A blogger who was targeted in a co-ordinated attack against websites such as Facebook and Twitter has told the BBC he blames Russia for the assault. The pro-Georgian blogger, known as Cyxymu, said he had been targeted for "telling the truth about the Russian-Georgian war" in his writings. The attack caused a blackout of [...]
Micro-blogging service Twitter and social networking site Facebook have been severely disrupted by hackers. Twitter was taken offline for more than two hours whilst Facebook’s service was "degraded", according to the firms. The popular sites were subject to so-called denial-of-service attacks on Thursday, the companies believe. Denial-of-service (DOS) attacks take various forms but often [...]
A Chinese teenager sent to an internet addiction rehabilitation camp has allegedly been beaten to death by its counsellors, according to reports. A number of employees of the Qihang Salvation Training Camp in Nanning have been arrested over the death, his father Deng Fei told the Global Times. The camp had promised to put [...]
The resignation of Google’s Eric Schmidt as a director of Apple’s board has failed to halt a government inquiry into possible antitrust violations. Mr Schmidt stepped down because the search giant’s business increasingly competes with Apple’s. The Google CEO recused himself when Apple’s board discussed the iPhone. In a statement the Federal Trades Commission [...]
Google chief executive Eric Schmidt has quit Apple’s board of directors because the search giant’s business is increasingly competing with Apple’s. Apple boss Steve Jobs said that had Mr Schmidt stayed on, crossovers between the two firms’ projects mean he would have to leave chunks of meetings. Google’s Android operating system is used in [...]
A US student could face $4.5m (£2.8m) in fines following a federal court ruling that he violated copyright law for sharing music files online. The jury must now decide on the amount of damages it will award to the four recording labels that are suing him. Joel Tenenbaum admitted on the witness stand on [...]
The popularity of Apple’s iPhone is continuing to buck the fall in global mobile phone sales, a study has found. Shipments of the iPhone totalled 5.2 million units between April and June, a six-fold increase on a year earlier, according to Strategy Analytics. This compares with an industry-wide decline of 8% to 273 million [...]
The voicemail-to-text service Spinvox has applied for two patents which describe the service as being operated by humans, the BBC has learned. Spinvox has previously claimed that state-of-the-art speech recognition technology is the basis of its service. However, its patent applications claim the approach is accurate precisely because it employs human operators. Spinvox’s head [...]
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Traditional versions of the iconic device are a thing of the past, but future iterations will have a long and vibrant future.I was recently cleaning out a closet and came across an interesting artifact: my first iPod. It was nearly eight years ago that I was among the very first people in New York City [...]
Broadband users are not getting the speeds they are paying for, according to the largest survey of its kind ever undertaken by telecoms regulator Ofcom. Nearly one fifth of UK broadband customers on an eight Megabit per second (Mbps) connection actually receive less than 2Mbps, it found. The research showed that less than 9% of [...]
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