Over the weekend Sony's ailing Playstation Network was finally resuscitated and brought back online, to the delight of its long-suffering users. The network had been offline for over three weeks after Sony took it down and was forced to rebuild it from the ground up in response to a massive security breach, which saw the personal details of over 100 million users lifted by hackers.
On Monday Google unveiled its latest efforts in its quest for local relevance by announcing its new mobile "News Near You" feature for smartphones.
As the name indicates, the new capability attempts to bring Google News users the latest from their surrounding location on their...
On Monday Google unveiled its latest efforts in its quest for local relevance by announcing its new mobile "News Near You" feature for smartphones.
As the name indicates, the new capability attempts to bring Google News users the latest from their surrounding location on their...
A spat over data privacy that has been rumbling on between social network Facebook and search giant Google has today erupted into a Tom Clancy-esque game of subterfuge, after The Daily Beast pinned down the source of anti-Google stories planted in the press as none other than Mark Zuckerberg's baby.
The world's tech press, fickle bunch that they are, have moved on from bashing Sony over the continued outage of the company's Playstation Network and Qriocity services, and are currently drooling over Google's latest and greatest at the I/O 2011 conference in San Francisco.
It would seem that Sony wasn't content with losing only 77 million users' details, and has now smashed the 100 million mark with another leak of personal information, this time through Sony Online Entertainment, a game development house specialising in online RPGs such as EverQuest and Star Wars Galaxies.
The death of mobile “check-in” services is often hotly debated in industry circles; but while Facebook Places may have flopped and services like Foursquare/Gowalla et all look to expand their business models into something monetizable, other firms are already creating LBS value and making...
Economic Times | March 29, 2011 | Joji Thomas Philip
NEW DELHI: The United States government will seek changes in India's policies on telecom security and encryption in its next meeting with the telecoms department officials here, an executive aware of the development told ET.
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Economic Times | March 29, 2011 | Joji Thomas Philip
NEW DELHI: The United States government will seek changes in India's policies on telecom security and encryption in its next meeting with the telecoms department officials here, an executive aware of the development told ET.
Also on...
Although Google Inc. may be frying bigger fish right now, the Federal Trade Commission has just announced they have reached a settlement with Google over the search giant's bungled launch of Buzz last year. The agreement stipulates that Google must submit to independent privacy audits for the next 20 years in order to make sure they do not violate privacy policies again.
The Economic Times | March 22, 2011 | Deepshikha Sikarwar
NEW DELHI: The income tax authorities will need to go through another layer of scrutiny before they are allowed permission to listen to private phone conversation.
All requests for phone tapping of tax offenders or those...
Sydney Morning Herald | January 10, 2010 | Lucy Battersby
THE privacy commissioner will investigate the way Vodafone handles customer data after reports that private information was easily accessible to outsiders.
Vodafone is looking for the people who breached its customer database.
More stories have emerged of...
