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UK Councils Receive Monetary Penalties After Mixing Up Email Recipients

The North Somerset Council and the Worcestershire County Council from the United Kingdom were fined by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) with £60,000 ($93,000 or 56,000 EUR), respectively £80,000 (125,000 or 93,000 EUR) after they sent emails containing sensitive information to the wrong i...

28 November 2011
09:58 GMT

The Effects of Stopping Embryonic Stem Cell Research

The restrictions that the US federal government placed on embryonic stem cell research are having widespread negative consequences, not only for the country's role in the international scientific community, but also for research carried out using other types of stem cells. These conclusions belong to an Universi...

10 June 2011
03:59 GMT

Developer Notices New Changes with the App Store

“Looks like sort by release date in App Store only sorts by original release date now, not update date,” a Twitter update from the developer of PCalc, a scientific calculator for iPhone and iPod touch, reads. “Say hello to page 342 of Utilities...,” his tweet adds. On the desktop side, PCalc ...

3 December 2009
08:15 GMT

Apple Improves App Store Admission / Rejection Process

Reports say that Apple has added more transparency to the process of reviewing, approving and / or rejecting iPhone applications, by providing developers with a status application. Using the tool, developers will be able to track the progress of their application, see whether it’s waiting to be reviewed, or rea...

12 November 2009
10:03 GMT

The App Store Undergoes Several Changes

In what is a very strange move on behalf of Apple, the company has decided to eliminate the aggregate categories of App Store titles, leaving just two of them standing - “See All iPhone apps” and “See All iPod Touch apps,” reports iPhone Atlas. Also, Apple has recently changed its review polic...

29 September 2008
03:10 GMT

EA and Maxis Strengthen Spore's DRM Policy

Spore player complaints have made the headlines lately regarding Electronic Arts' DRM policy for the God game, recently released for the Macintosh platform. EA Games president Frank Gibeau revealed in a statement that the company would increase the number of installations from three to five and would institute a...

22 September 2008
13:01 GMT

Best Buy Makes YouTube Stars Out of Its Computer Service Customers

Best Buy is the target of an ill-fated lawsuit filed by some of its customers claiming that its Geek Squad computer repair subsidiary is abusing users' data on the defective computers. Shortly put, each time a customer brings an out-of-order PC, the stored data is illegally copied and used in unauthorized ways.T...

8 May 2008
06:47 GMT

Google Lending Helping Hand to Senate

What's the solution if you have a specific inquiry about some government information that is supposed to be publicly available? You type in the exact URL of the site the information is on? Not likely, I doubt that government sites are the first thing on your mind every morning when you get out of bed, and if the...

14 November 2007
03:59 GMT

Lord of the Search: Fellowship of the Google

Google has been participating in many initiatives and getting involved in many deals through the years, some of them related to issues that were most pressing to the Mountain View based company: the development and contribution to open source software projects. Starting in 2005, every summer brought a new "Summer of ...

13 November 2007
03:47 GMT

Google's Policy to Affect Websites' Traffic

Peter Bale who is the executive producer of MSN UK and former online editorial director of The Times and the Sunday Times, talked about the recent changes made in the Google policies which are now promoting the original content published by some agencies and avoid driving traffic to websites offering similar articles...

3 October 2007
08:32 GMT

A New Security Partnership: Symantec and Intel

Computer security is one of the most dynamic areas of the entire IT industry, an area where two factions do battle: on the one hand, there are security software solutions like firewalls, antivirus programs and so on; and on the other hand, we have computer viruses, Internet based attacks, spyware and various other ma...

15 August 2007
08:37 GMT

Major Change in Google's Privacy Policy

When a user searches the Internet using Google's search technology, the company records the search query, the IP address and the cookie details generated by the search action. In the past, Google kept the logs with all the information as long as it was useful but the company's official announced today a maj...

15 March 2007
05:11 GMT


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