US court clears the way for cloud music
Google and Amazon have been freed of a restriction that has hampered their cloud music services and made them less attractive than Apple’s forthcoming iCloud service. That is the main result of a legal decision late on Monday that appeared to clear up some of the questions raised by the emerging cloud music industry.
Wikileaks’ Bank of America data “has been destroyed”
Bank of America may just have dodged a bullet when it comes to the stash of its confidential information that was said last year to be in the hands of Wikileaks. After an internal feud, a break-away member of Wikileaks has told Spiegel Online that he has destroyed information that he took from the organisation – and Wikileaks itself says that includes 5 gigabytes of information from Bank of America.
A decade on, HP backtracks on PCs [Updated]
Nearly ten years to the day since it doubled down on the PC business with the purchase of Compaq, Hewlett-Packard has decided that its shareholders have been through enough. As we and others are reporting, new CEO Leo Apotheker is ready to change course with a PC spin-off and giant software deal that will radically reshape the tech conglomerate.
Goodbye ACSOI, hello losses
By dropping its controversial method of conjuring up profits from losses after a review by the SEC, Groupon has cleared one of the distractions around its forthcoming IPO. Now, investors can focus on the things that really matter: whether its customers like what they are getting enough to keep coming back for more, and how well its model will perform in an economic downturn.
Google comes out swinging on patents
David Drummond, Google’s top lawyer, has just issued the search company’s most outspoken denunciation yet of rivals who have laid legal siege to Android.
The barrage of lawsuits is nothing less than “a hostile, organized campaign … by Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and other companies, waged through bogus patents,” he says.
Android boss on the alternatives to licensing Java: “They all suck”
Every good corporate executive knows that carelessly worded internal emails can turn into damning evidence in future trials. In its high-stakes legal fight with Oracle, though, Google has just discovered that an email that was never actually sent – let alone even completed – may turn out to be just as dangerous.
Finally, Gmail ads that users might actually welcome?
The sparse text ads in Gmail have never been popular. There has been an inescapable air of intrusiveness about them, and making them relevant has always been a problem (case in point: the email currently at the top of my inbox, which concerns a civil legal case, comes with the enticing come-on: “Want to join the FBI?”)
But with its latest experiment, Google might actually have found a more enticing way to harness the power of its email network.
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