An anonymous reader writes “Doug Belshaw and Carla Casilli, along with a community of stakeholders, have been working on a specification of skills needed for web literacy. Doug report that Brett Gaylor and Chris Lawrence announced version 1.0 of the spec. In a nutshell it’s described as ‘A map of the territory for the skills…

Reaching record highs, a total of 250 million smartphones are shipped worldwide in the third quarter — and Samsung carried a whopping 35 percent of this marketshare…….

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sfcrazy writes “Austria’s Big Brother Awards awarded the coveted Big Brother Award to Ubuntu’s founder Mark Shuttleworth for Ubuntu Dash’s privacy reducing online extensions to local searches.” From the article: “What’s bad here and raises question here is that despite repeated requests Canonical refused to make the tracking option opt-in. The feature is installed and…

The Taiwanese government gave a green light to a Chinese investment project, proposed by a Hong Kong firm, to buy out a Taiwanese company selling Chinese Xiaomi brand smartphones domestically…….

American Academy of Pediatrics also tells parents to discourage any screen time for children 2 and younger and keep Internet-connected devices out of kids’ bedrooms…….

Spain has demanded details of reported mass US eavesdropping on its citizens, denouncing the alleged surveillance as ‘inappropriate and unacceptable’ as outrage spreads over the worldwide espionage program…….