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Hacker attacks silence Twitter, slow FacebookSan francisco (Reuters) - Twitter and Facebook suffered
service problems from hacker attacks on Thursday, raising speculation about a coordinated campaign against the world's most popular online
social networks.
Reuters Friday, August 07, 2009Intel Facebook App Taps Idle PCs For ResearchThe Progress Through Processors Facebook app lets users donate idle PC hours to help work on cures for terrible diseases, climate prediction and malaria control.
Information Week Friday, August 07, 2009Presidential Diaries Resurface As TweetsA historical association is turning 200-year-old handwritten texts into digital tweets for John Quincy Adams.
Information Week Friday, August 07, 2009Twitter, Facebook hacks investigatedTwitter and Facebook are investigating attacks which disrupted the popular online services for a considerable time on Thursday.
Webuser.co.uk Friday, August 07, 2009Malaysia denies Internet filter will curb dissentKUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia denied on Friday that a proposed
internet filter would be used to police blogs and websites, saying it would be used only to block pornography.
Reuters Friday, August 07, 200912:34:56 7/8/9 marked onlineAt twenty-six minutes to one o'clock British Standard Time on Friday a once-in-a-century occurence was marked online.
Webuser.co.uk Friday, August 07, 2009KPN maintains bid for iBasis(Telecompaper) Dutch operator KPN has maintained its buy-out bid for the rest of the shares in carrier services provider iBasis. iBasis earlier rejected the offer as too low and
announced a series of poison pill measures. KPN said the iBasis actions violate agreements between the two companies as well as iBasis' own statutes. KPN said in a statement that it "continues to believe that the offer is fair and that iBasis would be better placed to confront its competitive challenges and improve its operational and strategic potential as a wholly-owned member of the KPN Group than it does as a
public company". The Dutch
company rejected suggestions that it was pursuing the buy-out in an "improper manner", and said it's confident of winning any legal challenges that may arise from the allegations. Separately, iBasis issued a statement saying three of its largest sharehodlers have rejected the bid. Millennium Management, the general
partner of Millennium Partners Lloyd Miller, and Karen Singe
DMeurope.com Friday, August 07, 2009DoCoMo takes lead in subscriber additions in July(Telecompaper) Japanese mobile operators added 413,700 new customers in July, to reach a combined total of 108.90 million customers, according to figures from the Telecommunications Carrier Association. NTT DoCoMo took the lead in net additions and added 143,600 subscribers to end the month with 55.07 million. Softbank followed with 137,600 new subscribers, bringing its total to 21.09 million. Emobile signed up 76,100 new subscribers bringing its total to 1.75 million customers. KDDI gained 56,600 new customers and ended July with 31.05 million customers, while PHS provider Willcom shed 18,500 customers to finish July with 4.52 million.
DMeurope.com Friday, August 07, 2009Spotify music deals revealedDetails of the deals between the major record labels and online streaming
service Spotify have been revealed.
Webuser.co.uk Friday, August 07, 2009Malaysia plans internet filtering system(Telecompaper) Malaysia plans to install an
internet filtering system similar to China's controversial Green Dam, to block children's access to "undesirable" websites, Kyodo news agency
reports. The move led to protests from netizens, rights groups and the opposition, who stated the move would mainly aim to obstruct anti-
government blogs and websites. Information, Communication and Culture
minister Rais Yatim said the
government is still studying the filtering process. Independent media watchdog Center for Independent Journalism said the move would be a violation of the commitments made in the promotion of the country's information
technology hub Multimedia Super Corridor and in the 'Bill of Guarantees', a bill that ensures the freedom of speech on the
internet. The Center for Independent Journalism said the ''real beneficiaries'' of the project are those in power. As the ruling coalition is facing increasing attacks from opposition blogs and websites who are taking advantage of the
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