Asia's biggest budget carrier AirAsia said yesterday it has taken "corrective action" to resolve complaints in a lawsuit brought by Australian regulators over its online fare information.
The Malaysia-based airline, which flies international services out of Australia from the Gold Coast, Melbourne and Perth, with Sydney to be added from April, was named in documents lodged at the Federal Court in Melbourne.
The Web-based backlash against the Stop Online Piracy Act, a bill aimed at taking down overseas distributors of copyrighted movies and music, was much like the Internet itself: decentralized, anarchic, and powerful enough to help persuade Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to shelve the bill on Jan. 20. There was no official slogan for the public pushback against perceived government meddling with the Web, but the unofficial one might have been a headline that appeared on the online magazine Motherboard: “Dear Congress, it’s no longer ok to not know how the Internet works.”
Logitech International SA, the world’s biggest maker of computer mice, dropped the most in nine months in Zurich trading after cutting full-year forecasts for the third time, citing the weaker euro and declining sales.
Logitech shares fell 12 percent to 6.58 Swiss francs. The company reduced its sales forecast for the fiscal year ending March 31 to about $2.3 billion, with operating income predicted at about $60 million. Logitech, which also produces gaming hardware, in September cut its forecast for full-year operating profit to about $90 million on sales of about $2.4 billion.
An employee for Foxconn in China has reportedly stated production of a device dubbed the iPhone 5 is about to go into production.
The source also revealed to 9to5Mac there are several sample handsets doing the rounds, but all differ slightly from each other. It is not clear which, if any, is the final device.
Some similarities between all the samples have been noted, including a screen which is 4-inches (or larger) in size, a different form-factor – hinting that Apple is going to move away from the 4/4S design and the devices are longer and wider than previous iPhones.
Apple CEO Tim Cook has fired back at reports into issues surrounding the company’s operations and partners in emerging markets, claiming that the company is not ignoring the problems.
As 9to5mac reports, Cook contacted company employees to set the record straight and reassure them that Apple is working to raise standards for its employees and partners across the world. The move comes in response to numerous media reports of poor working conditions and other problems, triggered by a New York Times investigation.
Motorola Mobility sold 1 million tablets in 2011 -- with only 200,000 Xooms and Xyboards sold in the fourth quarter of the year, a quarter in which the company also reported an $80-million loss.
The consumer electronics maker reported the low tablet sales and negative earnings on Thursday in its quarterly earnings report. The loss came on revenue of $3.44 billion in the fourth quarter. A year earlier, the company reported a fourth-quarter profit of $80 million on $3.43 billion in revenue.
A Windows Media remote code execution flaw that has been patched in the last Patch Tuesday is being exploited by attackers in the wild to deliver malware to the targets' computer, warns Trend Micro.
The victims are lured to a malicious web page (http://images.{BLOCKED}p.com/mp.html), which hosts a specially crafted MIDI file and JavaScript.
Flight risks, firearms charges and an inflatable tank are just some of the latest wrinkles in the bizzare case of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom. After his arrest, Dotcom's mansion received delivery of a full-size inflatable replica of a Russian T-72 tank, which is now parked in front of the "Dotcom Mansion" and is busy infuriating the upscale neighbors. The T-72 "Threat Decoy" is similar to those used by the military for field training and intelligence deception, manufactured by companies such as Inflatable Images in the US and Russia's Rusbal; each sells for thousands of dollars.
Consider the tech it takes to back the search box on Google's home page: behind the algorithms, the cached search terms, and the other features that spring to life as you type in a query sits a data store that essentially contains a full-text snapshot of most of the Web. While you and thousands of other people are simultaneously submitting searches, that snapshot is constantly being updated with a firehose of changes.
Jailbreaking a device, or hacking it so that it can run third-party software, was deemed legal in 2010 by the U.S. Copyright Office. However, that exemption is set to expire, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is asking people to lobby so that jailbreaking will continue to be protected by law.
