TECHNOLOGY

Pandora for Android: Example of data-leaching flipside of apps

Mobile apps can can leach immeasurable amounts of data from personal smartphones and sell them to advertising platforms. The news about data pilfering apps is nothing new, but there is now fresh evidence that large quantum of data are passed on from smartphones to advertisers by some apps.
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Cisco CEO warns tough decisions ahead

Cisco Inc Chief Executive John Chambers, days after admitting that the company he has led for 16 years had lost its way, warned of competitive pressures, depressed public sector spending and tough decisions that lay ahead.
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Cisco CEO vows to double-down on video

Cisco Inc CEO John Chambers, days after admitting the company he has led for 16 years had lost its way, acknowledged challenges remain in its core business of networking while vowing to double down on video.
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FCC mandates wireless data roaming

U.S. regulators on Thursday adopted data roaming rules that would allow smartphones to access the Internet in areas across the country not covered by their wireless carrier.
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HTC Market Cap Surpasses Nokia

HTC, the Taiwanese phone maker, surpassed Nokia in market capitalization yesterday, putting it in the ranks of the largest mobile phone makers in the world.
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Elpida develops new DRAM for smartphones

Elpida Memory Inc said on Thursday it has developed a 4-gigabit DRAM chip for smart phones, joining bigger rival Samsung Electronics as the only producers of the large capacity power-saving memory chip.
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Can Motorola Xoom Survive Over iPad 2?

Though, Xoom has comparable features and pricing to the high end version of Apple's iPad 2. The question now becomes, will the high end of the tablet market keep pace with the low end?
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Moody's cuts Nokia on weak market position

Moody's cut its credit rating on Nokia, citing the Finnish mobile phone company's weakening market position and uncertainty over its transition to Microsoft's Windows Phone software.
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The underground iPhone: Million-dollar jailbreaking industry thrives on legal loophole

The iPhone lost its virginity when legendary teenage hacker George Hotz used a soldering iron to cut open Apple's defences and unravel the secrets of the iPhone. The exploit famously inspired hordes of geeks who tried to get the better of Apple by offering iOs jailbreaks and finally setting up underground app stores that made decent business.

Honeycomb makes Motorola Xoom special but not special enough

Motorola Xoom is not yet ready to supersede iPad2. After its launch on February 24, Deutsche Bank released a sales estimate of 100,000 units of Motorola Xoom compared to a huge number of 300,000 units of iPad2 sold on day one. The number is growing exponentially for iPad2.
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M&S customers email address hacked: reports

Britain's largest retail chain Mark and Spencer customers email addresses have been hacked and the company has sent warning messages to many online customers who have supplied the store with email addresses, various media outlet reported.
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Samsung Elec estimated Q1 profit below forecasts

Samsung Electronics estimated its January-March operating profit at 2.9 trillion won ($2.7 billion), lower than the consensus forecast, in its first earnings update since the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan last month.
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Hewlett-Packard sues former exec at Oracle

Hewlett-Packard Co on Wednesday sued a former high-ranking executive who had left to join rival Oracle Corp to stop him from sharing hundreds of documents HP claims he stole from the company.

NGP Release Going As Planned, Says Sony

The statement counters a previous statement made by Sony America president Jack Tretton, who yesterday said that Sony may be forced to stagger the release of their next portable to keep with demand.

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