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Article | 22/01/2013 AT&T to buy Alltel for $780 million

The parent company of Alltel, a mobile telephone network serving rural customers in six states, has agreed to sell the business to AT&T for about US$7...

Article | 22/01/2013 Verizon revenue up, but one-time costs lead to loss

Verizon Communications posted a net loss of US $1.9 billion during the fourth quarter of 2012, but the losses were due to a series of one-time expense...

Article | 17/01/2013 US lawmaker: Mobile users should be able to delete data

A U.S. lawmaker has proposed legislation that would allow mobile phone users to ask apps to stop collecting their personal data and to delete informat...

Article | 17/01/2013 Lessig, Demand Progress support investigation of Swartz prosecutor

Demand Progress, the tech activist group founded by the late Aaron Swartz, and Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig have called on supporters to pres...

Article | 16/01/2013 Obama calls for study on video game violence

U.S. President Barack Obama has called on Congress to provide funding for research on violence in video games and possible connections to real-world g...

Article | 15/01/2013 Malware infects US power facilities through USB drives

Two U.S. power companies reported infections of malware during the past three months, with the bad software apparently brought in through tainted USB ...

Article | 15/01/2013 Study: Smart energy IT market growing quickly

Revenue in the IT segment of the world's smart electricity delivery industry is likely to have grown by 23 percent, to US$9.4 billion, in 2012, in sup...

Article | 14/01/2013 US DOJ did not entrap Megaupload, the agency says

The U.S. Department of Justice did not mislead a court and attempt to entrap file storage site Megaupload on copyright infringement charges, the agenc...

Article | 14/01/2013 Dice: US tech unemployment stands at 3.3 percent

The unemployment rate among U.S. IT workers stood at 3.3 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012, significantly lower than the overall unemployment rate...

Article | 11/01/2013 US-CERT: Disable Java in browsers because of exploit

Internet users should consider disabling Java in their browsers because of an exploit that can allow remote attackers to execute code on a vulnerable ...

Article | 10/01/2013 California AG: Mobile apps should limit data collection

Mobile application developers should minimize privacy surprises for their customers by limiting their data collection and retention and giving users a...

Article | 10/01/2013 Study: Women lagging in Internet adoption in many countries

Women and girls lag behind men in Internet access in many parts of the world, causing them to miss out on the economic and social benefits of being on...

Article | 9/01/2013 Banks crack down on cyber-based account takeovers

U.S. banks and their customers are doing a better job of protecting themselves against cyberattacks that result in thieves taking over commercial acco...

Article | 8/01/2013 USPTO, DOJ: Injunctions on FRAND patents can be anticompetitive

Companies that license their patents under fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory (FRAND) terms, but then seek import or sales injunctions against com...

Article | 8/01/2013 Man pleads guilty to selling $100 million worth of pirated software

A Chinese man has pleaded guilty in a U.S. court to selling pirated software used in defense, space and other industries with a retail value of more t...