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Medical-sector companies are passing out thousands of iPad tablet computers to salespeople to spruce up their pitch to doctors, and at the same time giving Apple Inc. a crucial foot in the door to business customers.
Abbott Laboratories, Medtronic Inc. and Boston Scientific Corp. are among the drug and medical-device firms making the move, while others say they are testing out the devices. Get the full story »
“The Smurfs’ Village,” a game for the iPhone and other Apple gadgets, was released a month ago and quickly became the highest-grossing application in the iTunes store. Yet it’s free to download.
So where does the money come from? Kelly Rummelhart of Gridley, Calif., has part of the answer. Her 4-year-old son was using her iPad to play the game and racked up $66.88 in charges on her credit card without knowing what he was doing. Get the full story »
The European Union’s competition watchdog says it is fining five Taiwanese and South Korean electronics companies $856 million for fixing prices on LCD panels between 2001 and 2006. Get the full story »
The first laptops powered by Google Inc’s Chrome system will hit store shelves later than expected, as the Internet company works out bugs in a family of Web-centric computers intended to take on Microsoft Corp and Apple Inc . Get the full story »
Microsoft plans to introduce a new “tracking protection” feature in the next version of its Internet Explorer browser, which will let users filter out sites they don’t want to share information with. Get the full story »
From the Huffington Post | Multiple reports and rumors are trickling out of Apple’s manufacturing base in China about its planned next-generation iPad, informally known as the “iPad 2.” On Tuesday, DigiTimes released a report stating that Chinese manufacturing plants located in Shenzen and owned by Foxconn Electronics will build between 400,000 and 600,000 iPad 2 units, to be shipped out “within the next 100 days.”
The Huffington Post rounds up this and other rumors, so far:Get the full story>>
It’s the online equivalent of police breaking down the wrong door.
Court documents show that a typo caused federal investigators in Milwaukee to go through an innocent person’s e-mail account as they tried to track down an alleged Russian spammer.
An FBI agent says in a search-warrant affidavit that as soon as he discovered his mistake he stopped reviewing the e-mails, sealed them and sought a new search warrant for the correct address. Get the full story »
A Russian man accused of masterminding a vast worldwide spamming network has pleaded not guilty in a Wisconsin federal court.
Oleg Nikolaenko was arraigned Friday morning in Milwaukee. The 23-year-old Moscow man was slightly disheveled in his orange prison jumpsuit. His attorney entered the plea while a Russian interpreter translated for Nikolaenko. Get the full story »
A U.S. judge closed to the public parts of testimony in the trial of a former computer programmer accused of stealing secret high-frequency trading code from Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
U.S. District Judge Denise Cote said from the bench on Thursday that she was granting a government application to seal parts of testimony of three witnesses, all of them employees at Wall Street’s most influential bank.
Prosecutors allege that programmer Sergey Aleynikov stole critical parts of Goldman’s top-secret high-frequency trading program in June 2009 before going to a new job with Teza Technologies LLC, a speed-trading start-up firm in Chicago. Get the full story »
Motorola Mobility is planning to make tablet devices in two different sizes, Chief Executive Sanjay Jha said Wednesday.
Jha has previously voiced interest in the tablet space, but offered a few more details during an investment bank conference. Motorola Mobility will make both a 7-inch and a 10-inch tablet because “we view both formats as being quite meaningful,” Jha said. Get the full story »
Consumers may soon have new tools to protect their privacy online.
On Wednesday, the federal government released a much-anticipated report advocating safeguards for online privacy, including a “do not track” list, which would keep browsers’ web surfing private. The list would be similar to the “do not call” list that has helped curb telemarketing phone calls.
David Vladeck, director of the FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection, said Wednesday that consumers bear too heavy a burden for protecting themselves online. He said the FTC has grown frustrated with the pace of self-regulation and the escalating technological “arms race,” and that advertising networks often circumvent the privacy protections consumers use. Get the full story »
Apple is expanding the size of its Cupertino, California, home base, acquiring nearby facilities from computer pioneer and competitor Hewlett Packard Co. Get the full story »
A federal jury has ordered SAP to pay $1.3 billion to its archenemy, Oracle, for stealing customer support documents and software in a scheme to steal customers. Get the full story »
Acer Inc., the world’s No. 2 PC manufacturer, unveiled a range of tablet computers to help it compete with Apple Inc.’s iPad.
The tablet computer market is becoming crowded as more companies produce the new devices, which fall between traditional PCs and smartphones. Get the full story »
Tellabs Inc. is acquiring a Canadian telecommunications equipment company to boost its research and development in mobile Internet technology.
Terms of the deal between Naperville-based Tellabs and Zeguma Systems Inc. of Richmond, British Columbia were not disclosed. Get the full story »
