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IP phones promised the world, did you ever do more than dial?

The business IP telephone market has spent more than a decade trying to establish exactly how much intelligence the market wants in its telephones. The customer's answer has almost always been “less than the vendors want to sell us.” Anyone looking for an albino pachyderm can therefore point to the CPUs and APIs baked into IP handsets as evidence the species is flourishing.…

By Ira Teinowitz LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Harvey Weinstein's hopes of getting Congress to enact a royalty-based compensation system for movie clips played on the web so far appears to be a long shot. None of the movie industry trade associations are rushing to champion Weinstein's idea. "While Harvey's ideas are characteristically interesting and provocative, the topic isn't something that we're able to comment on at this time," said Chris Green, supervisor of communications for the Producers Guild of America. ...

A new leak suggests that Huawei is planning to release a super thin flagship smartphone with a metal frame. Images published by Engadget reveal that the handset, code-named P6-U06, features a metal chassis similar to the iPhone and an ultra-thin 6.18mm body. The device is said to be equipped with a 4.7-inch 720p display, a 1.5GHz quad-core processor, 2GB of RAM and an 8-megapixel rear camera. Huawei is expected to announce its latest flagship smartphone at a press event on June 18th in London. Additional images follow below.

By Joseph Menn and Mark Hosenball SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration may seek to end a long-running debate over Internet wiretaps with proposed legislation that would enable law-enforcement agencies to tap into many types of Internet communications, U.S. officials with knowledge of the matter said. The proposal is aimed at getting past the technical and legal obstacles that make it difficult for the FBI and other agencies with court orders to check so-called voice-over-Internet-protocol (VoIP) services such as those offered by Microsoft Corp's Skype. ...

By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Wednesday that Subaye Inc agreed to settle claims the China-based online services provider deceived auditors and misled investors about its business. The settlement, which the agency said includes injunctions but no money, was announced as the SEC filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in New York against Subaye and its former chief financial officer. Subaye is neither admitting nor denying the allegations, the SEC said. ...

By Neha Alawadhi (Reuters) - Rackspace Hosting Inc, which leases online storage space to companies, forecast current-quarter revenue below analysts' estimates as effects of product price cuts linger, sending its shares down 17 percent in after-hours trading. The company, which also reported lower-than-expected first-quarter results, reduced prices of its cloud bandwidth and content delivery network (CDN) by a third in late February. (http://link.reuters. ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Groupon Inc's board of directors has formed a special committee that has begun a search for a new chief executive for the world's largest daily deal company, Ted Leonsis, interim co-CEO of the company, said on Wednesday. Groupon's current leadership team is "gelling very very nicely," giving the search committee more time to find "the ideal long-term CEO," Leonsis added, during a conference call with analysts. (Reporting by Alistair Barr)

Humility is out. Self-advocacy is in. CNET's Emily Dreyfuss, a member of the Millennial Generation and an ambivalent self-promoter, ponders why we brag the way we do on social media.

Think it's just Shatner out there in ad space, plumping for Priceline? Actually, there's a long commercial track record for "Star Trek" stars, from Nimoy to Quinto.

Office supplies... mmm. We hear there's money in that

Groupon's head of retail is leaving the beleaguered voucher bazaar after just one year in the job.…

With a public reveal of iOS 7 expected next month, Apple appears to be ramping up testing of the software to external sites.

A proposed change to surveillance laws would empower the government to wiretap electronic communications

If The New York Times is to be believed, the Obama administration is "on the verge of" signing off on a proposal from the FBI that would make it easier for the agency's to intercept online communications. Please allow us to offer a tip that may help you avoid the Feds' steely gaze.

Chrome tool could ransack music vault, says coder

Spotify has tweaked the music player on its website after someone apparently found a way to harvest every single MP3 file from the audio-streaming service.…

Puckering ensues at Cisco, Juniper, Brocade

Not content with shaking up storage and servers, Facebook is creating an open source switch to help it save money on networking equipment and stop it being dependent on technologies pioneered by any single company.…

LONDON (Reuters) - David Bowie's latest music video featuring him as a Christ-like figure surrounded by women in skimpy outfits and priests in a bar was slapped with an adult-only rating by video sharing website YouTube on Wednesday. The video for the single "The Next Day" was temporarily pulled from YouTube with a screen shot saying it had been removed because its content violated YouTube's terms of service, according to the British singer's publicist. ...

The open-source game console, which rocked Kickstarter last year, earns a high repairability score from iFixit of 9 out of 10.

The updated application supports live-streaming and offers over 4,000 movies and television shows for in-home viewing.

Internet access is back in Syria after a more than 19 hour outage that started on Tuesday. But what caused the Internet to go down?

Symantec Corp.'s shares fell Wednesday after the computer security company issued a weak revenue forecast for its fiscal first quarter. THE SPARK: Symantec said late Tuesday that restructuring costs, impairment ...

Two app makers say they will give the 50 billionth app download winner a heap of extra money if the app is one of theirs.

A patent granted to Apple envisions invisible buttons and slider controls for a future incarnation of its smartphone and other electronic devices.

The open-source game console earned a high repairability score from iFixit of 9 out of 10.

By John O'Callaghan SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The parents of Shane Todd, an American engineer found dead in Singapore last year, intend to prove at a coroner's inquiry that he was murdered over a project they say involved the illegal transfer of sensitive technology to China. But Rick and Mary Todd told Reuters they would push for an investigation by the U.S. Congress no matter what verdict emerges from the inquiry in Singapore that starts next Monday. ...

Liberty Global appoints Tom Mockridge

A veteran News Corp exec is to become the next chief of Virgin Media once US cable giant completes its acquisition of the telco.…

BEIJING (AP) — Signs are growing that the sustained surge in cyberattacks emanating from China is imperiling its relations with the U.S., lending urgency to fledgling efforts by both governments to engage on the issue.

(Reuters) - Target Corp is rolling out Cartwheel, a service that combines social networking and discounts, the latest attempt by a U.S. retailer to lure shoppers into its physical stores rather that seeing them buy from online rivals. Target said its new program relies on shoppers using their Facebook accounts. However, shoppers can only redeem the offers they choose in Target's U.S. stores, not online. With Cartwheel, shoppers select the deals they want online and then bring a barcode - either on paper or on a mobile phone - to a Target store to get the discounts. ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Wednesday accused the United States of sowing discord between China and its neighbors after the Pentagon said Beijing is using espionage to fuel its military modernization, branding Washington the "real hacking empire". The latest salvo came a day after China's foreign ministry dismissed as groundless a Pentagon report which accused China for the first time of trying to break into U.S. defense computer networks. ...

Here comes the next iPhone? Well, at least display production has started, according to a report.

Data center switches, service provider routers start to pick up

The top brass at Juniper Networks are breathing a little bit easier as the company turned in numbers that show it is growing despite taking a big hit in sales of gear, software, and services to the US government in the first quarter.…

Luvvies and White Space tools can't even touch unloved bottom

Ofcom wants to know when Freeview broadcasts should be kicked down the dial in favour of iPad-friendly 4G signals - and, controversially, whether the BBC should be recompensed when it happens.…

Tabloid-broadsheet joins digital world circa 2003

Printed pages of lefty paper The Independent can be scanned by a phone app and decoded into links to recently updated words and pictures online.…

Front page of internet maybe not where you read the news

Condé Nast-owned community website Reddit has issued an apology for an "online witch hunt" launched by its users in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing and subsequent manhunt.…

You just can't trust that singing fat lady

The UK overtook Germany as the world's third largest music market last year, according to the yearbook from trade association IFPI. The USA and Japan remain the largest two music nations.…

If you've got it, Big Blue will manage it

First virtualization chewed up processors and regurgitated them as a pile of fungible compute resources, then it started gobbling storage, and now it's turned its hungry eye to networks, and IBM wants to help VMware, OpenStack, and others, do the chewing.…

Radio network between stock exchanges hits 357 million MPH

“Time? They ain’t making any more of it, so you gotta get in and get out, or you’ll get your f*****g face ripped off,” screamed an old Chicago Merc floor trader at my grad school class during a field trip.…

The OpenFlow bait gets a Windows Server 2012 switch

Japanese server and switch provider NEC jumped out in front of other players in the market with an OpenFlow controller for managing forwarding tables and network workflow in virtualized switches, and now it has coded up its own virtual switch that runs inside of Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor.…

Now you can get plugged in to the wireless revolution

Cisco took its life in its hands today by choosing the heart of East London to take the wraps off two shiny boxes to be sold under its Unified Access architecture banner.…