Apple gives chief operating officer $5M bonus (AP)
AP - Apple Inc. is giving its chief operating officer a $5 million bonus for "outstanding performance" running the company while CEO Steve Jobs was on medical leave.
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Google agrees to delete WiFi data collected in Hong Kong (AFP)AFP - Google has agreed to delete all personal WiFi data gathered by its "Street View" mapping service in Hong Kong, in what the city's privacy commissioner said was a first. Full text |
AP - Apple Inc. is giving its chief operating officer a $5 million bonus for "outstanding performance" running the company while CEO Steve Jobs was on medical leave.
AFP - The wife of a Yahoo user jailed in China for promoting democracy online is suing the Internet search engine company for helping Chinese officials track him down and convict him.
AP - Samsung Electronics Co. and Microsoft Corp. said Thursday they have entered into a patent licensing agreement focused on the technology companies' consumer electronics lines.
PC World - A price cut for the PlayStation 3 games console may be in the cards as Sony Corp. looks to strengthen the platform and expand its penetration.
AP - The popular online hangout MySpace entered the news business Thursday with a feature that lets its users determine what items other members see.
InfoWorld - Sun and Canonical, the commercial sponsor of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, announced Thursday a further deepening of their existing partnership.