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10:43 PM, Feb 11, 2012
Vienna: US social media group Facebook seems ready to publish categories of data it collects from users, an Austrian student group lobbying for stricter privacy rules said on Tuesday. Facebook had agreed in December to overhaul privacy protection for more than half a billion users outside North America after a three-month investigation found that its privacy policies were overly complex and lacked transparency. "This (data) access issue as well as...
05:57 PM, Feb 07, 2012
New York: About a year ago, when it became clear that taking Facebook Inc public was a matter of when not if, Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg went out and poached Caroline Everson, then global advertising head at Microsoft Corp. Landing an executive with Everson's pedigree was a coup - prior to Microsoft, she was a top advertising executive at Viacom Inc's MTV Networks and at Walt Disney Co. The...
09:10 AM, Feb 06, 2012
London: Internet service providers should do more to prevent the web from playing a role in promoting violent extremism, British lawmakers said in a report published on Monday. The Internet has become an important factor in nurturing the extremist threat, surpassing universities and prisons as a place where dangerous ideas are developed and traded, the lawmakers said. "We remain concerned by the growing support for nonviolent extremism and more extreme...
08:22 AM, Feb 06, 2012
New Delhi: With rising Internet penetration and adoption of mobile devices across the country, companies selling products and services through websites are looking at smaller cities for expanding business. "Non-metros play a vital role in the growth of e-commerce segment in the country primarily due to ease of purchase...The convenience of shopping online and access to the best international brands is driving this growth among non-metro markets," says Mukesh Bansal,...
01:20 PM, Feb 05, 2012
New York: Three days before Super Bowl XLVI, US prosecutors said they seized 16 websites that illegally streamed live sports and pay-per-view events over the Internet, and charged a Michigan man with running nine of those websites. According to the government, the 16 websites provided links to give viewers easy access to other sites that hosted pirated telecasts from the National Football League, National Basketball Association, National Hockey League, World...
11:01 AM, Feb 03, 2012
Beijing: American search engine Google chose to apply for license to operate in China, agreeing to abide by all the conditions imposed by the government here after its share in the burgeoning Chinese market declined to 9 per cent. Since last year, Google has seen its share of the online mapping market shrink below 10 per cent while that its local rival Baidu Inc soared to 61 per cent, official...
04:06 PM, Feb 02, 2012
New Delhi: Global online shopping giant Amazon.com today launched a new service for Indian consumers, claiming to offer 1.2 crore products from both local and international retailers. "We are announcing a new online shopping service for consumers in India. It is an aggregation service that offers 1.2 crore products along with product information, reviews, pricing and shipping time details that help consumers to make purchase decisions," Amazon.com Vice-President Amit Agarwal...
03:43 PM, Feb 02, 2012
New Delhi: In the face of ongoing pressure from different governments on Google to censor content on the many services that the search engine giant operates, Google is taking a middle path. Google's popular blogging platform Blogger has started to redirect blogs to localised domains, also known as country-code top level domain (ccTLD). This means that if you are accessing a blog hosted on Google's Blogger service, it will redirect...
04:05 PM, Feb 01, 2012
The Delhi Education Minister has taken note of the CNN-IBN expose showing schools flouting norms in nursery admissions. ...
02:26 PM, Feb 01, 2012
Dana Point: Twitter CEO Dick Costolo sought to calm the global outrage over the company's new country-by-country censorship policy, complaining in part that the issue is being treated with the same kind of shorthand that has made Twitter popular. Speaking at the All Things D conference on Monday, Costolo repeated the company's justification for the policy change it announced last week: By taking down tweets only in the country where...
02:29 PM, Jan 31, 2012
Washington: The US federal government's plan to expand computer security protections into critical parts of private industry is raising concerns that the move will threaten Americans' civil liberties. In a report for release Friday, The Constitution Project warns that as the Obama administration partners more with the energy, financial, communications and health care industries to monitor and protect networks, sensitive personal information of people who work for or communicate with...
02:32 PM, Jan 28, 2012
Washington: A leading lawmaker on privacy issues said on Thursday he would ask for a probe into whether recently announced changes in how Google handles consumer data violated an agreement it made with the US Federal Trade Commission. Representative Edward Markey was also one of eight US lawmakers who sent a letter to Google expressing concern that a planned consolidation of user information may make it more difficult for consumers...
01:59 PM, Jan 27, 2012
Sydney: FileSonic, a website providing online data storage, has disabled its file sharing services following a US-led crackdown on a rival website and amid heated debate over Washington's attempts to clamp down on online piracy. While Uploaded.to, reportedly, has blocked US traffic. However, it remains accessible elsewhere in the world. According to Slashgear, a weblog devoted to consumer electronics and technology, "if you attempt to access Uploaded.to from a US...
02:14 PM, Jan 23, 2012
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