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The National Security Agency (NSA) logo.©Reuters/Jason Reed NSA snooped on Islamists' porn habits: report The National Security Agency planned to discredit Islamist "radicals" by spying on their online pornography habits, The Huffington Post reported Wednesday, citing a document leaked by ex-intelligence contractor Edward Snowden.
28 November 2013
©Reuters/Robert Galbraith  Yahoo pushes further into news with 'global anchor' Yahoo made a fresh move Monday to expand as a media group, naming a star "global anchor" to be the face of its digital news brand.
26 November 2013
©Reuters/Brendan McDermid Twitter toughens encryption to thwart online snooping Twitter on Friday announced it has toughened the encryption of traffic at the globally popular one-to-many messaging service to thwart online snooping.
23 November 2013
©Reuters/Kai Pfaffenbach 1.6 billion people on social networks: study An estimated 1.61 billion people, more than one in five globally, will log in to social networking sites at least monthly this year, the research firm eMarketer said Tuesday.
21 November 2013
Photo courtesy of wikipedia.org Russian Internet titan Mail.ru targets US Russian Internet titan Mail.ru on Tuesday hit the US market with email, text messaging and gaming applications for mobile devices.
20 November 2013
©Reuters/Seth Wenig German union plans Christmas strike at Amazon: report Germany's service-sector union Verdi is planning strike action at the online retail giant Amazon over the busy Christmas holiday period.
18 November 2013
©Reuters/Chris Helgren Google blocks child porn from 100,000 searches Google boss Eric Schmidt said Monday that the tech giant had developed new technology that makes it harder to find child sexual abuse images on the web.
18 November 2013
3D printing 'will change the world' From replacement kidneys to guns, cars, prosthetics and works of art, 3D printing is predicted to transform our lives in the coming decades as dramatically as the Internet did before it.
16 November 2013
Google Glass gets music integration Google's new Internet-connected eyewear will have music too.
13 November 2013
The online transaction value on Alipay, an online payment system of China's leading e-commerce retailers Taobao.com and Tmall.com. ©Reuters China Singles Day online shoppers spend almost $6 bn Chinese shoppers spent a record 35.0 billion yuan ($5.7 billion) at the country's biggest online marketplaces on Singles Day, their operator said Tuesday, after the festival created by e-tailers to persuade the loveless to console themselves with retail therapy.
13 November 2013
Kazakhstan Internet among leaders of minors sexual abuse propaganda Kazakhstan is among the Top 10 countries that host the largest number of servers distributing content promoting sexual abuse of minors.
12 November 2013
Man charged with posting 'Anonymous' symbol on Singapore website Singapore on Tuesday charged a local man with hacking a council website and posting a symbol associated with international hacker group Anonymous, amid concerns about new Internet laws in the city-state.
12 November 2013
Hackers expose Asia's weak cyber defences A rash of website hackings in the Asia-Pacific has exposed weak cyber defences which must be improved to help the region deal with more sophisticated and sinister threats, particularly from criminal organisations, analysts said.
09 November 2013
©Reuters/Stephen Lam Google ends mystery: barge to be 'interactive space' Google ended nearly two weeks of speculation about an enormous floating barge in San Francisco Bay, saying it would be "an interactive space" for learning about technology.
07 November 2013
'Anonymous' hack puts Singapore on alert Activist group Anonymous hacked a Singapore newspaper website Friday and threatened wider cyber attacks over Internet freedom.
01 November 2013
'World's first' bitcoin ATM opens in Canada Three young entrepreneurs have opened what they call the world's first ATM able to exchange bitcoins for any official currency.
30 October 2013
©Reuters/Mansi Thapliyal Net giants opposed to Brazil datebase creation Web giant Google and other Internet companies say they oppose creating Brazil-based databases of local customer information.
27 October 2013
©Reuters/Pichi Chuang 'Internal error' downs NSA website: official The National Security Agency's website went down for several hours Friday, but the US spy service known for hacking into computer networks blamed the outage on a technical mistake.
26 October 2013
©Reuters/Mike Blake Big ad atop Google results points to broken promise A large ad spied atop Google search results on Wednesday was seen as evidence that the Internet titan was breaking a promise that it would never resort to the tactic.
25 October 2013
©Reuters/Valentin Flauraud Facebook pulls beheading video amid furor Facebook yanked a beheading video from the social network late Tuesday following outrage over its lifting of a ban on the gory imagery.
24 October 2013

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