The hacker group Anonymous which last week hacked more than 500 Chinese websites stated today that it plans to launch further attacks on Chinese government websites in a bid to uncover corruption and lobby for human rights. The group used the Twitter account “Anonymous China” to publicize the attacks, posting links to data files that contained passwords...
According to Iran’s local site, Kabir News, the country has blocked the London 2012 Olympics. The reason to block the site is unknown as well disappointing too, although country having rich culture of blocking sites in the past – first the country blocked internet, intranet, email and social sites – followed by second disruption affecting all the encrypted international...
American publication Marketplace has posted – via Electronista – an early detail of a rare tour of Apple’s Foxconn factory which was in the news from quite some time for one reason to another. Rob Schmitz of Marketplace spent time talking to workers at the factory, and barring some tough supervisors and a dispute over a promised pay raise, reported that most people had a “generally positive attitude about working at Foxconn.” Most often, Foxconn employees were concerned about a rise in pay promised in March that...
US President, Barack Obama yesterday seen a lot of unpredicted activity on its Facebook profile as a group of Egyptian Facebook users were flooding Obama’s latest posts with thousands of negative comments. Conservative Islamic candidate Hazem Abu Ismail may face disqualification due to the fact that his mother was a dual American citizen as under current Egyptian...
A controversy rounded up in the wake up of Fox News’ discovery – reports via BoingBoing – that the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a United Nations organization, has shipped around $50,000 of computer equipments to North Korea, against UN sanctions. The purpose of the computer equipment was to give North Korea access to the WIPO’s...
The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) program does not seem to turn a kid into a future Bill gates – indeed it will work towards giving some powerful indications. The program started back in 2007 delivering developing countries its affordable and durable computers to students. According to Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the program may not be as successful as...
Editor’s Note: Guest Author Pratibha is a technology enthusiast interested in analysing and reporting about different technologies. A Tunisian court ruling Jabeur Mejri and Ghazi Beji to seven years in jail for posting exposed cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed on Facebook. On Thursday statement ministry spokesman Chokri Nefti said that “They were sentenced, one of them in absentia, to seven years in prison, for transgressing morality, defamation and disrupting public order”. The judgment was specified on March 28; however wasn’t...
Editor’s Note: Guest Author Pratibha is a technology enthusiast interested in analysing and reporting about different technologies. Yesterday Airbus officially released the assembly line of its next-generation A350 while it commences final creation of the first test aircraft in Toulouse, France. The center fuselage section, which arrived at the company’s...
The hacker group Anonymous has recently defaces government and commercial site with a message predicting the downfall of the Chinese government, although all the central government sites are appear to be fine. The group claimed to have compromised more than 500 websites (for complete list click here) over the past couple of days. The group posted the following message...
Senator Al Franken in his recent letter to Lawrence E. Strickling, Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information, National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) argument the fact that the 4th Amendment does not apply to corporations, but only to State and Federal government. In the 4th Amendment to the US Constitution, the right to privacy...
