Neowin News Feed for: Governments

Elon Musk says governments may need to pay to use Twitter

Rahul Naskar — Wed, 04 May 2022 07:04:01 +0000

Under Elon Musk's leadership, Twitter will always be free for casual users. But Musk is proposing that governments and commercial users may need to pay a small fee to use the micro-blogging site. Read more...

Facebook is localising ad selling revenues to address concerns

Paul Hill — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 06:58:01 +0000

Facebook has announced that it will record ad revenues in the countries where they were sold instead of in Dublin at the company's international headquarters. Experts remain skeptical, though. Read more...

Facebook releases data on requests made by governments worldwide

Paul Hill — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 16:08:01 +0000

Facebook has released data regarding government requests that it received during the second half of 2015. For the first time, the company has included case studies to give an idea about requests. Read more...

Gamma International, a company which produces spyware software for governments, has been hacked

Steven Johns — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 11:13:16 +0000

A redditor has dumped online 40GB of files from Gamma International's servers, including the FinFisher Suite spyware's source code, support history, and various internal documents. Read more...

Governments to Pressure ISP's Over Spam

Wed, 25 May 2005 15:01:22 +0000

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), along with more than 35 government agencies worldwide, announced an ambitious effort on Tuesday to get ISPs and other organisations to deliver the net from the plague of zombie... Read more...

Microsoft opens portals for governments

Tue, 09 Nov 2004 15:32:33 +0000

Microsoft is trying to help governments stop reinventing the digital wheel. As part of its many programs designed to keep government customers happy, the software giant has set up what it calls... Read more...

Microsoft courts governments in strategy shift

Fri, 28 May 2004 19:01:43 +0000

Having faced high-profile antitrust cases in both the U.S. and European Union (E.U.), Microsoft Corp. may not immediately spring to mind as governments' favored friend. So it is perhaps not surprising that the software giant... Read more...

Governments to see Windows code

Wed, 15 Jan 2003 12:17:55 +0000

Microsoft will share the source code underlying its Windows operating system with several international governments, a move designed to address concerns about the security of the OS. The Redmond, Washington based... Read more...

Group to start fighting governments backing open source

Tue, 13 Aug 2002 14:54:00 +0000

Following from the story yesterday that advocates of open source are to march to promote proposed legislation in California that would make state agencies use open source software, there has been a report on a... Read more...