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Tech Giants' NSA Deal Leaves Smaller Companies Such as Start-Ups with Greater Restrictions
Feb 7, 2014Photo: Evan Vucci/AP Photo A group of U.S. technology giants has struck a deal with the Obama administration that allows the companies to disclose more details on customer data turned over to government agencies such as the National ...
Tags: NBA, FISA, i2Coalition, PC World
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Smartphone Aims to Foil Snooping Governments, Industry Rivals and Hackers
Jan 19, 2014It's a fully encrypted smartphone that aims to foil snooping governments, industry rivals and hackers. It's also a sleek, attractive device that fits in your pocket and can impress friends and colleagues, according to its makers. The ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
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Yahoo Is Expanding Its Efforts to Protect Its Users's Online Activities From Prying Eyes
Nov 22, 2013SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Yahoo is expanding its efforts to protect its users' online activities from prying eyes by encrypting all the communications and other information flowing into the Internet company's data centers around the world. ...
Tags: Yahoo, Encrypt, Users'Personal Data
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Lavabit and Silent Circle Have Formed a Partnership They Call The Dark Mail Alliance
Nov 5, 2013Secure email providers Lavabit and Silent Circle have formed a partnership they call the Dark Mail Alliance, with the intention of creating a secure email service that can thwart government surveillance. According to security news site ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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The Indian Government Is Expected to Require That Indian Bureaucrats Use Email Service
Sep 3, 2013The Indian government is expected to require that Indian bureaucrats use email service provided by the National Informatics Center for their official work, as it tries to secure its communications infrastructure. The requirement will be ...
Tags: Computer Products, Email
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Yahoo's Internet Portal in China Has Formally Closed Down
Sep 3, 2013After seeing its popularity decline, Yahoo's Internet portal in China has formally closed down, in a sign that e-commerce giant Alibaba Group is transitioning away from the brand. The portal went offline on Sunday. Its closure is rooted ...
Tags: Yahoo, webservice, Computer Products
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Technology Legal News Website Groklaw Is Shutting Down
Aug 26, 2013Technology legal news website Groklaw is shutting down due to concerns over the continued availability of secure email in the wake of revelations about U.S. government surveillance.? "The owner of Lavabit tells us that he's stopped using ...
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Users of Amazon.com Were Not Able to Access The Online Retailing Website on Monday
Aug 22, 2013Site went offline for about 45 minutes Users of Amazon.com were not able to access the online retailing website on Monday afternoon as the site experienced a brief outage, making it the latest one after Google. During the outage, ...
Tags: Amazon, Brief Outage
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Two Encrypted Email Services Have Shut Down
Aug 13, 2013Two encrypted email services have shut down because they feel threatened about having to turn over customer information to the government. Lavabit and Silent Circle both offered encrypted email services, but both have decided to ...
Tags: Email Vendor, Physical Ties
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Google Is Kicking off Its Latest Effort to Help Gmail Users Manage Their Messages
Jun 3, 2013Google is kicking off its latest effort to help Gmail users manage their messages -- a redesigned inbox. The new inbox, which will roll out to all Gmail users over the coming weeks, sorts incoming messages into labeled buckets. The ...
Tags: Google, Computer Products
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BT Has Decided to Dump The Service in Favour of Its Own BT Mail Platform
Jun 3, 2013BT, one of Yahoo's biggest customers for its Yahoo Mail service, has decided to dump the service in favour of its own BT Mail platform, which will be run by US messaging specialist Critical Path. Yahoo Mail accounts have been given ...
Tags: BT, Yahoo, Account Hijackings
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The Long-Running War Between Google and Microsoft May Never Have a Winner
May 31, 2013The long-running war between Google and Microsoft may never have a winner, an analyst said on Wednesday, but it definitely has a loser: customers. “These are business decisions, but unfortunately, consumers and very small businesses ...
Tags: analyst, Apple, CNME, computer news middle east, customers, email
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The Google Unveiled Updates to Its Popular Gmail Service
May 20, 2013Computerworld - In the middle of its annual developers conference, the Google unveiled updates to its popular Gmail service. Quick Action feature in updated Google Gmail Google Thursday announced that it's adding what it calls Quick ...
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Microsoft Today Took Another Shot at Rival Google
Apr 1, 2013Microsoft today took another shot at rival Google, the target of its "Scroggled" campaign, with an April Fools' Day prank that turned its Bing search engine into a Google look-alike. (See our slideshow of how some sites are marking April ...
Tags: Computer Products, software, Microsoft
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DDoS Attack of Unprecedented Scale Targeted an International Spam-Fighting Organization
Apr 1, 2013A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack of unprecedented scale that targeted an international spam-fighting organization last week ended up causing problems for Internet users around the world, experts say. The DDoS attack started ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
