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OccupyLSX wires up tech for St Paul's protest

...As the Occupy Wall Street protest in New York spreads around the globe, ZDNet UK visited the London... Read more

21 October, 2011 by Ben Woods

Anonymous protest closes San Francisco stations

...four San Francisco subway stations on Monday evening following a short, peaceful protest at the Civic Center underground station, forcing hordes of commuters to search... Read more

16 August, 2011 by Elinor Mills

News finds way around Egyptian blockage

...popular satellite channel Al Jazeera has been broadcasting live footage of mass protests in Egypt, a nearly countrywide clampdown on the internet means there have... Read more

29 January, 2011 by Elinor Mills

Egypt internet outages hit Facebook and Twitter

...Amid a third day of anti-government protests, internet outages and disruptions occurred on Thursday in Egypt. Anti-government protests... Read more

28 January, 2011 by Elinor Mills

Anonymous exposes pepper-spray police officer

...officer, as well as photos that appear to show him at the protest and a close-up of his badge.He was identified in a... Read more

27 September, 2011 by Elinor Mills

Suspected Anonymous hacker refutes charges

...that Doyon, using the nickname 'Commander X', was part of an online protest organised by the People's Liberation Front — also allegedly associated with Anonymous... Read more

26 September, 2011 by Elinor Mills

Google, Twitter release Speak to Tweet service for Egypt

Egyptians who are disconnected from the internet during anti-government protests can now use a voice connection to send out messages to Twitter... Read more

1 February, 2011 by Tom Krazit

GoDaddy pivots, now 'opposes' SOPA piracy bill

GoDaddy has reversed its stance on the Stop Online Privacy Act and now opposes the legislation, after supporting it, then taking its name off the list of supporters after customers rebelled Read more

30 December, 2011 by Declan McCullagh

Pirate Bay: Protest ban with local MPs

...united" by writing to members of parliament and internet service providers to protest the blocking of the website by five UK ISPs. The Pirate Bay... Read more

1 May, 2012

Workers protest at Foxconn plant in China

...manufacturer, threatened to jump off the roof of a building in a protest over wages just a month after the two firms announced a landmark... Read more

30 April, 2012 by Ryan Huang

SOPA, Protect IP support wavers in face of online protest

...An unprecedented online protest against a Hollywood-backed copyright bill may be working: some of its... Read more

19 January, 2012 by Declan McCullagh and Elinor Mills

Wikipedia and Google protest SOPA antipiracy legislation

Wikipedia and Google have staged blackouts and protests against two proposed US laws that could let copyright owners block websites... Read more

18 January, 2012

Vodafone tax issue results in protests, arrests

...20 Vodafone stores around the UK were forced to close due to protests over the company's tax affairs. The protests, which took place in... Read more

1 November, 2010

Wikipedia to turn off for 24 hours in SOPA protest

...to 'blackout' its English language service for 24 hours on Wednesday in protest at proposed internet control laws SOPA and PIPA currently before the American... Read more

16 January, 2012

Websites employ pop-ups to protest piracy bill

...material.For more on this ZDNet UK-selected story, see Anti-censorship protests irk some Web surfers on CNET News. Get the latest technology news... Read more

17 November, 2011 by Elinor Mills

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BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

5 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Horace Ontalhold

...... and PDP11s too

6 hours ago by Horace Ontalhold on Fusion-io lays minefield with a billion IOPS
BrownieBoy

I had a quick skim through the PDF. It seems to be that many of these so-called cost savings would be down to a hardware refresh. Although...

7 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
bobandroid

496,999 BT Fon Hotspots lovingly situated in your next door neighbours garden, no matter how you dress that up its still a pup... Not where I need...

9 hours ago by bobandroid on London Olympics: BT needs 25,000 more Wi-Fi hotspots
apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

10 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Smilig Eddie

2 – 4 more weeks of waiting: how many buyers are going to decide instead to see what the iPhone 5 offers? Consumer trust in the brand has also...

10 hours ago by Smilig Eddie on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
SRist

So it looks like this was a complete red herring - Adobe are allowing upgrades from Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 at the same price. When did this...

11 hours ago by SRist on Photoshop users attack Adobe upgrade policy change
Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

13 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

14 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
debsmk

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

15 hours ago by debsmk on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
Atangana

I would like a job for me and do good to their tackiness vellent my help I will do my best to help you mercie for all

16 hours ago by Atangana on UK's 15-year-old World Excel champion offered £100k job
BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

17 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

18 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

18 hours ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
mrbigdong

@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

19 hours ago by mrbigdong on A minor Bitcoin miner injury?
Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

23 hours ago by Mike Denton via Facebook on Security on the farm: Accounts and permissions
minzhu

Don't blame CEO, they want RIM win. RIM has strange culture and self distruct political environment. In RIM if a new hired person figure out...

1 day ago by minzhu on RIM CEO: Time to squash BlackBerry myths
Thomas Gellhaus

I've been very pleased with Mageia 2. My review went up on Sunday. My only issue is that my particular wireless printer hasn't been detected on...

1 day ago by Thomas Gellhaus via Facebook on Scorecard - Linux Mint 13 and Mageia 2
knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

1 day ago by knapper on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry
JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

1 day ago by JohneKerr on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry