Facebook will honor refunds for mistaken in-app purchases made by minors – CNET
A California court has ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in a 2012 class action lawsuit brought against the social media giant. Source: CNet
Read MoreA California court has ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in a 2012 class action lawsuit brought against the social media giant. Source: CNet
Read MoreInvisible Browsing VPN (ibVPN) is a brand of Romanian-based firm Amplusnet and has been offering VPN services since 2010. The company currently offers no less than six products, including a free plan, a Standard VPN ($18.48 per year – which is around £14, AU$25) and Ultimate VPN ($58.06 – that’s £44, AU$77), and specialist plans
Read MoreAnchorFree’s Hotspot Shield is a very popular VPN service, best known for its free account. Hotspot Shield Elite is the £18.95 ($25, AU$33) per year extended edition (£63.95 lifetime plan – that’s $84, AU$112) which drops the ads, supports private browsing, virtual locations, allows "access all content", and supports up to five devices. The service
Read MoreBuy a VPN service and you’ll probably expect access to some carefully designed network of managed servers, smartly linked via highly secure protocols to prevent unauthorised access to your traffic. Hola isn’t like that at all. The Israeli company describes its offering as a "community powered (Peer-to-Peer) VPN" which routes your traffic through other user’s
Read MoreOracle Corp. today announced the purchase of NetSuite Inc. to bolster its software with cloud-computing technology. Source: CNet
Read MoreFollowing a 33 percent drop in revenue, China is no longer Apple’s second biggest market. Source: CNet
Read MoreCEO Tim Cook says during a company meeting that Apple sold its billionth iPhone last week. Source: CNet
Read MoreHideMyAss has been a popular provider of VPN services for more than 10 years, but is now owned by AVG Technologies. The company offers 940+ servers in 350+ locations across 190+ countries, many more than the bulk of the competition. Load balancing allows HideMyAss to recommend the server with the minimum load in any location,
Read MoreEVenture Limited subsidiary Hide.me is a Malaysia-based company which has been providing VPN services since 2011. Hide.me’s free plan offers a reasonable 2GB data transfer, although the extremely limited server choice (Canada, Netherlands, Singapore), "best effort" bandwidth and one device limit might put you off. Registration requires an email address, too. Want to try Hide.me?
Read MoreOculus Story Studio, founded by vets of Disney’s animation giant, hints its next project will experiment with letting you touch the story. Source: CNet
Read MoreIn the latest episode of Security Sessions, CSO Editor-in-Chief Joan Goodchild chats with Ted Harrington of Independent Security Evaluators about how different generations (mainly millennials and Baby Boomers) view both security and privacy matters. These differences and attitudes can have a big effect on how companies train them on proper security procedures. Source: Security
Read MoreExpressVPN is a small British Virgin Islands-based provider of VPN services. The company’s products are eye-wateringly expensive, from the $12.95 (£9.96, AU$17.43) for a one-off month option to the $99.95 (£77, AU$135) plan for annual payments. We browsed the feature list looking for an explanation, but couldn’t really find one. Sure, the 130+ servers in
Read MoreCyberGhost is a Romanian-based company which has been providing comprehensive and capable VPN services for several years. The current range starts with a baseline free account. This has relatively poor performance, and includes ads, but you don’t have to register to use it, there are no specific bandwidth or data caps, and it also acts
Read More“When Dinesh met Gilfoyle, sparks flew.” It’s the Pied Piper rom-com you’ve been dreaming of, and it’s coming soon, according to this parody trailer from HBO. Source: CNet
Read MoreMoldova-based CactusVPN has ‘only’ been around since 2011, but tailored products and keen pricing has won the product plenty of attention. There’s no "one-size-fits-all" plan, for instance. Instead the company offers a "US VPN" (four servers in the USA), a "UK VPN" (six servers in the UK), a "Liberty VPN" (four servers in the Netherlands,
Read MorePresident Barack Obama throws his support to his former rival and everyone slams Republican nominee Donald Trump on the third night of the Democratic National Convention. Source: CNet
Read MoreThe International, Valve’s premier e-sports tournament, is bringing the action closer to your eye holes than ever before with ways to watch the action in VR. Source: CNet
Read MoreThe revamped Yahoo Messenger app, which first landed on mobile devices last December, is now available on Windows and Mac. Source: CNet
Read MoreGamers in Asia won’t have to wait any longer than their American cousins to get their hands on Sony’s VR platform — though they’ll have to pay a touch more. Source: CNet
Read MoreThe South Korean company beats expectations thanks in part to strong sales of the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge. Source: CNet
Read MoreCredo Action is seeking 10,000 online signatures on a petition that urges the government to not let the GOP presidential nominee attend security briefings. Source: CNet
Read MoreRepresentatives from Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon tell Democratic members of Congress they need a better-educated and more diverse workforce to stay competitive in the global economy. Source: CNet
Read MoreA Russian company invites audiophiles to play Donald Trump “like he’s been playing you” with a Bluetooth speaker embedded in a bust of the GOP presidential nominee. Source: CNet
Read MoreLorelai and Rory will start in with the sassiness right after Thanksgiving, so fans have something new to be thankful for this year. Source: CNet
Read MorePlaintiffs in the class action suit said women at Qualcomm were paid less than “the men who work beside them.” Source: CNet
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