Yahoo!News writes that Apple “CEO Steve Jobs and other Apple execs [are] facing a New Year’s hangover of antitrust lawsuits, software holes, and a nagging SEC investigation into stock-option irregularities” which together “threaten to undermine longtime strengths for the company.” According to eWeek.com, “VeriSign and Adobe Systems will collaborate on [...]
CNetNews.com reveals that “[a] patent feud between IBM and Amazon.com took a new twist this week as the e-commerce giant countersued Big Blue for infringement and blasted its earlier accusations as ‘meritless and misleading.’” MSNBC writes that “[a]n Australian court ruled Monday that a concert promoter cannot block eBay users [...]
The Wall Street Journal reports that European officials set EU-wide frequencies for short-range wireless products on Thursday. CNetNews.com reveals that ‘[t]he New York City Pension Fund wants shareholders to force Google and Yahoo to refuse Internet censorship requests by governments.” In an unrelated story, CNetNews.com writes that “Google is beefing [...]
According to SFGate.com, “[t]he Internet accelerates while [the] U.S. trails behind”. CNetNews.com features an interview with Google’s open source programs manager Chris DiBona in which he talks about how Google, despite being a heavy user of open-source software and an active participant in many projects that develop it, is also [...]
According to Yahoo!News, security experts predict that “[c]omputer hackers will open a new front in the multi-billion [dollar] ‘cyberwar’ in 2007, targeting mobile phones, instant messaging and community Web sites such as MySpace”. ZDNet UK reveals that Ultrawideband is to be legalized across Europe within the next six months, but [...]