Tech numbers: Apple vs. Samsung, in court and in market share, plus Groupon...
Tech news by the numbers: • $2.75 billion: That’s how much Apple says Samsung owes it in damages as the two electronics giants continue to duke it out in a San Jose courtroom this week. Apple accuses...
View ArticleTech and policy: $675K file-sharing penalty upheld; AT&T, FaceTime and net...
• A damages award for downloading and sharing 30 songs that had been reduced to $67,500 from $675,000 is now back to the original six figures after a federal court ruling Thursday in Massachusetts....
View ArticleQuoted: on AT&T, FaceTime and net neutrality
“This will become a real problem for real people on release of the new system.” — Matt Wood, policy director for Free Press, one of three public-advocacy groups that plan to file a complaint with the...
View ArticleTech tapas: Yahoo shares, Google-Apple maps saga, WikiLeaks
Following up on varied topics previously addressed on GMSV: • Yahoo, which has been in the news lately as new CEO Marissa Mayer makes moves that include articulating her plans to employees and...
View ArticleSecurity matters: Swiss warning to CIA, others over data theft; the year in...
• Holey Swiss-cheese security: Swiss authorities are warning the United States, the United Kingdom and others that counter-terrorism information they shared may be in danger after a so-far unnamed...
View ArticleGoogle Maps find way back to iPhone, and other Google-Apple fight news
Bestill iPhone users’ beating hearts, for what once was lost has now been found: Google Maps has navigated its way back to the iPhone about three months after Apple kicked it to the curb in favor of...
View ArticleMobile talk: BlackBerry 10 is coming; Nokia Lumia surprise; iPhone tidbits;...
The mobile news is ringing off the hook: • The new BlackBerrys are coming — to three of the top U.S. wireless carriers at the end of the month. Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile reportedly indicated they...
View ArticleAs the tech world turns: Mobile sales fall, Apple smartwatch talk, Adobe PDF...
A grab bag of tech tidbits: • Overall global mobile phone sales fell 1.7 percent last year from 2011 despite a rise in smartphone sales, according to Gartner. The research firm cited “tough” economic...
View ArticleMozilla’s Firefox OS vs. Android, iOS and mobile apps
Can the new Firefox OS make a dent in the dominance of Google‘s Android and Apple‘s iOS? And can the Web get its mobile groove back? Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacks, speaking in Barcelona at the Mobile World...
View ArticleSurprise change at the top at Android comes ahead of expected Galaxy S IV launch
Android chief Andy Rubin is stepping aside — but staying at Google, according to a laudatory blog post from CEO Larry Page today that talked about Rubin having “exceeded even the crazy ambitious goals...
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