San Francisco: The US government has formally asked China to turn over details of its policies for censoring websites. US Trade Representative Ron Kirk on Wednesday said that the request is being pursued under World Trade Organisation rules governing how member countries deal with trade issues. Kirk said the concerns center on the competitiveness of foreign websites in China. China heavily censors its Internet, and Kirk said the US wants...
04:33 AM, Oct 20, 2011
Washington: Consumers are less anonymous than they think while surfing the Web, according to a study released on Tuesday that triggered new calls for "do not track" rules. More than half of the 185 high-traffic websites looked at in the study shared a consumer's username or user ID with another site, Stanford University's Computer Security Laboratory found. Google, Facebook, comScore and Quantcast were among the top recipients of username and...
08:26 AM, Oct 12, 2011
Islamabad: The Supreme Court of Pakistan website was hacked Tuesday, a media report said. Geo News reported that hacker left objectionable messages on the website. The hacker stated that the website data was still intact and no harm has been done. The index file had been replaced with the hacker's message. ...
10:51 AM, Sep 27, 2011
Myanmar: Myanmar's new government has stopped blocking some foreign websites such as the BBC and YouTube in a gesture toward openness that is tempered by remaining harsh laws that still keep readers of such sites at risk of arrest. Once-banned websites that were opened this week for viewing include the Voice of America and the British Broadcasting Corp., as well the Democratic Voice of Burma, Radio Free Asia and the...
11:23 AM, Sep 18, 2011
London: Russia's embassy in London said on Sunday its website crashed in a suspected hacking attack just before Prime Minister David Cameron begins the first visit by a British leader to Moscow since the 2006 killing in London of a Kremlin critic. The embassy said it had set up a "mirror" website (www.rusemborguk.ru) to meet the increased interest of the public and media for information before Cameron flies to Russia...
06:55 AM, Sep 12, 2011
New Delhi: In the aftermath of the London riots, Britain considered tighter controls on the Internet, to prevent social unrest. How good is India at patrolling the web? Nikhil Pahwa, the Editor of www.Medianama.com recently tried uploading his holiday photos from Ladakh to a file sharing site to share it with friends. He couldn't do it because unknown to most of us, Internet Service Providers (ISP), had blocked all file...
05:50 PM, Aug 16, 2011
New York: In preparation for a new triple-x Internet domain that will launch in December, lawyers for the most storied brands in the United States are scrambling to prevent an x-rated rip-off of an invaluable asset: corporate Web addresses. The domain operator administering the .xxx domain is accepting early applications from brand owners who want control over their names. ICM Registry says it has received over 900,000 "expressions of interest"...
01:22 PM, Aug 16, 2011
New Delhi: You are reading this post on a website (or probably some variant of it) and it was 20 years ago, on August 6, 1991 that the first website went online. Tim Barners Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, had on this day, two decades back, posted a summary of the World Wide Web project on the alt.hypertext newsgroup and the first ever website http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html became publicly...
01:58 PM, Aug 06, 2011
Haifa, Israel: Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that is written entirely by volunteers and allows anyone to edit its entries, is losing contributors, its founder complained Thursday. Speaking with The Associated Press on the sidelines of the website's annual conference, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said the nonprofit company that runs the site is scrambling to simplify editing procedures in an attempt to retain volunteers. "We are not replenishing our ranks," said...
07:32 AM, Aug 05, 2011
San Francisco: Online retailer Amazon.com is trying to become a bigger player in the mushrooming market for online deals with the launch of a website that offers large discounts on local goods and services. AmazonLocal deals, which launched in Boise, Idaho, in June, is now also available in 14 different places, including Chicago and several parts of southern California and Washington (naturally, Amazon.com Inc.'s hometown of Seattle made the cut)....
08:07 AM, Aug 03, 2011
London: Computer hackers broke into the website of Rupert Murdoch's best-selling British tabloid and altered the front page to show a fake report about the media mogul's death. The hackers redirected visitors to the Twitter feed of hacker group Lulz Security, which came to prominence after several cyber assaults on the websites of Sony Corp, the CIA, and News Corp's Fox TV. "We have owned Sun/News of the World," LulzSec...
07:22 AM, Jul 19, 2011
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This is scary. If I know a little about you, I can hack into your Income Tax account. What is scarier is that this process ...
04:31 PM, Jul 18, 2011
Damascus: Social media played a pivotal role in the ousting of Arab leaders in Egypt and Tunisia, but activists in an uprising in Syria fear Syria the government is keeping tabs on them by scanning websites such as Facebook and Twitter. "I am too scared to speak about my political activity on Facebook," said a 21-year-old activist, who asked to be referred to as Rana. "I'm not going to open...
01:15 PM, Jul 14, 2011
Madrid: Tiny Spanish firm 24symbols has launched a digital book reading and sharing site modelled on European digital music service Spotify, aiming to generate income from publicity and subscriptions. Users can read books for free if they accept viewing display ads in the margins, or pay a monthly fee to read without commercial publicity. The service was launched on Thursday and is currently available on computers and telephones. "The advantage...
07:44 AM, Jul 05, 2011
New York: News Corp has sold Myspace for $35 million, a fraction of what it paid for the once-hot social media site even as a new generation of Web-based start-ups is enjoying sky-high valuations. Advertising company Specific Media will team with the singer Justin Timberlake to acquire Myspace in a deal that caps a tumultuous period of ownership under Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, which swooped in to buy Myspace for...
08:32 AM, Jun 30, 2011
New York: Groupon Inc's Indian subsidiary SoSasta inadvertently published its users' passwords on the Internet, but the sensitive information was quickly removed after the security breach was discovered last week. The world's largest daily deals site said an "information security expert" told the company about the problem Friday morning Indian time, or Thursday night central US time, after which it immediately took down the data and began informing affected subscribers....
07:51 AM, Jun 29, 2011
Vatican City: The Vatican is taking a leap into the world of new media on June 29 with the launch of a news information portal that Pope Benedict XVI himself may put online with a papal click. Vatican officials said Saturday that Benedict has been following the development of the portal - http://www.news.va - which will for the first time aggregate information from the Vatican's various print, radio and television...
08:09 AM, Jun 27, 2011
Boston: More than 120 websites have been down for over a day after the FBI removed servers from a web-hosting company in Northern Virginia in an early morning raid on Tuesday, according to the company that runs that facility. FBI officials declined comment on the matter. The agency, which leads investigations of many cyber crimes, generally does not comment on ongoing investigations. Federal agents raided a Reston, Virginia, web-hosting facility...
12:44 PM, Jun 23, 2011
London: Every seventh person in the world uses Google and other websites the company owns, a media report said Wednesday. The landmark figure in May revealed by comScore shows an 8.4 per cent rise year-on-year. Over one billion people among the world's current population of 6.93 billion use Google and its other websites. Microsoft remained the second most popular destination with 905 million unique visitors in May, the Daily Telegraph...
06:13 PM, Jun 22, 2011
