Time Warner Cable and Viacom have settled their legal entanglements regarding Time Warner’s streaming of Viacom video content on its iPad app, according to the New York Times.The breakthrough comes as a result of a settlement between Time Warner…
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Security Firm Symantec Analyzes the Profitability of the OSX.Flashback Botnet
May 17, 2012 By
Security firm Symantec previously estimated that the authors of the Flashback malware that affected hundreds of thousands of Macs at its peak could have been generating up to $10,000 per day by hijacking users’ ad clicks. Further analysis from t…
Apple Updates OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview to Build 12A206j
May 16, 2012 By
Apple today pushed out another update to its OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion developer preview program, moving to build 12A206j. The update comes on top of build 12A193i, which was released on May 1. Apple notes that “MacBookPro3,1″, which correspo…
Retina-Resolution Displays to Add Up to $100 to Apple’s MacBook Pro Costs
May 16, 2012 By
With Apple’s MacBook Pro line now widely rumored to be gaining ultra high-resolution “Retina” or “HiDPI” displays at next month’s Worldwide Developers Conference, CNET reports that such panels are already available in the supply chain and that t…
Verizon Planning to End Grandfathered Unlimited Data Plans With LTE Switch
May 16, 2012 By
U.S. cellular carrier Verizon is planning to move its customers who still have unlimited data plans for their smartphones to its new family data-share plans as customers switch to LTE data plans. The iPhone was initially offered with unlimi…
Samsung’s Market Cap Takes $10 Billion Hit Amid Rumors of Apple DRAM Deal with Elpida
May 16, 2012 By
Digitimes’ poor track record has been thrust into the spotlight in recent days, but that hasn’t stopped one of the Taiwanese news site’s reports from having a major effect on stock prices for Samsung and Hynix. The report from earlier this week…
HTC Delays Evo 4G LTE Launch as U.S. Customs Investigates Shipments for Breach of Apple Patent
May 16, 2012 By
Last December, Apple won a U.S. International Trade Commission case against HTC, with the agency ruling that several of HTC’s handsets infringed upon a pair of Apple-held patents. The agency’s ruling included a ban on the import of infringing d…
China Mobile Again Confirms iPhone Talks with Apple [iOS Blog]
May 16, 2012 By
Reuters reports that China Mobile Chairman Xi Guohua has once again publicly stated that the world’s largest mobile phone carrier is engaged in talks with Apple about offering the iPhone to its customers.”We’ve been actively talking to Apple on h…
Apple Ordering Screens of ‘At Least 4 Inches’ for Next-Generation iPhone
May 16, 2012 By
The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple has placed orders for screens measuring “at least 4 inches diagonally” for the next-generation iPhone, marking a significant increase in size over the displays used in every iPhone model released to dat…
Aaron Sorkin Confirmed as Screenwriter for Film Adaptation of Steve Jobs’ Biography
May 16, 2012 By
Sony Pictures today announced that Aaron Sorkin will indeed serve as the screenwriter for the studio’s upcoming film adaptation of Walter Isaacson’s authorized biography of Steve Jobs. Sorkin, who is famous for his work on The West Wing, The So…
