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
New York: When it comes to branding on the Internet, 2012 may be the dawn of a chaotic new era with companies and other groups expected to battle over suffixes like .cancer, .chocolate and just about .anything. The decision on Monday by the body that governs Internet domain names to stop restricting them to suffixes like .com and .gov will change the way companies interact with consumers and how much...
02:16 PM, Jun 22, 2011
New Delhi: A dating website meant exclusively for beautiful people has been caught on the ugly end when it received tremendous flack for dumping 30,000 of its members for not meeting the mark. The site allows members to date or dump other members ruthlessly if they are not good looking enough. The main page of the site says- - Do looks matter to you, when it comes to selecting a...
03:20 PM, Jun 20, 2011
Singapore: The regulatory body that oversees Internet domain names voted on Monday to revamp the domain naming system for websites, allowing them to end with words like "apple" and "orange" instead of suffixes such as ".com" or ".gov". "ICANN has opened the Internet's naming system to unleash the global human imagination. Today's decision respects the rights of groups to create new top level domains in any language or script," the...
12:20 PM, Jun 20, 2011
Kuala Lumpur: At least six Malaysian government websites were hacked into overnight after the Internet vigilante group Anonymous threatened to punish the authorities for censorship. Sites that were targeted included the government's online portal , and the webpages of the information ministry , the fire and emergency services department and the land public transport commission . Anonymous had warned it would attack the Malaysian government's online portal from Wednesday 1930...
08:36 AM, Jun 16, 2011
Beijing: China's avid Internet users are taking a leaf from India's anti-corruption drama by opening websites so citizens can confess, sometimes in pitiless detail, to buying off officials. Chinese people can be disdainful of poorer India, but some have sought inspiration from the anti-corruption anger that has swept the South Asian nation, fanned by the Internet. Several Chinese confess-a-bribe websites, including "I Made a Bribe" (http://www.ibribery.com), have been inspired by...
03:33 PM, Jun 13, 2011
Madrid: Access to the website of Spain's national police force was blocked for over an hour late on Saturday in a reprisal attack by the hackers' group Anonymous, the newspaper El Mundo said on its website Sunday. El Mundo said the group had warned police in a statement that it planned to disable the website at some time Saturday. The website was down for at least an hour from 2130...
07:47 AM, Jun 13, 2011
London: Web companies including Google, Facebook and Akamai are joining forces on Wednesday to test the Internet's readiness for a future in which billions more people and devices will be connected. The pool of Internet addresses used for most traffic today is near exhaustion, but adopting IPv6 - a new Internet protocol with 4 billion times as many addresses - has been slow despite the fact that it is more...
01:47 PM, Jun 08, 2011
San Francisco: Online coupon seller Groupon Inc. is dangling its most tantalising deal yet - an initial public offering of stock. The prospect is likely to intensify a debate about whether an investment bubble is forming around promising but still unproven Internet companies. Groupon took the first step toward selling its stock on Wall Street by filing its IPO papers Wednesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The much-anticipated filing...
09:28 AM, Jun 03, 2011
Boston: Hackers have again broken into Sony Corp's computer networks, this time claiming to have stolen customer data to show that the company's systems remain vulnerable to attack. That marked the latest setback for Sony, which discovered in April that hackers had stolen data from more than 100 million of its accounts. Nobody has claimed responsibility for that attack. The group LulzSec said on Thursday it broke into servers that...
09:19 AM, Jun 03, 2011
New Delhi: The Google home page looks a little different today. Below the search box is a set of images, clicking on which takes you inside 17 museums across Europe and the US. The new website, googleartproject.com, launched in February this year, aims to bring the world's great art galleries into the home with a new website that offers virtual tours using Street View technology, the ability to build private...
12:46 PM, Jun 02, 2011
New Delhi: Twitter has announced a new photo and video search feature. But unlike traditional search engine results it doesn't display the image and video results upfront but as content related to results from a search query. The related media for search results on Twitter will not be displayed by default and the user has the option to view the related photo and video content or not. The related top...
01:14 AM, Jun 02, 2011
San Francisco: Twitter has acquired the team behind a small Internet company whose tools helped manage advertising campaigns on Google Inc, stepping up the microblogging site's effort to generate revenue. AdGrok announced the acquisition on its Website on Tuesday, saying Twitter asked them to work on a "monetisation platform." The company added that it had served customers on Google's AdWords platform but would stop doing so by the end of...
07:40 AM, Jun 01, 2011
New Delhi: Twitter is gradually moving into areas which the company had initially left open for third-party developers to exploit. A photo-sharing service, that will compete with existing services such as Twitpic and Yfrog, is reported to be the microblogging phenomenon's next big venture. According to Techcrunch, Twitter could use the Twimg.com domain for the new service. The new image hosting service could be a new avenue for revenue to...
06:28 PM, May 31, 2011
Washington: PBS officials say hackers have cracked the network's website, posting a phony story claiming dead rapper Tupac Shakur was alive in New Zealand, and a group that claimed responsibility for the hacking complained about a recent "Frontline" investigative news program on WikiLeaks. PBS confirmed Monday that the website had been hacked. The phony story had been taken down as of Monday morning. It had been posted on the site...
01:13 PM, May 31, 2011
Tokyo: Sony said it discovered a security breach affecting 8,500 user accounts in a music entertainment website in Greece that comes on the heels of a hacker attack which forced its flagship gaming site offline. Sony Corp. spokesman Shigenori Yoshida said Tuesday that personal data including names, phone numbers and e-mail addresses may have been stolen. Yoshida said no credit card numbers have been affected. Sony shut the Greece website...
09:49 AM, May 25, 2011
Washington: A blog post by the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention that mentions a "zombie apocalypse" as a lighthearted way to get Americans to read about preparing for hurricanes drove so much traffic that it crashed the website, the agency said on Thursday. The Zombie Apocalypse campaign is a social media effort by the CDC's Public Health and Preparedness centre to spread the word about the June 1...
04:05 PM, May 21, 2011
New York: LinkedIn said it expects to raise 30 per cent more than it had forecast in its initial public offering, in a sign of the strength of investor appetite for social networking companies. The company, which operates a website where professionals connect with one another, now plans to sell shares at $42 to $45 each, up from a previous range of $32 to $35. The IPO is expected to...
07:16 AM, May 18, 2011
New Delhi: Bosses beware! Gaming sensation Angry Birds is now available on the Web browser. This could very well mean that employees, who till now played solitaire or switched tabs to move to other gaming sites at work, now have a killer of a game to kill their time with. The game featuring birds destroying the pigs who stole their eggs, with the help of a slingshot is addictive and...
04:29 PM, May 12, 2011
