Wikipedia suffers global collapse

From InfoWorld: Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundation Web sites went down for hours on Wednesday in a global outage caused by a domino effect of technical problems.

The problems started when Wikimedia servers overheated in the organization's European data center and shut...

Hacker Busts IE8 on Windows 7 in 2 Minutes

From PC World: Two researchers yesterday won $10,000 each at the Pwn2Own hacking contest by bypassing important security measures of Windows 7.

Both Peter Vreugdenhil of the Netherlands and a German researcher who only would give his first name of Nils, found ways to disable DEP...

Sprint, Clearwire CEOs ponder LTE for future

From CNET News.com: Sprint Nextel and Clearwire executives admitted Wednesday that they could follow the rest of the worldwide wireless network and adopt LTE for future network upgrades.

Spring Nextel CEO Dan Hesse and Clearwire CEO Bill Morrow sat down separately and talked to CTIA...

GoDaddy to stop registering domains in China

From CNET News.com: During a congressional hearing later today to discuss Internet freedom and China, GoDaddy executives plan to announce that they will stop registering domain names in China in response to a new government policy that requires extensive information about registrants...

Time Warner Cable Offers Free Wi-Fi for Customers in NYC

From DailyTech: Time Warner Cable has announced that it is offering its Road Runner high-speed internet customers in New York City access to Wi-Fi zones free of charge. The new zones are available for customers who are on the broadband service and offer unlimited usage in many areas...

Who Needs Flash? CBS Prepares HTML5 Player for iPad

From DailyTech: The good news for HTML5 advocates is that Apple's iPad for better or worse may finally push the format into the mainstream, which could eventually displace proprietary formats like Flash and Silverlight. The bad news is that Apple has pushed a version of HTML5 that...

IPhone Falls in Pwn2Own Hacking Contest

From PC World: A delayed flight didn't stop Vincenzo Iozzo and Ralf Weinmann from scoring a cool US$15,000, a brand-new iPhone and a trip to Las Vegas at the annual Pwn2Own hacking contest in Vancouver on Wednesday.

The security researchers developed an undisclosed attack on the...

Adobe Photoshop CS5 to Bring Stunning "Content-Aware" Smart Fill

From DailyTech: Adobe Creative Suite 5, the twelfth major release in the best-selling series of image editing software, will air April 12, 2010. It's expected to bring a number of advanced technologies, like three dimensional brushes and warping tools. It also is expected to bring...

Digg's belated iPhone app brings native goodness

From CNET News.com: Digg's new iPhone app, which arrives Wednesday, does not bring any of the new, or exciting features announced by the company at the SXSW festival last week. It will, however bring a better and more complete Digg experience to iPhone users than what they've had...

OCZ Technology Shuts Down Hypersonic High-End PC Business

From X-bit Labs: OCZ Technology Group, a leading supplier of components for personal computers, has decided to shut down its Hypersonic business unit, which used to make high-end personal computers. The move was made to concentrate on core businesses for the company, which is to...

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