Yahoo has announced a new mobile phone service that integrates email, instant messaging and social networks.
Called oneConnect, the service is expected to launch this European spring, Marco Boerries, executive vice president for Connected Life at Yahoo, said today at the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona.
Its open architecture means users and other companies can eventually add […]
The attacks on mailing lists and online forums contain information related to recent events in Tibet and may appear to come from a trusted person or organization.
A shadow war against organizations supporting Tibetan protesters has erupted in cyberspace, mirroring efforts by Chinese authorities to quell unrest in the Tibet.
“Somebody is trying to use pro-Tibet themed […]
A man in Australia is auctioning his life - his house, his job, his clothes and his friends - on eBay, after his marriage broke up, saying he wants to start a new life.
“It’s time to move. A completely fresh start. I want to see where life takes me,” Ian Usher, 44, told Australian television […]
China has blocked access to YouTube after dozens of videos of the protests in Tibet appeared on the popular website.
The blocking added to the communist government’s efforts to control what the public saw and heard about protests that erupted on Friday in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, against Chinese rule.
Access to YouTube, usually readily available in […]
Skype has long been the champion of free internet voice chat. Much like instant messaging, it lets you catch up with internet buddies anywhere in the world for next to nix.
Provided, that is, both of you are parked in front of your computers wearing headsets, receptionist-style. Not always convenient; not very 2008 either.
This model is […]
Motorists are being warned that thieves who steal GPS devices from cars could then use the device to find out where the car owner lives and rob their home as well.
Most users program the electronic mapping devices with their home address so the gizmo can map out the quickest route to where the owner lives.
After […]
A security consultant based in New Zealand has released a tool that can unlock Windows computers in seconds without the need for a password.
Adam Boileau first demonstrated the hack, which affects Windows XP computers but has not yet been tested with Windows Vista, at a security conference in Sydney in 2006, but Microsoft has yet […]
Microsoft Corp. will cut the price of some versions of Windows Vista, the software maker said late Thursday.
The move came a day after court filings revealed internal dissent over which Windows XP computers would be considered capable of running the new operating system _ and a feeling on at least one executive’s part that the […]
China’s top search engine Baidu.com has been sued by a local music industry group for alleged copyright violation, the second recent similar action from the industry, the group said.
In a statement on its Web site Friday, the Music Copyright Society of China quoted official Qu Jingming as accusing Baidu of “providing music listening, broadcasting and […]
A New Zealand teenager allegedly at the centre of an international cyber crime network has appeared in court where he was charged with computer hacking crimes.
Computer programmer Owen Thor Walker, 18, was charged with two counts of accessing a computer for dishonest purpose, damaging or interfering with a computer system, possessing software for committing crime, […]
Japan successfully launched Saturday an experimental satellite aimed at providing high-speed Internet access across Asia, even when terrestrial infrastructure goes down, the space agency said.
The domestically developed H-2A rocket carrying the Kizuna satellite was launched at 17:55 pm (0855 GMT) with no glitches from the Space Centre on Tanegashima island off the southern tip of […]
Infamous computer hacker group Cult of the Dead Cow (CDC) said Friday it is offering a software tool that lets people use Google to scan websites for security flaws.
CDC says a “Goolag Scanner” program based on work done by a hacker using the name “Johnny I Hack Stuff” is available for free download at its […]
Lawyers representing Kiss bassist Gene Simmons are furiously trying to stop the spread across the internet of a leaked sex tape featuring the ageing rocker.
The sex tape, which hit the web this week via a website, GenesSecret.com, shows Simmons, clad only in a t-shirt, purportedly having sex with an Austrian model.
The site sought to sell […]
Google’s dominance in search, coupled with its software-related forays, may drive Microsoft to acquire Yahoo or eBay to become the top internet revenue earner, writes MediaPost, citing a report by Merrill Lynch analysts. The Microsoft-Yahoo combination would immediately challenge Google in search, with search traffic roughly evenly split between Google and a merged Yahoo/MSN, according […]
I would like to warn you for a scam that is being used quite frequently, this is what usually happens. The scammer sends you an email concerning a domain you own, telling you that he is interested in buying your domain. They want you to mail them how much you want for your domain, once […]