Over the last 36 hours or so, the ‘Anonymous’ masses and many unaffiliated sympathizers joined forces to attack the MPAA’s website. Continuing with ‘Operation Payback’, today an attack will be launched on the RIAA — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Federal Court in Sydney will next month hear experts determine if 64Kbps internet access can really be called “supersonic” broadband — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Intel’s latest business-model takes a page out of Hollywood’s playbook: they’re selling processors that have had some of their capabilities crippled (some of the cache and the hyperthreading support are switched off). For $50, they’ll sell you a code that will unlock these capabilities. Conceptually, this is similar to the DRM notion that I can sell you a movie that you can watch on one screen for $5 today, and if you want to unlock your receiver’s wireless output so you can watch it upstairs, it’ll be another $5 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Following a call to arms yesterday, the masses inhabiting the anonymous 4chan boards have carried out a huge assault on a pair of anti-piracy enemies. The website of Aiplex Software, the anti-piracy outfit which has been DDoSing torrent sites recently, is currently down having been DDoS’d. They are joined in the Internet wasteland by the MPAA’s website, also currently under huge and sustained attack — via redwolf.newsvine.com
It is an invisible revolution and it is gaining momentum. With many of Sydney’s cafes, libraries and pubs already offering free or low-cost Wi-Fi access, the state government is joining the party, creating wireless hotspots on train stations and even ferries — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A mother’s fear that her 12-year-old daughter was being stalked by a paedophile on Facebook sparked an in-depth, almost month-long investigation involving the Australian Federal Police.
But police have been left dumbfounded by the discovery that the person who harassed and sent pornographic images to the girl via the site was another 12-year-old girl — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Magento is a stunningly powerful e-commerce platform. In this miniseries, we’ll learn how to get started with the platform, get to know the terminologies, set up a store and all related aspects of it and finally learn how to customize it to make it our very own — via Nettuts+
The release of Internet Explorer 9 beta garnered a lot of attention and positive reviews. Cribbing from Chrome’s UI and significantly boosting speed over previous iterations of the browser, IE9 looks like a real winner — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The latest scandal about the NSW Government disgusts me. It doesn’t disgust me that someone was using public resources to look (or not look) at porn, but rather because that technology was used in exactly the way most citizens don’t want it used — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Not that eBay has an awareness problem in Australia, but Dr Mumbo understands that the company recently attempted to have some promotional products produced for it.
The company – a banner maker – was convinced it was a scam and refused to accept the business — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for business ISP Timico UK, Trefor Davies, has pitted several homing pigeons – Rory and Tref – carrying a microSD card with 200MB of HD video data, against a fairly typical rural broadband connection to see which is faster — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Telstra ADSL, cable, satellite, Next G and dial-up BigPond services were hit with a national email outage following a server glitch — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Microsoft announced sweeping changes on Monday to ensure that the authorities in Russia and elsewhere do not use crackdowns on software piracy as an excuse to suppress advocacy or opposition groups, effectively prohibiting its lawyers from taking part in such cases — via redwolf.newsvine.com
GoDaddy.com, the closely held website that registers Internet domain names, has put itself up for sale in an auction that could fetch more than $1 billion, people familiar with the matter said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The NSW Government has finished a $3 million upgrade of its Transport Management Centre, including the provision of a new website that allows road users to glean real-time information about NSW road conditions — via redwolf.newsvine.com
John’s Phones sell no-frills mobile phones that send and receive calls and pretty much nothing else (though there’s a place to keep your pen). Warren Ellis likens it to a phone from minimalist Japanese housewares/clothing company Muji.
Finally a separate unit with no frills and conditions. A simlock free phone with large keys, an address book, a pen and over three weeks time standby… John’s Phone is simple and easy for young, old, holiday, grandfathers, grandmothers, athletes, national and international business traffic.
— via boingboing
Bloglines, one of the most popular web-based feed readers, will no longer be available after September 30th. InterActiveCorp, the company that acquired the service in 2005, also owns the search engine Ask.com — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Fairfax will begin charging for some of its online news content within a matter of weeks when it launches its first subscription-based smartphone applications — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Now you can put your iPhone into field test mode, which will allow to easily and precisely test your cell signal reception quality. You just need to follow these two easy steps:
- First, upgrade your iPhone 4—or any iPhone—to iOS 4.1
- Dial *3001#12345#* into your phone
— via Gizmodo
The proposed multilateral Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) has hit a stumbling block over the liability of ISPs in allowing customers access to peer-to-peer file-sharing sites and the inclusion of geographic indicators — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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