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Twitter index: H&M to open first store in Malaysia, ‘Desperate Housewives’ ends

Tweeps have revealed that Swedish fashion brand Hennes & Mauritz (H&M) is getting ready to open its first store in Malaysia in Autumn. The store will be located in the Lot 10 shopping center in Kuala Lumpur’s Bukit Bintang shopping district. “Just in case you want to start staking out the front of the line, [...]

Bing fights Google with simplicity, cleans up search results page

Bing has had an epiphany. Rather than compete with Google in the sheer number of features it can cram onto its results page, Microsoft’s search engine is going the opposite direction towards simplification by releasing a clean, more streamlined results page. The result is pretty nice: Microsoft has stripped the Bing results page down to [...]

Oracle Vs. Google, Week One

ReutersOracle’s chief executive, Larry Ellison, center right, is pictured being questioned by Google’s lawyer Robert Van Nest during the second day of trial. It was Larry vs. Larry as two powerful chief executives of two of the most successful tech companies squared off in court in person. The rare appearance of two chiefs squaring off [...]

Region-based shipping with WP e-Commerce

I’ve been asked a few times about how to split up countries into regions and charge shipping differently to the different areas in WP E-Commerce. This was something that was almost, but not quite possible with one of my existing plugins. Now it’s just a little bit easier. What You’ll Need WP E-Commerce (3.7.6 or [...]

Patrick Buchanan and Ron Paul tell uncomfortable truths

Media commentator and former Presidential candidate Patrick Buchanan was recently fired by MSNBC for writing what they believed were controversial things in his new book, Suicide of a Superpower. Buchanan’s central premise is that he believes the United States is a nation in decline because its culture is disintegrating. That is hardly a controversial notion for anyone that does not [...]

Anonymous Hackers Develop WebLOIC DDOS Tool for Android Mobiles

Anonymous Hackers Develop WebLOIC DDOS Tool for Android Mobiles These Days Anonymous Hacker Group using a new tool WebLOIC. This tool is even easier to use than LOIC DDOS tool, requiring no download, it sends requests using Javascript in the user’s browser. Just like LOIC, it is a quick path to prison, sending thousands of [...]

President Obama Does Dim Sum in San Francisco Chinatown

SAN FRANCISCO – Chalk it up to all the focus on U.S.-China relations this week: President Obama has developed a hankering for Chinese food. Less than an hour after landing here for an afternoon and evening of re-election fundraisers, Obama directed the presidential motorcade to swing by the city’s Chinatown, where he made a surprise [...]

Obama in hot water over shark fin soup

It was the sort of visit made for cameras, but President Barack Obama’s stop at a Chinese restaurant came under scrutiny on Friday after the menu showed that it served shark fin. Obama, in San Francisco for fund-raisers, on Thursday surprised and delighted lunch-time diners with a surprise stop at a restaurant in Chinatown. He [...]

World’s Tiniest Chameleons Found in Madagascar

Researchers have recently discovered four new chameleon species, which rank among the world’s tiniest reptiles. Adults of the smallest species are just over an inch from snout to tail. The four new species belong to the genus Brookesia, also known as the leaf chameleons, which live in remote rainforests in northern Madagascar. The genus is [...]

N.C. School Bus Driver Saves Students From Burning Bus

Bus driver Lindora Richardson was driving her normal after-school route in Charlotte, N.C., Wednesday when she noticed a burning smell. “I smelled something and I just knew it didn’t smell right,” she told ABC News Charlotte affiliate WSOC-TV. Smoke then started pouring from the steering wheel of the 13-year-old bus and that’s when Richardson took [...]

Amazon (AMZN) Drops on Lackluster Outlook after Q4 Earnings Tops Estimates on Improved Margins

Online retailer Amazon.com (AMZN) provided bleak outlook for the first quarter dragging its stock down more than 8 percent in the extended hours of trading. Though the company’s revenues for the fourth quarter fell shy of estimations, earnings came in ahead of expectations on improved operating margins sequentially. Gross margin too showed slender improvements sequentially. [...]

Anonymous Operation Blackout SOPA PIPA

Without going too far to discuss the details perundangannya, SOPA and the PIPE seem to not only have an impact on the U.S. site. Instead, the target of the bill are the sites that are outside the U.S.. Through the Bill, later the site outside the U.S. that is considered copyright infringement can be blocked [...]

Victims of malignancy SOPA & PIPA

Shocking news again rocked the Internet community. FileSonic file sharing services and media file repository from today file sharing service has stopped them. The possibility of this step is taken FileSonic as a preventive measure so that fate does not like Megaupload. Currently layamam FileSonic only provide personal storage only. Now if you try to [...]

Senate Delays Vote SOPA PIPA

United States Senate, Saturday, January 21, 2012, announced it would postpone the vote to make the Act Anti-piracy Cyberspace. Delays caused by the movement of protest blackout by the site rules made by the House of Representatives. The protest launched since Wednesday, January 18, 2012, causing some lawmakers withdrew support to the legislation. Rules are [...]

iPad to Kindle Fire: You’re Irrelevant

Apple just had its best quarter ever. While it was expected to have a great holiday season, no one saw the unbelievable numbers coming: 37 million iPhones sold, 140 million downloads on Christmas Day, $97 billion in the bank. A good chunk of that success was fueled by the iPhone 4S, which turbocharged worldwide iPhone [...]

Hackers retaliate over Megaupload website shutdown

Hackers have targeted the US government and copyright organisations following the shutdown of the Megaupload file-sharing website. The Department of Justice (DoJ), FBI and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) among others have been bombarded with internet traffic. Web links have been been distributed which, when clicked, make the user’s computer part of the [...]

Internet blackout against SOPA fails to enlist big sites

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A blackout scheduled for Wednesday to protest against proposed legislation on online piracy has failed to get the support of the biggest Internet players. Despite calls for the participation of sites such as Facebook, Twitter and other big names, the biggest participants are the online encyclopedia Wikipedia and the social-news website [...]

Wikipedia, Google protest US antipiracy proposals

NEW YORK (AP) — January 18 is a date that will live in ignorance, as Wikipedia started a 24-hour blackout of its English-language articles, joining other sites in protesting pending U.S. legislation aimed at shutting down sites that share pirated movies and other content. Reddit.com shut down its social news service for 12 hours. Other [...]

The Pirate Bay rehabilitates its image by offering free promotion for indie artists

  The infamous file-sharing website is looking to help promote worthy bands and political causes Do you have a band, video, or cause that you’d like to draw more attention to? If you’re offering your work for free, then infamous file-sharing website The Pirate Bay wants to help promote you. The Pirate Bay recently launched The Promo Bay, [...]

Siemens multiple domains hacked by Hmei7

Siemens multiple domains hacked by Hmei7 Indonesian hacker Hacker named “Hmei7” previously in news for hacking Microsoft and IBM , yesterday hack and deface 6 domains of Siemens company. Defaced websites come from different TLD which include the Ecuador, Peru, Venezuelan, Colombia and Brazil and two of the defacement’s come from the Brazil zone. Ecuador | mirror Peru [...]

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