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In a YouTube video, the hacker group Anonymous announced plans for worldwide protests against government surveillance for Monday, Guy Fawkes Day Canada, however, has a plan of its own....
In an effort to expand its Chinese operations, eBay will partner with luxury retailer Xiu.com According to Bloomberg, which cites a person with direct knowledge of the pact, the deal, which will be announced formally in Xiu.com's home base of Shenzhen on Nov. 12, is eBay's most ambitious move in China since current CEO John Donahoe took over in 20...
A man in Melbourne, Australia, won a defamation case against Google over the search engine's image results According to The Age, the plaintiff, Michael Trkulja, contacted Google in 2009 requesting that the site remove images linking him to former meth kingpin Tony Mokbel....
Norwegian Air Shuttle, one of Scandinavia's biggest airlines, announced that in 2013 it will introduce a new-age in-flight entertainment system According to The New York Times, the upgrade will vault in-flight media into the digital age....
In a meeting with Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, French President Francois Hollande urged the search giant to reach an advertising-revenue agreement with French news publishers before 2013 If no agreement is reached, then France could adopt a law that would charge search engines like Google for displaying links to French news articles....
So you wanna play that game, huh? China Unicom will take over one of China's main networks from Cisco Systems because of -- what else? -- security reasons....
Goophone, a Chinese company best known for cloning Apple products, will release its iPad mini doppelganger in November According to GizmoChina, the "GooPad mini," which already appears on posters, will sell for US$99, while Apple's iPad mini will cost $329 but won't be sold right away in China....
Huawei has offered Australian authorities unfettered access to its software code in an effort to combat the perception that it is a security risk, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corp In March, Huawei was barred from participating in the construction of Australia's National Broadband Network because of security concerns. More recently, the...
Voters in Iceland have responded favorably to the government's offer to let them participate in drafting the nation's new constitution According to GigaOm, the idea to let citizens chime in online, namely via Facebook and Twitter, was hatched by 25 people on the Constitutional Council, which was tasked with devising a new constitution. The council ...
British media outlets have pounced on Amazon and eBay for how much the companies pay -- or don't pay -- in UK taxes According to an article from The Guardian, Amazon forces British publishers to cover a 20 percent VAT -- value added tax -- charge on ebook sales. This is seen as problematic because Amazon's European headquarters is in the tiny natio...
In a letter to several French ministerial offices, Google has warned that it could exclude French media sites from its search results if the country implements a proposed law that would force search engines to pay for content, according to AFP The letter reportedly said that such a move -- which would force Google to fork over money simply for link...
Gary McKinnon, a 46-year-old British computer hacker who admits to accessing U.S. government computers in 2002, will not be extradited to the U.S According to the BBC, the UK home secretary, Theresa May, said that McKinnon is "seriously ill" and that the extradition request should be withdrawn.
Apple has negotiated an agreement with Swiss railway operator SBB that will allow Apple to use the company's patented clock face design As CNN explains, SBB "politely complained" to Apple last month after noticing that a clock design on iOS 6 was lifted from SBB's design. SBB released a statement Friday saying that the two sides had struck a deal, ...
Cisco Systems was among the "array" of American tech firms lobbying against Chinese telecommunications giants Huawei and ZTE According to The Washington Post, Huawei and ZTE -- which were recently dubbed security threats by the House Intelligence Committee -- were targeted in a lengthy "marketing campaign" designed to discredit Chinese firms by ins...
China's Ministry of Commerce is forcing Yihaodian, China's biggest food e-commerce site, to reorganize in the wake of Walmart's purchase of a 51.3 percent stake in the company As Tech In Asia explains, the anti-monopoly ruling will require that Yihaodian separate its business-to-consumer services at yihaodian.com from its third-party offerings, whi...
Huawei wasn't mentioned by name, but...come on Canada announced that it could exercise its right to block companies that pose a security threat to the nation's communications network....
A congressional panel has warned that Chinese telecommunications giants Huawei and ZTE pose a security threat to the United States According to the BBC, the panel recommends that both firms should be prohibited from any mergers or acquisitions....
The hacker group Anonymous posted a YouTube video vowing that Friday, Oct. 5, will be "the biggest thing we have ever done." The video does not get into specifics, but The Local, an English-language outlet in Sweden, reported that the threat comes amid several DDoS attacks against various Swedish agencies, including the National Board of Health and...
Google-owned Motorola Mobility is acquiring Viewdle, a Ukrainian firm that makes facial recognition technology According to Cnet, Motorola had been in talks with Viewdle before it was acquired by Google. The acquisition of Viewdle, a pioneer in technology that recognizes and tags people in photos, figures to be a boon for Google+, Android and other...
Apple's Asian component suppliers have begun mass-producing parts for a new tablet, according to The Wall Street Journal Apple reps didn't immediately respond to questions about the tablet, which is believed to be smaller, and with a lower resolution, than the latest iPad that went on sale last March....
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