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Amazon dropped WikiLeaks from its servers this week, according to the muckraking Web site's twitter feed. "WikiLeaks servers at Amazon ousted," read a WikiLeaks tweet posted around 3 p.m. ET on Wednesday.
The worse Vitaly Borker treated his customers, the higher the Google ranking of his New York designer eyeglass company rose. Or so it seemed. A Nov. 26 New York Times article detailed how he went out of his way to harass a minority of customers –
The domain seizures by the United States authorities and upcoming legislation that make similar takeovers even easier in the future, inspired a group of enthusiasts to come up with a new, decentralized and BitTorrent-powered DNS system.
The investigative arm of the Homeland Security Department appears to be shutting down websites that facilitate copyright infringement.
Both Google and its subsidiary company You Tube have banned Alex Jones and his websites, as attempts to curtail free speech widen.
Socionomist Alan Hall’s research shows that an authoritarian/anti-authoritarian battle is brewing around the world, and that participants are choosing sides. Eventually, he says, the conflict will turn incendiary.
Socionomist Alan Hall’s research shows that an authoritarian/anti-authoritarian battle is brewing around the world, and that participants are choosing sides. Eventually, he says, the conflict will turn incendiary.
The WikiLeaks website says it’s under a forceful Internet-based attack, and the site was inaccessible to some users in U.S. and Europe throughout the morning Tuesday. The site, which just distributed a trove of U.S. diplomatic documents, said in a
A group of "crush fetishists" has caused an online storm in China after uploading graphic videos showing attractive young Chinese women crushing small rabbits. In the widely circulated videos, several smiling women are seen in turn cuddling and playi
The Homeland Security Department's customs enforcement division has gone on a Web site shutdown spree, closing down at least 76 domains this week, according to online reports. While many of the web domains were sites that trafficked in counterfeit
Billionaire Richard Branson is expected to announce that Virgin will launch an iPad magazine on November 30th.
"For a lot of people, this will be their first experience of the Internet. They are at a huge advantage to previous Internet generations because they are leapfrogging all those fixed line technologies.
Opting out of Google Maps’ Street View in Germany will blur image of your building on the photographic map, and make you hideously uncool. So says a group of vandals who egged homes in Essen that appear pixelated on the search engine’s map
Yep. You read that correctly: "Google News Politics: Anti Sarah Palin Post Gets Google Censorship." That's another way of saying this blogger's Zennie62.com blog was not included in Google News after a blog post called "Will Sarah Palin Ever Shut Up?
Broadband Internet delivered via satellite stands to get a big boost in 2012 when HughesNet, one of two major providers in the United States, launches a next-generation spacecraft.
After 11 rounds of international negotiations, the final text of the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) has overcome its biggest hurdle yet when it was welcomed as a step in the right direction by the European Parliament, which
As users become more mobile and businesses become more interdependent, the "security perimeter" is becoming increasingly harder to define -- and nearly impossible to defend.
A single senator stalled a bill that would give the government the ability to shut down websites allegedly participating in copyright infringement. It will trample free-speech rights and give the government the ability to censor controversial website
Last winter, Google made a run at Facebook and fell flat, fast. Google Buzz, the social network it tried to build around its popular Gmail service, failed to live up to its name: it drew only a small fraction of Gmail's more than 100 million users, a
The Senate Judiciary Committee, voting 19-0, approved legislation that would let the Justice Department seek U.S. court orders against piracy websites anywhere in the world, and shut them down through the sites’ domain registration.
This is very bad news for alternative voices and news aggregators. Although it may be futile, we encourage everyone to call the Senate switchboard and voice their strong objection to this legislation, or we and many other "truth" sites may be...
A bill giving the government the power to shut down Web sites that host materials that infringe copyright is making its way quietly through the lame-duck session of Congress, raising the ire of free-speech groups and prompting a group of academics to
Which search is more likely to yield malware: a child's research for a school current events project or a male's search for nude photos of Paris Hilton? The answer may surprise you.
The Stuxnet computer worm that infiltrated industrial systems in Iran this fall may have been specifically designed to attack the country's nuclear program, potentially crippling centrifuges used to enrich uranium gas. The worm targets industrial sys
It’s a testament to the enduring power of e-mail that the company that got 500 million people to communicate on its own private network might now be eager to give them a tool to break out of the walled garden and contact the outside world.
The head of NY City's transit union wants to go after an anonymous blogger who's blasted him, and he's asking a court to force Google to give up his critic's name. John Samuelsen says the blog has repeatedly defamed him with false accusations of inc
Europe will run out of capacity for new internet addresses by early next year, potentially cutting the UK off from the rest of the world online, one of the founding fathers of the communications network warned today. Vint Cerf, vice-president of Goog
As for the "kill switch" support, respondents could be interpreting what that might entail in different ways. "They might not be thinking about what the implications would mean .. they might be thinking of him blocking a particular country [or attack
Enjoying your new "droid" web-phone? Well, Google's popular Android mobile platform kernel contains more than 350 software flaws, one-fourth of which are high-risk for security breaches and system crashes, a newly released analysis of the open platfo
Twitter users angered by the conviction of a man who threatened to blow up an airport in a Twitter joke showed support for him in their thousands today, thumbing their noses at the law by republishing the words that landed him in trouble. Paul Cha
