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Trois nouveaux suicides dans une usine de Foxconn en Chine - 19 May 2013
Trois salariés d’une usine de Foxconn en Chine ont mis fin à leurs jours en moins de trois semaines en se précipitant dans le vide, selon une agence de presse officielle et une organisation de défense des ouvriers chinois, qui s’interroge sur les raisons de ces suicides.
Les trois suicidés était employés par la même (...)
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Le moteur chinois Baidu travaille sur ses propres lunettes connectées - 3 April 2013
Le programme conduit par Google avec ses lunettes Glass a donné des idées de l’autre côté du Pacifique. Le géant de la recherche chinois Baidu a ainsi indiqué à la presse qu’un projet similaire est testé en interne. Mais rien n’indique que celui-ci dépassera le stade du prototype.
Il faudra compter sur un challenger de plus (...)
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Sony annonce la sortie de ses caméras de vidéosurveillance de 6e génération en Europe - 15 March 2013
Sony a annoncé la sortie en Europe de ses toutes nouvelles caméras de vidéosurveillance de sixième génération (G6). Les neuf nouvelles caméras intégrant la technologie IPELA ENGINE de Sony, font partie d’une nouvelle gamme de solutions de vidéosurveillance conçues pour fournir des performances optimales sur le marché milieu (...)
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Fifteen Years of DMCA Abuse - 13 March 2013
EFF continues to chronicle harm in “Unintended Consequences” white paper
San Francisco - Fifteen years after Congress passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and just as legislators and the public are debating the law’s dangerous impact on consumers who want to unlock their cell phones, the evidence of much (...)
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Samsung est le 1er déposant de brevets en Europe - 7 March 2013
Selon l’Office européen des brevets, les entreprises chinoises et coréennes sont celles qui ont déposé le plus de demandes de brevets dans le secteur des communications numériques. Samsung arrive en tête des déposants.
L’an dernier, Samsung est la société qui a déposé le plus grand nombre de demandes de brevets en Europe. (...)
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Sony Hits Beyonce File-Sharer With $233,000 Damages Lawsuit - 4 March 2013
An important file-sharing prosecution has just taken another unexpected turn. The case, which is notable as the first ever to involve the monitoring and subsequent charging of a BitTorrent user in Sweden, centers around the pre-release leaking of a Beyonce album to The Pirate Bay. Now, in a parallel action brought (...)
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Sony patent application measures load times to detect pirated games - 27 February 2013
Sony seems prepared to unleash a new tool in its never-ending battle against game pirates, using measured load times, of all things, to detect certain illegitimate copies of its games.
Sony’s patent for "Benchmark measurement for legitimate duplication validation" was filed way back in August 2011, but it was only (...)
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Sony pourrait évaluer la "réputation pirate" des joueurs - 27 February 2013
Pour compléter ses dispositifs de lutte contre le piratage, Sony a déposé un brevet sur un procédé qui mesurerait la "réputation pirate" d’un joueur. S’il est intégré dans la PS4, le système pourrait bloquer l’exécution des jeux piratés ou même désactiver la PS4 au delà d’un certain nombre de tentatives de piratage.
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BitTorrent Site Admin Hits Out at UK Music Industry Site Blocking Demand - 25 February 2013
Within days the UK music industry will head back to the High Court with demands that the country’s leading Internet service providers should begin blocking three of the world’s largest torrent sites. Today, the owner of one of them describes the action as an attack on file-sharers and questions whether the process (...)
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Who’s Tracking Your Reading Habits? An E-Book Buyer’s Guide to Privacy, 2012 Edition - 6 December 2012
The holiday shopping season is upon us, and once again e-book readers promise to be a very popular gift. Last year’s holiday season saw ownership of a dedicated e-reader device spike to nearly 1 in 5 Americans, and that number is poised to go even higher. But if you’re in the market for an e-reader this year, or for (...)
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Foxconn reconnaît avoir employé des mineurs en Chine - 17 October 2012
Le groupe taïwanais Foxconn, un des grands sous-traitants d’Apple, Nokia et Sony, a reconnu employer dans une usine chinoise des jeunes de 14 ans, confirmant ainsi des informations d’une organisation de défense des droits des travailleurs. L’ONG China Labor Watch, basée aux Etats-Unis, et les médias chinois ont rapporté (...)
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Japan introduces piracy penalties for illegal downloads - 1 October 2012
Japan-based internet users who download copyright infringing files face up to two years in prison or fines of up to two million yen ($25,700; £15,900) after a change to the law.
Such activity has been illegal since 2010, but until now had not invoked the penalties.
It follows a lobbying campaign by country’s (...)
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Who’s Suing Whom in The Telecoms Trade? - 21 August 2012
Who ? Suing who ? Why ? Year ? Where ? Resolved ? Revenue ? Source ? Link ?
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Apple’s Secrets Revealed at Trial - 5 August 2012
Apple Inc., one of the world’s most secretive companies, is finding there’s a price in pushing its grievances against rival Samsung Electronics Co. in federal court: disclosure.
In just the first few days of its patent trial this week, Apple has publicly discussed how it created the iPhone and iPad, showed early (...)
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Google acquires social ad start-up Wildfire - 1 August 2012
Google Inc said on Tuesday it acquired marketing start-up Wildfire to help the world’s largest Internet search company expand further into social media.
Google paid about $250 million for the business, according to a person familiar with the deal. The source is not authorized to speak publicly about the (...)
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Samsung and Apple’s patent clash heads to trial by jury - 30 July 2012
Samsung and Apple’s patent battle heads to a court in California this Monday - one of the biggest trials of its kind.
The tech firms have accused each other of intellectual property infringement.
Billions of dollars of payments could be triggered from one business to the other and sales bans imposed if the jury (...)
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Apple v. Samsung: 5 Surprising Reveals in Latest Court Documents - 28 July 2012
The lawyers behind the upcoming Apple v. Samsung trial have been hard at work filing docket after docket as their court battle looms closer, and many of those dockets have just been released to the public. We’re now seeing a lot of previously secret information about the early days of iPhone and iPad R&D, and (...)
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2010: E-Book Buyer’s Guide to E-Book Privacy - 4 July 2012
With the 2010 holidays upon us, it’s time to update EFF’s E-Book Buyer’s Guide to E-Book Privacy, which summarizes and comments on the privacy-related policies of several e-readers.
What’s new. We’ve added in the iPad and also added in the software used by many libraries and devices for e-book access, made by Adobe (...)
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UK LulzSec suspect charged with hacking in US - 15 June 2012
A British man suspected of being part of the Lulz Security hacking group has been formally charged in the US.
US prosecutors accuse 20-year-old Ryan Cleary, who is in custody in the UK, of breaking into a number of websites, including that of the US X-Factor.
The indictment claims that the hacks were perpetrated (...)
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LulzSec: US indicts Ryan Cleary over hacking of Sony and Fox - 15 June 2012
British citizen is already in UK custody on similar charges and could face extradition once case is finalised
A federal grand jury in Los Angeles has indicted a 20-year-old British citizen on charges related to attacks by the LulzSec hacking group against the Fox and PBS television networks and Sony’s film and TV (...)
