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In a Reuters report Tuesday, it has confirmed that Nasdaq and BATS websites have been attacked by hackers over the period of last 24 hours – on the Nasdaq website only the banner carrying the logo at the top was visible on Tuesday afternoon while doing repeated attempts to access. Nasdaq OMX Group spokesman confirmed, “It had been suffering a denial-of-service...

Google two years back in December 2009 launched Google Public DNS in order to make the web faster – yesterday Google reported that its Google Public DNS service is the largest in the world with handling an average of more than 70 billion requests a day. The search giant reports that about 70 percent of its traffic comes from outside the United States – maintaining a stronger presence in Americas and Europe – even in addition to this adding entirely new access points to different parts of the world including Australia, India,...

The iPad maker, Apple which on late January has appealed a Chinese court on last December ruling rejected its ownership of iPad trademark in China. Proview – the company against which the Apple had originally filed a lawsuit over the trademark control issue. On the context of same yesterday we reported that authorities in China have reportedly begin removing Apple...

Apple which reportedly find itself somewhere in reports of labor abuses among its suppliers twice – first NY Times reported Apple’s harsh working conditions at company’s component suppliers in China – and then followed by CNN published a video of journalist Stan Grant who recently sat down for an interview with a current Foxconn employee and iPad display assembler. Today, the iPhone maker announced that the Fair Labor Association will conduct special voluntary audits of Apple’s final assembly suppliers, including Foxconn...

Thai technology blog ThumbsUp spotted that the deal-of-the-day site Groupon in Thailand goes live before any of the officially launch date indicated – so far the site only providing an introduction to allow customers to register to receive confirmation stating when the service is launched. An advertisement on the Thai Visa forum seeking a rangs of employment positions...

What it seems out to be correct as per the reports rolling out on the Chinese webosphere, the Nokia Lumia 800’s CDMA version will be launched in China in March, and even is already going through testing phase on the Chinese Telecom state-owned network which has over 200 million subscribers. Photos of the phone, that were posted to Chinese microblogging site Sina...

The BlackBerry maker, Research In Motion (RIM) has announced its plan to double its sales presence in Asia’s one of the largest economy, India as it looks to gain greater market share on the country. The company is already facing a tough competition from other smartphone-makers Samsung and Nokia. According to India’s Economic Times, RIM will increase its presence in the country with the covering of 160 cities, that’s double the current number that it reaches through its availability in some 4,000 retails stores – the company is...

Reports are confirming that Microsoft’s online store in India has been hacked. “The site is still unavailable and the company is working to restore access as quickly as possible,” the message on the site reads. Google’s cache shows that the Chinese Evil Shadow Team is taking credit for the hack – the hackers has even takedown the list of usernames and passwords...

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,...

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...