The Kenyan government has said that it has no intention of censoring what citizens do online or of closing access to social media networks in the country, despite facing challenges of identifying and tracking down people behind online hate ...
Google has fully implemented a security feature that ensures a person looking up a website isn't inadvertently directed to a fake one. The Internet company has run its own free public Domain Name System (DNS) lookup service, called Public ...
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EMC has donated a large storage system to the Vatican, which will use it to store digitized images of printed works, some of which are more than 1,000 years old. The 2.8-petabyte storage system (a petabyte is 1 million gigabytes) is ...
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Hewlett-Packard's purchase of Autonomy is under investigation by the U.K. Serious Fraud Office, the company said in a regulatory filing ahead of its annual meeting where there are expected to be challenges to the re-election of Chairman Ray ...
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Hewlett-Packard’s purchase of Autonomy is under investigation by the U.K. Serious Fraud Office, the company said in a regulatory filing ahead of its annual meeting where there are expected to be challenges to the re-election of ...
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ChargePoint has partnered wit the ECOtality and formed the Collaboratev, electric vehicle (EV) charging network interoperability company in the US. The company will offer the other charging network providers to join as affiliates and ...
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China this week faced allegations that it is helping the Zambian government with deep packet inspection technology in order to eavesdrop, mine data, censor and intercept communications. The allegations come less than two years after the ...
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Holden VF Commodore is out in the public domain, having made its public debut at Melbourne’s Docklands precinct this morning. Launching as the most technologically advanced vehicle ever produced in Australia, and what Holden ...
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A group of Reddit users are arguing in a petition filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that the use of the term "gaymer" to identify their community on the site should remain in the public domain. The petition was spurred by ...
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Aaron Swartz, 26, hanged himself in his flat weeks before he was to go on trial on accusations that he stole millions of articles from an electronic archive to make them freely available. If convicted he faced decades in prison and a ...
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IDG News Service-U.S.government agencies have long used open-source software.Now,some agencies are embracing the collaborative development model of open-source software development and are releasing code back to the wider community. The ...
Comparisons are useful in evaluating a company, but in the rare earth market, it's not as simple as a spreadsheet. With so many variables in the mix, no two projects are exactly alike, and each has its relative strengths and weaknesses. But ...
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The feud between Autonomy founder Mike Lynch and Hewlett-Packard’s leadership over alleged accounting fraud at the software vendor has intensified, with Lynch declaring his innocence in an open letter to the company’s board and ...
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The Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust has been hit with pound 325,000 monetary penalty for breaching the Data Protection Act. The penalty is the highest since the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) was granted the ...
The government lacks a clear evidence-based policy on whether or not to charge for data and should investigate the economic benefits of making all data free, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has said in its report on the government's ...
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