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Reuters - Sunday, April 19
Pirate Bay's fileshare four get year in jail
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STOCKHOLM - Four men behind The Pirate Bay, one of the world's biggest free file-sharing websites, were each sentenced to a year in jail on Friday for breaching copyright, and ordered to pay $3.6 million in compensation. Analysts said the guilty verdict in the closely-watched test case could help music and film companies recoup millions of dollars in lost revenues, though they doubted it would stem the tide of illegal downloading.
Phishers get more wily as cybercrime grows
WASHINGTON - Phishing scams have grown up from the unsophisticated swindles of the past in which fake Nigerian princes e-mailed victims, who would get a big windfall if they just provide their bank account number. Even as authorities try to stamp out that con and other e-mail and online scams, scammers are getting more wily and finding new loopholes to exploit.
U.S. cybersecurity review done, heads to Obama soon
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama will soon receive the results of a 60-day review of cybersecurity that should weigh in on whether he should name a cybersecurity czar, the White House said on Friday. The review could also make recommendations on how much should be budgeted to prevent potential hacker attacks on critical infrastructure and fight widespread Internet fraud.
Samsung display unit sees robust smartphone growth
SEOUL - Samsung Mobile Display, a mobile display venture of Samsung Electronics <005930.KS>, said on Sunday the global smartphone market was expected to grow to 500 million units in 2012 from 170 million in 2009. Despite slowing economies worldwide and falling sales in the overall mobile phone market, sales of feature-jammed smartphones, such as Apple's <AAPL.O> iPhone and Research In Motion's <RIM.TO> BlackBerry, continue growing.
Sony Ericsson says Android phone to take time
HELSINKI - Sony Ericsson will take some time developing a phone using Google's <GOOG.O> Android operating system, its chief executive said on Friday, but declined to say when such a handset would be available. Most handset vendors are rushing out phones using Android software, hoping to benefit from consumer demand, but Sony Ericsson said it would be some time before its own offering was launched.
Intel and Google results don't light investors' fires
SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. tech sector's road to recovery may take a bit longer than expected, if mixed results reports from two of the largest players are a guide. Intel Corp <INTC.O> and Google Inc <GOOG.O> handily beat Wall Street's earnings expectations for the first three months of the year. But the cautious tone that permeated comments from executives at both companies left investors feeling cold.
YouTube in Sony content deal, sees more
LOS ANGELES - Google Inc's <GOOG.O> YouTube said on Thursday it has reached a deal to post Sony Corp <6758.T> <SNE.N> films and TV shows and was talking with other big studios to ramp up content and attract more advertising dollars. YouTube also announced deals with 11 other partners including the Anime Network, Shout Factory, Telenext Media, Documentary Channel and First Look Studios, bolstering its licensed content offerings from dozens of movies and hundreds of TV episodes to 700 movies and thousands of TV episodes.
Videogames sales rebound seen despite setback
NEW YORK - U.S. videogame makers are expected to shake off slack sales later this year as top titles like "Harry Potter" return, but investors may stay on pause until signs show a clear win. Shares of most game makers slipped on Friday after research firm NPD said total U.S. videogame sales fell 17 percent in March, surprising most analysts who had expected little change from one year ago.
Nokia says handset market to fall more: report
HELSINKI - The struggling cellphone market has not yet touched bottom, the chief financial officer of top mobile phone maker Nokia was quoted as saying on Friday. "We don't believe that the mobile phone markets have touched the bottom of this recession yet," CFO Rick Simonson told Finnish daily Helsingin Sanomat.
Financial sector sees data breaches soar: Verizon
NEW YORK - There were more electronic security breaches last year than in the previous four years put together and the financial sector suffered the biggest rise in attacks from hackers looking for big stashes of consumer data, according to a report from Verizon Communications <VZ.N>. The retail sector was still the most often targeted by hackers, accounting for a third of all cases, but the sharpest rise was in financial services, which doubled its share of attacks to 30 percent of the total, Verizon said.
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