When it comes to consumers' rights to control their own browsers, everybody wants to sound like they're pro-choice. But with many millions of advertising dollars on the line, the definition of pro-choice tends to align with the financial ...
Canonical has released both the server and desktop editions of 12.10 Ubuntu, which offers a glimpse of how this Linux distribution will evolve in the next few years. Ubuntu 12.10 "effectively sets out the future direction of how Ubuntu ...
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Spammers have found a way to abuse a URL shortener service destined for U.S. government social media activities in order to craft rogue .gov URLs for work-at-home scams. Security researchers from Symantec have detected a new email spam ...
Tags: Spammers, URL shortener service, U.S.government, social media activities
Polycom today revealed new software capabilities for its RealPresence ‘Video as a Service’ platform to encourage more developers to work with the system. The crux of announcement was more open application programing interfaces ...
Tags: Polycom, APIs, RealPresence, Computer Products
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
Hurricane Sandy exposed a decided lack of contingency planning on Wall Street, according to a report by a research firm. With the Northeast still experiencing the effects of widespread storm damage, the business continuity plans of stock ...
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Broadband is no toy for early adopters.More citizens in the UK have access to the internet than ever before and those in the industry have had to move at a rate of knots to keep up with demand for better coverage,faster speeds and necessary ...
Tags: Broadband, UK, Virgin Media, BT, EU
Ericsson has launched the world's first WebRTC-compatible browser for mobile devices, which will allow developers to integrate voice and video communications in their Web-based applications. The WebRTC (real-time communication) ...
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The U.N.'s International Telecommunications Union should embrace free and open broadband markets and allow individual countries to reform their telecommunications regulations instead of attempting to centrally regulate the industry, the ...
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Google has joined US government concerns that the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) could get control of the internet through its coming revision of telecoms rules. The UN agency is updating its International Telecommunication ...
Tags: UN, Google, Internet, Computer Products
Internet and mobile communications were shut down on Thursday morning in war-torn Syria. Renesys Corp., a global Internet monitoring firm, earlier today reported a "major outage" in Syria, and added that a kill switch had been thrown ...
Despite precautions by system providers, an extra second added to the official timekeeping record Saturday triggered several popular Internet services to crash over the weekend, including LinkedIn, Reddit and Quantas airline's reservation ...
Tags: ystem providers, Internet services, LinkedIn, Reddit, Quantas
This is the third in a series of interviews with C-level executives responsible for cyber security and privacy in business and government, who also happen to be thought leaders. (Remember, as I mentioned previously, "C-level executive" and ...
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Privacy advocates and consumer rights groups are keeping a wary eye on a new copyright enforcement mechanism set to be rolled out by major Internet Service Providers. The so-called Copyright Alert System (CAS) aims to warn Internet users ...
Analyst firm IHS published an important study last week. It predicts that, for the first time ever, PC shipments would drop year-over-year; for 2012, total shipments will drop 1.2 percent. IDC and Gartner agree, noting that third quarter PC ...
Tags: IHS, PC, smartphones, tablets, cloud