NSA snooped on Islamists' porn habits: reportThe 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.
1.6 billion people on social networks: studyAn 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
Russian Internet titan Mail.ru targets USRussian Internet titan Mail.ru on Tuesday hit the US market with email, text messaging and gaming applications for mobile devices.
Google blocks child porn from 100,000 searchesGoogle 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.
China Singles Day online shoppers spend almost $6 bnChinese 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.
Man charged with posting 'Anonymous' symbol on Singapore websiteSingapore 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 defencesA 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
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 alertActivist group Anonymous hacked a Singapore newspaper website Friday and threatened wider cyber attacks over Internet freedom.
'Internal error' downs NSA website: officialThe 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
Big ad atop Google results points to broken promiseA 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
Facebook pulls beheading video amid furorFacebook yanked a beheading video from the social network late Tuesday following outrage over its lifting of a ban on the gory imagery.