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Google Now First in Line to Acquire Waze

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Google appears to have supplanted Facebook — which had supplanted Apple — as the likely candidate to acquire Israeli start-up Waze. Google is prepared to pony up US$1.3 billion for the company, according to the Israeli business newspaper Globes. Last month, reports surfaced that Facebook was working on a $1 billion deal for Waze. And…

Sprint Launches Spunky $99 Vital Smartphone

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Sprint this week released the US$99 ZTE Vital, a high mid-range Android smartphone that could rock the market. The device, which has been pegged as a competitor to Samsung’s highly regarded Galaxy S4, has a host of power-packed features and has already divided analysts. “The price is the key,” Richard Karpinski, a senior analyst at…

EC Mulls Potential US Threat to Europeans’ Privacy

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

The European Commission is concerned that U.S. data collection practices such as PRISM may pose a threat to Europeans’ privacy rights. Commission Vice President Viviane Reding, who is in charge of justice, plans to raise the issue at an EU-U.S. meeting later this week in Dublin. That announcement comes after last week’s revelation that the…

Iceland Won’t Grant Snowden Asylum – Until He Gets There

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

As far as Iceland goes, Edward Snowden may be left out in the cold. Snowden, the whistleblower who made international headlines after leaking secrets about the U.S. National Security Agency’s PRISM program, is believed to currently be in Hong Kong. Given Hong Kong’s history of extraditing people to the United States — and Snowden, to…

Tech Titans Speak Out for More PRISM Transparency

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

After initially denying involvement in the U.S. National Security Agency’s highly controversial PRISM program revealed last week, Google and other tech giants that were named as participants now admit their involvement and are calling for greater transparency. Google, for instance, on Tuesday sent a letter to the offices of the U.S. Attorney General and the…

Galaxy S4 Zooms In on Camera Functionality

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Samsung on Wednesday announced the Galaxy S4 Zoom, a smartphone whose camera offers 10x optical zoom. It is the ultimate smartphone and camera experience in one, Samsung contends, but opinions are divided on that. “Given how popular smartphone cameras have been, this would appear to offer photography enthusiasts a major upgrade in camera performance,” Raymond…

Google Outs Iran for Pre-Election Phishing Expedition

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Google announced it has been tracking and disrupting “multiple email-based phishing campaigns” in Iran. The campaigns, which have been going on for nearly three weeks, are targeting the accounts of tens of thousands of Iranian users. Google posits that the phishing is related to the Iranian presidential elections, which will be held Friday. The phishing…

New Drive Aims to Stamp Out Smartphone Crime

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

A coalition of United States officials, institutional investors and consumer advocates on Thursday launched the Save Our Smartphones Initiative nationwide. With smartphone-related crimes, some of which are shockingly brutal, on the rise in the U.S., law enforcement officials have cranked up the pressure on the cellphone industry to come up with technologies to deter theft.…

Ending the US’ Cyberwar Against Its Citizens

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

I’m into fixing problems — in fact, for much of my life I’ve been employed as someone who is brought in to fix a difficult problem. I don’t see much point in just complaining — either try to fix it, ignore it, or move someplace where it doesn’t affect you. (I’m also planning to move…

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