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Cameron: Internet firms must do more after UK girls head to Syria

February 23, 2015 creative amira-abase, bedrooms, invest-directly, islamic, islamic-state, meeting-at-camp, shamima-begum, syria-friends, united, women-involved

By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister David Cameron said internet firms must do more to deal with online extremism after three teenage girls radicalized “in their bedrooms” left London in an apparent bid to travel to Syria. Friends Amira Abase, 15, Shamima Begum, 15, and Kadiza Sultana, 16, flew to Turkey last week in what the authorities believe was an attempt to travel to Syria to join the militant Sunni Islamist group Islamic State. News of their actions led to calls from lawmakers for social media companies to do more after it was revealed they had been in contact via Twitter with other women involved with Islamic State

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Google’s YouTube to launch subscription music service in ‘few months’

February 20, 2015 creative ad-free-version, bosnian, code, higher-because, illegally, music, samsung, search, service-called

(Reuters) – (This story corrects headline and first sentence to show that paid subscription service is for music, not broader service; changes source to Google, not CNBC; removes reference to YouTube exploring a paid, ad-free version of its service in Feb.18 story) Google Inc is set to launch its paid monthly subscription service called YouTube Music Key in a few months, Robert Kyncl, the online video service's head of content and business operations, said at the Code/Media conference. …

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On U.S. net neutrality rules, 11th-hour push against vague rule

February 20, 2015 creative alina-selyukh, communications, higher-because, internet, latest, rules, the-principle, the-regulators, vote-on-new

By Alina Selyukh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – As the U.S. Federal Communications Commission prepares to vote on new rules for high-speed Internet service, one aspect of the rules is drawing criticism from both opponents and proponents of tighter regulation. The FCC, which is set to vote next week to regulate Internet service providers more like traditional telephone companies, has introduced a so-called “general conduct” provision in the latest version of the rules that aim to ensure net neutrality, the principle that all web traffic should be treated equally

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Maryland prisons official fired for joking about being groped

February 20, 2015 creative allred, also-included, correctional, flight, guards, higher-because, honeymoon, internet, latest, public, rules, said-on-friday, the-regulators, vote-on-new

(Reuters) – A senior Maryland state corrections official has been fired after making comments on social media about being groped in prison by guards, a prisons spokesman said on Friday.

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Russian competition watchdog opens case against Google

February 20, 2015 creative apps, buyout-vehicle, dampen-other, dominance, maria-kiselyova, new-fundraising, people-familiar, picture, press-service, private, said-on-friday, seeking-more, the-dominance, their-devices, watchdog-said

By Maria Kiselyova MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia's competition watchdog said on Friday it had opened a case against Google Inc over alleged violation of anti-monopoly law, following a complaint from Russia's biggest search site Yandex NV over Google's mobile platform.

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French minister visits U.S. Internet firms about militants’ messaging

February 20, 2015 creative government, internet, intruders-had, islamic-state, microsoft, microsoft-corp, ministerial, such-as-islamic

France's chief internal security official is traveling to California's Silicon Valley to discuss his government's concerns about violent jihadist social media messaging with leading tech and Internet companies. French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve told a Washington news conference on Thursday that “all the Internet operators were welcoming me,” including Twitter Inc, Google Inc, Microsoft Corp and Facebook Inc.

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Lenovo to stop pre-installing controversial software

February 19, 2015 creative dobuzinskis, government, lenovo, lenovo-group, mobile-phones, practice, report, state, superfish, thursday, ukraine, web-connections, world

By Paul Carsten BEIJING (Reuters) – China's Lenovo Group Ltd, the world's largest PC maker, said on Thursday it will no longer pre-install software that cybersecurity experts said was malicious and made devices vulnerable to hacking. Lenovo had come under fire from security researchers who said earlier on Thursday the company pre-installed a virus-like software from a company called Superfish on consumer laptops that hijacked web connections and allowed them to be spied upon.

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Lenovo to stop pre-installing controversial software

February 19, 2015 creative bbc, from-security, islamic-state, lenovo-group, posted-explicit, practice, superfish, the-attention, thursday, web-connections, women-or-men

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Uber begins food delivery service in Spain

February 19, 2015 creative food-delivery, mobile-devices, operating-its, people-familiar, service-app, spain, technologies, while-it-fights

MADRID (Reuters) – Uber Technologies Inc has extended its UberEATS restaurant delivery service, already operating in Loc Angeles, to Barcelona, the online car ride provider said on Thursday.

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Carnegie Mellon University wrongly tells 800 applicants they got in

February 18, 2015 creative acceptance, another-round, carnegie-mellon, disappointment, mistake, pittsburgh, programs-before, school, the-school, university

(Reuters) – Carnegie Mellon University mistakenly informed about 800 applicants that they had won a place in one of the school’s prestigious computer science programs before retracting the acceptance letters, the school said. The acceptance letters were sent by email on Monday, according to the Pittsburgh-based school.