Iranian protesters take to the tweets
Richard Koman: With Iranian authorities essentially locking foreign journalists in their hotels, shutting down websites and blocking text messaging, Iranian protesters have taken to Twitter, YouTube and Facebook with a passion ? both to get the word out about what's happening in the country and to communicate logistics.
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US State Department reschedules Twitter maintenance during Iran primetime
http://blogs.zdnet.com/collaboration/?p=655&tag=nl.e539
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With unrest in Iran, cyber-attacks begin
An apparently ad-hoc cyber protest against the results of recent Iranian elections has knocked key Web sites offline.
On Monday, sites belonging to Iranian news agencies, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, were knocked off-line after activists opposed to the Iranian government posted tools designed to barrage these Web sites with traffic.
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Intel, Oracle, PayPal back ID technology interop group A new industry group launches to promote interoperability among ID verification products. Read more...
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Apple finally patches six-month-old Java bugs
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CIA's technology arm taps open source for enterprise search
In-Q-Tel is investing in Lucid Imagination, which provides support, maintenance, training and add-on software for the Apache Software Foundation's Lucene and Solr search projects. Lucene is an information retrieval library that can be used for full-text indexing and search. Solr is an enterprise-search server based on Lucene.
The companies did not disclose the nature of the investment but said that it is aimed at making Lucid's open-source enterprise-search software more prevalent in the U.S. intelligence community.
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Hacker cracks TinyURL rival, redirects millions of Twitter users
After Cligs, a rival to the better known TinyURL and bit.ly shortening services, was attacked Sunday, more than 2.2 million Web addresses were redirected to Kevin Saban's blog, which appears on the Orange County Register's Web site. Noticing a dramatic upswing in traffic, Saban -- who uses Cligs in his Twitter messages to shorten URLs -- contacted Pierre Far, the creator of Cligs.
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China to propose WLAN security standard for global use again
A submission would build on China's frustrated efforts to win global recognition for technologies developed in the country, including the wireless protocol, WAPI (WLAN Authentication and Privacy Infrastructure). China has promoted WAPI as a potential addition to the standards for Wi-Fi, which it sees as a step to marketing equipment that uses the protocol abroad.
When the ISO turned down the Chinese protocol three years ago, it instead adopted the IEEE 802.11i security specification developed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and widely used in Wi-Fi networks globally. Huang's group responded by accusing the IEEE of committing "unethical and unjust activities trying to destroy WAPI."
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Iran using U.S. chip technology in rocket research
An Iranian research institute claims it used Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Opteron microprocessors to build a high computing performance system. The claim is but one more piece of evidence that the U.S. trade embargo on Iran has little impact on the country's importing of high-tech equipment.
The Aerospace Research Institute of Iran (ARI) has listed on its Web site specifications for a high performance computer using AMD's dual core chips. The Suse Linux-based system was launched with 32 cores which have since increased to 96 cores, according the ARI site. The page says the system is running at 192 GFLOPS, equal to one billion floating points per second, putting it on the low-end of the speed range for high performance systems.
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Microsoft sues three for 'massive' click fraud scam
Microsoft filed a lawsuit on Monday against three people accusing them of running a "massive" click fraud scheme that involved harnessing hundreds of thousands of computer IP (Internet protocol) addresses to target advertisers promoting auto insurance and the World of Warcraft on-line game.
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Latin Phrase of the Day:
Machina improba! Vel mihi ede potum vel mihi redde nummos meos! - You infernal machine! Give me a beverage or give me my money back!
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iPhone OS 3.0 wide release coming Wednesday (today)
The operating system update is scheduled to be released for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
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