Good morning. Here’s what’s been breaking in tech news while you’ve been sleeping and enjoying your breakfast.
Microsoft sues just about everybody
The lawyers will be opening another crate of champagne today, as Microsoft announces lawsuits against Barnes & Noble, Foxconn and Inventec for patent infringement. What patents, exactly?
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No drugs. No weapons. And no social networks.
Convicted felons are supposed to be denied many things when they’re sent to prison, but it seems that law enforcement authorities are only just waking up to the idea that even convicts might want to post on their Facebook wall.
The Huffington Post posted an article today that spells out …
This energetic young man is Tom Scott, making an entertaining presentation at Ignite London a few weeks ago, and very cleverly opening everyone’s eyes to the issues surrounding online privacy. Or the lack of it.
For those of you unable to watch the video, in it Tom pulls live data from the internet in real time, plucking personal …
The rumor started spreading around Twitter early this morning: geiger counters are now sold out in Paris, it said. But is it true?
Yes, it is. According to one manufacturer based in the French capital, panic buying has swamped suppliers not just there, but worldwide, since the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear alert in …
When Apple invented the App Store, it invented a whole new way of selling software – one so popular that other tech companies have rushed to build their own clones of the same idea.
Is Facebook among them? Possibly so, given the weekend’s news that it has signed a deal to buy UK/Israeli mobile technology company Snaptu.
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Good morning! Here are some of this morning’s interesting tech stories. More on these, and more besides, coming up later.
iPad 2 Will Keep The Top Spot
In a market analysis report that will surprise exactly no-one, some analysts from Gartner said the Apple iPad will continue to dominate the tablet computer market for some time to
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Another day, another pair of iPhone 5 rumors. Everybody loves a juicy Apple rumor, it seems, but the usual caveat applies: until a senior Apple exec has stood on a stage and announced it, either or both of these should be taken with a pinch of salt. No, wait: make that a truckload.
Rumor 1: iPhone 5 will have NFC chip for wireless …
Google just saved you as much as 50 seconds a day. That’s almost six minutes per week. Over five hours every year. Wow. Thanks Google.
How did they do it? Well, yesterday Google engineers announced a change to the code used to display AdSense ads all over the web.
The announcement is aimed at web developers and goes into technical …
James Altucher writes great stories about his background in the world of investment, but his latest, 10 Things I Didn’t Know About Google reads like a secret history of the I’m Feeling Lucky search company.
Read it, and you’ll learn not only how long the guy used to spend playing Defender each day, but also what Google’s first Tweet …
Angry Angry Birds Players
The plot of Angry Birds has taken a new twist. Those naughty pigs started with simple egg-theft, but now it seems they’re trying to go straight, and enter the world of advertising. But not all Angry Birds HD players are happy about that. Erica Ho has the story.
Link: Right here at Techland
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Daily shopping deals website Groupon has been holding pre-IPO talks valuing it at up to $25 billion, according to anonymous sources quoted by Bloomberg in a lengthy interview with company founder Andrew Mason.
If it did reach that target, it would make Groupon the biggest IPO ever, knocking Google’s 2004 total of $24.6 billion off the
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A new website to help tsunami victims in Japan locate their lost belongings has been built in just two days. BelongingsFinder is a long-term humanitarian project set up in a single weekend by a UK-based team of geeks and entrepreneurs.
Last Friday, when the earthquake struck, Italian businessman and founder of startups Stefano
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