A group of hackers simply going by the name “Anonymous” is targeting companies that have blocked whistleblowing site WikiLeaks from using their services.
The latest target is MasterCard, whose site mastercard.com has currently been knocked offline thanks to a series of DDOS (distributed denial of service) attacks against it. On a very …
A man in Cedar Hills, Texas claims that his Motorola Droid 2 smartphone exploded as he was talking on it, causing damage extensive enough to warrant four stitches inside his ear.
“I didn’t feel any pain initially,” Aron Embry told CBS News. “I pulled the phone down, I felt something dripping, I realized that it probably was …
At times, it may seem as if politicians on either side of the Right/Left divide can agree on anything, but apparently everyone thinks that television commercials are too damn loud. Yesterday, the US Congress passed something called The Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act, which says that the FCC must require advertisers to …
Google Street View may not cause mental anguish, but it could be considered trespassing. At least, that’s the lesson to learn from the experience of Pittsburgh couple Aaron and Christine Boring, who have successfully sued Google for trespassing after they found pictures of their house on the service despite living on a private …
At around 10PM EST last night, WikiLeaks was no longer accessible at the wikileaks.org web address. That’s the end of that, right?
Wrong.
The site is still accessible through several alternate domain names (wikileaks.ch, wikileaks.dd19.de, wikileeks.org.uk, to name a few), all of which point to its machine-readable IP address: …
Marvel Entertainment has been dealt a blow in the ongoing legal battle with the estate of Jack Kirby over the ownership of 45 of the company’s most popular (and lucrative) characters – and Disney has been told that it’s involved, whether it likes it or not.
New York federal judge Colleen McMahon last week ruled on multiple matters in …
Chalk up another victory for old broadcast media – or, perhaps, one for people not stealing content. A federal judge has sided with ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox and issued a temporary restraining order against FilmOn.com, a site that streams content from television channels to mobile devices for free – without securing permission from the …
Well this ought to be interesting.
If you have an iPad or an iPhone, head over to FilmOn.com in the web browser. What you’re looking at are all the broadcast TV stations in the LA area, plus a couple at the bottom of the list that definitely aren’t safe for work.
Tap any of the network stations and—voila—there’s some live TV …
Get any interesting e-mails lately? If you’re a Gmail user, you should have gotten one directly from Google yesterday saying, “We’ve reached a settlement in a lawsuit regarding Google Buzz.”
“Everyone in the U.S. who uses Gmail is included in the settlement,” says the e-mail. We won! What do we get? “Just to be clear, this is not a …
You may recall a post earlier in the month concerning some 15 million Verizon customers being charged between $2 and $6 each for “data sessions on their phones that they did not initiate.”
After receiving hundreds of complaints, the FCC decided to investigate the “mystery fees” and today announced that Verizon would have to pay $25 …
Well, that’s not good. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that ABC, CBS, and NBC are all blocking their own streaming TV content from playing inside the Google TV web browser. I can confirm that ABC and CBS are doing so, but I’m currently able to play NBC shows without any problems.
The Hulu.com website, which is jointly owned …
Over the weekend, the Wall Street Journal published a story concerning the inadvertent passing of Facebook users’ personal information between popular third-party Facebook applications and several outside marketing agencies and data-gathering firms.
Every Facebook user is assigned a unique, non-identifying, numeric “user ID” that’s …
