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Samsung is asking the U.S. International Trade Commission to block the sale of Nvidia’s graphics chips in the United States. This is the latest move in an increasingly bitter dispute that began earlier this year after licensing negotiations between the two companies broke down. Previously, Nvidia had filed both a lawsuit in U.S. District Court […]

Apple has stopped tagging apps as “free” in its app store. This is in response to requests from European regulators, who have been actively fighting labels on apps that say they are free but ultimately can involve in-app purchases. Apple has relabeled the formerly “free” apps with the label “get,” which still allows consumers to […]

In a surprise move, Mozilla and Yahoo jointly announced a five-year partnership that will see Yahoo Search become the default search engine in the open-source Firefox Web browser. This marks the end of a decade-long partnership with Google that that generated hundreds of millions of dollars in royalties per year for Mozilla and helped fund […]

SGI officials unveiled new products including two new supercomputers and high-performance computing (HPC) management software at the SC14 supercomputing show in New Orleans. SGI officials said the company will continue innovating with the goal of reaching exascale computing through such efforts as bringing storage and processors closer together, managing power consumption at the job level […]

The FCC is now asking for clarification following AT&T’s announcement that the ongoing debate surrounding net neutrality would prompt the company to suspend its fiber installation investments in 100 cities. The agency sent a letter to AT&T’s federal regulatory and chief privacy officer on Nov. 14, asking for more information on its plans and work […]

AT&T has made the decision to completely stop what it called an “experiment” to utilizing phone-tracking tags specific to each user—even if users had opted out. The codes would have been used to help serve ads to consumers based on their activity. The practice had been criticized by many privacy advocates, saying that such monitoring […]

As the public debate surrounding net neutrality continues, AT&T says it is now suspending its plans to expand fiber networks until the issue is resolved. President Barack Obama has said that he wants the Federal Communications Commission to make Title II rules apply to the internet, while FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has voiced differing opinions. […]

Amazon Web Services introduced a major new product on Nov. 12 the—Aurora database analytics engine. Aurora is a cloud service that’s touted as MySQL-compatible, fault-tolerant, scalable and secure with encryption. It automatically replicates data across multiple Availability Zones and continuously backs up data to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), which is designed for “11 nines” […]

Microsoft has decided to take its popular .NET framework cross-platform to Linux and the Macintosh, and to expand on its moves to open-source the .NET technology. Microsoft announced these and other moves with its core Visual Studio toolset. It also introduced new capabilities for Visual Studio Online, Windows Azure and more at the Microsoft Connect […]

Starting in 2015, Skype for Business will replace Lync, Microsoft’s unified communications software platform for enterprises. Microsoft has been working to bridge its Lync and Skype platforms for well over a year. The company rolled out Lync-Skype voice and chat communications for Windows and Mac Skype desktop clients in May 2013. Skype for Business will […]