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Symantec has been sued by a Washington resident for misrepresenting the effect of errors discovered by some of the company’s PC utility products. Symantec apparently used scareware tactics to lead users into buying licenses for some of its products. The complaint was filed on Tuesday in a California court on behalf of a Symantec customer [...]
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Automaker Ford is planning to open a research lab in Silicon Valley, a move it hopes will help it attract the best tech talent and help it stay competitive in the market. The company announced that it will base the new lab in Palo Alto California, near Stanford University in the next few months. It [...]
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Investment firm Susquehanna has indicated that technology giant Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is likely to ship about 30.3 million iPhones this quarter, having adjusted the figures from its earlier forecast of 27.1 million. Susquehanna also predicted that Apple Inc will sell an estimated 111.4 million iPhones across the 2012 fiscal year. An analyst at the firm [...]
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Italy’s antitrust authority announced on Tuesday it has fined US tech giant Apple 900,000 euros ($1.8 million) for misguiding consumers on post-purchase help and product warranties. The authority explained in a statement that the fine was imposed on Apple as punishment for unfair commercial practices that have consequently harmed innocent consumers. It made it clear [...]
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Record labels have accused Google of failing to firmly deal with illegal downloading of files. This was raised in a report released by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) which says the search engine giant is making money through file sharing and stresses that it therefore needs to lay out measures to ensure [...]
WordPress 3.3, the latest version of the WordPress software, is now officially released to the public. Codenamed “Sonny” in honor of Sonny Stitt-the great saxophonist, the new release is now available for download or updates inside the WordPress platform. There have been more than 65 million WordPress downloads since version 3.0 was released, and now [...]
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The Treasury Department’s November assessment report states that JPMorgan Chase, one of the country’s major mortgage lenders, needs to improve its performance in the government’s foreclosure-prevention program. In three separate instances since June, the lender was reported to have rejected people who were qualified for mortgage modifications. The government released the November edition of its [...]
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It’s official, Facebook agrees to having breached its users’ privacy and misused their personal details, this coming after an official statement from the US FTC. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that Facebook conceded to having duped its users on how the social networking site used their personal details. Facebook has more than 800 million [...]
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Everybody was hoping that Amazon would discount their latest multimedia tablet, the Kindle Fire, on Black Friday. Didn’t happen! The question now is, will they discount it on Cyber Monday and have a Cyber Monday Kindle Fire Deal? Amazon did give a handsome 32% discount on a different Kindle eReader, but that’s not quite the [...]
There has been a lot of talk about the Pros and Cons of Amazon’s latest Kindle, the Kindle Fire. For some, it was the best thing since sliced bread, while for others, it lacked the bells and whistles. Here we look at the good, the bad and the ugly of the Amazon Kindle Fire and [...]
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