WikiLeaks unleashes Iraq war files

Whistle-blowing Web site WikiLeaks has come good on its promise of releasing the largest set of classified military documents in history, reportedly alleging killings, torture and abuse by Allied troops in Iraq, reports V3.

The 391 832 reports, dubbed “The Iraq War Logs”, document the war and occupation in Iraq, from 1 January 2004 to 31 December 2009, as told by soldiers in the US Army.

WikiLeaks has consistently ignored warnings from the Pentagon that any disclosure of such documents could put the lives of its troops and Allies at risk.

Adobe Systems is targeting mobiles, TVs, and app-stores with new editions of various Flash-centric tools and its Rich Internet Application framework, writes the Register.

The company has unveiled preview editions of the next Flex Framework, its Flash Builder design and development environment, the Flash Catalyst design tool, and version 2.5 of its Adobe Integrated Runtime.

Previews are due at Adobe's annual MAX conference in Los Angeles, California, with final code promised for sometime in 2011.

Indian tax authorities have given Vodafone 30 days to pay a 112 billion-rupee ($2.5 billion) tax bill, as part of an ongoing tax dispute, states the BBC.

The formal demand relates to the mobile phone company's 2007 purchase of the Indian telephone assets of Hong Kong conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa.

Vodafone will appeal against the tax at the Indian Supreme Court. The firm says the $11 billion transaction was exempt from tax because it took place between two offshore entities.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is offering a free one-year “instance” of its EC2 hosted computing system, notes V3.

The company says developers and businesses can use the tier to run one Amazon EC2 instance, including storage, load balancing and data transfer.

Amazon is looking to attract companies that have not been tempted by hosted computing resources, but may be looking to increase their development and use of applications.