Libya Cuts Internet Access for Several Hours

Internet access in Libya was severed for several hours this weekend, as protestors took to the streets to demand an end to the 40-year reign of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.On Friday night, Internet monitoring firm Renesys said in a blog post that "Libya is off the Internet."The same night, Matt Cutts, head of Google's webspam team, tweeted that "queries from Libya to Google have dropped enormously." He posted a link toGoogle's Transparency Report, which allows users to drill down ...

Facebook Chat in Hotmail Rolls Out Globally

Microsoft announced Monday that Facebook chat is now available to Hotmail users worldwide, wherever Facebook has a presence.Microsoft first added Facebook chat to Hotmail back in September, but at that point it was only available in six regions. Several weeks ago, the feature went global via Windows Live Messenger, and it is now available everywhere via Hotmail, too."And while Gmail beat us to bringing their own chat into the inbox, we have now gone a step further and brought both our own ...