Report: Bing to become iPhone's search engine
Apple reportedly is in talks with Microsoft to make Bing the default search engine on the iPhone's Safari Web browser, according to Business Week.
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Military contractors now targeted by Chinese cyber attacks, says F-Secure
The targeted cyber attacks apparently originating in China that hit Google and more than 30 other companies late last year are now targeting some U.S. defense contractors, according to security vendor F-Secure.
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Mobile ad sector heats up as Opera buys AdMarvel
Opera has acquired AdMarvel, which has developed a product suite that manages how ads are delivered to mobile phones, the Norwegian Web browser company said on Wednesday.
Opera is paying $8 million in cash for the privately held U.S. company and up to an additional $15 million if certain financial targets are met during the next 24 months, according to a filing with the Oslo Bأ¸rs.
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China's Baidu sues U.S. domain registrar after hack
Top Chinese search engine Baidu.com has sued its U.S. domain registrar over a hack that took down the Web site, alleging negligence by the U.S. company, Baidu said Wednesday.
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Chip makers see stronger DRAM memory prices this year
Taiwan's biggest DRAM maker, Nanya Technology, reported its first net profit in nearly three years on Wednesday, as DRAM prices rose and demand remained strong in the fourth quarter of last year.
But the company's fortunes came at a cost to anyone buying a new PC. The price of mainstream DRAM chips posted a strong rebound last year after hitting multi-year lows, rising 266 percent, according to investment bank Credit Suisse.
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Malicious code links China to Google hack
The malicious software used to steal information from companies such as Google contains code that links it to China, a security researcher said Tuesday
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Apple patches 12 Mac bugs in Flash, SSL
Apple on Tuesday patched 12 vulnerabilities in Leopard and Snow Leopard, including seven in Adobe Flash Player and one in the protocol used to secure Internet traffic.
Security update 2010-001 , the first from Apple this year, is noticeably smaller than the monster issued last November that fixed almost 60 flaws.
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IBM reports 10 percent jump in profit for Q4
IBM on Tuesday reported a 10 percent jump in profit for the fourth quarter as revenue increased at the company for the first time in more than a year.
IBM reported a profit of $3.59 per share, up from $3.27 in the same quarter last year and ahead of the $3.47 that financial analysts had been expecting, according to Thomson Reuters.
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Google's China moves may help Windows Mobile by hurting Android
Google's decision to postpone the launch of two new Android phones in China this week points to the wider implications of the search giant's potential exit from the market.
A decision to leave China could deliver a blow to Android, which has just recently gained notable momentum, and could bring opportunity to Google's struggling rival Microsoft.
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Internet addresses expected to run out next year
The long-awaited depletion of the Internet's primary address space came one step closer to reality today with the http://www.nro.net/media/less-than-10-percent-ipv4-addresses-remain-unal... ">announcement that fewer than 10 percent of IPv4 addresses remain unallocated.
The Number Resource Organization (NRO), the official representative of the five regional Internet registries, made the announcement. The regional Internet registries allocate blocks of IP addresses to ISPs and other network operators.
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Mobile apps business is booming -- for Apple
Mobile apps had a banner year in 2009--with more than 2.5 billion apps downloaded and revenue of more than $4.2 billion. There are a number of newcomers to the app store arena, but app store pioneer Apple has a virtual monopoly right now with 99.4 percent of the app store market.
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Analyst: AT&T needs to spend $5 billion to catch up to Verizon's 3G
AT&T would need to spend about $5 billion on its wireless network to catch up with the coverage offered by Verizon Wireless, a financial research firm said Tuesday.
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IBM plans BlackBerry, iPhone, and Android applications
IBM is going into the mobile phone business with plans to resell RIM’s BlackBerry mobile devices pre-loaded with IBM's collaboration software.
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