Slovenia (ip-192.com): After a two year investigation, police arrested three hackers linked to the Mariposa botnet in Slovenia. The botnet was used to steel passwords, credit card and bank account information. Mariposa was built around a computer virus known as "Butterfly bot" and was use to launch denial of service attacks. Industry experts estimate that [...]
WordPress: Premium themes and the GPL license
San Francisco (ip-192.com): Developers that extend the functionality of WordPress inherit the GNU General Public License (GPL), developer Matt Mullenweg says. In short, the license states that work derived from GPL licensed work can only be distributed under the same terms. After review by various legal experts, Mullenweg uses the premium WordPress theme Thesis as [...]
Nexus One phone discontinued in the US
Menlo Park (ip-192.com): Google has discontinued the sale of the Nexus One smartphone in the US. After disappointing online sales Google indicated earlier in the week that it plans to end its direct sales pitch for good. Visitors to the Nexus One website are now greeted with the message "Sorry, folks... The Nexus One is [...]
Amazon: E-books are taking off
Seattle (ip-192.com): Digital books are taking off: Amazon.com says that it is selling 80 percent downloaded books than hardcovers, based on sales in the last month. This includes books sold for the Kindle electronic reader and competing formats. Amazon says that it has sold over 500,000 books from 5 authors: James B. Patterson, Stieg Larsson, [...]



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