Google's Service Outage on 14 May 2009 for about an hour was due to an ongoing transition from an older networking standard to a newer one called IPv6.

According to C|Net:

By Jim Finkle 

BOSTON (Reuters) - Hackers launched an attack on Facebook's 200 million users on Thursday, successfully gathering passwords from some of them in the latest campaign to prey on members of the popular social networking site.

Facebook spokesman Barry Schnitt said on Thursday that the site was in the process of cleaning up damage from the attack.

The release candidate ("release candidate" means “almost done”, by the way) of Windows 7 was available to download, install and tinker with.

This is exciting news, but even more exciting is that along with this news, Microsoft bestowed upon us the system requirements for Windows 7! Here they for both 32 and 64 bit flavors:

After weeks of speculation of IBM buying out Sun, which failed to produce a result, today Oracle have swept in and bought Sun. The deal is valued at approximately $7.4 billion, or $5.6 billion net of Sun’s cash and debt, with Oracle buying Sun at $9.50 per share.

The alliance, unveiled late Monday in Paris, builds upon MySpace's seven-month-old effort to make it easier for the 127 million worldwide users of its online hangout to connect with their social circles while they're at other Internet destinations.

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You may have been hearing about a new U.S. broadband Internet satellite for some time now, but new information has just been released and I'm here to tell you all about it today! According to PC World, a California satellite technology provider, ViaSat, has signed a deal to put a broadband Internet satellite into orbit around the United States in the first part of 2011.