Jury finds Samsung infringed some Apple patents, must pay $120M in damages
Apple was dealt a blow in its second major patent-infringement lawsuit against Samsung when a Silicon Valley jury awarded the iPhone maker damages of just $119.65 million for Samsung's infringement of several of its smartphone patents. Apple had requested $2.2 billion in damages for what it alleged was massive infringement of five of its patents by nine models of Samsung smartphones and a single model of tablet.
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Windows Phone 8.1 to get a file manager
If you want to get documents, photos, songs and other data neatly organized on your Lumia smartphone, Microsoft is developing a file manager tool for Windows Phone 8.1, the next version of the mobile OS currently available as a pre-release developer preview. The announcement was made by Joe Belfiore, a corporate vice president with the Windows Phone group, during a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) session Friday, during which he made generous use of all-caps words and exclamation points.
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Tech companies get a little less silent about government data collection
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XP's retirement triggers another wave of deserters
Windows XP users continued to put their old hoss OS out to pasture in April, statistics showed, but the now-unsupported operating system still powered more than one in every four personal computers on the planet. According to Web analytics company Net Applications, Windows XP dropped 1.6 percentage points in "user share," an estimate of the fraction of the world's computer owners that run a specific operating system, to end April with 26.1 percent of all desktop and notebook systems. It was the second consecutive month that XP shed significant user share.
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Microsoft OneNote for iPhone, Mac receive major updates
Microsoft said it updated its OneNote apps for both the Apple iPhone and the Mac, facilitating OneNote's mission as quick-and-dirty repository for notes and images you can add yourself or find elsewhere on the Web.
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Google deals made Android phones more expensive, lawsuit claims
A lawsuit filed Thursday accuses Google of strong-arming device manufacturers into making its search engine the default on Android devices, driving up the cost of those devices and hurting consumers.
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HP expects first x86 Nonstop systems next year
Hewlett-Packard is eyeing 2015 for the release of its first Nonstop systems based on x86 server hardware, a company official said this week. It's a big transition for HP, and for any customers who want to stick with Nonstop but move off of Itanium, a processor that Intel seems to be winding down.
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Microsoft fixes IE zero-day flaw
Microsoft has issued a patch for an Internet Explorer zero-day flaw being actively exploited by malicious hackers and that was first identified Saturday . The flaw, which affects IE 6 through IE 11, could allow attackers to execute code remotely on a compromised computer if the user views an infected Web page using the browser.
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Google aims for purity with Android Silver
If you haven't yet heard of Android Silver -- assuming it's real -- that's because it's not been officially announced by Google. But recent reports from unnamed sources indicate Google is working to replace its Nexus line of pure Android phones with Android Silver devices sometime in 2015.
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Good news: IT businesses see growth. Bad news: They can't find people to hire
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Oracle will allow customers to swap on-premises software for cloud services
Oracle will allow customers to convert money they're now spending on annual support for on-premises into software subscriptions for its SaaS (software as a service) applications, in a bid to block defections to competitors such as Workday and Salesforce.com. Dubbed Customer 2 Cloud, the program lets Oracle customers using its on-premises HCM (human capital management) and CRM (customer relationship management) software switch over to cloud versions. E-Business Suite, Siebel, PeopleSoft and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne customers are eligible.
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One for the road: Microsoft patches Windows XP for SA 2963983
According to a post by Dustin Childs on Microsoft's Security Response Center bl
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Cisco retires WebEx Social and partners with Jive
Cisco has put out to pasture its WebEx Social ESN (enterprise social networking) suite, opting instead to partner with Jive Software. Cisco and Jive are marketing a bundle that includes Cisco's WebEx Meetings and Jabber for online meetings, Web conferencing, IM and audio/video communications and Jive's ESN software, which provides "Facebook like" capabilities for workplace collaboration, like employee profiles, activity streams, microblogging, document sharing and group workspaces.
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