There is a new rock and roll music CD available at www.spidergroove.com that is very refreshing to listen to. The songs have interesting hooks and beautiful melodies. Lots of great sounding guitar work, too. Remember the 60′s, 70′s and parts of the 80′s where songs sounded like that? Well, Joey D has captured the sound [Continue]
Five males between the ages of 15 and 26 were arrested in Britain. They are suspected of being part of the group of hackers, known as “Anonymous”. The group supports WikiLeaks and were responsible for the denial of service attacks on websites such as MasterCard, VISA and PayPal. Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks are where [Continue]
Rumor has it Microsoft will be debuting their “Windows TV” at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The Seattle Times is reporting the cost of the set top box will be around $200 and will run the Windows Media Center interface. This may be a serious challenge to the new Apple and Google TV [Continue]
Microsoft Corp co-founder and billionaire investor Paul Allen relaunched a wide-ranging patent lawsuit against Apple Inc, Google Inc. and its YouTube subsidiary, Facebook Inc., Yahoo Inc., AOL Inc., eBay Inc., Netflix Inc., OfficeMax Inc. and Staples Inc. with specific allegations that the companies are illegally using technology owned by his [Continue]
Microsoft has warned about a flaw on the Internet Explorer browser that could allow hackers to take control of unprotected computers. Microsoft affirms that Internet Explorer (IE) holds a serious susceptibility which can be used by attackers to abuse users and make them visit a manipulative bugged Web site. The bug allows hackers to inject [Continue]
Skype’s CEO took to the company’s official blog for some official damage control. He issued a statement apologizing for the service outage and promising compensation. Bates also issued an update on the outage, claiming the company has been able to successfully stabilize Skype due to the “dedicated supernodes deployed by [Continue]
Millions of Skype users have been hit with a major outage just days before Christmas and as the Internet telephone provider prepares for an initial public offering. As Skype explains it, the failure of several supernodes caused the widespread outage on Wednesday. “Under normal circumstances, there are a large number of supernodes available. [Continue]
The FCC has narrowly approved, by a 3-2 vote, a new policy on net neutrality that has been met with a lot of criticism and has already drawn fire from some in the telecommunications industry, and even supporters of the principle were not completely happy with the Commission’s new rules. Net neutrality is the concept [Continue]
Facebook co-founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg arrived in China today and visited the offices of the country’s largest search engine, Baidu. Photos of Zuckerberg in Baidu quickly appeared online, and Baidu’s director of international communications Kaiser Kuo confirmed that Zuckerberg was indeed there. “Obviously I’m [Continue]
Yahoo is believed to be planning a shut down of eight products and plans to get rid of 600 jobs worldwide, about 4% of its workforce. Yahoo had about 14,000 employees at the end of the third quarter of this year. Some of the products on the hit list include Delicious, Yahoo! Buzz, MyBlogLog, AlltheWeb [Continue]