Posts Tagged ‘News’

This morning I ran across a distressing headline while perusing my RSS feeds. The New York Times’ Bits Blog proclaimed that, “Hackers Breach 53 Universities and Dump Thousands of Personal Records Online.” I clicked, and was informed that: Hackers published online Monday thousands of personal records from 53 universities, including Harvard, Stanford, Cornell, Princeton, Johns Full story

Advertising regulator the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) will take over the regulation of companies' social networking pages by the end of the year, according to advertising industry proposals. Full story

A PC repair business has dropped its US lawsuit against search giant Google in which it tried to argue that Google infringed is trade mark rights by allowing people to use its brand to trigger their own ads. Full story

OPINION: Criticism of last week's conviction of three Google executives has focused on Italy's legal system. That focus risks missing a wider point. Web hosts are unfairly exposed all across the EU and two legal changes are needed. Full story

European Union minsters have told EU governing bodies to revive plans to create a pan-EU law criminalising intellectual property infringement, and to make more use of a new body to co-operate on the enforcement of intellectual property rights. Full story

International economic advice body the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has published guidance for companies on how to combat bribery within their organisations just as the UK Government prepares to publish similar advice. Full story

All YouTube videos can now carry captions created by speech recognition software in a move that the Google-owned video sharing site said would improve the videos' accessibility. Full story

Next generation broadband networks would reach 70% of the UK population by 2017 without any public funding or Government intervention, a Government report has said. Full story

The nascent market in online glasses retail is being stunted by the opticians' industry regulator's refusal to order that an extra measurement be put on all prescriptions, one seller has warned. Full story

Ofcom has reportedly warned broadband providers that it plans to probe how they manage their web traffic and give “preferential” treatment to some media owners. Full story