Thaindian News

Ubuntu released its latest stable release version 8.04 also named as Hardy Heron. Soon after the release, the ubuntu.com servers went offline due to high load. At the time of writing, ubuntu.com servers were still unresponsive. The release is highly likely to cause overloads at all Ubuntu mirrors. Mirrors and ... Read more...

LONDON, April 21, 2008 – Canonical Ltd. announced the upcoming availability of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Desktop Edition for free download on Thursday 24 April. In related news, Canonical also announced the simultaneous release of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server Edition. Ubuntu 8.04 Long Term Support (LTS) provides a stable platform for software ... Read more...

Chiang Mai will host it's first ever BarCamp on May, 17th, 2008. BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences - open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants - often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies. The first Thailand BarCamp was held in ... Read more...

Bangalore, Feb 14 Yahoo! India, the Indian subsidiary of the global search engine and news portal Yahoo! Inc., has sacked 45 employees across various levels for their poor performance. A company source told IANS on condition of anonymity that the termination was an ongoing exercise under a pruning processes and included ... Read more...

Internet search and advertising giant Google Inc is the best employer in the US, according to Fortune's '100 Best Companies To Work For 2008' list. The job growth rate for Google employees is a very healthy 60 percent, and 99 percent of them get stock options and turn millionaires. Beyond ... Read more...

San Francisco, Feb 4 (DPA) Google and Yahoo were expected to continue unofficial contacts Monday after Microsoft's bid for Yahoo sparked a furious round of jockeying among the biggest players on the internet. Microsoft tabled an unsolicited 44.6-billion-dollar bid for Yahoo on Friday, in what could be the largest-ever technology takeover. ... Read more...

By Arun Kumar Washington, Feb 4 (IANS) Google Inc has joined the Internet war by offering its help in any effort to thwart its chief rival Microsoft Corp.'s unsolicited $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo!, the Wall Street Journal reported citing people familiar with the matter. Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt called ... Read more...

BarCampBangkok Press Release - By Julie Lavoie Over 200 technology enthusiasts, both Thai and foreign, attended Thailand's first Barcamp in Bangkok on January 26th. Participants gave and attended talks on the hottest new technologies, blogged, made videos, and met other technology lovers. The conference featured talks in both English and Thai, on ... Read more...

Bangkok, Thailand, January 4th -- Bangkok will host Thailand's first ever BarCamp on January 26th, 2008. BarCamp is an international network of user-generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants — often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open ... Read more...

Bangkok, 07 December, 2007 (PRD), The Information and Communication Technology Ministry (ICT) has blocked www.hi-thaksin.net as requested by the Election Commission (EC). The 'www.hi-thaksin.net' website is allegedly a website supporting theories of the deposed prime minister Dr Thaksin Shinawatra. According to the ministry, the website has video clips and articles strongly ... Read more...

Bangkok, 06 December, 2007 (PRD), The Election Commission (EC) requests relevant units to close down www.hi-thaksin.net as its content is deemed inappropriate and may stir repercussions on national security. Election Commissioner Sodsri Sattayathum (สดศรี สัตยธรรม) says EC has no mandate to close down the website and voices strong disagreement with the ... Read more...

Bangkok, 06 December, 2007 (PRD), The Election Commission (EC) submits a letter to the Ministry of Information and Communication (ICT) Technology to request its cooperation in inspecting and reporting websites which may violate election laws. Inspector and Spokesman of the ICT Ministry, Thaneerat Siripachana (ธานีรัตน์ ศิริปะชะนะ), says EC has called for ... Read more...

It's 10:00 p.m. Do you know what your teen is doing online? Hopefully, the answer is not "attracting the unwelcome interest of the FBI for operating an international botnet ring that infected millions of computers and stole approximately $25 million from the bank accounts of unsuspecting victims." That's the grim news ... Read more...

After months of leading a lobbying effort to promote open access for the 700-MHz frequencies that will be auctioned in January, Google formally announced on Friday that it will bid in the auction. Google had been the leading participant in an alliance of public interest groups and companies, which earlier this ... Read more...

Ed Zander is stepping down from his position as CEO of Motorola. On Friday, the mobile phone manufacturer announced that his successor, Greg Brown, will take the reins on January 1. Zander will remain chairman of the board, at least until the annual meeting of stockholders in May 2008. "Next ... Read more...

In light of recent reports that federal agents routinely request cell phone tracking data from cellular companies, the announcement by Google of its new "My Location" feature for the mobile version of Google Maps raises some serious privacy concerns. On Wednesday, Google announced that users of version 2.0 of Google Maps ... Read more...

Facebook has drawn the ire of thousands of its users, and has once again bowed to the pressure of the political campaign against its advertising techniques. Facebook has made significant changes to its recently launched Beacon advertising platform after 50,000 Facebook members signed a MoveOn.org petition over a 10-day period, ... Read more...

In its second big announcement this week, Verizon Wireless said that it would develop its fourth generation mobile broadband network using Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology. This means that the company, co-owned by Verizon and by European carrier Vodafone, will move to the GSM camp from its current residence in ... Read more...

Police questioned the suspected teenage kingpin of an international cyber crime network accused of infiltrating 1.3 million computers and skimming millions of dollars from victims' bank accounts, officials said. Working with the FBI and police in the Netherlands, New Zealand police raided the home of the 18-year-old in the North Island ... Read more...

According to a study released on Thursday by the Ponemon Institute, a privacy and information management research firm, each customer record lost or compromised in 2007 cost companies $197, compared to $182 in 2006. That represents an increase of more than 8 percent. This is the third year that the Ponemon ... Read more...

HP announced this week a suite of I.T. automation tools to simplify a range of administrative tasks, from the desktop to the data center. The offering is a "key pillar," the company said, of its strategy to integrate technology acquired during an aggressive buying spree. HP's Business Optimization Portfolio pulls ... Read more...

As the dust settles on Verizon's surprise announcement that it will open its network to third-party devices and applications, some analysts are raising questions about just how groundbreaking the development will be. Verizon dubbed its widely publicized initiative "Any App, Any Device," offering third-party hardware and software manufacturers the tempting possibility ... Read more...

This was surely not how Steve Jobs intended to announce the monumental news that an iPhone capable of running on 3G networks would be available. AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson didn't even say, "oh and one more thing" before leaking the news. Speaking to reporters in Santa Clara, California, the heart of ... Read more...

Adobe and Yahoo on Wednesday inked a deal to put ads in a place they've never been before -- PDF files. Ads for Adobe PDF Powered by Yahoo is a service that lets online publishers include contextual ads beside PDF-based content. The program is currently in beta. Publications and publishers ... Read more...

Those distant clicking sounds are Apple's iPhones being unlocked in Europe. On Wednesday, mobile provider Orange began selling unlocked iPhones, without a long-term contract, for the translated price of $1,106. T-Mobile is already offering unlocked iPhones in Germany. Orange stores stayed open late Wednesday night to kick off the sale of ... Read more...

On Wednesday, Google released the second iteration of its Google Maps for mobile phones, a mobile mapping and local search application that sports several new bells and whistles. The new version features Google's "My Location" technology, which uses cell tower information to provide users with their approximate location to help ... Read more...

In the wake of this week's buzz about Google's plans for a new online service for file storage, Internet privacy specialists are raising concerns about the potential vulnerability of such data to government investigations. Such fears have been heightened by a variety of high-profile attempts by federal investigators to retrieve ... Read more...

In a surprising move that may have a major impact on the U.S. wireless industry, Verizon Wireless announced plans Tuesday to open its wireless network to third-party devices and applications toward the end of 2008. What that means for consumers is that they will be able to use non-Verizon cell ... Read more...

Nigeria is really not getting along with Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop per Child initiative these days. First, OLPC spokesman Walter Bender got into a war of words with Nigeria's education minister, who questioned the need for the groundbreaking computers. Now a Nigerian company is claiming the laptop's multilingual keyboard violates ... Read more...

Move over AMD. Sony and Toshiba have bumped you off the top-10 list -- and Intel remains king of the chipmakers. According to iSuppli's preliminary 2007 global semiconductor market share estimate, Intel is the top of the heap. Intel's chip revenue is expected to rise 7.7 percent in 2007 to ... Read more...

One of the biggest security vulnerabilities for computers and networks is sitting in front of the desk. According to the SANS Institute's annual report on the Top 20 Internet Security risks, released Tuesday, "users who are easily misled" ranks with custom-built applications as the top targets for attackers. The report cites ... Read more...

A federal magistrate in Madison, Wisconsin has harshly criticized the FBI for its aggressive efforts to force Amazon.com to reveal the identities of more than 24,000 individuals who purchased used books from Robert D'Angelo, the subject of a tax fraud investigation. In the summer of 2006, a grand jury investigating the ... Read more...

On Tuesday, Greenpeace released the sixth edition of its Guide to Greener Electronics. The latest report, which includes televisions and video games, ranks consumer electronics companies on the basis of how they deal with two issues: corporate recycling and removing toxic chemicals from their products. According to Greenpeace, Microsoft, Nintendo, Philips, ... Read more...

Google will spend hundreds of millions of dollars to jumpstart alternative energy technology, cofounder Larry Page announced Tuesday. Google will focus efforts on solar thermal power, wind power, and enhanced geothermal systems, the company said in a statement. Google plans to spend tens of millions of dollars in 2008, as ... Read more...

Government has been limited in fighting cybercrime for several reasons: scant knowledge among officials, heavy industry pressure against proposed laws and a free-market ethos on Internet issues. Congress has either failed to pass bills or sent ineffective legislation to the president. Agencies have shied away from imposing regulations. Leaders have not ... Read more...

Would you like a chance to win a trip to the Googleplex, the California headquarters of Google in the heart of the world-famous Silicon Valley, and help Joomla! at the same time? Well, following on from the success of the Google Summer of Code program, Google has today launched a contest for pre-university students (high ... Read more...

Join in the the great Joomla! Pizza, Bugs and Fun (component/option,com_jd-wp/Itemid,105/p,445/) open source extravaganza organized by the Joomla! community! Who: Developers who want to help squash bugs What: Two days of Joomla! bug fixing Where: New York City, Washington DC, Mountain View, California, IRC and ... Read more...

In the early days of 2008, ABC News and Facebook will offer their version of Elections 2.0. The two companies are jointly sponsoring back-to-back debates by Republican and Democratic presidential candidates on January 5 at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire. A coin toss will determine which party goes ... Read more...

Worldwide server shipments in the third quarter totaled 2.2 million units, an 8.7 percent increase in comparison with the year-earlier period, Gartner analysts said. Moreover, server revenue rose by 2.6 percent to $13.4 billion in the quarter, driven by demand for x86-based systems. The difference between the third quarter's revenue and ... Read more...

Windows Vista is being relegated to the doghouse again this week for being slower than XP, and security experts are warning that Vista might face more serious malware in the upcoming year. New tests show that Windows XP, coupled with the forthcoming Service Pack 3, performs twice as well as ... Read more...

"Give One. Get One." That's the slogan for the two-for-one program by One Laptop Per Child, an organization set up to promote and distribute the innovative, low-cost, Linux-based XO laptop computer developed by former MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte and other members of the school's Media Lab. In early November, OLPC announced ... Read more...