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Article | 28/06/2010 German regulators welcome street panorama privacy law draft

German privacy regulators have welcomed a proposal to extend laws protecting Germans' right to privacy to cover use of their own image and that of the...

Article | 29/06/2010 Google's Chrome passes Safari in US browser share

Google Chrome is now the third-most-popular browser in the U.S., behind Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox, but ahead of Apple's Safa...

Article | 28/06/2010 ICANN board approves dot-XXX top-level domain for porn

Pornography will have its own top-level domain, dot-XXX, the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers decided Friday.

Article | 26/06/2010 Chinese language top-level domains win ICANN approval

Web site operators will be able to register domain names written entirely in Chinese characters, including the final characters to the right of the la...

Article | 25/06/2010 Business school swaps Google Apps for Microsoft Live@edu

A French business school plans to trade Google Apps, used by around half its staff and students, for Microsoft's rival Live@edu service.

Article | 22/06/2010 Toshiba parties with lighter laptop and Android smartbook

Toshiba has spent the last 25 years refining the basic laptop design of flat screen, x86 processor, full-size keyboard and removable storage. Its Port...

Article | 18/06/2010 Google Street View Wi-Fi data included passwords and e-mail

Wi-Fi traffic intercepted by Google's Street View cars included passwords and e-mail, according to the French National Commission on Computing and Lib...

Article | 15/06/2010 ViFiB wants you to host cloud computing at home

French hosting company ViFiB thinks it can save on expensive data center space by placing its servers in homes and offices with broadband Internet acc...

Article | 3/06/2010 EU legislators advise review of PVC, BFR use in electronics

The safety of some chemicals used by the electronics industry should be reviewed, members of the European Parliament's Environment Committee said on W...

Article | 31/05/2010 Bull bills Tera 100 as Europe's first petaflop computer

French server and services company Bull has just turned on a new supercomputer for the French Atomic Energy Authority (CEA) that it hopes will reach a...

Article | 20/05/2010 Google Street View faces investigation in France and Italy

Data protection authorities in France and Italy have joined Germany in investigating Google's Street View service, following the company's admission l...

Article | 13/05/2010 Appeals body ducks question of software patentability

No change: That's the result of an 18-monthlong appeals process that the president of the European Patent Office hoped would clarify the rules on whet...

Article | 30/04/2010 UN to buy 500,000 OLPC laptops for Palestinian children

The One Laptop Per Child Project delivered 2,100 laptops to a United Nations project in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, the largest deployment so far in a...

Article | 29/04/2010 ICANN approves first four internationalized country domains

ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, has approved the first four country-code domain names written in non-Latin script, it ...

Article | 23/04/2010 CenturyTel to buy Qwest for $10.6B

Telecommunications carrier CenturyTel has agreed to buy Qwest Communications International for around US$10.6 billion in stock. The merged company wil...