News Analysis: Verizon’s lawsuit against the FCC is only the first in what is sure to be a flood of legal challenges to the commission’s hastily approved net neutrality rules. – The suit by Verizon
Communications against the Federal Communications Commission on Jan. 21, 2011, should come
as a surprise to no one. The company has made no secret of its dislike for the
FCC’s involvement in the net neutrality issue, and most people expected that
one of the major Internet car…
Bosniak parliamentary group in the Council of Peoples of the Republic of Srpska (RS) has raised a question about protection of their vital national interest. The Bosniak parliamentary group has vetoed decision to appoint the new RS government of Prime Minister Aleksandar Džombić.
The boy banders of New Kids on the Block and The Backstreet Boys will take center stage at Dick Clark’s annual New Year’s Eve celebration on ABC. The supergroups, now known as NKOTBSB, performed together at the American Music Awards last month and are planning a tour of North America for next summer. Now the [...]
Poaching developers is the latest trend wrapping up the whole tech industry. Be it Apple, Microsoft, Google or any other tech vendor; the only challenge surfacing for these is the shortage of the skilled staff;
Nicki Minaj, who has been in the limelight over buttock enhancement rumours, showed off her ”assets” in a skintight cat suit in a show. The singer and rapper, 25, wore the eye-popping outfit as she performed at the Hammerstein Ballroom in her hometown of New York, reports the Daily Mail. For months, rumours have spread [...]
A Webroot survey reveals how social networking has impacted the security of cost-conscious businesses in 2010. – Research commissioned by Internet security specialist Webroot suggested
small to midsize businesses are becoming more vigilant when it comes to their
employees’ use of social networking sites. The survey of more than 1,000
businesses from the United States
and United Kingdom
with up to 500 empl…
Eighties bubblegum will meet nineties pop when Beantowners New Kids on the Block and Orlando’s own The Backstreet Boys hit the stage for an eagerly-anticipated summer tour. On Monday, the iconic boy bands came together to announce the first leg of their North American shows, set to kick off in Canada June 9. With over [...]
The main stumbling block in negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was next year’s budget.
Economists believe that the problem arose due to increased demands of the government for pre-election 2011.
According to Google, 244,327 out of 8,458,084 households in Germany, or 2.89 percent, opted out of Street View. Not every household that asked to be blurred will be, however. – Google Oct. 21 said less than 3 percent of German households have opted out
of allowing Google Street View to collect images of their homes.
Google’s Street View service, which provides real-life images of streets all
over the world, caused a stir in May when the company admitted the cars it us…
Microsoft pushed out an out-of-band patch to address a security issue with ASP.NET that has come under attack. – Microsoft issued an emergency patch Sept. 28 to address a vulnerability in ASP.NET.
The fix was pushed out after reports of attacks on the issue began
to surface. ASP.NET is used by developers to build Web
applications and XML Web services.
Demonstrated earlier this month by researchers at the…
Germany’s Interior Ministry has voiced opposition to EU plans to streamline its asylum policy, Deutsche Welle reported. Germany is criticizing what it calls far too lenient laws that could turn the country into a “magnet” for asylum seekers.
Google Chrome is touted as being the fastest internet browser. Google also points to Chrome having less security flaws than competitor Internet Explorer. The use of extensions for Chrome has allowed Google and trusted third parties to improve the strength of security while streamlining the process. Â There are a number of different classes of extensions [...]
In addition to Active Block Mapping, Change Block Tracking and Recovery Manager for Exchange, Vizioncore has also added other features to vRanger Pro 4.5 DPP that give users additional flexibility and security in administering system backups and restores. – Vizioncore Inc., a provider of virtualization data protection and management solutions and a wholly owned subsidiary of Quest Software, Inc., announced the availability of vRanger Pro Data Protection Platform (DPP). Version 4.5 of the image-based data protection technology features Active Block Ma…
In addition to Active Block Mapping, Change Block Tracking and Recovery Manager for Exchange, Vizioncore has added other features to vRanger Pro 4.5 DPP that give users additional flexibility and security in administering system backups and restores. – Vizioncore, a provider of virtualization data protection and management
solutions and a wholly owned subsidiary of Quest Software, announced the
availability of vRanger Pro Data Protection Platform (DPP). Version 4.5 of the
image-based data protection technology features Active Block Mapping (AB…
People searching Google in China March 30 reported that Google.hk was inaccessible. After initually taking ownership of the issue, Google blamed blockages of searches on its Google.hk Website in China on a change in that country’s firewall censors. Search service on Google.hk was eventually restored Tuesday evening. Chinese citizens and high-tech journalists covering the fallout between Google and China assumed the Great Firewall of China, which censors Internet content in accordance with Chinese law, was behind the blockage. This is latest issue in the wake of the search engine’s move to reroute users to Google.hk to avoid censorship in that country.
– Google blamed blockages of searches on its Google.hk Website
in China on a change in that country’s firewall censors, the latest issue in
the wake of the search engine’s move to reroute users to Google.hk to avoid
censorship in that country.
People searching Google in China March 30 reported tha…
Apple has a new lawsuit lodged against it, this time by Elan Microelectronics, which says the iPad, among other Apple products, violates its multitouch patent. Elan requests that U.S. regulators bar Apple from importing and selling the iPad.
– Apple is being sued by Taiwan-based Elan Microelectronics, which alleges
that certain Apple products including the iPhone, iPod Touch, MacBook, Magic
Mouse and upcoming iPad infringe on an Elan patent for multitouch technology.
quot;We have taken the step of filing the [U.S.
International T…
There are numbers of automated tools which are specifically designed to help you in setting restrictions over your PC and prevent your Kid from free access of internet and PC.
Some 30 workers of a former Serbian Railways company have blocked the main railway station in Belgrade. The protesting women, all from the Nega Kola company, have thus stranded both incoming and outgoing trains, it has been confirmed.
Islamist militants in Somalia are stopping convoys of food reaching more than 360,000 displaced people, the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) says. The agency says trucks travelling from the capital Mogadishu to camps in Afgoye have been stopped by armed men.
