IDG News Service - An investigation of ultrathin laptops, including Apple's latest Macbook Air, has found they do conform to the EPEAT (Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool) environmental standard. The investigation, which ...
IDG News Service-The family of a worker who committed suicide at an alleged Apple supplier in China is blaming his death on the harsh management at the factory and has tried demonstrating against the company,only to be detained by local ...
Tags: Apple, Mistreatment, Victim's Family
IDG News Service - The international affairs chief at the U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday expressed concern with the European Union's revision of the Data Protection Directive. U.S. Deputy Assistant Attorney General Bruce C. ...
IDG News Service - Mozilla Firefox 16 was released on Tuesday and addresses numerous security vulnerabilities, many of which are rated as critical. The new version of Firefox was accompanied by 14 security advisories, 11 rated as ...
Tags: Firefox, Vulnerabilities, attackers
IDG News Service - The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to overturn legal immunity for telecom carriers that allegedly participated with a U.S. National Security Agency surveillance program during the last decade. The Supreme Court, without ...
Tags: Supreme Court, wiretapping case
IDG News Service - Security researcher Felix "FX" Lindner has a more compelling reason to steer clear of routers from Huawei Technologies than fears about its ownership. While the company blasted for its opaque relationship with China's ...
Tags: Huawei, ownership, China's government
IDG News Service - Alcatel-Lucent has upgraded its implementation of the VDSL2 vectoring noise cancellation technology in order to make it easier to implement, and as a result let operators offer higher broadband speeds over phone lines to ...
IDG News Service - A year-long investigation by a U.S. congressional committee has reportedly concluded that Chinese telecommunication equipment vendors Huawei Technologies and ZTE pose a security threat to the nation, and the committee is ...
Electronics manufacturer Foxconn maintains that workers making iPhones at a Chinese factory did not strike on Friday and that production wasn't affected,according to published reports. Foxconn's statement contradicts a labor rights ...
Tags: Electronics manufacturer, Foxconn, workers strike, China
IDG News Service-China Mobile,the country's largest mobile carrier,will develop its own company-branded handsets,while hoping to eventually strike a deal with Apple for the iPhone. The operator's CEO Li Yue made the comments while ...
Tags: China Mobile, iPhone, handsets, Apple
Apple CEO Tim Cook remembered Steve Jobs in a short letter posted on the front page of the company's website Friday,saying the company will continue to create products that people love,much like the maverick technology icon who was ...
Tags: Apple, Steve Jobs, Tablet Category, Smartphone
IDG News Service - Facebook users who have associated a mobile phone number with their accounts in order to enable the "Login Approvals" security feature can no longer be found on the website based on those phone numbers, the company said ...
Tags: Facebook, Mobile Numbers, functionality
IDG News Service-More than 1 billion people now use Facebook each month,almost one-seventh of the world's population,the company announced Thursday. The company said it passed the milestone on Sept.14,but only revealed the figure ...
Tags: Facebook, active users, fake accounts
IDG News Service-Box announced on Tuesday a set of new and improved enterprise security and IT management features for its cloud-based file sharing and storage service. The enhancements focus on areas including data loss ...
Tags: file sharing, storage service, Box, cloud-based
IDG News Service-The U.S.Ambassador to the European Union on Tuesday told European telecommunications operators why the U.S.will not support their proposals to change a treaty on the handling of international voice,data and video traffic. ...
Tags: Telcos Plan, Voice, Data Traffic Rules, U.S.