 Moneycontrol.com | Samsung to Spin Off Unprofitable LCD Business Bloomberg Samsung Electronics Co. (005930), the world's largest maker of flat panels, said it will spin off its unprofitable liquid-crystal-display division as the company focuses on making thinner, brighter TVs. The new company, provisionally named Samsung ... Samsung Electronics to Spin Off LCD Business Samsung Electronics board approves LCD unit spin-off Samsung to Spin Off LCD Business to Focus on New TV Technology |
 Fox News | US lawmakers call on FTC to investigate Google over Safari cookies ITworld.com February 20, 2012, 12:35 AM â€" Three lawmakers from the US House of Representatives have asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate whether last week's report of privacy violations of Safari users by Google violated a consent agreement the ... Google's Privacy Invasion: It's Your Fault Google Busted With Hand in Safari Browser Cookie Jar Google caught skirting Safari privacy settings |
 AppAdvice | 10 Steps To Smartphone Privacy InformationWeek Smartphone owners, it's you versus bad guys and nosy apps. Follow these 10 tips to keep your data locked down. By Eric Zeman InformationWeek Your smartphone is simultaneously your best friend and your worst enemy. It can help you find the nearest ... Apple Launches 'Start Developing iOS Apps Today' Guidebook Smartphone Security Blankets 5 Best New Apps Worth Downloading This Week [PICS] |
 CNET | LG's Optimus Vu has 5-inch 4:3 display CNET By Aloysius Low on Feb 20, 2012 LG's latest smartphone/tablet, the Optimus Vu, certainly looks familiar. While it has a 5-inch IPS display with a 4:3 aspect ratio, it's outward appearance shares much in common with recently announced Prada phone by LG ... Hands on: Samsung's Galaxy Note engages, perplexes LG Shows Off 5.5-inch Optimus Vu Battle of the Big Android Phones: LG Announces 5-inch Optimus Vu |
 New York Times | Pressure, Chinese and Foreign, Drives Changes at Foxconn New York Times BEIJING â€" The announcement Saturday that Foxconn Technology â€" one of the world's largest electronics manufacturers â€" will sharply raise salaries and reduce overtime at its Chinese factories signals that pressure from workers, international markets and ... Foxconn to Increase Workers' Wages in China Apple iPad plant conditions better than the norm: agency Foxconn Auditor Finds 'Tons of Issues' |
 Sydney Morning Herald | Apple Launches 'Start Developing iOS Apps Today' Guidebook PC Magazine By David Murphy "So you want to be an App Developer," is exactly how Apple's new "Start Developing iOS Apps Today" guide should read. It doesn't, but that doesn't detract from the important information Apple's built into its new thirteen-step guidebook ... 10 Steps To Smartphone Privacy Your address book is mine: Many iPhone apps take your data Smartphone apps dial up privacy worries |
 Lehighvalleylive.com | Social Media Week in Review: What you may have missed CNET by Sree Sreenivasan February 19, 2012 2:16 PM PST Follow @sree Since it's so hard to keep up with everything that's shared on social media, here's a weekly guide to things that may have passed you by. OK, here's the dirty little secret of social media. Social media becoming everybody's business Facebook and Twitter become emergency management tools Social media analytics get easier to use |
 NEWS.com.au | Transistor Made Using a Single Atom in Australia May Help Beat Moore's Law Bloomberg Scientists have taken a first early step toward surpassing the limits of a technological principle called Moore's Law by creating a working transistor using a single phosphorus atom. The atom was etched into a silicon bed with “gates†to control ... Nano-transistor breakthrough to offer billion times faster computer Physicists Create a Working Transistor From a Single Atom Single-atom transistor busts the records |
 Christian Science Monitor | iPhone tracking: Is Google breaking its privacy pledge? Christian Science Monitor iPhone privacy feature was circumvented to allow Google to track what iPhone users were doing, privacy researcher says. Google settled another privacy case in October. By David Sarno, Los Angeles Times/MCT / February 19, 2012 Rep. Google's Privacy Invasion: It's Your Fault Google Busted With Hand in Safari Browser Cookie Jar Google Dodged IPhone Users' Privacy With DoubleClick, Stanford Study Finds |
 Inquirer | Battle of the Big Android Phones: LG Announces 5-inch Optimus Vu PC Magazine By David Murphy Hey, you got your tablet in my smartphone! You got your smartphone in my tablet. And now, LG is hoping to get its newly announced Optimus Vu smartphone into the market previously owned by Samsung's Galaxy Note â€" the world of the ... Hands on: Samsung's Galaxy Note engages, perplexes LG Optimus Vu--another 5-inch, pen-friendly Android phone Samsung Galaxy Note review [Video] |
 AppAdvice | Apple Settles Class Action Lawsuit: iPhone 4 Owners Receive $15 or Free Case PC Magazine By David Murphy It's time for iPhone owners to get themselves a tasty treat, fifteen awesome prizes from the dollar store, or a brand-new case for their now-antiquated iPhone 4 smartphones. The class-action lawsuit has been settled! Settlement reached in iPhone 4 antennagate suit Apple Settles IPhone 4 'Antennagate' Class-action Lawsuit 'Antennagate' class action lawsuit resolved, iPhone 4 owners entitled to $15 ... |
 Brisbane Times | Apple supplier Foxconn says it will raise salaries CNET by Edward Moyer February 19, 2012 12:18 PM PST Follow @edatnews The now infamous maker of parts for the iPad and the iPhone says it will increase worker salaries at factories in China, according to a report. Infamous Apple supplier Foxconn said this ... Foxconn Plans to Lift Pay Sharply at Factories in China Apple iPad plant conditions better than the norm: agency Foxconn Auditor Finds 'Tons of Issues' |
Inquirer | LG Optimus Vu--another 5-inch, pen-friendly Android phone CNET by Eric Mack February 19, 2012 9:29 AM PST Follow @ericcmack LG has been touting the Vu's 4:3 aspect ratio and the 5-inch phone's size on an HTML5 micro-site. Today it's official--another big boy phone will debut in Korea soon. Hands on: Samsung's Galaxy Note engages, perplexes Samsung Galaxy Note review [Video] Is A Galaxy Note 10.1 Tablet On The Horizon? |
 Computerworld | LG Optimus Vu official--another 5-inch Android competitor CNET by Eric Mack February 19, 2012 9:29 AM PST Follow @ericcmack LG has been touting the Vu's 4:3 aspect ratio and the 5-inch phone's size as a perfect match for the human hand. The Samsung Galaxy Note is getting some company in the emerging world of ... Hands on: Samsung's Galaxy Note engages, perplexes Samsung Galaxy Note review [Video] Is A Galaxy Note 10.1 Tablet On The Horizon? |
 Globe and Mail | Google Unlikely to Back Down at Privacy Lawsuits PCWorld By Christina DesMarais, PCWorld Feb 19, 2012 7:56 AM Google's privacy practices are under fire from lawmakers in Washington, civil liberties groups, and the average Joe mobile phone owner -- the latest attack is a lawsuit from an Illinois man worried ... We need higher privacy standards Data collection arms race feeds privacy fears Google's Privacy Invasion: It's Your Fault |
 SlashGear | iPad 3 leak tips sleeker edges and 8MP camera SlashGear Salt at the ready, but according to the latest rumors you're looking at the rear panel of the new third-gen iPad, complete with a larger lens for what's tipped to be an 8-megapixel iPad 3 camera. The leaked component shows less of a taper to the edges, ... The iPad3: The Pros and Cons of the High-Resolution Screen Next-gen iPad's debut could be just weeks away Latest Evidence All But Confirms iPad 3 Will Have a Retina Display |
Fox News | Q+A: The complex interplay of social media and privacy Reuters By Alexei Oreskovic and Gerry Shih | SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Living in the world of social networking and mobile smartphones means trading away some of your personal information. But assessing the price of admission to join the super-networked, ... Google Unlikely to Back Down Amid Lawsuits Over Privacy Concerns Google's Privacy Invasion: It's Your Fault Privacy brouhaha reveals Google's split personality |
 CTV.ca | Redesigned iPad 3 with 8-megapixel camera pictured for the first time BGR Purported images of Apple's next-generation iPad have been published by Chinese language Apple Daily ahead of the new tablet's official announcement. The slate had leaked only in bits and pieces until now, however alleged photos of an assembled iPad 3 ... Help! When's the best time to sell my old iPad? Next-gen iPad's debut could be just weeks away Alleged 'iPad 3' photos showcase larger camera, tapered case |
 Sydney Morning Herald | Foxconn lifts wages at China factories Sydney Morning Herald BEIJING: Foxconn Technology, one of the biggest manufacturers of products for Apple, Dell, Hewlett-Packard and other electronics companies, said it would sharply raise workers' salaries at its Chinese factories. Foxconn said that salaries for many ... Apple iPad plant conditions better than the norm: agency Foxconn Auditor Finds 'Tons of Issues' Backlash Against FLA Head's Early Praise for Foxconn, Apple |
 IBNLive.com | OS X Mountain Lion: A big cat for business? ITworld.com Apple surprised the tech world on Thursday by unveiling a developer preview of OS X Mountain Lion , the next generation of its desktop operating system set to ship this summer -- just a year after OS X 10.7 "Lion" arrived. Based on the information ... Collected: Video and news on Apple's OS X Mountain Lion Preview: OS X Mountain Lion OS X Mountain Lion Pounces on the Cloud |
 SlashGear | LG Optimus Vu official: Galaxy Note gets competition SlashGear LG has officially revealed its new 5-inch LG Optimus Vu smartphone/tablet hybrid, challenging Samsung's Galaxy Note with a stylus-enabled 1.5GHz dual-core LTE handset. Teased earlier this month â€" and now revealed a week ahead of MWC 2012 and its ... LG's Answer To The Galaxy Note: It's the 5-inch Optimus Vu LG Optimus Vu officially revealed ahead of MWC with stylus, 1.5GHz CPU (Updated) LG Unveils 4:3 ratio, 5-inch Optimus Vu ahead of MWC 2012 |
 Sydney Morning Herald | Apple iPad plant conditions better than the norm: agency Reuters By Terril Yue Jones | BEIJING (Reuters) - Working conditions at Chinese manufacturing plants where Apple Inc's iPads and iPhones are made are far better than those at garment factories or other facilities elsewhere in the country, according to the head ... Foxconn Plans to Lift Pay Sharply at Factories in China Foxconn Auditor Finds 'Tons of Issues' Backlash Against FLA Head's Early Praise for Foxconn, Apple |
 Times LIVE | Vita to hit stores with 20 titles Times LIVE Sony's Playstation Vita hits the market on February 22, replacing the veteran PSP and offering a host of new games ranging from treasure hunts in the jungle to futuristic car races and crazy golf. Twenty new games will be available for the Vita, ... Sony targets hard-core crowd with Vita launch PlayStation Vita OS in your phone and telly - Sony's saviour? Weekend Game Hunting: Vita edition |
 IBNLive.com | Windows 8 logo is a disaster BetaNews By Joe Wilcox There's something poetic about Microsoft changing Windows' logo during the centennial anniversary of Titanic's tragic sinking. Many people involved in the great streamliner's design and building -- and surely those buying into publicity ... Did Microsoft Butcher the Windows 8 Logo? Critics Weigh In Microsoft's new Windows 8 logo looks like it was created in MS Paint Windows 8 Logo Leaves Much To Be Desired |
