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The WikiLeaks site was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011, said a Norwegian parliamentarian Snorre Valen, author of the proposal, a day after the end of the deadline for applications. The Norwegian Nobel Committee accepted until February 1, the nominations for the prize regarded by many as a major honor in the world, although the five members [...]

Police questioned the former banker today Rudolf Elmer for possible violations of banking laws in Switzerland, for having delivered data to WikiLeaks, a day after being convicted of violating bank secrecy. The authorities have 48 hours from his arrest to decide whether they have grounds to keep him in custody for longer, said on Thursday the district [...]

How much cost a domain, that you put at the address in your browser? The answer is quite simple: it depends. The more simple and relevant for the domain name, the more it will cost. Three months ago, the address “sex.com” was sold for $ 13 million, a record. Last year, Facebook decided to buy the “fb.com” and paid $ 8.5 million [...]

Clients of Goldman Sachs interested in investing in Facebook received financial information about the social network Thursday. Copies of the private placement memorandum for an investment in Facebook started to be personally delivered to millionaires customers at Goldman Sachs shortly after the lunch break in New York, said sources who received a copy [...]

For more advanced they get each season, the products are launched in the market still rely on wires to run and enchant us with their amazing features. However, there was an alternative to that. The Powermat is a company that perfected the process of loading by magnetic induction and promises to retire their wireless phones chargers, notebooks and even [...]

The number of people seeking health advice on the Internet should soar as workers turn the holiday season, but few will check the origin of information, according to an international survey released on Tuesday. A study by researchers at the London School of Economics (LSE) commissioned by the company Bupa, from the private health sector, showed that [...]

Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, accused the companies no longer provide service to his site from being in the service of U.S. foreign policy, and asked for help in his work to be protected from “illegal and immoral attacks.” Assange is imprisoned in Britain, where he can be extradited to Sweden to answer allegations of sexual crimes, [...]

The WikiLeaks is directing his readers to an Internet address in Switzerland after being taken down by two providers in the U.S. two days, and France have tried to prohibit servers from the country of harboring sensitive data from the site. Users are being diverted to the site www.wikileaks.ch after the wikileaks.org, who had published secret diplomatic [...]

NASA has postponed next week’s mid-December for the launch of space shuttle Discovery, which will carry cargo and supplies to the International Space Station, officials said yesterday. The extra time will allow engineers to understand why two metal fuel tank split when the shuttle was being fueled with liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen in early [...]

Just this week Yahoo will launch a new newsmedia service and web content with journalism called Yahoo Contributor Network. Yahoo has always been a powerful news aggregator of the net. With the YCN the company gives the biggest jump ever in its history given in the crowded segment and creates its own content agency. The launch takes place from a quiet [...]