http://www.thexyz.in Your Source for Social News and Networking Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:03:50 UTC en http://www.thexyz.in/story.php?title=cold-war-2-0-east-and-west-divide-on-digital-rights
But as they do so, the gulf between them and China and Russia – blamed for many recent hacks and with a very different and much more authoritarian view over the future of the Internet – grows ever wider. ]]> Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:03:50 UTC globe Latest News 1 http://www.thexyz.in/story.php?title=cold-war-2-0-east-and-west-divide-on-digital-rights http://www.thexyz.in/story.php?title=rogers-vows-end-to-internet-throttling-in-2012
Toronto-based Rogers made that revelation in a letter to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission on Friday, as it sought to refute allegations that it engages in unauthorized throttling of online games. ]]> Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:59:38 UTC globe Latest News 1 http://www.thexyz.in/story.php?title=rogers-vows-end-to-internet-throttling-in-2012 http://www.thexyz.in/story.php?title=super-sunday-means-super-scams-1
This past year, Homeland Security officials and officers from U.S. Customs and Border Protection conducted a national sweep of stores, flea markets and street vendors looking for counterfeit goods. Operation Fake Sweep collected $4.8 million worth of counterfeit jerseys, ball caps, and T-shirts. Ahead of this weekend’s Super Bowl, authorities said they seized nearly 42,000 phony Super Bowl sportswear items and merchandise worth $5 million. Fake jerseys can be bought for about $80 each. But according to nflshop.com, authentic jerseys cost between $150 and $300.

Read more at AVAST! https://blog.avast.com/2012/02/03/super-sunday-means-super-scams/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitterfeed&utm_campaign=blog ]]> Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:02:21 UTC avast Latest News 1 http://www.thexyz.in/story.php?title=super-sunday-means-super-scams-1 http://www.thexyz.in/story.php?title=anonymous-penetrates-fbi-scotland-yard
The group released a roughly 15-minute-long recording of what appears to be a Jan. 17 conference call devoted to tracking and prosecuting members of the loose-knit hacking group.
]]> Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:13:17 UTC globe Latest News 1 http://www.thexyz.in/story.php?title=anonymous-penetrates-fbi-scotland-yard http://www.thexyz.in/story.php?title=why-facebook-may-not-be-a-growth-story ]]> Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:46:56 UTC globe Business 1 http://www.thexyz.in/story.php?title=why-facebook-may-not-be-a-growth-story http://www.thexyz.in/story.php?title=five-challenges-for-facebook-as-they-plan-to-make-more-friends-and-print-more-money
Even though investors have been clamouring to get a piece of Facebook for years, the company's regulatory filing reveals a number of previously undisclosed details about its inner workings – and not all of them good. ]]> Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:17:37 UTC globe Business 1 http://www.thexyz.in/story.php?title=five-challenges-for-facebook-as-they-plan-to-make-more-friends-and-print-more-money http://www.thexyz.in/story.php?title=facebook-unveils-5bn-stock-market-flotation-plans
Facebook said it would seek to raise $5bn (£3.16bn), about half the amount many analysts expected.

But the initial public offering (IPO) is still expected to be the biggest sale of shares by an internet company.

The rise of Facebook, begun by Harvard University students, has been meteoric, attracting 800 million users in just eight years.
]]> Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:23:18 UTC bbc Business 1 http://www.thexyz.in/story.php?title=facebook-unveils-5bn-stock-market-flotation-plans http://www.thexyz.in/story.php?title=why-twitter%E2%80%99s-censorship-plan-is-better-than-you-think Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:43:37 UTC globe Social Networking 1 http://www.thexyz.in/story.php?title=why-twitter%E2%80%99s-censorship-plan-is-better-than-you-think http://www.thexyz.in/story.php?title=french-accents-to-be-allowed-on-domain-names
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority launched the final phase of a consultation process into the move last week.

Accents on French characters are expected to be permitted in Canadian domain names within nine to 18 months. ]]> Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:15:46 UTC globe Webmaster 1 http://www.thexyz.in/story.php?title=french-accents-to-be-allowed-on-domain-names http://www.thexyz.in/story.php?title=big-business-of-hi-tech-crime-with-botnets
The figures suggest that about 6% of the UK's 19 million net-using households are enrolled in botnets.

Hijacked PCs could be sending spam, attacking websites or surrendering bank details to criminals. ]]> Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:50:55 UTC bbc Tech 1 http://www.thexyz.in/story.php?title=big-business-of-hi-tech-crime-with-botnets http://www.thexyz.in/story.php?title=twitter-users-threaten-boycott-over-censorship-accusation Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:50:20 UTC thexyz Social Networking 1 http://www.thexyz.in/story.php?title=twitter-users-threaten-boycott-over-censorship-accusation http://www.thexyz.in/story.php?title=here-comes-the-sun-there-goes-the-internet
The massive solar storm that bombarded Earth’s magnetic field Tuesday morning caused minor disruptions to spacecraft and power grids, and airline flights were rerouted to avoid downtime in radio communications. Scientists speculated that if the angle of the electromagnetic burst would have been different, we may have experienced a major power failure like one that happened in a 1989 solar storm. Six million people in Quebec lost electricity then, and the effects were felt through many parts of the continental U.S. because of the inter-connectivity of the power grids. This storm was much stronger. ]]> Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:12:35 UTC avast Tech 1 http://www.thexyz.in/story.php?title=here-comes-the-sun-there-goes-the-internet http://www.thexyz.in/story.php?title=twitter-to-censor-tweets-in-individual-countries
The additional flexibility announced Thursday is likely to raise fears that Twitter’s commitment to free speech may be weakening as the short-messaging company expands into new countries in an attempt to broaden its audience and make more money. ]]> Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:16:57 UTC globe Social Networking 1 http://www.thexyz.in/story.php?title=twitter-to-censor-tweets-in-individual-countries http://www.thexyz.in/story.php?title=fbi-plans-social-network-map-alert-mash-up-application
It says the application should provide information about possible domestic and global threats superimposed onto maps "using mash-up technology".
]]> Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:37:52 UTC bbc Tech 1 http://www.thexyz.in/story.php?title=fbi-plans-social-network-map-alert-mash-up-application http://www.thexyz.in/story.php?title=an-overview-of-thexyz-network-in-2011
First, we added a new web hosting data center option to the order form – the fully-redundant Steadfast facility in Chicago, Illinois. It is located in one of the world’s largest data center buildings and offers a great environment for your sites.

Read more here: http://www.blog.thexyznetwork.com/an-overview-of-thexyz-network-in-2011/ ]]> Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:23:30 UTC ptoone Latest News 1 http://www.thexyz.in/story.php?title=an-overview-of-thexyz-network-in-2011 http://www.thexyz.in/story.php?title=google-starts-tracking-people-as-they-use-youtube-search-gmail
That announcement came hours after Facebook said it will make Timeline and Open Graph part of the default user interface. These new services chronologically assemble and make more easily accessible the preferences, acquaintances and activities of its 800 million members. ]]> Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:52:43 UTC google Webmaster 1 http://www.thexyz.in/story.php?title=google-starts-tracking-people-as-they-use-youtube-search-gmail http://www.thexyz.in/story.php?title=what-googles-financials-tell-us-about-android-google-and-motorola
Gmail now has 350m users.

Google+ has 90m registered users - that is, people and organisations that have gone to the bother of creating a profile on it. That's more than doubled from the 40m announced at the last earnings call. There's some more about Google+, but we'll come to it presently.

Read full article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2012/jan/20/google-financials-android-motorola ]]> Sun, 22 Jan 2012 17:01:48 UTC ptoone Business 1 http://www.thexyz.in/story.php?title=what-googles-financials-tell-us-about-android-google-and-motorola http://www.thexyz.in/story.php?title=iphone-8-an-animated-gif-attempt-at-what-it-might-look-like Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:39:34 UTC ptoone Tech 1 http://www.thexyz.in/story.php?title=iphone-8-an-animated-gif-attempt-at-what-it-might-look-like http://www.thexyz.in/story.php?title=mcdonald%E2%80%99s-not-lovin%E2%80%99-out-of-control-mcdstories-hashtag-campaign Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:56:52 UTC globe Business 1 http://www.thexyz.in/story.php?title=mcdonald%E2%80%99s-not-lovin%E2%80%99-out-of-control-mcdstories-hashtag-campaign http://www.thexyz.in/story.php?title=crtc-finds-evidence-of-throttling-on-rogers-internet-service-rogersbuzz
The case centres on a complaint from the Canadian Gamers Organization that Rogers allegedly throttles, or slows, popular online games such as World of Warcraft, in violation of Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission guidelines. The CRTC’s enforcement division launched a probe of Rogers’ Internet management policies last October. ]]> Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:53:07 UTC globe Tech 1 http://www.thexyz.in/story.php?title=crtc-finds-evidence-of-throttling-on-rogers-internet-service-rogersbuzz