New tool outs Wiki tricksters
Organisations will find it more difficult to promote hidden agendas or play dirty tricks on opponents through bogus entries on Wikipedia, thanks to WikiScanner, reports Tech News World.
The new tool can expose groups behind anonymous edits by looking up their IP addresses. "The cool thing is that the transparency exists to make a tool like this possible," Slashdot.org founder Rob Malda told LinuxInsider.
"It's awesome - I love it," Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales told LinuxInsider. "It brings an additional level of transparency to what's going on at Wikipedia."
Court acquits allofmp3.com owner
A Russian court has found the former boss of music download Web site www.allofmp3.com not guilty of breaching copyright, in a case considered a crucial test of Russia's commitment to fighting piracy, says CNN.
The allofmp3.com Web site angered Western music companies by undercutting the price of downloads in deals they said breached copyright law.
Denis Kvasov, head of MediaServices, which owned the site, was put on trial after entertainment companies EMI Group, NBC Universal and Time Warner pressed for a prosecution.
Hotmail set to leap ahead
Although it has been lagging behind both Google and Yahoo's e-mail offerings for some time, Microsoft's age-old Hotmail service could be set to leap ahead, says Trusted Reviews.
Latest improvements include an increase to 5GB of storage space (nearly double that of Google) and users will notice incremental increases immediately.
Paid users will see storage space double to 10GB, surely surpassing the needs of virtually any user.
Yahoo, Apple top ratings
A recent survey has named Apple as the top PC vendor in terms of customer satisfaction, while Yahoo took home the customer crown among portals, says VNUNet.
The survey was conducted for the American Customer Satisfaction Index, a database maintained by the University of Michigan Business School designed to rate customer service among market leaders in various US business sectors.
Yahoo improved its score among Web portals by three points to 79, while rival Google saw its score fall from 81 to 78.
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