A proposal in Taiwan to enforce copyright laws by blocking access to top piracy sites is facing concerns that the measures could impinge on Internet freedoms on the island. The intellectual property office of Taiwan's Ministry of Economic ...
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Epson America is bringing hands-free interaction with YouTube to its smart glasses, which could set the stage for improved usability of applications like augmented reality. Users wearing Epson's Moverio BT-100 smart glasses will be able ...
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China's largest search engine, Baidu, is getting closer to becoming the country's largest online video provider with a new $370 million acquisition. Baidu is spending the money to buy the online video business of PPS, a popular video ...
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A so-called "watering hole" hacking attack on the US Department of Labor website last week has spread to nine more global websites over the weekend, including those used by European aerospace and nuclear researchers. Originally discovered ...
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With 137 million Internet users in India coupled with increasing mobile Internet penetration, retail segment of the country is witnessing a rapid change in the method of shopping from the traditional brick and mortar stores to buying ...
Tags: Mobile Shoppers, Apparels
The U.S. online advertising industry has not lived up to a promise to stop the online tracking of Internet users who ask advertisers to do so, a senior U.S. senator said Wednesday. Senator John "Jay" Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, ...
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Internet users overwhelmingly enjoy free Web content supported by advertising, and they'd rather see advertisements targeted toward their interests than random ads, according to a survey released this week by the Digital Advertising ...
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The U.S. House of Representatives moved closer Wednesday toward the passage of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), despite concerns that the cyberthreat information-sharing bill will allow Web-based companies to share ...
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Americans are so fixated on social networks that they spend an average of 16 minutes out of every hour on them, according to a study by Experian Marketing Services. In the U.S., 27% of users' time online is spent on forums and social ...
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Fabricated Internet posts praising Samsung at the expense of HTC products has landed the South Korean company in hot water with Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission. Taiwan's FTC said on Tuesday it was investigating the matter, and could punish ...
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A Chinese hacking ring, which has been active for four years, has been stealing data from players of more than 30 massively multiplayer online (MMO) role-playing games. That's according to research by security software vendor Kaspersky ...
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A coalition of web and technology organisations including Microsoft, Nokia and Oracle have filed an anti-trust complaint to the European Commission, claiming Google's Android operating system gives the firm an unfair advantage in the mobile ...
Australians are falling further in love with faster internet, with more users downloading more data than ever before. Figures published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics show record downloads in the last three months of 2012, with ...
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Internet companies and privacy advocates appear headed for a fight over a proposal to broaden California's so-called Shine the Light Law, which requires online companies to disclose to consumers how their personal information is used. The ...
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A federal court in Chicago this week granted class action status to a lawsuit accusing comScore, one of the Internet's largest user tracking firms, of secretly collecting and selling Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, passwords ...
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