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Ivy Bean has 27,000 Twitter followers and tweets from the care home where she lives in Bradford, England.

Tuesday is her 104th birthday, but that hasn't stopped Britain's Ivy Bean from being an avid Twitter user and possibly the oldest person on the social networking site.

Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo unite against Google

Three technology heavyweights are joining a coalition to fight Google's attempt to create what could be the world's largest virtual library. Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo will sign up to the Open Book Alliance being spearheaded by the Internet Archive.

Twitter tweets are 40% 'babble'

A short-term study of Twitter has found that 40% of the messages sent via it are "pointless babble."

Celebrate All Things Woodstock at Woodstock.com, A Revolutionary Destination Site For The Music Community

Woodstock Ventures and Sony Music Entertainment have joined forces to create Woodstock.com, a revolutionary destination website for live music fans from every generation. A new social networking website devoted to the live music community, Woodstock.com debuted to artists, fans, music lovers and websurfers everywhere on Monday, June 1, and continues to grow.

Twitter, Facebook Sites Disrupted by Web Attack

JESSICA E. VASCELLARO and BEN WORTHEN The Wall Street Journal 07.08.2009
North Korean leader's sitting room discovered by Google Earth

An American economist said that he found the satellite photographs of Kim Jong-il’s mansion on Google earth.

Twitter, Facebook Sites Disrupted by Web Attack

Multiple Internet sites, including popular hangouts Twitter and Facebook, were temporarily disrupted Thursday after they were struck by apparently coordinated computer attacks.

US Marines renew ban on Twitter, Facebook

WASHINGTON — The US Marine Corps on Tuesday renewed a ban on Twitter and other social networking sites as the Pentagon weighed a similar prohibition over cybersecurity concerns.

Grad Student Admits to Illegally Downloading, Distributing Songs 6 Years Ago; Music Downloader Ordered to Pay US$675,000

Joel Tenenbaum of Providence, R.I., now admits he illegally downloaded and distributed 30 songs six years ago. What the 25-year-old Boston University graduate student couldn't have known was how much sharing music with his friends would cost him.

China has branded Rebiya Kadeer, leader of the Muslim minority, as a "criminal"

SYDNEY — Chinese hackers crashed the website of Australia's biggest film festival, organisers said on Saturday, escalating tensions over a visit here by the exiled leader of the Uighur minority.

Briton Gary McKinnon is accused of carrying out the biggest ever U.S. military hacking operation.

The Briton accused of hacking into U.S. government computers on Friday lost his court appeal to have his case heard in Britain, his legal team said. The decision means Gary McKinnon faces extradition to the United States, where he is wanted for allegedly hacking into computers at the Pentagon and NASA.

British government tells civil servants to tweet

LONDON — The British government has told civil servants: Go forth and tweet. The government published guidelines Tuesday for its departments on using the microblogging service Twitter.

President Obama calls cyber security "one of the most serious" challenges facing the nation.

The federal government is at risk of being unable to fight off attacks on the nation's computer networks unless it strengthens its cyber-security work force, according to a report released Wednesday.

GoWeb3D will deliver content for Layar, the mobile augmented reality browser.

GoWeb3D is selected as one of 50 developers globally to deliver content on Layar, the revolutionary new mobile augmented reality browser. Layar displays real time digital information in your mobile screen right on top of reality. Contact GoWeb3D to be among the first to deliver content via mobile augmented reality.

Computer attack may not have originated in North Korea after all

Evidence has surfaced that the denial-of-service attacks that crippled dozens of U.S. and South Korean web sites last week may not have been perpetrated by North Korea, as widely surmised.

FON Unveils Innovative Web Applications WiFi Router

FON today introduced the Fonera 2.0n WiFi router in the US market, combining FON's revolutionary WiFi sharing and money making features with seamless integration and management of popular Web 2.0 services such as YouTube, Facebook, Picasa, Flickr, BitTorrent, RapidShare, and other content -- even while users' PCs are off. The Fonera 2.0n is on sale now at major retailers. This announcement is significant because anyone can now upload, download and synch ALL of their web apps while away from home, without getting stuck for hours waiting for something to load.

South Korea's spy agency lowers cyberattack alert

South Korea's spy agency lowered the country's cyberattack alert Monday as affected Web sites returned to normal after suffering outages in a series of assaults that have cast suspicion on North Korea.

Suvarnabhumi Airport gets Thailand's fastest internet

KOMSAN TORTERMVASANA Bangkok Post 10.07.2009
Government and private Web sites were recently hit in a cyberattack.

The death of Michael Jackson and Internet attacks in the United States and South Korea share a cyber-crime connection. Almost immediately following Jackson's death, antivirus software companies began seeing links related to the singer that were in fact snares for users to download malignant software, or "malware." Similar sites cropped up related to the death of Farrah Fawcett.

Suvarnabhumi Airport gets Thailand's fastest internet

CAT Telecom will install 126 high-speed internet kiosks at Suvarnabhumi Airport in a joint venture with airport authorities.

 
South Korean president and Defense Ministry home pages appear to be 'unavailable,' 08 Jul 2009

South Korea said Friday it had identified and blocked five IP addresses used to distribute computer viruses that caused a wave of Web site outages in the U.S. and South Korea.

 
 

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