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Today's Reuters Technology News Headlines - Yahoo! News: Obama administration overturns ban on some iPad, iPhones New Siemens CEO says played no role in his predecessor's ouster NSA revelations could hurt collaboration with 'betrayed' hackers Twitter UK boosts anti-abuse tools after threats against women

Obama administration overturns ban on some iPad, iPhones  Saturday, Aug 03, 2013 07:28 PM PDT By Diane Bartz and Ayesha Rascoe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration has overturned a U.S. trade panel's ban on the sale of some older iPhones and iPads, reversing a ruling that had favored Samsung Electronics Co Ltd over Apple Inc in their long-running patent battles. The U.S. International Trade Commission in June banned the import or sale of the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad 3G and iPad 2 3G distributed by AT&T Inc, saying the devices infringed a patent owned by the South Korean electronics giant. U.S. ... Full Story	Top
New Siemens CEO says played no role in his predecessor's ouster  Saturday, Aug 03, 2013 03:09 PM PDT FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Joe Kaeser, the new chief executive of German engineering group Siemens, told a newspaper he played no role in the ousting of his predecessor Peter Loescher. Loescher was dumped in a boardroom battle after the company issued its second profit warning of the year last week. Kaeser, previously finance chief at Siemens, became the company's new CEO on Thursday. "I worked very well with Mr. Loescher and was not involved in his replacement," German daily Nuernberger Nachrichten quoted Kaeser as saying in an excerpt of an interview to be published on Monday. ... Full Story	Top
NSA revelations could hurt collaboration with 'betrayed' hackers  Saturday, Aug 03, 2013 11:26 AM PDT By Joseph Menn LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - The U.S. government's efforts to recruit talented hackers could suffer from the recent revelations about its vast domestic surveillance programs, as many private researchers express disillusionment with the National Security Agency. Though hackers tend to be anti-establishment by nature, the NSA and other intelligence agencies had made major inroads in recent years in hiring some of the best and brightest, and paying for information on software flaws that help them gain access to target computers and phones. ... Full Story	Top
Twitter UK boosts anti-abuse tools after threats against women  Saturday, Aug 03, 2013 06:49 AM PDT By Estelle Shirbon LONDON (Reuters) - The British arm of Twitter apologized on Saturday to a group of high-profile women who have been threatened with death and rape on the micro-blogging site, and announced measures to make it easier for users to report abusive tweets. Twitter had come under increasing pressure to react after a feminist campaigner, several women members of parliament and female journalists were targeted by users who hurled misogynistic abuse at them and in some cases made violent threats. ... Full Story	Top

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