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Article | 29/10/2010 IT worker gets prison after stealing data for online surveys
A former IT staffer has been sentenced to a year and a day in prison for stealing sensitive information belonging to his co-workers and using the data...
Article | 29/10/2010 E-voting: How secure is it?
Election fraud and vote tampering is as old as government. Before the American Revolution, most voting was done by voice. Voters would call out their ...
Article | 29/10/2010 Italy opens investigation into Google data gathering
Italian prosecutors have opened an investigation into Google for allegedly violating the country's privacy laws through the data collected for the Int...
Article | 26/10/2010 Third trial to begin in $1.92M music piracy case
A third trial is set to begin in a bitter, closely watched legal battle between Minnesota native Jammie Thomas-Rasset and the Recording Industry Assoc...
Article | 26/10/2010 Apple joins Google in counterattack against Paul Allen lawsuit
Apple last week joined forces with Google, Facebook, Yahoo and others in an effort to dismiss patent infringement charges brought by billionaire Micro...
Article | 21/10/2010 Google: 2.9 per cent of German households shun Street View
Close to 250,000 German households have requested that Google scrub their homes from its Street View imagery program as the company nears launching th...
Article | 22/10/2010 NASA wants to run space missions, not data centers
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is backing open source cloud computing with a long-term goal in mind: to get out of the data ...
Article | 20/10/2010 Spain moves to fine Google over Street View
The Spanish Data Protection Agency is preparing to fine Google over infractions against local data protection laws when it collected Wi-Fi data as par...
Article | 19/10/2010 New online database to help companies secure government work
Companies bidding for government business in the E.U. will soon be able to use a new Web-based tool to simplify the paperwork associated with their pr...
Article | 19/10/2010 MoD fighting cost overruns with in-house project management
The Ministry of Defence overspent by £3.3 billion last year, and turned to project management software to help control its costs.
Article | 19/10/2010 UK lists cybersecurity as top national security concern
The U.K. government has listed cybersecurity as one of its top concerns for the next five years in a strategy paper released on Monday.
Article | 19/10/2010 YouTube, e-discovery software among tech tools for war crime investigators
War crimes -- brutal genocide, mass executions, ethnic cleansing, torture -- have spurred international efforts by the United Nations to investigate a...
Article | 13/10/2010 French government may subsidize music downloads, says EU
The European Commission has approved a French program to subsidize legal music downloads for young people.
Article | 14/10/2010 FCC to address mobile 'bill shock'
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is poised to move forward on "simple and practical" rules intended to help mobile-phone customers avoid une...
Article | 13/10/2010 Minnesota to move e-mail to Microsoft's cloud
The Minnesota state government said last month that it's moving its messaging and collaboration systems to Microsoft Corp.'s hosted Business Productiv...