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Android 5.0 'Jelly Bean' autumn launch will be on Google devices first

Android 5.0 'Jelly Bean' will first appear on several new mobile devices sold by Google itself as part of the Nexus line when the new mobile operating system launches this autumn.
Megaupload files motion to delay civil suit while criminal case is on

Megaupload filed a motion in federal court on Thursday asking to delay a civil suit filed against the file-sharing site while it prepares a defense for its criminal case.
Android developers never studied Sun's patents, testifies Google's Rubin

Google's engineers never studied other companies' patents while developing Android for fear of allowing those patents to influence their design decisions, Google's Android chief Andy Rubin testified on the stand Wednesday.
Viewing child porn on the Web is not a crime in New York, court rules

Just viewing child pornography on the Web is not necessarily a crime according to New York law, the state's Court of Appeals decided Tuesday, but upheld the conviction of the appellant by a county court on other counts of storage of images and video of child pornography on his hard disk.
Virgin Media hacked by supporters of The Pirate Bay

Virgin Media suffered a DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack on its website at the hands of The Pirate Bay supporters yesterday.
Ransomware demands payment for alleged copyright infringement

A new wave of malware freezes a computer and demands payment to unlock it, this time falsely alleging victims have infringed copyright.
Android infringes Oracle Java copyright, jury rules

A jury has found that Google infringed Oracle's Java copyrights in Android but could not decide unanimously if the infringement was protected by "fair use".
John McAfee, antivirus pioneer, arrested by Belize police

McAfee antivirus founder John McAfee is reportedly taking legal advice after a raid on his Belize home by police resulted in the software entrepreneur?s arrest and the death of his pet dog.
Possible Oracle trial win won't result in "industrial meltdown", says Java creator

Should Oracle prevail in its intellectual-property lawsuit against Google over alleged Java patent and copyright violations in the Android mobile OS, it shouldn't result in the "industrial meltdown" some observers fear, Java creator James Gosling said in a blog post late Tuesday.
Marten Mickos: For Eucalyptus open cloud is more than open code

Openness in the cloud depends on open source code, open data and open APIs, according to Marten Mickos, chief executive of infrastructure-as-a-service software provider Eucalyptus Systems.

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10 hacks that made headlines

Here are ten hacking incidents through history that made some of the biggest headlines.
Pondering Google Drive: Who owns your data in the cloud?

Google Drive raises several concerns about cloud storage. Many of these consumer-level questions - who owns your data, how data can be used and what happens if the data is lost or stolen - are ones enterprise IT executives should be asking, too.
Everything Everywhere's 4G network bid: a storm in a teacup?

Everything Everywhere's bid to launch 4G services in the UK later this year has created quite a stir, with rival operators O2, Vodafone and Three claiming that the move could damage competition in the market. But is the proposal a real threat to competition or just big fuss about nothing?
Online black markets and how they work

The internet is no stranger to crime. From counterfeit and stolen products, to illegal drugs, stolen identities and weapons, nearly anything can be purchased online with a few clicks of the mouse. The online black market not only can be accessed by anyone with an internet connection, but the whole process of ordering illicit goods and services is alarmingly easy and anonymous, with multiple marketplaces to buy or sell anything you want.
Should you worry about Google Drive privacy?

The wording of the Google Drive terms of service has ruffled some feathers. However, the short answer to the question posed in the title of this article is "no". Allow me to explain.
Virtualisation - Don't let security lag behind technology maturity

Virtualisation is mainstream, with virtualised servers, storage, networking and software featuring in most enterprise IT departments. Applications and workloads are assigned to virtual machines (VMs) and moved from machine to machine as a matter of course, and as a result, deploying physical servers is now the exception rather than the rule.
Big Data - Big security problem?

This year it is the turn of Big Data. Organisations are no longer just capturing ever larger volumes of data, they are hoping to act on it in as near real time as possible.
Apple and Amazon's little tax problem

Last week Amazon was publically named as a talented avoider of UK Corporation tax and this week it?s Apple?s turn. According to The Daily Mail, the US giant that generated sales approaching $10 billion in the UK last year pays a miserly £10 million (or thereabouts) in tax.
Logica CTO: cloud is the internet?s unfinished business

Sharing compute resources in the cloud requires trust, and if your organisation deals with a lot of sensitive data, this means thinking very carefully about the organisations you are willing to share with, says David King, chief technology officer at business and technology service company Logica.
What's next for the Digital Economy Act?

Last week, British internet service providers BT and TalkTalk lost their court appeal against the Digital Economy Act, meaning that they will have to send warning letters to customers suspected of illegal file-sharing.

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