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Cisco takes its lumps, keeps developing video meeting tools

Cisco Systems owned up to some miscalculations in its video collaboration strategy but showed off some promising future capabilities in a briefing with media this week.

Google report sheds light on copyright takedown requests

Google this week received a somewhat rare accolade from a privacy rights group for publishing a detailed report on all the copyright related content removal requests it has received over the past year

Quickbooks Online outage leaves some customers in sour mood

Intuit's Quickbooks Online service suffered an outage this week that left "a small subset" of customers unable to access their data, but the company says the problems with the on-demand accounting software have now been fixed.

Coding contest shows how big data can improve health care

A recent coding competition in the Boston area brought together IT professionals, medical workers and others with an interest in health IT to show how data analytics can improve health care.

Sony brings streaming music service to the iPhone

Sony released an iPhone app to access its streaming Music Unlimited service, part of its efforts to expand its online platforms to devices from rival manufacturers.

Yahoo Axis may be game changer for search and the troubled company

With Axis, Yahoo is trying to change the search game, while also trying to change its image as a troubled company.

IE9 says Yahoo Axis slows down the browser

Although Microsoft and Yahoo are search partners, Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) may complain that Yahoo's new Axis search add-on is slowing down the browser.

Facebook beefs up mobile photo sharing with Camera

Facebook introduced its own mobile photo app, Camera, on Thursday, bringing richer photo-sharing features to the platform even before the company closes its deal to acquire the popular photo-sharing app Instagram.

4.5 million Catholic school students to get Office 365

About 4.5 million Catholic school students will get access to Microsoft's Office 365 cloud e-mail and collaboration suite as part of a 3-year deal the software vendor struck with the Catholic International Education Office (OIEC).

European privacy regulators want more detail on Google's policy changes

European privacy regulators want better answers from Google about its privacy policy and the way it informs its users about changes to it.

Yahoo leaks private key, allows anyone to build Yahoo-signed Chrome extensions

Yahoo was forced to release a new version of its Axis extension for Google Chrome after the original one contained a private key that allowed anyone to digitally sign extensions in Yahoo's name.

Apple claims US government sides with monopoly in e-book case

The U.S. government has sided with monopoly rather than competition in bringing a case of e-book price-fixing against Apple, the company said in a filing on Tuesday before a federal court.

Yahoo launches stand-alone mobile search app

Yahoo beefed up its search offerings on Wednesday when it launched Axis, an HTML5-based browser app that delivers search results as page previews rather than as links.

Shareholders sue Facebook, Zuckerberg, Morgan Stanley

Less than a week after Facebook's initial public offering, the social networking firm's new shareholders Wednesday filed a class action lawsuit against the company, CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Morgan Stanley.

Oracle buys social relationship management company Vitrue

Taking a step into the social media marketing industry, Oracle is purchasing Vitrue, the two companies announced Wednesday.

Pwnium hacking contest winners exploited 16 Chrome zero-days

Google yesterday revealed that the two researchers who cracked Chrome in March at the company's inaugural "Pwnium" hacking contest used a total of 16 zero-day vulnerabilities to win $60,000 each.

Google warns users infected with DNSChanger as Web outage nears

Google on Tuesday hauled out a tool it last used nearly a year ago to warn users infected with the "DNSChanger" malware.

Facebook and physicians: Not good medicine

Physicians who use social networks to share clinical experiences risk violating patient privacy. A niche industry of private social network providers has cropped up to address the desire to communicate.

Facebook to settle class-action suit over Sponsored Stories

Facebook is to settle a class-action lawsuit in California that accused it of appropriating its users' likenesses for its Sponsored Stories advertising feature, according to a court document filed Tuesday.

Facebook stock slumps for third day

In its third day of trading, Facebook's stock is still in a slump, taking the shine off the frenzy that led up to the company's initial public offering last week.