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Hackers ground 1,400 passengers at Warsaw Airport

June 21, 2015 admin airline, airline-ground, airport, europol, london-based, mobile-world, passengers, polish, the-passengers, zenith-optimedia

Around 1,400 passengers of the Polish airline LOT were grounded at Warsaw's Chopin airport on Sunday after hackers attacked the airline ground computer systems used to issue flight plans, the company said. The computer system was hacked in the afternoon and fixed after around five hours, during which 10 of the state-owned carrier's national and international flights were canceled and about a dozen more delayed, spokesman Adrian Kubicki said

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Twitter to let users follow live events, not just people

June 18, 2015 creative bosnian, curate-the-most, dubbed-project, events-instead, logo-reflected, most-visually, passengers, project, real-time-news, service-said, tweets-on-live, upload-photos

Twitter Inc will start curating tweets on live events, the microblogging service said, as it plans major changes to make its real-time news feed more user friendly. Dubbed Project Lightning, the changes will let users follow events instead of just people, and instantly upload photos and videos that can be shared across websites, social news and entertainment website Buzzfeed reported on Thursday. A team of editors will curate the most visually appealing and relevant tweets about say, a red-carpet event or shooting, and present them in one place, so that users need not be flooded with every single tweet as it is posted, Buzzfeed said

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Muslim woman says she faced discrimination on United-linked flight

June 1, 2015 publisher airline, beverage-policy, chicago, cnn, facebook, incident, muslim, northwestern, passengers, post-the-flight, shuttle-america, subject, tahera-ahmad

(Reuters) – A social media campaign gained strength on Monday for a Muslim chaplain at Northwestern University who said she was denied an unopened can of soda on a United Airlines-affiliated carrier after a flight attendant told her it could be used as a weapon. Referring to the incident last week, Tahera Ahmad said in a Facebook post the flight attendant had discriminated against her and that she was the subject of anti-Islamic hatred by other passengers on the flight from Chicago to Washington. Bob Birge, a spokesman for Republic Airways Holdings, which operated the Shuttle America flight on behalf of United, told cable news channel CNN on Monday that the airline’s beverage policy does not prohibit serving unopened cans to passengers.

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With ads, FINRA hopes BrokerCheck becomes go-to site, like Yelp

June 1, 2015 publisher airline, beverage-policy, campaign, chicago, diners-or-angie, facebook, financial, homework, known-as-finra, northwestern, passengers, post-the-flight, promote-its, street, subject

With a new ad campaign, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority hopes its BrokerCheck website will become a customer’s first stop, like Yelp for diners or Angie’s List for home owners, before they invest with a financial adviser. The Wall Street watchdog, known as FINRA, launched the campaign Monday with 15-second commercials depicting people making big decisions without doing their homework, in a bid to promote its years-old website that provides free information about brokers’ employment history, credentials and customer complaints.

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China’s ‘Internet police’ open a window on Web censorship

June 1, 2015 admin beijing, campaign, facebook, homework, internet, known-as-finra, northwestern, passengers, public, shows-icons, street, subject, weibo, well-as-google

The branch of China's police in charge of censoring “illegal and harmful” online information will make its efforts more visible to the public from Monday with the launch of their own social media accounts, the Ministry of Public Security said. The Chinese government aggressively censors the Internet, blocking many sites it deems could challenge the rule of the Communist Party or threaten stability, including popular Western sites like YouTube, Instagram and Facebook, as well as Google Inc's main search engine and Gmail service

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