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Fri, 12 Mar 2010

Smartphones spread slowly in China, despite 3G and Apple's iPhone

Owen Fletcher

China now has the iPhone and more big-name smartphones are due in the country, but few buyers overall are choosing smartphones despite promotion by China's mobile carriers.

Fri, 12 Mar 2010

Apple EU Stores closed - iPad UK price and pre-orders today? (Updated)

Mark Hattersley

The Apple Store is currently closed. Typically this occurs when Apple introduces a new product. The iPad is due to have pre-orders today in the US, but the UK store is also closed. Are we also going to get iPad pre-orders today?

Thu, 11 Mar 2010

Intel invests in social media incubator Betaworks

Agam Shah

Intel invested an undisclosed amount in social media incubator Betaworks to gain insight into real-time user behavior on social networks, the chip maker said on Thursday.

Thu, 11 Mar 2010

Apple, Google and RIM US market share grows as Microsoft, Palm decline

Lexton Snol PC Advisor

Apple, Google and RIM are growing their shares of the US smartphone operating system market, while Microsoft and Palm decline according to data from comScore.

Thu, 11 Mar 2010

Move over Bill: Microsoft co-founder Gates no longer world's richest man

Network World Staff

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is no longer the world's richest man according to the annual Forbes magazine list released this week.

Thu, 11 Mar 2010

HSBC: Data theft incident broader than first thought after employee allegedly stole data

Jeremy Kirk

HSBC said on Thursday about 15,000 accounts of its Swiss private banking unit were compromised after an employee allegedly stole data.

Thu, 11 Mar 2010

Court reaffirms i4i's patent win against Microsoft

Nancy Gohring

The U.S. Federal Appeals Court again upheld a ruling against Microsoft in the i4i case.

Wed, 10 Mar 2010

Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac reigns in benchmark comparison tests

Nick Spence

Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac beat the competition and Parallels Desktop 4 in a recent independent comparison test published by MacTech magazine.

Wed, 10 Mar 2010

Counterfeit card fraud drops by half in the UK

Jeremy Kirk

Fraud losses due to counterfeit payment cards fell by half in 2009 from the year prior in the U.K., but online banking losses continued to rise, according to new banking industry figures released Wednesday.

Wed, 10 Mar 2010

Google opens marketplace for cloud apps

Sharon Gaudin Computerworld

Google has unveiled an online store where users can buy cloud-based applications designed to work with Googles own apps.

Wed, 10 Mar 2010

Ex-Sun boss dishes dirt on Apple's Steve Jobs, Microsoft's Bill Gates

James Niccolai

Jonathan Schwartz has started dishing dirt from his days at Sun in a blog called "What I couldn't say..."

Tue, 09 Mar 2010

European Parliament debates anti-ACTA petition

Paul Meller

European Parliamentarians are set to debate whether to formally oppose an anticounterfeiting trade agreement being negotiated in secret by the European Commission with worldwide trading partners.

Tue, 09 Mar 2010

Vodafone cuts 375 jobs in cost cutting measure

Nick Spence

Vodafone is cutting 375 jobs across its business from this month although new "customer-facing" jobs are being created.

Tue, 09 Mar 2010

Adobe CEO's 2009 compensation falls 68 percent to $5.2 million

Ann Bednarz Network World

Compensation for Adobe Systems president and CEO Shantanu Narayen took a big hit in 2009, as did the company’s annual revenue and income.

Mon, 08 Mar 2010

Women CIOs show strong leadership on International Women’s Day

Mark Chillingworth CIO

11 major organisations in the UK have their IT strategy led by women.

Sat, 06 Mar 2010

HP cuts reported profit on additional BSkyB legal costs

James Niccolai

Hewlett-Packard has been forced to reduce the amount of profit it reported last quarter to cover additional costs awarded against its EDS division in a lawsuit brought by British Sky Broadcasting in the U.K.

Fri, 05 Mar 2010

Google buys DocVerse

Nancy Gohring

Google announced on Friday that it acquired DocVerse.

Fri, 05 Mar 2010

IDC: Worldwide disk storage capacity grows 33% in 2009

Lucas Mearian Computerworld

IDC released its worldwide disk storage market report for 2009, which showed the first quarter-over-quarter increase in revenue for disk systems since the third quarter of 2008.

Fri, 05 Mar 2010

Legal firm faces Solicitors Regulation Authority investigation over net piracy letters

Carrie-Ann Skinner PC Advisor

A legal firm which has accused a number of UK residents of illegally file-sharing, is itself being investigated.

Fri, 05 Mar 2010

Hogarth shows-off FIDO, its custom Final Cut Server-based solution

Mark Hattersley

London-based video editing and production suite, has taken Final Cut Server and integrated it with a number of other databases to create a complete workflow solution. We catch up with Hogarth to talk about its FIDO System.

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