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Samsung Galaxy Tab Tops 1 Million Units Sold

Samsung has sold more than 1 million Apple iPad rival Galaxy Tab tablet computers worldwide, a significant jump for a product that notched 600,000...

YouTube Leanback Adds Personalized Channels, Skippable Ads

YouTube Dec. 2 spruced up the usefulness of its Leanback application by letting users create their personalized channels.Leanback lets users type in a topic...

Google Yahoo Japan Deal Approved to Microsoft’s Dismay

Google Dec. 2 won approval to power Yahoo Japan's search engine from Japan's Fair Trade Commission, a victory that has Microsoft worried about its...

WikiLeaks Remains Online Even as Nervous DNS Providers Back Away

As governments around the world moved to shut down WikiLeaks, the site struggled to remain online, as its American-based domain name service provider pulled...

Businesses Engaging in Risky Technology Behavior: Survey

Resource-and-cash-strapped small businesses struggling to cut costs in a slow economy are leaving simple cost-savings options on the table and putting data at risk,...

Google Earth Engine Launches as Cloud Climate Platform

Google Dec. 2 rolled out a new cloud-based computing platform that puts past and present satellite imagery online to gauge changes in Earth's environment.Introduced...

HTTP Headers the Way to Implement FTC ‘Do Not Track’ Controls: Researchers

While there are several potential methods to implementing the Federal Trade Commission's proposed "Do Not Track" mechanism, the most effective method is to have...

Storage Sector Continues Strong Growth: IDC

The good financial news continues for the solid-as-a-rock data storage industry.Global sales of disk-based storage arrays, which had grown only slightly during 2008 and...

Web Marketers Wary of FTC’s ‘Do Not Track’ Initiative

After federal regulators proposed a "Do Not Track" mechanism to give control over what consumer data companies can collect and share, a lot of...

FCC’s Net Neutrality Remains on Shaky Legal Footing, Skimpy Industry Support

The Federal Communications Commission's new net neutrality framework clarified some points from its 2009 plan, but the latest proposal still is receiving scant support...