Websites which revealed violations in Russia's legislative polls were inaccessible after a hacking attack their operators said was aimed at preventing the exposure of mass election fraud. Popular Russian radio station Moscow Echo and election monitoring group Golos said their websites were the victims of massive cyber attacks, while several opposition news sites were inaccessible.
A U.S. judge denied Apple's request for a preliminary injunction against four Samsung products that Cupertino claims infringes upon its patents. As a result, the Galaxy S 4G, Infuse 4G, Droid Charge, and Galaxy Tab 10.1 will remain on store shelves in the United States while the two companies continue their legal battle.
Workers fired or disciplined for bad-mouthing employers on social-networking sites are fighting back using a decades-old labor law — a new front in the murky battle over what workers can do and say online. In recent months, workers have sought to solve their very modern employment predicament by using the law that kick-started the U.S. labor movement: the National Labor Relations Act of 1935.
A bill that would restrict U.S. exports of technology that can be used by repressive regimes to censor the Internet or conduct surveillance on users will be introduced in the House soon. The sponsor, Rep. Chris Smith (R., N.J.), said the proposed legislation is in response to reports that some governments have used American products to crack down on dissidents.
A New York City dentist is being sued by a patient who says he is being fined $100 a day for posting negative reviews of his treatment on two consumer websites, according to the lawsuit. Robert Lee was compelled to sign a privacy agreement before the dentist, Stacy Makhnevich, would treat a painful infected cavity in his tooth in November 2010, said the class-action suit filed in Manhattan federal court.
There is no more influential business lobby group in the world than the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which boasts that its "core purpose is to fight for free enterprise" and "individual freedom." Which is why the Chamber's unflagging -- even unyielding -- support of a controversial copyright bill loathed by Silicon Valley might come as something of a surprise.
A senior Congressman said Amazon is dodging questions about how it's using what he called a "massive" trove of information collected from Kindle Fire users. In an October letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, U.S. Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass) asked for details on how Kindle Fire user data is collected, stored, and used. Amazon replied last month, but in a statement Markey said the answers were insufficient.
Facebook routinely gets itself in hot water over privacy issues, a problem that led to a settlement with federal regulators and an agreement that Facebook will undergo regular audits of its compliance with its privacy promises. But in Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's eyes, the company is a trailblazer. At a technology conference, she referred to Facebook as "the first innovator in privacy."
Research in Motion Ltd. said it is investigating claims by online hackers that they have been able to access some of the proprietary systems, software and tools that run the company's PlayBook tablet computer. Several hackers bragged in social-media posts that they were successful in "jail breaking" the PlayBook.
Amazon.com Inc. and eBay Inc. staked out opposing positions in testimonies before U.S. lawmakers on the issue of collecting sales tax from online purchases. The two largest e-commerce firms differ primarily on whether small businesses should be exempt from pending legislation that would require online retailers to collect taxes in states were they have no physical presence.
A U.S. judge has ordered Google, Yahoo, Twitter and Facebook, among others, to delist domain names linked to websites selling counterfeit goods. The case was brought by luxury goods maker Chanel against 600 sites which it had identified as trading in counterfeits.
The U.N. Development Program says that the user names and passwords of more than 100 email accounts posted online by a hackers group are no longer active and were extracted from an old server. Sausan Ghosheh, UNDP chief of external communications, said that the organization's current server has not been compromised, and no active passwords were on the list posted by the "Team Poison" hackers group.
Samsung Electronics Co is set to resume selling its Galaxy tablet computer in Australia as early as Friday, after the South Korean technology firm won a rare legal victory in a long-running global patent war with Apple Inc. An Australian federal court unanimously decided to lift a preliminary injunction, imposed by a lower court, on sales of Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 -- but granted Apple a stay on lifting the sales ban until Friday afternoon.
Mobile applications and games on popular smartphones and tablets — including Apple's iPhone and iPad and Android-based devices — will soon carry age-based ratings. The ratings that AT&T Wireless, Microsoft, Sprint, T-Mobile, U.S. Cellular and Verizon Wireless plan to use starting next year may look familiar to many. That's because they are based on those created for video games by the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) in 1994.
Facebook has settled charges with the Federal Trade Commission that it deceived users by telling them they could keep their information on Facebook private and then repeatedly making it public, according to the agency. The settlement of an eight-count complaint requires Facebook to warn users about privacy changes and to get their permission before sharing their information more broadly, according to the FTC.
Could a hacker from half-way around the planet control your printer and give it instructions so frantic that it could eventually catch fire? Or use a hijacked printer as a copy machine for criminals, making it easy to commit identity theft or even take control of entire networks that would otherwise be secure? It’s not only possible, but likely, say researchers at Columbia University, who claim they've discovered a new class of computer security flaws that could impact millions of businesses, consumers, and even government agencies.
Facebook Inc. took responsibility for what it said was a mistake that caused an address for the Facebook page of the German drug maker Merck KgaA to be used by its U.S.-based rival Merck & Co. The social-networking website blamed an "administrative error" for the problem.
French anti-racism groups dropped a lawsuit against Apple Inc. over an iPhone app called "Jew or not Jew?" after it was removed from circulation worldwide. Lawyer Stephane Lilti, representing four anti-racism associations, said the decision was "motivated by the removal of the application in all countries of the world."
Google’s deal to buy ad tech start-up Admeld, announced in June, looks like it is finally ready to close. Industry sources expect the Department of Justice, who had been reviewing the $400 million transaction for antitrust violations, to approve the deal in the next couple weeks.
The European Union wants to replace a mishmash of national laws on data protection with one bloc-wide reform, updating laws put in place long before Facebook and other social networking sites even existed. EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding said that social networks must become more open about how they operate.
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