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 A blackout hit Gmail from Google on Tuesday. The business of the e-mail service and its consumer users were all affected by the unhappy event. The popular e-mail service collapsed and went offline at 9:30 GMT and regained status after almost four hours. Statistics show that this has been the longest time for a Google downtime.According...
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 According to the blog AllThingsD, an affiliated blog of the Wall Street Journal, the search giant Yahoo’s Chief Executive Carol Bartz would announce an important and major reorganization of the management of the company. Rumor has it that the announcement may come as early as next week. Many sources from inside and outside the company...
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 Yahoo’s new chief executive, Carol Bartz, has just suggested a management restructuring as early as Wednesday, according to some sources. A memo from Bartz clearly suggests reorganization, one that will probably surprise many top executives. Bartz is likely to undo or scale back prior reorganizations by former CEO Jerry Yang.Yahoo...
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 The Pirate Bay Web site’s supporters started to get angry with all the trial that has been going on for four days in Sweden. The copyright infringement trial reached its fourth day on Thursday, while some other bad news struck the authorities.Supporters of the four men behind the Pirate Bay Web site had hacked the Web site of the...
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 One of the most talked about texts on the Internet in the past few weeks was the one concerning the jargon on the most popular and largest social network, Facebook. Even if the documents lacks in reasons, it has still been the center of attention. Facebook’s company, Palo Alto from California, started to revise its terms of use in...
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 A glitch in Google's search engine on Saturday morning was blamed on human error, according to a blog posting. From about 6:30 AM PST until 7:25 AM PST, most searches for any of the sites in Google's database returned the message “This site may harm your computer.” Furthermore, if someone attempted to click through to the results, a...
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Karlsruhe, Germany - The European Court of Justice is to be asked to decide whether online search giant Google is allowed to serve up competitors' advertisements when internet users search for a brand name, German judges said Thursday.
The decision by the German high court in Karlsruhe was closely watched because it is central to...
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 The spread of malicious software is on the rise, Microsoft announced through a report on Monday. The software can harm computers and open gateways for hackers and identity thieves. More than 90% of the vulnerabilities affected applications, while only 10% affected operating systems. The reports shows that Trojan downloads and...
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 The recently elected president of the United States, Barack Obama, is the subject of a malicious malware campaign designed to steal information from infected computers. Malware authors created a Trojan that exploits the high volumes of Web traffic around Obama, 60 percent of all spam messages using his name in what has become a...
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 Firefox released Minefield to testers, Mozilla’s application for new browser innovations. The new feature is private browsing, also known as “porn mode.” When toggled, it takes your Web history, user names, passwords, searches and cookies and bins them in the second you close the windows, effectively making it appear like the session was...
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