Tag: Internet

PARIS - A 31-year-old American was treated for addiction after wearing Google Glass for up to 18 hours a day and even experienced dreams as...

According to the study, online voting faces more complex obstacles than electronic commerce, where a customer can be reimbursed in the case of fraud or theft.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has approved a bill giving telecoms authorities more power to monitor online users and block websites, the latest move...

  People who use Facebook and Twitter are less likely than others to share their opinions on hot-button issues, even when they are offline. That's according...

  Steven Spielberg, Justin Bieber and Bill Gates are among many celebrities pouring buckets of ice water over their heads and donating to fight Lou...

Most internet users find pop-up adverts that disrupt their browsing downright annoying. And now the man who invented them has apologised - admitting they are 'one...

WASHINGTON- The future of an open Internet faces threats from government crackdowns, and "balkanization" resulting from growing concerns over broad electronic surveillance, a survey...

Facebook will now use personal information gathered from your activities elsewhere on the Web to more precisely target advertisements on the social network. Given Facebook's...

Google has imposed restrictions on where people can get extensions for its Chrome browser. In a blogpost, the search giant said it was now going...

Internet companies can be made to remove irrelevant or excessive personal information from search engine results, Europe's top court ruled on Tuesday in a...

JAKARTA- Indonesia has ordered a ban on popular video-sharing website Vimeo after accusing it of hosting pornographic content, sparking social media fury on Tuesday. "We have...

Beijing- China has detained a man for "publishing false stories" on an overseas news portal alleging gross rights abuses, police said Tuesday, the latest step...

MOSCOW- Vladimir Putin, the Russia's president, has called the Internet a "CIA project" and warned Russians against making Google searches. Speaking to a group of young...

From tech terms and celebrity break-ups to world events, social media is giving experts more information than ever before than what people really talk...

China is employing two million people to keep tabs on people's Internet use, according to state media, in a rare glimpse into the secret...

The Citizen Lab, an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto has uncovered that Canada-based Netsweeper...

The National Security Agency (NSA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading US internet companies,...