Headline News Archive

2010

May

12

• Genetic testing kits to be sold at drugstores. Genetic testing is making its way to the corner drugstore, and federal regulators aren't too happy about it. Walgreens will begin selling personal genetic testing…

11

• Genetic testing kit at drugstores. Beginning Friday, shoppers in search of toothpaste, deodorant and laxatives at more than 6,000 drugstores across the nation will be able to pick up something…

06

• Facebook glitch brings new privacy worries. For many users of Facebook, the world’s largest social network, it was just the latest in a string of frustrations. On Wednesday, users discovered a…

05

• Lawmakers unveil online privacy legislation. Two U.S. lawmakers have released a draft bill that would require companies that collect personal information from customers to disclose how they collect and share…

• Consumer groups say proposed privacy bill is flawed. A long-awaited draft of a Congressional bill would extend privacy protections both on the Internet and off line, but privacy advocates said the bill did…

03

• Stolen Facebook accounts for sale. Researchers at VeriSign’s iDefense division tracking the digital underworld say bogus and stolen accounts on the Facebook are now on sale in high volume on…

• Web's users against its gatekeepers. BERLIN — With the majority of Internet traffic expected to shift to congestion-prone mobile networks, there is growing debate on both sides of the Atlantic…

02

• Shoppers who can't have secrets. IT’S called behavioral tracking: • Cameras that can follow you from the minute you enter a store to the moment you hit the checkout counter,…

• 'Antisocial' networking altering teen interactions. “HEY, you’re a dork,” said the girl to the boy with a smile. “Just wanted you to know.” “Thanks!” said the boy. “Just kidding,” said…

April

26

• Spammers pay others to answer security tests. MUMBAI, India — Faced with stricter Internet security measures, some spammers have begun borrowing a page from corporate America’s playbook: they are outsourcing. Sophisticated spammers…

• Internet advertising click fraud increases. Click fraud is on the rise, as cybergangs step up the use of infected PCs to divert advertising dollars into their hands. In the first…

• More American expats giving up citizenship. WASHINGTON — Amid mounting frustration over taxation and banking problems, small but growing numbers of overseas Americans are taking the weighty step of renouncing their…

25

• Fraud has been on rise in weak economy. If a grandchild calls begging for money because the Iceland volcano has left him stuck in Europe, you might want to check his story out.…

23

• For Web’s new wave, sharing details is the point. Mark Brooks wants the whole Web to know that he spent $41 on an iPad case at an Apple store, $24 eating at an Applebee’s,…

22

• Indian tribe wins right to limit use of its DNA. SUPAI, Ariz. — Seven years ago, the Havasupai Indians, who live amid the turquoise waterfalls and red cliffs miles deep in the Grand Canyon, issued…

20

• Cyberattack on Google said to hit password system. Ever since Google disclosed in January that Internet intruders had stolen information from its computers, the exact nature and extent of the theft has been…

19

• Federal benefits to be paid electronically by 2013. Most Social Security and other federal benefits payments will be made by direct deposit by 2013, the Treasury Department is set to announce Monday. The…

• Facebook seeps onto other sites. With about half of Facebook’s 400 million users checking in daily, the social networking company has established itself as one of the Web’s most popular…

• Companies slowly join cloud computing. his year, Netflix made what looked like a peculiar choice: the DVD-by-mail company decided that over the next two years, it would move most of…

18

• Buying a credit score?. Everyone's got your number — a credit score, that is — and as a savvy consumer, you might want to find out exactly what they've…

17

• Urgent mortgage moves need not destroy credit scores. Financially stressed homeowners looking to cut their mortgage payments through a loan modification, short sale or principal reduction under one of the Obama administration's programs…

14

• Can we trust telecom firms on net neutrality?. Here's an entry in my bizspeak-to-English dictionary: When executives in certain industries talk about needing to be rid of regulation so they can foster "better…

13

• FCC chief faces broadband dilemma. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski will soon have to make a wonky but controversial decision that could have a profound impact on how much…

12

• New sites rethink anonymous online comments. From the start, Internet users have taken for granted that the territory was both a free-for-all and a digital disguise, allowing them to revel in…

• Tax season spawns Internet spammer scams. A wave of tax-related cyberscams is hitting the Internet. With the federal tax-filing deadline looming, spam enticing Internet users to fill out bogus forms at…