The UK is listed second in a report on global cyber-crime statistics, behind the US and ahead of cyber-crime “hotspots” Nigeria and Romania. The 2007 Internet Crime Report was released recently by the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3).
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Flickr launches video-sharing service
Flickr, the online photo sharing service owned by Yahoo!, today launched a new video-sharing service. Subscribers will be able to upload videos of up to 90 seconds in length, or 150 MB in size.
Watch out: An office spy may be sitting next to you
Unknown to you, an office Sherlock Holmes or a Miss Marple could be snooping on your computer usage, official transactions and even your spending habits. Spies don’t always come with a detective’s hat and a magnifying glass: the office sleuth could be the friendly manager on your floor, the new intern, or even software that monitors every click on your workstation.
Live World Sunlight Map
Interested in seeing the sunlight map of our globe? Opentopia brings you live images showing current sunlight and cloud cover.
EOL – A Biological Encyclopedia website too popular on first day
While it has taken almost a year, the non-profit Encyclopedia of Life project launched recently. It gained so much attention, that the site quickly crashed. During five-and-a-half hours, the site logged 11.5 million hits.
IBM Supercomputer to rule the Internet
IBM has announced a new project called Kittyhawk, which entails constructing a global-scale shared supercomputer capable of hosting the entire Internet on one platform as an application.