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Loek Essers
Member since: August 2013
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Follow Loek Essers on Google+Loek is the Amsterdam correspondent for the IDG News Service and covers online privacy, intellectual property, open-source and online payment issues. Follow him on Twitter at @loekessers or email tips and comments to loek_essers@idg.com.
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Sony's PlayStation 4's lower price will help it to outsell Microsoft's upcoming Xbox One during the year-end holiday season, according to IDC.
4 days 9 hours ago
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HTC and Qualcomm are reworking a radio chip for the HTC One smartphone in order to avoid a U.S. ban on imports of patent-infringing technology, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
5 days 6 hours ago
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Apple switched on its push email services for iOS devices in Germany again after posting a bond of €100 million (US$135 million).
5 days 11 hours ago
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Campaign group Europe-v-Facebook received Facebook's response to complaints about the social networks' privacy policy on Tuesday, but was barred from publishing them by the Irish Data Protection Commissioner.
6 days 6 hours ago
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Loek Essers wrote German court rules Apple photo-management patent invalid because of Steve Jobs keynote Germany's Federal Patent Court invalidated an Apple photo-management patent because Steve Jobs showed how the technology worked during a keynote months before the company applied for the patent in Europe.
1 week 3 days ago
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PayPal's parent company, eBay, plans to acquire payments startup Braintree for approximately US$800 million in cash to enhance PayPal's mobile capabilities.
1 week 4 days ago
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The creation of a pan-European patent system will help spread abusive patent litigation to Europe and could lead to E.U.-wide sales bans on products, leading tech vendors have claimed.
1 week 4 days ago
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Cloud storage locker Dropbox has joined Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, LinkedIn and Facebook in their quest for permission to publish the number of data requests they have received from the U.S. government, and the number of users affected by those requests.
1 week 6 days ago
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Schools that compel students to use commercial cloud services for email and documents are putting privacy at risk, says a campaign group calling for strict controls on the use of such services in education.
2 weeks 6 hours ago
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Domain name provider GoDaddy acquired domain marketplace Afternic from NameMedia in a move to make it easier for small business owners to buy domain names.
2 weeks 4 days ago
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Vodafone is close to acquiring Kabel Deutschland, Germany's largest cable operator, for €7.7 billion (US$10 billion).
3 weeks 3 days ago
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Graphics software company Micrografx sued Google, its subsidiary Motorola Mobility, and Samsung Electronics for infringing three graphic patents by running Google Maps and Chrome Browser on their Android devices.
3 weeks 5 days ago
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Google will team with the online-learning consortium backed by Harvard, MIT, Stanford and others to build out a new site that can be used to host courses online.
3 weeks 6 days ago
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Going head-to-head with Apple and Google, Sony has launched the PlayStation Vita TV set-top box to bring video and games to TVs.
4 weeks 5 hours ago
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Facebook revealed a new tool that enables news organisations to tap into user comments and display them online or on TV in real-time.
4 weeks 8 hours ago
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Twenty-two years ago last month, Linus Torvalds announced in a newsgroup post that he was creating a free operating system, and he echoed the words -- and the spirit -- of that post in his announcement of the latest Linux kernel release candidate on Aug. 25.
4 weeks 9 hours ago
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The spike in the number of clients using the Tor anonymity network was likely caused by a botnet, according to Tor and third-party security researchers.
4 weeks 4 days ago
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Loek Essers wrote Almost 90 percent of Internet users have taken steps to avoid surveillance, survey finds A majority of U.S. Internet users polled in a recent survey report taking steps to remove or mask their digital footprints online, according to a report from the Pew Research Center's Internet Project and Carnegie Mellon University.
4 weeks 4 days ago
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Loek Essers wrote File hosting service must scan for copyright infringing files, German federal court rules Online file locker services that, like Rapidshare, have a business model that provides an incentive to share copyright protected materials must monitor incoming links to discover infringing files, the German Federal Court of Justice has ruled.
4 weeks 5 days ago
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A German privacy regulator is astonished that Facebook has added facial recognition to a proposed new privacy policy it published on Thursday.
5 weeks 3 days ago
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Loek Essers wrote Pirate Bay co-founder's appeal of fraud conviction relies on 'remote control' argument Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg's appeal of his conviction on charges of data intrusion, attempted aggravated fraud and aggravated fraud started on Wednesday, with arguments centering on the contention that other parties used the defendant's computer by remote control.
5 weeks 5 days ago
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The privacy campaign group Europe-v-Facebook said Wednesday it will ask the Irish High Court to review decisions made by the Irish Data Protection Commissioner not to investigate Facebook and the U.S. government surveillance program Prism.
5 weeks 5 days ago
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Samsung Electronics claims that Ericsson demanded billions more for patent licenses after their license agreement expired in 2007.
5 weeks 6 days ago
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