The Pirate Bay was inaccessible most of the day Monday after a group representing copyright owners forced the BitTorrent search engine’s bandwidth provider to cut off service, according to a published report.

Update: 11:05 p.m. Monday: To note that the site was down most of Monday.

Just where The Pirate Bay will go next or how long the site will be down isn’t clear. The founders of the site have vowed to continue operating the site no matter what.

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Carriers should upgrade the encryption or move voice services to 3G, which has much stronger encryption, Nohl said.

“I think, potentially, this could have as much impact as the breaking of WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) had a few years ago,” said Stan Schatt, security practice director at ABI Research. “That shook up the industry quite a bit.”

Update Wednesday August 26 8:01 a.m. PDT: The project web page is here and the the talk with slides

Typically, companies shy away from restricting an employee’s actions off the job. But businesses are concerned about employees who use social networking and reveal private details or post inappropriate pictures that could embarrass the company.

“Business clearly hasn’t caught up with what its employees are doing online,” said Roy Snell, CEO of the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics. “The risks are twofold. First there remains the business risk of employees doing th

Google remained in the top spot with a commanding 64.6 percent share, accounting for 7 billion searches in August, a gain of 2.6 percent over July. Yahoo saw its search results drop 4.2 percent for the month to 1.7 billion, earning it 16 percent of the market.

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Earlier this week, Microsoft showed off a “visual search” feature for Bing that returns thumbnail images for at least some search results. Microsoft reportedly will be debuting a

The bad:
• Certain files are capped at 30MB–even over Wi-Fi.
• There are no visual previews of what photos, videos, and docs contain.
• No way to save files for offline viewing. There’s a local cache, but as soon as a newer file needs some space, old files are removed.
•Copy and paste doesn’t work.

I applaud Apple’s efforts for giving users a first party way to access their files, it’s just too bad it offers so much less than third part

With the recession still in force, companies are feeling the pinch to slash costs and boost sales. Toward that end, 87 percent of the IT execs questioned said that reducing operating costs was “extremely or very important.” Improving collaboration with customers and partners was cited by 85 percent as “extremely or very important.” And 83 percent cited enhancing workforce performance and productivity as “extremely or very important.”

The aggressive strategy is see

Another competing technology called MEMS (micro-electro mechanical system) is expected to shift its market from cell phone displays to color and medium-sized e-books over the next few years.

Electronic paper is stacking up to be a high-growth market, according to a new report.

The number of units sold is forecast to grow 22 million this year to 1.8 billion in 2018.

“E-paper displays are taking off with consumers due to their low power consumption and e

The X-51A WaveRider is one step closer to its inaugural test flight later this year, now that airmen at Edwards Air Force Base have successfully “mated” the scramjet-propelled vehicle to a B-52 Stratofortress.

The X-51A WaveRider hypersonic flight test vehicle was uploaded to an Air Force Flight Test Center B-52 for fit testing at Edwards Air Force Base.

A scramjet is an air-breathing engine that burns regular jet fuel, and may be the key to allowing airpla

Security Essentials benefits greatly from having a simple, streamlined interface. There are four tabs, each with a concise and understandable label: Home, Update, History, and Settings. The program also uses easy-to-grasp labels, imported from OneCare: green for all good, yellow for warning, and red for an at-risk situation.

For the select 75,000 public beta testers who got their hands on the program when the limited public beta was offered in June, there will be few appreciable

It’s not nearly as fun as the one Fox did for “The Simpsons Movie” back in mid-2007 (nor is there a 7-11 tie-in), but there are a wealth of options to make yourself look as similar, or “out there” as you wish.

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CNET)

Put your virtual 1960s self together in style. Or just ditch the suit and grab a donut and an eye patch.

Set to rhythmic lounge lizard music, you can assemble your virtual self piece by piece. When done, you can then download and expor