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Nokia, the largest manufacturer of mobile phones on the planet, has announced that they will be suing software giants Apple for technology used in the Apple iPhone, of which Nokia claim is part of a patent they own.
The iPhone, which has sold millions of handsets, is the world’s most popular smart phone. However, Nokia claim [...]

Yesterday, Brad Stone of The New York Times published a piece on their website. This article said that the booksellers were claiming and presenting data which led them to believe that the mainstream invention and release of the eBook is causing people to read more. Here are some of the figures:
“Amazon for example, says that [...]

A computer-security expert has now said that the e-mail “phishing” attack that stole the details of thousands of online e-mail accounts provided Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo!, could not possibly have been a phishing scam, as he believes the sheer size of the attack suggests it may have been a keylogging scam.
Amichai Shulman, employee of Imperva, [...]

Console-giant Nintendo has decided to drop the price of its Nintendo Wii games console in the United States and Japan by 20%, and it has been reported that it hopes this move will spark more interest in the expensive Wii.
The Nintendo Wii was released by Nintendo in 2006 and had sold 52 million by June [...]

The online reception of free-encyclopedia Wikipedia is incredibly mixed. There are different people which use it for different reasons in different ways. Of course, Wikipedia can be edited by absolutely anybody. Some people will go to Wikipedia, research content and then check it with other sources. Others will stupidly go to Wikipedia, research content and, [...]

Google has remained the top of the list for the most used search engine for years now, and now, the American Consumer Satisfaction Index has once again only proved that the majority of the general American public prefer Google and are happier with it than any other popular search engine.
However, the results are questionable, because [...]

Facebook security officials have said that the attacks, which threatened huge Web services Google, Facebook and Twitter yesterday, were carried out in an attempt to silence one internet user, pro-Georgian blogger, “Cyxymu.”
Yesterday, Twitter was knocked offline for almost two hours, while Google noticed problems with its services, primarily Gmail and YouTube, and Facebook users reported [...]

Skype, which has forty-million active users and accounts for 8% of the world’s global vocal traffic, may have to be shut down after its original founders consider revoking an agreement licensing the peer-to-peer technology that allows it to do its work. You can read my full story on that here.
As it nows looks likely that [...]

eBay has confirmed that it may be forced to shut down Skype after a large dispute with its original founders regarding license agreements.
When eBay purchased the VoIP-service in 2005, for $2.6 billion, the agreement did not include a piece of code which is necessary to power Skype and its operations. Because of this, eBay has [...]

American researchers have been looking into the possibility of alternatives to the blocky, stripy black and white barcodes that we now find plastered onto just about every product we buy, with a sleek and tiny technology that could see an end to the current traditional barcodes we have now.
Bokodes are 0.1 inches in diameter and [...]