IT-News Archive

225November 24, 2011
Obama joins Google+

Google+, the Internet search giant’s rival to Facebook, has a high-profile new member: US President Barack Obama. “Obama for America,” the president’s 2012 reelection campaign, created an official Barack Obama…
238November 24, 2011
Pakistan bans 1700 words from SMS, including ‘idiot’ and ‘damn’

Pakistan rowed back on Tuesday from demands that text messages containing nearly 1,700 “obscene” words should be blocked, following outrage from users and campaigners. On November 14, the Pakistan Telecommunication…
209June 2, 2011
Wireless recharging for mobile phones by 2012

Mobile phone users will be able to charge their devices wirelessly for the first time from 2012. Fujitsu, the Japanese technology company, has created a system capable of simultaneously charging…
192February 2, 2011
”Pakistan to cut BlackBerry services for foreign missions”

Authorities have asked mobile telephone operators to stop BlackBerry (BB) services to foreign missions in the country amid concern about the security of the communications, industry sources said on Monday….
140January 15, 2011
Pakistan ranked fourth in SMS usage in the world

KARACHI: Pakistan has a lot to say. The country moved up to fourth position in the world in the number of texts sent in 2009, says a report issued by the…
186October 19, 2010
Zuckerberg eyes China, faces death threats in Pakistan

The founder of global social networking giant Facebook is so determined to make his company a success in China he’s even learning the language. Facebook has over 500 million users…
186September 28, 2010
FBI agents seek the right to tap texts, emails and websites

US intelligence services would be allowed to tap text messages, emails and networking websites under new powers being considered by Barack Obama’s administration. The FBI says extremists and drug cartels…
171September 28, 2010
List of porn pirates leaked on to internet

The personal details of thousands of internet users who have allegedly been illegally sharing adult movies online have been leaked. A list with the names and addresses of more than…
289September 16, 2010
Microsoft launches Internet Explorer 9

Microsoft’s new web browser, IE9, is its most ambitious yet, as the company bids to take on Google Chrome and Firefox. Microsoft has launched the first public beta of its…
313August 27, 2010
Pentagon breached by foreign hacker

A foreign spy agency carried out the most serious “cyber attack” on the US military’s networks when a tainted flash drive was inserted into a laptop in the Middle East,…
0August 21, 2010
Facebook photo soldier says ‘I did nothing wrong’

A former Israeli soldier who drew international condemnation after posting photos of herself and blindfolded Palestinian detainees on Facebook has denied any wrongdoing. A former Israeli soldier said on Tuesday…
0August 21, 2010
N.Korea joins Facebook

SEOUL – NORTH Korea appears to have added Facebook to the social networking sites it recently joined to ramp up its propaganda war against South Korea and the US. The…
256July 29, 2010
Russian court blocks YouTube

A court in Russia has blocked access to YouTube after the website was accused of hosting extremist propaganda. The decision came after a video entitled “Russia for Russians,” a Russian…
195July 29, 2010
Facebook security fears after ‘private details of 100m users leaked to web’

The personal details of more than a fifth of Facebook’s estimated 500 million users have been “leaked” to the internet by campaigners highlighting its “terrifying” privacy fears. The list, which…
129July 19, 2010
Rent a Friend for £6.50 an hour

An internet entrepreneur is making friends available for hire at an hourly rate. Scott Rosenbaum, 30, has a database of 218,000 men and women who members of his site Rent…
171July 16, 2010
More than 2.5m Muslims threaten to leave Facebook after four Islamic pages are taken down

More than 2.5million users will leave Facebook unless certain Islamic pages are reinstated, it has been claimed. A template letter that has been pasted into numerous Facebook pages accuses founder…
133July 5, 2010
Lady Gaga has 10 mln Facebook fans

Lady Gaga, who overtook Barack Obama as the most popular living person on Facebook on June 25, is on track to become the first living person to roll up 10…
258June 29, 2010
Pakistan: LHC cancels orders to ban Yahoo, Google, MSN

The Bahawalpur bench of the Lahore High Court has cancelled its orders for the ban of seventeen websites containig blasphemous material on Monday. After assurances by Muhammad Hussain Azad, Deputy…
228June 28, 2010
Porn Sites Closer to .xxx Web Address

The board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, says it will now start the process of registering “.xxx” by making checks on ICM Registry LLC,…
0June 23, 2010
Pakistan may ban Yahoo, Google, MSN

LAHORE: Deputy Attorney General, Bahawalpur, Muhammad Azad has said that the Lahore High Court has ordered Ministry of Information officials to appear in court regarding the blockage of nine websites…
206June 11, 2010
Google background: Microsoft ‘flattered’ by rival’s new-look homepage

Although Microsoft has said it will not officially comment on the changes to Google‘s home page, which now sees a background picture appear behind the search box, some senior executives…