Microsoft Takes On US DOJ Over Email Privacy (video)

Microsoft Is Taking On the Government Over Email Privacy: Video - Bloomberg:
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Brad Smith, general counsel at Microsoft, explains why Microsoft is taking on the U.S. government over email privacy. He speaks with Bloomberg's Trish Regan on "Street Smart." (Source: Bloomberg 12/15)

Microsoft gets allies to help tell U.S. to back off on Irish search warrant
PCWorld
The U.S. Department of Justice should back off its request for Microsoft to turn over a suspect's digital documents stored on a server in Ireland, or be prepared for other governments demanding documents stored on U.S. servers, the company's general ...

iTunes trial: Case over Apple's digital music dominance heads to jury
San Jose Mercury News
OAKLAND -- iTunes 7.0: A landmark improvement to Apple's software for the iPod or an empty update meant to drive out competitors and hike prices for consumers? That will be the $1 billion question for a federal jury in Oakland as they deliberate over ...

Fortune
Apple aced its e-book antitrust appeal
Fortune
Judge Jacobs also repeatedly referred to Amazon's $9.99 pricing policy, whereby it sold books at below the wholesale acquisition cost, as “predatory ...
US faces tough questions in Apple e-books antitrust appeal - Reuters


Forbes
Facebook Removes Microsoft Bing Search Feature
Forbes
Bing.com is currently the second largest search engine with 20% of the market compared to Google's 67%. Fortunately for Microsoft, Yahoo!/Bing is ...

IBNLive
That Was Fast; Spain Already In Full Retreat Over Google Tax
Forbes
That's the exile of all of the Spanish press from the main Google index. ... 

The Guardian
Amazon UK's 1 penny firesale
CNNMoney
It was caused by a glitch in the software that third party sellers on Amazon ... Most of the orders have been canceled by Amazon. ... 

New York Times
Potential $1 billion Apple DRM judgment is now in jury's hands
The Verge
A jury of eight will now decide whether Apple should pay more than $1 ... "Plaintiffs don't understand the technology in this case," she told the jury.
Former engineer claims Apple intended to block 100 percent of non-iTunes clients - Digital Trends

TIME
Tuesday Is Amazon's Free Shipping Christmas Deadline
TIME
Inside An Amazon.com Distribution Center On Cyber Monday An employee stacks boxes filled with merchandise for shipment at the Amazon.com Inc.

TechRepublic
Why Google Fiber missed the mark with free internet
TechRepublic
Many know Google Fiber for its gigabit internet, but did you know it offers a no-cost option for internet access? Here's how Google dropped the ball on ...

TechCrunch
Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook Profile Under Attack From Brazilian Trolls
TechCrunch
Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook profile has come under attack from a large ... photos and other “meme” images, on the Facebook CEO's public posts. ... this Facebook group titled “Flood that Mark” (translation via Google Translate). ... the design of Facebook's service and development of its core technology ...

Google App for iOS Gains Nest Integration
Mac Rumors
Following last week's major redesign, the Google app for iOS has seen yet ... Google makes devices and services that work with Google AND Apple ...

Google might build its own 'buy now' button to compete with Amazon
The Verge
Google has long had an e-commerce arm; its Google Shopping product lets you buy ... 

Video game industry struggles to grow, a year after new consoles launch - CNET: "After months of subsisting on strong sales of new game hardware, overall game spending plummets in November."

Google and French Space Agency partner on Project Loon:
Press Releases - CNES: "A fleet of balloons providing an Internet connection to rural, remote and underserved areas: that is the goal of Google’s ambitious Project Loon. CNES is supporting this project with balloon engineering expertise for which it has acquired international acclaim over the last 50 years. CNES and Google are delighted to be working together to give new momentum to research efforts in this area."

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US House Passes Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act

US HOUSE VOTES for Internet Access Tax Permanent Moratorium - The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation Tuesday to ban permanently any taxation of Internet access or Internet connection taxes -- the ban was opposed by some Democrats and state and local governments. The legislation now goes to the US Senate where it has bipartisan support. Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act 
Yahoo Q2 2014 Earnings: Download Yahoo Q2 2014 Earnings Slides

Former Ford CEO Alan Mulally to Join Google Board

Novatis, Google to Work on Smart Contact Lenses
Wall Street Journal
The smart lenses, which Google unveiled in January, are part of a growing number of wearable technology and software products used to monitor ...

Microsoft COO tells partners to get with the cloud program now
PCWorld
Microsoft controls more than 90 percent of the personal-computer market. Which means that, in its view, it's an underdog. Microsoft opened its ...

Google Chromecast now on sale in Ireland
Irish Independent
Google has announced that Chromecast, a new device that makes it easy to enjoy online video and music on any HD TV, is now officially available in ...

Google's Nest launches network technology for connected home
Reuters
The attempt by Nest, a smart thermostat maker that Google bought in January for $3.2 ... Earlier in July, Microsoft Corp became the 51st member of a competing group called ...Apple Inc, known for strictly controlling how other companies' products interact with its ...Facebook · Twitter · RSS · YouTube ...

Meet 'Project Zero,' Google's Secret Team of Bug-Hunting Hackers
Wired
When Hotz dismantled the defenses of Google's Chrome operating system earlier this year, by contrast, the company paid him a $150,000 reward for ...

Facebook to track users' TV habits
Los Angeles Times
The Facebook-Nielsen partnership is part of a stepped-up campaign to get a .... The first successful tablet computer, the Apple iPad, was introduced in 2010. ... Facebook collected more display ad dollars than longtime leader Google ...

Microsoft: Lumia 630 and Lumia 930 Windows Phone owners, Google search is banned for you
Computerworld (blog)
On the other hand, Google owns the search market, with around a 68% ... Given that,Microsoft is only hurting itself by banning Google search from ...

Rackspace Fights Amazon With Managed Cloud Push
InformationWeek
Rackspace will host Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange, or Sharepoint ... and AmazonWeb Services, Google, and Microsoft began competing with ...

Microsoft to Announce Job Cuts as Soon as This Week
Bloomberg
Like us on Facebook · Follow us on Twitter ... July 15 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg's Betty Liu reports that Microsoft Chief ... take on smartphones and tablets from Apple Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. and other technology rivals. ... While Microsoft has undergone smaller, intermittent job cuts in individual ...

Amazon employees hotter than Google's, Facebook's
MarketWatch
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) was at No. 2 with 8%, while Google was at 7%, andFacebook at 2.3%. ... matches 7.5% below the average rate, followed by Apple andGoogle. ... Yahoo earnings: Focus on Alibaba, display business.

Google Now Warns In Search Results when a Page Won't Load - The Next Web
By Nick Summers
Google will now indicate when a page listed in its search results won't load properly on your device. For instance, if a site requires Adobe Flash you'll ...
The Next Web

Could this Comcast rep be the worst service rep in the world?
CNET
An extraordinary recording of a phone call with Comcast, posted by tech journalist Ryan Block, reveals a rep who simply wouldn't accept that a customer would want to disconnect...

10-year space trip nears end
NEWS.com.au
AFTER 10 years and nearly seven billion kilometres spent circling the solar system, a spacecraft will finally meet its target. European Space Agency's probe Rosetta — a robotic spacecraft — has been in pursuit of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko since ...

Microsoft to partners: with 14 percent of the market, the scope for growth is huge
Ars Technica
In the day one keynote of its Worldwide Partner Conference, Microsoft was working hard to persuade its hardware and software partners of the opportunity that its platforms offered them. Key to that is convincing the assembled partners that its platform ...

Space Florida: 'Win some, lose some'
Valley morning Star
BROWNSVILLE — Space Florida conceded Monday that SpaceX is poised to establish the world's first private and commercial vertical launch site at Boca Chica Beach in Cameron County. “It's part of the process,” Space Florida's Chief of Strategic Alliances ...

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Due to Win8 debacle, Microsoft continues some XP support

When you have nowhere to go but to another platform (MacBook or Chromebook) due to the Windows 8 debacle, Microsoft relents and continues some support for the old operating system:

Microsoft will furnish malware assassin to XP users until mid-2015
Computerworld
Computerworld - Microsoft confirmed on Friday that it will continue to offer its malware scrubbing program to Windows XP users for more than a year after it stops patching the operating system. "Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool is aligned ...

Apple's dated iPhone 4 may still cost Rs 23000 in India
Firstpost - We already have reservations about whether Apple's possible iPhone 4 relaunch in India is a sound strategy, but it looks like the company is going ...

Some Microsoft Surface Pro 2 users report a firmware fix rolling out
ZDNet - Summary: The fix for a faulty firmware update for Microsoft's second-generation, Intel-based Surface Pro 2 tablets may be starting to roll out, according ...

Google Buys Nest Just As Internet Of Things Suffers First Global ...
Forbes - When I think about the differences between Apple and Google it seems to me that Apple excels in the device in your hand and Google in the network ...

Microsoft Offers To Pay YouTubers To Positively Promote Xbox One
Cinema Blend - When your console is getting trashed by anyone who doesn't watch TV on their TV, when you have no idea how to win over the silent Japanese ...

Google Glass Traffic Court Ruling Just The Start Of Long Legal Battle
CBS Local - An attendee tries Google Glass during the Google I/O developer conference on May 17, 2013 in San Francisco, California. Eight members of the ...

Apple and Google Are Killing Nintendo's 3DS
DailyFinance - Friday's release suggests that Apple and Google's mobile devices are finally taking a toll on ...

Apple needs to clamp down on its talking cats
The Guardian - It's 4.30 on a gloomy winter's afternoon. I'm sitting with my grandson having one of those conversations in which grandsons explain complicated stuff ... available at: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/talking-tom-cat-2/

Rosetta: Alarm to sound for comet mission
BBC News
One of the most daring space missions ever undertaken reaches a key milestone on Monday. Europe's Rosetta probe was launched a decade ago on a long quest to chase down and land on a comet, and has spent the past two-and-half-years in hibernation ...

'Bio-Bot' Swims Like A Sperm! Self-Propelled Biological Robots Advances [Video]
Design & Trend
Engineers have created a new way to explore the viscous fluid of biological environments unsupervised, like the inside of the human body. Known as "bio-bot," the synthetic machine swims like a sperm, is powered by heart cells, propelled by a tail and can ...

Group: 250 dolphins await slaughter, lifetime of captivity at Japan's Taiji Cove
CNN
(CNN) -- Japanese fishermen rounded up more than 250 bottlenose dolphins in a secluded cove to kill for meat or sell into a lifetime of captivity, U.S. conservationists warned. The annual hunting of dolphins at Taiji Cove highlights the rift between ...

Nintendo needs 'radical new beginning' to recover from Y25bn loss
Financial Times
Amid the smartphone boom of the past few years, executives at the Kyoto-based company have stuck to the basic model that defined the modern gaming industry: sell hardware cheaply, or even at a loss, then make money back through sales of software.

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