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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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 ...
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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 ...
Adobe on Saturday said it would release an emergency patch for two Reader zero-day vulnerabilities this week. Hackers have already been exploiting the bugs using rigged PDF documents sent as email attachments. "Adobe plans to make ...
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A TV report into the lives of migrant workers employed at Amazon.com distribution centers in Germany has prompted the government to call for an investigation, and is pushing other companies to change their practices. German TV channel ARD ...
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Microsoft has quietly raised prices of Office for the Mac as much as 17% and stopped selling multi-license packages of the application suite. The move puts Office for Mac 2011 on the same pricing schedule as the new Office 2013 for ...
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Microsoft on Friday reopened online sales for the 128GB Surface Pro after nearly a week of stock outages, telling buyers that the tablets would ship in two to three weeks. According to Microsoft's e-store, a 128GB Surface Pro ordered on ...
Facebook is working hard to assure users that Graph Search, its new search engine designed to uncover all sorts of information buried within the site, does not compromise the privacy rights of minors. "As with all of our products, we ...
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Microsoft yesterday confirmed that a retail copy of Office 2013 is permanently tied to the first PC on which it's installed, preventing customers from deleting the suite from one machine they own and installing it on another. The move is ...
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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 ...
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IDG News Service - Facebook said Friday it had been the target of a sophisticated hacking attack but that it had no evidence any user data had been compromised. The attack comes two weeks after Twitter asked 250,000 of its users to reset ...
Microsoft has quietly raised prices of Office for the Mac by as much as 17 percent, and has also stopped selling multi-licence packages of the application suite. The move puts Office for Mac 2011 on the same pricing schedule as the new ...
A large group of U.S. lawmakers has reintroduced legislation that would require online retailers to collect sales tax for state and local governments, essentially raising the cost of many online purchases by 10 percent or more. ...
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The President, in his annual State of the Union speech to a joint session of the US Congress, said the United States is facing a “rapidly growing threat from cyber-attacks.” “We know hackers steal people's identities and ...
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The Argos-owned Chad Valley is the third biggest toy brand in the UK, with revenues of £430 million in 2010/2011 (the latest official figures published). Sainsbury’s is planning to significantly expand its Grow & Play line. It ...