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Article | 7/11/2011 Israel says a 'server glitch' took several government websites offline

Israeli government websites were up and running again Monday, after what the government described as a "server glitch" at a server farm took several o...

Article | 7/11/2011 Yahoo says ignore the rumors, nothing to announce yet

Yahoo said that its board's strategic review is still underway, with a wide range of options under active consideration, in the wake of unconfirmed re...

Article | 7/11/2011 Israel govt. websites down, after a hacker threat

Israeli government websites were down on Sunday, two days after the hacker group Anonymous had threatened to attack the government for its maritime bl...

Article | 4/11/2011 Airtel's profits continue to be weighed down by Africa, 3G

Bharti Airtel's third-quarter profit was hit by high interest and amortization costs related to the mobile network operator's 3G rollout in India and ...

Article | 4/11/2011 Mozilla, Microsoft withdraw trust in Malaysian intermediate CA

Mozilla and Microsoft said Thursday they are revoking trust in all certificates issued by Digicert, a Malaysian intermediate certificate authority (CA...

Article | 3/11/2011 Amazon sets up Kindle lending library

Amazon.com announced the launch of an e-book lending library for Kindle users, that allows Amazon Prime members to borrow books for free, as frequentl...

Article | 3/11/2011 Sprint suit against AT&T/T-Mobile deal allowed

A judge in the U.S. on Wednesday allowed parts of C Spire Wireless and Sprint Nextel's lawsuits against AT&T's proposed US$39 billion acquisition...

Article | 2/11/2011 Google offers free websites to 500,000 Indian SMBs

To get Indian small and medium businesses online, Google and partner HostGator.com will pay for one year for the domain name registration and website ...

Article | 2/11/2011 PayPal sets up global operations center in Malaysia

PayPal has opened a global operations center in Malaysia, its second in the region.

Article | 2/11/2011 Yahoo to buy advertising services provider Interclick for $270M

Yahoo said on Tuesday that it has arrived at a definitive agreement to acquire Interclick, a provider of targeted advertising services, for about US$2...

Article | 1/11/2011 Thai floods hit Q4 hard drive production, says research firm

The devastating floods in Thailand will cause a 28 percent quarter-on-quarter drop in hard disk drive (HDD) production in the fourth quarter, potentia...

Article | 31/10/2011 Anonymous threatens to expose Mexican drug cartel

Hacker group Anonymous has threatened to expose the identity of members and supporters of a Mexican drug cartel by Nov. 5, in retaliation for the kidn...

Article | 28/10/2011 Strategy Analytics: Samsung overtakes Apple in Q3 in smartphones

Samsung beat Apple to the top position in the smartphone market in the third quarter taking a 23.8 percent share of the global market to Apple's 14.6 ...

Article | 27/10/2011 RIM faces possible class action suit over BlackBerry outages

Research In Motion faces a possible class action lawsuit over recent outages in its BlackBerry services earlier this month, and a trademark infringeme...

Article | 26/10/2011 New IBM CEO latest in changes at tech companies

IBM's announcement Tuesday that company veteran Virginia Rometty will take over on Jan. 1 as president and CEO from Sam Palmisano is the latest in hig...