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Google Likely To Wriggle Out Of Anti-Trust Probe
Google is believed to be close to reaching a settlement with US anti-trust investigators that would allow the search engine to escape heavy punishment in return for an agreement not to scrape content for its own sites and indexes, and to operate more “transparently”. The agreement, which was revealed this weekend by Bloomberg and reflects ...
Big Data Takes Us One Step Closer To A Big Brother State
A major investigation by the Wall Street Journal has revealed how the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) has been given permission to access a vast database containing thousands of US citizen’s personal information, raising concerns that the country has just taken another huge step towards becoming a total big brother state. You can read the article ...
US Votes “No” To UN Internet Treaty
The US government has stated that it will not endorse the UN’s telecommunications treaty due to the inclusion of provisions related to internet regulation. “It is with a heavy heart and a sense of missed opportunities that the U.S. must communicate that it is not able to sign the agreement in the current form,” U.S. ...
New Mac Malware Disguises Itself as OS X Installer, Targets Cellphones
You might’ve thought that by owning an Apple Mac your chances of being infected by malware are pretty low. Well, sorry to disappoint all you fanbois out there, but it would seem that this particular threat has reared its ugly head on the Apple machine for the first time. The Russian security vendor Doctor Web ...
Juniper Snatches Up SDN Startup Contrail Systems for $176M
Juniper has disclosed its plans to acquire Contrail Systems, a software-defined networking (SDN) startup, for a deal worth around $176 million in cash and stocks. The move was revealed in an SEC filing made by Juniper, followed by a short blog post confirming it. Juniper says that it should close on the deal by the ...
Google Zeitgeist and Facebook ‘Year In Review” Show Top Web Trends For 2012
We’ve already seen Twitter coming out early with its own list of top trends, and now both Google and Facebook have come up with their own takes on our online activity over the last 12 months, with the release of this year’s Google Zeitgeist and Facebook’s new ‘Year in Review’ feature. Google’s 12th Annual Zeitgeist ...
Would You Buy A Russian-Made, Dual-Screen Smartphone?
Let’s be honest here, smartphone innovation has become a bit stale in recent months. Granted, we’ve seen lots of new devices with new ideas in recent months, including Windows 8 phones, larger displays, edge-to-edge screens, LTE, bla bla bla… but aside from these new features, they all look and feel pretty much the same. So ...
Team GhostShell’s Great Christmas Giveaway: 1.6 Million Public Records Dumped
Hacktivist collective Team GhostShell delivered its Christmas presents well ahead of schedule yesterday, celebrating the upcoming festivities by leaking more than a million public agency records stolen from organizations including NASA, the European Space Agency, the FBI and others. The latest high profile dump was done in the name of #ProjectWhiteFox, a movement that claims ...
MediaTek Enters Mobile Quad-Core Arena with MT6589 System-on-a-Chip
MediaTek has just made its first entry into the emerging mobile quad-core chip market with the release of its new MT6589 quad-core system-on-a-chip (SoC), which comes with a fully integrated modem supporting HSPA+ and other standards. The Taiwanese firm’s decision means that it will be taking on the likes of Samsung and Nvidia in one ...
Big Brother’s Big Data – So You Thought You Were Safe? Think Again…
Electronic privacy is a bit of a thorny issue at the moment, what with the whole scandal surrounding former FBI Director David Petraeus still fresh in our minds. So what better time than now to take a look at some of the more ‘sinister’ ways in which the government - or someone else - might ...