Industry

Oracle may get second chance to prove Google infringed on Java copyrights

MICROSOFT fights back against gov’t snooping — CHINA says yes to APPLE, no to BITCOIN — NET NEUTRALITY takes another hit — AMAZON previews virtual Office for iPad

China bans banks from trading in bitcoin

The virtual currency has been growing in popularity in China as a new kind of investment

HP regains server lead but Taiwan vendors see big growth

Taiwanese server vendors that sell directly to Internet giants like Google and Facebook had the biggest growth in the quarter

Lenovo looking at acquisitions to expand its enterprise business

Lenovo wants to expand outside of China to build server, software, networking, and storage through acquisitions and partnerships

NSA is said to collect cellphone location data across the world

U.S. is collecting nearly 5 billion records a day on the location of cellphones, which privacy advocates say can reveal a lot about a person's activities

Microsoft to encrypt services, notify customers of government data requests

The company is encrypting information traveling on its services, which will be completed by end 2014

Stupid tech: From the iPotty to delivery drones

Our fascination with digital junk encourages bozos to toss stupid and sometimes dangerous products into the marketplace

The HealthCare.gov rabbit hole: Where’s the data going?

HealthCare.gov's front-end problems for users has led to back-end issues with insurers as well

iOS 7 jailbreaking: Do it for love, not money

An effort to crowdsource incentives for jailbreak developers may destroy the virtues behind the 'open iPhone' philosophy