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Article | 2/11/2012 Alcatel-Lucent dips into loss as sales decline and margins get thinner

Alcatel-Lucent reported a third-quarter loss and declining gross margins, as its cost-cutting program failed to keep up with declining sales of its ne...

Article | 18/10/2012 Mac users pay more than Windows users for the same things, given a choice

When online travel agent Orbitz admitted in June that it was steering Mac users on its site toward higher-priced hotel rooms, many were angry. But ano...

Article | 16/10/2012 Marissa Mayer appoints another former Googler as Yahoo COO

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer appointed another former Google employee as her COO on Monday, her first day back at work since the birth of her baby.

Article | 16/10/2012 European privacy authorities ask Google to tweak March policy change

European privacy authorities have asked Google to tweak the unified privacy policy it introduced on March 1, but have stopped short of asking it to un...

Article | 9/10/2012 Physics Nobel honors quantum computing pioneers from France and US

An American and a Frenchman have won the 2012 Nobel Prize for Physics for their work on quantum optics, which could one day lead to faster computer pr...

Article | 4/10/2012 Facebook says 1 billion use the service each month, says nothing about fake accounts

More than 1 billion people now use Facebook each month, almost one-seventh of the world's population, the company announced Thursday.

Article | 3/10/2012 French privacy watchdog dismisses reports of Facebook bug

An investigation by the French privacy watchdog has found no truth to worldwide press reports last week that a Facebook bug was exposing old private m...

Article | 28/09/2012 Pirate Bay founder's detention extended as tax hack investigation continues

Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg will remain in detention for at least two more weeks while Swedish prosecutors investigate his alleged invo...

Article | 24/09/2012 French government outlines plans for free software adoption

French government agencies could become more active participants in free software projects, under an action plan sent by Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayra...

Article | 21/09/2012 Noisy protests greet buyer of first iPhone 5 in Paris

The first buyers of Apple's iPhone 5 in Paris were treated to cheers, banner-waving ... and catcalls. Apple Store employees' cheers as the first custo...

Article | 20/09/2012 Samsung plans to drag iPhone 5 into patent suit against Apple

Samsung Electronics intends to drag the iPhone 5 into an ongoing patent lawsuit with Apple, according to documents filed with a U.S. court on Wednesda...

Article | 13/09/2012 French court levies first fine under three-strikes law on illegal downloads

A French court fined a man €150 (US$193) on Thursday for failing to secure his Internet connection, according to a spokesman for the French High Autho...

Article | 7/09/2012 Intel cuts its Q3 revenue forecast by about $1 billion

Intel shaved about a billion dollars off its third-quarter revenue forecast on Friday, blaming the global economy for slowing sales. It will announce ...

Article | 6/09/2012 French sovereign wealth funds invests in two local cloud computing providers

The French government is so keen to encourage the development of cloud computing infrastructure in France that it is investing in two competing home-g...

Article | 5/09/2012 French antipiracy authority 'happy' it has sent just 14 cases to court in the last year

Just 14 of the 1.15 million emails warning of copyright infringement sent out by the French online antipiracy authority have resulted in a case file b...