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Burpple which was first launched in Singapore has made tremendous advancements from being a mobile-only food-themed photo sharing app to launch on the Web as a food search engine, which had been possible via collaborations with restaurants and other eating firms. Burpple has named its new food engine as ‘Social Food Guide’which promises the users to search and browse more …
Sony is not demanding the fine amount from the Information Commissioner’s office for the PlayStation Network’s hack even though the hack had caused 77 million accounts to be compromised. The ICO fined the firm in January for the preventable breach and Sony should have known better as the occurrence fell under the Data Protection Act. Sony was reported to leave …
Sony dropped its appeal against the UK Information Commissioner’s Office related to massive data loss on PSN in April 2011. It will therefore have to pay a £250,000 fine issued by ICO in January 2013, calling the hack a breach of the Data Protection Act. A Sony representative told V3, “After careful consideration we are withdrawing our appeal. This decision reflects our …
In response to the Guardian report, published on July,11, which claimed that Skype has been passing user data into the NSA’s alleged PRISM surveillance program since 2011, Microsoft gave out a statement clearly denying Skype spying. It said that it does not provide any government with any access to SkyDrive, Skype or any other Microsoft product. Microsoft stated that while responding …
As reported by Bloomberg, Microsoft has, today, filed a lawsuit against the US Customs and Border Protection accusing it of having secret meetings with Google. According to Microsoft, it has allowed Google continue to import smartphones made by it’s Motorola Mobility unit, which earlier was blocked. Susan Decker & Tom Schoenberg of Bloomberg report, “In May, 2012, Motorola Mobility phones were …
