Samsung has ousted Nokia from the cellphone top-spot, taking the number one position in handset sales worldwide, according to research firms. New figures from IHS iSuppli and Strategy Analytics confirm that Nokia has finally slipped from its perch at the top of the cellular tower, the company’s dwindling sales over the past few quarters driving it down to 22.5-percent marketshare in Q1 2012; in contrast, Samsung took 25.4-percent of the worldwide mobile phone marketshare in the same period, while Apple’s stellar iPhone sales recently have pushed the company to 9.5-percent …

Cloud storage service joins Dropbox on the banned list
Google’s chances of challenging old search foe Baidu in the Chinese market look even more remote, after the Chinese government blocked the Chocolate Factory’s much-hyped Google Drive service.
Launched to much fanfare on Tuesday, Google Drive is a Dropbox-like service which allows users to upload and share content in the cloud, integrating with Google Docs for those who use the online productivity suite.
Given that other foreign cloud services including Box, SugarSync, Apple’s iCloud and – no doubt most irksome for Google – Microsoft …

The ‘DNS Changer’ virus will cause more than 350,000 computers to lose web access on July 9, the FBI has claimed.
DNS Changer was a virus run by an Estonian crime ring until authorities and the American FBI broke it up in November. At its peak it infected more than 500,000 PCs and Macs.
The virus, first used in 2007, hijacked users’ computers without their knowledge to generate fraudulent clicks on adverts. Although its only obvious effects were to slightly slow internet connections and to disable antivirus software, it also redirected computers …

Facebook’s initial public offering is looming over Silicon Valley like a cloud of gold dust, but co-founder Dustin Moskovitz has other things on his mind.
While the social network Moskovitz helped design as a Harvard sophomore is just weeks from one of history’s most anticipated stock market debuts, Asana — the work-collaboration software company he left Facebook to launch in late 2008 — on April 24 will put its first product on sale.
Not that he or Asana co-founder Justin Rosenstein needs the money.
Moskovitz, 27, is reportedly the world’s youngest self-made billionaire, …

With Congress and privacy watchdogs breathing down its neck, Google is stepping up its lobbying presence inside the Beltway – spending more than Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft combined in the first three months of the year.
Google spent $5.03 million on lobbying from January through March of this year, a record for the Internet giant, and a 240 percent increase from the $1.48 million it spent on lobbyists in the same quarter a year ago, according to disclosures filed Friday with the clerk of the House.
By comparison, Apple …