As a crucial Australian copyright lawsuit goes to its High Court for consideration, a new WikiLeaks cable from the US State Department suggests that the force behind the action is anything but local. On the surface, it appears that the suit against iiNet—on the grounds that the country's third biggest ISP hasn't done enough to crack down on illegal file sharers—is an Australian content initiative. But according to the cable, the prime mover behind the suit is actually the Motion Picture Association of America, through the Motion Picture Association, its international arm.
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The Anonymous threat to "destroy" Facebook on Guy Fawkes Day was as buzzworthy as it was ...

Only a short time ago, we had to wait over a year for a major new release of any web browser. Often longer. There was a huge gap between Firefox 3 and Firefox 4, with many alphas, betas and numerous release candidates. That was before Google changed the game with Chrome, with rapid releases, quickly switching between stable, beta, dev and Canary. ...

Whenever we write a glowing story about Firefox or Mozilla, postbag has a tendency to fill up with letters and missives from concerned readers who are worried about Mozilla’s close ties with Google. Almost the entirety of Mozilla’s income — 97% of $104 million — arrives in the form of royalties from the Firefox search box, and the lion’s share (86%, $85 million) of those royalties are paid by the default search engine: Google.
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A YouTube video claiming to be from Anonymous said that the group would attack Facebook in November this year. The video claimed that Anonymous would “kill” Facebook because it abused its users privacy.
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THE "Anonymous" internet hacking group is planning to "kill" Facebook and has announced the date it will attempt do so, in a statement gaining prominence today.
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