The debate that ensued when PhoneDog filed a lawsuit against it’s former employee Noah Kravitz is a very important one. This case debates about who owns a social media account, the company that the person represents or that person himself. The latest update on this case is that the court has refused to throw the case out of the windows and so the case continues. Given below are the respective arguments of both sides.
South Korean authorities have detained a person over the charge of ‘benefiting the enemy.’ What exactly did Park Jeonggeun, who has been detained, do? He simply retweeted a tweet which read, “Long Live Kim Jong-II.’ According to Park, this was purely in jest of the North Korean leader and was a bit of sarcasm rather than praise. However, South Korean authorities have refused to accept that explanation, for now.
Apparently the FileVault security based 128-bit XTS-AESW encryption about which analysts believed that it “would take millions of years to crack (it) with a brute-force approach,” is not so reliable. CNET reported recently that password recovery company Passware managed to decrypt Mac hard disks encrypted with FileVault easily, in under an hour. The California based company issued a statement warning Apple fans about the vulnerabilities of Mac encryption solutions.
Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundström, the three men behind the popular source of torrent files, The Pirate Bay have lost the legal battle in their home Sweden and the decision is final this time. The criminal trial lasted for a few years and initially Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm and Carl Lundström were charged with copyright infringement offenses.
Context Information Security published today a report that could raise concern. The security consultants working for Context have been testing, comparing results and analyzing for two years the state of web application security and they found out that the vulnerabilities are far from being addressed. In fact, the situation was getting worse in 2011, compared to the previous year.
When FBI took down MegaUpload a few days ago, it quite a huge uproar. The hacktivist group, Anonymous, retaliated by attacking a number of US government websites. But that has not affected the authorities. One of the main reason being that Hollywood continues heavy funding of anti-piracy bills, even those which infringe upon internet censorship. In the latest round of these efforts, a court in Sweden has indicted the team behind www.thepiratebay.org, one of the largest file-sharing websites online.
Google’s upcoming changes to privacy policy raised concern among Congressional representatives. The Internet giant that shapes our daily interaction with the web had to explain that these changes are not going to affect the public and the users will be able to control their personal data and the amount of ads thet are going to be delivered to them.
Facebook has finally filed for IPO after a lot of anticipation and has raised $2.4 billion in funding. It is hoping that it will be able to garner $5 billion through public offering. Analysts are expecting that when Facebook is finally approved to go public, it’s valuation can be as much as $100 billion! This puts everyone who has even a fraction of a percent of shares as a millionaire. So who are the top shareholders in Facebook? Let’s see.
Wanting to “leave a mark on the world”, Cathy Matthews from Sacramento managed to set one of the most futile World Records: the most comments on a single Facebook post. The passionate Frontierville player, Matthews decided one day that the crop harvesting and tree chopping in the game are not challenging enough and set up a new target.
Everyone has been eagerly waiting for Facebook to go public. For long Facebook has withheld the temptation, just trying to build itself up and reach a very sustainable level by expanding it’s revenue streams. And now, finally, it’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg has given the nod and the company has gone public. The company is looking forward to raising a whooping $5 billion fro the IPO filing. This will result in turning hundreds of Facebook employees into millionaires.
The realm of TV entertainment is undergoing a radical shift. By each passing day, it is inching closer to a web presence and in the coming days, we may find ‘TV’ or the content of the TV only on the web or through web. While Apple is rumoured to launch it’s Apple TV soon, there are other competitors jumping the bandwagon. Sky has recently announced that it plans to launch an internet TV service for British users before the first half of 2012 ends.
A couple of days ago, tech analysts lead by Lewis Peckover discovered that O2, despite being one of the most powerful carriers on the UK market had a serious security issue that sends subscribers’ phone numbers to the websites that they have visited over an O2 connection. Aftrer further testing not only the problem was confirmed, but also it was revealed that O2′s Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNO) — GiffGaff and Tesco Mobile were affected by this issue too. Subscribers from other carriers like Orange, Three and Vodafone were safe from this danger.
Most Facebook games are fun and stop at just that. However, A Better World is a game by ToonUps which was launched in December. ToonUps had planned that if Facebook gamers were able to accomplish 1 million good deeds on the game, the company will donate $10,000 to CURE.org, one of the largest providers of reconstructive surgery to disabled children. ToonUps had declared the deadline as January 31st but the enthusiastic gamers helped achieved the target more than a week before the deadline.
Google is looking to be a vigilante and has announced a new algorithm change. From now on, Google will be able to “look” at your page layout and if the ads are found to be excessive, you could end up being fined and downgraded in search results. Auch!
After the Internet went dark for one day, with more than 10,000 websites protesting against SOPA threats, more than 7 million people signed a massive petition on Google.com, thus acting against the limiting bills. But the battle is not over yet. Even if the Protect IP act has been halted in the Senate, it is still too soon to celebrate and sing victorious songs. The U.S. Senate also agreed that the SOPA bill must be redesigned and redrafted.
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