US President Barack Obama now has the power to shut down parts of the internet during cyber attack based on a new senate legislation. However, the law could be revised relative to the interest of the private sector, as claimed by a congressional staff member affiliated with the legislation.
The bill allows Obama to "declare a cybersecurity emergency and order the limitation or shutdown of Internet traffic to...
According to world famous businessman Warren Buffet, Apple should have told shareholders about his liver transplant. Buffet claims Jobs’ condition was a "material fact" for Apple’s investors, and they have the right know how Jobs was doing.
"If I have any serious illness, or something coming up of an important nature, an operation or anything like that, I think the thing to do is just tell the...
Microsoft is set to auction Razorfish, an ad agency previously bought by the software firm to boost its internet advertising business. The agency was acquired at around US$6 billion in 2007, when Microsoft purchased Aquantive.
Microsoft employed the services of Morgan Stanley to find interested buyers. Publicis Groupe showed interest on Razorfish, but no deal has been closed as of yet.
Both Microsoft and Publicis announced a plan last week to collaborate on digital marketing and...
Two Chinese firms are accused of administering spam emails and facilitating cybercrimes by a Gary Warner, a computer security expert.
Warner claims both companies, eName and Xin Net Technology, are domain registrars who accept malicious domain name registrations. Xin Net came out as the most exploited registrar in 2008, while EName is reported to have allowed web site registrations from sellers of counterfeit software, hosts of botnets and other networks plagued with...
A research from Symantec revealed that majority of IT executives are now more involved in disaster recovery planning than before.
Symantec’s study showed that around 67 percent of companies take the participation of their chief information officer, chief technology officer or IT director when it comes to disaster recovery schemes. This is attributed to the rising number of malware threats, data losses, and tighter government restrictions and laws on data...
A hard disk drive bought from the market of Ghana contained classified information concerning the US government. The confidential data was the property of Northrop Grumman, US government contractor.
The HDD is owned by an employee of Northrop, and is believed to consist of hundreds of US government contract documents. Lead investigator Peter Klein said the docs were highly sensitive, although he did not disclose the complete details of the data.
Northrop Grumman could not...
Following the US government’s call to reconsider its filtering laws, China accused Google of spreading filth over the internet.
China’s Foreign Ministry is now charging Google of violating Chinese laws by displaying obscene search images. The spokesman from the ministry vaguely said about any official actions to be taken against the search company, but he clearly expressed how the Chinese government feel against Google.
"Google’s English language search engine...
Gartner’s forecast on PC sales is quite positive, resulting from the good numbers the PC market has shown earlier this year. The firm maintains computer shipments across the world are better than predicted.
The release of Windows 7 will most likely have a lighter effect on PC sales, Gartner said. Analysts believe the recovery of the computer market will generally rely on the improving specs of netbooks and...
Palm has recorded a much lesses quarter loss after Pre hit the the stores and demand continued to boost. According to Palm executives, they expect Pre to haul the company out from successive losses.
Palm pre was officially distributed earlier this month. The device gathered rave reviews from analysts. Its estimated units shipped reached around 150,000, quite a good figure to start.
Palm chief executive officer Jon Rubinstein said, "We’re successfully ramping supply...
Analysts at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia designed a computer program that would identify stolen cars in traffic.
The program is bullt from hexagonal pixels which allows a computer to perfectly spot plate numbers reported as stolen. The university’s director of strategy and programming Geoff Hughes said the project can also be used in fixed speed cameras, which can be employed as an intelligence gathering tool by authorities.
"One of...
In a surprise move, Microsoft has announced it will offer a free anti-virus and security solution from the second half of next year. It will stop selling OneCare, its all-in-one security and PC management service, from the end of June 2009.
Advocates of free and open source software have found another issue to takle during the European elections. Candidates are urged by the Free Software Pact to support the free software principles. The group has also called voters to consider the candidate’s...
An Indian start up – IT company Notion Ink, has been using IT Support to work on a touchscreen tablet PC running the Android OS. The company’s aim is to target the global market, working with its...
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