Date: 29/06/12 Megaupload founder still faces NZ extradition battle
The suspected kingpin of an Internet piracy ring still faces a battle to avoid extradition from New Zealand but the case against him has likely been weakened by a ruling that search warrants used by police were illegal, experts said on Friday. New Zealand's High Court ruled on Thursday
Date: 28/06/12 Play.com plans to ‘compete directly’ in e-wallet sector with Sony-powered chip tech
Play.com CIO Franceso de Marchis has revealed that the online retailer intends to compete directly with Apple and PayPal in the emerging digital wallet sector. The technology will be available to the company through Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten,
Date: 27/06/12 TEDGlobal: Net opens up era of radical openness
Author Don Tapscott has opened the TEDGlobal conference in Edinburgh predicting a new era of "networked intelligence", reported BBC. The theme at this year's conference, dedicated to technology, entertainment and design, is "radical openness".
Date: 27/06/12 Facebook's email switch prompts criticism by users
Facebook is facing a backlash from users after replacing email addresses listed in members' contacts with those provided by its @facebook.com system. The company said it had acted to make details "consistent" across its site.
Date: 27/06/12 FBI credit card data sting snares 24 worldwide
At least 24 people in 13 countries have been arrested in a US-led sting operation targeting illegal trafficking of credit card information, BBC reported. The swoop came after a two-year undercover FBI investigation spanning four continents. Operation Card Shop tracked those buying
Date: 25/06/12 Google sued for not removing ugly photo of Miami Heat owner
A photo showing minority owner Ranaan Katz with his tongue hanging out is now the matter of a lawsuit against Google and the blogger who originally posted it. In this blogging, social-networking, open-information age, unflattering photos of people pop up left and
Date: 25/06/12 Amendments to U.N. treaty could censor the Internet
Dozens of countries have had closed-door meetings in preparation for an upcoming worldwide debate over changes to a telecommunications treaty, which threaten to block Internet freedom. While individual countries grapple with their own laws over limitations on the Internet,
Date: 25/06/12 Facebook adds 'Find Friends Nearby' feature for Web, mobile
Quietly launched feature allows users to locate and add new friends at events or locations without having to search for them by name. Facebook has quietly launched a new mobile feature that allows people to locate other Facebook users who are geographically nearby.
Date: 25/06/12 Your new nightmare: Facebook ads everywhere
Now that Facebook's ads and sponsored stories will appear on Zynga, be prepared for them appearing, well, anywhere and everywhere. This may well be more painful than you could imagine. There's one thing your life has been missing: reading your favorite news
Date: 25/06/12 Facebook expands ad business to Zynga's website
Facebook Inc has begun showing ads on Zynga Inc's website, the first time the company has distributed ads beyond the borders of its own website and raising the possibility that Facebook could eventually launch an online advertising network, Reuters reported. "People may now see ads and sponsored
Date: 22/06/12 International conference titled ‘From traditional mass media to online media’ to be held in Baku
An international conference titled ‘From traditional mass media to online media’ will be held in Baku. The activity, which comes as an initiative taken jointly by the Azerbaijan Press Council, Baku office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE),
Date: 22/06/12 New electronic card payment system to be introduced in Azerbaijan
The rapid development of the consumer market has led to increase in the card business in Azerbaijan. So, there has been a growing need for the application of innovative products in the banking sector. In this connection, the ’MilliKart’ LLC has presented to banks an
Date: 22/06/12 Facebook will change ad service to settle lawsuit
Facebook Inc has agreed to allow users more control over how their personal information is used in its "Sponsored Stories" ad feature, part of a deal to resolve litigation against the social networking company. The value to Facebook members resulting from the changes is about $103 million,
Date: 22/06/12 Google CEO loses voice, skips shareholder meeting
Google Inc Chief Executive Larry Page sat out his company's annual shareholders' meeting on Thursday due to an unspecified condition affecting his voice that will sideline him from speaking engagements for several weeks. Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt told shareholders at the company's
Date: 22/06/12 Most U.S. readers unaware of e-books at libraries: poll
Though Kindles and Nooks are becoming almost as common as books, more than half of all U.S. readers don't know they can borrow e-books from their local library, a Pew Center poll showed on Friday. The poll showed 62 percent of readers didn't know if their library had e-books for lending,
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