A hacker, identified as Stryde Hax, while following leads indicating that a couple female Chinese gymnasts participating in the 2008 Beijing Olympics are underage, managed to stumble upon some webpages supporting such scenarios. Thus, he discovered certain inadvertences that could convince even the most skeptical of people that the Chinese Olympic Committee has been playing dirty. The international Olympic rules say that a girl, in order to be accepted in the gymnastics competition, has to be at least 16. Rumors surrounding the Chinese team have it differently - at least two of the young girls to compete are, in fact, too young to do so. In... [read more >>] The Chinese Government assured international media representatives and human rights organizations that they would have full access to the Beijing Olympic Games and all the information they needed. In defiance of this statement, many online resources that foreign journalists need to report from China have been restricted. Reporters Without Borders underscores that over 20,000 foreign journalists will be affected by this restrictive measure. "Yet another broken promise!" the organization for the freedom of the press says. "Coming just nine days before the opening ceremony, this is yet another provocation by the Chinese authorities. This situa... [read more >>] Facebook announced the start of a program that would enable users to connect to other online applications and websites, without the need to authenticate their sessions each time they log on. Through feeds, Facebook users can now connect and share different information from partners like CBS.com, Red Bull, Twitter, Disney-ABC Television Group, CNET and many others. The Facebook account can be used for an easy certification across the web, without having to worry about how privacy will be protected. The list of friends from Facebook will be available for users of other websites, making communication and social connections easier to establish.... [read more >>] The famous Firefox developer Mozilla is now working on a mobile flavor of the web-browser which would be able to work on most of the handheld devices available on the market. If we analyze the decision a little bit, it is pretty obvious because the world is changing, the mobile industry evolving a lot in the recent period. Most of the mobile consumers aim to access their email or other web services straight from their devices. Just look at the Internet giants Google and Yahoo which struggle to expand their offerings into the mobile market. Mozilla confirmed the mobile version of Firefox and sustained the building process will start soon."Sh... [read more >>] As far as I can see, this is one of the most serious accusations addressed to Skype as the president of Dynamic Internet Technology accuses the application of censoring certain computer activities. Bill Xia is a provider of specialized software which helps the local Internet consumers bypass the governments' filters and access the restricted websites. In case you didn't know, the Chinese authorities are very exigent when it comes to the content accessed by the local users so they are trying anything it is possible to restrict certain websites. Sometimes, the government demands the help of the Internet pages or software solutions i... [read more >>] The folks working at Opera Software launched a new version of their famous Opera browser but this time, it comes with a brand new name and several goodies for its users. Codenamed Kestrel, Opera 9.5 Alpha bundles VoiceOver support and an improved BitTorrent performance, a function that was often criticized by the peer-to-peer fans. In addition, the status bar offers two new controls for a better browsing experience: zoom and image manipulation. The innovation comes from the full history search that allows you to find a visited website in a matter of seconds straight from the interface of the browser."Unlike previous and other browser histor... [read more >>] Although it might sound a little bit shocking, it can be true: Digg blocks certain stories from reaching the homepage straight from their servers. The reason? Unknown. But the guys from Pronet Advertising tried to show us that a certain story cannot be published on the first page because it is buried from the Digg servers. First of all, they tried to prove this manually by creating a story to be posted on Digg and see if it manages to reach the first page. After the article received more than 20 digs, it was buried by the Digg employees and not by the users of the service. "You probably think users buried the story, but it actually was one ... [read more >>] | 
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