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Google awards $1 million grant to detect Internet censorship, throttling
Google ( NASDAQ: GOOG ) has awarded a $1 million grant for the development of tools to detect Internet throttling, or censorship by governments trying to shut down or censor Internet access. The funds
Some Facebook apps found to be collecting, selling user information
Facebook users keen to maintain some form of privacy will want to take note of the following findings from the Wall Street Journal. In essence, the Journal has determined that all of the 10 most
Study: Users ignoring security warnings
A new study by Carnegie Mellon University has shown that users have developed an immunity of sorts to the warnings generated by invalid security certificates. What they found is that users are
Survey: Americans go online for comfort
A new survey finds that Americans are going online for many reasons, and many people are driven there by the recession. The report by the PEW Research Center's Pew Internet & American Life
Hong Kong is number one in email spam
A report published by security vendor Symantec has bestowed the dubious honor, of having the highest spam level to Hong Kong. Its amount of email spam has apparently grown by 2.4 percent to reach
IPv6 is running out of time
IPv6 is a failure so far in its efforts to expand the Internet before it runs out of IP addresses by 2012. A new study from the web monitoring company Pingdom showed that only 4 percent of the
'Searching' gaining as an online activity
Internet users are increasingly turning to search engines and drawing closer to use of email as a primary online activity. A new report from Pew Internet & American Life, an independent think
Lawmakers seek halt to web censorship
Two U.S. senators, Democrat Dick Durbin of Illinois and Republican Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, are worried that big Internet companies are cooperating with repressive foreign governments. They have
