The European Commission's top antitrust official said that he is closely examining allegations of anticompetitive behavior related to Internet search services. In a speech at an e-commerce antitrust conference in London, Joaquin Almunia, the commission's vice president for competition policy, did not specifically name Google, but the Internet search and advertising firm was the subject of antitrust complaints filed in February by three Internet competitors.
The federal government is launching an expansive program dubbed "Perfect Citizen" to detect cyber assaults on private companies and government agencies running such critical infrastructure as the electricity grid and nuclear-power plants, according to people familiar with the program.
The Obama administration's push to curb distracted driving is raising concerns in the electronics industry about how far the government will go to restrict the use of electronic gadgets in cars. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, who has called for a federal ban on texting-while-driving, said that his campaign against distracted driving is focused on cell phones, and that the administration hasn't developed a policy on hands-free phones and other devices found in vehicles.
The re-election campaign of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has taken down a Web site it launched showing his Republican competitor's controversial views on many issues after receiving a "cease and desist" letter from her campaign.
An Army intelligence analyst serving in Iraq has been charged with leaking classified information, including a controversial video shown on the website WikiLeaks of a 2007 Apache helicopter attack that killed 12 civilians in Baghdad. Pfc. Bradley E. Manning, 22, was charged with improperly downloading the video, 150,000 State Department cables and a classified PowerPoint presentation to his personal computer between November and May, according to a charge sheet released by the Army in Baghdad.
Apple said it has taken steps to remedy a situation that arose over the weekend with one of its iPhone developers, who it said used other people's iTunes accounts to purchase his apps. "The developer Thuat Nguyen and his apps were removed from the App Store for violating the developer Program License Agreement, including fraudulent purchases," Apple said in an e-mail.
Though it faces budget shortfalls and holes in its pension system, Greece has withdrawn a proposed levy on Internet advertising that aimed to finance the retirement of journalists working in online media. Succumbing to intense lobbying from media companies and advertisers, the government withdrew its plans for a 21.5 percent tax on the Internet ad revenue of news Web sites based in Greece.
Seven Senate leaders urged President Obama to support planned legislation designed to protect critical information technology systems from attacks. In a letter to Obama, the senators said they plan to produce a comprehensive cybersecurity bill, although they did not specify a timeframe.
YouTube has been forced to fix a flaw allowing hackers to bombard users with fake pop-up messages and redirect them to adult sites. Hackers placed code in the comments section, under targeted videos, that would run when people watched the clip.
A man has been fined £3,000 and ordered to carry out 250 hours community service after fixing an online auction on eBay. Paul Barrett, 39 and from County Durham, became the first person to be convicted of shill bidding in April.
A rogue Vietnamese developer called Thuat Nguyen reportedly hacked into iTunes accounts and gamed the Books category in the Apple App Store to artificially inflate the ratings and sales for his book apps. Both The Next Web and Engadget websites reported that Nguyen apps accounted for 42 of the top 50 books by revenue in the Books section of the iTunes App Store.
Howard Schmidt, the nation’s cyberczar, offered the Obama administration’s proposal to make the Web a safer place -- a "voluntary trusted identity" system that would be the high-tech equivalent of a physical key, a fingerprint and a photo ID card, all rolled into one. The system might use a smart identity card, or a digital credential linked to a specific computer, and would authenticate users at a range of online services.
After years of headlines and horror stories about predators, cyberbullies and other dangers to children online, a crop of subscription services has emerged to help parents monitor their child’s activities on social networks. These start-ups aim to distinguish themselves from the older category of software products that sit on a user’s hard drive, primarily to block various Web sites.
The Internet has made Stuart Lawley a wealthy man. Now he's poised to make his next fortune selling Internet addresses to pornographers.
A report released by Symantec Hosted Services, a unit of security-software maker Symantec, found that as much as one-fourth of all global spam sent since March has been related to the world soccer tournament. No wonder: Hundreds of millions of fans around the world are glued to TVs, watching World Cup matches.
A coalition of child advocates and health, consumer and privacy groups urged the FTC to update a 1998 law aimed at protecting children's privacy online to include the use of new devices such as mobile phones and gaming devices to get on the Internet.
Apple has been sued by iPhone customers in at least three complaints related to antenna problems on its newest model. A putative class action filed in the U.S. District court for the Northern District of California against Apple and AT&T -- the iPhone's exclusive wireless carrier in the United States -- includes allegations of fraud by concealment, negligence, intentional misrepresentation and defective design.
Frat parties and free music have been among the perks of attending college in the United States during the past decade. But now the days of using fat campus bandwidth to download movies and music via file-sharing networks appear to be coming to an end.
The European Commission announced that it has launched an examination into the issue of network neutrality that will look at such issues as whether Internet service providers should be allowed to adopt network management practices that prioritize certain types of content over others.
Google's move to assuage China by severing a direct Internet link to an uncensored companion search site in Hong Kong could buy the company a reprieve from losing its operating license, but in the long run, Chinese officials will not tolerate efforts to expand Internet freedom if that threatens the regime, analysts said.
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