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| HTC 'One Mini' faces UK ban after court ruling on patent infringement Tuesday, Dec 03, 2013 07:31 PM PST  LONDON/TAIPEI (Reuters) - HTC Corp will have to stop selling its One Mini smartphone in Britain from December 6 after a British court ruled the Taiwanese company had infringed patents owned by Finnish rival Nokia. Justice Richard Arnold of the England and Wales High Court on Tuesday granted Nokia a final injunction to stop HTC from continuing to infringe upon a European Patent held by Nokia related to mobile phone microchips. The judge had ruled in October that HTC's One phone contained the microchips. HTC, responding to the lawsuit, said on Wednesday it would appeal the ruling. Full Story | Top |
| Facebook phases in 'Unfollow' button Tuesday, Dec 03, 2013 12:58 PM PST  (Reuters) - Facebook Inc has replaced its "Hide All" button with the more succinct "Unfollow," letting users block all messages and posts from selected friends. The latter alternative severs ties with that person on the social network, without notifying them. The goal of this change is to help people curate their newsfeed and see more of the content that they care about," Facebook said in an email. Facebook began rolling out the "Unfollow" button and a related change to its users on Monday. Full Story | Top |
| U.S. senator seeks information on carmaker efforts to thwart hackers Tuesday, Dec 03, 2013 12:35 PM PST  By Jim Finkle BOSTON (Reuters) - A U.S. senator has asked 20 of the world's biggest automakers for information on how they secure their vehicles from cyber attacks, in light of reports by security experts who say they have identified ways to hack into cars. Edward Markey, a Democrat from Massachusetts, asked the companies to respond to a series of questions including how they test electronic components and wireless networks to make sure that attackers cannot gain access to onboard networks. He cited recent research by security experts who uncovered cyber vulnerabilities in cars that they said hackers might be able to exploit to cause them to crash. Full Story | Top |
| BlackBerry says making headway with corporate, government clients Tuesday, Dec 03, 2013 10:25 AM PST  By Euan Rocha TORONTO (Reuters) - The number of large business and government clients that have installed or are testing BlackBerry Ltd's mobile device management service has risen roughly 20 percent over the past six months, the embattled smartphone maker said on Tuesday. BlackBerry, which recently halted plans to sell itself and shook up its management team, said large customers such as Morgan Stanley and Boeing Co are currently running and testing its BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 (BES). The product allows such companies to securely manage devices that run on Apple's iOS operating system and Google's Android operating system as well as BlackBerry devices on their internal networks. Apple and Android devices have eclipsed BlackBerry and now dominate the smartphone market. Full Story | Top |
| Google takes on Amazon by cutting cloud service prices Tuesday, Dec 03, 2013 09:55 AM PST  Google Inc will lower prices on cloud services as the search giant gears up to take on Amazon.com Inc, International Business Machines Corp and Microsoft Corp in the fast-growing market of Internet services for corporations. In a Monday blogpost, Google outlined key features and pricing for "Compute Engine," part of a broader service that vies with Amazon's AWS in providing storage and computing power to corporate clients as in-house datacenters are gradually phased out. Google said the service was now "generally available," signaling that it meets internal standards and is ready for a wider rollout. "Google is positioned to become the next large player in cloud services, with a robust platform of application, platform and infrastructure services, competing for an increasing share of the IT spending pie." (Reporting by Edwin Chan; Full Story | Top |
| China Mobile briefly takes pre-orders for iPhones -Fortune.com Tuesday, Dec 03, 2013 09:44 AM PST  (Reuters) - China Mobile Ltd, the world's largest mobile phone carrier, has quietly begun taking pre-orders for Apple Inc's iPhones, according to a report on Fortune.com. Apple, which needs to expand its footprint in China, its biggest market after the United States, is trying to offset slowing revenue growth in developed markets that are increasingly saturated and hyper-competitive. Apple fell to No. 7 in the second quarter in China, the world's largest mobile market, with 5 percent market share, losing ground not just to Samsung Electronics Co Ltd but also to local rivals Lenovo Group Ltd and ZTE Corp. Fortune's report, which could not be confirmed by Reuters, showed a screen grab from a reservation website that Fortune said was registered by a China Mobile subsidiary in southern China that began taking pre-orders for the iPhone 5S and the iPhone 5c late on Monday. Full Story | Top |
| Bookworms get unlimited access to books through apps Tuesday, Dec 03, 2013 08:45 AM PST By Natasha Baker AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Film and television fans use apps to view their favorite movies and shows and now readers can have similar access to an unlimited digital library. For a monthly fee of about $10, Oyster and Scribd will allow bookworms to instantly browse and read ebooks through smartphone and tablet apps and to download them for offline reading. "We see ourselves as the world's digital library. You can read whatever you want without having to make a payment every time you read," said Trip Adler, the co-founder and CEO of Scribd, based in San Francisco. Full Story | Top |
| RBS admits decades of IT neglect after systems crash Tuesday, Dec 03, 2013 07:41 AM PST  By Steve Slater and Aashika Jain LONDON (Reuters) - Royal Bank of Scotland has neglected its technology for decades, the state-backed bank's boss admitted on Tuesday after a system crash left more than 1 million customers unable to withdraw cash or pay for goods. The problem for three hours on Monday, one of the busiest online shopping days of the year, raised questions about the resilience of RBS's technology, which analysts and banking industry sources regard as outdated and made up of a complex patchwork of systems after dozens of acquisitions. "For decades, RBS failed to invest properly in its systems," Ross McEwan, who became chief executive in October, said. The latest crash could cost RBS millions of pounds in compensation and follows a more serious crash in its payments system last year that Britain's regulator is still investigating. Full Story | Top |
| RBS CEO: Bank has under-invested in systems for decades Tuesday, Dec 03, 2013 04:12 AM PST  LONDON (Reuters) - Royal Bank of Scotland's new boss admitted the state-backed bank had under-invested in its systems for decades and apologized for an "unacceptable" technology crash that affected more than 1 million customers on Monday. "For decades, RBS failed to invest properly in its systems," said Ross McEwan, who became chief executive in October. "I will be outlining plans in the New Year for making RBS the bank that our customers and the UK need it to be. This will include an outline of where we intend to invest for the future. ... Full Story | Top |
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