Saturday, June 25, 2011

LulzSec, the meteoric rise of a group of hackers

Police in Arizona, the CIA, Sony, the U.S. Senate, Nintendo, PBS television, the Fox television network, the porn site Pron. com, the X Factor, the British police, the video game publisher Bethesda ... The list of victims of computer attacks claimed by Lulz Security, a group of hackers, is long. Most importantly, all of these attacks took place within a very short: there are still unknown two months, "Lulzsec" - "lulz" is a corruption of the acronym for "laugh out loud" - has cut in a few weeks an international reputation.

Apple's new complaint against Samsung

Apple has filed a complaint in South Korea for patent infringement against Samsung in a new episode of their legal battle around the smartphones and digital tablets. This dispute is part of a long series of mutual complaints: Samsung has attacked his rival to court in South Korea, Japan and Germany in April, after Apple had requested an investigation against the South Korea group , accusing him of having with his Galaxy, "slavish" copying its models iPhone and iPad.

Friday, June 24, 2011

Twitter raises include advertising messages

Within eight weeks Twitter users will  find sponsored posts. The Financial Times forecasts indicate that Twitter could raise this mesure up to 100 million dollars. According to Mashable, the site specializes in social media, the change will take effect in eight weeks. The San Francisco-based company has not ruled on the matter.

Data processing Assault against Arizona Police

Assaults computer to Internet sites continue relentlessly. The most notable of late has taken against the police in Arizona. Lulzsec group to protest the immigration policy of the state, claims to have obtained documents related to border control. Under the slogan "Chinga La Migra," have obtained contact details of several people whose authenticity has been confirmed by Reuters.

Radeon HD 6870X2 on the shelves!

Winklevoss twins resume their battle against Facebook

Winklevoss twins, against all indications, continue their battle to claim more money to the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg. Despite having withdrawn appeal to the Supreme Court ruling that considered the economic adjustment they had reached agreement with the company in 2008, have now submitted a document in federal court in Massachusetts in which they and their friend Divy Narendra, seeking to determine whether Facebook "intentionally or inadvertently deleted evidence" in negotiating the pact which meant paying $ 20 million in cash and 45 million in securities of the company.

Thursday, June 23, 2011

U.S. investigating whether Google is abusing its dominant position

The Federal Trade Commission U.S. prepares an investigation to establish whether the company has abused or not its dominant position on the web. The five members of the antitrust commission to prepare to send Google a formal request for information in the coming days, according to The Wall Street Journal.

It is possible that other companies received requests for information about their business relationship with Google. Although the state of research is embryonic, the opening of it is a leap over previous investigations launched by U.S. authorities on Google.