The Wall Street Journal has launched SafeHouse - "Securely share information with The Wall Street Journal."It asks: "If you have newsworthy contracts, correspondence, emails, financial records or databases from companies, government agencies or non-profits, you can send them to us using the SafeHouse service."It's an interesting concept but one with a problem: anonymity. It's tough for a reporter to pursue an anonymous tip. It's even tougher to wade through documents if you don't know what to look for, what the story ...

The death of Osama Bin Laden has already brought one man Sohaib Athar, the man who “unwittingly” gave the world a front row seat to Bin Laden's death and unexpected fame. However, yet another person has now received their 15mb of fame kudos to the death of Bin Laden.In a strange twist of irony, after Osama Bin Laden was literally bombarded, figuratively, so have we.The news on Bin Laden that has been most discussed has ranged from the serious ...

Earlier this year Facebook announced a 95% reduction in certain kinds of spam.Taken at face(book) value, that sounds like a tremendous breakthrough, but there’s less here than meets the eye, because the “certain kinds” are basically only those that are internal to Facebook, and the solutions are hard to generalise to the broader spam problem.What Facebook has done is essentially allow users to provide feedback about which messages from Facebook applications are unwanted. By consolidating such feedback, Facebook can block ...

Despite desperately fighting off a Swedish extradiction order from the United Kingdom, Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange has still managed to find time to sit down with the world's media. He however has chosen to ignore the traditional and expected choices of news-networks such as the BBC or CNN for lesser knowns such as India's NDTV.In his latest interview, with RT, a 24-hour Russian English-language satellite news channel, the Wikileaks co-founder yet again managed to make some rather interesting comments. ...

One of the keys to success in the fast paced world of technology and internet culture is keeping your eyes on the horizon. It’s always about what’s on the up, what the next big thing is. It’s not enough to know what’s happening now; it’s all about what’s happening tomorrow.With the internet’s information machine distributing everything almost instantly around the world, no one wants to be the slightest bit late in hearing the buzz. It is obviously important to ...

Boasting a slogan that it "helps you connect and share with the people in your life", social networking giant has lacked VoIP capability to justify such a slogan. There have been calls for some time now for such capability to be added to the site. According to reports this could soon be a possiblity.Rumours of Facebook adapting its current instant messaging system to include voice and video calls have been making the rounds. Earlier this year TGDaily, an online ...

Osama bin Laden's death is the buzz word in most societies this week. There are people celebrating, people begging for proof of his death and people interested in how the man who has evaded capture for nearly a decade finally got caught.It's 'Osama bin Laden week' online and offline. Twitter in its bid to be the "platform that news breaks" has been tittering with news of bin Laden.In true social media fashion the people at Namesake, a social ...

According to Sony, a file under the of hacktivist group Anonymous was left its online entertainment network servers. The company hasn't directly accused the group of planting the file.Sony, in a letter to a US congressional committee investigating data theft, provided its most detailed explanation yet of the hacker attacks on Sony Online Entertainment, the PlayStation Network and Qriocity streaming music service.Personal information such as the user names, passwords, addresses and birth dates of more than 100-million people may have been ...

If you’re big on Apple products, chances are you’re already intimately familiar with the Mac Buyer’s Guide maintained by MacRumors. If you’re a first-time buyer, the guide simply provides recommendations based on product cycles and rumoured release dates for new products and refreshes. Though not 100% accurate, the Mac Buyer’s Guide is a great resource to consider if you’re ever in two minds about buying a particular Apple product right now, or to wait a few months for the new ...

The internet has not only changed the world, but the way we broadcast. Whilst the production industry has always been a service industry, there has always been a level of capital expenditure required to play in the rarefied air of commercials production that has kept the numbers of players few and the pickings ripe.That is however changing at an alarming rate, and the reasons are numerous. The advent of the internet, a paradigm that seemingly snuck in and took over ...