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DoJ seeks to outlaw lying on social networks

...must be able to prosecute violations of websites' often-ignored, always-unintelligible "terms of service" policies. The law must allow "prosecutions based upon a violation... Read more

16 November, 2011 by Declan McCullagh

Facebook side-steps Google data policy with workaround

...rules on exporting Gmail contacts to other sites. Google recently changed the terms of service for sites using Gmail contacts data. It requires them to... Read more

10 November, 2010 by Tom Krazit
Dead IT giants: A top 10 of the fallen

Dead IT giants: A top 10 of the fallen

...in 1999 by Yahoo for $3.57bn. The new owners instituted new terms of service, claiming ownership over all content put on GeoCities pages. Users... Read more

19 November, 2010 by David Meyer
Chess With Friends Free 4.12

Chess With Friends Free 4.12

...Facebook or Games With Friends account and is governed by the Zynga Terms of Service. Collection and use of personal data are subject to Zynga... Read more

24 May, 2012

Pinterest policy update smooths out sticky spots

...API and new private pinboards in the future. The changes affect the terms of service, acceptable use policy and privacy policy, and are set to... Read more

26 March, 2012 by Luke Hopewell
Google: No opt-out of mix-and-match data

Google: No opt-out of mix-and-match data

...March, you'll be doing so under the new privacy policy and terms of service," he said. "We hope you keep using Google, but if... Read more

25 January, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Google kicks fraudulent apps out of Android Market

...phones, Lookout said. The rates are buried several levels deep within the terms of service, and users may not realise that they will be charged... Read more

13 December, 2011 by Elinor Mills

Be Broadband revamps network for IPv6

...having days without internet, but conveniently it was covered under your TOS [terms of service]." IP address block allocation The company is also changing the... Read more

7 October, 2011 by Ben Woods

Amazon brings in-app Kindle purchases to iPad

...Reader, released on Wednesday, effectively circumvents changes in the Apple App Store terms of service, which came in on 26 July. These prevented Amazon from... Read more

10 August, 2011 by Ben Woods

Google adds enterprise-friendly features to App Engine

...percent Service Level Agreement (SLA), operational and developer support and a new Terms of Service agreement. It will bring with it offline billing and a... Read more

11 May, 2011 by Ben Woods

Spotify dials down free access to music

...Spotify are over, as the music-streaming site announces changes to its terms of service. The changes mean that after six months of being registered... Read more

15 April, 2011 by Shelley Portet

Twitter tells developers to not make client apps

...as long as they "rigorously adhere to all areas of [Twitter's] Terms of Service". Areas that Twitter wants developers to focus efforts on include... Read more

12 March, 2011
Word Scramble Challenge Edition by Zynga 2.2

Word Scramble Challenge Edition by Zynga 2.2

...your free chips.Use of this application is governed by the Zynga Terms of Service. Collection and use of personal data are subject to Zynga... Read more

4 February, 2011

Australian police: Wikileaks has not broken the law

...hosting relationship with the site on the basis that it violated its terms of service. The company denies that pressure from US authorities was behind... Read more

20 December, 2010

Wikileaks refuses to back, condemn Anonymous attacks

...had removed from its servers, allegedly due to the contravention of its terms of service Read more

9 December, 2010

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minzhu

Don't blame CEO, they want RIM win. RIM has strange culture and self distruct political environment. In RIM if a new hired person figure out...

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Thomas Gellhaus

I've been very pleased with Mageia 2. My review went up on Sunday. My only issue is that my particular wireless printer hasn't been detected on...

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knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

9 hours ago by knapper on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry
JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

10 hours ago by JohneKerr on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry
Iain Sutherland

I received the notification of Mageia 2 being released on Saturday, was already running Mageia 1. After running the installation X came back up...

11 hours ago by Iain Sutherland via Facebook on Scorecard - Linux Mint 13 and Mageia 2
SoapyTablet

If ZTE have been selling below cost with the ZTE Blade / Orange San Francisco then given the current high street price of the Nokia Lumia 710, you...

15 hours ago by SoapyTablet on Huawei, ZTE face EU 'illegal state subsidies' probe
Burn-IT

Yes it is basically down to "nobody in control understands IT, is willing to admit it, or allow decisions to be delegated". Lets get someone in who...

15 hours ago by Burn-IT on 6 million wasted licences and £1,200 PCs: welcome to government IT
pjc158

So let me get this straight just because a consultant has oberved that mobile companies who get in trouble never recover, well we all might as well...

15 hours ago by pjc158 on RIM to lay off 2,000 on 1 June, says report
Jake Rayson

@191706> *their* own Mac Thank you for picking up the errant spelling :) @apexwm > Mac OS X for Intel machines is supposed to run in VirtualBox...

18 hours ago by Jake Rayson on xTreme Triple Booting: Linux, Mac & Windows
archerthom

I'm imagining Batman-style sonar imaging that will detect the cat and Lego bricks in the dark - I'm going to be disappointed aren't I?

18 hours ago by archerthom on Indoor navigation coming to a mobile near you soon
unlockworldwide

May I quote Horace Dediu, who runs the consultancy Asmyco who has repeatedly observed that mobile phone companies that fall into loss – even once...

19 hours ago by unlockworldwide on RIM to lay off 2,000 on 1 June, says report
NarayanaIyyappan

It is useful for their lifes,and also this matters are important for networking students.

22 hours ago by NarayanaIyyappan on IPv6 security: Plan now and quiz vendors
DarkDown

yeah! all we want free software

1 day ago by DarkDown on Stallman: Free software battling for hearts and minds
Jack Strain

Just gimme a map to the fridge. :D

2 days ago by Jack Strain via Facebook on Indoor navigation coming to a mobile near you soon
Sungwoo

do You know that? it can install 4G Ram. So i buy 4g and install It work! I can run call of duty 4,6,7 [Modern war... 1,2,3] Call of duty 1 was...

2 days ago by Sungwoo on Loose Ends - Upgrading the Aspire One 522
itsajob

2. Bad idea. Making up patch cables loses you your commission from the cable supplier. 3. If you tidy up, other people can understand where the...

2 days ago by itsajob on Ten IT jobs to save up for those rare lulls
Paul Smyth

Is this classic FUD? One thing I would definitely have notice is a Mozilla threat to stop supporting GNU/Linux.

3 days ago by Paul Smyth via Facebook on Firefox rapid release improves Fedora Linux
UnderINK

I agree with the previous commenter wholeheartedly. I couldn't say it better myself. This is very 'Big Brother'. And while I agree with protecting...

3 days ago by UnderINK on European e-identity plan to be unveiled this month
Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe

Nice to see that Turing's idea of a general purpose computer doing once-hardware-powered tasks in software is now universal ;-) Mary

3 days ago by Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe on Software with everything
Jason Burchell

seriously now. I've only bothered to read a small bit of the comments. do me and the rest of the world a favour. stop saying it does not work or...

3 days ago by Jason Burchell via Facebook on Music industry negotiating over 24-bit downloads