WikiLeaks has revealed that its severs are no longer being hosted by Amazon. The whistle-blowing website confirmed that the termination of the server hosting contract was motivated by its recent leak of US diplomatic cables. The website is now being hosted by the Swedish company, Bahnhof AB which previously hosted the website. Shortly after [...]
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Google Faces Antitrust Probe
In the first of its kind, Google Inc. faces probe into its business dealings. The probe will be conducted by the EU regulators to determine whether Google abused its dominant role in the search engine market. The probe was announced on Tuesday and regulators say there have been complaints from rival search engine companies against [...]
New WikiLeaks Release: US Seeks To Minimize Damage
WikiLeaks has threatened to release new leaked documents and it is a headache for the United States authorities. This is because the new documents have the potential to cause a strain on the relationship between the United States and some of its allies. It is expected that WikiLeaks will this weekend release hundreds of thousands [...]
Facebook Close To Trademarking the word “Face”
Facebook’s 2005 application to have the word “face” trademarked for them received a major boost on Tuesday. The company was given the “notice of allowance” notification from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. What that means is that the company has now inched very close to having the application approved. In fact that is the [...]
Pentagon Confirms China “Hijack”
The US Defense Department has confirmed that massive Internet traffic from the United States was briefly rerouted through Chinese servers in April. A Pentagon spokesman revealed on Friday that for 18 minutes, United States and other foreign Internet traffic were rerouted through Chinese servers. A congressional panel has called the action a “hijack”. In the [...]
20 German Cities on Google’s Street View
20 German cities have been added to the Google Street View program. That means Internet users can now take a virtual tour of the added cities. That will he restricted though because currently the virtual tour wouldn’t include full view. The included cities include some of Germany’s biggest ones like Hamburg, Munich and Berlin. The [...]