Google is facing another competition investigation, according to the Financial Post. The Canadian Competition Bureau has informed Mountain View of its plans to launch a formal investigation of its Canadian operations. It has not yet requested any information or documents from Google but has informed the search giant of its intention to launch a probe.
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Google Faces Another Antitrust Probe As Canadian Agency Prepares Formal Investigation
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on May 18, 2013
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US Senate passes internet sales tax bill, faces a stiff fight in House
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on May 7, 2013
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The debate over taxing out-of-state online sales in the US has been raging for years, but there are signs that the often messy saga is finally winding to a close… well, maybe. The Senate just voted 69-27 in favor of the Marketplace Fairness Act, a bill that would make internet retailers collect out-of-state sales taxes that Americans are already obligated to pay, but rarely do under a current system that puts the onus on (frequently unaware) buyers. Don’t be too hasty in cheering or jeering the apparent conclusion, however. The bill’s next stop is the House of Representatives, and the reception may be decidedly colder this time around. The act could be submitted to the President this year if it does survive the gauntlet, although a six-month buffer would likely push any tax changes to 2014 if the bill is ever signed into law.
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Intel’s New CEO Faces a Major Challenge
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on May 3, 2013
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Intel’s new chief executive must reverse the last decade of declining market share.
Intel’s new CEO Brian M. Krzanich, elected by the board today to replace retiring chief executive Paul Otellini, is a longtime Intel insider whose vision must now guide the company through a time of tumult in the computing industry.
Apple faces $118K fine in China for copyright breach
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on April 25, 2013
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A Beijing court has ordered Apple to compensate three Chinese writers for selling their works via its app store without getting their permission. [Read more]
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Bitcoin exchange faces DDoS, even as the digital currency surges
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on March 29, 2013
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Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox faced a distributed denial-of-service attack late Thursday, at a time the digital currency is seeing an upward swing.
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Former Chinese contractor at NASA’s Langley Research Center faces hearing on lying charges
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on March 21, 2013
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A court hearing is scheduled for a former Chinese contractor at NASA’s Langley Research Center who was arrested on a Beijing-bound plane with hard drives and a laptop.
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New watch faces for Pebble smartwatch, with April’s SDK
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on March 16, 2013
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With more than 40,000 Pebbles built so far, developers have a growing market for hacks to the smartwatch, which Pebble is facilitating with next month’s arrival of a watch-face software development kit. [Read more]
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Retailer faces uphill battle in $13M lawsuit against Visa, analyst says
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on March 15, 2013
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Specialty retailer Genesco faces an uphill battle in its precedent-setting $ 13.3 million lawsuit against Visa USA Inc., a Garner analyst said.
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The 404 1,226: Where the faces don’t match the voices (podcast)
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on March 13, 2013
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Have you ever heard of a store that doesn’t sell anything? A new crop of Bonobos “guideshops” are opening soon that act as show rooms for men’s clothing, but customers that find things to buy are encouraged to go home and order it online. If independent retailers catch onto this model, it could change the way we shop at brick and mortar stores. Find out more on today’s episode of The 404. [Read more]
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R&D Faces Its Own Fiscal Cliff
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on February 28, 2013
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The sequester means across-the-board cuts to federal R&D and, barring a grand budget bargain, anemic research budgets in the years ahead.
U.S. politicians of all stripes are often quick to sing the praises of innovation and the economic benefits of federally funded research. But unless there’s a dramatic turn of events, U.S. government-funded R&D is poised for years of stagnation.
Energy R&D Faces a Cliff
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on February 23, 2013
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Obama is calling for a doubling of energy R&D funding, but where will he find the money?
Last week, President Obama spoke during his State of the Union about the need to address climate change and proposed doubling federal R&D spending, including funding for clean energy. This week he faces a more pressing issue—the automatic spending cuts scheduled to go into effect on March 1 that would cut defense-related energy R&D spending by 7.6 percent and other energy R&D by 5.1 percent.
The sun’s many faces
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on January 29, 2013
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NASA’s Specialized ground-based or space-based telescopes can observe a colorful array of light far beyond the ranges visible to the naked eye. And NASA pores over those pictures, each of which conveys a different piece of information about different components of the sun’s surface and atmosphere, the agency recently said.
Apple faces tough choice on cheaper iPhone
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on January 10, 2013
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Renewed talk of a cheaper iPhone shuffled into view this week, with sources as varied as the spotty DigiTimes to the more mainstream Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg claiming Apple will enter the low-price fray this year.
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Apple in 28nm A6X trial run with TSMC as Samsung faces chip contract loss
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on January 2, 2013
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Apple’s attempts to extricate itself from reliance on Samsung components continue, with titters from Taiwan that TSMC will begin trial production of the Apple A6X chip (found in the latest iPad with Retina) ahead of a bid for the next-gen A7 contract. The test will kick off in Q1 2013, The China Times reports, with TSMC producing
NASA Faces Rough Road In 2013
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on January 1, 2013
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MarkWhittington writes “With the National Research Council report that concluded that President Obama’s plan for a mission to an asteroid has no support, either inside NASA or anywhere else, the space agency faces a decision point in 2013. The NRC suggested that the administration, Congress, NASA, and other stakeholders in space exploration come to a consensus behind a new goal. But the space agency’s problems run deep, caused by a lack of direction, a lack of leadership, and a lack of funding.”
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While There Are Some Glimpses Of Progress, Mexico Faces A Long Road To Innovation
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on December 30, 2012
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Editor’s note: Maria Rocio Paniagua currently works as a project manager at Innku, one of the top mobile and web workshops in Mexico.
A few weeks ago, Vivek Wadhwa visited Mexico and wrote about the possible opportunities he saw for the Mexican IT sector, noting manufacturing plans. In his article, he suggested that the Mexican technology industry “leapfrog India” by moving away from IT services and into a different emerging market, grabbing the opportunity of re-automating the American manufacturing industry on markets like artificial intelligence, 3D printing and robotics.
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Instagram faces lawsuit for terms of service changes
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on December 26, 2012
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A class action lawsuit has been filed against Instagram over the company's controversial update to its terms of service last week.
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Sprint Faces Cap On Clearwire Deal From SoftBank While Investors Look For More
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on December 14, 2012
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Sprint’s attempted purchase of Clearwire may have hit a snag, according to a new report from Reuters. Sprint reportedly has a hard cap on how much it can offer to buy out the beleaguered Clearwire, set by Softbank, which is purchasing a majority stake in Sprint for around $ 20 billion. Clearwire shareholders, however, reportedly think the offer price on the table isn’t high enough, and the rising stock price of Clearwire shares in the wake of news of the deal is providing them with ammunition.
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Irish data protection watchdog faces legal challenge over Facebook privacy audit
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on December 4, 2012
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Privacy campaign group Europe vs. Facebook has threatened to take the Irish Data Protection Commissioner to court if it is not satisfied with the DPC's final responses to its 22 complaints about Facebook's privacy policies, and appealed for donations to cover the costs of such an action.
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High Security Animal Disease Lab Faces Uncertain Future
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on November 16, 2012
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Dupple writes in with a story about the uncertain future of a proposed bio lab in the heart of cattle country. “Plans to build one of the world’s most secure laboratories in the heart of rural America have run into difficulties. The National Bio and Agro defense facility (NBAF) would be the first US lab able to research diseases like foot and mouth in large animals. But reviews have raised worries about virus escapes in the middle of cattle country. For over fifty years the United States has carried out research on dangerous animal diseases at Plum Island, just off the coast of New York. However after 9/11 the Department of Homeland Security raised concerns about the suitability of the location and its vulnerability to terrorist attack.”
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EmTech: French Minister Says Google Faces Critical Questions Over Copyright
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on October 27, 2012
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Fleur Pellerin hopes the search giant will volunteer to negotiate payments to news publishers for indexing articles.
France isn’t backing down from its bid to make Google pay to reference articles from French newspapers, even after the angered company threatened to altogether ban these articles from appearing in search results last week.
Healthcare faces acute IT staff shortage
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on September 26, 2012
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Two-thirds of healthcare organizations in the U.S. say they need more qualified IT staffers, according to a survey by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives.
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Draper Family Heir Faces a Faster Investment Environment
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on September 19, 2012
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Adam Draper is part of venture capital’s greatest family. Can he find a niche inside Silicon Valley’s changing funding scene?
If there is blue blood in Silicon Valley, it runs through the veins of Adam Draper. As a fourth-generation member of venture capital’s greatest dynasty, he has a curriculum vitae that includes getting bounced on the knee of investing legends like William Henry Draper III, his grandfather.
YouTube video blocked in more countries, as Google faces legal threats
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on September 17, 2012
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The number of countries where a controversial movie trailer on YouTube has been blocked increased to five by Monday, as Google ran into legal threats in some of these countries.
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Report Hints At Privacy Problem of Drones That Can Recognize Faces
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on September 15, 2012
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New submitter inotrollyou writes “Drones are getting more sophisticated, and will soon carry ‘soft’ biometrics and facial recognition software. In other news, sales of hats, tinfoil, and laser pointers go up 150%. Obviously there are major privacy concerns and not everyone is down for this.” It’s not just drones, either: In my old neighborhood in Philadelphia the Orwellian police cameras were everywhere, and they’re being touted as a solution for crime in my Texas neighborhood, too. The report itself is more predictive than proscriptive; under U.S. law, as the Register points out, you can expect less legal as well as practical privacy protection the further you are on the continuum between home and public space.
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Pirate Bay cofounder Warg faces new charges
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on September 10, 2012
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A new twist to the arrest Gottfried Warg is that it wasn’t related to his conviction for copyright violations. He is now accused of stealing tax records.
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Nokia again faces make-or-break point with new Lumia phones
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on September 3, 2012
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commentary The company needs its upcoming Lumia phones to be a smash to stay relevant in the smartphone game. Sound familiar?
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Verizon faces final regulatory hurdle in cable deal
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on August 18, 2012
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What’s left for Verizon Wireless to do in order to get its $ 3.9 billion cable deal signed, sealed, and delivered?
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Facebook Faces High-Level Staff Exodus
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on August 13, 2012
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angry tapir writes “It has been troubled times for Facebook since the social network’s IPO in May. There has been speculation that Facebook could suffer a talent drain in the wake of the IPO, and now the organization has lost four of its high-level managers the space of a week: Ethan Beard, director of platform partnerships; Kate Mitic, platform marketing director; Jonathan Matus, mobile platform marketing manager; and Ben Blumenfeld, design manager, have all resigned from the company.”
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Facebook faces facial recognition fight in Norway
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on August 4, 2012
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“It’s a very powerful tool Facebook has and it’s not yet clear how it all really works,” Norway’s data protection commissioner says of a feature that can recognize your friends in newly posted photos.
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Newest HP ultrabook faces shipment delays
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on July 31, 2012
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Hewlett-Packard is still trying to get its latest and greatest ultrabook out the door. The design is HP”s thinnest and lightest ultrabook to date.
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Now you can blur faces on your risky YouTube videos
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on July 18, 2012
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If you want to post footage of a protest, but don’t want to reveal the protesters faces, YouTube now offers the ability to blur faces.
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Windows RT faces a host of hurdles, says analyst
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on June 8, 2012
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The new flavor of Windows 8 designed for ARM-based devices will make little dent in the market, at least not for some time, says a J.P. Morgan analyst.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook faces D10, talks Siri flaws
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on May 30, 2012
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Tim Cook took the stage at the D10 conference this evening, and as you might expect when he’s facing questions from no-nonsense business types, he was asked to defend the iPhone 4S’s personal voice assistant Siri, which has gone from a cool novelty to one of Apple’s biggest marketing campaigns of the decade, even though
Apple faces iTunes patent fight with GE company, report says
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on May 24, 2012
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Xcom remake faces massive delay
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on May 24, 2012
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2K Games announced yesterday that its anticipated game Xcom: Enemy Unknown, a re-envisioning of the 1994 classic X-Com: UFO Defense, would be released this October. However, in that same day, the company made a huge about-face and said the title would be delayed. And we’re not just talking about a couple months here. We might even
IBM Faces the Perils of “Bring Your Own Device”
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on May 21, 2012
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After letting its employees use their own phones and tablets for work, the company confronted a flood of insecure apps from the open Web.
When IBM loosened its restrictions on the smart phones and tablets its employees could use for work, the company got a lesson in IT management of the kind it usually sells to clients.
Latest app scans bar-goers’ faces to gauge age
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on May 20, 2012
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A new app launched this weekend that will scan the faces of patrons in 25 bars across the city to determine their ages and genders. Would-be customers can then check their smartphones for real-time updates on the crowd size, average age and male-to-female mix to decide whether the scene is to their liking.
Apple still faces Aussie iPad trial despite 4G rebrand
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on May 15, 2012
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Apple’s decision to rebrand the new iPad as the “iPad WiFi + Cellular” and drop the allegedly confusing 4G reference will not save it from a court appearance with the Australian consumer rights watchdog. “Any move by Apple to cease using the descriptor of ’4G’ will mitigate against the ACCC’s concerns but will not deal
Facebook Instagram deal faces 6 month hold
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on May 12, 2012
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This week it seems that Facebook doesn’t quite have full ownership of the photo taking and editing app Instagram – not yet, anyway. Before its $ 1 billion dollar deal can go through, the Financial Times reports an FTC regulatory probe must be completed – until then there will be a delay. The Federal Trade Commission
Facebook Instagram deal faces FTC delay
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on May 10, 2012
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Facebook’s $ 1bn acquisition of camera app Instagram could be delayed, insiders have suggested, with the US government investigation into the deal potentially causing the social network to miss its Q2 2012 deadline. Although a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) probe into any deal of this size is standard, two people familiar with the investigation tell the Financial Times that
German Science Minister Faces Plagiarism Scandal
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on May 3, 2012
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An anonymous reader writes “Germany’s minister for science and education, Annette Schavan, faces allegations that substantial parts of her PhD thesis have been copied without proper attribution. According to the WordPress blog that brought up the accusations(German), 56 out of 325 pages of her thesis contain instances of plagiarism. Schavan is the same minister who called an earlier instance of plagiarism by the former German defense minister to be ‘embarrassing.’”
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17-inch MacBook Pro faces death this year claims analyst
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on April 23, 2012
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Apple will ditch its 17-inch MacBook Pro in 2012, analysts have predicted, trimming the company’s Mac line-up as it chases an Air-style ultraportable refresh. Shipments of the largest notebook, currently priced from $ 2,499, have slumped, KGI analyst Ming-Chi Kuo cites in support of his claims, “in order to maintain a lean product line strategy.” The
Apple faces e-book price-fixing lawsuit in Canada too
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on April 21, 2012
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The first domino fell last week in the U.S. when the DOJ sued Apple and its publishing partners claiming collusion over pricing of e-books. A class action lawsuit in Canada now claims the same.
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Raspberry Pi faces distribution troubles over CE certification
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on March 29, 2012
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Raspberry Pi hit another snag in distribution this week, though the company seems optimistic that shipments of its long-awaited Linux PC won’t be dramatically affected. The issue centers around two companies — RS Components and element14/Premier Farnell — that have confirmed they won’t distribute the device until it’s been anointed with the CE label. Raspberry Pi had previously argued that its PC is not a “finished end product,” and that it, like Beagleboard, could therefore be distributed without the CE mark. Its distributors, however, disagreed. As a result, the team is working to get their computers CE-compliant “as soon as humanly possible,” and are already pretty confident that they’ll meet category A, and perhaps even category B requirements. They’re also working closely with the UK’s Department for Business, Innovation and Skills to better understand the standards to which non-CE products like Beagleboard are held. No word yet on when RS and Farnell might issue a verdict, but the Raspberry Pi Foundation says it’ll let us know as soon as they do.
Raspberry Pi faces distribution troubles over CE certification originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 29 Mar 2012 03:44:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
News Corp. faces new hacking allegations
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on March 28, 2012
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A software division of News Corp., is accused of knocking off rival pay-TV services by hacking their smartcodes and enabling the public to view the competitors transmissions for free. One rival may have driven out of business as a result.
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Battery Maker A123 Faces a Fight for Survival
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on March 26, 2012
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A second recall of its batteries calls the company’s future into question.
The bad news continues for A123 Systems. The company announced this morning that a defect in some of its battery cells could affect all of the battery packs produced by its new factory in Livonia, Michigan. It estimates that it will cost $ 55 million to replace these faulty packs.
Google faces class action lawsuits against new privacy policy
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on March 22, 2012
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Google faces consumer complaints in federal courts in New York and California which claim that its new privacy policy violates the company's earlier policies which promised that information provided by a user for one service would not be used by another service without the consumer's consent.
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Google faces new investigation over Safari privacy breach
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on March 19, 2012
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Google has run afoul of privacy regulations again, this time involving its breach of Apple’s Safari Internet browser to track user activity. The news first broke when the WSJ reported that Google, along with a few other advertisers, had written a code to bypass Safari’s default privacy controls, depositing cookies to track users’ browsing habits
Apple faces 4G iPad backlash
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on March 17, 2012
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Apple is seeing branding push-back from carriers outside of North America, over concerns that branding the new iPad as 4G-compatible is confusing consumers, and potentially inviting a regulatory spanking. Although international new iPad models are described as “WiFi + 4G”, the LTE support in the third-gen tablet is only, in fact, compatible with the bands
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