Concern have been raised about the boundaries of the US Patriot Act. Some have been suggesting that the Act requires them US based companies to give user data to the US government, if asked for it, regardless of the location of the server.
According data released by the Google Analytics Team, 89.9% of the users accessed the internet on Windows machines between November 1, 2009 - February 1, 2010. The number has however dropped to 84.8% by November 1, 2010 - February 1, 2011.
World's largest domain name registration service and shared web hosting provider - Go Daddy, has been reportedly sold off to a group of private equity firms at a valuation of US$ 2.25 Billion. The buyers include KKR & Co., Silver Lake Partners and Technology Crossover Ventures.
Joshua Peek of GitHub announced that they are now releasing the Linguist library as open source, so that others can add features such as support for currently unsupported language.
With the presence that Google has in the internet, it receives a lot of requests from governments around the world to remove certain offensive contents and hand over user information. Google keeps a record of these requests and publishes them, with certain limitations, every six months.
There is a good news for Windows Phone 7 users. The highly addictive game - Angry Birds finally makes it way to Windows Phone 7 after a long wait.