Apple Inc. is defending its voice-recognition software Siri — she of the iPhone 4S — against claims that it doesn’t perform as advertised. A cluster of lawsuits seeking class action status in Oakland, Calif., allege that iPhone 4S commercials and company statements about the phone were false and misleading. Siri, they say, is brilliant on TV, but she’s dim in reality.
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U.S. sales of two new smartphones from HTC will be delayed because of a patent dispute with Apple, a fresh blow to HTC, of Taiwan, as it seeks to turn around declining sales in what was once its largest market. Apple won a narrow victory against HTC in a patent lawsuit in December over the technology used in the devices, one of many such disputes in the fiercely competitive smartphone market.
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Google will meet with France’s data protection watchdog to answer questions about its new user privacy policy as part of a Europe-wide investigation being led by the French regulator. France’s “Commission Nationale de l’Informatique” (CNIL) is examining Google’s new approach to privacy on behalf of data protection regulators of the 27 European Union member states to determine if it conforms with European law.
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In recent weeks, hackers have breached Web sites belonging to several foreign policy and human rights groups, including Amnesty International and the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism, a nonprofit organization based in Israel that researches terrorism issues. Hackers infiltrated the sites using two well-known security vulnerabilities, one in Adobe Flash and another in Java software, according to a blog post by security researchers at the Shadowserver Foundation, a nonprofit group that tracks cyber threats.
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To his Facebook friends and Twitter followers, Gene Morphis was like the rest of the world, using social media to vent about day-to-day frustrations of his job. But Mr. Morphis wasn’t like most employees. He happened to be an officer of a public company, and his musings cost him his job.
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