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  • Report: Facebook bolsters efforts to build smartphone

    Facebook is revitalizing its effort to create a smartphone, recruiting engineers who have experience with mobile devices, according to a story in the New York Times Sunday.

    Written by Marc Ferranti • 27 May 12 23:13

  • Cisco takes its lumps, keeps developing video meeting tools

    Cisco Systems owned up to some miscalculations in its video collaboration strategy but showed off some promising future capabilities in a briefing with media this week.

    Written by Stephen Lawson • 25 May 12 23:31

  • Wall Street Beat: After Facebook fiasco, don't write off tech IPOs

    The Facebook IPO may have been a fiasco, but don't put the nail in the coffin just yet for other tech offerings this year.

    Written by Marc Ferranti • 25 May 12 22:22

  • FCC ruling on 800MHz band a boon for Sprint

    The U.S. Federal Communications Commission approved a rule change for part of the 800MHz band at a meeting on Thursday, opening the door for Sprint Nextel to use the band for its 4G LTE network.

    Written by Stephen Lawson • 25 May 12 19:53

  • Oracle NetBeans 7.2 supports the latest PHP, C++

    The newest version of the Oracle NetBeans IDE (integrated developer environment) will come with support for the latest versions of PHP and C++.

    Written by Joab Jackson • 25 May 12 18:34

  • Quickbooks Online outage leaves some customers in sour mood

    Intuit's Quickbooks Online service suffered an outage this week that left "a small subset" of customers unable to access their data, but the company says the problems with the on-demand accounting software have now been fixed.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus • 25 May 12 17:12

  • Mayor of New Jersey town arrested on hacking and conspiracy charges

    The mayor of West New York, New Jersey, was arrested together with his son on Thursday, for allegedly hacking into a website that criticized him and his administration.

    Written by Lucian Constantin • 25 May 12 15:45

  • Coding contest shows how big data can improve health care

    A recent coding competition in the Boston area brought together IT professionals, medical workers and others with an interest in health IT to show how data analytics can improve health care.

    Written by Fred O'Connor • 25 May 12 15:03

  • Windows 8 update: all the latest rumours, opinions and possibilities

    While it lacks the mobility usually associated with this class of device, there's an 80-inch tablet serving the head of Microsoft as a wallboard and as a substitute for other work-related gear.

    Written by Tim Greene • 25 May 12 14:35

  • Foxtel finalises Austar takeover

    Foxtel has completed its $2 billion takeover of regional counterpart Austar and says pricing and billing procedures will not change for customers of either service.

    Written by AAP • 25 May 12 10:09
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    NBN build gaining momentum daily: Quigley

    NBN Co boss, Mike Quigley, says momentum on the National Broadband Network is building despite the delays and setbacks in delivering on the government's $36 billion project.

    Written by AAP • 25 May 12 07:00

  • Refund for some Facebook investors

    Morgan Stanley, the lead investment bank in Facebook's troubled initial public offering, will compensate retail investors who overpaid when they bought Facebook's stock in Friday's IPO, according to a source familiar with the matter.

    Written by AAP • 25 May 12 09:43

  • Security researcher urges IT managers to keep up with SAP patches

    The story "Security researcher urges IT managers to keep up with SAP patches," posted on the wire Thursday, incorrectly stated the location of Onapsis in the second paragraph.

    Written by IDG News Service staff • 25 May 12 09:30

  • Telstra IaaS platform gets ISO certification

    Telstra's (ASX:TLS) full infrastructure-as-a-service platform has been classified as compliant with the ISO27001 international standard for information security management.

    Written by Dylan Bushell-Embling • 24 May 12 15:00

  • Sony brings streaming music service to the iPhone

    Sony on Friday released an iPhone app to access its streaming Music Unlimited service, part of its efforts to expand its online platforms to devices from rival manufacturers.

    Written by Jay Alabaster • 25 May 12 07:37

  • Apple settles patent lawsuit with SimpleAir

    SimpleAir in Texas said Thursday it had settled its patent infringement litigation against Apple, and entered into a confidential license agreement by which Apple had taken a license to its patents.

    Written by John Ribeiro • 25 May 12 07:24

  • China's Sina Weibo targeting Japanese advertisers

    One of China's top Twitter-like sites, Sina Weibo, is working to attract Japanese companies to advertise on its platform by helping the firms open and use accounts on the microblogging service.

    Written by Michael Kan • 25 May 12 05:42

  • Huawei files antitrust complaint with EC against InterDigital

    Chinese communications equipment company Huawei Technologies has filed an antitrust complaint with the European Commission against patent company InterDigital, claiming it is abusing its patents allegedly essential to the 3G (UMTS) standard, it said Thursday.

    Written by John Ribeiro • 25 May 12 04:32

  • Lawmakers call on DOJ to reopen investigation into Google Wi-Fi spying

    Two U.S. lawmakers have called on the U.S. Department of Justice to reopen its investigation into Google's snooping on Wi-Fi networks in 2010 after recent questions about the company's level of cooperation with federal inquiries.

    Written by Grant Gross • 24 May 12 23:37

  • Lawmakers call on DOJ to reopen investigation into Google Wi-Fi spying

    Two U.S. lawmakers have called on the U.S. Department of Justice to reopen its investigation into Google's snooping on Wi-Fi networks in 2010 after recent questions about the company's level of cooperation with federal inquiries.

    Written by Grant Gross • 24 May 12 20:53
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