Mois : juillet 2013 (Page 4 of 4)

Google has reportedly paid the makers of Adblock Plus, the single most popular browser extension on Chrome and Firefox, to look the other way when it comes to its web advertisements.

AT&T is considering selling your usage data (location, web browsing history, etc.) to advertisers, having seemingly decided that it’s been too long since everyone was mad at them. They noted the plan in a preview of an upcoming change to their privacy policy published earlier this week. AT&T is quick to point out that other companies, like Verizon, have been doing this for a while.

Un journal que je paie milite pour que je sois taxé sur mes activités hors-journaux ? Une excellente idée pour donner un prétexte à son lectorat de ne pas renouveler son abonnement. – Taxalot

nos services ont développé des outils mutualisés d’interception des flux Internet” mais dans le strict cadre de loi de 1991

In June of 2013, I made an interesting discovery about the Android phone (a Motorola Droid X2) which I was using at the time: it was silently sending a considerable amount of sensitive information to Motorola, and to compound the problem, a great deal of it was over an unencrypted HTTP channel.

Microsoft will make support for 3D printers available in the next update to its Windows 8 operating system. The firm has struck deals with a raft of major 3D-printer makers – including Makerbot, 3D Systems, Formlabs, Dassault and Stratasys – under which they will develop automatically-loading driver software that will ease 3D printer set-up at home.