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Today's Reuters Technology News Headlines - Yahoo! News: Cameron urges Google, Yahoo to act on child pornography U.N. warns on mobile cybersecurity bugs in bid to prevent attacks Hong Kong reporter quits in controversy over Alibaba founder's remarks Amazon vs. IBM: Big Blue meets match in battle for the cloud

Cameron urges Google, Yahoo to act on child pornography  Sunday, Jul 21, 2013 11:29 AM PDT By William James LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron challenged the Internet search engine providers Google, Yahoo and Bing on Sunday to block images of child abuse, calling for more action against online pornography. In a television interview, Cameron said search engines must block results for searches using blacklisted keywords to stop Internet users accessing illegal images. Evidence in two recent high-profile child murders in Britain has shown that the killers accessed online child pornography. ... Full Story	Top
U.N. warns on mobile cybersecurity bugs in bid to prevent attacks  Sunday, Jul 21, 2013 10:40 AM PDT By Jim Finkle BOSTON (Reuters) - A United Nations group that advises nations on cybersecurity plans to send out an alert about significant vulnerabilities in mobile phone technology that could potentially enable hackers to remotely attack at least half a billion phones. The bug, discovered by German firm, allows hackers to remotely gain control of and also clone certain mobile SIM cards. ... Full Story	Top
Hong Kong reporter quits in controversy over Alibaba founder's remarks  Sunday, Jul 21, 2013 08:25 AM PDT By Pete Sweeney SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A Hong Kong journalist has quit in a controversy over disputed remarks that Jack Ma, founder of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, is reported to have made in support of Beijing's violent crackdown on Tiananmen Square protesters in 1989. The controversy comes ahead of the anticipated listing of Alibaba, expected to value the firm at $60-$100 billion, which in turn has put a critical spotlight on Ma, the wider Chinese Internet industry and its approach to freedom of speech. ... Full Story	Top
Amazon vs. IBM: Big Blue meets match in battle for the cloud  Sunday, Jul 21, 2013 05:07 AM PDT By Alistair Barr SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The tech industry maxim that "no one ever got fired for buying IBM" is a testament to how Big Blue has been the gold standard in computing services for decades. But IBM faces an unlikely challenger in Amazon.com Inc, the e-commerce retail giant that is becoming a force in the booming business of cloud computing, even winning backing from America's top spy agency. ... Full Story	Top

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