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Pay $500 million over Canadian drug adverts, Google ordered

p2pnet view P2P | Advertising:- “Google is to pay out $500m to It was escape having to go to court over claims it made hundreds of millions of dollars out of adverts from...

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Wednesday, August 24th, 2011 Net News No Comments

Week in tech: what’s HP thinking edition?

Firefox 6 ships, but we shouldn't really pay attention : Mozilla has released Firefox 6, with a few visual and performance tweaks, but not much else that anybody will notice. The organization has...

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Saturday, August 20th, 2011 Net News No Comments

Not an option: time for companies to embrace security by default

In this op-ed, a cybersecurity researcher argues that major companies are leaving customers at risk by not enforcing security by default. The opinions expressed here do not necessarily represent the opinions of Ars...

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Tuesday, August 9th, 2011 Net News No Comments

Fox Will Boost U.S. TV-Show Piracy

Starting in two weeks, Fox will no longer offer free access to its TV-shows the day after they air on television. For TV-fans the decision to limit the availability of these show is...

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Thursday, July 28th, 2011 Net News No Comments

Senator: AT&T/T-Mobile merger an “unreasonable risk to the economy”

The United States Senator who fiercely opposed Comcast's acquisition of NBC Universal is back in the trenches again, this time inveighing against AT&T's proposed buyout of T-Mobile USA. "Americans gather their information about...

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Wednesday, July 27th, 2011 Net News No Comments