Neowin News Feed for: Controversy

German Federal Court decides Google auto-complete can violate privacy

Paul Ferson — Tue, 14 May 2013 22:26:43 +0100

Germany's federal court has decided the Google auto-complete function can violate user privacy and former President Christian Wulff's wife is being used as the key example of this problem. Read more...

Facebook misinterprets picture of woman in bath as explicit

Paul Ferson — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 16:15:30 +0000

Facebook has removed an image seemingly showing a woman in rather, ahem, 'risque' positioning while proving someone's theory that the Terms of Service are somewhat flawed in their usage. Read more...

Iran removes block on Gmail again after a week

Paul Ferson — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:04:05 +0100

The Iranian government has removed the block on Gmail again after only a week, with ministers in parliament showing their dissent against the sudden loss of one of the most popular email services. Read more...

Wikimedia "in chaos" after co-founder Jimmy Wales steps down

Tzvi Friedman — Sun, 16 May 2010 20:01:05 +0100

After Fox News broke a story in April about Wikimedia hosting pornographic images on its servers, company co-founder and president Jimmy Wales started single-handedly purging the Wikimedia databases of all things deemed pornographic. These actions... Read more...

Safari Security Claims Ignite Controversy

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:23:44 +0100

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Just hours after Apple Inc. released a Windows version of Safari on Monday, security researchers had uncovered more than half a dozen vulnerabilities in the browser beta, including at least three that could let attackers... Read more...

Microsoft Tries to Explain Away Outlook 2007 Controversy

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:41:02 +0000

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Microsoft is trying to dampen criticism by explaining its controversial decision to unify the rendering and editing engines in Outlook 2007 and use only the Word 2007 engine, even though there are some HTML and... Read more...

Symantec Caught in Rootkit Controversy

stncttr908 — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 20:50:26 +0000

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Symantec has been forced to fix a "flaw" in Norton SystemWorks which could possibly allow malware authors to hide files from users. While the feature is designed to prevent SystemWorks users from accidentally deleting... Read more...

Microsoft spec invites controversy

malebolgia — Wed, 09 Jul 2003 15:38:44 +0100

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A Web services security specification, introduced this week by IBM and Microsoft, could emerge as a rival to the existing Sun Microsystems-backed Liberty Alliance Project. A group of major players on the... Read more...

Red Hat Stands Pat In SCO/Unix Controversy

Toxicfume — Fri, 06 Jun 2003 18:49:06 +0100

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As SCO Group cranks up the pressure on the Linux community for allegedly misappropriating some of its Unix code, Red Hat Inc. continues to stand by the position that it's done nothing wrong. ... Read more...

New.net downloads reignites Kazaa controversy

vincent_inactive — Wed, 10 Apr 2002 15:05:06 +0100

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Kazaa's file swapping software downloads are again in the spotlight following complaints regarding New.net software, which comes bundled with the popular P2P download. Launched in March last year, New.net offers access to a series... Read more...