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Nokia’s survival in question after 10,000 more job are cut - 15 juin 2012
Nokia’s future as an independent company is hanging in the balance and Microsoft could be forced to rescue the business if chief executive Stephen Elop cannot resuscitate the group’s smartphone business by the end of the year, analysts have warned. The Finnish mobile phone manufacturer announced 10,000 job cuts on (...)
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Microsoft and Nokia hit back at Google ’patent troll’ claims - 2 juin 2012
Android creator alleges that rivals are feeding mobile patents to firm that aims to extract billions from handset makers
The smartphone patent wars have heated up further, with Microsoft and Nokia hitting back at claims by Google that they are feeding mobile patents to a "troll" company that aims to extract (...)
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Google comprehensively defeats Oracle’s Android infringement claims - 1er juin 2012
Google has won a comprehensive victory against high-stakes claims by Oracle it unlawfully copied key parts of software to create its bestselling Android smartphone operating system.
A US federal judge ruled on Thursday that the software code at the heart of the case "“ 37 "APIs" , which allow apps to interact with (...)
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The five biggest social media fails - 24 mai 2012
The mix of old brands and new media has led to several unfortunate social media mishaps. We take a look back at some of the worst implementations of social media advertising.
With companies constantly looking for new ways to connect to their customers it was inevitable that the globe’s biggest brands would turn to (...)
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Ailing Nokia falls back on patents legacy - 14 mai 2012
Mobile phone maker steps up quest for royalties from rivals that it says infringe its patents
In a desperate search for cash to tide it over until sales ramp up of new products, Nokia is stepping up its quest for royalties from rivals that it says infringe its patents in their technology.
Last week it filed (...)
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U.S. Jury Hands Google Mixed Verdict on Oracle - 8 mai 2012
In a split decision that all but guaranteed continuing litigation, a Federal District Court jury in San Francisco on Monday decided that Google infringed on the overall structure of software copyrights held by Oracle, but also said that Google had not violated other important parts of Oracle’s software known as (...)
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The New Pay Phone and What It Knows About You - 1er mai 2012
The term pay phone has a new meaning today.
For consumers who wish to ditch their wallets, paying through a mobile phone can be awfully convenient. Those same consumers can also, often unwittingly, give up valuable information about themselves to merchants that want to sell them things.
A new survey by law (...)
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Samsung shows the confidence of the world’s leading phone maker - 29 avril 2012
With results suggesting that it has outsold Nokia, and its marketing department staging a provocative PR campaign against Apple, the Korean manufacturer is dominating a competitive market
Two black coaches pulled up outside the Apple store in Sydney last week, and dozens of people jumped out onto the rain-soaked (...)
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Battle of the smartphones - 25 janvier 2012
Apple’s on a roll and BlackBerry’s maker is feeling the squeeze. But who else is fighting for control of the mobile internet ? Is it game over or too close to call ?
Smartphones are becoming pervasive : more than half the UK population has a phone that can browse the internet and run apps, and nearly half of US (...)
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CES 2012 : Microsoft aims to go out with a bang - 9 janvier 2012
CES 2012 will be Microsoft’s last - but that’s not stopping the software giant from using it to make a serious bid for new mobile, tablet and business markets
As the world’s largest technology show begins in Las Vegas today, it’s set to be dominated by industry giants on the comeback trail : Apple may have hogged the (...)
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Nokia and Microsoft fingered over comments on adverse Lumia review - 20 décembre 2011
An Indian site’s ’reviewing’ of the Nokia Lumia 800 phone purely on its specifications was a strange thing to do - but anonymous commenting apparently from Nokia and Microsoft staff didn’t help matters
A Nokia employee and, apparently, another from Microsoft have been caught posting anonymous comments boosting their (...)
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Apple wins smartphone patents victory over HTC - 20 décembre 2011
US agency imposes import ban on phones that infringe the patent, but HTC tipped to work around ruling
Apple scored a narrow victory against Taiwan’s HTC Corp in their smartphone patents battle after the International Trade Commission found HTC infringed one of Apple’s patents.
The US trade agency imposed a formal (...)
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Syrie : le marché lucratif de la surveillance des cyber-dissidents - 4 décembre 2011
Pour traquer et réprimer ses opposants, Bachar al-Assad a fait appel à une société italienne qui a mis en place un système de surveillance sophistiqué. Coût de la transaction : 13 millions d’euros.
Pétrole, finance, logiciel et équipement de surveillance. L’Union Européene a pris des nouvelles mesures de sanction envers la (...)
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Internet massivement surveillé - 4 décembre 2011
WikiLeaks rend public aujourd’hui près de 1 100 documents internes, plaquettes commerciales et modes d’emploi des produits commercialisés par les industriels des systèmes de surveillance et d’interception des télécommunications.
Ces nouvelles fuites montrent un marché de la surveillance de masse représentant désormais (...)
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US senator calls for answers on phone ’snooping’ - 4 décembre 2011
The maker of the smartphone software that triggered a snooping row has been called to account by a US Senator.
Senator Al Franken has written to Carrier IQ asking it to explain the "troubling" findings of security expert Trevor Eckhart.
Mr Eckhart claimed Carrier IQ software could log everything people did on (...)
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The Spyfiles - 2 décembre 2011
WikiLeaks : The Spy Files
Mass interception of entire populations is not only a reality, it is a secret new industry spanning 25 countries
It sounds like something out of Hollywood, but as of today, mass interception systems, built by Western intelligence contractors, including for ’political opponents’ are a (...)
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Legal row over Carrier IQ ’surveillance’ app claims - 1er décembre 2011
A hidden application found on millions of smartphones can log almost everything a user does, claims a US security researcher.
Trevor Eckhart unearthed the Carrier IQ application that runs largely unseen on many smartphone handsets.
Mr Eckhart said the software could log locations, websites visited, key presses (...)
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Carrier IQ, le mouchard de poche d’Android - 30 novembre 2011
« Voyez précisément comment vos clients interagissent avec leur téléphone ; identifiez les services qu’ils utilisent et les contenus qu’ils consultent, même sur Internet ! » Contrairement aux apparences, cette accroche publicitaire n’est pas fictive, ni humoristique. Publiée sur le site de Carrier IQ, éditeur de logiciels (...)
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CarrierIQ - 30 novembre 2011
What is Carrier IQ ?
Carrier IQ (CIQ) sells rootkit software included on many US handsets sold on Sprint, Verizon and more. Devices supported include android phones, Blackberries, Nokias, Tablet devices and more.
From carrieriq.com :
Carrier IQ is the market leader in Mobile Service Intelligence solutions that (...)
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Un logiciel-espion installé sur plusieurs millions de téléphones américains - 30 novembre 2011
Un développeur spécialisé dans Android, le système d’exploitation de Google pour téléphones mobiles, a révélé l’existence d’un programme installé par des fournisseurs d’accès américains sur des millions de portables, qui enregistre de très nombreuses informations sur l’activité des utilisateurs et les transmet au fournisseur (...)
