NBC Shoots Self In Foot
Never mind how much Saturday Night Live has blown chunks in recent years and has little to compete with Mad TV. The first SNL video clip to take the Internet by storm in a long while, Chronicles of Narnia rap spoof "Lazy Sunday," belongs to NBC. Don't even think about generating buzz for them.Read More → ^ TOP
Greenspan Still Angry Over MySpace Deal
Ex-Intermix CEO Brad Greenspan still hasn't gotten over the sale of his former company, the parent firm of MySpace, to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.Read More → ^ TOP
Linux worm targets PHP flaw
Internet ne'er do wells have created a Linux worm which uses a recently discovered vulnerability in XML-RPC for PHP, a popular open source component used in many applications, to attack vulnerable systems. The Mare-D worm also tries to take advantage of a security flaw in Mambo to spread. If successful, the worm installs an IRC-controlled backdoor on compromised systems. Read More → ^ TOPMySQL Counters Oracle With A Purchase
MySQL AB, the company behind the popular open source database, has acquired Netfrastructure Inc and gets a database guru in the deal.Read More → ^ TOP
Search Censors Can't Swat A Sparrow
One Chinese blogger stays on the move, uses multiple blogs, and says the demand for non-corrupt political officials is the real foe of censorship.Read More → ^ TOP
"Daily Show" on Social Networking
Social Networking is now THE thing to do online for the younger generation. During an episode of the Daily Show they portrayed the more humorous side of websites such as MySpace. To see the segment click here. ^ TOPMySpace Mobilizes Phone Blogging
Young people like MySpace, but love their cellphones; MySpace wants to tap into that love with a line of mobile phones and a service so users can carry their brand wherever they go.Read More → ^ TOP
MySQL To Oracle: Get Stuffed
Larry Ellison tried waving his American Express card at MySQL CEO Marten Mickos, but Mickos turned down his offer for the company.Read More → ^ TOP
U.S. concludes 'Cyber Storm' mock attacks
The government concluded its "Cyber Storm" wargame Friday, its biggest-ever exercise to test how it would respond to devastating attacks over the Internet from anti-globalization activists, underground hackers and bloggers.Bloggers?
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Anti-cartoon protests go online
Almost 1,000 Danish websites have been defaced by Islamic hackers protesting about controversial cartoons mocking the Prophet Muhammad.Read More → ^ TOP
Gateway CEO Bails Out
Wayne Inouye has ejected from the personal computer manufacturer and deployed a $720,000 golden parachute to soften his landing.Read More → ^ TOP
Wikinews investigates Wikipedia usage by U.S. Senate staff members
Wikinews, the collaborative online journalism project from Wikipedia's parent organization, just published new details about Wikipedia edits made by Capitol Hill staffers. Using computers connected to the senate's network, staffers have been editing entries -- in some, whitewashing unflattering facts away; in others, inserting nasty blurbs about political foes.Read More → ^ TOP
Enhance Time Warner By Breaking It Up
Investor Carl Icahn wants to see Time Warner split apart into four companies, and for it to buyback some $20 billion in stock from the market.Read More → ^ TOP
Porn Spammer Faces 5 Years In Slammer
A California porn spammer pleaded guilty in US federal court in Arizona last week to violating the CAN-SPAM Act by sending hundreds of thousands unsolicited graphic emails.Read More → ^ TOP
Flinging Flickrs, Hindu Temples, And Spam Maps
It's Mashup Friday again at WebProNews, where we take a quick look at what's making the rounds of the mashup world.Read More → ^ TOP
Tech Companies Heed Bush’s Call For Competitiveness
In the President Bush's state of the union speech, he called for an "American Competitiveness Initiative" and the tech industry likes what they heard.Read More → ^ TOP
