The Saudi Arabian government is objecting to a number of proposed new Internet address endings, including .gay, .bar, .baby and .islam. The country claims the .gay domain would promote homosexuality and would be offensive to "many societies and cultures."
Google, the target of more than a hundred patent lawsuits in the past decade, has expanded the scope of its patent search capabilities and added a new search tool to help those investigating patent claims. To its database of patents filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office -- a separate search service when introduced in 2006 and recently integrated with Google Search -- Google has added patents filed with the European Patent Office.
An executive at Gamma Group, a British company that sells surveillance technologies, denied that a spyware program running on servers in 11 countries is part of his company’s product line. Gamma Group makes FinFisher, spyware that, according to the company’s promotional materials, can be “used to access target systems, giving full access to stored information with the ability to take control of the target system’s functions to the point of capturing encrypted data and communications.”
The U.N. telecoms agency has invited the world's more than 2 billion Internet users to join a debate about the future of the Internet. The Geneva-based International Telecommunications Union's announcement follows criticism from civil society groups who say preparations for an upcoming global conference have been shrouded in secrecy.
Data protection officials in Germany reopened an investigation into Facebook ’s facial recognition technology, saying that the social networking giant was illegally compiling a huge database of members’ photos without their consent. The data protection commissioner in Hamburg, Johannes Caspar, had suspended the inquiry in June, but said he reopened it after attempts to persuade Facebook to change its policies had failed.
The judge presiding over an intellectual property dispute between Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. said the chief executive officers of the contending companies should talk again before the jury begins deliberating. “I’m going to make one more request that CEOs from both sides speak by phone,” U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh said in federal court in San Jose, California.
The blogging platform of the Reuters News website was hacked and a false posting saying Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal had died was illegally posted on a Reuters journalist's blog, the company said. Reuters had no immediate information on who was behind the hacking, the second time this month that the blogging platform of Reuters.com has been compromised.
A lawsuit filed in a federal court in California says Hulu violated its users’ privacy by sharing their viewing history with companies that could in turn offer them tailored advertisements. The case rests on a 1988 law, the Video Privacy Protection Act, intended to protect the privacy of video rental records.
Five days after a computer security firm disclosed the discovery of Gauss, a computer virus targeting computers in Lebanon, they issued a cry for help. Among Gauss’s most puzzling components is an encrypted “warhead” that watches for a specific computer system with no Internet connection and installs itself only if it finds that configuration.
Samsung went on the offensive in its patent feud with Apple, putting one of its leading designers on the witness stand to deny copying the iPhone's icons when Samsung was developing the graphics for its first Galaxy smartphones. Jeeyuen Wang's testimony was the first time Samsung put one of its own key figures on the stand to rebut Apple's allegations that Samsung deliberately copied its iPhones and iPads.
The erroneous filing of three documents under the wrong companies’ tickers on the Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd. news website on Aug. 12 may have been caused by hackers, the printing company involved said. An unidentified person or people uploaded several documents without authorization, A.Plus Financial Press Ltd. said in an e- mailed statement.
An appeals court said Google could challenge the ruling of Judge Denny Chin that allowed authors affected by the company's book-scanning project to sue as a group. James Grimmelmann, a professor at New York Law School who has closely followed the litigation over Google Book Search, said it was unlikely that the decision would delay the main case.
In South Korea, a nation so threatened by Lady Gaga that it barred fans under age 18 from attending a concert, the thought of unlimited opportunities for Internet users to swear in “public,” view illegal pornography and challenge authority has proved profoundly unsettling. The whittling away of hard-won freedoms is especially troubling, activists say, because the social media have become the newest outlets for rebellion, replacing the street battles of the 1980s that forced the end of decades of dictatorship.
Etsy is a haven for homemade goods, but the online shopping site clarified that its stores are not the place to be selling drug paraphernalia and other questionable material. The company said it has spent several months researching "some offbeat and fascinating topics" -- like the sale of human bones to the corrosive and toxic properties of mercury -- which prompted Etsy to update the site's Prohibited Items list.
Apple Inc licensed its prized design patents to Microsoft Corp but with an "anti-cloning agreement" to prevent copying of its iPhone and iPad , an Apple executive said. The testimony from Apple patent licensing director Boris Teksler came in one of the most closely watched technology trials in years.
As more patient records go digital, a recent hacker attack on a small medical practice shows the big risks involved with electronic files. The Surgeons of Lake County, located in the affluent northern Illinois suburb of Libertyville, revealed last month that hackers had burrowed deeply into its computer network, infiltrating a server where e-mails and electronic medical records were stored.
In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, Fox network claims that a startup called BarryDriller (Barrydriller.com) violates its copyrights and trademarks by streaming its LA station KTTV's signal without permission. The site is run by eccentric provocateur Alki David and its name is most likely a reference to Aereo, the TV streaming service whose backers include media mogul Barry Diller.
On Google's blog, the company outlined a new measure designed at penalizing sites that generate too many complaints from copyright owners. "We will begin taking into account a new signal in our rankings: the number of valid copyright removal notices we receive for any given site," Google said in the blog post.
The Federal Trade Commission gave the final approval to a settlement of federal charges reached last year over Facebook Inc deceiving consumers and forcing them to share more personal information than they had intended. The settlement requires Facebook to get user consent for some changes to privacy settings and subjects the social networking site to 20 years of independent audits.
Facebook announced that it has set up an email account that will accept user reports of phishing attempts. Going forward, users can forward any bogus emails to phish@fb.com.
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