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Google announced Monday that it had received more than 1,000 requests from authorities to take down content from its search results and YouTube video service during the past six months. Google has characterized this as an "alarming trend." The company also released its twice-yearly Transparency Report, noting noted that the requests were aimed at ...

IBM's Sequoia supercomputer has headed up the most recent Top500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers The list, released on Monday at the 2012 International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany, is compiled twice a year....

Ethiopia has passed a draconian new law criminalizing the use of Voiceover Internet Protocol services such as Skype or Google Talk. Peoplewho violate the ban will find themselves facing 10-to-15 years inprison.The government has cited national security as a reason, although it iswidely assumed that protecting the market share and revenue of thestate-owned telecom provider, Ethio Telecom, is also a driver -- ifnot the main one...

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission reportedly plans to reevaluate its current standards on cellphone radiation. The FCC's current guidelines set maximum levels; however, they were last updated in 1996. Considering the advancement and growth of cellphone technology over the last 16 years, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has reportedly circu...

There's evidence that Google's consumer privacy policy is being extended to government contracts for its software services, according to SafeGov.org. Citing contracts in Texas, Illinois and California, the group contends that Google's privacy policy is the "minimum standard" for handling customer data under the contracts....

Acer on Thursday announced the Iconia Tab A700, an Android tablet with a 1080p high-definition display ...

By now, it has been drilled into most marketers' heads: Social media is all about conversation -- a two-way conversation. Oftentimes, the conversation entails responding to customers' comments, requests or complaints. From the customer's perspective, it almost certainly means offers of discounts and specials....

When testing a new operating system from Microsoft, finding the right hardware is often the biggest problem. Many of the negative reviews of Windows 8, including my own, are tied to the hardware that just wasn't designed for it I was at Microsoft's TechEd last week, and after hearing presenters drill down in detail on the specs for what an ideal Wi...

While the Millennial generation dominates headlines declaring the latest trends in technology and their applications in the workplace, it's worth remembering that it was the Baby Boomers who introduced the "e" in email, e-learning, and e-commerce. The foundations of the Digital Era, which forever changed the way we work, shop, learn, and play, were laid by innovators born between the mid-1940s and the 1950s...

In the weeks running up to Facebook's initial public offering on May 17, correspondence between the Securities and Exchange Commission and the social media giant flew fast and furious The government agency had a number of questions about Facebook's business model that it felt were not adequately addressed in its S-1 filing early in the year, accor...

Microsoft on Friday announced that it is putting a fresh spin on advertising. Rather than the passive type of advertisements that viewers often zip past after "timeshifting" programming with DVRs, Microsoft's NUads will offer an interactive -- and more personalized -- experience The software giant has signed up Toyota, Unilever and Samsung Mobile a...

Well, he did say it was a tentative decision One week after telling the court that he was leaning toward dismissing the patent suit between Apple and Motorola because neither side had established a right to relief, Judge Richard Posner reversed course and decided to allow Apple and Motorola to pursue injunctive relief against each other. That hear...

Vizio rolled out its first line of computer devices Thursday, including CN15 laptops, the CT14/C15 Ultrabooks, and CA24/CA27 all-in-one PCs ...

Social media giants are teaming up with nonprofit website StopBadware to create the Ads Integrity Alliance, which will counter so-called bad ads and work to create trust within the online advertising industry. Facebook, Google, Twitter, AOL and the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) announced Thursday that the partnership formed with StopBadware...

Microsoft invited reporters and industry experts this week to a special event on Monday in Los Angeles, where it promises to make a "major" announcement. Since then, speculation has been rampant about exactly what that announcement will be, though Microsoft has not released any further details. Theories that the announcement will be tablet-related...

Mike Heaston knows the power of a good cycling event. Get the people out there, biking through the Colorado mountains, and they'll become loyal and steadfast customers "We're putting on events that people love," Heaston, owner of EventMarketing Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "We're creative, and these are our product."

Microsoft is in discussions to acquire Yammer, a social media and communication platform for businesses, according to a report in Bloomberg, which cited two anonymous sources Microsoft is prepared to acquire the company for a US$1 billion purchase price, the report said, and the deal could be reached as soon as Friday....

MetroFax Mobile, an app from MetroFax, is available for free at Google Play, with fax plans starting at $7.95 a month.Reports of the demise of the fax machine may be premature if research in Chico Harlan'sarticle in The Washington Post last week is to be believed.

Mention the words, "splitting the atom," and most people will automatically think of nuclear fission, bombs and radioactivity Recently, however, physicists at Germany's University of Bonn not only managed to "split" an atom in a different way -- using quantum mechanics -- but also put it back together again....

Mobile handset maker Nokia announced Thursday that it would slash 10,000 jobs, eliminating roughly 19 percent of its workforce by the end of 2013. In addition, it will close a factory and several research centers in Germany, Canada and Finland, and three senior executives will be stepping down....