The browser ballot is officially dead. Microsoft The European Union has officially lifted its requirement on Microsoft to offer Windows users their choice of Web browsers. In 2009, after an ongoing debate with the European Union over whether Microsoft was unfairly competing in the browser market by bundling Internet Explorer with Windows and not offering …
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An Uber driver allegedly assaulted a woman in Boston earlier this month. Uber A driver for car-hailing service Uber has been charged in Boston with raping a young woman. Alejandro Done, 46, has been arraigned on charges of rape, assault to rape, kidnapping and two counts of assault and battery after allegedly attacking a young woman in his Uber car …
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Location could matter more to Twitter in the coming year. CBS Interactive Twitter and Foursquare are forming a partnership to build location information into tweets, a new report claims. If the social networks ink a deal, Foursquare would help provide location information for individual tweets, reported Business Insider on Wednesday, citing an unnamed source. The partnership is set to start …
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Seth Rogen and James Franco, stars of “The Interview,” are at the center of the Sony Pictures controversy. Video screenshot by Bonnie Burton/CNET The US State Department viewed the upcoming film “The Interview” over the summer and was fine with its final scene depicting the assassination of North Korea leader Kim Jong-un, a new report claims. Sony Pictures, the victim …
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Baidu and Uber are now officially bedfellows. Uber Car-ride service Uber has faced controversy after controversy over the last several weeks, but the company actually had an upbeat announcement on Wednesday. China-based search engine Baidu has signed a deal to invest in Uber, the companies announced. Although the amount of the investment was not disclosed, the companies confirmed that Baidu’s …
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T-Mobile’s outspoken CEO John Legere. James Martin/CNET T-Mobile is closing out the year with another Uncarrier event. T-Mobile, the nation’s fourth largest wireless carrier, will hold an “Uncarrier 8.0” event at 7:30 a.m. PT on Tuesday, hosted by CEO John Legere. T-Mobile provided little information about the event, but said it plans to “share how we continue to rewrite the …
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Opera Coast 4.0 now includes faster page-load times and a Discover feature. Opera Software Opera Software is goosing its browser for the iPhone and iPad. The Opera Coast browser for iOS has been updated to version 4.0, the company announced Tuesday. The software now includes a new Turbo feature that relies on Opera’s servers to compress images and video to …
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Not even the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 could help the company in the third quarter. James Martin/CNET Samsung remained king of the smartphone market in the third quarter, but a deeper dive into the data shows that the situation was far from encouraging for the company. During the third quarter, Samsung sold 73.2 million smartphones worldwide, giving the company 24.4 …
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Uber’s smartphone personal vehicle service is in some hot water in Brussels. Uber Another day, another potential roadblock for car-hailing service Uber. Pascal Smet, the mobility minister for Brussels, has announced plans to file a complaint with police against Uber in the coming days, charging that the company is operating illegally in Belgium’s capital, according to local reports on Friday. …
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An alleged image of a prototype of Samsung’s next Galaxy smartphone.Toptienmobiel Samsung’s rumored Galaxy S6 smartphone may have made an appearance in a new image leaked online. A photo of an alleged prototype of the yet-to-be- announced smartphone was published to the Web on Friday. The image, which first appeared on Dutch blog site Toptienmobiel, shows a person holding a …
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