Twitter will inform users of government data requests and in some cases reject them to protect the privacy of users, its chief executive said Wednesday. Dick Costolo, appearing at a forum at the Brookings Institution in Washington, ...
Tags: Twitter, Data Request Policy
Earlier this year, I wrote about how I considered the ICO's meagre £250,000 fine handed out to Sony for losing control of its servers and risking the theft of every man, woman and child's data on there as "a slap on the wrist". ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Google is not obligated to delete sensitive data from its search index, despite being subject to EU privacy legislation. That's the view of a top adviser to the European Court of Justice about a case concerning whether individuals can ...
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The working world is undergoing"disaggregation"from physical location,time and information availability constraints,says Jim Henrys,an enterprise strategist at semiconductor giant Intel,in a process that is driving a revolutionary change in ...
Tags: working world, 'Cultural Revolution', dematerialisation, mobile devices
Sales of devices based on Apple's Mac OS and iOS will overtake those of products running all flavors of Windows in 2015, a Gartner analyst predicted Monday. The switch in leadership would come roughly 13 years after Steve Jobs reinvented ...
Hewlett-Packard is joining the list of companies bringing Android to the PC, and has unveiled a 21.5-inch all-in-one desktop installed with Google's operating system. The device, called the HP Slate 21, was shown off at an HP event in ...
Tags: Hewlett-Packard, Desktop, Android
Microsoft is seeking permission to disclose "aggregate statistics" about the number of requests for data it receives under the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, following a similar move by Google earlier this month. FISA has ...
Over three quarters of Android threats are malicious apps that send SMS messages to premium rate numbers and could be mitigated by a protection feature present in Android 4.2, according to researchers from networking vendor Juniper ...
Tags: Android Threats, Apps, Android 4.2
Spanish operator Telefonica is worried about the Android-iOS smartphone duopoly, and has joined with Microsoft in a marketing blitz that it hopes will convince consumers to pick up smartphones based on Windows Phone. For one year, ...
Tags: Telefonica, Windows Phone, iOS, Android, Smartphone
Developers find Firefox OS the most compelling among new smartphone OSes, generating more interest than Tizen and BlackBerry 10, even though no commercial products have been launched for it yet. For the first time, IDC and cross-platform ...
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Mozilla today shipped Firefox 22,enabling the in-browser audio-video calling standard WebRTC and switching on a new JavaScript module that promises to speed up Web apps. The update also included patches for 17 security ...
Google Glass is predicted to become the next “it” product, so start saving unless you prefer feeling like a total social reject. According to Forrester Research, more than 22 million Americans — or 12 percent — are ...
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The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead (RBWM) is set to abandon issuing staff with BlackBerry smartphones as the council looks to move towards a Windows 8-based ecosystem. It forms part of RBWM's overall strategy of moving towards a ...
Tags: Blackberry, Windows 8 Phones, RBWM Council
British spy agency GCHQ is tapping global internet traffic and phone calls, processing information from around the world which it is sharing with its opposite number in the US, the National Security Agency (NSA). That is the latest ...
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A string of footballers and other celebrities have been accused of using an extravagant data centre construction scheme in a bid to avoid tax. The data centres, on the Cobalt business park just outside Newcastle, are completely empty two ...
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