Posts tagged with the keyword: ‘internet’
Update at 5:07 p.m. PDT : A Google spokesperson has issued a statement saying that the servers used for determining accessibility of the company’s services “could overestimate the level of blockage,” and that there could have been a block at the time when the last report had been aggregated: Because of the way we measure accessibility in China, it’s possible that our machines could overestimate the level of blockage. That seems to be what happened last night when there was a relatively small blockage.
July 29, 2010 | Posted in
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Michael Hayden, ex-CIA and NSA director, suggests some foreign nations’ systems should be off-limits in cyberwar. (Credit: Declan McCullagh/CNET) LAS VEGAS–The United States should decide on rules for attacking other nations’ networks in advance of an actual cyberwar, which could include an international agreement not to disable banks and electrical grids, the former head of the CIA and National Security Agency said Thursday
July 29, 2010 | Posted in
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Boldly going where no actor has gone before, William Shatner has embarked on a voyage from Star Trek to the brand-new Twitter-spawned CBS sitcom $#*! My Dad Says.
July 29, 2010 | Posted in
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The Asus Eee PC 1015PD has finally received its product page on the Internet to confirm a report late last month that pointed towards the existence of such a model.
July 29, 2010 | Posted in
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Facebook has unveiled Facebook Questions, with the beta functionality offering its users the opportunity to poll the wisdom of the Facebook community. Facebook’s mighty reach means that Facebook Questions could well prove to be a major hit, despite rivalry from internet sites like Yahoo Answers or the search engine Ask
July 29, 2010 | Posted in
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Facebook has a new service, Facebook Questions . As the firms’ Blake Ross explains, “Millions of people ask their friends questions on Facebook every day.
July 29, 2010 | Posted in
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Opera Mini users used the mobile browser to read one billion internet pages in a single day, a significant landmark for the Norwegian company. Opera has revealed that the billion mark was hit on July 25 2010, just over two years on from hitting the 100 million mark for the first time. “Each day is different in the fast-growing mobile Web.
July 29, 2010 | Posted in
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Gmail, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr – a few giants so dominate the web app world that it’s hard for anyone else to make an impression.
July 29, 2010 | Posted in
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DNSSEC, the new web security system which hopes to make the internet harder for hackers to attack, has been officially given the go ahead in the US – ushering in a new era of the internet. Just two years ago the safety of the internet came under question when security consultant Dan Kaminsky found a fatal flaw in the internet’s Domain Name System (DNS). Although this was hastily patched up it got web honchos ICANN thinking fast on how to make the internet safer from attacks and DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security) was born
July 29, 2010 | Posted in
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Virgin Media will launch its first online and mobile TV player in beta today. The cable giant has been teasing the launch of a VOD service over the internet and through mobile phones for some time, and has now confirmed that the service will launch today.
July 29, 2010 | Posted in
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