At least 23,000 file sharers soon will likely get notified they are being sued for downloading the Expendables in what has become the single largest illegal-BitTorrent-downloading case in U.S. history.

Microsoft Corp. is close to a deal to buy Internet phone company Skype Technologies SA for between $7 billion and $8 billion—the most aggressive move yet by Microsoft to play in the increasingly-converged worlds of communication, information and entertainment.

Apple explicitly tells iOS programmers that they “must not publicly associate a device’s unique identifier with a user account” to ensure privacy. However, the fact that a network as big as OpenFeint managed to link UDIDs to Facebook accounts means that there are probably other apps linking UDIDs to personal data that have slipped past Apple’s radar.

La CNIL rappelle que l’association de données permettant d’identifier un point d’accès WiFi avec des données de géolocalisation est de nature à permettre l’identification d’une personne indirectement ou directement.

Se promener sur Google Earth aujourd’hui équivaut à naviguer dans le passé, mais «il sera peut- être possible un jour d’actualiser l’imagerie satellite et de voir la Terre en temps réel, anticipe Gwenola.

For last couple of weeks we received quite a bit of reports of images on Google leading to (usually) FakeAV web sites.
Google is doing a relatively good job removing (or at least marking) links leading to malware in normal searches, however, Google’s image search seem to be plagued with malicious links. So how do they do this?