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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Menlo Park (ip-192.com): Google announced that it has acquired open database company Metaweb Technologies to help improve the quality of its search results. The San Francisco based company has developed Freebase, a collaborative knowledge base of structured data harvested from many sources, including individual wiki contributions. Instead of using tables and keys as in conventional [...]
Waltham (ip-192.com): After eight milestone releases and two release candidates, the latest version 11.3 of Novell openSUSE Linux (download is available here) arrives with several new features and technical improvements. The distribution is build around kernel 2.6.34 and ships with Xorg 7.5. Computers powered by NVIDIA-graphic cards will benefit from the new open source Nouveau [...]
