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Microsoft confirmed that its Outlook email service was targeted by hackers in China, the latest setback for the software giant in the country, where it is already being investigated for alleged anti-competitive practices.

“We are aware of a small number of customers impacted by malicious routing to a server impersonating Outlook.com,” a Microsoft spokesman in a statement Tuesday. “If a customer sees a certificate warning, they should contact their service provider for assistance.”

On Tuesday, the company got bad news from two more corners of the market: credit rating agency Fitch Ratings predicted that Samsung’s global smartphone position would erode further, while another analyst slashed his price target for Samsung’s shares while calling for the company to “react now before it’s too late.”

Behind both downbeat diagnoses lies the rapid rise of low-cost Chinese handset makers — a very real threat that some analysts dismissed as a distant prospect as recently as the beginning of the year. Read More »

Samsung Electronics reports earnings Friday and all eyes will be on whether the company’s earnings momentum is cooling faster than expected.

The world’s biggest smartphone maker shocked investors earlier this month when it forecast its operating profit will fall for the first time in two years, as growth in its key mobile unit slows.

Concerns over the slowing momentum for its mobile unit was highlighted in June when foreign and local brokerages started downgrading their earnings forecasts for the company, which currently relies on mobile devices to derive more than half of its operating profit. Read More »

“Panel prices are not likely to rebound soon, (although) their rate of decline is anticipated to slow down,” said Chief Financial Officer James Jeong. “LG Display will take preemptive actions to manage external risk factors such as macroeconomic uncertainties and decline in demand due to the industry’s slow growth.”

Falling prices of large panels used in television sets and slowing growth for high-end smartphones are expected to weigh on the company for the rest of this year, analysts say. Read More »

Hewlett-Packard has suffered another notable leak of financial information, this time of its fiscal 2014 outlook.

The company was holding its analyst meeting talking about how its business is stabilizing and how it would finally return to growth. Meg Whitman, the company’s CEO, kicked off the event with an upbeat assessment of the business. Any detailed financial projection was expected to come in a planned presentation by H-P’s chief financial officer after lunch at the event, being held in San Jose, Calif. Read More »

Outlook.com email and some other Microsoft services are coming back to life Wednesday afternoon following multi-hour outages.

Microsoft acknowledged some users were having problems accessing Outlook and SkyDrive, the online hub for saving documents, photos and other files. Microsoft didn’t explain the reasons for the service hiccups, which started Wednesday morning Pacific Time.

Microsoft said in a service-status update Wednesday afternoon that Web access to Outlook.com – the free email that is replacing Hotmail accounts—has been restored. The status update said Microsoft is working to fix problems people are having syncing Outlook email with mobile devices. Read More »

On the surface this may seem unusual, given that Microsoft is pretty loud about its sparring with Google. It has a competing mail service, a rival search engine, and so on.

Except, Google’s messaging client is pretty open. There are lots of other clients that also support Google Talk, like Adium, a cross-platform chat app for OS X. Even you can do it (or you can snag something off GitHub and implement that – though some experience building in Ruby or some other language is recommended before poking around there).

Here’s the bit straight from the developer section:

In addition to the Google Talk client, there are many other clients out there that provide a great communications experience. We believe users should have choice in which clients they use to connect to the Google Talk service and we want to encourage the developer community to create new and innovative applications that leverage our service. To enable this, Google Talk uses the standard XMPP protocol for authentication, presence, and messaging. Read More »