Russian Internet provider Rosnet appealed on Wednesday to overturn the ruling by a district court in Russia’s Far Eastern city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur, which is the only place the order applies, and which ordered Rosnet to limit access to the five sites that include the YouTube video service owned by Google. Rosnet President Alexander Yermakov told...

Twitter’s ongoing battle with the Fail Whale moves to a new front as the microblogging site announces plans to move into its own data center by the end of the year. Outages galore forced Twitter to find a solution that goes behind cartoon sea life. The Salt Lake City area data center will house “a...

It’s starting to look like Capricorn One over at BP. In addition to a photo of the oil spill crisis command center that BP faked on their Web site, an astute reader found yet another photo of the crisis response that has been faked by BP. This one is of the “top kill” effort to...

The oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has so far spewed 2.3-4.5 million barrels of crude into the sea, the International Energy agency estimated on Tuesday as BP fought to staunch the flow. The agency also said that it was cutting its estimate of US oil production from the Gulf of Mexico by about...

Former high-level BP contractor and Army Special Operations soldier Adam Dillon told a New Orleans television station that British Petroleum is not interested in cleaning up the oil spill because the company is run by “cutthroat individuals” who only care about money. Dillon was fired by BP “after taking photos that he believes were related...

Last night we experienced the final match of the Soccer World Cup here in South Africa. A final that saw The Netherlands and Spain battle it out for that Golden Trophy. One of the greatest moments, for me at least was not the Victory from Spain but much rather the appearance of Nelson Mandela. Mandela, 91, who...

So yesterday I had been hearing some crazy rumours about this octopus that predicts Germany’s matches, and whether they will win or not. Was I in disbelief about it? No, in fact after I heard that me and a couple of friends took bets that Germany will lose and of course I was behind Spain,...