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The European Parliament has adopted a directive that consumers on the internet protect. That must be shopping on the internet. The Council of Ministers adopts the directive, probably next month as well. With a majority of 615 of 652 votes, the European Parliament adopted a new directive for consumer protection adopted. The directive is intended…

Mozilla gets criticism from business users because of the announcement that Firefox 4 no security updates after the release of Firefox 5. Microsoft jumps to this by focusing on his long support. Last week, Mozilla Firefox 5, three months after Firefox 4 was released. At the end of april appeared Firefox 4.0.1, that eight vulnerabilities…

The two trade organisations Wi-Fi Alliance and Wireless Broadband Alliance are in conversation with each other for the creation of a roamingsysteem. With this system users worldwide can roam on wi-fi networks. It is thus possible to log in to wi-fi networks to which the provider of the user has a contract, so reports The…

European Commission, Council and Parliament have reached agreement on measures against offences, child pornography sites. States need not required sites to block, such as first proposed, but “need to do their best’ to remove them. Last year march, the European Commission for each member state to impose an internet filter against child pornography. The states…

The Us Federal Trade Commission is according to a U.s. newspaper on the point for Google to sue. The marktwaakhond would like to investigate whether the search giant abuses its dominant market position. The FTC is concerned with the preparation of a subpoena for Google, reports The Wall Street Journal. The American marktwaakhond would like…

Manufacturer Archos has introduced new versions of its Android tablets presented. The two models with the names of the Archos 80 G9 and Archos 101 G9. Both devices are equipped with Android 3.1 Honeycomb as the operating system. Both tablets have a dualcoreprocessor from the OMAP4 series from Texas Instruments, with a clock speed of…

LulzSec, the website and database of the Arizona Department of Public Safety hacked. The group says that the hack is performed because the Arizona strict immigration law. LulzSec has, among other personal information released. A spokesman for the Arizona Department of Public Safety has confirmed that the police authority is victim of a hack. “Our…

The Belgian city of Ghent wants to make it possible to register a domain name that ends in”.gent’. Monday decided the Icann that brand names, as well as cities, may be used for the extension of domain names. Ghent claims to be the first city in the Benelux, and a private extension would like to…

Rockstar has announced that LA Noire this fall for the pc will appear. The pc version of the detectivespel get opportunities to make adjustments, and the graphics are polished. This version will also include 3d images support. The pc port of LA Noire is being done by Rockstar Leeds and not by the original developer…

The ict problems in the police have many causes, including a complex ict organisation, legacy systems and poor supervision of the ministry. Minister Opstelten believes that the introduction of a national police lead to success. The General Court last Thursday, his report ICT Police 2010. The instance brought at the request of Minister Opstelten of…

In a coordinated lwa coordinated action, among others, the FBI and the High Tech Crime Unit of the Dutch National criminal Investigation department are two gangs rolled up. The criminals would be on a large scale scareware and malware have offered. One of the two rolled-up gangs would be nearly a million victims duped by…

The OPTA does not see any reason the cable connections to break open for television services. The importance of analogue tv takes up compared to that of digital television and there would be on the tv market, plenty of alternative infrastructures. The OPTA decided earlier that UPC and Ziggo competitors on the analog cable connections…