The website of the Arabian Anti-Piracy Alliance, which represents the MPAA and a wide range of copyright holders in the Middle East, has been defaced by hackers. The entire news section has been wiped out a week ago, and it hasn’t recovered since. It seems like this anti-piracy outfit doesn’t even visit its own site.
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes ” The U.S. President-elect, Barack Obama has selected Julius Genachowski to lead the Federal Communications Commission. This appears to bode well for a forward-looking (or at least clued) Internet policy, since Genachowski is credited with running Obama’s internet-based election campaign, and, according to ‘Fierce Telecom,’ ‘has an impressive record working with technology and communications companies: He was Chief of Business Operations at InterActiveCorp; he’s co-founder of Rock Creek Ventures, which currently backs 11 internet-based start-ups, and he’s also served on the boards of numerous technology and new media companies, including The Motley Fool, Web.com, Truveo, and Rapt’.”
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Spam messages masquerade as Food Network e-mail
ITBusiness.ca – 2 hours ago Spammers have taken to cleverly replicating the templates of popular legit e-mail newsletters. For instance, a newsletter purporting to come from The Food Network contains the network's official branding and header. Spammers still reeling from McColo bust VNUNet.com Spam Fighting: Lessons from Jack Bauer? CircleID TelecomTV – Techwatch – Examiner.com all 9 news articles |
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World, meet the Palm PrE and webOS
Business Mirror – 2 hours ago TYPE AWAY The Pre slides open to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard, the kind that has made Palm Tréos legendary in usability. After being written off by the tech media, smartphone pioneer Palm has got everybody buzzing excitedly as it redefines mobile … Palm Pre: where's the music? CNET News Palm Ready To Introduce Centro 2 WebOS Smartphone And More ITProPortal FOXNews – Christian Science Monitor – Tom’s Hardware Guide – Telegraph.co.uk all 205 news articles Langue : Français |
Led by the NSA, an industry group has published a list of the 25 most dangerous software programming errors.Two of these bugs led to more than 1.5 million Web site breaches last year. Often, these Web breaches were used by online attackers to then launch more attacks against people who surfed the hacked sites…
More and more applications these days are migrating to the Web. Without platform constraints or installation requirements, the software-as-a-service model looks very attractive.
Yesterday an article in The Times of London set the web abuzz over new findings that every Google search contributed 7 grams of CO2 to the atmosphere – half the amount produced when heating a tea kettle (heaven forbid!). I criticized the article for being overly alarmist, with a lack of perspective and possible bias. Google also responded…
If you have a website or blog you’re probably interested in who’s visiting your site and what they’re doing while they’re there. Way back in 2007 we did a post on web analytics but a lot has changed since then. Most analytics packages are now focusing on real-time tracking of visitor data. Here are 50+ apps to help monitor your traffic.
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Google Paper Proves Social Web Has Become a Science
eWeek – 7 hours ago Think back a week, month, year or almost 5 years ago to when you started using Facebook or MySpace. It seemed like such a harmless, simple social transaction as you were friended by a friend, colleague or significant other. 7 Social Media Predictions for 2009 Search Engine Watch Flex your networking skills Boston Globe ITBusiness.ca – Salt Lake Tribune – Hartford Courant – Net4now all 9 news articles |
When the CBS Corporation bought CNet for .8 billion last year, it acquired TV.com, a Web site that had little to brag about except a valuable domain name. Now CBS is transforming it into a video destination. Today CBS will announce deals with PBS, Sony, MGM, Endemol, USA and Showtime that will expand its free ad-supported online library.
