Dell Inc, has been accused of refusing to comply with court orders to reveal secret documents in an ongoing dispute with a client over allegedly faulty computers. |
The USTR keeps claiming that it's being as transparent as possible when it comes to ACTA negotiations, but there's simply no evidence to support that at all. It worked hard to keep ACTA secret for as long as possible, and used transparency as a bargaining chip at the last ACTA negotiations (which is why no draft was released -- though it was leaked ). For a while now, there have been reports that there was to be a meeting in Washington DC next week between US and EU ACTA negotiators to try to hash out their differences -- which are apparently a key hurdle at this point. However, the whole thing has been shrouded in secrecy. The USTR hasn't even said where the meetings will be held, who's attending or what the agenda is -- things that most other countries hosting these negotiations have released at... |
Some countries want the same access to BlackBerry’s encrypted services that they think is already given to United States and other industrialized democracies. |
By 2010-08-08T05:35:51Z BERLIN (AP) -- The online whistle-blower WikiLeaks said it will continue to publish more secret files from governments around the world despite U.S. demands to cancel plans to release classified military documents.... |
The U.S. Department of Defense has issued a demand to WikiLeaks : Return all the secret documents related to the war in Afghanistan, or else. In a press briefing, Pentagon spokesperson Geoff Morrell made it very clear the Pentagon isn’t… |
Former hacker Adrian Lamo has revealed that two MIT students helped analyst Bradley Manning hack into the governments computers to gain top secret information. |
Here at Mashable, it’s no secret we all love cake. In fact, the only things we love more than cakes are geeky cakes. So, to satisfy our sweet tooth (and geekiness) we’ve hunted down 10 particularly fine examples of… |
Hacking human gullibility at Defcon Defcon A hacker competition that challenges contestants to trick employees of large companies into divulging potentially sensitive information aims to show how human gullibility is the biggest security vulnerability of all. During its first day at the Defcon hacker contest in Las Vegas, it had clearly achieved its goal.… |
LONDON (AP) -- WikiLeaks' chief claims his organization doesn't know who sent it some 91,000 secret U.S. military documents, telling journalists that the website is set up to hide the source of its data from those who receive it.... |
Citigroup discovered a flaw in its iPhone application that exposed customers' personal information to a secret file on the phone and computer. |
A website called WikiLeaks just published secret documents related to the United States’ war against the Taliban in Afghanistan. The documents detail deals, armed conflicts, strategies, politics, intelligence operations and some casualties from 2004 and 2010, painting the most complete… |
NEW YORK/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - U.S. mobile phone maker Motorola Inc has sued China's Huawei Technologies Co for alleged theft of trade secrets, highlighting the fast-growing Chinese firm's difficulty in shaking the nation's reputation for piracy. |
I’d buy it. But I’d install it in my secret room, where all my Pac-Man ephemera and cartridge mobiles are hung. $20,000 is a lot for an unofficially Super Nintendo-themed bed, though. Do they think that the SNES generation grew up stupid?! Even if it does come with two iPad docks and a 250-watt amplifier with [...] |
The secret to Farmville’s popularity is neither gameplay nor aesthetics. Farmville is popular because in entangles users in a Web of social obligations. |
The actor, producer of multiple web series (including Streamy-winning Easy to Assemble ) and senior vice-president of digital media at CJP Communications discusses web video's trouble with discoverability, his secret crush on Clicker.com and the difficulties that come with producing branded content. |
Last month at TechCrunch Disrupt, we saw the launch of Appbistro , a marketplace for Facebook tab applications that help companies and brands flesh out their Facebook Pages. Developers like it because it gives them an easy way to charge for their applications using Appbistro's payments system (previously there wasn't an easy way to charge for Facebook apps). And today, Appbistro is announcing that it's landed a deal to distribute Facebook apps from a significant new partner: Wildfire Interactive . Wildfire offers a platform for running marketing campaigns simultaneously on Twitter and Facebook. The company was part of Facebook's fbFund twice, and has many large clients including Pepsi, Red Bull, Victoria's Secret, plenty of small businesses, and everything in between. |
It's been no secret that social network platform Ning has been going through a significant transition in both its leadership and business model in 2010. In March, longtime CEO Gina Bianchini was replaced by COO Jason Rosenthal . And in April, Ning's bubble burst — the company laid off 40% of its staff and killed off its free service. In May, Ning rolled out the different paid models for its platform, Ning Pro, Ning Plus and Ning Mini. And June brings new revenue streams for Ning's social networks, in an effort to help Ning users monetize their social networks. Ning is announcing two partnerships, with branded product creator CafePress and social gaming startup Heyzap , to offer monetization options to Network Creators. Custom CafePress shops can now be integrated directly into Ning... |
So much for the mysterious 'Project Natal' code name. It's given way to Kinect, the official name for the new motion tracking controller and camera system coming to the Xbox this holiday season. Kinect is a combination of kinetic and connect, representing the controller's dual purpose - giving the console motion control plus new communication capabilities such as video chatting and sharing in-game photos captured with the device. Microsoft managed to keep the name secret until just before an elaborate Cirque du Soleil production tonight that the company commissioned for the Kinect launch. But USA Today - which had worked with Microsoft on a Kinect story to be published after the event - briefly posted the story earlier Sunday. Game and gadget blogs pounced before the story was taken down, and the word... |
It's no secret that Google has ambitions of becoming an Enterprise productivity suite powerhouse; perhaps one day taking over the top spot from Microsoft. As Google's President, Global Sales Operations and Business Development Nikesh Arora told us at TechCrunch Disrupt a last week, Google hopes for Apps to be a billion dollar revenue stream in three to four years. But one challenge has been convincing businesses that a move to the cloud promises security. And some early Apps users have even questioned the security of the suite, which includes e-mail, calendaring, document sharing and chat applications. To mitigate these concerns, Google has released a white paper to give enterprise customers greater transparency into Google's security practices, policies, and technology involving Google Apps. And of... |
Remember back when the EU Parliament voted 663 to 13 against what was going on with ACTA negotiations? The EU negotiators, who worked for the EU Commission, not the EU Parliament, seemed to brush off Parliament's concerns. However, some in the Parliament asked their legal services to determine if the EU Commission was allowed to keep ACTA secret. While ACTA has now been released , the review still happened. Hephaestus points us to the news that the analysis found that negotiators were not allowed to keep the document secret (pdf) from Parliament, and that if it had continued to the Parliament could have taken legal action. The key points: Confidentiality cannot be used as a justification for not complying with the obligation to keep Parliament fully informed. Where a degree of... |
Today only, DailyDeals.net offers Two Magic Trick Wallets for $5. With free shipping, that's $10 under the lowest total price we could find to purchase one of these wallets elsewhere. These wallets purport to use a 'secret' system to keep a tight... |
Last week, Apple passed Microsoft in market capitalization. Microsoft is still the most profitable company in the segment, and as Jobs himself would point out, it is all about profit. However the one saying I've made famous is that 'perception is 100 percent of reality,' and the perception is that Apple did and continues to beat Microsoft. |
New research finds that the natural compound adenosine, known for its anti-inflammatory properties, floods tissue that is punctured or aggravated, and may be the secret ingredient in acupuncture. |
The iPhone 4G is already on a world tour. What is supposed to be a secret until June 7th has appeared already in a bar in San Jose and in Asia. Now a Czech blog apparently got also their hands on an iPhone 4G. They had the great idea of putting it under a ... |
Scientists have discovered the secret behind an ancient Chinese mortar made from sticky rice, that delicious 'sweet rice' that is a modern mainstay in Asian dishes. They also concluded that the mortar ― a paste used to bind and fill gaps between bricks, stone blocks and other construction materials ― remains the best available material for restoring ancient buildings. Their article appears in American Chemical Society's monthly journal, Accounts of Chemical Research. |
When we dug up some evidence yesterday that Boost Mobile would be getting the US's first pre-paid Android phone in the form of Motorola's crazy-tough, push-to-talk i1, there was one bit we were missing: the price. Fortunately, that didn't stay a secret for very long. |
It's no secret (though certain copyright and patent system defenders insist otherwise) that copyrights and patents are monopoly privileges, granted by the government. In fact, some of our elected officials have made the argument that antitrust law should be used against the worst abuses of intellectual property law. While it's unclear how successfully that will play in courts, we may soon have a bit of a test case. Slashdot points us to the news that German company Nero AG is suing MPEG-LA, claiming abuse of monopoly power with its patent pools for licensing digital video codecs. As you may recall, MPEG-LA acts as a patent pool for many important patents related to digital video -- to the point that the organization appears to believe it is not possible to do digital video without infringing on... |
While the U.S. Air Force is mum about the orbital whereabouts of its X-37B mini-space plane, a dedicated band of amateur skywatchers has got its cross-hairs on the spacecraft. |
The privacy issues that have been hounding Facebook may be coming to a head. |
SAANEN, Switzerland (Reuters Life!) - In a secret bunker deep in the Swiss Alps, European researchers have deposited a 'digital genome' that will provide the blueprint for future generations to read data stored using defunct technology. |
