Wikileaks temporarily offline due to lack of funds
29 Jan 2010: The whistleblowing website Wikileaks has temporarily shut down because of a lack of funds. The site, which has been a major irritant to governments and big businesses since it launched in 2007, says it cannot keep going without more public donations.Hormuud Telecom Extends Microwave Backbone Through
27 Jan 2010: Harris Stratex Networks, Inc. a leading provider of wireless solutions that enable the evolution of next-generation fixed and mobile broadband networks, today announced that Hormuud Telecom Somalia, Inc., placed an order for 100 of its high capacityAirports with full body scan: virtual strip search
31 Dec 2009: The wide use of full-body scanning at airports now being discussed at the White House has set off hot criticism from privacy advocates who call it a "virtual strip search," according to media reports Thursday. Ever since the Christmas Day terror attackTwitter in licensing talks with Google and Microsoft
09 Oct 2009: Microblogging service Twitter is in advanced talks with Google Inc and Microsoft Corp about licensing its data feed to the companies' search engines, a Web blog associated with the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. Twitter's discussions withICANN parts with US government, gets broader oversight
01 Oct 2009: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is breaking free of the US Department of Commerce. The many-times-amended Memorandum of Understanding between the two groups was replaced today with a new Affirmation of Commitments thatUS Government Sets Up Online 'App Store'
17 Sep 2009: Today, I am excited to announce that we have launched Apps.gov to help continue the President’s initiative to lower the cost of government operations while driving innovation within government. I'll be discussing this in a speech at the NASA AmesGoogle’s search box has grown in size
12 Sep 2009: Google just got bigger. Not the company, but the search box on its home page, that is. The Mountain View, California, company has been loathe to tamper with the clean and uncluttered look of its home page but the Internet giant this week increased theIAEA: Iran has slowed nuclear work
29 Aug 2009: Iran has slowed its expansion of uranium enrichment and met some demands for transparency but allegations it researched how to build atom bombs look credible and Tehran must address them, the UN atomic watchdog has said. In a report released on Friday,Microsoft asks court to delay ban on MS-Word
20 Aug 2009: Microsoft Corp. is asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to allow it to keep selling Word software as it fights an unfavorable patent ruling. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas found Microsoft infringed on aGoogle caffeine: faster search engine
12 Aug 2009: Web developers have been invited by Google engineers to test the new search engine and give their feedback. The front end of the engine looks no different. It is the back end technology which Google developers hope will noticeably index new content fasterDP World Djibouti Rejects Ethiopian Request for Dedicated Berth
11 Aug 2009: Disagreement is brewing between officials in the marine sector in Ethiopia and Djibouti over the use of the Port of Djibouti, and whether or not Ethiopia’s flagship carrier should continue to pay security fees, reliable sources disclosed to Fortune. TheHezbollah chief becomes Facebook star
10 Aug 2009: Love him or loathe him, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah has earned himself celebrity status -- at least on Facebook, where a good 20 forums are dedicated to the Lebanese Shiite leader. Many are favorable to Nasrallah but others are extremely hostile toMohammed ‘Goes Viral’ on Facebook
06 Aug 2009: DUBAI — If politicians can measure their popularity on the internet, then the Ruler of Dubai has a lot to celebrate. Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, is now among the most popularBritish man arrested for role in running FileSoup file sharing website
05 Aug 2009: A British man has been arrested for his role in running one of the internet's oldest file sharing websites. The man - who started the FileSoup website in 2003 - was taken into custody last week after a raid on his home in Taunton, Somerset, andAlif Higgaad-saxe (Alif spellchecker)
04 Aug 2009: Baahida loo qabo hingaad (Higgaad) -saxe afka-Soomaaliga iyo kaalinta uu ka cayaari karo horumarinta afka-Soomaaliga iyo weliba kaalmada uu ka geysan karo horumarinta bulshada Soomaaliyeed. Qoraallada laga helo internetka waxay ku qoran yihiin afaf kalaGoogle chief Eric Schmidt resigns from Apple board
03 Aug 2009: The chief executive of Google today resigned from the board of Apple amid concerns the search engine giant is now a direct competitor to the iPod manufacturer. Eric Schmidt's exit from the company was described by Apple chief executive Steve Jobs as aslashnews
Mohamed Ali Samatar: Facing war crimes lawsuit in US
The case has divided courts. A federal judge in Alexandria ruled that even if the immunity law does not mention individuals, such protection is the "practical equivalent" of immunity offered to a state. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit in
Malcolm X: Legacy lives on 45 years after his assassination
Forty-five years ago on Feb. 21, Malcolm X — El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz — had begun his address to a mass meeting of the Organization of Afro-American Unity in New York City at the Audubon Ballroom when several men opened fire on him with shotguns and
Somali minister dies of 'graduation' bomb attack injury
Somalia's sports minister has died in a Saudi hospital weeks after he was critically wounded in a bomb attack at a medical graduation ceremony in Mogadishu. Saleban Olad Roble passed away on Friday in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, where he and other victims
Dubai to issue 11 warrants for Hamas killing
Dubai will issue arrest warrants for 11 foreign agents suspected of involvement in the the assassination of a top Hamas military commander in his hotel room in Dubai on Jan. 20, the police chief said on Monday. "We do not rule out Mossad, but when we
