China says no limits on Google's Android if it follows laws

From InfoWorld: China on Wednesday said Google's Android operating system will not be blocked if it follows local regulations, after speculation that Google's threat to leave China could hurt the adoption of Android there.

Google last week said it had postponed the launch in China...

McGraw-Hill CEO Confirms Apple Tablet

From PC World: Just hours before Apple's expected announcement, the chief executive of a major U.S. book publisher confirmed that the company will unveil a tablet tomorrow and that the device will run a version of the iPhone OS.

But after top McGraw-Hill exec Terry McGraw spilled...

Yahoo ends Bartz's first year on up note

From CNET News.com: Yahoo continued to ease its way back to financial respectability in its fourth quarter, beating estimates from both itself and Wall Street despite a decline in revenue.

In a press release Tuesday, Yahoo said it took in $1.73 billion in revenue during its fourth...

FCC asks Google, carriers about termination fees

From CNET News.com: The Federal Communications Commission is asking all four major U.S. cell phone operators and Google to explain their early termination fee policies and how they communicate these to customers.

FCC Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau Chief Joel Gurin and...

LED Backlit LCDs Overtaking CCFL in All Markets

From DailyTech: Over the last few years, LED backlighting on TFT LCD screens has moved beyond tech that is found in a few high-end notebooks and other devices to being one of the more common technologies used in notebooks and netbooks at a variety of different price ranges. CCFL...

PS3 Motion Controller May Finally Have a Name

From DailyTech: Since Sony first showed it off during E3 2009, the PlayStation 3 motion controller has been spoken about and promoted without an official name from the company.

Sending the rumor mill into overdrive, Sony recently registered the playstationarc.com domain, which has...

Samsung Settles With Rambus for $900 Million

From Tom's Hardware: Rambus has emerged victorious from another legal patent-laced battle. The memory company announced with Samsung that the two had reached a settlement agreement and a forward-going license.

As part of the overall agreement, Samsung will initially pay Rambus $200...

Microsoft Patches Critical Flaw in Internet Explorer

From DailyTech: While some flaws go unexploited and turn out to be relatively harmless, a recent flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browsers led to some serious damage. Chinese hackers used the memory flaw to execute remote code and steal valuable information from some of the...

Apple Fiscal Q1 Profit Tops $3.38B, iPhone Sales Double

From DailyTech: As if there weren't enough to look forward to from the folks at Cupertino this week, Apple today released its quarterly earnings after the closing bell and the results are no less than stellar. Results from fiscal Q1 2010 saw revenue shoot up to $15.6B while quarterly...

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