The tax documents were stolen

In Latvia’s largest ever leak of confidential information, about 7.4 million tax documents were stolen from the server of the country’s state revenue service, the country’s media said on Monday.
The LTV1 channel said in its De Facto programme Sunday evening that unidentified people received access to documents on incomes of the country’s top officials, including the presidential administration and other state structures.
A previously unknown Britain-based organisation 4ATA, established “to fight for a better future of Latvia”, claimed responsibility for the leak. Read more

Stage for the showdown for Google

Google will try to win court approval of a deal that would give it the digital rights to millions of books, despite legal concerns raised by the Justice Department.

The Internet search leader set the stage for the showdown with a Thursday court filing defending a complex settlement with U.S. authors and publishers.

The documents include a rebuttal to the Justice Department’s belief that the settlement would thwart competition in the book market and undermine copyright law. Read more

Gmail social-networking “Buzz”

Google is giving its free email service a “Buzz” by adding social-networking features which could challenge the supremacy of platforms like Facebook and Twitter.

Google Buzz product manager Todd Jackson equated the enhanced offering to “an entirely new world in Gmail” during an unveiling presentation on Tuesday at the Internet giant’s headquarters in Mountain View, California.

Buzz began rolling out Tuesday with users of Google’s Web-based email service getting updates about what friends are doing online and ways to share video, photos and other digitized snippets.

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Web browsing

Microsoft’s latest version of Internet Explorer (IE) is a hit but Google’s Chrome has been steadily gaining ground on the Web browsing software, according to industry figures .

Chrome’s share of the browser market rose from 1.62 percent in March of last year to 5.22 percent last month, according to Net Application trend data.

During the same period, Internet Explorer’s piece of the Web browser market dropped from 68.46 percent to 62.12 percent, Net Application reported. Read more

FBI warns internet users !

The FBI issued on Thursday a warning about e-mails offering bogus online fundraising to help victims of the devastating quake in Haiti, which left thousands of people dead. Haiti Earthquake (video)

In a press release, the FBI warns internet users that “past tragedies and natural disasters have prompted individuals with criminal intent to solicit contributions purportedly for a charitable organization and/or a good cause.”

“The FBI today reminds Internet users who receive appeals to donate money in the aftermath of Tuesday’s earthquake in Haiti to apply a critical eye and do their due diligence before responding to those requests,” the statement reads.

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Google threaten to leave China

Beijing called Thursday on the international community to cooperate in greater control of the internet, even as Google threatened to leave China after its computers were hacked from within the communist country.

“All countries should take active measures to enhance the efficiency of internet governance to avoid their own problems on the internet affecting other countries,” said Wang Chen, director of the Information Office of the State Council.

Google, the world’s most popular Internet search engine, recently said it had discovered a “sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China” and said it would no longer censor the results on its Chinese site.

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Facebook hopes…

Facebook is changing its privacy settings to give users more control over who sees the information they post on their personal pages.

Beginning Wednesday, the networking Web site is taking the rare step of requiring its more than 350 million users to review and update their privacy settings.

The new controls are designed to simplify the cumbersome privacy settings that have confounded many people — which is one reason why only 15 percent to 20 percent of Facebook users have specified their privacy settings. Facebook hopes people now will get comfortable with sharing even more information.

Privacy advocates still worry that users will expose too much about themselves, inadvertently or not. It remains to be seen whether the shift will mean fewer surprises for people who have unintentionally shared party photos with their bosses. Read more

Seeing at brand-new

Google has upgraded its search engine with its search results with data updated in seconds of time in social networking websites like Twitter, according to news reports.
As social networking websites are gradually getting popular and are playing a significance role in the modern Web 2.0 technology world, Google certainly would not just sit aside and do nothing.

Underscoring the importance of these community websites, Google has begun to increase its competitiveness in Internet search business with agreements signed with Twitter, let alone its long-time competitor has already signed such agreements with Twitter and Facebook in October this year. Read more

What ? Real Climate

The chief of a prestigious British research center caught in a storm of controversy over claims that he and others suppressed data about climate change has stepped down pending an investigation, the University of East Anglia said Tuesday.

The university said in a statement that Phil Jones, whose e-mails were among the thousands of pieces of correspondence leaked to the Internet late last month, would relinquish his position as director of Climatic Research Unit until the completion of an independent review.

The university’s Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research Trevor Davies said the investigation would cover data security, whether the university responded properly to Freedom of Information requests, “and any other relevant issues.” The statement said the specific terms of the review will be announced later in the week.

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The error has been reported - Windows 7

Microsoft on (december 02.2009 )denied a claim that its November security patch of Windows 7 is among the possible causes of the black screen problems affecting some Windows users.

On Friday, Prevx, a maker of antivirus software, which is based in the U.K., attributed some of these black screen crashes to the Microsoft’s new operating system change that locked down Windows registry keys.

But Microsoft insisted that’s just wrong.

“Microsoft has investigated reports Read more

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