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Fri, February 17, 2012 - The judge has said he won't set a trial date until Oracle submits an acceptable damages report.

Fri, February 17, 2012 - Philip Falcone of Harbinger Capital partners might sue the FCC and GPS industry or swap spectrum with the Defense Department

Fri, February 17, 2012 - The defendants face new charges of criminal copyright infringement and wire fraud

Fri, February 17, 2012 - Tech groups praise a compromise that allows the FCC to set aside spectrum for unlicensed uses

Fri, February 17, 2012 - A grad student has caught Google with its hand in the cookies jar.

Fri, February 17, 2012 - Apple, which launched its App Store in mid-2008, is on the verge of celebrating its 25 billionth app download and is dangling a $10,000 prize to one lucky customer.

Fri, February 17, 2012 - The U.S. Air Force is planning to buy as many as 18,000 tablet computers to serve as "electronic flight bags" that will replace the paper manuals and documents that air crews use today.

Fri, February 17, 2012 - A survey of top complaints for the iPad 2 and Kindle Fire finds that both tablets face many of the same general issues.

Fri, February 17, 2012 - What a week for the RSA cryptosystem! A group of prominent researchers published a paper blasting it as woefully insecure, RSA said there's nothing wrong with the RSA algorithm, it's an implementation issue mainly with random-number key generation, and now the cryptography researcher behind the paper, Arjen Lenstra, signs off the week with a few thoughts about it all.

Fri, February 17, 2012 - The Internal Revenue Service this week issued its annual "Dirty Dozen" ranking of tax scams the agency says tend to surface around tax season each year.

Fri, February 17, 2012 - The US Patent and Trademark Office had already rejected the claim

Fri, February 17, 2012 - Privacy advocates say Google's circumvention of antitracking controls could violate a privacy settlement with the agency

Fri, February 17, 2012 - Google's recent gaming of the privacy settings on Apple's Safari browser is "unacceptable" behavior and further proof of the need of a "Do Not Track" feature in web-surfing software, according to privacy experts.

Fri, February 17, 2012 - The number of Google+ fans for the site's top 100 brands grew at a 1,400% pace last month, but almost all of the new followers were concentrated in the top 10 brands on the social media site, according to a new report.

Fri, February 17, 2012 - Sundar Pichai said Google still sees great promise for the Web apps store that launched in 2010

Fri, February 17, 2012 - Bad performance can be blamed on flash memory rather than CPU or network bandwidth, a team of researchers have found.

Fri, February 17, 2012 - Android 4.0 upgrades will be initially delivered to Acer Iconia Tab A200 models

Fri, February 17, 2012 - Some of the worst consequences of terrorism come not from the real dangers that terrorism poses but in our efforts to defend ourselves from something that is incredibly hard to define and predict.

Fri, February 17, 2012 - The pressure is on HTC and LG Electronics to show they can compete with Apple and Samsung Electronics in the smartphone market by showing off impressive products at Mobile World Congress, which starts in Barcelona later this month.

Fri, February 17, 2012 - Google reportedly breached the privacy of millions of Apple Safari users by fooling the web browser into accepting tracking cookies it normally wouldn't take. Google, however, says this is an unhappy accident and that Google never intended to track its users in this manner.

Fri, February 17, 2012 - GSM cellular networks leak enough location data to give third-parties secret access to cellphone users' whereabouts, according to new University of Minnesota research.

Fri, February 17, 2012 - Twitter this week finally wrapped up the rollout of a Twitter.com redesign first announced in December.

Fri, February 17, 2012 - Symantec says that Google and other browser vendors should help fix OCSP instead of giving up on it

Fri, February 17, 2012 - Issues with the SAP-based Kentucky Human Resources Information System are being addressed, according to officials