12.04.2013 Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg, along with other Silicon Valley leaders, has launched a new initiative called FWD.us aimed at reforming the United States’ outmoded immigration laws.
12.04.2013 Like taxes, death is inevitable. But the question of what happens to a person’s data after they die has been answered by Google, which has developed a new tool to give people the power to decide if their data gets deleted after a period of time or can be accessed by a next of kin.
09.04.2013 A group of Android competitors, including Nokia and Microsoft, have sent a formal complaint against Google to European antitrust regulators who are in the final stages of an investigation into Google’s search practices.
05.04.2013 A considerable portion of business angel and private equity investment in promising young technology companies – as much as 10pc – often gets wasted on defending against patent actions and this threatens to stifle innovation, the founder and first party leader of the Swedish Pirate Party Rickard Falkvinge told Siliconrepublic.com.
02.04.2013 Internet giant Google could face a bevy of massive fines after it emerged that at least six European data-protection commissioners could take co-ordinated action over its privacy practices. More than a year ago, Google revised its privacy policy, sparking investigations by various data-protection authorities.
28.03.2013 The prosecutor leading the trial in Sweden against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has stepped down while the lawyer for one of the women in Sweden accusing Assange of rape has been fired for speaking too much with the media.
28.03.2013 Businesses shutting up shop for the Easter weekend have been warned by telecoms regulator ComReg to be vigilant against PBX fraud, which could leave them reeling with phone bills in excess of €30,000. In the highest-profile case in Ireland, one government institution was defrauded by as much as €300,000.
28.03.2013 Egypt's coastguard has arrested three divers reportedly trying to cut through a subsea internet cable of telecommunications company Telecom Egypt. The damage to the cable slowed internet speeds in Egypt and other countries.
22.03.2013 European Commission vice-president and commissioner for the Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes said today in Dublin that safeguarding media freedom and freedom of speech is critical. However, she said such a debate cannot be had without tackling the question of concentration of media ownership.
13.03.2013 In an attempt to raise money to bail her boyfriend out of jail, a 22-year-old woman in the US has allegedly tried to sell her two youngsters for up to US$5,000 (€3,900) on Facebook.
