Taxation without negotiation for California smartphone buyers
Posted on March 31, 2010 - Filed Under Internet | Leave a Comment
Cellphone buyers in California pay unfair tax on devices bought under contract.
Tokbox gets super-sized group video meetings
Posted on March 31, 2010 - Filed Under Internet | Leave a Comment
Video chat service Tokbox is launching a new meeting service that lets businesses and large groups set up large-scale group chats.
Google upgrades email management hosted service
Posted on March 31, 2010 - Filed Under Internet | Leave a Comment
Google is adding two features to its Google Message Security, a hosted service for monitoring and managing email systems that filters message content based on pre-established policies and protects against spam, viruses, and other threats.
Free Cloud Alliance to push open source clouds
Posted on March 31, 2010 - Filed Under Internet | Leave a Comment
IELO, Mandriva, and Nexedi this week joined forces and formed the Free Cloud Alliance, which will work to push open source products for cloud computing.
Chip market fell in ‘09, but growth expected in ‘10
Posted on March 30, 2010 - Filed Under Internet | Leave a Comment
Worldwide semiconductor sales dropped by more than 10 percent last year, Gartner says. But a rebound in the second half holds promise for 2010.
Researchers find security holes in smart meters
Posted on March 30, 2010 - Filed Under Internet | Leave a Comment
Utilities hire a security consultancy, which finds a number of vulnerabilities in smart meters that could let a criminal remotely control a meter.
Taiwan makers plan to display 10 iPad-like devices at Computex
Posted on March 30, 2010 - Filed Under Internet | Leave a Comment
Taiwanese companies will show off “at least 10″ devices similar to Apple’s upcoming iPad at the Computex electronics show in June, one of the event’s organizers said Tuesday.
“All the major laptop PC companies will have a tablet device to show at Computex,” said Chang Li, deputy secretary general of the Taipei Computer Association, which co-organizes [...]
Google says mobile services in China partly blocked
Posted on March 30, 2010 - Filed Under Internet | Leave a Comment
Google mobile services have been partly blocked in China, according to the company, after it snubbed the Chinese government over censorship last week.
A China status page set up by Google shows its mobile services were partially blocked in the country starting Sunday.
Apple may be working on iPhone for Verizon: report
Posted on March 30, 2010 - Filed Under Internet | Leave a Comment
HONG KONG/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A subsidiary of Taiwan netbook PC pioneer Asustek has won orders to manufacture Apple’s iPhone to run on the CDMA standard, a source said on Tuesday.
Google and Facebook raise new issues for therapists and their clients
Posted on March 29, 2010 - Filed Under Internet | Leave a Comment
As his patient lay unconscious in an emergency room from an overdose of sedatives, psychiatrist Damir Huremovic was faced with a moral dilemma: A friend of the patient had forwarded to Huremovic a suicidal e-mail from the patient that included a link to a Web site and blog he wrote. Should Huremo…