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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 | 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 | 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 | 10/10/2010 North Korea opens up Internet for national anniversary
North Korea appears to have made its first full connection to the Internet. The connection, planning for which has been going on for at least nine mon...
Article | 6/10/2010 How Hitler's downfall mocks your ideals
A short clip from a 2004 movie about Adolf Hitler has ended up speaking for a generation of discontented Internet surfers, as well as pushed the bound...
Article | 1/10/2010 Five reasons why legislation to limit outsourcing fails
Congress headed home this week to focus on mid-term election campaigns, and offshore outsourcing is certain to be a topic of interest to many voters.
Article | 27/09/2010 EU drops two Apple iPhone antitrust investigations
The European Commission has dropped two antitrust investigations concerning Apple's iPhone after the company reversed two policies that drew the regul...
Article | 25/09/2010 Satyam to delist from New York Stock Exchange
Satyam Computer Services will be delisting from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in October, as it is not able to comply with the stock exchange's r...
Article | 25/09/2010 Google, others settle with DOJ over no-poaching deals
Google, Apple and several other companies have reached a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice over charges that they agreed not to hire away...
Article | 24/09/2010 Survey says US public doesn't support Internet regulation
57 per cent of likely voters in the U.S. don't support any Internet regulation by the federal government, according to a new survey released by Broadb...
Article | 24/09/2010 FCC opens up 'white spaces' spectrum to mobile devices
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has voted to open up unused spectrum in the television band to unlicensed wireless broadband devices, a mov...
Article | 23/09/2010 FTC settles privacy complaint against online data broker
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has reached a settlement with online data broker US Search on complaints that the company failed to deliver on promi...
Article | 23/09/2010 Canadian privacy commissioner ends Facebook probe
Canada's privacy commissioner has ended an investigation into Facebook's privacy practices by saying the social-networking site has resolved issues ra...
Article | 23/09/2010 India blocks bulk SMS ahead of court ruling
The Indian government has banned bulk SMS (short message service) and MMS (multimedia messaging service), ahead of an expected court ruling that could...