ISP TalkTalk has been reprimanded by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for failing to disclose enough about a malware system it was launching.

The ICO said the ISP should have told both it and customers about [Read more...]

Google Inc said on Friday it was the target of an investigation by the Texas Attorney General’s office into the fairness of its search engine rankings.

The world No. 1 search engine company said the probe is the first by a U.S. legal [Read more...]

U.S. communications regulators on Wednesday put off a controversial decision on Internet traffic rules, giving industry and consumer groups a chance to forge a compromise while avoiding a politically sensitive issue ahead of the November [Read more...]

BERLIN – A German court ruled Friday that Google Inc.’s subsidiary YouTube LLC must pay compensation after users uploaded several videos of performances by singer Sarah Brightman in violation of copyright [REad more...]

Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg says a lawsuit by a man who claims to own a huge chunk of the popular social networking website is seeking to uncover unnecessary details about his private life to harass him.

Zuckerberg is fighting a civil lawsuit filed by Paul Ceglia, an upstate New York resident who [Read more...]

* eBay’s fine reduced to 5.7 mln euros from 38.5 mln

* eBay says ruling is a victory for French consumers

* LVMH says decision confirms earlier court ruling

The Paris court of appeals has significantly reduced the damages that online auction site eBay  will have to pay French retailer LVMH for allowing users to trade counterfeit goods.
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Facebook plans to add a remote logout feature to bolster security.

In a blog post, Facebook noted that you can logout other devices if you left your account [Read more...]

According to a 2009 study by Internet security firm Proofpoint, 8 percent of companies with more than 1,000 employees have fired someone for social media actions — a figure that is double what was reported in 2008. Yet it probably comes as no surprise that Facebook firings are on [Read full story...]

LAGOS, Nigeria – For a decade, West Africa’s main connection to the Internet has been a single fiber-optic cable in the Atlantic, a tenuous and expensive link for one of the poorest areas of the planet.

But this summer, a second cable snaked along the West African coastline, ending at [Read more...]

Google is set to unveil a new feature to its Gmail service that aims to separate a user’s important emails from the ones that do not get read often.

The new feature called “Priority Inbox” will help [Read more...]