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Samsung Gaining Leverage Over Google?

Jean-Louis Gassée raised an interesting point about whether Samsung, which, if you believe the reports, is on pace to sell between 30 million and...

Google, Apple Making Augmented Reality Cool Amid CES

Every year for CES (the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show, for the uninitiated), I receive scores of pitches about glasses, wrist watches and other...

Google, Apple Lead Internet Big Five

John Battelle offered this great chart above summarizing by strengths and weaknesses in the areas where Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Amazon compete. He...

McAfee Predicts More Hacktivism in 2012

The hacktivist collective Anonymous will either reorgranize into a cohesive body or disband completely, McAfee researchers said in their security predictions for 2012.Anonymous is...

Thailand, HP, Dell, EMC Head Storage News in 2011

Storage used to be considered a snoozer of an IT beat. You get data,you store data, and sometimes you back it up. Couldn't be...

Stratfor Victims Receiving Followup Messages From Attackers

The gang behind the attack on Stratfor over Christmas Eve is still making things difficult for the intelligence analysis firm by sending out malicious...

Google Tablet Would Have to Be Dirt Cheap and Great

The Google Nexus tablet rumor I wrote about here two weeks ago after Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt made some comments received new life...

Hackers’ Threat to Publish Symantec Source Code Not a Reason to Worry

A group of hackers has claimed that it has stolen the source code to Symantec's flagship antivirus product, according to a Pastebin post.This may...

Facebook Launching Google AdSense Rival in 2012

On the heels of my post about Google and Facebook locked in a user engagement death match (or more appropriately, Google chasing Facebook here),...

Facebook’s Timeline Users Targeted by Scammers

Facebook users who checked out Timeline and decided they hate it are being targeted by scammers on the social networking site, according to a...