May 13, 2008
Wikimedia Foundation receives copyright infringement claim from Mormon Church
The Wikimedia Foundation has received a copyright infringement claim from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as the Mormon Church. The infringement claim is in reference to a URL used as a source in a Wikinews article about Mormon Church documents leaked to the website Wikileaks, titled “Copy of handbook for [...]
Comments (1) Filed under: NewsLog, North America, Politics, Religion, Technology, internet, speech — wikinews @ 9:16 pmMay 4, 2008
Microsoft drops bid for Yahoo
Microsoft has announced it is dropping it bid to acquire one of their Internet competitors, Yahoo, after a three-month courting effort by Microsoft.
Microsoft chief executive officer, Steve Ballmer notified Yahoo chief executive officer, chairman and co-founder, Jerry Yang via a letter that Microsoft was dropping their bid for the Sunnyvale, California based search engine giant.
In [...]
May 3, 2008
Man for All Seasons: Chuck Baldwin Garners Nod for President of the United States
To some, Chuck Baldwin is the consummate Christian minister. To others, he’s a one-man think-tank studying, researching and analyzing the human condition within today’s American society.
One minute he’s leading a church service for one a large Christian congregation in Florida. Next minute, you’ll hear Rev. Baldwin telling his audience why he’s against killing innocent, newborn [...]
April 30, 2008
US Dept. of Justice IP address blocked after ‘vandalism’ edits to Wikipedia
Wikinews has learned that a United States Department of Justice (DOJ) IP Address has been blocked on Wikipedia after making edits to an article which were considered “vandalism”. In two separate instances, the IP address from the DOJ removed information from the Wikipedia article about the organization Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in [...]
Comments (1) Filed under: NewsLog, Technology, internet, speech — wikinews @ 10:45 amApril 24, 2008
Skype launches “Unlimited” monthly service to change communication style
Monday, Luxembourg-based Skype Limited announced a new monthly service plan called “Unlimited”. It’s expected that the service will bring on different opportunities for mobile users and change style on communications.
As of Skype Limited, this “Unlimited” monthly service with no long-term contract is designed for different kind users from 34 countries. There are three main services, [...]
April 23, 2008
How a Leftist Argues: It’s All About the Name Calling
-By Warner Todd Huston
A few days ago I was rummaging through the web and ran across a tiny little blog hosted by the Houston Chronicle. It is written by a fine example of civility and perspicacity named Bobbie Cavnar. The post I saw was a perfect example of what I called the “nutrooters” going crazy [...]
April 21, 2008
Obama Tech Advisor Introduces Video of Gay, Singing Jesus Who Gets Hit by a Bus
-By Warner Todd Huston
Erick Erickson over at RedState tells us all of an anti-Christian video recently introduced with great frivolity by Internet philosopher and Obama technology advisor Larry Lessig. The video introduced at a Google Author series seminar shows Jesus singing the Gloria Gaynor tune “I Will Survive” in a very effeminate, theatrical way. As [...]
April 18, 2008
YouTube accounts of Scientology critics suspended
Two well-known critics of Scientology have had their user accounts on the video sharing website YouTube suspended. The YouTube accounts of both Tory Christman and Mark Bunker were suspended this week. In an exclusive statement to Wikinews, YouTube explained why accounts are suspended, but did not specifically state why these particular accounts were suspended. Neither [...]
Comments (1) Filed under: NewsLog, Religion, internet, speech — wikinews @ 11:23 amApril 10, 2008
UK nears US in cyber-crime, ahead of Nigeria, Romania
The United Kingdom is listed second in a report on global cyber-crime statistics, behind the United States and ahead of cyber-crime “hotspots” Nigeria and Romania. The 2007 Internet Crime Report was released in April by the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), a joint operation between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National White Collar [...]
Comments (0) Filed under: NewsLog, Technology, internet — wikinews @ 10:38 amApril 9, 2008
Apple’s iTunes replaces Wal-Mart as No. 1 U.S. music seller
Five years after its launch, Apple Computer’s iTunes downloadable music service in February passed Wal-Mart to become the No. 1 music seller in the United States, according to figures released April 3 by NPD Group, a market research firm.
The firm said more than 4 billion songs had been downloaded from the iTunes store since its [...]
