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Apple, despite (or because of) all its successes and odds-beating triumphs, still can’t shake the occasional class-action suit being thrown its way. This week is no different, as the company sees not one, but two separate claims laid on its doorstep. The first hails from Florida, where two righteous citizens have filed suit against Apple alleging the company has “recklessly disregarded” consumers’ rights. According to the suit, a law which prevents credit card information from being displayed on receipts has been ignored by the company, and if Apple is found to… Continue Reading»

Somehow, a twelve-year-old child has been given the opportunity to take the OLPC XO for a test drive, and we’ve got the blow-by-blow for you.Read full story at Engadget

ust over two weeks after buying media sharing site Twango Inc., Nokia Corp. launched a closed beta of a new mobile social networking site.Mosh, short for Mobile Sharing, lets anyone upload and share video, images, ringtones, games and mobile applications from their mobile phones. The site has many features of other social networking sites, including the ability to tag and share content with others and create collections of content.The site is free and isn’t limited to Nokia phone owners. Anyone with a phone that has a WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) or standard browser can view the site from a mobile… Continue Reading»

Microsoft looks to Erin McNaught to spice up the Australian IT industry

When most people think of IT or tech companies in general, sexy normally doesn’t come to mind. People involved in IT have always had a geeky image cranked up to a factor of 10 with absolutely no room for hipness.

Microsoft is looking to change IT’s musty image by breaking out

A judge has ruled that a trial against Microsoft can proceed to decide whether they misled people with their “Vista Capable” advertising campaign. Two PC buyers have started a class action, and are arguing that they bought machines that weren’t capable of running Aero, even though they were marked as “Vista Capable.” Microsoft is arguing that Vista can run on slower machines, albeit with some of the eye candy turned off, and that this was explained in their campaign.In any case, we’ll probably not get to see… Continue Reading»

Readers of Google Inc.’s Custom Search Blog were handed a bit of a surprise Tuesday when the Web site was temporarily removed from the blogosphere and hijacked by someone unaffiliated with the company.

The problem? Google had mistakenly identified its own blog as a spammer’s site and handed it over to another person.

The change was first noticed by the Google Blogoscoped Web site, which noticed that posts on the Custom Search Blog had been deleted and replaced by a strange comment from someone identifying himself as Srikanth.… Continue Reading»

How the Moscow-born entrepreneur cofounded and changed the way the world searches:

It takes a bit of searching to find Sergey Brin’s office at the Googleplex. Tucked away in a corner of Building #43 on this sprawling campus near the southern tip of San Francisco Bay, past rows of colorfully decorated cubicles and dorm-like meeting spaces, Office 211 has a nondescript exterior and sits far from the public eye. Although it takes several twists and turns to get there, his office… Continue Reading»