The hacker group Anonymous which reportedly taken down the Greek Ministry of Justice website last week and warned the authorities that it will take down over 300 media and ministry sites if it does not reverse its course of action – has knocked down again this time by taking down the following sites – a Major TV channel, Prime Minister’s website, National Police,...
FOSS Patents reported yesterday that the iPhone maker, Apple has filed a preliminary injunction motion in the United States District Court against the Samsung Galaxy Nexus on the account of infringement on four patents held by the company – Galaxy Nexus is an official Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Samsung lead device in close venture with Google. The motion which...
With sigh of many American Airlines has already gotten FAA approval last year to use iPads in almost all phases of flights – the American Air Force’s Mobility Command too will be putting in a request to buy the number of tablets soon in way of waving the pilot’s loads – the Air Mobility Command puts up a proposal to buy between 63 and 18,000 “iPad2, Brand...
Whilst Twenty-two of the European countries have already signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trademark Agreement, commonly known as ACTA, European’s biggest economy country – Germany – will hold off signing the treaty unless and until the EU parliamentary decision will come into affect before moving ahead. German publication Spiegel.de reports, “In Germany, the Treaty, the Acta has not yet signed only for formal reasons, the Department of Justice is responsible for the ratification. The minister, Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger...
Hacker Group Anonymous strikes again – this time taking down the government site CIA.gov down. The group have claimed responsibility for making the CIA website inaccessible on Friday – the latest attack on a US federal agency. A Twitter post on a feed used by hackers’ collective Anonymous said #Anonymous takes down main CIA website cia.gov; site is still...
Microsoft last year revealed its plan to open 75 new software giant stores in the next three year – Microsoft’s Kevin Turner revealed last July that the company plans to open up 75 new stores over the next two years, but didn’t mention any non-domestic stores. Today, we learned from The Verge that Microsoft is planning to open one of its first international stores in Toronto, Canada later this year and should be launch shortly before the holidays. Even more, the software giant will open a brand new store in Palo Alto,...
The San Francisco based 49ers announced that Gideon Yu has been named President and Co-Owner. The appointment follows a succession of 49ers victories, not only in football, but also on the business side of the franchise, most notably the completion of funding for a new stadium in Santa Clara. Prior to his career in professional sports management, Yu was a high-technology...
From Internet to Intranet – majority of major sites plus websites using “Https” protocol are down. Based on some reports, governments have blocked access to the major sites including to those too that contains “Https” protocol – including at the same time nobody can even use any of the banking service in Iran because the banking sites use “Https” to...
What we called it as a proper setback – this is what happens today in German’s Mannheim Regional Court – the Judge Andreas Voss announced that a Motorola Mobility lawsuit over a patent declared essential to the 3G/UMTS wireless telecommunications standard has been dismissed. The ongoing patent spat between Motorola and Apple which has reached an interesting...
According to ZDNet report, Chinese micro-blogging users need to register their full name in order to have the continued access with them – else if it is not done, then will result in having their access limited to browsing only and not allowing them to post or relay any messages. Noting so far approximately 3 million new users have already authenticated their names...
