Category: Websites
Megaupload founder hid in safe room armed with shotgun before arrest
Starling details of the arrest of Kim Dotcom, Megaupload.com founder, have been revealed following last week's closure of the file-sharing website. Dotcom, also known as Kim Schmitz, was said to be hiding in the saferoom of his New Zealand mansion,…
Megaupload take-down leads to Anonymous attacks
The hacking collective known as Anonymous have carried out a string of DDoS attacks on high profile websites after the file-sharing sites Megaupload and Megavideo were forced to close yesterday. Hackers attacked the Motion Picture Association of America, the Universal…
SOPA and PIPA: What the bills mean for the Internet, pirates, Hollywood and YOU
Tried to get onto Wikipedia today? If you're from an English-speaking nation, then you were probably presented with the image above, and not the free source of community-built knowledge that the web encyclopedia is known for. And it's going to…
Do you Yahoo! ? Jerry Yang no longer does
Jerry Yang, co-founder of web giants Yahoo!, has resigned after 17 years at the top. One of the first massive web companies, Yahoo! was founded by Yang and David Filo in 1995, dominating the web until peaking in 2007 with…
Wikipedia announce 24 hour blackout to protest SOPA/PIPA piracy bills
Wikipedia have announced that they are to "blackout" their immensely popular web encyclopedia on January 18th in protest against proposed anti-piracy acts in the US. After 72 hours of discussions between 1800 Wikipedia members, the decision to fight against the…
Man arrested following Anonymous attack on Gene Simmons website
A man has been arrested in connection with an attack on the personal website of Kiss bassist Gene Simmons. 24-year-old Kevin George Poe was arrested yesterday in Connecticut, believed to be a member of the hacking collective Anonymous, and was…
Connected Health Store: Shiny Media launch health and wellness tech site
Connected Health Store is a brand new website from the brains behind Shiny Shiny and our very own Tech Digest. The new site will focus on the latest news from the worlds of health and technology, as well as the…
Wikipedia may switch off US pages if Senate's anti-piracy bill gets green-lit
Wikipedia, the free online crowd-sourced encyclopaedia, is preparing to potentially switch off its American pages in protest to a bill on the verge of being passed by the US senate. The bill in question is the "Stop Online Piracy" act….
.XXX websites go on general sale today
All those dodgy "sexting" snaps you've been storing on your smartphone may finally come to good use today, as anyone can now try their hand at running a porn site with sales of .xxx domains opening. Until now, the ICM…
CHRISTMAS GIFT GUIDE: Top Online Digital Services – Spotify, LoveFilm, Dropbox and more!
Tech gifts don't have to be about screen sizes or processing capabilities these days. In fact, they don't have to be physical gifts at all. You can put a smile on a loved one's face just by setting them up…