Today’s Tech Sightings: European Parliament Calls On Commission to Consider Breaking Up Google In a non-binding resolution, European Union legislators urged antitrust regulators to consider separating search engines from other commercial products to boost search market competition. The move is widely seen as targeting Google, which controls about 90 percent of Europe’s search engine market. […]
Twitter, Uber Mobile Snooping; EU vs. Google
Posted November 27th, 2014 at 2:25 pm (UTC-5)
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EU Wants Google to ‘Forget’ US Citizens; Regin; 3-D Printing
Posted November 26th, 2014 at 2:24 pm (UTC-5)
Tech Sightings today: Google Pushed to Extend ‘Forgotten’ Requests to US After two days of meetings, EU data protection chiefs drafted rules that now require Google to extend the right to be forgotten beyond Europe to the United States to allow U.S. residents to submit privacy requests to Google if they are unhappy with their […]
Sony Hijacked? Killer Technology; EU vs. Google and More
Posted November 25th, 2014 at 2:02 pm (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Tech’s Gender Gap Wasn’t Always So Bad. Here’s How It Got Worse A filmmaker whose daughter wanted to drop out of her computer science major because she was one of only two girls attending resulted in a documentary about gender inequality in the U.S. tech and science sectors. The film, called CODE: […]
Tech Sightings, November 20, 2014
Posted November 20th, 2014 at 2:00 pm (UTC-5)
Africa’s Mobile Money Goes to Europe with M-Pesa Africa’s money transfer system, M-Pesa, launched in 2007, now has some 17 million active users worldwide. And with the recent launch of a mobile wallet in Romania, M-Pesa in expected to continue its advance in the European market. New Tool Helps Spy Victims Detect Government Surveillance German […]
Tech Sightings, November 19, 2014
Posted November 19th, 2014 at 2:00 pm (UTC-5)
China Blocks Websites as Internet Meeting Begins China’s vigilant censors have blocked several popular websites even as the World Internet Conference convened in the country. Blocked sites include networks that help speed website performance and services that enable users to access typically blocked content. Next Year’s DDOS Attacks Expected From Vietnam, India, Indonesia According to […]
Tech Sightings, November 13, 2014
Posted November 13th, 2014 at 2:00 pm (UTC-5)
There’s an App that Needs You: The Rise of Mobile Crowdsourcing Today, crowdsourcing apps are used in investing, creative work, and funding start up projects. They are showing up on many smartphones with thousands of mini-reports coming in from around the internet. The mosaic of information can form a larger picture that can be used […]