Archive for the ‘INTERNET’ Category

The Spanish Civil Guard has announced it has arrested three men responsible for a Spanish botnet which infected more than 13 million PCs. The botnet was named Mariposa - as in the butterfly - and has infiltrated millions of PCs with a virus which stole, among other things, credit card numbers Full story

Apple is laying the groundwork for a cloud-based iTunes Store which will not only hold music – as previously reported – but movies too. According to CNET the fruit-based company is in discussion with movie studios to allow video content to be stored in the cloud for its upcoming iTunes service. The idea of iTunes being in the cloud is an obvious one in ... Full story

The CEO of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, has been quizzed on the search market, Bing and the dominance of Google. Full story

Stephen Fry has revealed how he regularly crashes websites with around 3,000 requests per second as a result of him tweeting a link to his 1.3 million plus followers. In an exclusive interview with our colleagues on .net magazine , Fry says: "When I tweet a link it usually gets around two or three thousand requests a second Full story

The Liberal Democrat Party is actively pursuing a change to the Digital Economy Bill which would see sites which host copyrighted material illegally blocked in the UK. Full story

Facebook is set to be worth over $1 billion a year (£666.4 million), according to new figures that estimate projected revenue for the social networking site. Facebook is set to break the billion dollars of revenue mark by the end of 2010, according to Inside Facebook's new figures . Tending virtual farms Facebook has over 400 million users, many of whom spend an inordinate ... Full story

Sky has announced that it has increased its Sky Player channel line-up to 30, with the launch of five new live channels to the service. The first, which is available now, is Sky1. This means that you will now be able to access all of Sky1's content live via Sky Player – great for those who have a penchant for Lost , 24 and, ... Full story

Google Chrome is offering those looking for a different web browser a unique experience – the ability to translate web pages automatically. While the service is only in beta at the moment, the idea of a polyglot feature – in this case using Google Translate – that offers instant web translation is definitely something that's welcomed. Full story

It's here: Microsoft's " browser ballot " screen, the menu that gives you the choice of a dozen different web browsers, is on PCs and giving Flock more publicity than it could ever possibly deserve. It's fantastic news for Netscape, of course, and we're sure they'll be cracking open the champagne now that Microsoft is being publicly punished for using all its might to ... Full story

There is one word that has made computer backups the dreaded activity for most PC users: time. Well, the lack of time, more precisely, especially when backups lead to storage snafus, transfer errors, and other hair-pulling exercises. We have plenty of time for playing computer games, browsing the web, and even making a brochure in Word because those activities are fun and rewarding, for ... Full story