Home » Archives by category » Business News » Industries » IT/Technology
Facebook braves 600,000 hacking attempts daily

Facebook braves 600,000 hacking attempts daily

Tweet London: Social networking website Facebook has said it prevents at least 600,000 attempts every day by hackers trying to break into user accounts, using stolen usernames and passwords. Facebook has an estimated 800 million users and receives over a billion login attempts every day, the Daily Mail said. The hackers try to steal user [...]

Samsung seeks sales ban on iPhone 4S in Japan, Australia

Tweet Seoul: Samsung Electronics Monday said it would seek sales ban on Apple's iPhone 4S in Japan and Australia following similar motions in France and Italy. "Samsung Electronics today filed preliminary injunction motions in the Tokyo District Court, Japan and in the New South Wales Registry, Australia, requesting the courts to stop the sale of [...]

Continue reading …
Google to close down Google Buzz

Tweet San Francisco: Google Friday announced to shut down the highly-controversial social networking product Google Buzz, along with several other services in the coming weeks, Xinhua reported. Google on its official blog, Google announced the death penalty to its code search engine, Buzz, Jaiku which let users send updates to friends, the Google personalised homepage [...]

Continue reading …
Lenovo pips Dell to become world’s second largest PC maker

Tweet Hong Kong: Computer and electronic device maker Lenovo, listed in both Hong Kong and New York, has replaced Dell to become the world's second largest personal computer company, Lenovo said Thursday. Lenovo made the remarks in a statement, citing figures released by International Data Corporation (IDC), a global provider of business intelligence for the [...]

Continue reading …
Apple wins battle to block Samsung tablets in Australia

Tweet Sydney: Apple won a victory Thursday in its global patent battle with rival Samsung when an Australian federal court judge granted a temporary injunction blocking the sale of Samsung's latest tablet computer in the country. Justice Annabelle Bennett handed down her ruling Thursday to ban the South Korean firm from selling its Galaxy Tab [...]

Continue reading …

HP recalls 78,740 laptop batteries

Comments Off
HP recalls 78,740 laptop batteries

Tweet Beijing: Computer maker Hewlett-Packard will recall 78,740 laptop batteries used in HP- and Compaq-series laptops sold in China due to a potential fire risk, China’s product quality watchdog has said. The batteries in question, produced by LG Electronics between July 2007 and May 2008, have a flaw that may cause the batteries to overheat [...]

Continue reading …