TECHNOLOGY

Investors seek signs of China Mobile 3G commitment Posted 11 minutes ago

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China Mobile's 3G outlook will take center stage this week as China's three telecoms carriers begin to kick off quarterly results, with market focus on whether the nation's dominant player will turn up the volume in its low-key 3G roll-out. China Mobile and its two ...More

Facebook to open office in southern India Posted 1 hour, 12 minutes ago

MUMBAI (Reuters) - Popular social-networking site Facebook will open an office in India, joining a long list of international firms that have looked to tap a skilled workforce that provides support services at relatively cheap wages. Facebook's office in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad will support users, advertisers and ...More

Google says China talks continue, but pullout signs grow Posted 2 hours, 9 minutes ago

SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) - Google said on Monday it remained in talks with the Chinese government about censorship of its Chinese-language search portal, despite mounting signs the company could soon shut the site. Google Inc, the world's biggest search engine, has been in a two-month standoff with Beijing over restrictions ...More

U.S. to roll out major broadband policy Posted 19 hours, 13 minutes ago

Afghan man uses Internet at Lincoln U.S. support library in Herat

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators will announce a major Internet policy this week to revolutionize how Americans communicate and play, proposing a dramatic increase in broadband speeds that could let people download a high-definition film in minutes instead of hours. Dramatically increasing Internet speeds to 25 times the current average ...More

Iran arrests 30 over U.S.-linked cyber ring: report Posted 1 day, 16 hours ago

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has arrested 30 people suspected of belonging to a U.S.-linked cyber network gathering information on Iranian nuclear scientists and sending people abroad for training, a news agency reported on Saturday. It said the group sought to recruit people through the Internet for training in Iraq ...More

Google "99.9 pct" sure to shut China search engine: report Posted 1 day, 23 hours ago

The Google logo is seen on the top of its China headquarters building in Beijing

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Talks with China over censorship have reached an apparent impasse and Google, the world's largest search engine, is now "99.9 percent" certain to shut its Chinese search engine, the Financial Times said on Saturday. It said in a report on its website Google had drawn up ...More

Apple COO gets $22 million reward as Jobs stand-in Posted 2 days, 10 hours ago

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc has awarded its chief operating officer a bonus valued at $22 million for leading the company while Chief Executive Steve Jobs was on 6-months' medical leave last year. The cash-and-stock award came at Jobs' recommendation, and was made in recognition of Tim Cook's "outstanding ...More

Reported cyberfraud losses double in 2009: FBI Posted 2 days, 11 hours ago

People use computers at an Internet cafe

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Reported losses from Internet fraud more than doubled in 2009, with scams that falsely used the FBI's name generating the most complaints, the law enforcement agency said on Friday. The total dollar loss rose to $559.7 million last year from $264.6 million in 2008 ...More

Nokia trims share of larger handset market Posted 2 days, 18 hours ago

A test version of Nokia's new Ovi Store in Helsinki

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia Oyj lowered it share of global handset sales after recalculating the size of the market and the scale of the growing "grey" sector in unlicensed and counterfeit phones. Nokia said on Friday the cellphone market totaled 1.26 billion phones last year, above its earlier forecast of ...More

Nokia, Apple seek patent trial in 2 years Posted 2 days, 20 hours ago

A woman uses her mobile telephone as she passes a Nokia advert in London

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Top phone makers Nokia and Apple will seek a U.S. court hearing in a key patent battle in mid-2012, a court filing showed, raising the specter of a prolonged legal struggle. Handset leader Nokia sued iPhone maker Apple last October, accusing the U.S. firm of using ...More

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