Apple could face product bans in Germany
Apple had a bad week in its multi-front patent war, capped by the real possibility of an iPhone and iPad import ban in Germany.
Zite brings personal zeitgeist to iPhone
News apps that create magazine-style representations of your favourite feeds have been making daily news of their own this week.
Flipboard, a big hit on the iPad, launched its iPhone version on Wednesday, Google came out with its take on tablet-sized news with Currents on Thursday and now Zite has launched an iPhone app on Friday.
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Google’s Chrome web browser overtook Mozilla Firefox in terms of global usage for the first time in November, research company StatCounter reports. Chrome’s browser market share hit 25.69% in November, beating Firefox’s 25.23% share with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer continuing to dominate, holding a 40.63% share.
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Research In Motion, the company behind the BlackBerry smartphone, is rolling out a new system that aims to help its corporate customers maintain and manage the security of their employees’ BlackBerrys as well as rival devices such as the iPhone, according to The Wall Street Journal. The new system, the first from RIM to incorporate competitors’ products, is seen as a tacit acknowledgment that an increasing number of employees are calling on their employers to allow work e-mails to be pushed to smartphones other than the Blackberry.
Google+ traffic indicators point up
The latest analysis of Google+ traffic from Experian Hitwise provides some evidence as to why claims that the new social network is dead in the water are premature. Among the findings: Google+ users are coming back more often and staying longer.
Google launches iTunes rival
Google has unveiled a new online music store after reaching deals with three of the Big Four record companies. At an event in Los Angeles on Wednesday, it announced EMI, Universal and Sony were part of the new Google music service, with no agreement having been reached with Warner Music.
The existing “Music beta by Google” service had allowed users to upload their music to Google’s cloud and access it through a browser or an Android app. The new service replaces it and adds a store and the ability to share music bought – for one play – with friends. But it is only open to US residents. Our live coverage of Google’s unveiling of its upgraded service is after the jump.
Wi-Fi adding privacy, gigabit speeds
Want to make your Wi-Fi more private, much faster and better at sending media from device to device? Well, a trio of announcements on Tuesday should add up to such improvements.
First, Google has introduced a simple solution to prevent your personal Wi-Fi hotspot being included in the database it compiles for location services.
When Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt on Wednesday addressed a Taiwanese audience for the first time, he was in some sense preaching to the choir.
As Mr Schmidt noted, Taiwan already fared better than the US in terms of broadband penetration, the speed of its internet, and the percentage of its people with smartphones. Yet there was still one looming problem, he noted, and that was the rising cost of building more advanced telecommunications networks.
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Google is set to launch a native Gmail application for the iPhone, according to MG Siegler. Those who have seen the app say it is “pretty fantastic,” MG Siegler reports.
When Taiwan’s Quanta landed orders from Facebook and Google to help custom-build their data centres earlier this year, it was the first step into a new industry for the world’s biggest contract maker of notebooks.
Quanta chairman Barry Lam’s said on Monday, however, that his ambitions go further than just completing built-to-order projects for tech companies. Quanta will instead look to offer a full turnkey solution for servers, he said for the first time. It is a move that will put it into direct competition with industry leaders like HP, Dell, IBM and Sun Microsystems.
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