“The owners and operators of these illegal sites prey on Kentucky citizens, including our youth, and deprive the Commonwealth of millions of dollars in revenue,” Beshear said. “It’s an underworld wrought with scams and schemes.”
The state initiated the lawsuit in an effort to stop illegal online gaming. Kentucky is the first state to bring an [...]
But the natives who love Twitter are getting restless, and they’re losing faith. Twitter is chronically up and down, and key features, such as track and replies, disappear as company engineers try to save their patient from flatlining.
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… before we all move to FriendFeed and think we’ve solved anything, this underscores the problem [...]
On Thursday, Mozilla programmers built TraceMonkey into the latest developer version of the open-source Web browser, and it will appear in the next released test version, which likely will be the first beta of Firefox 3.1, Shaver said. Firefox 3.1 is due in final form by the end of the year, though Mozilla is willing [...]
Those complaints could lead to a formal appeal of the votes which, under ISO rules, need to be lodged by those countries in the next two months.
Instead, IBM is calling for reform of the standards process and “harmonization” between Open XML and ODF, the OpenDocument Format (ODF), another standardized format.
The voting record shows that [...]
Updated 4:30 p.m. PST with news of the hacker attack on the state-owned Zimbabwe newspaper
The victims were losing an average of $1,000 from their bank accounts, the MSNBC report said.
Many people are worried about hackers stealing their data when they buy things or bank online, but it’s turning out that even an innocent trip [...]
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I really like this post by WaveMaker CEO Christopher Keene, deconstructing Larry Ellison’s aversion to cloud computing.
Still, I think there’s something to software as a service. Will it change the world overnight? No, it has already failed to do that. But it’s a long-term threat to an old-school way of delivering software, one enabled by [...]
On this week’s EIC Squared podcast, ZDNet’s Larry Dignan and I discuss the executive exodus at Yahoo, the launch of Firefox 3 and Bill Gates’ last days as a full-time Microsoftie. We also talk about the impact of millennials, the younger generation brought up digitally, on the corporate workplace. Will they turn off their Facebook, [...]
In a test of metered Internet access that’s set to begin Thursday, subscribers who go over their limit for uploading and downloading material will be charged $1 per gigabyte, according to an Associated Press story, citing a Time Warner Cable executive.
The trial run for the metered Web use was expected. The company had said in [...]
“We have not had any in-depth discussions about Internet-related provisions,” McCoy said, though the U.S. government has had internal discussions about it. “Certainly our intention is to have an agreement fully respectful of U.S. law.”
“We have a lot of work to do,” McCoy said.
The ACTA Initiative, launched in October 2007, aims to build upon [...]
According to the blog, the so-called “Xbox Experience” dashboard, which is due out in the fall and was unveiled by Microsoft at its big-budget press conference at E3 in Los Angeles earlier this month, has found its way onto the Web. The blog’s author claims to have figured out how to play with the new [...]
