In a rare victory for Google and Yahoo Argentina, an appeals court has cleared the companies of defamation for including sex-related Web sites in their search results for an Argentine entertainer. The appeals court overturned a lower-court ruling that had found the companies liable for defaming the entertainer, Virginia Da Cunha.
EarthLink Inc. is coming out again against the proposed $30 billion merger of Comcast Corp. and NBC Universal. The Internet service provider filed at the Federal Communications Commission a response to the opposition of applicants to conditions proposed in the Comcast-NBCU merger.
A dozen music organizations have joined with the Recording Industry Association of America in pressing Google and Verizon to incorporate strong copyright protections and anti-piracy provisions in their joint proposal for preserving Internet openness.
Two groups supporting strong network neutrality rules protested a new round of compromise talks involving technology and telecommunications companies by saying the talks don't include organizations representing consumers.
McAfee's fourth annual list of the "most dangerous celebrities to search for" on the Internet places Cameron Diaz at No. 1. The company says searching for the "latest Cameron Diaz pictures and downloads yields a 10 percent chance of landing on a website that's tested positive for online threats, such as spyware, adware, spam, phishing, viruses and other malware."
Moments after Facebook introduced a new feature called Facebook Places that allows its users to share their location and find their friends, advocates raised flags over online privacy. The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California cited concerns over the new product, saying Facebook neglected to include several crucial privacy features.
Internet and telecommunications lobbyists restarted talks to develop a proposal for how Internet traffic should be managed. The new discussions are being led by industry lobbyists and began at the offices of the Information Technology Industry Council, a Washington-based lobbying group that represents dozens of tech companies.
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said six companies will pay $10.1 million of fines and restitution after hundreds of thousands of consumers were tricked into joining discount clubs that carried hidden fees. Cuomo said shoppers who bought goods online would often get cash-back and discount offers from marketers and accept them without realizing they were agreeing to join fee-based programs and hand over credit and debit card information, because these obligations were buried in the fine print.
A brainy beauty wants to expose the creep who slimed her as a "whore" on YouTube. Carla Franklin, a former model with degrees from Duke and Columbia, is going after Google in an attempt to unmask the cyberbully who talked trash about her under three aliases on the company's wildly popular video-sharing site.
Security firm Sophos recently discovered a new clickjacking scam on Facebook that spreads via the social network's "share" feature and could be costing you $5 a week. The new scam uses the "Share" feature that posts content to your profile wall where your friends are encouraged to click on it.
Technology can also be harnessed to combat online bullies. Many tools can help you find and remove hurtful content, stop abusive contact and, increasingly, tackle wayward conduct.
The website WikiLeaks says the U.S. military has expressed willingness to help review the second batch of secret Afghan war documents it plans to publish, but the Pentagon insists there has been no such contact. Defense Department spokesman Bryan Whitman said the Pentagon has had no direct contact with WikiLeaks and is not interested in helping the group eliminate sensitive information from the documents to post them online.
The U.S. government has welcomed North Korea's jump onto Twitter and challenged the country to let its citizens see the recently created account. "We use Twitter to connect, to inform, and to debate. We welcome North Korea to Twitter and the networked world," wrote Philip Crowley, a state department spokesman on his Twitter account. Read the article: The New York Times
Federal prosecutors have, despite public opinion and, arguably, common sense, decided not to file any criminal charges against a suburban Philadelphia school district after an investigation of its use of webcams. U.S. Attorney Zane David Memeger says "investigators have found no evidence of criminal intent," the reason for the lack of a further investigation.
A hack attack that can expose users to malware exploits has infected more than one million web pages, at least two of which belong to Apple. The SQL injection attacks bombard the websites of legitimate companies with database commands that attempt to add hidden links that lead to malware exploits.
Talks between the United Arab Emirates and Canada's Research In Motion may soon resolve a spat over BlackBerry security, two UAE diplomats said. The UAE, where RIM has 500,000 users, has said it would suspend BlackBerry Messenger, email and Web browser services from October 11 until the government could get access to encrypted messages.
Spain has become the latest country to launch an investigation into the collection of sensitive wi-fi data by Google. A Google representative has now been summoned to appear before a judge in Madrid on 4 October.
Cybersquatting has come to Chicago, making an especially biting appearance in a Cook County political race. Forrest Claypool, the independent candidate for assessor, launched JoeBerrios.com, a website with the name of his Democratic opponent.
As many as five million Web sites hosted by Network Solutions have been serving up malware, probably for several months, a security expert said. "This is one of the biggest infections for drive-by download attacks that I've seen," said Wayne Huang, co-founder and CTO of Santa Clara, Calif.-based Armorize Technologies, a Web application security company.
Research In Motion has assured India of limited access to BlackBerry instant messages by September 1, and promised talks on monitoring its more secure corporate email, a government source said. RIM faces an August 31 deadline to give authorities the means to track and read BlackBerry Enterprise email and its separate BlackBerry Messenger service.
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