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Article | 16/10/2012 Ericsson readies Wi-Fi system optimized for sports stadiums

Ericsson has unveiled a Wi-Fi access point and controller for offloading cellular traffic in densely populated areas such as stadiums. Its goal is to ...

Article | 15/10/2012 Canadian, German data protection watchdogs join forces

The German and Canadian data protection commissioners signed an agreement on Monday that aims to ensure people's digital privacy will be better protec...

Article | 12/10/2012 ICANN to replace Digital Archery program with gTLD domain raffle

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has proposed holding an old-fashioned raffle to determine which applications for new top-level...

Article | 11/10/2012 Facebook, Gmail, Skype conversations monitored and decoded by German police

The German police have been monitoring social media and email services for years, an overview of expenditures by the Federal Ministry of the Interior ...

Article | 11/10/2012 Microsoft alleges Motorola's Android phones infringe its mapping patent

Microsoft is suing Motorola Mobility in Germany over a mapping patent that Microsoft alleges covers the Google Maps app that ships on Motorola phones....

Article | 9/10/2012 More regulation only way to stop social networks learning more than we wish, says researcher

Online social networks are gathering information about their users that those people never intended to disclose, and government regulation may be the ...

Article | 8/10/2012 Medical privacy threatened by loophole in draft EU data protection law, professor warns

A "huge loophole" is being carved in the European Union's upcoming data protection regulation, according Ross Anderson, a professor of security engine...

Article | 8/10/2012 Online life after death faces legal uncertainty

When people die in the real world, their online alter egos may live on, creating an unusual situation for those who only knew them through their onlin...

Article | 5/10/2012 Microsoft denied 4th sales ban against Motorola in Germany

Motorola Mobility does not infringe a Microsoft radio interface patent, the lower regional court of Mannheim ruled on Friday, denying Microsoft anothe...

Article | 4/10/2012 Two startups race to offer pan-European chip-and-PIN transactions on mobile phones

Smartphone card payments startup Payleven will start accepting chip-and-PIN transactions in Europe from Oct. 15, enabling small and medium-size busine...

Article | 3/10/2012 Samsung claims jury misconduct, demands retrial against Apple

The foreman of the jury that recently handed Apple a US$1 billion patent victory over Samsung Electronics was untruthful and biased, the South Korean ...

Article | 3/10/2012 Swedish police confiscated three servers during raid on former Pirate Bay host

Swedish police confiscated three servers allegedly connected to copyright infringements during a raid on PRQ, a hosting service that was once home to ...

Article | 2/10/2012 Former Pirate Bay hoster raided by police, goes down amidst DDoS-attack

Former Pirate Bay host PRQ.se went down in the middle of a police raid on Monday, affecting hundreds of hosted sites and thousands of users of PRQ's o...

Article | 28/09/2012 Apple-Samsung's Dutch court date exasperates panel of judges

In the face of an Apple demand for a sales ban on its Android products, Samsung told a Dutch court on Friday that in fact it has already changed the p...

Article | 26/09/2012 Norway ends nine-month ban on Google Apps use by city authorities

After nine months of deliberations and some changes on Google's side, the Norwegian Data Protection Authority lifted a ban on the use of Google Apps b...