Archives: 2011 June
Microsoft puts Office in the cloud, confronts Google (Reuters)
June 28th, 2011, No Comments
A Nokia staff member shows off the new Nokia N9 phone on the sidelines of CommunicAsia 2011, an international communications and information technolog SEATTLE (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp is making its biggest move into the mobile, Internet-accessible world of cloud computing this week, as it takes the wraps off a revamped online version of its [...]
US rolls out plan to protect business websites (AP)
June 28th, 2011, No Comments
WASHINGTON – Businesses face a growing threat of cyber attacks on their websites now have more tools to protect themselves and harden their sites against hackers. The Homeland Security Department would help small businesses and nonprofit groups, to avoid programming problems hackers to penetrate corporate websites. Recent government cybersecurity efforts follows a series of high [...]
LulzSec Hackers Bid Farewell as the Law Appears Near (NewsFactor)
June 28th, 2011, No Comments
The LulzSec hackers responsible for a spree of cybercrimes over the past 50 days abruptly bid farewell to its followers worldwide on Monday. The surprise announcement came just four days after the underground group unleashed a trove of confidential law-enforcement documents swiped from the web site of the Arizona Department of Public Safety. Some industry [...]
Ban on Mexico drug ballads no match for YouTube (Reuters)
June 28th, 2011, No Comments
State policemen patrol during an operation at the neighbourhood of Sierra Ventana in Monterrey TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) – The more Mexican authorities try to stamp out violent drug ballads celebrating the joys of narcotics trafficking, the more their fame spreads like wildfire, fanned by the Internet. The accordion and brass-driven "narcocorridos" that glamorize the shady [...]
Google fears web crackdown after Arab uprisings (AFP)
June 28th, 2011, No Comments
Google Web feared crackdown after the Arab riots DUBLIN (AFP) – The president of Google, Eric Schmidt, said Monday that the ongoing Arab riots could lead to an escalation of Internet censorship and an increased risk of arrest for colleagues in countries uncomfortable. Speaking at the summit in Dublin against violent extremism, Schmidt said arrangements [...]
New Firefox Vision Aims To Find Content in New Ways (NewsFactor)
June 28th, 2011, No Comments
Mozilla Foundation has released a new vision statement for its Firefox browser. The goal is to inspire developers to build a browser environment for users to interact with Web sites, applications and people in a personal and secure without relying on search engines and mobile App Store. In recent quarters, the Firefox community renewed its [...]
British teen hacker suspect granted bail (Reuters)
June 28th, 2011, No Comments
LONDON (Reuters) – A British teenager who is accused of trying to hack the website of a national police and two music industry bodies were released on bail Monday, on condition that he not try to connect to the Internet. Ryan Cleary, 19, accused of attacking homepage serious organized crime Agency (Soca) and sites owned [...]
Analysis: Tencent in steep climb to be China’s Facebook, Twitter (Reuters)
June 28th, 2011, No Comments
Tencent Chairman and CEO Pony Ma poses at headquarters in Shenzhen HONG KONG (Reuters) – Tencent Holdings Ltd, the world's third largest Internet firm, aims to be China's Facebook, Twitter and Google — all rolled into one. While the company's market value has quadrupled to $50 billion over the past 2- years, its revenue and [...]
Google sees growing struggle over web censorship (Reuters)
June 28th, 2011, No Comments
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Internet giant Google battles with some governments about censorship on the Internet could be worse, said the chairman, Eric Schmidt, on Monday, adding that he feared that his own comrades for the mounting risk of pretrial detention and torture. After the "Arab spring" saw the revolutionary masses, mainly organized through the Internet [...]
Olympic Athletes Allowed to Tweet, But Not ‘Report’ (PC Magazine)
June 28th, 2011, No Comments
London 2012 Olympics will be able to tweet, post, and blog about their experiences, but can not play a journalist – only "journal" entries are permitted, the International Olympic Committee said. And the IOC will look, he said, with a website dedicated to eradicating unauthorized content. The media and blogging guidelines were published May 10, [...]
