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Two labs of America’s top scientists have fallen for the oldest trick in the hackers’ book A report featured on ABC News concluded that two nuclear labs had been “hacked.” The true story is a bit more entertaining and the reveals that there is no threat to the country’s nuclear safety. Real threats such as [...]
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The First 100 Dot Coms Ever Registered
December 4th, 2007 
admin An interesting list containing the first 100 .com domains registered. Many of the names you haven’t heard of, many you have. What was interesting to me is that it took 2 years just to get 100 domains on-line. SYMBOLICS.COM March 15 1985 BBN.COM April 24 1985 THINK.COM May 24 1985 MCC.COM July 11 1985 DEC.COM [...]
Demonoid.com Shut Down Again
November 10th, 2007 admin Canadian-hosted torrent site is the next to fall in a series of takedowns The world-wide crackdown on torrent sites has brought down another major torrent hub. After being forced to close its doors to Canadian users in September due to pressure from the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA), Demonoid.com survived for only slightly more than [...]
Google explains PageRank tweak
October 30th, 2007 admin Google has confirmed that the recent update to its “visible PageRank” system is an effort to crackdown on sites trying to rig this closely-watched web popularity contest. Over the weekend, Google search engine guru Matt Cutts told Search Engine Journal that the company is intent on punishing web publishers that attempt to sell their PageRank [...]
Comcast blocks some Internet traffic
October 19th, 2007 admin Tests confirm data discrimination by number 2 U.S. service provider Comcast Corp. actively interferes with attempts by some of its high-speed Internet subscribers to share files online, a move that runs counter to the tradition of treating all types of Net traffic equally. The interference, which The Associated Press confirmed through nationwide tests, is the [...]
Little Old Lady Hammers Comcast
October 19th, 2007 admin A 75-year-old lady, who apparently fed up with the lousy service she received from Comcast, took her claw hammer back to the customer service center and bludgeoned the office equipment into tiny plastic pieces. This was after the company had scheduled installation of its much ballyhooed “Triple Play” service, which combines phone, cable and Internet [...]
Google vows to increase Gmail storage limit
October 13th, 2007 admin Google said on Friday it is speeding up the rate at which it adds storage space for its Gmail Web-based e-mail service due to the increased storage requirements for attachments such as photos. People using Google Inc.’s Gmail service are sucking up storage space faster than the company can add it. “A few of you [...]
Google powers more than half of all global searches
October 13th, 2007 admin Of the 61 billion searches in August, more than 35 billion of them were powered by Google, according to the latest statistics. The data is part of a new monthly survey from Comscore that measures search activity on a worldwide scale, scoping out the top 50 Internet properties. According to the study, 95% of all [...]
.Asia Internet Domain Launched
October 10th, 2007 admin Bidding began Tuesday for prime new pieces of Internet real estate with the launch of the “.asia” domain name, which aims to become one of the web’s most desirable addresses. The regional domain comes after the launch of the European-based .eu name last year and aims to join .com and .net as a widely used [...]
Microsoft: Google Reads Your Mail
October 8th, 2007 admin Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer saying Google reads customer email as part of a failed bid to drive ad-based revenue. The software giant’s chief made the remarks during a discussion about consumer software revenue models, and Ballmer used the dialogue as an entry point to take his shot at Google. The video is available to watch [...]
