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(Reuters) – Sony Corp has filed a patent infringement complaint seeking to block LG Electronics Inc from shipping smartphones such as its Rumor 2 model to the United States. In a filing late Wednesday with the U.S. International Trade Commission, Sony said LG violated U.S. trade rules by importing mobile phones and modems that infringed […]

(Reuters) – Two separate groups of iPhone and iPad users have sued Apple Inc alleging that certain software applications were passing personal user information to third-party advertisers without consent. In the lawsuits seeking class action, filed in a federal court in California, the plaintiffs sought a ban on passing of user information without consent and […]

(Reuters) – The U.S. securities regulator is looking into trading in privately-held Internet companies including Facebook and Twitter, media reports said, citing people familiar with the inquiry. The Securities and Exchange Commission has sent letters to several people trading in the stock of these companies, seeking information about topics that include how such funds are […]

(Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc said sales of its Kindle e-reader were strong over the holiday season amid competition from devices such as Apple Inc’s iPad, a computer tablet that also has e-reader capabilities. Amazon, which has a policy of not divulging exact sales figures for the Kindle and digital books, said the most recent version […]

Dec 23 (Reuters) – U.S. online shopping rose 15.4 percent to $36.4 billion for the holiday shopping season, a MasterCard Advisors’ SpendingPulse report showed on Thursday. Online sales registered double-digit growth in six out of seven weeks since Oct. 31, SpendingPulse said. "Today eCommerce accounts for a much larger share of overall retail sales compared […]

Dec 24 (Reuters) – Fujitsu Ltd (6702.T), Japan’s leading IT vendor, will invest more than $1.2 billion in cloud computing services next financial year, its president said Friday. Fujitsu is looking for new products and services as it tries to counter a crimp on corporate and public spending on new IT services amid weak economic […]

Dell has announced it will buy InSite One, the developer of a medical archiving cloud application to make it easier for physicians to share medical images and make quick diagnoses by collaborating on images online. Terms of the Dec. 22 agreement were not disclosed. The deal will combine InSite’s InDex Vendor-Neutral Enterprise Archive (VNA) cloud-based […]

NEW YORK, Dec 22 (Reuters) – Internet phone and video service Skype went down in a global service outage on Wednesday, underscoring a weakness of the free online communication tool. Skype, partly owned by Web retailer eBay Inc (NASDAQ:EBAY), said some users were having problems signing on. Users in the United States, Asia and Europe […]

(Reuters) – Enterprise data warehousing company Teradata Corp agreed to buy privately held Aprimo for $525 million to expand into cloud software services, as it gears to meet challenges from larger rivals IBM and Oracle. Indianapolis-based Aprimo provides software to its enterprise customers, who use it to analyze data to map out their marketing and […]

(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp is working on a version of its core Windows operating system for devices such as tablets, according to media reports on Tuesday, and the company said its Windows Phone 7 software is making headway in the booming smartphone market. Microsoft plans to unveil a version of its operating software that runs […]

(Reuters) – Regulators are looking into the events surrounding Mark Hurd’s abrupt exit as chief executive of Hewlett Packard Co, a source familiar with the matter said on Monday. The SEC’s probe was first reported by the Wall Street Journal, which cited anonymous sources as saying the Securities and Exchange Commission was investigating claims that […]

(Reuters) – Smartphones such as Google Inc’s Android-based devices and Apple Inc’s iPhone are poised to become popular business tools, said an executive at the world’s biggest technology distributor. Increased use of Androids and iPhones for business, as consumers look to simplify their lives with one device for work and play, could hurt Research in […]