The case of a Rutgers University student who committed suicide after a roommate allegedly used a webcam to spy on his tryst with another man could pose the first legal test of a state privacy law passed in 2003.
Just days after U.S. voters threw overboard one of their top privacy advocates in Congress, the European Commission announced Thursday that it will push for creation of a Web users’ “right to be forgotten.”
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web….
StumbleUpon, which these days calls itself a “discovery engine,” has integrated app discovery into its Android application’s repertoire. It takes into account a range of variables to make recommendations to individual users. Those …
The blogs are buzzing about Google Instant finally coming to iPhones now. If you go to Google.com and conduct a search using your iPhone, you may just see it. I do! In fact, I believe I saw it yesterday, but being that I often use the Google search …
An error on Google Maps has caused an international conflict in Central America. A Nicaraguan military commander, relying on Google Maps, moved troops into an area near San Juan Lake along the border between his country and Costa Rica. The troops ar…
There was a moment – as imagined in The Social Network, the film about the founding of Facebook – where Napster founder Sean Parker leaned across the table to Mark Zuckerberg and whispered, enticingly: “A million dollars isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? A billion dollars.”That’s the kind of ambition you need to power a [...]
MongoSV, a full-day conference dedicated to the high-performance document-oriented database MongoDB, will be held at Microsoft’s Silicon Valley conference center on Dec. 3. The event will feature talks by the engineering team developing the databa…
Two months ago, when they first unveiled Google Instant, Google let everyone know that it would be coming to mobile devices this fall. Sure enough, it’s here, in beta form.While the feature hit some Android devices about a week ago, today it has arr…
FirstEnergy and Ballard Power Systems are introducing a portable fuel cell that is scalable and is designed to take demand off the power grid.While fuel cells have been powering manned spacecraft since the Gemini V mission in August 1965, their use …
The European Union wants companies like Google or Facebook to give people more control over how their online habits are tracked, requirements that could crimp Internet firms’ ability to target advertising.
Apple’s App Store now features over 300,000 apps, up from just under 200,000 in April. Out of these, almost 38,000 are iPad apps according to a new report from app store analytics firm Distimo. Developers released an average of 5,452 iPad apps and 1…
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union (EU) wants stronger privacy rules to give Internet users more control over how social-networking sites such as Facebook, or search engines such as Google use their personal information.
Google deserves more than a slap on the wrist for its Wi-Fi-snooping Street View cars – our privacy needs protectingGoogle is facing legal investigations around the world into its Wi-Fi-snooping Street View cars. But after cursory consideration, the UK’s information commissioner has forgiven the company this illegal interception in return for a promise to do [...]
So you are probably reading this post title thinking that this is too good to be true. Well it’s not! And I will prove it… Back in March of 2009, I came across a regular column on CNN: Small Business, called Website Remedies. This column…