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'New Technology' Enabled Terrorists in Mumbai Attacks

Terrorists that struck Mumbai last month demonstrated sophisticated use of modern technology to organize their attacks. The news casts a less jocular sheen on a recently-released US Army report about seemingly-idle mobile and web technologies that could be used to enable terrorism. Before launching their att  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, December 9th 2008

China Promises 'Sufficient' Web Access for Olympic Journalists

International Olympic Committee (IOC) officials have backpedaled on their promise to provide unrestricted internet access for the 21,500 media planning to cover the Summer Games in Beijing, reports the Globe and Mail. "Sensitive" websites that are not considered Games-related will be blocked, said IOC press chief Kevan Gosper, expressing regret t  [...]
Posted: Thursday, July 31st 2008

Olympics Channel Launches Amid Strikes in Beijing, Torch Trouble in Paris

The NewsMarket debuted the Beijing 2008 Olympics Channel today. The destination will provide free news content about the Beijing games in both English and Chinese. It will also include video for use by journalists and bloggers. The page went live despite drama about the pending state of internet access over the course of the Games. According to   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, April 8th 2008

Chinese Music Industry Lashes Out at Baidu

Two groups representing musicians and songwriters in China have failed a lawsuit against Baidu, citing copyright violation. The search engine makes it easy for users to access free music. Its service has become so popular that in December 2007, Baidu's search share beat Google in China by 34 points, capturing 5.2 percent of searches globally. In  [...]
Posted: Monday, March 3rd 2008

Christmas Toy Choices, Recalls - and Parental Obliviousness

Parents' uneasiness related to recalls of Chinese-made lead-contaminated toys may have affected holiday sales, but many US consumers are still unaware about where toys are made, according to a poll conducted the week before Christmas, writes MarketingCharts.   [...]
Posted: Thursday, December 27th 2007

U.S. Leads 'Dirty Dozen' Spam-Relaying Countries in Q3

Over the third quarter, the US (again) relayed more spam than any other nation, accounting for a massive 28.4 percent of all the world's spam emails sent through compromised computers, according to the latest Sophos study of the top 12 spam-relaying countries, reports MarketingCharts. Me  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, October 30th 2007

Report: ID Theft Market Thrives in US; China Home to Most Infected Computers

Hackers just keep getting more sophisticated, according to a new report from Symatec Corp. Some, dubbed "criminal middlemen," sell code for as much as US$ 1,000 per program, reports Globe and Mail. The hackers keep middlemen aboard by enlisting them in contracts, much like legit software makers such as Microsoft and Oracle. But in doing so, they leav  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, September 18th 2007

China Hosts Over Half of Malware Sites, US Comes in Second

When it comes to sites that harm your computer, China tops the list with 44.8 percent of the world's malware sites, according to a new report from antivirus company Sophos. The US came in second, holding 20.8 percent of the world's malware sites. Sophos found that malware sites are growing at a rate of about 5,000 a day, per an August count. Hackers have also switched from attaching viruses to dropping links in spam email,   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, September 5th 2007

MPAA Hires Dogs to Sniff Out Pirated DVD Operation

To curb counterfeit DVDs, the MPAA has taken a page out of drug czar and anti-terrorist squads: Enlisting dogs to sniff out "polycarbonate and other chemicals in optical discs," reports Wired's Threat Level. Two black Labrador retrievers, Lucky and Flo, are the world's first DVD-sniffing dogs. The two brought down a Queens County, New York DVD operation by sniffing down ceiling-high stac  [...]
Posted: Friday, August 31st 2007

Malaysia Tightens Fist Around Political Bloggers

The government of Malaysia has just released a statement informing citizens that anti-terrorism laws could be effected against bloggers that insult the country's king or the religion of Islam. The BBC reports that Raja Petra Kamarudin, editor of a political website and a major online personality in Malaysia, was questioned by police after the government filed a complaint against him. The anti-terr  [...]
Posted: Friday, July 27th 2007

In Australia, Xbox 360 Failure Rate as High as 30%, Say Retailers

In the land down under, retailers are saying Microsoft is coming to terms with a failure rate of around 30 percent during the initial launch of its Xbox 360 console, reports Smarthouse News. Buyers are having to deal with poor service and total failure of their new console, which launched   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, June 26th 2007

Sophos: 9,500 New Infected Web Pages a Day in May

Web pages infected by malware continued to pose a threat in May, affecting official government websites as well as other legitimate pages, as did email-borne threats, according to IT security firm Sophos, MarketingCharts writes. Sophos uncovered on average 9,500 new infected web pages daily in May - an increase of more than 1,000 every d  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, June 5th 2007

Australian Broadcasting Co.'s Second Life Island Gets Nuked

In Australia, the ABC's virtual island in Second Life has been vandalized, reports The Australian. The third most-visited commercial destination in the virtual world was found as a "bombed, cratered mess" this week. The ABC is Australia's public broadcaster. The vandalism, called griefing, took several hours to repair. At presen  [...]
Posted: Friday, May 25th 2007

Sohu to Google: Don't Steal Our Software

Google received a request from rival Chinese internet company Sohu that Google stop using software copied from Sohu, reports InfoWorld, and Reuters reports that Google has now apologized to Sohu, saying an early release of the software had used non-Google data. The software in question allows for easy typing of Chinese characte  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, April 10th 2007

The Blogosphere: Still Growing after All These Years

Technorati is now tracking over 70 million blogs, with about 120,000 new blogs created worldwide each day - or 1.4 blogs every second - according to the latest State of the Blogosphere report from David Sifry. Splogs (spam blogs) remain a problem. Technorati has been tracking 3,000 - 7,000 new splogs created each day. There was a si  [...]
Posted: Monday, April 9th 2007

YouTube Reaches out to Offended Thais

YouTube will try an approach more subtle than outright censorship in limiting content deemed offensive to the king of Thailand, reports Reuters. Instead of blocking the entirety of YouTube, the video sharing site will now work to block access to individual pages containing offensive content. Videos ridiculing the Thai monarch had been posted to the site, leading the Thai government to ban the site its  [...]
Posted: Monday, April 9th 2007

Turkey Lifts Ban on YouTube

Two days after banning access to YouTube, a Turkish court lifted the ban, allowing users to regain access to the video-sharing site. On Friday, Ahter Kutadgu, head of corporate communications for Turk Telekom, Turkey's largest telecommunications firm, said his firm had been notified that the ban on YouTube had been lifted, the Associated Press   [...]
Posted: Monday, March 12th 2007

Turkey Imposes Ban on YouTube

Despite having pretensions of joining the European Union, Turkey continues to undermine its own candidacy with a series of draconian measures intended to silence critics of the state and censor speech it deems unbecoming. The latest in the series involves Google's video-sharing site, YouTube. A Turkish court ordered this week that access to YouTube be blocked in the country starting Wednes  [...]
Posted: Thursday, March 8th 2007

Music Labels Sue Yahoo's Chinese Affiliate

The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, a group representing several music labels, has filed a lawsuit against Yahoo's Chinese affiliate over alleged music piracy. The lawsuit was filed by the IFPI on behalf of EMI, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Warner Music and Universal Music, the Financial Times reports. The suit alleges losses of about $710,000 as a result of music piracy via   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, March 7th 2007

MySpace Set to Launch in China

MySpace's plan for global domination continues as the social-networking site is set to launch a local version in China within the next few months, Reuters reports. Financial and Chinese governmental sour  [...]
Posted: Monday, January 29th 2007