Customers of British internet service provider (ISP) UK2 have been unable to receive emails from any Yahoo/BT Internet accounts for the past week, due to the two firms blocking their IP addresses. Computer Weekly has seen an email from ...
Tags: BT, Yahoo, Computer Products, IP Addresses
A US court has ordered Twitter to release old tweets and other details of a user arrested during an Occupy Wall Street protest in New York. The micro-blogging firm refused at first, saying the tweets were owned by users and not Twitter. ...
Tags: Twitter, US court, old tweets, Occupy Wall Street, micro-blogging firm
The United States is honoring its role, to the best of its ability, as the world's locomotive, although despite the positive performance of the real estate market, America seems to be recovering slower than expected. The stumbling block ...
Tags: Glass Industry, Glass, glass market, Technological innovation
Google has joined US government concerns that the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) could get control of the internet through its coming revision of telecoms rules. The UN agency is updating its International Telecommunication ...
Tags: UN, Google, Internet, Computer Products
An exploit for an unpatched vulnerability in the Microsoft XML Core Services (MSXML) has been incorporated into Blackhole, one of the most widely used Web attack toolkits, according to security researchers from antivirus firm Sophos. The ...
Tags: vulnerability, Microsoft, MSXML, Blackhole, Web attack toolkits
Increasingly, companies are adopting open plan office designs to make it easier for their employees to work collaboratively (and, let's face it, to save a buck or two on square footage). Most organizations are prepared to deal with ...
Tags: Office Design, Construction, Decoration, Furniture
One of the seven patents at the heart of Apple's $1.05 billion lawsuit against Samsung Electronics has been tentatively rejected by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), according to documents filed by Samsung with a Californian ...
Tags: Apple, lawsuit, Samsung Electronics, USPTO
Indoor Lighting:PolyBrite LEDs light governor's mansion;Elektralite modernizes church lighting 04 Jun 2012 Illinois Executive Mansion gets an SSL update from PolyBrite International,while DMX-based LED fixtures now illuminate Detroit's ...
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Essar Energy plc,the India focused integrated energy company,announced that the 600 MW unit 1 of its 1,200MW Mahan I power project has been synchronized with the transmission grid and has commenced generating power. Mahan I,in Madhya ...
Tags: Essar Energy plc, energy company, India, Mahan I project
Russia's lower house of parliament has voted in favour of a law to give the government the power to shut down internet sites without trial. If offending websites cannot be shut down, the law allows authorities to force internet service ...
Tags: Russia's Parliament, Internet Censorship Law, internet sites
An Evanston Township High School student has been charged with disorderly conduct after he brought a toy gun to school this week, authorities said. Adel Mohammed Sobhi, 19, of the 800 block of Mulford Street, was charged Wednesday with ...
Tags: Toys, Toy Gun, School, Evanston Student
A UK judge has ordered Apple to publish announcements that Samsung did not copy the design of its iPad, after Apple failed to prove the allegation in court. Judge Colin Birss said one notice should remain on Apple's website for six ...
Tags: Apple, Samsung, UK judge, Colin Birss
SQL injection (SQLi) attacks rose 69% in the second quarter of 2012 compared with the previous quarter, according to the latest report from secure cloud hosting firm FireHost. FireHost said that, between April and June, it blocked nearly ...
Tags: SQL injection, SQLi attacks, FireHost, secure cloud hosting
AT&T has agreed to pay $700,000 and refund certain customers said to have been overcharged on smartphone plans, after the Federal Communications Commission found that some customers were moved to more expensive monthly plans without their ...
Tags: customers, smartphone plans, FCC
A Malaysian court dismissed an appeal against a temporary operating licence for Lynas Corp (ASX:LYC), an Australian rare earth miner, despite residents' opposition over alleged radioactive hazards, Channel New Asia reports. The decision ...
Tags: Asia, Australia, China, Lynas Corp, Lynas Corporation Ltd., Malaysia