Websites,mobile apps and online advertising networks targeting children will be required to follow new privacy regulations,including getting a parent's permission before collecting geo-location information and photographs from kids,under ...
Tags: privacy regulations, FTC, COPPA
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission should analyze Facebook's relationship with a data marketer to ensure it doesn't violate the social networking site's recently approved settlement, the Electronic Privacy Information Center said Monday. ...
Tags: U.S., FTC, Facebook, Datalogix, partnership
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 ...
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Apple CEO Tim Cook today apologized to users for the substandard Apple Maps app in iOS 6, and steered them toward alternatives including Microsoft's Bing app and Google's online Maps. The Hoover Dam bypass bridge south of the dam ...
China has blocking access to Google in what’s likely a move to squelch any controversial content on the nation’s Internet as its government prepares to change leadership. The blocking was reported by GreatFire.org, which ...
Business cloud storage provider Box announced the launch of Accelerator, a network optimization service that it said can increase the speed of uploads and downloads over its existing service by up to 10 times. On average, file uploads to ...
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Apple CEO Tim Cook is "extremely sorry" to customers for inaccuracies in its new mapping software included in iOS 6, and has pointed users to competing services in an open letter to customers released Friday. With many users and news ...
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TAGSYS RFID, the leading provider of item-level inventory management systems that streamline the supply chain, announced two new additions to its US-based organization in response to accelerating demand for smart inventory and loss ...
Tags: management system, expansion, item-level inventory tracking solutions
The dead can't speak for themselves. But they can apparently file U.S. tax returns. A new audit of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has found the agency paid refunds to criminals who filed false tax returns, in some cases on behalf of ...
Tags: IRS, U.S.tax returns, TIGTA, ID theft
Cybercriminals no longer control one of the world's largest spam botnets, Grum, because all of the servers the botnet relied on for receiving commands were shut down, according to researchers from security firm FireEye. The last Grum ...
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StorIT has announced a strategic new distributor partnership agreement with Mellanox Technologies, a supplier of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data centre servers and storage systems. The new alliance positions ...
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As supercomputers grow more powerful, they’ll also grow more vulnerable to failure, thanks to the increased amount of built-in componentry. A few researchers at the recent SC12 conference, held last week in Salt Lake City, offered ...
Tags: Exascale, Resilience, supercomputers, computer
An undisclosed amount was invested in PrettySecrets;an online brand which offers lingerie,nightwear,swimwear,shape wear&accessories.The investment was led by Rehan Yar Khan,IAN member and Farooq Oomerbhoy,FAO Ventures and co-nvested by ...
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With so many publicly disclosed instances of online fraud and identify theft, why don't more people encrypt their email messages? That's the question the software developers at Encrytomatic LLC asked themselves recently while developing ...
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The International Code Council has passed two provisions related to glass walkway standards,both of which the Glass Association of North America's(GANA)Glass Industry Code Committee(GICC)had advocated,according to information from GANA. ...
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