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Article | 22/09/2011 Nokia's interim CTO gets permanent status

Nokia's acting Chief Technology Officer Henry Tirri is to stay on in the role, after his predecessor Rich Green left the company on Thursday following...

Article | 21/09/2011 Spanish competition regulator investigates Microsoft

Spain's National Competition Commission is investigating whether Microsoft has unjustifiably prevented or limited resale of software licenses, in brea...

Article | 13/09/2011 Google lets Wi-Fi hotspot owners opt out of location service

Bowing to pressure from European privacy regulators, Google will soon allow owners of Wi-Fi access points to opt out of a Google service that allows s...

Article | 12/09/2011 Broadcom to pay $US3.7bn for comms processor maker NetLogics

Broadcom has agreed to acquire communications processor company NetLogics Microsystems for $US3.7 billion.

Article | 10/09/2011 French publishers drop lawsuits against Google book scanning

Three French publishers have dropped lawsuits against Google alleging that the company infringed their copyright.

Article | 5/09/2011 Samsung hides Galaxy Tab 7.7 at IFA

Now you see it, now you don't: Samsung Electronics erased all traces of the Galaxy Tab 7.7 from its exhibition stand at the Internationale Funkausstel...

Article | 4/09/2011 Samsung wipes Galaxy Tab 7.7 from stand after court order

Now you see it, now you don't: Samsung Electronics erased all traces of the Galaxy Tab 7.7 from its exhibition stand at the Internationale Funkausstel...

Article | 3/09/2011 Toshiba: Our relationship to energy use has changed

"The earthquake has changed people's values," said Masaaki Osumi, Toshiba's CEO of digital products, as the video wall behind him filled with cataclys...

Article | 2/09/2011 After takeover, Navigon goes with Flow as Garmin goes 3D

Garmin and Navigon each launched devices at a joint news conference on Thursday, on the eve of the Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA) trade show in ...

Article | 1/09/2011 Ford puts cloud services at heart of Evos concept car

Ford's Evos concept car shows how the company is increasingly looking to electronics and entertainment to keep customers hooked on driving its cars, C...

Article | 1/09/2011 Panasonic touts 3D Olympics film deal and HD 3D camcorder

A handshake, but no shaky hand: Panasonic executives shook hands on a deal to broadcast the 2012 Olympics live in 3D, and unveiled the company's HDC-Z...

Article | 26/08/2011 German court upholds injunction on Samsung tablet imports

A German court has upheld a preliminary injunction requested by Apple, preventing Samsung Electronics from selling its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet PC in Ge...

Article | 29/07/2011 Apple and Samsung overtake Nokia in smartphone sales in Q2

Apple and Samsung both sold more smartphones than Nokia in the second quarter, although Nokia still sold most phones overall, market researcher Strate...

Article | 28/07/2011 France Télécom customer numbers up, first half revenue down

France Télécom's revenue and net income for the first half both fell compared to a year earlier, even as subscriber numbers climbed 7 percent, it repo...

Article | 28/07/2011 Alcatel-Lucent returns to profit on small rise in revenue

Alcatel-Lucent reported a smaller increase in revenue than analysts had expected, but returned to profit in the second quarter. For the full year, the...