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Bored with Apple, Samsung Declares War on Facebook Instead
Samsung getting fed up of copying making phones perhaps? Or do they genuinely believe they can do what the likes of Google and Apple have miserably failed to achieve? Either way, reports from Korea that the electronics and just-about-everything-else giant is planning to launch a social networking service to rival Facebook are sure to raise ...
Flame and Stuxnet Malware were “Parallel Projects”
Security experts have revealed that the creators of the Flame malware and the notorious Stuxnet worm, the two deadliest malicious programs ever discovered, likely collaborated with one another during their development, to the extent that they even used the same source code. The revelation will no doubt lead conspiracy theorists to point the finger of ...
TechEd 2012: Microsoft Showcases Windows Server 2012 as “Cloud OS”
While Apple is grabbing all the headlines with its Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, there is another little get together taking place on the other side of the country. Microsoft’s TechEd North American conference kicked off yesterday with a wide ranging keynote session as it attempted to pitch its new services to various Fortune ...
Twitter Shows Facebook How to Make It In Mobile
Facebook could learn a thing or two from Twitter, it would seem. One of the major concerns being voiced by Facebook chiefs in recent weeks is how its future advertising revenues might be negatively affected as more users embrace mobile devices – but as far as Twitter are concerned, such a shift is not going ...
Global Spread of Facebook Continues, Even as Growth Rate Slows
Facebook’s quest for world dominance continues to gather pace, with the latest stats from the World Map of Social Networks showing that the platform has now become the number one choice for Brazilian netizens, beating down Orkut into second place. Vincenzo Cosenza’s World Map of Social Networks, which gathers data from Alexa and Google Trends ...
No Dropbox Promo for AT&T and Verizon Galaxy S III Users
When Samsung first unveiled its new Galaxy S III smartphone, one of the perks presented by the company was the offer of 50GB of free cloud-based storage, available for two years on Dropbox, trumping a similar offer on the HTC One which only gave users 25GB of storage. Now however, it looks as if Samsung ...
Agony for Apple in Australian Court Battles
Yesterday was a bad day at the office for the folks at Apple Australia, with the tech giant being fined AU$2.25 million for misleading consumers over its new iPad 4, while it faces a new court action from rivals Samsung Electronics over allegations concerning four of its patents. Apple Australia agreed on Thursday to pay ...
Want to Know if your LinkedIn or eHarmony Password was Hacked? Here’s How…
Following the revelation that hackers managed to compromise 8 million passwords from social sites LinkedIn and eHarmony, worried users will no doubt be concerned that their own accounts were among the ones which were breached. While the companies have promised to notify all users whose passwords have been compromised, experts have warned that the hackers ...
Samsung Appoints New CEO as Court Battle Looms
As Samsung gets ready to square up to Apple over the latter’s attempt to have its new Galaxy S III device banned from US markets, the electronics powerhouse has appointed Kwon Oh-hyun as its new CEO. The current chief of Samsung’s hugely successful chips and display components arm, Kwon takes over the top job at ...