All Entries Tagged With: "News sites"
NSFW: Mexican Drug Gangs Taunt Each Other On YouTube By Showing Dead Rivals
Two rival Mexican drug gangs ar taunting each other by posting videos on YouTube of their bloody victims on YouTube, according to Reuters. The war between the north eastern Mexico’s “Gulf Cartel”and “traffickers based in the western state of Sinaloa” headed by Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman – last year claimed more than 2,000 victims.
I’ve Really Lost Faith In The Digg Community Now
Some of the idiots who stalk Digg and leave inane comments have gone too far now in my view. Spencer H. Kim, father of James Kim who tragically died last year, posted a story in the Washington Post laying out some criticisms of the way the search was conducted for his son and family.
The story [...]
Four Million UK Users Hit By ID Theft
Figures released by Sainsbury’s Bank have shown that 4.1 million Britons have fallen foul of identity theft. The average cost of the theft was £3,039 and six per cent claimed to have lost more than £10,000.
I got stung myself last year. I suddenly started seeing charges for hotel stays and petrol on my credit card [...]
The Guardian Experimenting With Letting Users Add Un-moderated Content
The Guardian newspaper started an experiment today that is just asking for trouble in my view. They’ve setup a shared del.icio.us account that will allow users to post links directly to the Guardian website.
This is definitely going to be abused by spammers, as the only way they can remove a link is after it has [...]
Whoops! TimesOnline Caught Linking Through To Porn Site
There’s been a lot of coverage today about the top 10 viral videos online. At number 1 is the classic Star Wars Kid video, that has been remixed literally hundreds of times.
I first spotted this story on The Times when I woke up this morning. What made me laugh was that whoever wrote [...]
SETI@home Hacked By Aliens!
Well it hasn’t happened yet, but The Guardian Unlimited reports that particle physicist Richard Carrigan has warned that ET and his buddies could use SETI@home to infect Earth’s computers with malicious code.
If ET is out there I’m sure he’s got better things to do with his time like getting his spaceship kitted out with [...]
Skype To Remain Independent
There has been a lot of speculation that Skype is up for sale, with News Corp featuring in most of the rumours. However, it looks like Skype will remain independent with US venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson, which owns between 10 and 20% of Skype, saying:
“The company is worth a lot more independent.”
Man Dies Playing Computer Games
Aqute discovered an interesting story of a 28 year old man who died of heart failure due to exhaustion after playing video games for a solid 50 hours, only stopping for toilet breaks.
Some of my colleagues come into work on Mondays bragging about spending 30 hours plus playing World of Warcraft. Although their enthausism for [...]
News Corp Buys Intermix Media/Myspace.com For $580 Mill
News Corp., the media conglomerate controlled by Rupert Murdoch, is buying the online company Intermix Media Inc., owner of the social networking site MySpace.com, for $580 million in cash.
At the same time it is being acquired by News Corp., Intermix is also buying the other 47 percent of MySpace.com that it doesn’t already own.
More on [...]
Silicon Valley Sleuth Please Read!
I’m posting this here as I know you read my blog as you’ve linked to me a few times and I couldn’t find anyway to contact the person within vnunet who runs the blog.
For the last couple of days I’ve been getting a ridiculous amount of traffic from your site which I don’t think is [...]
Finally Made 1,000 Visitors Per Day
For the last two days I’ve finally had over 1,000 visitors per day (Actually I had over 3,000 yesterday but something weird is going on with referrals for Silicon Valley Sleuth so I’m not counting those) which apparently makes my blog one of the bigger ones! I just want to say thanks to everyone who’s [...]
Nokia and Intel partner on mobile WiMax
After a hot and cold relationship with WiMax in the past, Nokia has thrown its support behind the high-speed wireless technology.
The Finnish mobile giant announced on Friday that it is partnering with Intel to develop 802.16e — which could potentially support high-speed wireless access over much longer distances than are possible with Wi-Fi today.
“WiMax will [...]
Google Stops Downloads Of Its Web Accelerator
Google has disabled downloads of its Web Accelerator software less than a week after introducing the service. The suspension follows reports that the software was caching sensitive content, such as user control panels to online forums and even potentially online banking details.
To read the full story on The Register click here
Reuters launches free mobile news service
Reuters have launched a free mobile news service providing business, sports, entertainment, as well as market data and global share price information. The service is available at mobile.reuters.co.uk
“The free service delivers the top ten news stories written by Reuters correspondents in 200 bureaux around the world. Each story is illustrated with pictures from photographers on [...]
Spammer given nine years – (ZDNet UK News)
Yet another spammer hits the dust. A spammer responsible for sending over 10 million junk emails a day has been jailed for nine years by a US judge.
Jeremy Jaynes, also known by his alias, ‘Gaven Stubberfield’ , is believed to have raked in between $500,000 (£260,000) and $750,000 a month through sales of [...]
Google bosses to be paid $1 per year
The Register have just reported that some of Google’s senior executives will get paid just $1 this year, with no other bonuses or share options. Won’t have much impact on the billionaires though (Co-founder Schmidt has a ten per cent stake worth about $2.7bn.)
Maybe some of the UK’s fat cat bossess will take heed [...]
Online libel: How To Avoid
I just read a timely article on The Register about anonymity for online libellers.
A fund manager, Terry Smith, chief executive of city firm Collins Stewart Tullett, won undisclosed damages from Jeremy Benjamin, another fund manager after Benjamin had posted what he now accepts as false allegations on the Motley Fool forum, www.fool.co.uk under [...]
Ericsson to sue Sendo- ZDnet
Could this spell the end of Sendo?
Sweden's Ericsson has sued UK-based mobile phone firm Sendo for infringements on its GSM and GPRS handset technology patents, the telecom equipment maker has said<
Ericsson said in a statement on Wednesday it wanted monetary damages from the privately held firm as well as an injunction against [...]
Mobile gaming is the fastest growing area in the games market
The increased quality of games across all the handsets means mobile gaming has become the fastest growing area in the games market, reports The Guardian. While console games and the consoles themselves experienced a slump in figures between 2002 and 2003 in the US, mobile games have rocketed from $243m (£131m) to $587m over the [...]
