French EU privacy regulator CNIL is to take action against Google this summer, according to a statement the body has released on its website. CNIL's statement explains how after several months of investigation, European data protection ...
Tags: Google, Microsoft, EU watchdogs
Oxford University has revealed it suspended use of Google Docs on 14 February following a sustained influx of phishing attacks on the network. The attacks, designed to acquire login details for university systems in order to send spam ...
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has spoken out about his dissatisfaction with the pace of innovation at the company he founded in the 1970s. Gates handed over the role of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000 and has been blamed for a number ...
During a Google+ 'Fireside Hangout' on Thursday night, President Barack Obama talked about his daughters' math and science studies, the benefits of making computer programming a required high school class and the need to keep the Internet ...
Tags: Internet, Google, tech issues
CBR talked with Chris Mathews, CTO at SysMech about the European Commission's proposal to give consumers the right to be forgotten online and how it will affect any company that deals with data. The European Commission's proposal to allow ...
Tags: data industry, internet, Google
Google+ suffered a site outage Friday morning, prompting users of the social network to complain on both Google+ and Twitter that the site was down or slow to load. According to Google, the outage was over by late morning, East Coast ...
Tags: Google, social network, Computerworld
Egypt's telecom regulator says it is not viable for it to follow a court order to block YouTube in the country, and is appealing the ruling. The order banning YouTube and some other websites for 30 days was issued by a Cairo court after ...
Tags: YouTube, technically, Google search
IDG News Service - Intel's aim is to lead the way in creating the first exaflop supercomputer, so it is making architectural improvements to its processors with the hope to reach that goal between 2018 and 2020. The chip maker is ...
Tags: supercomputer, Intel, network
Far before the rise of social media, blogging was highly recommended as a means to drive traffic to websites. Some insiders even made it sound as if your website would die a sudden and sure death if it did not feature a blog. Then came ...
Tags: Blog, Jewellery Business, Self-check
The all-new Nissan Note city car has been revealed ahead of its international debut at next month’s 2013 Geneva motor show. Inspired by the Nissan Invitation concept that debuted at last year’s Geneva show, the ...
Tags: Nissan Note, Jazz Rival, Australia
Ferrari has claimed top spot in a list of the world’s top 500 brands, finishing ahead of Google and Coca-Cola. While the 2013 BrandFinance Global 500 list saw Apple take out the title of the world’s most valuable brand ahead ...
Tizen, the open-source project backed by Intel and Samsung, on Monday released the software development kit and source code for a new version of its operating system to software developers and device manufacturers. The Tizen 2.0 release ...
European privacy authorities have threatened action before the Summer to curb Google’s collection, combination and storage of its users’ personal information. The E.U. has apparently grown impatient with the company’s ...
Tags: EU, Google, Privacy Policy Action
LandAirSea Systems, which has been manufacturing GPS tracking devices since 1994, is announcing a permanent price cut on its most popular passive GPS tracker, the GPS Tracking Key. Effective as of Monday, February 18, 2013, the price of ...
WISeID Social app and its website WISeID.com have provided encryption services for Facebook walls since 2010. Now WISeID Social can also encrypt Google+ wall postings, SMS and tweets, allowing privacy over any communication service, even ...
Tags: WISeID Social app, encryption service, Facebook walls, social networks