A Swedish Internet company said Friday it had been helping whistleblower website WikiLeaks since 2008 by hosting its servers at a secret basement location in a Stockholm suburb. WikiLeaks “contacted us through a third party in Sweden a few years ago and … their traffic goes through us,” Mikael Viborg, the 27-year-old head of the PRQ Internet hosting company, told AFP. He said the [...]

French authorities and experts warned Thursday hackers could gain control of iPhones and other gadgets made by US tech giant Apple through the Internet, plundering users’ data and tapping their calls. “Two vulnerabilities have been discovered” in Apple’s operating system for the iPhone, iPad tablet computer and iPod music player, the French government computer security agency [...]

US computer giant Apple is in negotiations to buy Chinese Internet game developer Handseeing Information Technology, a top executive with the Chinese firm said Friday. “We are indeed in talks,” Handseeing’s deputy general manager Tian Bo told AFP, adding discussions had been going on for “a certain period of time”. When asked when the negotiations could end, he said he [...]

Google on Friday announced that it has bought hot online networking application maker Slide as part of a drive to “make Google services socially aware.” Slide is the San Francisco-based startup behind playful or practical applications such as SuperPoke and FunSpace that have become hits on Facebook and other social-networking websites. “This is a really exciting day for me and my [...]

Internet Giant, Google has announced the suspension of Google Wave. It was basically a web-based service, computing platform, and communications protocol designed to merge e-mail, instant messaging, wikis, and social networking. One year back, Google wave was launched with a great deal of hype around it. Initially its invitations were sold on eBay in $70. Even I also sent hundreds of Wave invitations [...]

LinkedIn, the social networking service for business professionals, said Wednesday it is buying a startup specializing in digging valuable information from mountains of digital data. Financial details of the acquisition of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based mSpoke were not disclosed, but the deal marks the first takeover for LinkedIn, which was launched seven years ago in Northern California. LinkedIn [...]

Research In Motion (RIM) on Tuesday unveiled a BlackBerry Torch to take on the hot-selling iPhone, avoiding comment on a plan in the United Arab Emirates to snuff out data service there. RIM’s first mobile phone with a slide-out keyboard and touch-control screen debuted at a press event in New York City. RIM executives did not make themselves available after the gathering to field questions about [...]

More than two million people follow the NBA on Twitter, a record for any US sport league on the social networking site, the league announced. NBA followers push the league ahead of the National Football League, which has almost 1.7 million followers on Twitter, or Major League Baseball, which needs about 30,000 more just to reach half of the NBA’s total. “Surpassing the two-million mark [...]

Bulgarian police have shut down four popular torrent websites in its largest ever action against Internet piracy, the international recording industry association IFPI said Monday. The file sharing websites — nanoset.net, rapidadd.com, 4storing.com and afasta.com — were accused of illegally distributing books, films, games, music and software, IFPI said in a statement. Run by an organised [...]

Amazon, by slashing the price of the Kindle, is hoping to turn its electronic book reader into a device with mass market appeal, one for “serious readers” distinct from Apple’s multi-purpose iPad. Amazon, the pioneer of the e-book business, last week unveiled a 139-dollar wireless-only version of the basic Kindle, less than six weeks after dropping the price of the e-book reader to [...]