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Article | 12/11/2012 Pirate Bay co-founder now suspected of serious fraud and another data intrusion

Swedish authorities now suspects Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg of serious fraud and another data intrusion in addition to the alleged ...

Article | 2/11/2012 Firefox to force secure connections for selected domains

Mozilla introduced a pre-loaded list of domains for Firefox that only can be connected to securely in order to help protect the privacy and security o...

Article | 1/11/2012 UK governments must comply with open standards

All governmental bodies in the U.K. must now comply with open standards to prevent vendor lock-in and stimulate interoperability of government IT, the...

Article | 31/10/2012 Two major Dutch banks to introduce contactless debit cards

Major Dutch banks ING and ABN Amro will introduce MasterCard PayPass contactless payment cards to their customers by mid-2013, making the Netherlands ...

Article | 31/10/2012 Microsoft's browser choice error may have cost Firefox 9 million downloads, Mozilla says

Daily Firefox downloads decreased by 63 percent during the nearly 15 months that Microsoft failed to show users of Windows 7 Service Pack 1 a court-ma...

Article | 30/10/2012 Smartphone card payments startup iZettle to expand its territory to Germany

Swedish smartphone card payments startup iZettle will expand its territory to Germany by partnering with Deutsche Telekom and the German DZ Bank.

Article | 30/10/2012 France could start taxing Google for republishing news snippets, president warns

France may introduce a law to make Google pay to republish news snippets if it doesn't strike a deal with French news publishers before the end of the...

Article | 29/10/2012 Privacy International warns of public transit card hazards

Public transportation companies and authorities in the U.S., Canada and South Africa hand over private information about travelers gathered by electro...

Article | 26/10/2012 Burda raises stake and bids for rest of Xing, 'LinkedIn of Germany'

German publisher Burda Digital has increased its stake in professional social network Xing to 38.89 percent, triggering a disclosure requirement and a...

Article | 26/10/2012 Apple increases App Store prices in Europe

Apple has increased the prices of apps sold through its iTunes App Store in Europe because of exchange rate changes, it said on Friday. The minimum pr...

Article | 25/10/2012 New levies on smartphones and tablets must compensate for Dutch home copying

Buyers of smartphones, tablets and MP3 players must pay a levy of up to €5 (US$6.5) in the Netherlands as of January 2013 to compensate for loss of in...

Article | 24/10/2012 EU antitrust regulator files complaint against Microsoft for breaching browser choice order

The European Commission has made a formal statement of objections to Microsoft over the company's failure to fulfill its commitment to offer Windows u...

Article | 24/10/2012 Samsung does not infringe on Apple's multitouch patent, Dutch court rules

Samsung's Galaxy devices don't infringe on an Apple multitouch patent that describes technology that prevents smartphone users from pushing two on-scr...

Article | 23/10/2012 Apple's 'overscroll bounce' patent tentatively declared invalid in the US

One of the seven patents at the heart of Apple's US$1.05 billion lawsuit against Samsung Electronics has been tentatively rejected by the U.S. Patent ...

Article | 17/10/2012 Facebook prepares to use 'cold storage' to deal with vast amounts of data

Facebook is rethinking the way it stores data to cope with the 7 petabytes of new photos the social network's users upload every month. As the number ...