London, Dec. 11: An Islamic jihadist forum member who urged supporters to upload propaganda videos onto YouTube has called for a similar "Facebook invasion".

US-based monitoring service SITE Intelligence Group reported that the appeal was made on al Faloja, a password-protected jihadist forum.

According to a Sky News report, the forum member, using the name Omar Abdul Hakim, called on others to use the social networking site Facebook, describing it as "a podium to reach millions of people."

“We will use Facebook as a new and exclusive media tool to fight the media offensive on jihadist media, its forums, and its websites and in order to reveal the Crusaders,” Hakim is quoted, as saying.

London, Dec 10: In an unprecedented move, the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has lifted its ban on a controversial page on Wikipedia which showed an image of a record album cover featuring a young nude girl.

The watchdog also confessed that its initial ban had the reverse effect that it wished, and the image got spread like wild fire in Internet circles after the ban.
 
As part of IWF''s initial ban on December 5, some people could not see any pages on Wikipedia at all, while others were unable to edit pages on the user-generated encyclopaedia.

The picture, from the 1976 album cover Virgin Killer by the German rock band Scorpions, showed a nude girl with a crack in the camera lens obscuring her genitals.

China's internet search giant Baidu was recently accused by the state media of allowing unlicensed medical services to buy high search rankings and now Baidu has pledged to overhaul its operations.

The market in the world's largest internet population is dominated by the search engine, with nearly 60% of users; quite ahead of Google, which leads the field internationally.

Washington, November 26 : Australian researchers at the University of Melbourne say that the exponential growth of high speed broadband will create an energy bottleneck in the coming years.

Dr. Kerry Hinton, from the university’s Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and the ARC Special Centre for Ultra-Broadband Information Networks (CUBIN), claims to have identified the major contributors to Internet power consumption as the take-up of broadband services grows.

“It has now become clear that the exponential growth of the Internet is not sustainable,” said Dr. Hinton.

A latest research conducted in Britain has claimed that Emails, which is considered to be the most popular mode of communication online, actually wastes an hour a day. 

The researchers discovered that people working at the offices actually waste an hour a day sending and receiving emails. Further, the obsession has led to a culture in which many process them without even thinking. 

The findings have been based by conducting a survey on 4,000 employees from 150 business houses in Britain. 

Google is all set to open its search results to annotation, alteration, and public comment with the aim to enhance user engagement and improve ad revenue potential. 

On Thursday, Google unveiled SearchWiki, a way to customize search results as they appear to one specific Google Account. The good thing is that users can re-rank search results, delete them, add new ones, and maintain notes about specific sites.