China to boost intellectual property rights: Xinhua
Posted by on Mar 28, 2012 | Comments Off
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s vice premier promised Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook that the country would boost intellectual property protection, state media said on Wednesday, in Cook’s second day of meetings in the company’s biggest potential market.
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New Sony CEO to directly oversee troubled TV ops
Posted by on Mar 27, 2012 | Comments Off
TOKYO (Reuters) – Sony Corp CEO Kazuo Hirai will directly oversee the loss-making TV business as part of a new management structure aimed at breathing new life into the struggling Japanese electronics and entertainment group, the company said on Tuesday.
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U.S. regulators push for online "do not track" system
Posted by on Mar 27, 2012 | Comments Off
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. regulators are pressuring Internet companies to put in place by the end of the year a “Do Not Track” system that would give consumers more control over their personal data online, in a report released on Monday that privacy advocates dismissed as too soft.
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Microsoft seizes servers in Zeus cyberfraud
Posted by on Mar 26, 2012 | Comments Off
(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp claimed a victory in efforts to combat online banking fraud, saying it had confiscated several servers used to steal login names and passwords, disrupting some of the world’s most sophisticated cybercrime rings.
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NFC phone sales to jump to 100 million in 2012: research
Posted by on Mar 26, 2012 | Comments Off
(Reuters) – Some 100 million cellphones using Near-field Communication (NFC) technology will be sold this year, with sales more than tripling from a year ago, research firm Berg Insight said on Monday.
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Tough times in the U.S.-China iPad smuggling game
Posted by on Mar 26, 2012 | Comments Off
SAN FRANCISCO/HONG KONG (Reuters) – Early on the morning of March 16, Wong Tat joined a line of about 100 people waiting for the launch of the new iPad in a chilly rain outside an Apple store on the outskirts of San Francisco.
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BATS exchange withdraws IPO after stumbles
Posted by on Mar 24, 2012 | Comments Off
NEW YORK (Reuters) – In a breakdown that resembled a mini version of the 2010 “flash crash,” a series of blunders hit the market debut of BATS Global Markets Exchange Inc on Friday, causing the company to take the extremely rare step of withdrawing its initial public offering of shares.
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