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EU fines Microsoft $731 million for broken promise, warns others The European Union fined Microsoft Corp 561 million euros ($731 million) on Wednesday for failing to offer users a choice of web browser, an unprecedented sanction that will act as a warning to other firms involved in EU antitrust disputes. It said the U.S. software company had broken a legally binding commitment made in 2009 to ensure that consumers had a choice of how they access the internet, rather than defaulting to Microsoft’s Explorer browser. An investigation found that Microsoft had failed to honor that obligation in software issued between May 2011 and July 2012, meaning 15 million users were not given a choice. It is the first time the European Commission, the EU’s anti-trust authority, has handed down a fine to a company for failing to meet its obligations. While the sanction is sizeable, representing 1 percent of Microsoft’s 2012 fiscal-year revenues, the Commission could have charged the compan

sung Galaxy Note 10.1 To Come On Verizon For $600 From Thursday Korean electronics giant, Samsung, will stop at nothing to enlarge its coast in terms of wide reach for its never-ending release of devices as it has allowed its LTE version of Samsung’s Galaxy Note 10.1 be available at Verizon Wireless starting from Thursday the 7 th  of March this week. The tablet which will be available online and in several Verizon stores has been allotted a price tag of $599.99 for 16GB of internal flash storage, compared to the retail price for WiFi-only versions of $499.99 for 16GB or $549.99 for 32GB. Despite Samsung not being able to topple the Apple yet with its android-based platform, the several lines of tablets released by the South Korean Company has earned the company so much boost in the world when it comes to the smartphone industry, as one of the executives of the company actually confessed at the recently concluded Mobile World Congress that their products will double this

Yahoo Inc is shutting down seven products, including its mobile app for Blackberry smartphones, as new Chief Executive Marissa Mayer takes a page from Google Inc’s Playbook by eliminating unsuccessful products en masse. The product shutdowns, which Yahoo announced on its official company blog on Friday, are part of what the company said are regular efforts to evaluate and review its product lineup. “The most critical question we ask is whether the experience is truly a daily habit that still resonates for all of you today,” wrote Jay Rossiter, Yahoo’s executive vice president of Platforms. The announcement represents Yahoo’s second group shutdown of products since Mayer, a former Google executive, became CEO of the struggling Web portal in July. So-called “spring cleaning” announcements, in which multiple products are shut down, have become a regular feature at Google in recent years. Mayer signaled the company would prune its line-up of mobile apps at an investor conferenc

The Ogun State House of Assembly is in the news again and for the wrong reason, as the Speaker, Suraji Adekanbi, and some other members have been suspended for alleged maladministration. The Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Suraji Adekanbi This followed the suspension of four members of the Assembly – Remi Hazzan, Adijat Oladapo, Job Akintan and John Obafemi – by the Assembly leadership over the composition of the membership of the Assembly’s Tender Board which has been a subject of controversy among the lawmakers. But in their response the four members and 10 others sympathetic to their cause announced the suspension of the Speaker, Mr. Adekunbi, his deputy, Mr. Tola Banjo and another member simply identified as Oluomo. They alleged high handedness by the Speaker, accusing him of an attempt to impose his cronies on the lawmakers over the membership of the Assembly’s Tenders Board, and fraud in the award of contracts in the Assembly. The disagreement resulted

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