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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Microsoft's update Wednesday to its SkyDrive iOS app is proof that the software giant has no intention of sharing revenue with its fierce rival, Apple, and further evidence it will tie Office on the iPad to its subscription plans, an ...
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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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WASHINGTON - The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services received roughly 50,000 "packages" with H-1B petitions on Monday, the first day of filing for the next fiscal year. Based on historical patterns, each package represents about 1.2 ...
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Organizations face malware-related events that bypass traditional defense technologies on their networks every three minutes, according to a new report released Wednesday by security vendor FireEye. "This activity can include the receipt ...
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Viking Technology is shipping a memory board that combines DRAM and NAND flash memory to create a non-volatile standard DIMM card that can be used in servers and storage arrays. Viking's ArxCis-NV DIMM board has several purposes. With ...
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The second-generation Nexus 7 tablet, powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, will be launched around July, according to two unnamed sources in a Reuters report. The Android device will be made by Asustek, and Google hopes to ship 8 ...
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More than 75% of corporations have policies that prohibit the use of consumer online file sharing and collaboration tools, yet employee use of the services is still rampant, according to an Enterprise Strategy Group survey. "The thing is, ...
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Google is hoping to make it easier for developers to integrate SMS or voice communications into applications running on the company's App Engine platform. Working with Twilio, Google has created native Python and Java libraries for ...
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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has selected three emergency back-end registry operators to guarantee domain names within a new generic top-level domain (gTLD) will resolve in the event of a failure at a new ...
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The U.S government and two other entities involved in investigations leading to the indictment of the late Internet activist Aaron Swartz have asked a federal court in Boston to redact the names of people involved in the case from documents ...
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Mozilla on Tuesday shipped Firefox 20, adding more flexible private browsing and patching 13 vulnerabilities, five rated "critical" by the company's security team. Along with the privacy change, Mozilla also revamped Firefox's download ...
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More details have emerged about the new "Facebook phone", which is expected to be launched as early as Thursday 4 April. The press event will be held at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California - revealed after invitations ...
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Researchers from security vendor FireEye have uncovered a new APT (advanced persistent threat) that uses multiple detection evasion techniques, including the monitoring of mouse clicks, to determine active human interaction with the ...
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At the same time, even as many remain mystified by how it works, the payment alternative has enjoyed rapidly growing?acceptance?among online businesses and, particularly in recent weeks, surging popularity and value. At the time of ...
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