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Facebook fights new patent lawsuit it calls “without merit”

Dave Parrack — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 22:12:46 +0000

Facebook wasn’t the first social network to exist on the Web, nor was it the first site to allow users to set up a personal page containing details about [...]

Microsoft says public will face hardship without Word on the market in appeal

Mike Ferro — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 20:48:06 +0000

In preparation of the continuation of the legal battle between Microsoft and i4i next month, the Redmond-based company released a list of reasons why the injunction against Word must [...]

Obama motorcade and safe house details leak on P2P network

Dave Jeyes — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:04:33 +0000

Information about the security of presidential motorcades and the location of the first family’s safe house were leaked via a peer-to-peer network Limewire in recent days. [...]

Michael Jackson dead – Web beats traditional media to the news

Dave Parrack — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:19:16 +0000

Michael Jackson has died at the age of 50. He reportedly died after suffering from a cardiac arrest and falling into a coma on the [...]

U.S. government mistakenly publishes nuclear details

John Lister — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:01:33 +0000

Government transparency is all well and good, but on some occasions it goes too far. A U.S. government agency has mistakenly published details of civilian nuclear facilities, including the locations of uranium supplies, on its Web site.

While most of the pages are [...]

Fox goes too far: calls FBI and fires columnist over leaked Wolverine movie

Mike Ferro — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 03:53:03 +0000

The television company Fox is outraged over the latest piracy incident. The highly anticipated movie, X-Men Origins: Wolverine was illegally leaked onto the Internet a whole month [...]

Is there really a Google GDrive?

Michael W. Jones — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:16:02 +0000

Rumors have been floating around the blogosphere for a few weeks about something called the Google GDrive. Further reports are making the Google device in the sky hard to ignore.

The rumors have been giving the alleged device a shadowy shape. It has been said to be [...]

Microsoft finally unveiling Zune phone at CES keynote January?

Triston McIntyre — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:18:28 +0000

Microsoft has been steadily plugging away at its little Zune media player for some time now, and critics and consumers alike have wondered when or if Microsoft intended to make the Zune directly competitive to the iPhone by making [...]

Local council posts MI5 spy center details online

Erna Mahyuni — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 01:27:49 +0000

One of Britain’s local councils published details of a highly sensitive spy center online. The premise, a covert MI5 operations center, now has potentially dangerous information about it [...]

Leaked BNP member list Google Maps mash-up

Dave Parrack — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:56:40 +0000

A 12,000-strong list of members of the British National Party was leaked on Nov. 18, revealing teachers, police officers, and soldiers who were members of the far-right party. If this leak wasn’t controversy-causing enough, a Google Maps mash-up was [...]