Nigeria made a major step toward demonstrating its commitment to addressing cybercrime by hosting the first West Africa Cybercrime Summit, attended by public and private sector organizations — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A Microsoft executive’s self-described job of driving Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) into extinction will be difficult unless he can move Chinese users off the aged browser.
According to data from Web analytics firm Net Applications, 45.2% of China’s Internet users still rely on IE6 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The custom motorcycle scene is driven by fashion as much as any other. Over the past couple of decades we’ve seen the rise of the ubiquitous CB750 custom, followed by the SR400/500 and Kawasaki W650. But now I’m starting to wonder if the next trend will be repurposed old sleds like the Honda Gold Wing. They seem to be popping up everywhere, and some of them are quite intriguing. Here’s one built by Texas-based Ric Becker, who sells and restores tandem bicycles for a living. In his spare time, Ric likes to build faster machines—like this 1976 GL1000 — via Bike EXIF
Scientists are hailing a chemotherapy drug found to significantly increase the survival chances of child leukaemia patients whose cancer has returned — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In the web world, a FAQ page is created specifically for the viewers/customers, and contains general questions and their respective answers about a particular product or service. This tutorial details the process of creating a dedicated FAQ section in the WordPress backend with custom post types, as well as how to spice up the actual page a bit by using jQuery and CSS. To accomplish our goal, we require a dedicated custom FAQ WordPress post type. That way, we can use the title and the content of these posts to display the FAQs in an innovative and user-friendly way — via Nettuts+
Did you know that the world record for a motorcycle sold at auction is $551,000? It was set in 2008 by a 1915 Cyclone board track racer. But that record might be broken on 15 December, when George Brough’s prototype Brough Superior SS 100 goes under the hammer in New York. This machine is the evocatively-named Alpine Grand Sport variant, and it’s tipped to go for between $600,000 and $700,000 — via Bike EXIF
The world’s biggest retailer already has tills ringing across the Americas, Europe and Asia. Now the sprawling Arkansas-based discount megalith Walmart is trying its luck in Africa.
South Africa’s labour movement is bracing itself for its biggest campaign since its anti-apartheid heyday as it faces up to the likely arrival of Walmart – a company notorious for its anti-union tactics, with annual sales worth three times the country’s budget — via dungbeetlemania.newsvine.com
Doctors are working to stabilise a man whose arm was severed in an accident at Horsham in Victoria’s west — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The owner, Bruce Porter, is a journalist and retired professor of Columbia University, while the architect, Alex Scott Porter, is the owner’s daughter. Together with contractor Josh Howell, the team was able to see this tiny house to completion while including some innovative elements — via Jetson Green
When it comes to taking a married name, it really is for worse and not for better for some women, a new UK database has found — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In the latest in a series of blows to WikiLeaks, PayPal says it will no longer support money transfers to the whistleblower site — via redwolf.newsvine.com
When an aquarium in Japan planned their holiday displays for Christmas, they decided to harness the natural talents of one resident: the electric eel. The lights on one small Christmas tree are powered by the eel’s natural electricity, which is picked up by two aluminum panels in the tank that act as electrodes — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A beautiful antique replica of cabinet hardware. This unique line of Schaub & Company is much more than mass-produced standard hardware and has special features that are crafted individually for an original style — via Rustica Hardware
Back in April, we heard about GE’s effort at creating The One Bulb for replacing the common 40-60W incandescent. Their design is disturbingly Mordor-esque, but the 17-year lifespan can’t be argued with. We heard they’d be available in early 2011, but it looks like GE just couldn’t wait — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Two leading security firms have been accused of ripping off customers by cutting short their antivirus subscriptions after upgrading to different versions of the software.
AVG and Symantec are offering their own customers discounts on subscriptions via email or pop-ups, but the new subscriptions start immediately, short-changing
users who had months left on their existing deal, according to a report by Which? Computing — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Just a few hours after having its DNS servers terminated by a US company, WikiLeaks has anounced a move to a Swiss domain: wikileaks.ch. The domain is registered by the Pirate Party of Switzerland and it currently points to a single IP address in Sweden — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The FBI believes that one third of the world’s spam messages are being generated by one 23 year old Russian man.
Oleg Nikolaenko of Moscow, also know by his online nickname Docent
, is thought to be the man behind the Mega-D
bot network of 500,000 infected computers. The botnet sends out millions of spam messages on behalf of scam artists selling fake prescriptions and Rolex watches — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Crazy hills of San Francisco, originally uploaded by Håkan Dahlström.
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