Dot London Domains Ltd has announced that the new .london web address will be open to public on 29 April 2014. This makes London, the UK capital one of the first cities…
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Silk Road 2 hacked; Bitcoin worth £1.6m stolen
Silk Road 2 administrators have revealed that hackers manipulated computer code and siphoned off £1.6m ($2.7m) worth of Bitcoin. Silk Road 2 appeared after its predecessor, the original Silk Road, was shuttered…
Microsoft to rebrand Office Web Apps to Office Online?
It seems Microsoft is planning yet another rebranding move by changing its Office Web Apps name to ‘Office Online’. One of the pages on Microsoft’s website displayed ‘Office Online’ package, with a…
Nintendo to US Government: Put pressure on foreign countries to tackle piracy
Nintendo has revealed in its Special 301 report that it is suffering huge losses because of piracy and illegal file sharing and wants US government to put pressure on foreign governments to…
Researchers develop new algorithm to fix broken links on websites
Have you ever come across scenarios wherein links within your websites have apparently broken after an upgrade or some of the links have stopped working suddenly and are returning 404 – page…
USTR: The Pirate Bay, Extratorrent, others involved in piracy and counterfeiting
US Government on Wednesday released the annual list of “Out-of-Cycle Review of Notorious Markets” – online and physical marketplaces that “reportedly engage in and facilitate substantial piracy and counterfeiting.” The list, based…
Mozilla Firefox to soon display ads on new tab page
Mozilla on Tuesday revealed that it’s ready to sell advertising within Firefox’s new tabs page. The announcement follows an earlier announcement wherein it revealed that Firefox would begin blocking third-party advertising by…
Twitter testing a new revamped profile design page
Twitter is testing visual redesign of its profile pages giving them a look and feel similar to those of Facebook and Google+. According to Mashable, the bio and the main picture on…
Bitstamp suspends Bitcoin withdrawals
Bitstamp has suspended customer withdrawals of Bitcoins from the site to their own wallets. Bitstamp’s action follows a similar suspension imposed by Mt Gox imposed last week. Slovenia-based Bitstamp claimed a denial-of-service…
Bing Chinese search results raise censorship concerns
A latest research by Chinese Web monitoring service GreatFire.org expresses concerns that Microsoft’s search engine Bing filters results for Chinese-language searches for users not only in China, but also worldwide. Tests by…
Microsoft rolls out multi-factor authentication for Office 365
Microsoft has extended multi-factor authentication or two-factor authentication to all subscribers of its Office 365 suite, as a part of its effort to enhance the security levels of Office 365. The company…
Mt Gox: Bitcoin ‘transaction malleability’ bug forced us to suspend withdrawals
Mt Gox has revealed in an update on its site that it temporarily suspended Bitcoin withdrawals to address a design issue that inherently affects all transactions where Bitcoins are sent to a…
Everything Everywhere launches discount ticket site EE Tickets
EE, UK’s largest mobile network operator, has launched EE Tickets in collaboration with Last Second Tickets – a new curated ticket service – which will offer discounted tickets to EE, T-Mobile and…
French court orders Google to display penalty notice on its home page
After it was found that Google wasn’t complying with the French regulators privacy terms and conditions, the search engine giant has been forced to advertise £125,000 fine on its French homepage. The…
LinkedIn to shutter Intro email service on March 7
LinkedIn has announced that it will be closing Intro, a mobile service designed specifically to display users’ LinkedIn profiles contacts in Apple Mail messages, on March 7. The company is now alerting…