Despite having no Internet access in his hideout, Osama bin Laden was a prolific email writer who built a painstaking system that kept him one step ahead of the U.S. government's best eavesdroppers.
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BOOK SOFTWARE COMPANY Iflow Reader has said it's shutting its doors because of Apple's inflated pricing structure.

The small e-reader software company developed its Iflow Reader for use on Apple's shiny Ipad and Iphone devices. ...

Microsoft’s $8.5 billion purchase of Skype is now official, giving the Redmond company an instant voice and video calling user-base of more than 170 million connected customers around the world. That compares to only an estimated 2.5 million Windows Phone 7 handsets shipped, not sold to customers in the first quarter of this year. ...

Spokesperson Shigenori Yoshida said it plans to fully restore service by the end of the month. Company wants to ensure complete integrity of the system.The Sony PlayStation Network has been down for almost 3 weeks now, and according to a report it appears that users will have to wait three weeks more.
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To fight piracy off the coast of Africa, the U.S. Navy has deployed advanced warships, robotic drones and even elite special forces. The Navy has now added a new weapon to that fight: a "World of Warcraft"-like multiplayer game called MMOWGLI. The game brings experts from around the government into a virtual environment where they can work together in developing strategies to thwart modern-day buccaneers.
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Talks on implementing a Europe-wide firewall to censor and block ‘illicit’ websites has caused concern among many Internet users in recent weeks, and today one of the targeted sites has joined the discussion. Quoting one of Churchill’s most famous speeches, The Pirate Bay team is rallying the public to defend the free Internet and end the threat posed by the entertainment industries’ copyright lobby.
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