Defense officials in Israel said that they have identified an unlikely new threat to national security, it is Facebook.
A new set of rules was announced Thursday that is intent to prevent soldiers and Defense Ministry employees on revealing classified information on all social networking sites.
The Israeli officials said that some of their soldiers have pictures of themselves uploaded with private equipment, unknowingly revealing their classified information.
Some of the ruling party candidates for elections in Malaysia is compulsory to have their own blogs, this is a retraction for governing politicians who had ridiculed online politicking.
Secretary general of the United Malays National Organization party’s youth wing, Abdul Rahman Dahlan said, to all those competing for national youth posts must have their own blogs to introduce themselves and make known of their programs in advanced.
“All candidates must have blogs,” Abdul Rahman told The Associated Press. “If not, they are not qualified to be leaders.”
New York Time reported that Microsoft Corporation plans to release a Web based service for giving road directions that uses complex software to help the users in avoiding traffic jams.
According to Times, this software technology system is called Clearflow, this will provide drivers with alternative routes information that takes into account prevailing traffic patterns.
By Sean Michael Kerner
Networking gear and server equipment are two distinct types of hardware, right? Not anymore.
Networking goliath Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is now opening its Integrated Services Router (ISR) and Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) platforms to become Linux-based application server platforms. The move could have wide-ranging implications, as Cisco’s gear has millions of deployments that now can be leveraged to serve applications directly.
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By Stuart J. Johnston
Despite Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) successful campaign to achieve standards recognition for its Office Open XML (OOXML) file formats by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), opponents and critics of both OOXML and Microsoft show no signs of letting up in their attacks on the company.
Indeed, Microsoft’s previous legal troubles with the European Commission (EC), which it has actively striven to remedy over the past six months, may come back and bite the company yet again – this time in the form of a potential five-year ban on selling its products to European Union (EU) governments.
This week, Heidi Rühle, a member of Germany’s Green Party who serves in the European Union’s (EU) Parliament — the EU’s legislative branch — filed a “question” with the EC in that regard. By doing so, she is officially asking the EC to determine whether the EU’s Court of First Instance’s (CFI) finding in September that Microsoft had, in fact, abused its monopoly power should cause a legally prescribed procurement ban to kick in.
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