A New Zealand court has granted bail to Kim Dotcom, the founder of file-sharing site Megaupload. Dotcom, born Kim Schmitz, was arrested last month on many charges stemming from the operation of Megaupload, which was shut down by legal authorities (including the FBI) for encouraging piracy. According to New Zealand’s 3News, a district court judge [...]
Sean (Diddy) Combs can sell music and booze, but can he put a TV network on the map? How about basketball great turned entrepreneur Earvin (Magic) Johnson or highly regarded filmmaker Robert Rodriguez? Comcast thinks so, and Tuesday revealed that new cable networks from those minds and others were going to launch in the coming [...]
Sean “Diddy” Combs announces REVOLT, his new cable TV network. REVOLT is a revolution in music on television, a place where artists and their viewers come together and engage with technology and social media. It’s a channel where new artists can share their work in the way it was meant to be: raw, uncut, and [...]
THE Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is secretly planning to deploy military-grade technology to keep the new World Trade Center safe from terrorism once it is completed, the New York Post learned. The high-tech system of thousands of “intelligent” cameras and computer processors can recognize people’s faces and retinas and then compare [...]
Apple Inc. is in talks with Canada’s two biggest telecom companies about becoming partners in the launch of iTV, a device combining features of the wildly popular iPad tablet with those of a television set, a newspaper reported on Tuesday. Rogers Communications and BCE, parent of Bell Canada, are already testing the device in their [...]
Trading jokes and swapping leads, investigators from the FBI and Scotland Yard spent the conference call strategizing about how to bring down the hacking collective known as Anonymous, responsible for a string of embarrassing attacks across the Internet. Unfortunately for the cyber sleuths, the hackers were in on the call too – and now so [...]
Reinforcing its status as the pre-eminent arbiter of online vigilante justice, Anonymous today shut down the websites of Citigroup and Citibank. A Brazilian outpost rogue hacker collective said on Twitter that they attacked the websites as a demonstration against corruption. In addition to Citigroup and Citibank, Brazil’s largest banking institutions, including Febradan, Banco MG and [...]
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Twitter announced that it would begin restricting Tweets in certain countries, marking a policy shift for the social media platform that helped propel the popular uprisings recently sweeping across the Middle East. “As we continue to grow internationally, we will enter countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression,” Twitter wrote [...]
The FBI is looking to develop a web application that can monitor social networks, including Facebook and Twitter, in order to gain better real-time intelligence about current or potential future security threats or situations. This plan was inadvertently revealed by the FBI’s Strategic Information and Operations Center (SOIC) in a market research request for a [...]
Facebook is in a mad hurry to make sure everyone uses its new Timeline infrastructure – so mad, it has decided to switch it from being a nice option to a mandatory feature. In other words, you have seven days to scour through your Facebook history and delete any embarrassing status updates, photos or videos [...]
Sean (Diddy) Combs has his eye on launching a music and lifestyle cable network later this year. Combs’ channel will be called Revolt, according to Broadcasting and Cable magazine, which broke the news. A spokeswoman for Combs did not respond to an email seeking comment Monday. Citing sources with knowledge of the plan, Broadcasting reported [...]
Following the government shutdown of Megaupload, Anonymous responded en masse against the likes of the Department of Justice with the usual DDoS attacks. Harmless, the moves only temporarily overloaded the targets’ servers. Yesterday, they finally claimed their first casualty: the hackers deleted CBS.com from the Internets altogether, leaving only an index page. Anonymous also took [...]
FileSonic, a website providing online data storage, has disabled its file sharing services following a U.S.-led crackdown on a rival website and amid heated debate over Washington’s attempts to clamp down on online piracy. Police in New Zealand and Europe have made a number of arrests in recent days related to an investigation led [...]
Some of the TV3 News report on Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom on the day of his arrest in Auckland New Zealand
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Kim Dotcom, formerly known as Kim Schmitz and also known as Kim Tim Jim Vestor, was arrested along with three other executives of Megaupload Officers seized guns, artworks, luxury cars and millions of dollars after serving search warrants on homes and businesses linked to the arrested founder of Megaupload.com today. Cars confiscated from a [...]
Swizz Beatz is not the CEO of Megaupload and is not being pursued by the FBI after the company was shut down, contrary to other reports. The hip-hop producer was unveiled as the new secret partner in the file sharing company, and was reportedly the head honcho behind the ‘Mega Song’ which featured appearances [...]
The U.S. Justice Department has charged seven individuals connected to the file-sharing site Megaupload.com, accusing them of a “massive worldwide online piracy” scheme that costed more than $500 million in damages and generated more than $175 million in profits, according to a Justice Department release Thursday. The ring is allegedly led by Kim [...]
