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• Trump criticises EU's $5B Google fine

  U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday criticised the European Union over a record $5 billion fine EU antitrust regulators imposed on Google, saying the bloc was taking advantage of the United States.

• BlackBerry's new Classic smartphone has a physical keyboard, sells for $449

  BlackBerry officially launched its Classic smartphone with a qwerty physical keyboard and trackpad on Wednesday for $449, unlocked, in the U.S. The release comes amid continuing worries about the company's declining market share.

• Aereo argues that ruling against it could hurt cloud storage business

  If the U.S. Supreme Court rules that streaming video provider Aereo violates the copyrights of TV networks, it may also put cloud storage services at risk, the company's lawyer argued Monday.

• Aereo court case: Consumer control over TV vs. broadcaster copyrights

  The ability of television viewers to control and watch programs may be at stake when the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments Tuesday in a copyright infringement case brought by TV networks against Aereo, a service that streams over-the-air television online.

• Google's Schmidt offers $US1m in grants, talks WhatsApp and Motorola

  Got great ideas to solve world problems? Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt just might give you a lot of money for them.

• Report: Broadcasters ask high court to shut down Aereo TV streaming service

  A cadre of prominent broadcasters including ABC and CBS petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to shut down Aereo, a television streaming service, alleging that Aereo infringes their copyrights and puts their businesses at risk, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

• Larry Ellison forecasts Apple's doom

  Oracle CEO Larry Ellison in an interview on CBS yesterday praised Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple, calling him "our Edison," and argued that without him, Apple would lose its status as a technology leader.

• EFF targets podcasting patent for invalidation

  A 1996 podcasting patent is in the crosshairs of two digital rights groups, which are hoping the public will help them get the patent invalidated.

• Hadoop startup Cloudera lands big funding for big data

  Big data is expected to be a big deal in the coming years and venture capitalists seem to agree, having pumped an additional $65 million into Cloudera, a company that promises to bring Hadoop data management tools to the enterprise.

• Windows 8 sales hit 40 million in first month

  Microsoft has sold 40 million Windows 8 licenses since Oct. 26 when the new operating system became available.

• You can finally buy shows on Apple TV

  When Steve Jobs introduced the new Apple TV in September 2010, he made a strong case for renting television shows instead of buying them, but now the company is changing its strategy and letting users purchase TV shows as well.

• CBS sued for distributing LimeWire software

  An entrepreneur and over a dozen hip-hop artists are suing CBS over its part in contributing to piracy. The suit, filed by FilmOn founder Alki David in federal court on Wednesday, accuses CBS's CNET arm of exacerbating piracy problem by distributing LimeWire software on its website.

• Obama unvarnished: Government IT is 'horrible'

  President Barack Obama has never been a big fan of government IT. Now we know the depth of his discontent.

• Fake femme fatale shows social network risks

  Hundreds of people in the information security, military and intelligence fields recently found themselves with egg on their faces after sharing personal information with a fictitious Navy cyberthreat analyst named "Robin Sage," whose profile on prominent social networking sites was created by a security researcher to illustrate the risks of social networking.