Whistle-blowing site Wikileaks on Thursday released the Syria Files, a database of over 2.4 million emails to and from Syrian political figures, ministries and associated companies, dating from August 2006 to March 2012.
By 2015, the European Parliament wants all new cars to automatically alert emergency services in case of a crash, a service known as eCall.
CERN scientists announced on Wednesday that they observed a particle that strongly resembles the long-sought after Higgs boson, the final missing ingredient in the standard model of particle Physics.
The U.S. NTIA has awarded ICANN the mandate to manage the assignment of IP addresses and the management of top-level domains until September 2015, the government agency announced on Monday.
The European Parliament has postponed Wednesday's vote on a new patent law it drafted jointly with the European Council because on Friday the Council modified the text to limit the role of the European Court of Justice.
Mozilla said Monday that it has named its forthcoming HTML5 mobile operating system Firefox OS, gained support for it from more telcos and found two device manufacturers that intend to build phones using the OS.
Negotiations on the E.U.'s future unitary patent system were concluded on Friday by a decision on where the central division of the European Unified Patent Court will be located.
The Digital Archery contest, devised by ICANN to determine which gTLD applications would be handled first, was canceled on Thursday, the chair of the gTLD Program Committee announced during the ICANN 44 summit in Prague. No alternative was announced.
The Dutch government was unprepared to handle an SSL hack that caused the government's communication infrastructure to be vulnerable for months, the Dutch Safety Board said in report on Thursday. Because the government was unable to replace the certificates immediately, citizen and company data was left unsecured, the board said.
Patent litigation caused by "non-practicing entities" (NPEs), better known as "patent trolls," cost U.S. software and hardware companies US$29 billion in 2011, according to a study from the Boston University School of Law.
Hewlett-Packard has released an open source version of webOS that can be used on legacy TouchPad tablets, the Open webOS project team announced on Tuesday. The "Community Edition" enables users to learn how the TouchPad works and how to modify the device.
EURid, the registry for the .eu domain, has developed a new open source DNS (domain name server) called YADIFA as an alternative to existing DNS software such as BIND or Name Server Daemon (NSD). YADIFA is faster, more efficient and could be used by ISPs and big companies, EURid's CTO said on Tuesday.
ICANN has suspended the Digital Archery contest part of its new Generic Top-level Domain (gTLD) Program, which was destined to decide which gTLD applications would be handled first, the organization announced on Saturday. The future of this application process is still to be determined, ICANN said during a news conference in Prague on Monday.
Danish ISPs have agreed that if one service provider is ordered by a court to block a website or copyrighted content, all ISPs will do the same, the Danish Ministry of Culture announced on Wednesday. Licensees only have to take legal action against one service provider to get a country-wide blockade.
Google has cooperated with universities and linguistic organizations to begin documenting approximately 3,500 languages that are at risk of disappearing in the next 100 years, the company said on Thursday.