Facebook has agreed to make worldwide changes to its privacy policy as a result of negotiations with Canada’s privacy commissioner. Last month the social network was found to breach Canadian law by holding on to users’ personal data indefinitely. Facebook has now agreed to make changes to the way it handles this information and be [...]
French consumer groups are investigating reports of iPhones that explode or crack spontaneously. An 80-year-old from the Paris suburbs was among eight people who said their phones’ screens were affected, according to the AFP news agency. Consumers in the UK, Holland and Sweden have reported similar problems, prompting an earlier EU investigation. Apple said [...]
File-sharing website The Pirate Bay (TPB) is back online after its former internet service provider (ISP) was forced to take down the site. Stockholm district court made the order on 21 August, saying ISP Black Internet would be fined 500,000 kronor (£43,000) if it did not comply. The court order was the result of [...]
Sony Entertainment has announced it is reducing the price of its PlayStation 3 games consoles. In Europe the price has been lowered to 299 euros, in the US to $299 and in the UK to £249.99. Sony made the announcement at a press conference ahead of the 2009 games convention – Games Com – in [...]
Toshiba is to start making products that can play Blu-ray discs. The decision marks a big change for the electronics firm which was the prime mover of the rival HD-DVD format. Blu-ray and HD-DVD went head-to-head to see who could dominate the burgeoning market for movies produced in the high definition format. The format [...]
A blogger who was targeted in a co-ordinated attack against websites such as Facebook and Twitter has told the BBC he blames Russia for the assault. The pro-Georgian blogger, known as Cyxymu, said he had been targeted for "telling the truth about the Russian-Georgian war" in his writings. The attack caused a blackout of [...]
Micro-blogging service Twitter and social networking site Facebook have been severely disrupted by hackers. Twitter was taken offline for more than two hours whilst Facebook’s service was "degraded", according to the firms. The popular sites were subject to so-called denial-of-service attacks on Thursday, the companies believe. Denial-of-service (DOS) attacks take various forms but often [...]
A Chinese teenager sent to an internet addiction rehabilitation camp has allegedly been beaten to death by its counsellors, according to reports. A number of employees of the Qihang Salvation Training Camp in Nanning have been arrested over the death, his father Deng Fei told the Global Times. The camp had promised to put [...]
The resignation of Google’s Eric Schmidt as a director of Apple’s board has failed to halt a government inquiry into possible antitrust violations. Mr Schmidt stepped down because the search giant’s business increasingly competes with Apple’s. The Google CEO recused himself when Apple’s board discussed the iPhone. In a statement the Federal Trades Commission [...]
Google chief executive Eric Schmidt has quit Apple’s board of directors because the search giant’s business is increasingly competing with Apple’s. Apple boss Steve Jobs said that had Mr Schmidt stayed on, crossovers between the two firms’ projects mean he would have to leave chunks of meetings. Google’s Android operating system is used in [...]
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