MANILA CITY, METRO MANILA – On the day President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III delivered his first State of the Nation Address, a new and seemingly improved Gov.PH website also went up. This time, the website is more like a professional blog than the standard HTML website that had been in use during the entirety...
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In the May 10 Philippine automated elections, he became an overnight Twitter celebrity in the country for his witty @pcosmachine tweets. Now, Yves Gonzalez, better known online by his other Twitter handle @doblezeta, is the new spokesperson of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority. Fittingly, as of this writing, he is conducting a real-time public...
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A wide swath of the net’s top websites, including MTV, ESPN, MySpace, Hulu, ABC, NBC and Scribd, were sued in federal court Friday on the grounds they violated federal computer intrusion law by secretly using storage in Adobe’s Flash player to re-create cookies deleted by users. At issue is technology from Quantcast, also targeted...
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Note to crooks: the grab-and-snatch iPhone tactic just got a little more risky now that GPS apps can tell police exactly where you are after you take it. Horatio Toure, a 31-year-old crook in San Francisco, learned this the hard way. He pedaled up on a bike, snatched a woman’s iPhone, then rode away....
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I was exploring some cool, funny and interesting pictures on the web, when I stumbled on this “500 worst password” image on Flickr. After reading the list of passwords It made me think because although this is hilarious it is also a serious matter. Some internet users today usually use some of the passwords...
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A man has been arrested for spying on more than 150 girls in their bedrooms by hacking into their computers and using their webcams to watch them, provoking warnings that others will be doing the same thing. The hacker, from the Rhineland area, is suspected of having infected computers with a program enabling him...
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After the U.S. Government took action against several sites connected to movie streaming recently, nerves are jangling over the possibility that this is just the beginning of a wider crackdown. Now it appears that a free blogging platform has been taken down by its hosting provider on orders from the U.S. authorities on grounds...
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We’ve all been there. You’re either at work or school or university and you desperately need to visit LiveJasmin — or play FarmVille. But the computer won’t let you! ‘Page not found’ it says. 404 my foot! You’re being firewalled! You’re being blackholed! You’re being COCKBLOCKED! Fortunately, in most non-enterprise cases (if you work...
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Celluloid-worthy beauty Anna Chapman, arrested by the FBI for belonging to an Russian espionage network called “the illegals,” may also go down in history as the spy who loved Macs. On January 25, the 28-year-old told her 175 Facebook friends: “My new Mac has been the buy of the year…Love it!” It wasn’t an...
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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbering is set to approve the .xxx top level domain for adult web sites – a decade after it was first proposed. The move is reckoned to make it easier to separate porn from mainstream web sites. At a public meeting in Brussels yesterday, ICANN general counsel...
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Alistair Peckover, 21, systematically defrauded legitimate online businesses and unsuspecting members of the public with his self-taught computer skills. Peckover, of London Road, Hailsham, East Sussex, was jailed for 20 months at Southend Crown Court in Essex after admitting two counts of fraud. A further 50 offences were taken into consideration, Sussex Police said....
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Jobs has just completed outlining all of the iPhone 4’s revolutionary new features. Now to reveal what it’ll cost your wallet. Coming in black and white, the iPhone 4 will cost $199 for the 16GB models, the same price as the 3GS. $299 gets you the 32GB iPhone 4. Already in a contract? AT&T...
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It’s almost over, but like usual, there just “one more thing” and while we all knew it was coming, it’s the first time it’s been directly confirmed: a front-mounted camera on iPhone 4 that allows for user-to-user video chat. Calling Jonathan Ive on his iPhone 4 to demo the new iPhone’s video chat capability...
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