There’s only four weeks to go until the next IE9 developer preview, and it looks like Chinese leak site Cnbeta might have got its hands on the new build already. I’m not quite sure what to make of the screenshots, nor the Google translation. The Developer Previews (Internet Explorer Test Drive) are not meant...
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Chinese search engine Baidu can proceed with negligence claims against its domain register following a hacking attack, a US judge has ruled. The claims arose from an attack in January on Register.com by a group claiming to be the Iranian Cyber Army. Baidu alleges the hackers had contacted Register claiming to be Baidu employees...
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If you run a website and you care about getting your site listed in relevant search results, then you may want to check out the brand new Bing Webmaster Tools. When Microsoft first launched Bing, they started inviting feedback from web site administrators and SEO specialists about what they thought of Bing’s initial Webmaster...
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THE Internet is a Soviet bread line. Remember those lines? Back when commissars commanded the Soviet Union’s economy like Knute commanding the tides, people would wait for hours in long queues for free bread. Although the bread was free, people paid for it with their time. To economists, the long lines were a real-life...
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McDonald’s. Blockbuster. And now Facebook? The social network and its controversial privacy policies are teeming with new complications as regulators overseas increasingly start to regard them as a suspicious, Americanizing import. Last week, data protection officials in Hamburg, Germany, sent a menacing missive in Facebook’s direction, accusing the social network of partaking in illegal...
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Apple might be cooking up a do-over with its TV set-top box using a key ingredient: the iOS platform powering the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. It might just work. Both The New York Times and Engadget recently published independent reports claiming that Apple would upgrade its set-top box with an iOS-based software overhaul....
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Finland has become the first country to enshrine legal rights for broadband to every citizen. Effective July 1, 2010, Finns have the right to access a 1Mbps (megabit per second) broadband connection. Existing telecommunications companies will be obliged to provide Finns with broadband lines accordingly. High speed internet has been identified as a priority...
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