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Article | 11/06/2011 FTC settles with DVD seller over fake reviews
A company marketing guitar and other instructional DVDs will pay US$250,000 for allegedly fake reviews posted by the company's affiliate marketers, th...
Article | 10/06/2011 Facebook may have privacy battle on two fronts
Facebook said it's working with European Union regulators to resolve criticism about its new facial recognition feature, but trouble may also be brewi...
Article | 10/06/2011 FTC settles with online retailer that faked UK location
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has reached a settlement with a California-based Web retailer that allegedly deceived U.K. customers into believing ...
Article | 10/06/2011 AT&T says its needs T-Mobile spectrum
AT&T will be able to significantly improve its mobile network capacity and give better service to its customers because of its proposed acquisitio...
Article | 9/06/2011 Facebook stirs privacy ire with facial recognition
Facebook's move to enable facial recognition across its entire social networking site is raising some eyebrows - and possibly some legal woes -- over ...
Article | 9/06/2011 US agency calls for new cybersecurity standards
The U.S. Department of Commerce should work with Internet business groups to establish voluntary codes of conduct and standards to protect against cyb...
Article | 8/06/2011 EU Parliament votes for contract for online sales
Europe-wide rules covering online sales came a step closer as the European Parliament backed plans for a new contract law on Wednesday.
Article | 8/06/2011 Google redirects Kazakh search traffic
Google is redirecting visitors to its Kazakhstan site, google.kz, to a page in Kazakh at google.com, after the country's government warned it would be...
Article | 8/06/2011 Major damages sought in Oracle-Google patent dispute
A new document in a year-old patent lawsuit filed by Oracle against Google over Android intellectual property suggests Oracle could be seeking huge da...
Article | 7/06/2011 Free Press files tethering complaint against Verizon
Verizon Wireless is violating U.S. Federal Communications Commission rules by blocking users from using third-party tethering applications on Android ...
Article | 5/06/2011 Syria Internet service said to be restored
The Internet in Syria was back on Saturday, a day after it was reported that two-thirds of Syrian networks had been cut off from the rest of the world...
Article | 3/06/2011 Lawmakers question Sony, Epsilon on data breaches
Recent data breaches at Sony's PlayStation Network and at e-mail service provider Epsilon will lead to legislation focused on improving cybersecurity ...
Article | 1/06/2011 India issues new security rules for phone operators
India has relaxed some of its security rules for telecommunications operators and equipment suppliers, after earlier rules that required equipment mak...
Article | 1/06/2011 Sprint, others ask FCC to deny AT&T deal for T-Mobile
Sprint Nextel, joined by an army of thousands of consumers, have filed requests for the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to block AT&T's pro...
Article | 30/05/2011 China censors Web to curb Inner Mongolia protests
China is blocking mention of Inner Mongolia on Chinese microblogs and social networking sites, as part of an effort to clamp down on protests that bro...