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Anonymous starts its attacks: don’t worry, Facebook is still there… for now

Today is the day that hacker group Anonymous will start to hack, deface and cause general mayhem on certain sites around the world. The…

Anonymous leaks 28 000 passwords, claims they’re from PayPal

Given the predilection for Guy Fawkes imagery, it should hardly be surprising that Anonymous would choose 5 November as its global protest day. In…

Samsung has sold 3-million Galaxy Note II devices in 37 days. Seriously

So, all those critics who said that a phablet would never work must be shaking their heads in disbelief. Samsung’s original massive Galaxy Note…

Are Obama and Romney’s campaign sites leaking personal information?

President Barack Obama and presidential hopeful Mitt Romney’s campaign sites are leaking personal information of visitors on their sites to third-party trackers. So says…

Facebook launches charitable gifts

Facebook getting into social gifting was big. On a human level at least, giving social gifting a charitable bent might be even bigger. The…

Middle East, Africa to see highest cloud traffic growth through 2016

The cloud isn’t a weird abstract concept any more, it hasn’t been for a while now actually. Global cloud traffic is growing massively, especially…

Crowdsourced traffic app Waze gets a fresh lick of social paint

Collaborative traffic and navigation app Waze has just launched its latest update, which features some snazzy new social tools. Waze calls itself the world’s…

Jumo.com: Facebook co-founder launches charitable social network

Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, who left the social network to work on the online arm of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, launched a new venture…

Indian, Chinese tech firms partner to take on Western brands

Indian technology companies are growing in confidence, and with the help of cheap Chinese manufacturing, these new brands are launching thick and fast, determined…

WikiLeaks faces second cyber-attack in three days

WikiLeaks used its Twitter account on Tuesday to reveal that it was under a new cyber attack, just three days after a similar incident…

Chinese Twitter clone Fanfou makes a comeback

Fanfou, a Chinese Twitter clone that was shut down by authorities last year amid fears it was fanning unrest in the country, has apparently…

WikiLeaks’ next bombshell could ‘take down a bank or two’

In an interview with Forbes magazine WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has claimed a fresh “megaleak” will target a major US bank “early next year”….

‘Hacktivist’ takes credit for WikiLeaks shutdown

A computer hacker known as the “Jester” who calls himself a “hacktivist for good” is taking credit for temporarily taking down the WikiLeaks website….

Tablet computers take a bite out of PC sales

Worldwide personal computer sales are on track to set a new record this year but tablets like Apple’s iPad are taking a bite out…

Tencent gearing up for Facebook challenge?

It looks like Chinese internet giant Tencent is gearing up to take on Facebook. A report indicates plans by the company to offer users…

American woman mistaken for a cricket match

An American woman with the Twitter name @theashes who was bombarded by messages about cricket was offered a free flight to Australia and started…

A glimpse of the future: Pay TV declines in the face of broadband

The economic downturn has US cable television companies shedding subscribers in record numbers and Americans increasingly “cutting the cord” in favour of cheaper online…

Wi-fi connection catapults Nepal into 21st century

It used to take teacher Mahabir Pun more than two days to check his email from his home in the remote Himalayan village of…

WikiLeaks reveals how China hacked into Google

WikiLeaks has unleashed a fresh torrent of more than a quarter million confidential US cables detailing a wide array of potentially explosive and embarrassing…

World braces for new ‘extremely dangerous’ WikiLeaks revelations

Governments around the world braced for the release of millions of potentially embarrassing US diplomatic cables by WikiLeaks as Washington raced to contain the…

US authorities in new crackdown on pirate music sites

US authorities have shut down dozens of websites offering counterfeit goods and pirated music, five months after a crackdown on sites offering movie downloads….

Pirate Bay founders jail sentence reduced, fines increased

A Swedish appeals court Friday shortened the prison terms of two founders and a financier of Swedish filesharing site The Pirate Bay, but increased…

Philippines gov’t begins broadcasting live online

The Philippine senate has begun streaming sessions live on the internet, in keeping with President Benigno Aquino’s pledge of government transparency, officials said. The…

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