Category: Internet
WikiLeaks dissidents to launch alternative whistleblowing forum OpenLeaks
Competition is about to hit the whistleblowing market, as former WikiLeaks staff is breaking away to form OpenLeaks. With a launch expected this summer, OpenLeaks will be lead by the former deputy head of Wikileaks. Daniel Domscheit-Berg left WikiLeaks…
Second time lucky: AOL seeks new media dominance with Huffington Post acquisition
The coolest kid on the liberal media block, Arianna Huffington, has agreed to sell her media group Huffington Post to AOL. AOL will pay $315 million for Huffington Post, the highly respected online newspaper, in a boon for AOL…
US Government considers internet 'kill-switch' cybersecurity bill
The US Government could get its very own internet 'kill-switch', should the proposed cybersecurity bill be passed. President Barack Obama would be granted emergency powers to shut off the country's internet connection, according to a bill soon to be…
WikiLeaks get Nobel Peace Prize nomination
WikiLeaks, and founder Julian Assange, have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in light of its role in promoting transparency. Or at least that is how the politician who nominated the controversial whistleblowing group sees it. 'Wikileaks have…
Tory porn block plans not possible say ISPA
The Conservative government's plans to put a blanket block on pornographic websites is not feasible, according to Nicholas Lansman, the secretary general of the Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA). He has instead suggested that responsibility lies with parents in order…
Delicious saved from the axe
Delicious, the bookmark organising and sharing site, will live to fight another day following reports that it had been axed as part of cost-cutting measures at Yahoo!. Leaked slides from a Yahoo! meeting last week showed that Delicious, alongside search…
Conservatives pressurising ISPs to block porn in the UK
The Conservative government are in talks with internet service providers to put a blanket block on porn sites in the UK, in order to protect young children from adult content. Stating that 60 percent of nine to eighteen year olds…
Top 5 Delicious alternative bookmarking sites
Delicious, the bookmark host and organising site, is to close its doors to the the interwebbing public as part of a bid to streamine and cost-cut at umbrella-company owners Yahoo!. First launched as del.icio.us back in 2003, it'll come as…
Yahoo! shutting down Delicious and AltaVista
Yahoo! are to slim down their sizeable range of services by calling time on Delicious and AltaVista. Internal slides from the company leaked prematurely online, revealing the closures to disgruntled users. After confirming that the leaked slides were indeed the…
iTunes 10 gets more social as Ping adds collaborative playlists
iTunes has just got a little more social, as the built-in social network Ping has now added a collaborative playlist feature. An arrow next to playlists in iTunes now offers the option to "Publish Playlist", sharing the collected tracks with…
