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Global cyber anti-garbage drive shifts into gear

Mar 23, 2012 (AFP)

Cyber-environmentalists said Friday 80 countries have joined the World Cleanup 2012 campaign which will see volunteers across the globe use the Internet to targ...

Apps could fence in free-range Internet: US study

Mar 23, 2012 (AFP)

The free-ranging Internet is under assault by mobile applications that connect people exclusively to content kept in "walled gardens" online, according to a US ...

Facebook blasts snooping employers

Mar 23, 2012 (AFP)

Facebook on Friday blasted employers that want to peer at what workers have posted on their personal accounts at the world's leading social network. Facebook ch...

Megaupload boss allowed $49,000 monthly expenses

Mar 22, 2012 (AFP)

A New Zealand court granted Megaupload boss Kim Dotcom NZ$60,000 ($49,000) a month in living expenses Thursday as he awaits a US bid to extradite him on online ...

Google making search smarter

Mar 15, 2012 (AFP)

Google says it is retooling its search machine to go beyond recognizing words in queries and begin understanding what it is people are asking for. The Californi...

US homeless turned into Wi-Fi hotspots at tech event

Mar 14, 2012 (AFP)

A global advertising firm used homeless people as roving Wi-Fi hotspots, sparking controversy among technology trendsetters at an interactive festival in the Un...

Yahoo! accuses Facebook of patent infringement

Mar 12, 2012 (AFP)

Yahoo! filed suit against Facebook in a California court on Monday accusing the social networking giant of infringing on 10 patents held by the Internet pioneer...

Communication technologies including smartphones and laptops could now be 1,000 times faster

Mar 12, 2012 (SPX)

Many of the communication tools of today rely on the function of light or, more specifically, on applying information to a light wave. Up until now, studies on ...

Cloud computing 'made in Germany' stirs debate at CeBIT

Mar 11, 2012 (AFP)

When it comes to cars or machines, "made in Germany" is seen worldwide as a sign of quality, but some firms are now extending it to "cloud computing", the buzzw...

Americans not fans of online targeted ads: survey

Mar 09, 2012 (AFP)

Most Americans are satisfied with their Internet search engines but they are not fans of targeted advertising, seeing it as an invasion of privacy, according to...

German Internet community cries foul over Google news law

Mar 08, 2012 (AFP)

Germany's Internet community, gathered at the world's biggest high-tech fair, was up in arms Thursday at a draft law forcing Google and other similar sites to p...

Senator seeks US probe of smartphone privacy

Mar 05, 2012 (AFP)

A leading US senator called Monday for a government probe into whether smartphone applications used on the Apple and Android platforms can steal private data in...

Graphene-based optical modulators poised to break speed limits in digital communications

Mar 05, 2012 (SPX)

In yet another astounding application of the "wonder material" graphene, scientists at the University of California, Berkeley discovered that it makes an excell...

Internet muscles in on world's biggest IT fair

Mar 05, 2012 (AFP)

Internet players are set to make a big splash at the world's biggest IT fair opening in Germany Monday, likely to widen the event's appeal from a traditional de...

Google boss lays out future vision at world's top tech fair

Mar 05, 2012 (AFP)

Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt cast a science-fiction vision of the future as the world's top tech fair opened Monday, with the German IT sector predi...

On the path to one terabit-per-second networks

Mar 05, 2012 (SPX)

As IP traffic continues to increase and the router interface rate extends beyond 100 gigabits-per-second (Gb/s), future optical networks-ones that would achieve...

Record-speed wireless data bridge demonstrated to take communications the last mile

Mar 05, 2012 (SPX)

A team of researchers in Germany has created a new way to overcome many of the issues associated with bringing high-speed digital communications across challeng...

Google rolls out new privacy policy amid howls

Mar 01, 2012 (AFP)

Google rolled out a new privacy policy Thursday allowing the firm to track users across various services to develop targeted advertising, despite sharp criticis...

Megaupload boss calls US charges 'malicious'

Mar 01, 2012 (AFP)

Megaupload boss Kim Dotcom on Thursday accused US authorities of mounting a "misleading and malicious" case against him, saying there was no way they could win ...

Megaupload boss to remain on bail in New Zealand

Feb 29, 2012 (AFP)

Megaupload boss Kim Dotcom won a legal battle to remain free on bail in New Zealand Wednesday but must reportedly wait to find out if funds will be released to ...