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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Thursday proposed a "bill of rights" that would give consumers greater online privacy protection and could eventually give the government greater powers to police Internet firms such as Google Inc and Facebook. While the privacy bill of rights does not impose any immediate new obligations …

(Reuters) - Shares of Hewlett-Packard Co were down 2 percent in premarket trading on Thursday after the world's No. 1 computer maker posted a sharp decline in quarterly earnings and warned it would take several years to turn around its sprawling businesses. The storied Silicon Valley company, which has been trying to move …

Hackers calling themselves the 'Iranian Cyber Army' have attacked the website of mainly Muslim neighbour Azerbaijan's state television station, the communications ministry said on Thursday.

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Philips Electronics said on Thursday it is cooperating with the police in connection with an investigation into a possible criminal cyber security breach discovered at Philips earlier this month. Philips said on February 14 that it had shut down one of its servers the previous day due to a possible …

With social network sites and smartphone apps making rapid inroads into the fashion world, observers say Italy risks falling behind even as its luxury brands feel the pain from the economic crisis.

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Finding Nemo is about to get a lot easier with the launch of a scientific survey that will allow anyone with access to the internet to take a virtual tour of Australia's Great Barrier Reef. The survey, which will use a variety of high-tech underwater cameras, will carry out one of the most intensive …

The White House unveiled an online privacy proposal Thursday intended to allow Web users to easily opt out of being tracked on the Internet.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - PayPal, the online payments company owned by eBay Inc, just got a new rival in the race to develop a mobile payment service that can be used in physical stores. Boku Inc, a big online mobile payments company backed by venture capital firms including Andreessen Horowitz and Benchmark Capital, unveiled …

LONGHUA, China (Reuters) - Apple's top manufacturer in China, Foxconn Technology, is having no problems luring fresh workers to churn out ever more gadgets, despite the firm's reputation as a tough employer that has put it under a thorough probe into its labor practices. ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard and Dell Inc are keeping a close eye on a big jump in wages for workers that assemble Apple Inc's iPhone in China, and could be forced to nudge up prices for their own products if labor costs keep rising. Major contract manufacturer Foxconn Technology Group -- which counts Apple, …

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Six of the world's top consumer technology firms have agreed to provide greater privacy disclosures before users download applications in order to protect the personal data of millions of consumers, California's attorney general said on Wednesday. The agreement binds Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Rivals to Verizon Wireless are urging U.S. communications regulators to block the company's multibillion dollar deals to buy wireless airwaves from cable operators, saying the transactions will hurt competition. In letters released this week, rivals Sprint Nextel Corp, T-Mobile USA and MetroPCS Communications …