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Banks, SEC in talks to settle mortgage charges: report (Reuters)

Written by Yahoo Business Friday, 15 April 2011 07:22

(Reuters) – The securities regulator is in talks with major Wall Street banks to settle fraud allegations relating to the sale of toxic mortgage bonds to various investors that helped unleash the financial crisis, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing sources familiar with the matter.

The first settlement with the Securities and Exchange...

Fujitsu offers UK fast rural net

Written by BBC News Technology Wednesday, 13 April 2011 09:34

13 April 2011 Last updated at 10:34 ET

Many rural areas lack access to fast broadband technology, such as fibre optics.

Fujitsu is to create a superfast broadband network for rural parts of the UK, rivalling BT's service.

Virgin Media and TalkTalk have already said they will use it to provide internet services. It will also be...

Microsoft takes to the streetside

Written by BBC News Technology Tuesday, 12 April 2011 10:11

12 April 2011 Last updated at 11:11 ET

Microsoft is taking pictures in conjunction with mapping partner Navteq

Microsoft is launching its own version of Google's StreetView - dubbed Streetside - across Europe.

Cars fitted with cameras have begun taking pictures around London and will start mapping major cities on the continent...

Sony and Hotz settle hacking case

Written by BBC News Technology Tuesday, 12 April 2011 08:41

12 April 2011 Last updated at 09:41 ET

Sony claimed that George Hotz had violated its intellectual property

Sony has settled its lawsuit with an American hacker who unlocked the secure operating system on the PlayStation 3.

The company dropped its action against George Hotz, also known as Geohot, and secured an injunction that...

Court upholds Facebook settlement

Written by BBC News Technology Monday, 11 April 2011 18:42

11 April 2011 Last updated at 19:42 ET

The Winklevosses say Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg stole their idea for a social network site

A US appeals court has ruled that twin brothers who say the idea for Facebook was stolen from them by Mark Zuckerberg cannot back out of a settlement deal they made with the website.

Tyler and...

Barnes Noble Uses Joomla

Written by Joomla Extension Editor Monday, 11 April 2011 06:40

Barnes & Noble is the largest book retailer in the United States with over 1300 stores. Their company history goes back to 1873.

They're also known for the Nook e-book reader that was launched in 2009. The company is encouraging developers to create apps for the Nook and as part of that effort they've just launched a new Nook Developer site,...

Mobile users 'overpaying by £200'

Written by BBC News Technology Sunday, 10 April 2011 19:02

10 April 2011 Last updated at 20:02 ET

Some customers are paying for four times as many minutes as they use, according to Billmonitor

Three-quarters of mobile phone subscribers are wasting an average of nearly £200 a year because they are on the wrong contract, research suggests.

People over-estimating how many minutes they...

Micro-blogging in a mother tongue

Written by BBC News Technology Friday, 08 April 2011 08:23

Perhaps not your usual micro-blogger, but Maori is one of the 68 minority languages tracked by IndigenousTweets.com

Modern technology is often blamed for homogenising our ever-shrinking world, particularly when it comes to...

Exact Software Uses Joomla

Written by Joomla Extension Editor Thursday, 31 March 2011 19:29

Before every Joomla Day this year we're featuring a major Joomla site from the country hosting the event. This weekend is Joomla Day Netherlands and they actually have six high-profile Joomla sites.

Exact Software is a Dutch company that moved all it's sites over to Joomla this week. Exact provides business management software and they emply over...