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Three injured in Samsung gas leak, second time this year at Hwaseong plant
- South Korean news agencies are reporting that electronics giant Samsung experienced a toxic gas leak at a manufacturing facility in Hwaseong. Yet another dent in Samsung's increasingly blighted safety record, the resulting gaseous hydrofluoric acid leak injured at least three…
Google didn't delete all the data from Wi-Fi sniffing fiasco
- Google angered regulators today after admitting that it's still holding data gathered from wireless networks. In May 2010, the search giant revealed that an employee misused the company's Street View cars to collect information from unsecured Wi-Fi signals, including sensitive…
UK's Office of Fair Trading to investigate $1bn Instagram deal
- The UK's Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is to investigate Facebook's April announcement of its planned $1 billion purchase of Instagram due to concerns that the social networking giant could unfairly exert control over the competition by restricting the uploading…
EU gives Google last chance to avoid huge fines in search fiddling probe
- Joaquin Almunia, vice president of the European Commission for Competition Policy has spoken out for the first time about the ongoing anti-trust investigation into internet search giant Google, outlining the four areas of concern the commission has in a letter…
UK's ASA probes Apple over the new iPad's 4G data claims
- Apple's new iPad is facing yet more scrutiny for being advertised as a 4G device, this time by the UK's Advertising Standards Agency (ASA). According to the BBC, ASA has widened their inquiry into the Cupertino-based firm's product advertising after receiving…
FCC fines Google over Street View, investigation dropped
- The US Federal Communications Commission has fined internet search giant Google $25,000 for deliberately impeding the investigation into the collection of wireless network data for their Google Street View project, according to the New York Times.
Lax photo permissions on iOS, Android may lead to FTC investigation
- Just last week, the New York Times discovered that iOS apps can silently access and copy photos from a user's photo library to a remote server with little to stand in the way. As it turns out though, it's not…
U.S. Chamber of Commerce targeted by Chinese hackers in year-long attack
- The investigation into the break-in by hackers to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's servers has revealed a prolonged attack, targeting specific persons in charge of Asia policies, which was ongoing for several months before being discovered, according to sources familiar…
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