PeerBlock is a tool which can control who can connect to your computer on the Internet. In addition to hindering monitoring by anti-P2P companies, it’s also capable of blocking malicious software. As the team is currently celebrating more than 100,000 downloads, TorrentFreak caught up with the creators for the lowdown.
Wikipedia is under a censorship attack by a convicted German murderer invoking his country’s privacy laws in a bid to remove references to him killing Bavarian actor Walter Sedlmayr in 1990.
Google SafeSearch has long provided concerned parents, and web searchers looking to avoid adult sites, an easy alternative for opting out of seeing adult sites
As we head into the holiday season, we’re excited to announce that we’re joining forces with one of the most charitable retail companies around – TOMS Shoes – to launch a custom Digg shoe. The shoes are available starting today exclusively on the TOMS Shoes website, but since this is a limited edition, get your pair before they’re sold out!
With the unemployment rate hitting 10.2%, the Obama administration is in a rush to get its broadband stimulus grant money out the door. We took a look at some of the hundreds of proposals for broadband grants, which include an undersea middle mile project in Alaska and an Internet radio network for kids in Pittsburgh.
One Texas kindergarten teacher thinks so. Pam McLaurin is refusing to submit digital fingerprints for a background check, claiming that \"by allowing her fingerprint to be digitized and stored in a computer, she will have assumed the Mark of the Beast.\"
In exciting, but not unexpected news, Google has has put its name behind the brainchild of three of their in-house genius programmers. But it\'s not a web app, nor is it an enterprise solution -- it\'s not even a downloadable tool like their Chrome browser. They\'ve actually gone and invented a new language. It\'s called Go.
Facial recognition tech startup Face.com made quite a splash when it launched Photo Finder. It has followed up with a new app called Photo Tagger, a tool that is capable of finding photos of people that were uploaded to Facebook albums even if they remained untagged by users.
Who needs new laws or external pressure? A new paper argues that broad Internet censorship regimes might already be illegal under World Trade Organization rules about free trade. But no government seems eager to take on China at the WTO over the issue.
Google tonight announced that it was drastically slashing prices while at the same time offering more storage pricing options for users of its services.
Rupert Murdoch knows two modes: doing things and talking about doing things. If Murdoch bothers to say something, it\'s almost an even bet that he\'s lying.
Today we’re excited to announce the premiere of DiggTV, a one-stop destination for all Digg shows. You can catch every episode of your favorite shows, including Diggnation and The Digg Reel, right on this new site. You can also subscribe to the shows in iTunes or other channels, so the shows are delivered right to you as soon as they are live.
The Matrox M9188 PCIe x16 offers 2GB of memory, resolutions up to 2560x1600 per output, and advanced desktop management features—such as independent or stretched desktop modes
Microsoft has pulled the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool from the Microsoft Store website after a report indicating that the tool incorporated open-source code in a way that violated the GNU\'s General Public License (GPL).
Happy birthday Firefox. Its hard to believe that its been 5 years already. Being the leading web browser that isn\'t Internet Explorer is commendable; however Google may knock Firefox off its pedestal with Chrome.
Under pressure from Hollywood, the BBC suggested encrypting some key bits of its new over-the-air high-def TV broadcasts... and it would only give the keys to set-top box makers who agreed to a secret set of copy protection measures. After public pressure, the government has put the brakes on the scheme.
Facebook has confirmed it is a new tenant at Fortune Data Centers\' new San Jose facility, which has just become one of only five LEED-rated data centers in the country.