Archive for the 'Digital Technology' Category

Magazine Cover - Mark Zuckerberg Time Person of The Year 2010
Founder of social networking website Facebook and chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg, 26, announced that he was named as the 2nd youngest person for Time magazine’s Person of the Year.
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Top 10 Searched People - Google Zeitgeist 2010
What do these names have in common: Justin Bieber, Kesha, Wiz Khalifa, Nicki Minaj, Christina Hendricks, Heidi Montag, Katy Perry, Kid Cudi, Kim Kardashian and Lindsay Lohan? They were all in the Top 10 Searched People.
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Photo of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, 39, has found friends, a group of Hackers who are supporting him reportedly to defend the Freedom of the Internet. The hackers dubbed ‘Operation PayBack’ as their revenge and are stated to have went after companies who cut ties with WikiLeaks such as Mastercard, PayPal, Visa, the Swiss Post Office, amongst others.
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Photo of Charles Manson Before and After Pictures
Charles Manson has been ‘busted’ using a cellphone, a smart phone at that, making phone calls from the prison walls. The whole incident has led prison authorities to commit to jamming cellphones in the prison walls.
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Photo of Lady GaGa and Kesha
Two German hackers are currently under investigation after reportedly breaking into the computers of Lady Gaga, Kesha, Justin Timberlake, Kelly Clarkson and around 50 other stars.
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Ice - Homeland Security Seizes Domain Names
After over 80 sites were taken down in a crackdown by ICE (U.S. Department of Homeland Security) during an undercover 90 day investigation for allegedly copyright and trademark violations, it is now being stated site owners still have an opportunity to claim their domains.
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Picture of Lil Wayne on the Def Jam Rapstar Video Game - Screenshot
4mm Games, Def Jam Interactive, Cash Money Records teamed up for a ‘Best Buy’ promotional campaign to promote the video game Def Jam Rapstar in which hip hop artist Lil Wayne’s song ‘A Milli’ is included in.
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Photo of Government Internet Licensing - Scott Charney
Seems that Microsoft is reportedly proposing to the government to control who’s computer accesses the internet as well as possibly the websites you access.

A top Microsoft executive, Scott Charney, who reportedly was at the ISSE 2010 PC safety conference in Berlin yesterday, is apparently proposing to the government that it should control which computers connect to the Internet based on if it is infected — to prevent malware attacks. What this means is that the government would be in control of who could connect to the Internet and an appointed call center hired by the government would be responsible for contacting you — to let you know that you are infected. Supposedly, they would make sure that the infected computer is “quarantined” by government order and not allowed to access the Internet until it is infection free.
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Picture of rap artist Lil Wayne performing on stage holding a microphone
Even behind bars, it looks like Hip Hop’s most popular artist and trendsetter has gotten business people and some merchants worried due to him setting up his business plan to release his latest music release ‘I Am Not A Human Being’ as a digital album download first, followed by a physical CD which will contain bonus tracks.
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Google Cleared of Viacom’s Billion Dollar Lawsuit

Written by Denise on Friday, June 25th, 2010 in Television, Digital Technology, News.

Viacom Lawsuit Against Google Over YouTube
Viacom made claims that Google Inc violated copyrights by having clips from their shows on the popular video website. Viacom stated that YouTube added material which belonged to the network’s television channels such as MTV and Comedy Central and it was liable for infringement, however the judge disagreed to their claims.
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