Cisco launches fierce attack on HP

Cisco's general counsel, Mark Chandler, has launched a fierce attack on HP, accusing the tech giant of repeatedly suing ex-employees to prevent them defecting to Cisco, reveals V3.co.uk.

In a lengthy blog post on Wednesday, Chandler explained that HP has just filed its third lawsuit in two years.

“As headhunters and other companies are flooded with resumes from HP employees seeking safe ground amid the chaos of executive turnover, we can probably expect to see more desperate moves to lock up human capital,” he argued.

Nokia has applied to delist from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, because of falling trading volumes of its shares, the world's largest mobile phone maker said yesterday, writes the Associated Press.

The announcement came as the Finnish company's stock continues to tumble as it struggles against stiff competition in the top-end smartphone sector and against rivals making cheaper handsets in Asia.

In August, Standard and Poor's downgraded Nokia's credit rating, saying its outlook for the company remained negative. Moody's also downgraded it by two notches in July from A3 to Baa2 due to a “severe weakening” of Nokia's business position.

Criminals are targeting Internet users with a new gift certificate scam, according to security experts, notes the BBC.

Users receive an e-mail that claims to be from Apple's iTunes store, warns the Eleven security blog. The ZIP file attached contains malware that may allow hackers to gain access to the recipient's computer.

The blog says the attack appears to have been timed to coincide with Black Friday, one of America's busiest shopping days.

Apple has pulled an app that asked users to judge how Jewish they were after a lawsuit was brought against it in Paris, reports The Register.

The app “Jew or not Jew” has been taken out of all of Apple's app stores globally, after French anti-racism campaigners complained. Apple took the app out of the French app store on 14 September, out of the European app stores on 18 October and pulled it from worldwide app stores yesterday.

“Jew or not Jew” catalogued Jewish personality traits according to how genetically Jewish users considered themselves to be.