A judge in California refused on Thursday to order YouTube to pull down a controversial anti-Islam movie trailer that has sparked violent protests at U.S.diplomatic missions in many Middle East countries,according to a spokeswoman for the ...
Tags: Anti-Islam Video, YouTube, Google
IDG News Service - In a new twist over the controversy surrounding an anti-Islam movie trailer on YouTube, an actress shown in the trailer has filed a lawsuit demanding that YouTube and its owner Google take down the video. Google has ...
Tags: Anti-Islam, Video, controversy surrounding
Technology giant Google has blocked hardware vendor Acer from producing a mobile phone running a variant of the Android operating system,claiming that it would excessively fragment the ecosystem. Acer had planned to produce a mobile phone ...
Tags: Google, Aliyun operating system, Android derivative, Acer
The US is collecting huge amounts of data on its citizens, according to former National Security Agency (NSA) official Bill Binney. While at the NSA, Binney led the development of secret software he now believes is being used to carry out ...
Tags: NSA, Bill Binney, secret software, illegal data
WASHINGTON,D.C.—Republican leadership in the House of Representatives recently cancelled a vote on H.R.3210,a bill that would have weakened illegal logging amendments of the Lacey Act. The bill had been making its way through ...
Tags: Furniture, Policy, Wood Product, Furnishing
In a decision likely to be sobering for companies fighting insider threats, an appeals court has ruled that an employee who used his valid computer access rights to access data from his employer can't be prosecuted under a federal ...
Tags: federal law, cybercrime, hacking, USA
A labor rights group has accused Samsung of"illegal and inhumane violations"at its factories in China,reporting cases of excessive overtime and exhausting working conditions,with employees being made to stand for up to 12 hours for a single ...
Tags: Samsung, worker mistreatment, China, labor rights group
The U.S.Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product.Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed.It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell ...
Tags: North America, LED lighting, Burn Hazard
In what's been a busy Parliamentary week, Australian MPs have been debating legislation which would prohibit the import of timber that's been illegally logged and impose significant fines on anyone bringing it in. Timber products from ...
Tags: market view, illegal logging bill
A coalition of 17 advocacy groups filed complaints on Wednesday with the U.S.Federal Trade Commission against five prominent companies,including McDonald's,claiming that certain of their online marketing practices violate child privacy ...
Tags: privacy laws, McDonald, online privacy, children
Australia has moved to prohibit the importation of illegally logged timber with the passage of the Illegal Logging Prohibition Bill 2011. A lot of timber products used to build homes in Australia are unwittingly sourced from illegal ...
Tags: market view, timber
IDG News Service - The U.S. government lost a bid on Thursday to withhold some evidence in advance of the extradition hearing for four Megaupload defendants charged with criminal copyright infringement. The U.S. had asked for a judicial ...
Tags: Megaupload, Evidence, U.S.government
As the revised legislation of European Union (EU) Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) came into force from 13 August, the UK and other (EU) Member States have time until 14 February 2014 to bring themselves in line with the ...
Tags: laws, legislation, export of waste
Battle.net, the service that hosts videogames company Blizzard's massively multiplayer online game World of Warcraft, has come under attack from hackers, according to a security update on the game's website. Mike Morhaime, president and ...
Tags: Blizzard, Warcraft Game Servers, Mike Morhaime, SRP
The Department of Health's (DoH) financial exposure to its toxic contracts with troubled NHS supplier CSC has decreased by £100m in just three months. In CSC's latest quarterly results, the outsourcer estimated that if the NHS were ...
Tags: DoH, CSC, CSC Contracts, the NHS contract