Assange granted technical leave to appeal

Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange has been granted the right of appeal to the Supreme Court of the UK against his impending extradition to Sweden. Of the two grounds cited in the request for leave to appeal, one was accepted for further consideration, the other rejected.
 

WikiLeaks delays its restart, again

A scheduled London press conference on Monday was cancelled at the last moment, delaying the launch of WikiLeaks' new submission system.
 

Nokia and deadmau5 to illuminate London

400-foot butterflies and a whole bunch of phones are set to dominate the London skyline in a marketing stunt that's nothing if not interesting.
 

Julian Assange - what next?

Having lost his appeal against extradition to Sweden, what next for Julian Assange?
 

Assange extradition decision tonight

The enigmatic founder of Wikileaks Julian Assange will find out around 8:45pm (Australian time) whether he will extradited from Britain to answer questions related to sexual assault allegations in Sweden.
 

Two more SaaS data centres for McAfee

Security provider McAfee has established a data centre in Sydney to deliver cloud-based services to regional customers, and another in London.
 

Financial markets up spending on IT in year ahead

There is a positive outlook for growth in spending on IT in the global financial markets sector next year, with predictions that the sector will increase its spend on IT vendors by 4.5 per cent in 2011.
 

Internode expands global network with London POP

National ISP, Internode, says its network now circles the globe with the establishment of a dedicated Point of Presence (POP) in London, with links from the UK to the US and to Singapore.
 

Virtual Observer integrates multiple mobile video feeds

Street surveillance cameras are commonplace in many cities these days. But a company formed to commercialise the fruits of research at Perth's Curtin University of Technology reckons mobile cameras may be more effective than those commonly used.
 

London, City of Tweets?

The founder of Twitter says that London is the City of Tweets. One London-born Twitter user and iTWire journalist begs to differ.