Pessimists are fond of saying that no good deed goes unpunished. An Australian teenager who reported a security vulnerability in a government website and now faces legal troubles probably agrees. Joshua Rogers, a 16-year-old Victoria ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
A U.S. federal court has found file-hosting website Hotfile liable for copyright infringement, according to movie industry body Motion Picture Association of America. The US District Court for the Southern District of Florida also held ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Digital Exposure has jumped in to provide in demand service – catwalk fashion videography. The video service is now available to all fashion retailers aiming to build their brand recognition and strengthen their eCommerce sales ...
Tags: Digital Exposure, Apparel
Old-school picture frames are so last century. After all, they don't do much more than show off one shot. Digital photo frames, on the other hand, let you pop in a memory card or USB thumb drive and instantly create slideshows with cool ...
Tags: Digital Picture Frames, photos
LeaseWeb, one of Europe's biggest hosting providers, has wiped 630 servers that contained Megaupload data and countered claims from the company that the file-sharing site wasn't warned. "This is the largest data massacre in the history of ...
Tags: LeaseWeb, 630 Megaupload Servers
Facebook reportedly is in talks to buy a popular Israeli-based crowd-sourced mapping and traffic app. The social network is moving to pay up to $1 billion to beef up its mobile effort, according to Israeli business site Calcalist (The ...
Tags: Facebook, Mobile App
Yahoo has begun talks on a possible purchase of the online video website Hulu, the Dow Jones news site AllThingsD has reported. The move comes after the French government blocked Yahoo's effort to take a controlling stake in another ...
Tags: Yahoo Eyes, Dailymotion Bid
A 33-year-old man was sentenced to three years and 10 months in prison by a German court for running the torrent site torrent.to between December 2005 and April 2008. He was sentenced by the local court of Aachen on April 30 for the ...
Tags: Sharing Site, Computer Products
Yahoo's Flickr mobile app may be getting a completely new look in the months to come, as the company seeks to hire multiple iOS engineers to "radically improve" the photo-sharing site's app and attract new users, the company said in a ...
Tags: Yahoo's Flickr, mobile app
In a testament to the issues surrounding the appropriate use of social media during a tragedy, Reddit is publicly apologizing for the role that it played last week in fueling an online witch hunt that led to identifying an innocent Brown ...
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Colourful internet identity Kim Dotcom is forging ahead with plans to launch his new Mega file storage website on the Australian or New Zealand stock markets. The German-born internet entrepreneur, who faces possible extradition to the US ...
SlideShare, a presentation-sharing site used primarily by professionals, has added a premium feature that lets members closely monitor usage of their presentations. The detailed analytics data is intended to help presentation owners in ...
Online activist Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide in January U.S. lawmakers recently pledged to rewrite an antihacking law as hundreds of people gathered in Washington, D.C., to mourn the death of Internet activist Aaron Swartz. ...
Tags: US, Politicians, Hacking Law
The file-sharing service Mega has fielded 150 copyright warnings since its recent launch as founder Kim Dotcom grows a risky new business while under indictment by U.S. prosecutors for running Megaupload. And a French website appears to ...
Tags: file-sharing service, Mega, Kim Dotcom
A year to the day after his Megaupload sites were shuttered by the U.S. Department of Justice for copyright infringement, Kim Dotcom will launch a new file-sharing site offering 50GB of free space to members. Dotcom posted the ...