As Tension Mounts, LinkedIn Knocked Offline in China

Business social-networking site LinkedIn has been unavailable in some parts of China since Thursday, suggesting it may have fallen victim to the country’s increased crackdown on online discussion sites. Pings sent to LinkedIn.com from the Chinese cities of Shanghai and Beijing weren’t returned wh...

Old and Insecure, IE6 Still Popular in the Enterprise

Conventional wisdom has it that Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Web browser is on the way out: succumbing to the death of thousand cuts administered by plucky rivals like Mozilla’s Firefox, Google’s Chrome and even Opera. But data from Web security firm zScaler shows that the Old Blue Lady of the W...