HELSINKI, Finland — Nokia and Microsoft plan to invest C18 million ($24 million) in promoting research into mobile applications for phones running Windows software and Nokia platforms.Aalto University in Helsinki says the AppCampus program will be launched at the university in May with each company investing up to C9 million over the next three years.
Google said Monday it was reviewing a Japanese court order to modify its auto-complete feature to safeguard the reputation of a man who complained it falsely links him to crimes.The world’s leading Internet search engine released the statement after the man’s lawyer, Hiroyuki Tomita, told media in Japan that Google was ordered to discontinue the feature in Japan because it breaches the man’s privacy.
Facebook has spoken out against businesses that demand Facebook usernames and passwords from their employees and prospective hires.In recent months, we’ve seen a distressing increase in reports of employers or others seeking to gain inappropriate access to people’s Facebook profiles or private information. This practice undermines the privacy expectations and the security of both the user and the user’s friends. It also potentially
With the third-generation iPad launch now a week old — unless you’re in today’s second wave of launch countries, that is — the rumor mill has turned its attention back to the iPhone.The latest comes from iMore, which today posts some chewy, though anonymously-sourced hardware details about Apple’s next smartphone. Those include a move to a 4G LTE radio like the one the third-generation iPad ships with, a display that’s
Writing on the Building Windows 8 blog, David Washington, a senior program manager at Microsoft, directly addressed the new iPad’s screen and discussed upcoming tablets with dots-per-inch (DPI) densities of at least 135. “Much higher than many of us are used to,” he wrote.Some might be curious about the new iPad screen,” Washington wrote. For that screen, Apple has chosen a scale factor of 200 percent, he said. He goes on to say that the
TOKYO —A Japanese court has ordered search giant Google to suspend its auto-complete function because it breaches one man’s privacy, his lawyer said.Tokyo District Court approved a petition by the man, who claimed typing his name into the search engine generated a suggestion linking him to crimes he did not commit, lawyer Hiroyuki Tomita told media Sunday.
TOKYO —Hitachi Ltd has agreed to collaborate with Canada’s Saskatchewan Power Corp to jointly construct a Carbon Capture Test Facility (CCTF). The test facility will be a part of SaskPower’s larger Clean Coal Project, which is a comprehensive initiative to select and apply emerging carbon capture technologies to coal fired power plants to manage their emission of greenhouse gases.
The free-ranging Internet is under assault by mobile applications that connect people exclusively to content kept in “walled gardens” online, according to a U.S. study.While 59% of the experts surveyed for the study felt that the Web would continue to thrive, they also thought apps for gadgets such as smartphones and tablets would power an “anti-Internet” used only to connect to services such as films or Facebook feeds instead of for
WASHINGTON —European researchers have created a device invisible to a static magnetic field that could have practical military and medical applications.Fedor Gomory and colleagues in Slovakia and Spain designed a cloak for a direct current, or dc, magnetic field that is static and produced by a permanent magnet or coil carrying a direct current.DC magnetic fields are used in MRI imaging devices, in hospitals and in security
The patent war between Facebook and Yahoo may be only just starting.A new report says Facebook has acquired 750 patents from computer-systems giant IBM. The news comes shortly after Yahoo sued Facebook for patent infringement over 10 of its software patents.A “person with knowledge of the transaction” tipped the news to Bloomberg Businessweek, though the deal hasn’t been made public yet.
