Microsoft has identified 13 PC resellers based in Shanghai that it claims have been distributing counterfeit versions of its Windows OS, and the company could take legal action against them if a settlement isn't reached. Microsoft made ...
Tags: Microsoft, Windows OS, computer market
IDG News Service - Raising the bar for image quality on television sets, Panasonic unveiled a 56-inch OLED TV that shows images at 4K resolution, four times the overall resolution of current 1080p high-definition TVs. The new TV was shown ...
Tags: image quality, Panasonic, OLED TV, TV
Firms such as Facebook and Google may have to significantly rein in their use personal data if European Union lawmakers get the go-ahead to give users more control over their data. In a report seen by Reuters, Jan Philipp Albrecht, a ...
Tags: Facebook, Google, personal data, data control, data protection
Facebook has launched an expanded privacy education campaign for new users, with the focus on default settings, user access to their own data and deciding who they share their information with. Facebook, in an announcement on the site ...
Tags: Facebook, privacy education campaign, US, Social Media
Bees & Pollen, the leading games and apps optimization company, announced at Casual Connect Seattle event that HoneyLizer Pro, its real-time, automated Best-Fit optimization platform now supports PHP, as well as behavioral attributes in ...
Tags: Israrel, application, electronical development, Bees&Pollen
O2 parent Telefónica today launched a business venture to enable organisation to use data from customer's mobile phones. Named Telefónica Dynamic Insights,the business will be aimed at both public and private sector groups ...
Tags: TelefóNica, sell Mobile data
ALLIANCE, OH, November 01, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Novosoft, the acclaimed provider of data backup solutions, presented the hard disk imaging backup software functionality for Handy Backup, version 7.3.0, oriented toward migration from ...
Tags: Novosoft LLC, disk images, Handy Backup, data backup solutions
A Cisco Linksys router update which connected customers' routers to its Connect Cloud service without their knowledge and the company's licensing terms around user data has recharged privacy and security concerns surrounding cloud services. ...
Tags: Cisco, router, update, cloud services, privacy, security
SMS text messaging is certainly not exclusive to Apple or its iconic iPhone smartphone. But, apparently there is something unique about the way Apple delivers SMS messages that makes the iPhone particularly vulnerable to spoofing or ...
Tags: SMS text messaging, Apple, iPhone, smartphone, smishing attacks
Two digital rights group urged Facebook on Tuesday to halt changes to its governance and data use policies, warning the modifications could increase privacy risks. Facebook said last Wednesday it would no longer allow users to vote on ...
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They say no one can hear you scream in space, but if you so much as whisper on the Web, you can be tracked by a dozen different organizations and recorded for posterity. Simply visiting a website can allow its operators to figure out your ...
Tags: device information, advertising cookies, web
Facebook seemed to answer at least one burning question about its mobile business on Thursday -- it doesn't plan to build its own smartphone -- but it's still not entirely clear how it will capitalize on its rapidly expanding base of mobile ...
Tags: Facebook, mobile business, smartphone, mobile users
The Olympic Games in London have sparked interest from fraudsters, with a raft of sites supposedly offering live video streams of events, according to security vendor Trend Micro. Trend Micro called out on Sunday more than a dozen sites ...
Tags: Fraudsters, Data Security, Olympic Games, London
Computer vulnerabilities and how they can affect Americans' security are on the agenda for the U.S. Senate, and strong rhetoric is being used to support new legislation. The Cybersecurity Act of 2012 is expected to move to the Senate ...
Tags: Rhetoric, Cybersecurity Bill, Washington, Computer Vulnerabilities
CBR rounds up expert opinions on Instagram's recent change to user photo rights. The popular photo-sharing service received a backlash from its community of users after updating its terms of use to allow the company to own rights to ...
Tags: Julian Ranger, Instagram service agreement, Adam Leach, James Lusher