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Smartphone shoppers: watch for online tricks

Nov 21, 2012 (AFP)

Attention smartphone shoppers: watch for cybercriminals using phony apps or messages in an effort to hijack your device or steal your data. Law enforcement and ...

Google enters debate on UN Internet control

Nov 21, 2012 (AFP)

Google has jumped into the debate over a UN telecom gathering set to review regulations affecting the Internet, claiming it is "the wrong place" to make decisio...

Smartphone shoppers get savvy for holiday deals

Nov 21, 2012 (AFP)

Anyone with a smartphone can now be a savvy cybershopper for the holiday season. With mobile Internet and apps, it is easy for someone in a store to compare pri...

SciTechTalk: Is email privacy possible?

Nov 18, 2012 (UPI)

The ever-widening scandal that took down David Petraeus as the head of the CIA started simply enough when Paula Broadwell, with whom he was having an affair, cl...

Petraeus case fuels fresh debate on online privacy

Nov 14, 2012 (AFP)

The investigation that toppled CIA chief David Petraeus has sparked fresh debate over online privacy and the government's ability to snoop into private email ac...

Facebook stock climbs on backs of short-sellers

Nov 14, 2012 (AFP)

Facebook shares rose nearly 13 percent on Wednesday when insiders failed to flood the market with stock as expected and investors who sold the company short had...

US in tough debate on UN Internet rules

Nov 14, 2012 (AFP)

The US faces a tough debate with emerging nations such as India and Brazil at an upcoming UN conference discussing global rules for the Internet, the US delegat...

Official requests up for Web data: Google

Nov 13, 2012 (AFP)

Google said Tuesday the number of government requests to hand over data from users or to take down Web content rose in the first six months of 2012, extending a...

New lows for daily deals firm Groupon

Nov 09, 2012 (AFP)

Groupon shares plunged to their lowest level since the online deals giant went public a year ago, as analysts offered a harsh response to a disappointing earnin...

Zynga buys startup in move to more intense games

Nov 09, 2012 (AFP)

Zynga announced Friday its acquisition of the team at startup November Software as part of a move into "mid-core" games with more staying power than passing fad...

Priceline to buy rival travel site Kayak for $1.8 bn

Nov 08, 2012 (AFP)

Priceline has agreed to buy rival travel website Kayak in a stock-and-cash deal worth $1.8 billion, the companies said Thursday. Priceline Group president and c...

Gabon to suspend new Megaupload site

Nov 07, 2012 (AFP)

Gabon's government said Tuesday it was suspending the website www.me.ga, which Internet tycoon Kim Dotcom had planned to use to launch a new version of his defu...

Skype replaces Microsoft Messenger for online calls

Nov 06, 2012 (AFP)

Microsoft on Tuesday announced that recently-acquired Skype will replace its Messenger online chat service. "Skype and Messenger are coming together," Skype sai...

Russia to inform Google, YouTube of bans

Nov 06, 2012 (UPI)

Google and YouTube will receive updates regarding Internet sites and content banned within Russia, the country's communications oversight agency said. An agency...

Google gives search results more room

Nov 06, 2012 (AFP)

Google began Tuesday serving up revamped search pages that give results more room by shifting the tools menu to the top of the screen. The California-based Inte...

AOL rallies on results surprise

Nov 06, 2012 (AFP)

AOL said Tuesday it made a profit of $20.8 million in the third quarter as the struggling Internet firm stemmed a seven-year decline in revenues. AOL shares ral...

Megaupload boss plans relaunch on raid anniversary

Nov 01, 2012 (AFP)

Megaupload boss Kim Dotcom Thursday revealed plans to relaunch his file-sharing empire in January on the anniversary of his arrest in New Zealand on online pira...

US telecom networks take hit from Sandy

Oct 30, 2012 (AFP)

US telecom networks took a hit from superstorm Sandy, which knocked out some emergency call centers in the northeast, the Federal Communications Commission said...

Showdown set on bid to give UN control of Internet

Oct 29, 2012 (AFP)

It is expected to be the mother of all cyber diplomatic battles. When delegates gather in Dubai in December for an obscure UN agency meeting, fighting is expect...

US data, telecom networks face storm test

Oct 29, 2012 (AFP)

Hurricane Sandy's assault on the eastern United States is a major test of the key data and telecom networks that are needed to keep information flowing during s...