May 20, 2013

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Even India Keeping an Eye on RIM BlackBerry Security Issues After Middle East Countries – India Gave Aug.31 Deadline to RIM

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Research In Motion’s popular BlackBerry email and instant messaging services will be shut down if the Canadian maker does not address Indian security concerns by August 31, the government said on Thursday. A DoT official, who declined to be named, told reporters that the meeting ended “inconclusively,” but refused to provide details. The ultimatum came [...]

Barnes & Noble Struggles to Find More Sales ? – Shares Down

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Barnes & Noble Inc. stock was riding high a day after the world’s largest bookseller said it might put itself up for sale amid struggles against stiff online competition and aggressive takeover moves by a major shareholder. Barnes & Noble shares soared 19%, or $2.47, to $15.31. The stock had plunged more than 40% in [...]

Search Engines in June – Good for Bing, Not for Google, Yahoo Down Slightly

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Microsoft’s Bing continued its pattern of incremental gains, according to research firm Experian Hitwise, which reported the search engine grew to occupy 9.85 percent of the U.S. search engine market in June. That represents a 7-percent change from May, when Hitwise estimated Bing’s share of the market at 9.23 percent. Meanwhile, Google continued to dominate [...]

Google China Struggling for its Existence

Google tries a new tactic in its battle with Beijing, Yahoo launches a style guide for the Web, and MapQuest gets a new look. Check out the video of Google still struggling in China by CNETTV,

Amazon Down – It shows Out of Order Today

Amazon Still Offering “Buy One Game, Get One 50% Off” Deal

Something appears to be very wrong with Amazon.com (AMZN) this afternoon; I can’t seem to get the site to fully load. Downtime is a rare occurrence for Amazon–by some estimates it’s been years since an outage occurred. TechCrunch notes, “For the past couple of hours the service has been switching back and forth between being [...]