Sandra Pickering faced her audience and saw them slumped on their seats. She continued with her pitch -- how a career in information technology is rewarding and empowering. At the end of the presentation, the audience, 14 to 16 year old ...
Tags: Sandra Pickering, information technology, chief technology officer
The main features of recent color trends in Europe have been a greater preference for more and stronger colors and a continued move to white in key influential sectors like the automobile market. Now the big question is how much these ...
Tags: color trends, automobile market, white, Frankfurt Motor Show
Paint producers and their raw material suppliers in Europe are giving a new impetus to the drive to making sustainability a central objective of the whole coatings market across the region. The sector is seeking to draw up common ...
Tags: paint producers, raw material suppliers, Europe, CEPE
Affordable Wood Patio Furniture with an Ethical Twist Eucalyptus Patio Furniture is growing in popularity as the wood of choice for outdoor patio furniture. In the past, teak reigned supreme over most other choices of wood because of its ...
The Norwegian Data Protection Agency is planning to launch an investigation into Facebook's facial recognition feature this fall, a spokesman said on Monday. Last year, Facebook added the ability to use facial recognition technology to ...
Tags: Norway, Data Protection Agency, Facebook, facial recognition feature
Apple is investigating reports of shorter battery life on Mac laptops that customers have upgraded to OS X Mountain Lion, according to the company's support forum. Owners of MacBooks, MacBook Pros and MacBook Airs began reporting problems ...
Tags: Apple, battery life, Mac laptops, OS X Mountain Lion
The file-sharing company BitTorrent has begun testing an advertising model through which it would share ad revenue with content producers whose work is downloaded through the service, promising a way for artists to monetize informal sharing ...
Tags: BitTorrent, advertising model, ad revenu, content producers
US regulators have ordered data brokers to turn over information about how they collect and use information about consumers, in a move hailed by internet privacy activists. The US Federal Trade Commission said nine firms were ordered to ...
Tags: Privacy Impact, Data Brokers, Computer Products, Consumer Electronics
U.S. ISPs are reporting a significant rise in IPv6 traffic during the last three months, even though the overall numbers remain tiny -- less than 1% of Internet traffic. RELATED: How the U.S. is winning the race to next-gen Internet ...
Tags: U.S., ISPs, IPv6 traffic, Internet traffic
Bring your own device (BYOD) programmes have provided the most radical shift in the economics of client computing for business since PCs invaded the workplace, according to research conducted by Gartner. BYOD is an alternative strategy ...
Tags: BYOD, cloud computing, Gartner, mobile devices, tablets
Two privacy watchdogs filed a joint letter with the Federal Trade Commission on Thursday alleging Facebook may already be skirting an agreement to be more clear over how it handles user data. A partnership with a data collector called ...
Tags: Facebook, user data, datalogix deal, privacy
U.S. drivers seem to hold conflicting opinions on in-car Internet access, viewing the technology as a driving hazard and even a threat to privacy while praising the entertainment and safety features it offers. These opinions, presented in ...
Tags: U.S.drivers, in car Internet access, privacy, safety features
A "huge loophole" is being carved in the European Union's upcoming data protection regulation, according Ross Anderson, a professor of security engineering at the University of Cambridge in England. The way the current draft of the law ...
Tags: European Union, huge loophole, data protection regulation
When users install Google Maps on their iPhone, the option to share location data with Google is switched on by default. By doing this, Google violates European data protection law, according to a German data protection watchdog. Google ...
Tags: Google Maps, Computer Products, Iphone, German Watchdog
Unless you are reading this from the Olympic Village in London, Im going to guess that the odds of you one day enjoying Olympic glory are several hundredths of a decimal point removed from minimal. Not to worry: Flick Champions World ...
Tags: iPhone, iPad, flick champions, world edition