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LG Electronics on Monday became the first manufacturer to make a 55-inch OLED TV available on the market, taking preorders in Korea for its device The device is the LG Model 55EM9700. It is listed at US$10,000, and will begin shipping in February....
The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday launched a smartphone security checker website to help consumers ensure their devices are as secure as possible The page lists various mobile operating systems and also points to a general checklist of actions users can take to secure their smartphones....
The Federal Communications Commission has approved AT&T's purchase of licenses for new wireless spectrum after years of maneuvering The purchases will be in the Wireless Communications Service (WCS) and AWS-1 bands....
The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday announced final amendments to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act Rule, which governs the online collection of personal information under the age of 13 This is the culmination of a review that began in 2010 to ensure that the COPPA Rule keeps pace with changes in technology and the way kids use and...
Instagram appears to be backtracking on plans to update its privacy policy and terms of service following an uproar from users The proposed updates were scheduled to come into effect Jan. 16....
The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday announced that it has demanded nine data brokerage companies explain how they collect and use consumer data The nine are Acxiom, Corelogic, Datalogix, eBureau, ID Analytics, Intelius, Peekyou, Rapleaf and Recorded Future....
Both Apple and Samsung, which have been locked in lawsuits in the United States and abroad, won a little and lost a little in their hearing before Judge Lucy H. Koh in San Jose, Calif On Monday, the judge denied Samsung's request for a retrial seeking to reduce the US$1.05 billion in damages a jury had awarded Apple in August for infringement of so...
The Raspberry Pi project launched an app store Monday to support its eponymous US$35 Linux PC, which hit the market in February. The store will carry both free and paid apps....
A new security flaw has been discovered in Samsung's vulnerability-plagued Galaxy S III. This time, the problem lies in the company's Exynos 4 series of chips The flaw was discovered by a hacker with the handle "Alephzain," who posted the information on the XDA Developers Forum....
Instagram has changed the way photographs on its site display in tweets, the latest salvo in its ongoing feud with Twitter Instagram photos viewed on Twitter appear cropped or otherwise changed because Instagram has disabled its integration with Twitter Cards, Twitter said....
The Tumblr microblogging, social networking and online sharing site was hit on Monday by a group that harasses blogs and practices Internet trolling -- the posting of provocative or off-topic messages online. The hackers created an offensive posting that propagated itself relentlessly on Tumblr's network "Tumblr engineers have resolved the issue of...
The World Conference on International Telecommunications kicked off Monday behind closed doors in Dubai to a chorus of opposition from corporations, governments and civil-liberties groups worldwide The conference, organized by the International Telecommunication Union, a United Nations body, will review the International Telecommunication Regulatio...
Microsoft on Thursday laid out the specifications and pricing of its Surface tablet with Windows 8 Pro, which goes on sale in January It will offer the 64 GB standalone version at US$899 and the 128 GB standalone version at $999, both including a Surface pen with Palm Block technology. Palm Block prevents pen-based input from being interrupted when...
Windows 8 has failed to give PC sales the boost it was supposed to, the NPD Group has found Since the OS' Oct. 26 launch, overall Windows device sales have fallen 21 percent compared with the same period last year, NPD said. Notebook sales fell 24 percent, and desktop PC sales slipped by 9 percent....
Amazon Web Services on Wednesday launched RedShift, an on-demand data warehouse service that is optimized for the analysis of huge sets of data RedShift is "profoundly disruptive," said Merv Adrian, research vice president of information management at Gartner. Its success will move the economic boundary between on-premises and cloud usage and "data...
Samsung is gearing up to produce plastic flexible displays for mobile devices, the Wall Street Journal reported. The screens are lightweight, nearly unbreakable, and could result in flexible devices down the road. The displays, made from flexible organic light-emitting diodes, reportedly will be released in the first half of 2013....
Skype on Wednesday fixed a vulnerability that allowed users' accounts to be hijacked using the password reset process The vulnerability was published two months ago on the Russian site Xeksec....
Smartphone maker HTC on Tuesday announced its newest device, the Droid DNA, a 5-inch smartphone running Android Jelly Bean The device will be offered exclusively through Verizon Wireless, which began taking preorders on Tuesday. It will be available at retail stores nationwide on Nov. 21 for US$199.99 with a two-year contract....
An invisibility cloak under development at Duke University is a new and improved version of one announced in 2006 by the same researchers This latest version, developed by scientists at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering, solves some of the problems the earlier one had with reflections of light. The previous device, which used parallel and intersec...
Seven members of SEAL Team 6, the U.S. Navy's elite unit whose accomplishments include the killing of Osama bin Laden, have been disciplined for providing input for a video game, according to CBS Another four are under investigation for similar alleged violations. All are on active duty....
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