The whistleblowing website Wikileaks has temporarily shut down because of a lack of funds.
The site, which has been a major irritant to governments and big businesses since it launched in 2007, says it cannot keep going without more public donations.
Wikileaks’ organisers announced the suspension in a statement on its site. “To concentrate on raising the funds [...]
February 1, 2010 No Comments / Read More >>
hat is Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) up to with its launch this week of the opensource.com Web page?
This replaces the “Truth Happens” page, which ran articles and videos on open source, intellectual property, transparency and other issues.
“Opensource.com is now the place to go to find out about how open source principles are re-shaping business, law, art and, of course, [...]
February 1, 2010 No Comments / Read More >>
Even while calling Chicago home, Laura Hawkins Grimes is a country bumpkin. Her scenic rural spread has three dairy farms, two ponds and a log cabin, all skirted by a white picket fence as scarecrows stand sentry over her blackberries.
The best part is the 40-year-old sex therapist never has to leave her computer to tend [...]
February 1, 2010 No Comments / Read More >>
Consumers are growing increasingly comfortable storing sensitive information on their computers, USB flash drives, and external hard drives, as well as using Web-based solutions to automate regular tasks such as shopping for holiday gifts, paying bills and tracking financial portfolios. The push from vendors encouraging their customers to move toward e-billing has also played a major [...]
January 20, 2010 No Comments / Read More >>
Here’s a story from the near future. It’s been a long day. Finally throwing aside the cares of work, you slump down on your sofa and pick up that shiny new device you bought the other day. Costing the thick end of £1,000, it’s Apple’s stylish new iPad (iTablet? iSlate?) – a smooth 10in screen [...]
January 20, 2010 No Comments / Read More >>
Georgia mother and her two daughters logged onto Facebook from mobile phones last weekend and wound up in a startling place: Strangers’ accounts with full access to troves of private information.
The glitch — the result of a routing problem at the family’s wireless carrier, AT&T (NYSE: T) — revealed a little known security flaw with far-reaching implications [...]
January 18, 2010 No Comments / Read More >>
For lots of U.S. Internet companies, doing business in China is virtually a no-brainer — the market opens up well over a billion new potential customers. The only downside is the Chinese government’s pet peeve regarding public dissent.
It sponsors what has to be the biggest censorship operation on the planet. If you’re surfing the Web [...]
January 18, 2010 No Comments / Read More >>
Microsoft has admitted that its Internet Explorer browser was the weak link used by hackers to attack Google’s systems in China.
The world’s biggest software company today issued a security advisory and warned of a loophole that was used by Chinese hackers to attack dozens of US companies – the same attack that led Google on Tuesday to announce [...]
January 18, 2010 No Comments / Read More >>
Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) is continuing its march to put the desktop on the Web, with its offer to store files as large as 250 MB in Google Docs.
Google is offering 1 GB of free storage for files that are not converted into one of the Google Docs formats — such as Google documents, spreadsheets or presentation. [...]
January 15, 2010 No Comments / Read More >>
Facebook has partnered with McAfee to improve the social network’s security measures.
The arrangement will have McAfee remotely clean up Facebook subscribers’ PCs if the social networking site detects that the computer is infected. These subscribers will also see an ad for a six-month free subscription to McAfee’s Internet Security Suite software.
Both companies will codevelop educational materials [...]
January 15, 2010 No Comments / Read More >>
