Instapaper says the update Apple was pushing to his users was corrupt. Another app maker attributed the problem to damaged binaries.
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Taiwan Worries New Apple Patent Could Target Ultrabooks UPDATE: A Taiwan government office is warning local PC vendors of a MacBook Air patent that could be used in legal action to stop sale of ultrabooks.
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Mozilla Gathers Support for Firefox Mobile OS Mozilla confirms details of its Firefox mobile operating system, which it plans to release win 2013 with several partners.
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Cars Should Automatically Call for Help After Crashes, EU Parliament Says By 2015, the European Parliament wants all new cars to automatically alert emergency services in case of a crash, a service known as eCall.
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Google, Asus Mute at Nokia Patent Claim Nokia says the Google Nexus 7 tablet infringes on its patents, even before it hits the marketplace.
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Nexus Q Teardown Reveals Heavy Base, Foreign Parts Although Google says the Nexus Q is built in the United States, it's still chock full of foreign parts.
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12 Amazing App-Powered Gadgets An "appcessory" is hardware that works--with the assistance of an app--with your iOS or Android phone or tablet. Here is a collection of our favorites--plus several that are just a little weird.
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RIM Boss Says Company Isn't in 'Death Spiral' Thorsten Heins said that the company is 'very, very challenged at the moment' but that it was going through a transitional period.
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Intel/McAfee: What's the Future of Security? McAfee's co-President discusses the merger of chip manufacturing and security software.
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TechHive: How Rock Concert Tech Works The people who produce rock concerts are always looking for new ways to thrill and surprise us, and theyre increasingly turning to technology to do it. Heres how some of the major components of the big show work.((
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The Case For (and Against) a Smaller 'iPad Mini' Speculation of a smaller iPad seems relentless, so I examine the arguments for why it would--or would not--be a good idea.
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Ransomware Threatens Victims With Police Reports for Child Pornography Cybercriminals are using a new piece of malware to extort money from their victims by encrypting their files and threatening to alert authorities about child...
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