Nearly 12 million Americans were victims of identity theft in 2011, an increase of 13 percent over 2010, according to a report released on Wednesday by the research firm Javelin Strategy & Research. The rise in the use of smartphones and social media by incautious consumers fueled the increase in identity fraud, and 2011 was [...]
A seven-million-year-old trail of fossilised footprints in the Arabian desert was left by a herd of ancient elephants, according to scientists. Researchers say the “trackways” reveal that animals that left them had a rich and complex social structure. Just like modern elephant society, this consisted of family herds and of solitary male animals. Lead researcher [...]
U.S. crime-fighters failed in a bid to keep alleged Internet pirate Kim Dotcom behind bars on Wednesday when a New Zealand court freed him from jail and instead put him under effective house arrest and banned him from using the Internet. The court, in upholding a bail application by the German founder of file-sharing website [...]
Alibaba Group said it would pay about $2.4bn to complete the move, meaning a 46% premium for shareholders. Shares of the Hong Kong listed site had been suspended since 9 February. The parent firm has also been in intense negotiations to buy back a 43% stake owned by US internet giant Yahoo. “Taking Alibaba.com private [...]
Swedish telecoms gear maker Ericsson is to buy privately held WiFi technology company BelAir Networks to boost its mobile broadband offering. Demand for wireless connectivity has boomed in the last couple of years with the proliferation of mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets. BelAir, which produces indoor and outdoor WiFi systems for telecoms operators [...]
Iranians faced a second and more extensive disruption of Internet access Monday, just a week after email and social networking sites were blocked, raising concerns about state censorship ahead of parliamentary elections. The latest Internet blockade affected the most common form of secure connections, including all encrypted international websites outside of Iran that depend on [...]
SEOUL – South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co, the world’s biggest maker of televisions, is shifting its focus towards new generation OLED display technology, and said it will spin off its loss-making LCD flat-screen business into an affiliate. The outlook for liquid crystal display TVs has dimmed as shoppers in developed markets have traded in their [...]
Dementia has been described as a “time bomb” in society. As more people are living longer, more are being affected by the illness which slowly but surely annihilates brain function. More than 750,000 people in the UK already have dementia, forecasts say there will be one million dementia patients by 2021 and 1.5 million by [...]
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