Wikipedia has taken its English-language site offline as part of protests against proposed anti-piracy laws in the US.

Users attempting to access the site see a black screen and a political statement: "Imagine a world without free knowledge."

The user-generated news site Reddit and the blog Boing Boing are also taking part in the "blackout".

Number of domain names

There are two categories of top-level domain names, or TLDs. Generic TLDs (gTLDs), of which there currently are 22, include the globally popular .COM domain as well as less well-used domains such as .ORG, .NET, .INFO, .BIZ, .MOBI, and a handful of others. Country code TLDs (ccTLDs) use the two-letter code developed by the International Organisation for Standardization (ISO) to specify a TLD for each ISO-recognized country and dependent territory worldwide. For example, Canada's ccTLD is .CA while Australia's is .AU.

By the midpoint of 2011, there were slightly more than 214 million domain names registered globally. Of these, nearly 130 million, or 61 per cent, were gTLDs while slightly fewer than 84 million, or 39 per cent, were ccTLDs.

The Joomla! Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Joomla 3.0.0. This is the next major release of the Joomla CMS in the Standard Term Support (STS) track. All 3.0 users will need to plan to update to the new versions available in the STS release cycle every six months until version 3.5 is released. These updates are expected to be simple and backwards compatible.

Frequent VLC user? You're missing out if you haven't memorized these keyboard shortcuts yet.

If you're like me, you enjoy doing things faster. Using keyboard shortcuts can help you spend less time looking for buttons or menus, and more time enjoying music and videos. So take a moment to become a more efficient by reading over these VLC shortcuts:

If you'd like to be able to sign in to multiple accounts in the same browser for specific products, you can enable the multiple sign-in setting. This will allow you to sign in to more than one account using the same browser session. You can sign in to ten accounts at a time.

Original Title: Google Street View is coming to Bhutan, edging the service closer to 50 countries

It’s been quite a 24 hours or so for Google, what with Google Reader getting the axe and Android head Andy Rubin stepping aside. Despite that, Google is back to doing one of the things it does best — providing greater access to information in emerging markets — after announced plans to bring Street View to Bhutan, a little-known country near India which will become its 49th market.

New Zealand's Prime Minister issued an apology to MegaUpload founder Kim DotCom after it was determined his government illegally spied on DotCom.

Members of New Zealand's government believed the law gave them the right to spy on MegaUpload founder Kim DotCom because he was a foreign national.

They were wrong.

In New Zealand today, Prime Minister John Key apologized to DotCom for the spying conducted against him by the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB).

The United States has accused DotCom of criminal copyright violations and in January New Zealand police raided his home and arrested him. Just ahead of the raid, the GCSB began collecting intelligence against DotCom to see if he posed any danger to the police who would later swoop in by helicopter to arrest him.

The update for the popular iOS blogging app has been released on the App Store, with more than 180 enhancements and fixes.

The new version of WordPress for iOS, which includes an updated user interface and dozens of additional features, is now available on the App Store.

I have compiled some latest updates and features on Gmail, Google+ and Google Apps released by Google offically.

1. Video chat with multiple people with Hangouts in Gmail

1:1 Video chat in Gmail has been upgraded and is now powered by Google+ Hangouts. If both sides have created a Google+ profile you will get the full Hangouts experience including the ability to add up to nine other people to the conversation, screen sharing and integrated Google Docs collaboration.

 2. Named & Protected Ranges and Border Styles in Google Spreadsheets

Named & Protected Ranges: Users now have the ability to name a range in a spreadsheet. You can then protect such a named range instead of protecting the whole sheet. You can also use the name of the range in formulas.

Border colors: Users can now pick the color and style of cell borders. This features is accessible as an added option through the cell borders toolbar button.

Google's store is just 25,000 applications away, putting it within striking distance of overtaking Apple's App Store.

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Apple's App Store has always offered the most apps to users. But that could change.

Google announced yesterday that its Google Play store now offers 675,000 applications. Apple announced earlier this month that its store had 700,000 applications available.

iOS 6 has finally launched, bringing with it a slew of new features. Here are some of the best tips and tricks for you.

(Credit: Screenshot by Jason Cipriani/CNET)

iOS 6 was first previewed during Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference last June, revealing a few big changes, and many more minor tweaks to the operating system that powers the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch.

You'll need to update to iOS 6 before you can take advantage of the new features, so be sure you've done that before diving into the new features. Here are just a few of the best features and how to use them. We'll continue updating this page with more tips and tricks as we have them.

Many times, we are frustrated when our computers break down and when we have to re-install our operating system (OS) from scratch. It is even problematic when we have no original media (CD/DVD) containing device drivers for our system.

But with many people trying to help eachother, there are hundreds of websites which offers download of various device drivers. While some provide free download, some website charge nominal fee for the download. Beside third party download sites, the original manufacturers usually provide all up-to-date device drivers from their official outlet.

If we want to upgrade OS to some newer version, the devices might not be supported by the old drivers and we need to find specific drivers compatible to our preferred version of OS.

If you have upgraded from previous Windows version to the latest Microsoft's Windows 8, you may not probably be able to get your local server get to work.

When you try to start Apache, you will get error saying the port 80 is being used by other applications. After trying to dig into so many queries, I found that the World Wide Web Publishing in Windows 8 service is using that default server port 80.

Therefore, open your "Services" window and disable that WWW service. After disabling that service, Apache server in local server package like XAMPP or AMPPS works flawlessly.

Microsoft is working hard to convince developers to make apps for Windows 8

Some Windows 8 laptops and PCs could end up running more Android apps than ones written for Microsoft's software.

Gadgets built around chips made by AMD will come optimised to run the Android apps.

A collaboration between AMD and software firm Bluestacks lets the devices run the 500,000 apps more usually found on Android phones.

Microsoft has a brand-new logo to go with all the brand-spankin' new products it's got coming this fall.

Gone are the wavy edges of the old logo. The new design is one squared-away logo: the colors remain the same, and in the same order, but now they're enclosed in a square box. Equilateral sides, 90-degree angles.

The new system includes a Metro interface designed for touch gesture controls

Microsoft has launched the most complete preview yet of its forthcoming Windows 8 operating system.

The company said that tens of thousands of improvements have been made to what it calls the most important redesign of its interface since Windows 95.

Consumers can now download the release preview of Windows 8, a system which Microsoft says is its most tested operating system ever.

If Google detects that your site has been compromised, Google will tell you about it in Webmaster Tools (to ensure that you're notified quickly, you can have your Message Center messages forwarded to your email account). If the hacker inserted malware into your site, Google also identify your site as infected in our search results to protect other users.

If your site has been hacked or infected with malware, you should act quickly to repair the damage. Google recommends reviewing the recommendations provided by the organization antiphishing.org.

Whatever your platform or type of infection, Google recommends the following steps:

Ad-Aware is a name that many longtime Windows watchers will recognize, but that's about all that remains from previous versions as it gets a stern-to-stem overhaul.

As the social network sweeps clean all bogus activity, page fan counts drop by the tens of thousands.

Metric data on Facebook's top pages by fan counts and their daily growth.

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The purge has commenced. Facebook is throwing out all fake users, accounts, and likes. That's right, all of those thousands of questionable thumbs ups are starting to disappear.

The social network announced last month that it'd start this massive deletion process, but it was unclear when. According to TechCrunch, Facebook confirmed today that the time is now.

Facebook releases its own Desktop messenger. You can now chat from your desktop like any other messenger. Like Yahoo! Messenger, MSN Messenger or Google Talk, you can now chat with your friends without having to open your web browser. You just need account on Facebook to avail this great tool.

4 April, 2013 - Bhutan Telecom Ltd., one of the oldest ISPs and Telecommunications service providers in Bhutan announced today that to use its new 4G (Long Term Evolution (LTE) services, clients need new SIM cards for their devices or USB data cards. In its first official announcement on 4G LTE services, it mentioned that the first 4G LTE station will be deployed in Chubachhu (their office premises) and above Motithang Higher Secondary School in Thimphu. These stations will be the first two for 4G LTE in Bhutan where users within 0.5 - 1km will be able access the service.

30 March 2013 - SEACOM, the company that owns the submarine fiber optic cable that links to London via Egypt said they have restored to the full capacity. It affected internet speed with submarine cable cut by 3 drivers in Egypt which the Egypt police forces said they have arrested.

While close to normal internet speeds were restored, yesterday, affected users say more redundancy is required.

The two-day internet slowdown, which began on Wednesday and particularly affected businesses dependent on internet access, was the result of a severed undersea internet cable that links Bhutan to a point of presence in the United Kingdom.  It was one of two links that connects Bhutan to the internet.  The other is to Hong Kong.

(Original title: Bhutan Telecom partners with Ericsson for first LTE deployment in the country)

• Ericsson to deploy country’s first LTE network
• Pilot Commercial LTE services initially to be launched in Bhutan’s capital city, Thimphu
• With the introduction of LTE, Bhutan Telecom will be able to offer higher peak data rates and scalable bandwidth with increased spectral efficiency
• Subscribers will enjoy faster mobile data speeds, with an enhanced overall user experience

Bhutan Telecom (BT) is the largest telecom operator in the Kingdom of Bhutan and has partnered with Ericsson since 2003 to roll out mobile services in the country. 3G services were launched in 2008 and LTE will be implemented this year. Ericsson is proud to partner with BT to deploy LTE for the first time in the Kingdom. With this, the operator will be able to offer higher peak data rates, scalable bandwidth and benefit from increased spectral efficiency. Bhutan Telecom subscribers will enjoy faster data speeds and an enhanced user experience. Commercial LTE services will initially be launched in Bhutan’s capital city, Thimpu.