Google launches Google Sites, a new piece of the Google Apps hosted collaboration and communication suites. Google Sites is the JotSpot hosted wiki service reborn. JotSpot’s re-launch under a different name and a revamped architecture finally answers how this hosted wiki service was retooled, almost a year and a half after Google acquired the company
It might not look like much, but a single strand of your hair is now enough for forensic scientists to work out where you live. The new isotopic analysis technique could prove invaluable for criminal investigations
Irish researchers have developed ultra tiny light emitting diodes (LEDs) that consume less than a nanoamp of power, allowing such LEDs that produce light for more than 80 years on a watch size battery
Mozilla has been working hard at making Firefox 3 faster than its predecessor, and it looks like they might be succeeding. They’ve recently added some significant JavaScript performance improvements that beat out all of the competition, including Opera 9.5 Beta. And it comes out to be about ten times faster than Internet Explorer 7. Things are really starting to fall into place for Firefox 3 Beta 4 which should be available in the next week or two — via Slashdot
While the RIAA sues its customers, and blames filesharing for the decrease in record sales, a coalition of seven independent Swedish record labels explores alternatives that make use of the Internet and filesharing technology
Websense Security Labs has discovered that Google’s popular web mail service Gmail is being targeted in recent spammer tactics. Spammers in these attacks managed to created bots that are capable of signing up and creating random Gmail accounts for spamming purposes
The constant pokes, friend requests and incessant invitations to play poker or write on each other’s Fun Wall
have taken the cyber-shine off Facebook. Even as the social networking site careers through the 64 million member mark, disgruntled and grumpy early users (many of whom only joined 18 months ago but already feel nostalgic for the old Facebook) are bundling up their online personal lives. They’re off to find something more relevant
The Encyclopedia of Life opened up to the public today with its first 30,000 pages in place — and promptly crumbled in the face of public interest. Only 25 exemplar
pages on the site are fully fleshed out to the extent scientists hope eventually to attain for all species; the other few tens of thousands are expanded placeholders. The project hopes to begin taking input from citizen-scientists late this year — via Slashdot
Dell, long dinged for using proprietary hardware in its gaming PCs, has seen the light. The company said such annoying traits such as proprietary motherboards and power supplies is now a thing of the past. The change is a long overdue
Google has agreed to build an undersea cable with five telecoms operators that will link the United States to Japan, and provide the capacity to sustain a surge in internet traffic between the continents
A company trying to pass itself off as vendors of the open-source file-sharing software Shareaza, has set the legal dogs on the real Shareaza forum. Discordia Ltd, who earlier turned Bearshare and iMesh into pay services, demanded action after a member of the real Shareaza forum suggested a DOS attack on the site
European regulators are considering whether to categorise IP addresses as personal property. Their decision could throw a monkey wrench into tracking by search-engine operators
The Cult of the Dead Cow hacker group has released an open-source web auditing tool called the Goolag Scanner that aims to let owners check their web sites for widespread security vulnerabilities
Ranger, the most powerful supercomputing system in the world for open science research, will be dedicated by the National Science Foundation and the Texas Advanced Computing Centre at The University of Texas at Austin. Ranger’s deployment marks the beginning of the Petascale Era in high-performance computing where systems will approach a thousand trillion floating point operations per second and manage a thousand trillion bytes of data
Over the past week, some servers used for updating the anti-virus software NOD32 were labeled as anti-p2p by a popular list maker for PeerGuardian. In response, NOD32’s company, ESET, has categorised PG2 as malware in some of its latest updates
Former Dead Kennedys vocalist Jello Biafra has torn into the RIAA, likening them to the mafia, threatening to leave a horse’s head in the beds of old women and children alike, whilst destroying the education of student file-sharers. Don’t even get him started on the media: Goebbels would be proud,
he said
Reporters Without Borders condemns the decision by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to block access YouTube. Claiming that the proportion of non-Islamic objectionable video
had increased on YouTube, the PTA, the official Internet regulatory body, ordered all Pakistani ISPs to block access to the web site until further notice
It has been three months since the popular (semi)private BitTorrent tracker Demonoid went offline. Since then, there has been a lot of speculation about its future, and many feared that the site would never return. Totally out of the blue, however, the tracker is now responding again
Apple just issued a cease and desist order to the ISP hosting the Hymn-inspired Requiem software. DrmBytes, a hymn moderator, posted that hymn-project.org will no longer allow links to DRM-stripping software, writing We’ve complied with the C&D and removed all DRM breaking software from the site
— via The Unofficial Apple Weblog
A new silicon chip, dubbed the Gi-Fi
, developed in Melbourne is predicted to revolutionise the way household gadgets like televisions, phones and DVD players talk to each other. The tiny five-millimetre-a-side chip can transmit data through a wireless connection at a breakthrough five gigabits per second over distances of up to 10 metres. An entire high-definition movie from a video shop kiosk could be transmitted to a mobile phone in a few seconds, and the phone could then upload the movie to a home computer or screen at the same speed
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