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Google Relents, Will Hand Over European Wi-Fi Data 214

Posted by timothy on Friday June 04, 2010 @02:04AM from the at-least-we-know-the-govts-won't-abuse-it dept.

itwbennett writes "Having previously denied demands from Germany that the company turn over hard drives with data it secretly collected from open wireless networks over the past three years, Google has reversed course. A Google representative said that it will hand over the data to German, French, and Spanish authorities within a matter of days, according to the Financial Times, which first reported this latest development on Wednesday. 'We screwed up. Let's be very clear about that,' Google CEO Eric Schmidt told the newspaper."

Clashing Scores In the HTML5 Compatibility Test Wars 203

Posted by timothy on Thursday June 03, 2010 @07:12PM from the jake-the-explainer-steps-in-early dept.

Andreas(R) writes "Microsoft has published a set of HTML5 tests comparing Internet Explorer 9 to other web browsers. In Microsoft's own tests, IE9 performs 100% on all tests. However, the Internet Explorer 9 HTML5 Canvas Campaign has published results that show that Internet Explorer gets 0% on all their tests." The results reported here are selected with tongue in cheek: "Therefore, we'll also present shameless results from tests which have been carefully selected to give the results that the PR department has demanded."

Comment PortableFirefox not effected (Score 1) 803

by st_judas on Monday February 02, 2009 @03:41PM (#26698221) Attached to: Microsoft Update Slips In a Firefox Extension

I use PortableFirefox (available from www.portableapps.com) on all the Windows machines I administer. I use it for its convenient portablity, but a nice benefit is that it not detected by WU and doesn't get this "update".

Comment Fraud protection anyone? (Score 3, Insightful) 756

by st_judas on Thursday February 15, 2007 @10:12AM (#18022886) Attached to: Amazon Adjusts Prices After Sales Error

It is for this reason that fraud protection exists. Visa and other major credit card providers will generally charge back the vendor in cases like this, as it is essentially fraud.

What proof do we have that this was an honest mistake? They could have done this intentionally. Not that I think they really did, but is it even legal for them to pull this bait and switch? They can't charge your card without your authorization, right? RIGHT?!

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