MySpace goes for $35m?
News Corporation has sold its ailing social networking site MySpace to online advertising firm Specific Media, reveals the BBC.
News Corp paid $580 million for MySpace in 2005, but users and advertisers left the site for rival social sites like Facebook and Twitter.
The sale terms were not disclosed, but there were unconfirmed reports that the price paid was as low as $35 million.
Microsoft unveils IE 10 beta
Microsoft has released the second platform preview of its Internet Explorer 10 browser and the beta build of its Phone 7 upgrade, code-named Mango, with a new software developer kit, according to V3.co.uk.
The browser includes a number of HTML5 improvements, including sandboxing security, drag-drop functions, CSS3 Positioned Floats and basic support for Forms.
A Web worker tool is also included, which offloads JavaScript functions to a separate work area to boost browser frame rates by as much as a third.
UK's IT pros actively seeking jobs
It appears IT workers have itchy feet, with the latest IT Job Board market survey stating approximately 42% of IT professionals are actively seeking work, reports Computing.co.uk.
In addition, a further 52% are keeping an eye on the jobs market, according to the survey. The report also stated that by September 2011, 35% of permanent workers, and 57% of contractors, hope to have moved jobs.
“Clearly, large numbers of highly-skilled workers are contemplating their futures, and considering taking their precious skills elsewhere,” says Alexandra Farrell, MD of the IT Job Board.
Hackers cripple Al-Qaida communications
Computer hackers shut down Al-Qaida's ability to communicate its messages to the world through the Internet, interrupting the group's flow of videos and communiqu'es, according to a terrorism expert, writes NBC News.
“Al-Qaida's online communications have been temporarily crippled, and it does not have a single trusted distribution channel available on the Internet,” said Evan Kohlmann, of Flashpoint Global Partners, which monitors the group's communications.
The attack was carried out within the past few days by unknown hackers targeting Al-Qaida's Internet communications systems. It was “well coordinated and involved the use of an unusual cocktail of relatively sophisticated techniques”, Kohlmann said.
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