Tweet PARIS (Reuters) – French President Nicolas Sarkozy urged Internet leaders gathered in Paris on Tuesday to work with governments and share fairly the benefits of a revolution he compared to the discoveries of Columbus, Galileo and Newton. Read this article: Sarkozy woos Web giants, urges state role Read More →
Tweet PARIS (AP) — French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Tuesday that governments need to lay down and enforce rules in the digital world – even as they need to foster creativity and economic growth with the Internet…. Read the original: Sarkozy: Gov’ts must regulate the Internet Read More →
Tweet TOKYO (AP) — Sony said it discovered a security breach affecting 8,500 user accounts in a music entertainment website in Greece that comes on the heels of a hacker attack which forced its flagship gaming site offline…. View post: Sony says Greece music site security breached Read More →
Tweet SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo Inc. is giving its popular email service a long-promised facelift in an attempt to make it more appealing to people who are increasingly using Facebook, Twitter, Google and other online alternatives to communicate…. Read the original here: Yahoo ready to deliver on promise to upgrade email Read More →
Tweet SAN FRANCISCO/TAIPEI (Reuters) – Shares of Apple Inc regrouped on Monday after Wall Street brushed off the impact of an explosion last week that shut a Foxconn factory in China producing its popular iPad. Read the rest here: Apple investors brush off China blast impact Read More →
Tweet NEW YORK (Reuters) – When service was finally restored to Sony Corp’s PlayStation Network earlier this month, millions of customers rushed back to it, impatient to get back to battling friends in sports or shooter games. See original here: Analysis: Sony’s breach a hiccup to online game phenomenon Read More →
Tweet WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of the Falun Gong spiritual movement have filed a lawsuit against Cisco Systems Inc. accusing it of supplying the Chinese government with computer-networking equipment used to spy on and persecute dissidents…. See the rest here: Cisco sued for helping China build Golden Shield Read More →
Tweet OSLO (Reuters) – Microbes may be harnessed more easily to generate energy after a finding about how they naturally let off tiny electrical charges, scientists said on Monday. View post: Electricity from microbes a step closer: study Read More →
Tweet SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — First, mobile payment service Square made it easier for merchants to accept credit cards anytime, anywhere, with just a smart phone and a tiny, plastic credit-card reader. Now the startup led by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey hopes to show them they can abandon cash registers…. See the rest here: Payment...
Tweet LONDON (Reuters) – An increasingly farcical game of cat-and-mouse between Britain’s media and celebrities, Twitter users and the judiciary prompted Prime Minister David Cameron to promise a review of the country’s privacy laws on Monday. Here is the original post: Britain’s battle over privacy law descends to farce Read More →