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Article | 5/07/2012 Wikileaks releases Syria Files, 2.4 million government related emails

Whistle-blowing site Wikileaks on Thursday released the Syria Files, a database of over 2.4 million emails to and from Syrian political figures, minis...

Article | 4/07/2012 Cars should automatically call for help after crashes, EU parliament says

By 2015, the European Parliament wants all new cars to automatically alert emergency services in case of a crash, a service known as eCall.

Article | 4/07/2012 CERN finds particle that resembles long-sought Higgs boson

CERN scientists announced on Wednesday that they observed a particle that strongly resembles the long-sought after Higgs boson, the final missing ingr...

Article | 3/07/2012 ICANN keeps control over IANA Internet root

The U.S. NTIA has awarded ICANN the mandate to manage the assignment of IP addresses and the management of top-level domains until September 2015, the...

Article | 3/07/2012 Decision on EU's unitary patent law postponed by European Parliament

The European Parliament has postponed Wednesday's vote on a new patent law it drafted jointly with the European Council because on Friday the Council ...

Article | 2/07/2012 Mozilla gains telco, phone manufacturer backing for Firefox mobile OS

Mozilla said Monday that it has named its forthcoming HTML5 mobile operating system Firefox OS, gained support for it from more telcos and found two d...

Article | 29/06/2012 Agreement on central court paves way for unitary EU patent system

Negotiations on the E.U.'s future unitary patent system were concluded on Friday by a decision on where the central division of the European Unified P...

Article | 29/06/2012 ICANN cancels Digital Archery program, has no immediate alternative

The Digital Archery contest, devised by ICANN to determine which gTLD applications would be handled first, was canceled on Thursday, the chair of the ...

Article | 28/06/2012 Report: Dutch government was unprepared for SSL hack

The Dutch government was unprepared to handle an SSL hack that caused the government's communication infrastructure to be vulnerable for months, the D...

Article | 27/06/2012 'Patent trolls' cost tech companies $29 billion last year, study says

Patent litigation caused by "non-practicing entities" (NPEs), better known as "patent trolls," cost U.S. software and hardware companies US$29 billion...

Article | 27/06/2012 Open source webOS Community Edition released for TouchPads

Hewlett-Packard has released an open source version of webOS that can be used on legacy TouchPad tablets, the Open webOS project team announced on Tue...

Article | 26/06/2012 EURid presents YADIFA, a new DNS server for large organizations

EURid, the registry for the .eu domain, has developed a new open source DNS (domain name server) called YADIFA as an alternative to existing DNS softw...

Article | 25/06/2012 ICANN suspends Digital Archery contest for gTLD program

ICANN has suspended the Digital Archery contest part of its new Generic Top-level Domain (gTLD) Program, which was destined to decide which gTLD appli...

Article | 22/06/2012 Danish ISPs agree to move in concert to block rights-infringing content

Danish ISPs have agreed that if one service provider is ordered by a court to block a website or copyrighted content, all ISPs will do the same, the D...

Article | 21/06/2012 Google project aims to document endangered languages

Google has cooperated with universities and linguistic organizations to begin documenting approximately 3,500 languages that are at risk of disappeari...