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Obama administration seeks online privacy rules
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Obama administration is calling for stronger privacy protections for consumers as mobile gadgets, Internet services and other tools are able to do a better job of tracking what you do and where you go.... 02/23/2012 12:13:12am

Calif. pledges better mobile privacy disclosures
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- California is clamping down on nosy mobile applications, telling them they must give people advance warning if they want to keep pulling sensitive information from smartphones and computer tablets.... 02/23/2012 12:03:17am

HP CEO pleads patience as earnings fall 44 pct
NEW YORK (AP) -- Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO Meg Whitman pleaded for patience Thursday as she described operational challenges and other internal problems that contributed to a decline in earnings at one of the world's largest technology companies.... 02/22/2012 07:17:01pm

Microsoft hits Motorola, Google with EU complaint
BRUSSELS (AP) -- Microsoft on Wednesday lodged a formal complaint with the European Union's competition regulator against Motorola Mobility and its soon-to-be owner Google, saying Motorola's aggressive enforcement of patent rights against rivals breaks competition rules.... 02/22/2012 01:03:42pm

Cable cos. shut down interactive ad venture
NEW YORK (AP) -- The country's largest cable TV companies are shutting down the bulk of a venture that let viewers interact with TV ads, laying off 120 employees.... 02/22/2012 03:37:27pm

EU suspends copyright treaty ratification
BRUSSELS (AP) -- The European Commission, facing opposition in city streets, on the Internet and in the halls of parliament, has suspended efforts to ratify a new international anti-counterfeiting agreement, and instead will refer it to Europe's highest court to see whether it violates any fundamental EU rights.... 02/22/2012 11:00:12am

Immigration chief seeks to reassure Silicon Valley
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) -- The Obama administration's top immigration official said Wednesday he wants to keep more foreign-born high-tech entrepreneurs in the U.S. But to make that happen, he said he needs those entrepreneurs to turn their creativity to immigration itself.... 02/22/2012 05:37:50pm

Colorado woman must turn over computer hard drive
DENVER (AP) -- Readily available, easy-to-use software can encrypt a computer hard drive so thoroughly it would take years for a hacker to break in. But that seems to be no impediment for government prosecutors, who have obtained an order compelling the disclosure of a computer's contents in one Colorado case.... 02/22/2012 03:33:57am

Company says YouPorn chat service compromised
LONDON (AP) -- Users of a chat service linked to the heavily-trafficked YouPorn website have had their personal information compromised after a third-party service provider failed to secure its data, YouPorn's owners said Wednesday.... 02/22/2012 01:39:13pm

Company sues Apple over iPad name in Shanghai
SHANGHAI (AP) -- Apple Inc. defended its right to use the iPad trademark in China in a heated court hearing Wednesday that pitted the electronics giant against a struggling Chinese electronics company that denies having sold the mainland China rights to the popular tablet computer's name.... 02/22/2012 07:37:34am

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