Iran Blocks Access to Over 5 Million Websites
"The enemies seek to assault our religious identity by exploiting the internet," Abdolsamad Khoram Abadi, an advisor to Iran's prosecutor general, was quoted by Kargozara... More »
PayPal Expands Service to Mexican Peso
The arm of San Jose-based ebay Inc. said Mexican buyers will be able pay for online purchases using their credit cards or bank accounts with pesos as currency. The peso is the firs... More »
BBC One, Two Going Live Online
BBC One and BBC Two are, as of the 27th, going to be available for streaming over the Internet at the same time as being broadcast via more traditional means. In the words of BBC V... More »
Web Host 1&1 Recycles Nuke Fuel Facility as Green Datacenter
A facility once destined for developing nuclear fuel is taking on a whole new life as a green datacenter. Web-host company 1&1 this week announced plans to build one of Europe... More »
Microsoft Grants XP Another Stay
Microsoft is planning to further extend the retail life of Windows XP. The company said that it will be adding another six months to the time in which vendors will be allowed to of... More »
Cell Phone Makers Go Green With Chargers
The companies have agreed to a common energy rating system that will enable customers to know which chargers are the most energy efficient. The new rating system will be star-based... More »
Hate The Way Gmail Looks? Now You Can Change It
Google just announced that it is finally offering themes to Gmail users. Gmail fans have been building unofficial extensions to spice up their inboxes for a while, but up til now t... More »
Netbooks Eat Into Microsoft Revenues
Netbooks may be little, but they seem to be causing big problems for Microsoft, which blames them for a drop in first-quarter earnings and decreased revenues, despite increased sal... More »
Microsoft to Offer Free Security
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 se... More »
UK Firms Lead on Security Awareness Training
UK organisations are spending more money on security training and certification programmes than their US, Canadian and Chinese counterparts, and are reaping the rewards through imp... More »
Internet Spending Growth At Its Lowest After Seven Years
Based on the report from comScore Inc., an internet research company, online spending rate has reached an all-time low since 2001, accounting a scanty one percent increase from th... More »
Computer Virus Forced London Hospitals to Shut Down
Following a virus attack, three hospitals in London were compelled to close down their computer systems. The hospitals include St Bartholomew's (Barts) in the City, the Royal Lond... More »
Jerry Yang Quits As Yahoo! CEO
Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang has decided to step down from his post after a series of pitfalls plaguing the company. Yahoo has been struggling to turn its business around after it refu... More »
Apple Features Antifraud Protection in Safari
Safari 3.2, the latest version of Apple's widely popular browser, now features an antiphishing tool which alerts users whenever they are redirected to phishing sites. Subsequently... More »
Ex-Con Goes Back to Jail for Breaching Prison Computer System
Francis Janosko, a former inmate at the Plymouth County Correctional Facility in Massachusetts, was sent back to jail over charges of breaking into a prison computer system. Janos... More »
Security, Virtualization Top IT Organization's Priority List
Based on the research conducted by The Society for Information Management, security, server virtualization, as well as business-related technologies are among the main priorities ... More »
Open Source Portable Firewall Launched
Yoggie, an Israeli security firm, is taking a different turn on its portale firewall platform, creating an open source firewall by which applications can be built by various devel... More »
UK Identities Sold Cheaply on the Net
With just £80, anyone can purchase financial identities on the internet from cyber scammers. The package include names, addresses, passport numbers and classified financial ... More »
Microsoft Features Online Store
Microsoft has recently made its online store available for U.S customers. The company already has online marketplaces in the United Kingdom, Germany and Korea. The store, origi... More »
Apple Introduces Internal University
Apple Inc. has expanded its reach in the educational market through launching "Apple University" program. The company has employed the expertise of Joel Podolny, the ... More »
Facebook Removes Italian Neo-Nazi Pages
Social networking site Facebook has opted to take out pages posted by neo-Nazis to stir up violence. Facebook's move came subsequent to allegations made by European politicians th... More »
Woman Loses $400,000 Over Internet Fraud
Janella Spears, a nurse from Oregon, was preyed on by Nigerian internet scammers costing her $400,000 (€314,000). The case is purported to be the biggest of its kind in the h... More »
Drug Dealers Employing The Internet Raided
Suspected internet drug peddlers across nine countries were raided in Interpol's global campaign against illegal drug trafficking. The operation, also known as Pangea, spanned thr... More »
Bungled Antivirus Update Damages Windows XP PCs
A defective AVG antivirus software crippled several computers embedded with Windows XP operating system. Based on the alerts released by AVG Technologies, the flawed software i... More »
Microsoft Highlights Push E-mail With Novel SMB Servers
Microsoft will be launching services similar to Windows Mobile designed for smaller enterprises. Additionally, Microsoft and Palm will be distributing a new Palm Treo Pro to firms ... More »
ISP Shut Down Due To Security Issues
McColo, a U.S internet service provider, was temporarily closed down for presumably helping cybercrooks in online scams and promoting child pornography. The provider had been m... More »
Women Ditching UK IT Jobs Hit High, BCS Says
According to the British Computer Society (BCS), about 37,000 women working in the IT industry left their jobs from 2001 to 2007. In 2001, IT women accounted to 229,440, which ... More »
Majority of Data Security Risks Are Internal, Survey Says
A data leakage research contracted by Cisco revealed that most business IT managers consider their employees as a far greater threat to company data security. The survey was pa... More »
Intel Trims Down Forecast Amidst Massive Financial Downturn
Intel, one of the world's largest chip makers, has decided to reduce its revenue estimate for the fourth quarter this year. The move is widely attributed to the weak economic condi... More »
Microsoft Refutes Linux Allegation
Microsoft has renounced paying a Nigerian contractor as a way to persuade him to replace Linux with Windows on a massive number of school laptops. The move was based on a joint mar... More »
Insolvencies in Auto Industry Could Affect IT Workers
A wave of unemployment among IT workers in the auto industry could be the most likely scenario should automakers continue to run out of cash. According to the data from the Cen... More »
Secret Windows 7 Features Cracked by Programmer
Rafael Rivera, a programmer from Virginia, has unraveled various fragmentary features of Windows 7 that Microsoft temporarily kept from users until its completion. Rivera poste... More »
Hackers Strike at Thousands of Servers
Kaspersky Lab has identified another cyber attack carried out mainly in Western Europe and the U.S. Hackers were detected to have embedded malicious code on around 10,000 servers.... More »
Intel's Atom Now Has Sufficient Supply
Intel's shortage of Atom chips supply is finally over. Companies manufacturing netbooks which features the Atom processor are no longer having any problems obtaining enough sto... More »
Google Features Video Chat in Gmail
Google's Gmail has another addition to its lofty features - video and voice chat. Gmail is a free webmail service which was launched four years ago. The service gained wid... More »
IT Administrator Pleads Guilty To Hacking and Stealing
A former network administrator faces 12 years in jail for hacking, ID theft, burglary, among other charges. Andrew Madrid pleaded guilty to all accusations and admitted he used hi... More »
Internet Addiction Considered as a Clinical Illness
According to an Internet Addiction Disoder (IAD) dignostic manual, internet craving is now regarded as a medical disorder. People itching to get online for over six hours... More »
EU Investigates on Internet Call Blocking
Some mobile operators are now blocking VOiP calls which prompted European Union regulators to conduct a probe and see if certain competition rules have been violated. EU has condu... More »
Network Brute Force Attacks Proliferating
According to a report from network management company Arbor Networks, brute force attack is fast becoming a trend in the internet arena today. A brute force attack is a way of ... More »
Lehman Brothers Charged Over Mass Retrenchment
Several weeks after declaring bankruptcy, Lehman Brothers is now facing charges for mass lay offs of IT support staff without prior notice. A software developer, Miron B... More »
Numerous Servers Hit by Huge Web Attack
A massive web hacking drive has been initiated by cybercrooks, embedding malicious links on approximately 10,000 servers, based on the report from Kaspersky Lab. The attack was... More »
Internet Crooks Extort US Drug Firm
A US drug company, Express Scripts, is being blackmailed by data thieves of releasing patient information lest the company complies with their demands. The drug firm received a... More »
Hackers Strike Adobe Reader Flaw
Internet crooks are currently exploiting the flaws in Adobe Reader which was patched this week. Bojan Zdrnja, an analyst at SANS Institute's Internet Storm Center (ISC), alerte... More »
Pakistan Imposes Death Penalty to Cyber Terrorism Perpetrators
Based on a decree issued by Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday, any act of cyber terrorism causing death to individuals will be charged with death penalty. T... More »
Ex-Intel Engineer Pilfers Trade Secrets
An engineer previously working in Intel has been indicted by the federal prosecutors in Massachussetts this week for stealing the company's trade secrets amounting to $1 billion&n... More »
Apple Leads Smartphone Market
Apple's iPhone 3G is currently taking dominance over the smartphone market, leaving RIM's Blackberry trailing behind. Apple is also the forerunner when it comes to smartphone oper... More »
LinkedIn Trims Down Workforce by 10 percent
Social networking site LinkedIn decided to follow the most recent trend among businesses today - cutting jobs to get through the recession. The company plans to lay off 36 employe... More »
Lay Off at AMD Leaves 500 Workers Unemployed
Advance Micro Devices is considering to sack 500 employees as part of a strategy to turn its business around amidst down economic condition. The move is AMD's second round of retr... More »
IBM Battles Researcher Dearth Across India
IBM India Research Laboratory (IRL) has recently launched Blue Scholar Program which strives to promote research as a profession among computer science graduates. The strategy is ... More »
Researchers Crack Wi-Fi Encryption WPA
The previously regarded safe wi-fi encryption, WPA or Wi-Fi Protected Access, has been cracked by security researchers who deployed a practical attack. The details of the ... More »
Research Features Scarcity of IT Skills
A recent study from City & Guilds revealed that UK companies waste 13 million work hours a week due to IT incompetency. The research also concluded that around 5.3 million ... More »
HSI Service Rates Across The Globe Decline
According to a British research company, worldwide residential broadband rates have significantly decreased by 20 percent this year. DSL accounted the biggest price slump, aver... More »
Veoh Sacks 20 Percent of Manpower
Veoh, an online video-sharing web site, announced its move to retrench 20 percent of its labor force in light of the weakening ad market. Veoh's step is attributed to the globa... More »
Yang Urges Microsoft to Acquire Yahoo
Following the collpase of Yahoo-Google ad deal, Yahoo chief executive Jerry Yang expressed interest on a possible buy out of the internet firm by Microsoft. Yang said, "To... More »
Internet "Black Boxes" To Log Web Activities
Based on a report made by Telegraph, the British government is considering the idea of monitoring internet traffic with the use of internet black boxes. These black boxes record e... More »
Atom Deemed to Weaken Other Intel Chip Revenues
According to IT analysts, the deployment of Intel's Atom processor in netbooks may undermine sales of its more advanced chips. Atom chips are less-expensive processor... More »
Analysts Alert Customers of Phishing Scams Subsequent to Bank Breakdown
Some security analysts warn customers trying to claim deposits from Icesave of possible phishing attacks. Icesave is an online savings bank owned by Landsbanki, an internationa... More »
Google Backs Out from Yahoo Deal
Search giant Google has opted to call off an impending agreement with Yahoo. The company cited the legal troubles it has gotten into with the emergence of the deal as the primary ... More »
IT Providers Fail to Adopt Low Carbon Economy, Study Says
A study facilitated by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and Gartner revealed that majority of IT services organizations are reluctant to embrace low carbon eco... More »
Employees at Dell Requested to Take Unpaid Vacation
With the ongoing economic recession, Dell has decided to ask its employees to take a maximum of five days unpaid vacation leaves. The move is part of Dell's retrenchment program, ... More »
Mozilla Features "Porn Mode" in Firefox
The pre-release version of Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 already highlights Private Browsing. Firefox is now among a variety of browsers offering such feature. Apple's Safari, Google Ch... More »
SMBs Embrace Mobile Broadband
One of the emerging technologies that's gaining wide popularity among small and medium businesses nowadays is mobile computing. Based on a study conducted by ABI Research, SMBs... More »
Gartner Calls for IT Innovation or Dormancy
Gartner, a technology research and advisory firm, suggests that financial service companies should innovate or hibernate to live through the recession. Alistair Newton, researc... More »
FCC Favors Verizon-Alltel Collaboration
The $28.1 merger of Verizon Wireless and Alltel was finally granted approval by the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday. With FCC's decision, Verizon becomes the lar... More »
Nokia Plans To Reduce Manpower
Nokia has become one of the many companies who plan to trim down its employee count to combat the global economic downturn. The mobile maker announced its move to retrench arou... More »
Google Chrome Complaints Aired in Youtube
Advocacy group Consumer Wathcdog has expressed concerns over Google's Chrome browser on Youtube. The group is encouraging viewers to send an email to Google's board of directors c... More »
Browsing Violent Websites Causes Violent Behavior, Research Says
According to a new research, teens who are exposed to violence on the the net have the inclination to exhibit violent behavior. Dr. Michele L. Ybarra of Internet Solutions for ... More »
ACS to Send IT Jobs Overseas
IT professionals working at Affiliated Computer Services Inc., are in the brink of unemployment as the company plans to move "more complex, higher paying" jobs to countr... More »
Another Worm Attacks Windows Update
A worm that takes advantage of a bug thats been plaguing Windows for months is currently attacking systems. The bug was supposedly patched by Microsoft 11 days ago upon issuing a ... More »
Internet Sales Take a Plunge, Report Says
A report from the Net Behaviour company shows that the number of people buying products and services over the internet has plummeted. The total quantity of acquisitions fell by tw... More »
Yahoo-Google Ad Deal Deferred
Search giants Yahoo and Google opted to put off their search advertising agreement and are now back to square one. The deal has been quite controversial upon its announcement a... More »
AT&T To Regulate Monthly Internet Traffic
America's largest internet service provider is considering the idea of keeping a tight rein on the amount of data its customers can utilize per month. The company will be pioneeri... More »
Nationwide To Trim Down Server Count
Nationwide Mutual Insurance is looking to cut the number of x86 servers by half to save hardware costs. The company has currently 5,000 machines and it aims to reduce it to ... More »
IT Employee Opens Ex-Employer's Server To Spammers
An IT manager has been sentenced to a year in jail for opening his previous employer's email server to spammers. In addition, he was fined US$54,000 and was compelled to undergo a... More »
Customers Get Their Own Web Space in Salesforce
Salesforce.com is slated to introduce a site that will allow users to operate their own website on the company's cloud infratructure. Salesforce.com is a vendor of Customer Rel... More »
Yahoo Alledgedly Offers Misleading Ads
Yahoo is currently under fire for offering publishers a menu of choices for what ad appears in their site, may it be legal or not. Yahoo Right Media's Direct Media Exchange pro... More »
UK Govenment Closes Down Tax Website Due To Data Leak
The UK government has closed down one of its major websites following a data leak which involves millions of passwords and personal data. The official website of the Department... More »
Online Ad Sales Growth Anticipated to Fall
Imran Khan, an internet analyst forecasts yet another drop in online advertisement sales subsequent to a gloomy end of the third quarter in the advertising market. Advertisers hav... More »
Motorola To Reduce Workforce
Motorola has verified plans of laying off 3,000 workers by 2009 as part of its move to cut $800 million from its annual budget. More than two-thirds of employees set to ... More »
Windows Update To Be Upgraded Again
Microsoft Corp. has announced yet another upgrade to its Windows Update, dubbed as Windows Update Agent 7.2.6001.788. An unknown source from Microsoft posted a blog stating the co... More »
Intel Core i7-Powered PC, Fastest in the World
The fastest desktop PC across the world has recently been revealed, costing about £4,000. YoYotech Fi7epower MLK161 is powered by Intel's Core i7-965 Extreme Edition, boa... More »
Social Networks Become a Trend at Work
Social networking sites were originally created for friends and families to communicate and build online communities. Now its use is being spread in the business industry where em... More »
Panasonic Set to Acquire Sanyo
Panasonic, a Japanese electronics company, has decided to acquire Sanyo Electric, according to a report from Nikkei business daily. The two companies will convene by the end of... More »
Defra Squandered Millions on IT Projects
UK's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs or Defra is reported to have splurged over £26 million over the last five years on IT projects that never were comple... More »
Companies Need Help on Battling Cybercrimes
UK firms are not confident that the government is religiously doing all efforts to fight internet crimes. A new survey participated by 3,500 members of the Corporate IT Forum r... More »
Malicious Spam Proliferates
According to security firm Sophos, the number of spam consisting of dangerous attachments has increase eightfold. Sophos claims about one in every 416 emails received between J... More »
Tech Group Combats Botnets
A group of different ISPs and internet firms will convene early next year in San Francisco to discuss and establish schemes to battle botnets. The group, also known as M... More »
Government IT Budget To Plunge
Based on a survey participated by 162 local and state CIOs, around 38 percent of US city and local governments will reduce their IT spending over the next two years. The survey... More »
Former Exec at McAffe Apprehended for $3.8m Fraud
A former marketing executive at McAffee, Susan Despinic, was arrested for fiddling a huge amount of money from the security firm. Despinis and her husband, Aurawm Almaneih, are... More »
Sprint Reproached of 'Partitioning Internet'
Subsequent to a long contractual battle, Sprint-Nextel has cut the internet connection of Cogent Communications, a multinational internet service provider. This resulted to the in... More »
Psystar Features Blu-ray on a Mac OS Desktop
Psystar, the controversial Mac clone maker, highlights Blu-ray on its Mac desktop PCs. Despite impending charges and countercharges between the two companies, Psystar still opt... More »
Apple's Competitors File Anti-Compete Charges
Rivals of Apple have filed cases involving non-compete clauses to inhibit executive talents to jump ship and be swayed over to the electronic giant's pool of competitive workforce... More »
Microsoft Ventures in Cloud Computing
Microsoft recently announced its plan to embark on cloud computing services. The company is focusing on its main products, Windows and Office, to shift to internet-based developme... More »
IT Staff Drought Becomes a Global Problem, RSA Says
According to Art Coviello, president of EMC's security division, RSA, the scarcity of IT security experts is becoming a woldwide snag. RSA is pushing governments throughout the wo... More »
New Internet Security Already Deemed Unsafe
Researchers were able to break the McEliece encryption system through a software that speeds up attack on the technology. Eindhoven University of Technology (EUT) Netherlands p... More »
Microsoft Forewarns of Recession Email Scams
According to Microsoft executive Tim Cranton, internet crooks may take advantage of the recent worldwide economic condition through sending bogus emails offering mortgages, loans,... More »
Recession Creates Buyer's Market for IT Acquisitions
The recent worldwide economic downturn may be taking its toll on many software merchants, but it also paved the way for a buyer's market. Ray Wang, a Forrester Research analyst... More »
Trojan Pilfers Thousands of Classified Bank Data
A Trojan horse launched by a sophisticated group of cybercrooks was able to make its way to bank'computer systems, stealing thousand of online bank account log-ons as well as cred... More »
Government Compelled to Shelve Highly Expensive IT Programs
In the Prime Minister question held on October 29, Gordon Brown was excoriated for launching millions of pounds of IT projects while the nation is suffering from the effects of wo... More »
