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redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Beginning next week, Google's search algorithm will be altered to punish websites which receive multiple valid copyright violation notices from users, the Mountain View, California-based company announced Friday. According to Cyrus Farivar of Ars Technica, the policy revision will result in those pages which receive higher rates of removal requests to see their standing in the search-engine results decrease. Farivar notes that...
MIAMI, Fla., Aug. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- VOXXI, the premier site for independent news, analysis and commentary with a Hispanic focus, announced today that it will incorporate the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 license to allow anyone including: media organizations, non-profits, bloggers and any traditional or new media outlet to leverage VOXXI's high-quality content, analysis and commentary to further their coverage of key issues. "This is a natural...
Each web site and each piece of software now has its own unique method of establishing passwords. It is difficult to keep track, and just as likely that personal passwords will be permanently lost. In addition to having an inconveniently long title, The Ultimate Guide to Password Recovery and Data Management is a book suggesting to hold the solution to password mahem. EveryReview.net weighs in with a review of the book. (PRWEB) August 08, 2012 The Ultimate Guide to Password Recovery and...
Connie K. Ho for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online The Internet has been attributed as “a brave new world” in the past. With this theme, government officials are working to make the web safer for families. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently stated that it would propose more stringent standards to safeguard the privacy and data of children who utilize the Internet. In particular, the government agency publicized a proposal that detailed expanding privacy rules to website...
BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Aug. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Bongo International announced today they recently received the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) Level 1 Service Provider Certification, the highest certification level for payment data security in the eCommerce industry. PCI-DSS represents a very strict set of requirements designed to ensure that companies who process, store or transmit credit card information are maintaining a secure environment. The Payment Card...
In the last 12 months the RIAA, MPAA, AT&T, Time Warner, Comcast, Cablevision, and Verizon has been working on a new anti-piracy alert system. There were a lot of details to be covered, and a date of early July was set for implementation. It appears their initial estimates of completion were a little off. VPNReviewz, and many others, are saying the implementation could take months more, and additional ISPs could get on board with the program... (PRWEB) July 26, 2012 Referred to as the...
The “Summer Camp For Moguls" will be attended by some of the biggest, brightest players in the entertainment and internet media industries this year, but will they have reasonable discussions about difficult problems? The CEO of VPNReviewz thinks that a meeting of minds is inevitable, but will consumers be consulted? Undisclosed Location, South America (PRWEB) July 22, 2012 In January of this year, legislative efforts being spurred by entertainment industry leaders and moguls had a...
Secure128, an IT security solutions specialist and master distribution partner of several globally recognized IT security brands, debuts a range of IT security services. The company also announces a newly formed partnership with WHMCS, a worldwide leader in online recurring billing & automation to expand global distribution of certain products such as SSL Certificates and PCI Compliance via the WHMCS solution. Roswell, Georgia (PRWEB) July 18, 2012 Secure128, an IT security solutions...
PORTLAND, Ore., July 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- OSCON -- Black Duck Software today announced significant updates to Ohloh.net, the world's most comprehensive online directory of open source projects, contributors and code. Effective immediately, Ohloh.net data has been licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. In addition, the company announced availability of a public Beta version of a powerful new open source code search engine, Ohloh Code. These updates...
ISPs and the RIAA have been working for more than a year to develop a system of monitoring the ISPs customers for illegal downloading. Here’s an explanation of the steps they will take to discipline infringers, and measures the accused can take to appeal the decisions. Undisclosed Location, S. America (PRWEB) July 17, 2012 Over the last year ISPs and the RIAA and MPAA have been working on a system of monitoring the internet users of the 5 companies for the possibility of copyright...
