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AMSTERDAM (AP) — Europe's top regulator said Friday Google's recent concessions to resolve concerns it is abusing its dominant position in search are not enough. Speaking on Spanish national radio, European Commission antitrust chief Joaquin Almunia said Google's latest round of proposals in...

Scrambling to tamp down consumer outrage over the theft of credit and debit card data from more than 40 million of its customers, Target announced Friday that it would offer a 10 percent discount on purchases inside its stores Saturday and Sunday — the final shopping weekend of the holiday...

How much did NSA pay to put a backdoor in RSA crypto? Try $10m – report - Register The business case for a multi-tenant, cloud-based Recovery-as-a-Service solution The mystery of why RSA would use a flawed, NSA-championed algorithm as the default random number generator for several of its...

Summary: The relationship between Yahoo and its Mail users feels like a sickeningly protracted cycle of abuse, but this week it conceded and gave Tabs back to users -- but anyone missing emails is still out in the cold. In an unprecedented redesign rollback, Yahoo is slowly restoring Tabs to its...

Target officials on Friday said they are reaching out to customers in response to its recent security breach announcement. "We have begun notifying, via email, those guests whose emails we have and who shopped in our U.S. stores with a credit or debit card during the period of November 27 and...

Kim Dotcom. Photo: Handout Three months before federal authorities shuttered Megaupload and indicted its top seven executives, the file-sharing site’s founder, Kim Dotcom, urged PayPal not to do business with rival sites because of their “criminal activity,” according to a 200-page document...

BRUSSELS Fri Dec 20, 2013 6:24am EST Tweet Share this Email Print An illustration picture shows a Google logo with two one Euro coins, taken in Munich January 15, 2013. Credit: Reuters/Michael Dalder BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Google's revised proposals to settle an antitrust case are not...

A screenshot of the Vine Profiles page promoting customized profiles. ((Vine)) 1. You can now create your own URL for Vine If you have a verified Twitter account, you can now create your own customized URL through Vine, Twitter's short video service. Verified users can reserve a custom URL for...

News December 19, 2013 11:41 AM ET Computerworld - Apple today started taking orders for its pricy Mac Pro workstation, but shipping dates almost immediately slipped to February, irritating customers who have been awaiting the 'dark tower' desktop computer. On Wednesday, Apple said it would...

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Fri Dec 20, 2013 9:13am EST (Adds CEO and analyst comments, share price move) By Euan Rocha, Alastair Sharp and Allison Martell TORONTO Dec 20 (Reuters) - BlackBerry Ltd TO>, which gave up on a plan to sell itself last month, reported a massive quarterly loss on Friday, as sales of its...

In a first for the custom Android ROM community, Google signals its approval to ship a phone with CyanogenMod preinstalled. December 20, 2013 11:42 AM PST Google has approved of Cyanogen's plan to ship CyanogenMod on an Oppo N1. (Credit: Cyanogen) Come Christmas Eve, CyanogenMod will be the...

A Google sign appears at the company's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif.(Photo: Marcio Jose Sanchez, AP) SHARE 1 CONNECT EMAILMORE SAN FRANCISCO -- Google's latest offer to end an antitrust investigation in Europe was rejected by authorities in the region, leaving a question mark over how...

The Year of the Gamer. Does 2013 actually deserve that title? Among video-game enthusiasts, the year was nearly consumed by the official announcement, subsequent speculation about, and ultimate release of Sony's PlayStation 4 and Microsoft's Xbox One home consoles. Controversy and questions from...

Government Takedown Requests Rising, Says Google - But How Much Does This Really Tell Us? - ForbesLog in with your social account: Or, you can log in or sign up using Forbes.

Calxeda, an early player in delivering low-power server chips based on ARM’s custom architecture, has closed its office and laid off almost all of its 130 or so employees, according to a statement that a spokesman sent to VentureBeat. According to the statement, funding fell out from underneath...

Signs appear at the Blackberry booth at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.(Photo: Ethan Miller, Getty Images) SHARE 11 CONNECT EMAILMORE Ailing smartphone maker BlackBerry reported another round of losses during its third quarter as it navigates a major transition...

Summary: The European antitrust chief is tapping his foot. He's still not at all happy with Google. Google's latest settlement package from October still isn't enough to appease regulators, who are eyeing a $5 billion fine or a partial block of its business in the 28 member state bloc as a...

Quick guide to disaster recovery in the cloud Google has been fined a piddling €900,000 for three separate breaches of Spain's Data Protection Act. The country's information watchdog (AEPD) said that Google had "impeded" the exercise of its citizens' rights, after the ad giant controversially...

Summary: A tough business climate and new technology ideas don't combine to make the life of a start-up easy. Calxeda, one of the pioneers of high-density SoC ARM-based servers, has announced that they need to restructure the operation. However, the message — from  VP of marketing Karl Freund...