Belgium’s privacy watchdog has begun legal action against Facebook, accusing the social network site of tracking its users across the web and even monitoring the activities of those without an account. The independent Privacy Commission, which is working with German, Dutch, French and Spanish counterparts, accused Facebook last month of trampling on European privacy laws after trying to find out more about the U.S. social media giant’s practices. “We did
By Foo Yun Chee and Jean-Baptiste Vey PARIS (Reuters) – Europe’s anti-trust chief warned Amazon on Monday against using its dominance to thwart rivals, a week after launching an investigation into the U.S. online retailer’s ebook deals with publishers. European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager announced last week she would examine whether clauses in Amazon’s contracts prevent publishers from offering more favorable deals to competitors. Ebooks are a fast-growing industry and
By Yasmeen Abutaleb SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Twitter Inc’s next chief executive officer faces a crucial challenge as the company seeks to appease Wall Street after last week’s management shakeup – helping disaffected advertisers connect with users. Twitter’s outgoing chief executive, Dick Costolo, resigned abruptly Thursday amid pressure from investors to increase the user base and improve what’s known as direct response advertising, the most lucrative type on the microblogging
Even if we can all agree that Apple buying Beats was probably to the benefit of both companies, sacrifices were made – and one of those was a wireless Sonos-style speaker in development at Beats. Variety reports that the Sonos rival was killed off after the Apple acquisition, though it’s not clear why – the engineers working on it have since moved on to other projects or left the company.
As much as we all like to say we’re definitely definitely going to delete Facebook this time, somehow we are all still on it – still liking those baby photos and wedding announcements, still posting that one picture from Saturday night that we look great in even though everyone else looks terrible. But are you getting the most out of Facebook? Could you be posting more things to fewer people
As much as we all like to say we’re definitely definitely going to delete Facebook this time, somehow we are all still on it – still liking those baby photos and wedding announcements, still posting that one picture from Saturday night that we look great in even though everyone else looks terrible. But are you getting the most out of Facebook? Could you be posting more things to fewer people
There seems to be a lot of evidence that Samsung is planning a super-sized version of the S6 Edge – not least the pictures that leaked a couple of weeks ago – and now we have a few more hints to go on. First up are reports from Galaxy Club in the Netherlands that Samsung has trademarked the S6 Note name in South Korea, suggesting that the upcoming Plus device
There seems to be a lot of evidence that Samsung is planning a super-sized version of the S6 Edge – not least the pictures that leaked a couple of weeks ago – and now we have a few more hints to go on. First up are reports from Galaxy Club in the Netherlands that Samsung has trademarked the S6 Note name in South Korea, suggesting that the upcoming Plus device
Introduction and retro experience Back in 2006, I Skyped my wife from a laptop while flying over the icy wastes of Siberia on my way from London to Tokyo. A month later that was impossible, with Boeing ceasing its Connexion Wi-Fi service due to lack of interest. A decade after they disappeared, Wi-Fi zones at 35,000ft are at last making a comeback – at least in the US. Many US
Introduction and retro experience Back in 2006, I Skyped my wife from a laptop while flying over the icy wastes of Siberia on my way from London to Tokyo. A month later that was impossible, with Boeing ceasing its Connexion Wi-Fi service due to lack of interest. A decade after they disappeared, Wi-Fi zones at 35,000ft are at last making a comeback – at least in the US. Many US
