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Oct 2011 |
BlackBerry services buzzed back to life across the world today after a three-day outage that interrupted email messages and Internet services for millions of customers.
Research In Motion (RIM) said the system was back to normal early Thursday East Coast time.
The company was flushing through stalled messages in the morning.
Some phones that have been out of touch for a long time may need to have their batteries pulled out and put back in to regain a connection to the network, co-CEO Mike Lazaridis... |
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Oct 2011 |
Millions of BlackBerry users remained without service on Wednesday as a three-day outage spread to North America.
"BlackBerry subscribers in the Americas may be experiencing intermittent service delays this morning," Research in Motion, maker of BlackBerry smartphones, said in a statement. "We are working to resolve the situation as quickly as possible and we apologize to our customers for any inconvenience. We will provide a further update as soon as more information is available."
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Oct 2011 |
Strong-jawed rats brought down broadband services in the east of Scotland this week by chewing through fibre optic cables, Virgin Media told The Reg today in a statement.
Virgin Media phone, television and broadband customers in the Kirkcaldy, Glenrothes and Leven areas suffered outages and intermitent coverage for a period of two days between Monday morning and Tuesday evening.
Fife Council was one of the customers affected, according to a tweet, with phone lines down for much of Monday.
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Oct 2011 |
Two of the UK's biggest internet service providers (ISPs) are continuing their battle against the controversial Digital Economy Act (DEA) and have won an appeal against it.
BT and TalkTalk have been given the green light to appeal against a High Court ruling that rejected the majority of their complaints about the law. They argue that the anti-piracy legislation infringes EU legislation by forcing ISPs to contact broadband customers who are suspected of engaging in illegal file sharing.
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10
Oct 2011 |
Millions of Blackberry owners across Europe, the Middle East and Africa have been left without services following a server crash.
Owners of the smartphones were unable to browse the web, send email or instant messages.
The problem appears to have originated in a datacentre in Slough which handles Blackberry services for the affected regions.
Blackberry UK said it knew about the problem and was "investigating".
In a tweet sent around 14:42 BST, the company said: "Some users in EMEA are experienci... |
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Oct 2011 |
Microsoft Corp is considering a bid for Yahoo Inc, resurfacing as a potential buyer after a bitter and unsuccessful fight to take over the Internet company in 2008, sources close to the situation said on Wednesday.
Microsoft joins a host of other companies looking at Yahoo, which has a market value of about USD20 billion and is readying financial pitch books for potential buyers, they said.
Those companies include buyout shops Providence Equity Partners, Hellman & Friedman and Silver Lake Partners, as... |
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Oct 2011 |
Blockbusters such as The Dark Knight and classics including The Birds can be watched via the site. In total, about 1,000 movies have been made available.
New releases will cost GBP3.49 (R43) to rent and library titles GBP2.49 (R30. Users have 30 days to begin watching a film, and 48 hours to finish it once they start.
The UK is the third territory to get the movie rental service after the US and Canada.
YouTube announced the launch via a blogpost. The partners providing movies for the UK service in... |
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Oct 2011 |
Wednesday evening, Apple broke the news that Steve Jobs had died.
Since that moment, tributes, eulogies and retrospectives have poured over the world like rain. He changed industries, redefined business models, fused technology and art. People are comparing him to Thomas Edison, Walt Disney, Leonardo DaVinci. And theyre saying that it will be a very long time before the world sees the likes of Steve Jobs again.
Probably true. But why not, do you suppose?
After all, there are other brilliant markete... |
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6
Oct 2011 |
India has launched what it says is the world's cheapest touch-screen tablet computer, priced at just USD35 (R290).
Costing a fraction of Apple's iPad, the subsidised Aakash is aimed at students.
It supports web browsing and video conferencing, has a three-hour battery life and two USB ports, but questions remain over how it will perform.
Officials hope the computer will give digital access to students in small towns and villages across India, which lags behind its rivals in connectivity.
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5
Oct 2011 |
Samsung said it will file court injunctions in France and Italy seeking to block the sale of Apples latest iPhone amid an intensifying patent fight between the smartphone giants.
Samsung plans to file preliminary injunctions in Paris and Milan asking that courts block AppleҒs iPhone 4S from being sold in France and Italy, alleging patent infringement of wireless telecommunications technology, the company said Wednesday.
Apple has continued to flagrantly violate our intellectual property rights a... |
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5
Oct 2011 |
Samsung plans to ban the just-announced Apple iPhone 4S in France and Italy.
Samsung claims Apple has used a part of Samsungs-own 3G wireless technology without paying for it.
Samsung will ask the courts for preliminary injections in Paris and Milan to be followed by similar actions in other countries yet to be determined, according to patent law blogger Florian Mueller.
ғApple has continued to flagrantly violate our intellectual property rights and free ride on our technology, and we will st... |
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Oct 2011 |
The French authority tasked with reducing file-sharing has sent out more than 650,000 first-strike warnings in its first 12 months of active operations. Hadopi say that in excess of 44,000 citizens are now on their second strike and 60 Internet subscribers are in the final and most dramatic stage of the controversial three-strikesӔ regime.
In place since January 2010, the French solution to unauthorized file-sharing has been met with controversy every step of the way.
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Oct 2011 |
HTC has responded to reports of a security vulnerability in its Android devices by promising to release an over-the-air patch to be delivered by carriers.
The Android Police released information about a flaw which allowed malicious apps to potentially access data including email addresses, GPS locations and phone numbers from users.
It affected any app on affected devices requesting a single android.permission.INTERNET - which is standard procedure for any app that connects to the web or displays ads.... |
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Oct 2011 |
Billionaire Phil Falcone's LightSquared wireless venture said certain makers of global-positioning systems such as Trimble Navigation Ltd. should pay for filters on their devices that will help mitigate the interference caused by the network.
LightSquared said in a conference call with reporters Friday that Trimble and other manufacturers have been aware of the potential for interference since about 2003 and could have taken action sooner to prevent GPS interference. LightSquared said it has committed $5... |
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Oct 2011 |
HTC Android smartphones including the Evo 3D, the Evo 4G, and the Thunderbolt contain a flaw that gives Internet-connected apps installed on the devices access to personal information such as text message data, location info, e-mail addresses, and phone numbers, according to a trio of security researchers.
Researcher Artem Russakovskii says that he, Justin Case, and Trevor Eckhart have discovered a vulnerability involving logging tools that HTC recently installed on the devices during a software update.
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