Two hours and counting and the blogging platform is still down. Whatever are we to do without The Daily What and all those other delightful blogs?
According to The Next Web and CenterNetworks, Tumblr has been down for two hours now, causing a lot of derision among folks on Twitter — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Every community in the UK will gain access to super-fast broadband by 2015 under plans outlined today — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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
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+
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
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
The government’s secret listening post GCHQ could sell its technical expertise to the private sector under plans being considered by the government — via redwolf.newsvine.com
There is tons of spam flying around the Internet. Most people can’t delete it fast enough. It’s virtually invisible. This site gives you access to a program that will encrypt a short message into spam. Basically, the sentences it outputs vary depending on the message you are encoding. Real spam is so stupidly written it’s sometimes hard to tell the machine written spam from the genuine article
The US State Department has pushed employees toward digital diplomacy
with Twitter and iPhone apps, but the department has banned all employees from using WikiLeaks — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The mastermind behind a SMS spam scheme that preyed on lonely hearts through dating websites has been fined $2 million.
Former porn site operator Scott Gregory Phillips was behind a Brisbane-based business which employed backpackers to create fake profiles on dating websites and send unsolicited text messages to victims — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Journalists union The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance has come to the defence of anonymous disclosure site WikiLeaks.
In a statement this afternoon, the union accused Amazon, which withdrew hosting services from WikiLeaks, of caving in to hysteria.
It follows the release by Wikileaks – which is led by the Australian Julian Assange – of a huge amount of diplomatic exchanges involving the US.
Federal secretary Chris Warren said: Amazon’s decision is extremely disappointing. We need to take a step back from the hysteria. It is not known whether WikiLeaks has broken any law. It has – via a free media – upheld the public’s right to know
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
In an uncharacteristically public way, Google has acknowledged modifying its search engine so it can identify businesses that provide bad service and lower their search results rankings accordingly.
Google took action after a recent story in The New York Times detailed the tactics of an online eyeware store owner who claimed his site’s high Google rankings were directly proportional to the many complaints posted by upset customers — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The website of whistle-blowing organisation WikiLeaks has been shut down by the company providing it with domain name services — via redwolf.newsvine.com
What if you could be recognized by the way your eyes moved? An Israeli company believes that tracking the unique signatures in the movement of your eyeballs could be the most foolproof biometric system ever. What’s more, its setup could be used as a lie detector, or a drug and alcohol test — via redwolf.newsvine.com
South Africa has got to consider renewable energy, or risk being left behind. This was the message from a seminar held by Greenpeace Africa in Johannesburg on Wednesday morning — via dungbeetlemania.newsvine.com
The perpetrators behind distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against broadband website Whirlpool have been let off the hook as a sign of good will
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
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