IBM and Microsoft seems not great enough to sustain one of its customers to survive using the services they offer.

With the cost savings reasons, one of the departments in the French government had just left some IBM products and services Microsoft and began turning to Mozilla.

Services now no longer in use is Lotus Notes, collaborative application developed and sold by IBM and Microsoft’s Microsoft Office.

Now to replace the products, the finance department there will immerse the calendar application and email output of 130,000 Mozilla on their PCs. Mozilla email service, Lightning Calendar and an open source groupware application that is ready to be enjoyed government employees.

Mozilla victory was ‘leaked’ by the IT news site based in France, 01net. The reason the government turning on Mozilla, the other was caused by service based on open-source such as Thunderbird and Google Docs is more likely to save costs and provide a license aggrement better.

French government’s decision to explore the open source out following the decision of one of the cities in Los Angeles this week to adopt Google Apps. There, approximately 30,000 employees will use Gmail and have access to Google Docs.

For the band of U2′s no wonder when YouTube agreed to broadcast their concert at the Rose Bowl with live streaming some time ago, and YouTube did not seem miscast.

So the number of visitors who access the virtual world of this video, collaboration is even set a record for YouTube alone. What record? Ie, as the biggest YouTube streaming event ever.

Videos featuring Bono cs riveting action in California is the time to watch as many as 10 million times around the world, across 7 continents. The outbreak of this record made by a spokesman for YouTube.

No wonder if U2 enforcing a new milestone for YouTube. Concert at the Rose Bowl, Pasadena, California itself successfully attract 100,000 music lovers.

For those who missed the concert yesterday was a super luxurious, video duration was 2.5 hours still available on YouTube. U2 concert broadcast repeated itself has listened to by more than 1 million viewers in their private channel.

A few days ago, gathered some 300 delegates from various parts of the ASEAN countries and China CERT (Computer Emergency and Response Team) to attend the annual conference and the handling of information security.

Representatives from ASEAN countries are Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia, while representatives from China almost all local government / provinces in China, ISPs, security companies and academics.

The most crucial agenda to be discussed at the conference this time was growing increasingly Cybercrime and the number of Internet users are increasingly frenzied. The participants realized that the world of the Internet such as sea salt, whatever bandwidth at low market penetration without rest, internet users really hungry for information from the Internet.

It is very surprising this time is China’s Internet users reached 380 million users, exceeding the number of users anywhere in the world, China’s population of about 1.5 billion, and Internet users is growing all the time, and the government of China is very concerned to protect the people and their youth.

A very unpopular government of China is pornography, they employ about 30,000 employees out to continuously update the database of filtering pornography, networking site Facebook, bloggers and some other accounts which they say the people of China need to be consumed.

Another thing discussed in this conference is the ceremony and preparation CNVD (China Vulnerability Database) which is required for site-owners of e-commerce sites such as the China Airlines, banking, finance, stock market services including central and local governments and others.

This was done as a standard-site presence of e-commerce site to operate properly and correctly, do not harm customers and can grow rapidly and continuously.

For ASEAN countries, China’s government hopes to work together well, helping each other and protect / protection of each country from various crime Cybercrime, the government of China to realize input from delegates of ASEAN countries that the biggest attacks to Internet servers IP is from China and USA .

Internet user growth is very, very fast, discussions with the delegations of ASEAN countries, said the average was triggered by the presence of devices and handsets that can connect to the Internet, such as mobile phones, netbooks, game player and so on, even people can have 1 to 2 5 devices that can be used to connect to the Internet.

Even Hong Kong’s local government fund set up to HK $ 140 billion for the development of e-learning and Internet content for elementary and secondary education, primary school children are given 1 device / child for 5-inch netbook to connect to the internet, of course with a highly protectionist tight.

Government of China advised that the progress of a country can not be done without the active role of young people to stem the flow of information in this safety information, either from outside or inside, large losses would occur if there is no protection and good filtering.

Overview report of the international conference Information Security and the handling in Changsha, China, about 90 minutes flight from Hong Kong. Changsha (simplified) is the capital of Hunan, a province in south-central China, located in the Xiangjiang river, a branch of the Yangtze River.

Twitter users are reminded once again of phishing attacks that could endanger the security of personal data.

Recently Twitter meet the attack using the guise of fake sites, again rose. This is an attack that aims to get the name and password from Twitter users and then use it to achieve a particular goal of the perpetrator.

So, if one day you get a DM (Direct Message), which reads a bit awkward like “hi. This you on here?” and direct you to the login page to Twitter, you should not do it. Most likely this is the attack. Links are also likely lead to a blogspot page is owned by someone named NetMeg99.

In launching this action, the agent that is a little slick with that account as if it is your follower to get you better believe that it is a common message. Once you enter the trap, then the offender would be easier to spread the attack to all your contacts.

Sophos technology consultant Graham Cluley give advice, that if at any time Twitter users are stuck, so do not just change the password Twitter, but change all your account passwords on other sites. Because known, that a third of cyberspace surfers, have the same password for every site that he follow.

Facebook wins in court against spam king Sanford Wallace named. Sites that are initiated by Mark Zuckerberg also received considerable compensation, as much as U.S. $ 711 million.

Judge Jeremy Fogel of the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California said Wallace guilty to marketing via e-mail in a way that is not true. He spread the message that annoying junk many users Facebook.

Facebook welcomes the decision that potentially makes this discourage other spammers. “This is one important victory in our fight against spam, we’ll continue to continue,” said Sam O’Rourke from the legitimate Facebook.

Facebook to sue Sanford in February. He is accused of using a phishing site to lure Facebook users and access their accounts, in order to distribute spam.

Sanford himself called the king of spam as a principal distribution snapper class junk messages. Company called Cyber Promotions had sent up to 30 million spam e-mails per day. He repeatedly dealing with the law because ulahnya.

Although comparatively large, the number of penalties for cases of this spam is not the greatest for Facebook. Because before, they also have won the case against the suspect Adam spam Guerbez years ago, with a fine of U.S. $ 873 million.