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Gmail Down For Many

“Users of Google’s free e-mail service were stranded Tuesday afternoon when they logged on to find the service no longer working. ” Link


EBay To Sell Skype To Investor Group

“The investment group is likely to include Andreessen Horowitz, a new venture capital firm headed by the Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen, these people said. One of the people added that Index Ventures, a London-based venture capital firm that was an early investor in Skype, and the private equity firm Silver Lake Partners were also involved.” Link


Jessica Biel Most Dangerous Celeb Search

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“Actress Jessica Biel has overtaken Brad Pitt as the most dangerous celebrity to search in cyberspace, according to Internet security company McAfee Inc. For the third consecutive year, McAfee surveyed which A-list celebrity was the riskiest to track on the Internet after Pitt topped the list last year and Paris Hilton came in first in 2007.” Link


Katie Price A Cyberspace "Danger" For UK Web Users

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“Fans scouring the web for the latest gossip on Price’s relationship with cage fighter Alex Reid have a one in six chance of clicking on a ‘risky’ website, a survey found. Such sites could be loaded with spyware collecting information about users without their knowledge, and viruses that can infiltrate computers, with the goal of making money and committing ID theft.” Link


4chan Being Blocked By AT&T

“According to the Los Angeles Metblogs, AT&T DSL users are unable to access anything on the img.4chan.org subdomain if they live in Southern California. If true, this essentially blocks 4chan’s most popular and controversial forum, /b/. It looks like a censorship battle is brewing, especially since 4chan users are aware of the apparent block by AT&T.” Link


Alex Kozinski: Federal Judge Admonished For Explicit Files On Web Site

“Judge Alex Kozinski, 58, of the San Francisco-based 9th Circuit U-S Court of Appeals previously apologized and had recommended an investigation due to the public controversy over the material. A panel of judges assigned to investigate concluded Kozinski’s ‘possession of sexually explicit offensive material combined with his carelessness in failing to safeguard his sphere of privacy was judicially imprudent.’ His actions, the panel wrote, ‘can reasonably be seen as having resulted in embarrassment to the institution of the federal judiciary.’” Link


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