 BOSTON (Reuters) - Security experts have discovered an unprecedented series of cyber attacks on the networks of 72 organizations globally, including the United Nations, governments and corporations, over a five-year period. | |
 LONDON (Reuters) - Teenage Britons are spending more and more time using smartphones to make calls, send texts and use social networking sites, and more than half of those that own the devices claim to be addicted to them, regulator Ofcom said on Thursday. | |
| Former CIA official sees terrorism-cyber parallels Wed,3 Aug 2011 04:00 PM PDT Reuters - LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Different wars for different times. Cofer Black, a former top CIA counterterrorism official, said on Wednesday he sees parallels between the terrorism threat that emerged before the September 11 attacks a decade ago and the emerging cyber threat now. Full Story | |
 LOS ANGELES/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc, fresh off losing a bid to buy thousands of valuable patents from bankrupt Nortel, accused its biggest rivals on Wednesday of banding together to block the Internet giant in the red-hot smartphone arena. | |
| Leap posts wider loss as subscriber additions fall Wed,3 Aug 2011 01:32 PM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - Leap Wireless posted a wider second-quarter loss as it added fewer customers than expected, sending its shares down as much as 5 percent in extended trading. Full Story | |
| Analysis: Enterprise flash storage market ripe for tie-ups Wed,3 Aug 2011 12:07 PM PDT Reuters - SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Competition is brewing in the small but booming market for flash memory used in corporate data centers, and analysts foresee a wave of consolidation as larger players move in. Full Story | |
| Avista, Cinven among bidders for Reuters' Kondor: sources Wed,3 Aug 2011 10:22 AM PDT Reuters - NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - Avista Capital Partners and Cinven are among four private equity firms bidding for Thomson Reuters Corp's trade and risk management software business, Kondor, people close to the matter said. Full Story | |
 BANGALORE (Reuters) - Garmin Ltd's efforts to revive waning sales of its once popular personal navigation devices will only bear fruit in the second half of next year, as many consumers have turned to free navigation apps on their smartphones and tablets. | |
| UK spy agency says cyber raids show need for security Wed,3 Aug 2011 09:39 AM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's electronic spy agency told Reuters on Wednesday a report disclosing unprecedented cyber raids demonstrated the need for an international "shared understanding" of acceptable online activity that could boost trade and social development. Full Story | |
| Wi-LAN shares fall on patent suit setback against LG Wed,3 Aug 2011 09:26 AM PDT Reuters - BANGALORE (Reuters) - Shares of patent licensing firm Wi-LAN Inc fell 18 percent on Wednesday, a day after a U.S. magistrate judge recommended summary judgment on LG Electronics Inc's defense against the Canadian company's patent infringement lawsuit. Full Story | |
| UK shakes up copyright laws, scraps plan to block websites Wed,3 Aug 2011 06:59 AM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said Wednesday it will introduce a digital exchange where licenses for copyright works may be bought and sold, as part of a revamp of its 300-year-old copyright laws. Full Story | |
 BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Three small rivals have dropped their antitrust complaints against International Business Machines Corp that had triggered one of two investigations by EU regulators into IBM's business practices. | |
| Huawei bets on the cloud, mobile phone sales soar Wed,3 Aug 2011 03:49 AM PDT Reuters - BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, the world's No. 2 network equipment maker, launched its cloud computing smartphones on Wednesday, looking to ride a mobile industry boom that drove a 64 percent sales rise in its devices unit in the first half. Full Story | |
| South Korea fines Apple $2,855 over location data Wed,3 Aug 2011 03:13 AM PDT Reuters - SEOUL (Reuters) - Apple Inc's South Korean unit has been fined 3 million won ($2,855) by the country's communications regulator after the iPhone and iPad maker collected location data from users without proper authorization. Full Story | |
| MetroPCS posts weak subscriber numbers, shares plunge Tue,2 Aug 2011 04:53 PM PDT Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - MetroPCS Communications Inc lost more than a third of its market value on Tuesday after it reported quarterly earnings that missed Wall Street expectations and warned that already-weak second-quarter subscriber numbers would worsen in the current quarter. Full Story |
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