News tagged with government data

Chinese hacked into US Chamber: report

A Chinese group has hacked into America's largest business lobbying organization, compromising all data on its servers and information about its three million members, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.

Technology / Internet

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Indonesia threatens to cut BlackBerry data service

Indonesia has threatened to cut data services used by millions of BlackBerry customers, the industry body said Saturday, in an ongoing spat over infrastructure and government access to information.

Technology / Telecom

created Dec 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Public health insurance offers insured infants better, less costly care than private plans

In the fierce national debate over a new federal law that requires all Americans to have health insurance, it's widely assumed that private health insurance can do a better job than the public insurance funded by the U.S. ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Wikipedia eyes India for language growth

Wikipedia on Wednesday said it was banking on growth in the mobile phone sector and increased Internet access to boost content in Indian languages ranging from Hindi to Telugu.

Technology / Internet

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

FCC sued over new Internet rules

(AP) -- A media and Internet advocacy group sued the federal government Wednesday over its new rules covering Internet traffic, saying they don't protect wireless traffic from interference by phone companies.

Technology / Telecom

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Hacked Dutch Internet company declared bankrupt

A Dutch judge granted a bankruptcy filing Tuesday for Internet security company DigiNotar, whose servers were apparently breached by an Iranian hacker in July, its parent company said.

Technology / Internet

created Sep 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Two new publications provide a cloud computing standards roadmap, reference architecture

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has published two new documents on cloud computing: the first edition of a cloud computing standards roadmap and a cloud computing reference architecture ...

Technology / Engineering

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German minister advises colleagues to shun Facebook

Germany's consumer protection minister has warned her fellow cabinet members against using Facebook to promote their work citing data security concerns, in an internal letter obtained by Der Spiegel.

Technology / Internet

created Sep 11, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Broadband services approach advertised speeds

(AP) -- New government data find that the nation's major broadband providers deliver Internet connections that are generally 80 percent to 90 percent of maximum advertised speeds.

Technology / Telecom

created Aug 02, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Citigroup says 360,000 affected by hackers

Hackers stole account information of more than 360,000 of Citigroup Inc.'s U.S. credit card customers in a recent data breach, the bank said Wednesday, almost double the number initially thought.

Technology / Internet

created Jun 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Lockheed Martin says it repelled cyber attack

Lockheed Martin, the world's top defense contractor, was on Sunday investigating the source of a major cyber-attack one week ago against its information network, the company said. ...

Technology / Internet

created May 29, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Americans 45 and older are new voting-age majority

(AP) -- For the first time, Americans 45 and older make up a majority of the voting-age population, giving older Americans wider influence in elections as the U.S. stands divided over curtailing Medicare and other benefits ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

China hackers behind cyber attack on Canada: report

China-based hackers have launched an unprecedented cyber-attack on the Canadian government, penetrating the computer systems of two key agencies and forcing them offline, CBC reported.

Technology / Internet

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FCC to use phone subsidy fund to pay for broadband

(AP) -- Government regulators are planning to overhaul the $8 billion federal program that subsidizes telephone service in poor and rural areas in order to pay for high-speed Internet connections.

Technology / Telecom

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New application allows scientists easy access to important government data

Government agencies around the world make billions of bits of raw data available to the public each day, but this data is often in difficult formats or so widely spread around the Web it is virtually unusable ...

Technology / Other

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