A British citizen, Gary McKinnon, has been accused of committing the “biggest military computer hack of all time” by the U.S. government and he is fighting extradition to the U.S. If he is convicted, he can face up to 70 years in jail. He is accused of gaining entry into 97 U.S government computers including […]
Starting today, anyone who wants to update their Windows operating system will have to go through a piracy check. The exception to this rule is the update of critical security patches. Even a pirated copy of Windows will get the security patches while other add-ons will require validation. In an attempt to convert the users […]
MSN has now jumped onto the map bandwagon. Google Maps had got a lot of attention from their sites, Google Maps and Google Earth and it’s become tradition that Google releases a new technology and the rest follow. Anyways, MSN’s Virtual Earth is a map service and it has the usual features and also a […]
Brazilian police have arrested 10 people accused of selling drugs online. These drug dealers were using Google’s international social networking website, Orkut. Orkut allows members to join and set up online communities to discuss everything from doughnuts to drugs (I guess). Several million Brazilians have become devotees of Orkut since Google launched the networking site […]
John M Perry, the head of the payment processing firm that was hacked to expose 40 million credit card numbers, told congress that his company is facing imminent extinction because of its disclosure of the breach and the industry’s reaction to it. ‘As a result of coming forward, we are being driven out of business’, […]
According to German ornithologists, birds have learnt to imitate the ring tones they hear. Richard Schneider of the NABU bird conservation centre near the university city of Tuebingen stated “The birds have an uncanny ability to mimic these ring tones. This has picked up in tandem with the boom in mobile phone ownership???. The best […]
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