Technology
Latest stories
U.S. Probes HP's Autonomy Fraud Allegations

U.S. authorities are probing allegations by Hewlett-Packard that a British software firm it bought out had fraudulent accounts, the U.S. tech giant said in its annual report released Thursday.

On November 20, HP reported a writedown of $8.8 billion, including more than $5 billion it attributed to inflated data from Autonomy, acquired by HP in 2011 for more than $10 billion.

W140 Full Story
LG Seeks Ban on Samsung Tablet Sales in Korea

South Korea's LG display said Friday it had asked a Seoul court to ban the domestic sale of Samsung's Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet computer, citing alleged patent infringements.

The company, in the injunction filed on Wednesday, accused Samsung Electronics of infringing three of its patents on the liquid crystal display (LCD) panels used on the Galaxy Note.

W140 Full Story
U.S. Readers Turn Increasing to Digital Books

U.S. readers are increasingly opting for digital books instead of ink-and-paper editions, according to a Pew Research Center study released on Thursday.

The share of U.S. adults reading electronic books rose to 23 percent in November from 16 percent the same time last year, according to the Pew study.

W140 Full Story
Colleges Help Students Scrub Online Footprints

Samantha Grossman wasn't always thrilled with the impression that emerged when people Googled her name.

"It wasn't anything too horrible," she said. "I just have a common name. There would be pictures, college partying pictures, that weren't of me, things I wouldn't want associated with me."

W140 Full Story
Japan Security Firm to Offer Private Drone

A Japanese security company plans to rent out a private drone that takes off when intruder alarms are tripped and records footage of break-ins as they happen, a spokeswoman said Thursday.

The helicopter-like device is equipped with a small surveillance camera that can transmit live pictures of a crime taking place.

W140 Full Story
China Tightening Controls on Internet

China's new communist leaders are increasing already tight controls on Internet use and electronic publishing following a spate of embarrassing online reports about official abuses.

The measures suggest China's new leader, Xi Jinping, and others who took power in November share their predecessors' anxiety about the Internet's potential to spread opposition to one-party rule and their insistence on controlling information despite promises of more economic reforms.

W140 Full Story
Private Picture of Mark Zuckerberg's Family Leaked

Even Mark Zuckerberg's family can get tripped up by Facebook's privacy settings.

A picture that Zuckerberg's sister posted on her personal Facebook profile was seen by a marketing director, who then posted the picture to Twitter and her more than 40,000 followers Wednesday.

W140 Full Story
Classic Fashion Brand Burberry Goes Digital

Angela Ahrendts may be CEO of Burberry, but one of her favorite accessories is an Apple iPhone5 that she's used to oversee a mobile makeover at the 150-year-old company best known for trenchcoats and tartan plaids.

"This is the biggest flagship store in the world," Ahrendts says, holding up her iPhone during an interview in Chicago where Burberry just last month opened a new store. The Michigan Avenue site immerses customers in all things digital — from iPads for children to play with to video screens streaming Burberry fashion shows.

W140 Full Story
Thai Court Jails ex-Trader over Royal Health Web Rumors

A Thai court jailed a former equity trader for four years on Tuesday for posting false Internet messages about the king's health that sent stocks plunging in 2009, an official said.

Katha Pajariyapong, 39, was found guilty of three counts of breaching the kingdom's controversial computer crime laws in messages posted under his username on the Sameskybooks.org Internet forum.

W140 Full Story
Samsung Hits Back at Ericsson in Patent Battle

South Korea's Samsung Electronics said Wednesday it had filed a complaint to seek a U.S. import ban on some Ericsson products in an escalating patent battle with the Swedish mobile giant.

Samsung took the action Friday with the U.S. International Trade Commission, seeking a ban on imports and sales of Ericsson's products over alleged infringements of Samsung's wireless and equipment patents.

W140 Full Story