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20 June 2011
News: ICANN approves change to Internet domain name system

The board of directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has approved an increase in the number of Internet domain name endings, known as generic top-level domains (gTLDs), from the current 22.
News: Microsoft, Skype deal gets U.S. clearance

Microsoft has received clearance from U.S. antitrust regulators for its proposed purchase of Internet telephony company Skype.
18 June 2011
News: Reports: DOJ to review Google's Admeld acquisition

The U.S. Department of Justice will reportedly evaluate the antitrust implications of Google's proposed acquisition of Admeld, whose technology is designed to help web publishers manage and fine-tune the way they sell display ads.
17 June 2011
News: BMC buys software from vendor that lost IBM legal battle

BMC Software said Friday it has acquired a range of IMS (information management system) database software and related customers from Neon Enterprise Software, which recently lost a legal battle with IBM over a mainframe-related product called zPrime. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
News: Senate Committee Votes to Make Illegal Streaming a Felony

We all agree piracy is bad. But you know what's even worse? Streaming.
News: U.S. military sharing secret cyber threat info with defense contractors

A new U.S. military program shares classified information about cyber threats with defense contractors and their ISPs as part of a stepped up effort to blunt potential cyber attacks, a Department of Defense official announced on Thursday.
News: Connecticut concerned about Facebook face recognition

Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen has expressed concern that Facebook's "Tag Suggestions" face recognition feature compromises consumer privacy, and asked for a meeting with company officials.
News: GlobalFoundries replaces CEO in management shakeup

Chip maker GlobalFoundries said two top executives have stepped down and been replaced by a new leadership team as the company looks to step up investments and boost chip manufacturing capacity through next year.
News: Fraud starts after Lulzsec group releases e-mail, passwords

Debbie Crowell never ordered the iPhone, but thanks to a hacking group known as Lulzsec, she spent a good part of her Thursday morning trying to get US$712.00 in charges reversed after someone broke into her Amazon account and ordered it.
News: RIM says Q2 forecast is lower than expected

Research In Motion missed analysts' lowered revenue forecasts for its fiscal first quarter and said its outlook for the second quarter was lower than expected, as it reported its first-quarter results Thursday.
16 June 2011
News: Cloud to beat smartphone network blues

DLNA and Wi-Fi Direct certification programs are poised to simplify wireless connectivity for consumers, and new mobile cloud services may provide even easier access to consumers’ media content.
News: Do Government Policies and Laws Hinder Tech Advances?

Did you know that texting while driving is illegal in 33 states and the District of Columbia?
News: 100 years of IBM: Milestones

IBM is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its founding Thursday. Led by American capitalist icons Thomas J. Watson, Sr. and Thomas J. Watson, Jr. until the 1970s, the company grew from a pre-World War I conglomeration of companies making tabulating machines and time-keeping devices into a globe-spanning technology behemoth that pioneered the development of electronic computers and dominated the mainframe era.
News: IBM at 100: Will cannibalise for Cloud

IBM turned 100 today. Since its humble beginnings as Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation in June 16, 1911, IBM has survived through many ups and downs in the economy including paradigm shifts in the IT industry. One of the biggest shifts is happening right now in the form of Cloud services, which the company is poised to sacrifice its own business to the tune of $7 billion to be part of the revolution.
News: Nokia loses U.K. patent battle against IPCom

Nokia is infringing on a patent owned by German company IPCom, the U.K. High Court ruled today. IPCom will be seeking damages and an injunction banning the sale of the Finnish company's 3G phones, it said in a statement.
News: China's Alibaba restructures online retailer Taobao

Taobao, China's largest online retailer, has split into three separate companies to better address its target markets, parent company Alibaba Group said Thursday.
Video: Starbucks extends smartphone payment app to Android

Pay for your coffee with an Android app
News: Many Malaysian government sites hacked

Malaysia's Communications and Multimedia Commission said that 51 websites in the .gov.my domain were attacked beginning late Wednesday, and that 41 of the sites suffered various levels of disruption.
News: Chinese court sentences three to prison for iPad design leak

A Chinese court sentenced three persons to prison for stealing information on Apple's iPad 2 design, which was used to make protective cases for the device months before the hit tablet was even launched.
News: Oracle refused bug fixes for Itanium customers: HP lawsuit

Oracle refused to provide critical bug fixes for customers who run its software on Hewlett-Packard's Integrity servers, in a bid to coerce them to switch over to Oracle hardware, HP alleged in a lawsuit it filed Wednesday.

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