General Motors has launched the automotive industry’s first commerce platform for on-demand reservations and purchases of goods and services. With Marketplace, drivers can now order and pay for their favorite coffee — and much ...
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To cater to the needs of working professionals, Small Office Home Office (SOHO) and large families having multiple devices, the Chinese Information and Communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, Huawei, has launched two new Wi-Fi ...
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp, of San Diego, CA, USA, a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-sapphire (SOS), has announced what it claims is the highest-performance, carrier-grade Wi-Fi switch ...
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The public prosecutor in Hamburg has decided not to start a criminal investigation into the way Googles' Street View cars gathered data from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks in Germany, the lawyer who requested the inquiry said Thursday. In ...
Tags: Google, Street View, WiFi Sniffing, Germany
The UK's Information Commissioner's Office is to re-open its investigation into the collection of Wi-Fi data by Google's Street View vehicles as they collected images for Google Maps. The UK's Information Commissioner's Office(ICO)is ...
Google has admitted to the Information Commisioner's Office that it failed to delete all the Wi-Fi data collected by its Street View vehicles. Last month, the ICO demanded proof that the Wi-Fi data collected by the Google Street View ...
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A taste of Cisco's acquisitions The threat from software-defined networking(SDN)Cisco diversifies portfolio Acquisitions more cost-effective than R&D Extending customer base and innovation There is nothing unusual about an industry ...
Tags: Cisco, software-defined networking(SDN), Lightwire, Clive Longbottom
IDG News Service - European privacy authorities have asked Google to tweak the unified privacy policy it introduced on March 1, but have stopped short of asking it to undo all its changes. They set no firm deadline for Google to make the ...
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Cisco is to buy location analytics technology company ThinkSmart Technologies for an undisclosed sum. Cork-based ThinkSmart Technologies specialises in using Wi-Fi networks to monitor locations and collect data. It is often used in public ...
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The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has fined Google $22.5m for monitoring Apple Safari browser users even though they had a "do not track" privacy setting selected. The fine is the largest to date to be imposed by the FTC on a single ...
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