Posted from Wikileaks’ website Wikileaks.org, intends to file a case againts the two known credit card companies Visa and Mastercard.

Wikileaks with its credit card processing partner Datacell have just announced their intent to file suit in the EU against the mentioned companies for blocking donations last year.

Paypal also cut-off donations process for Wikileaks the organization last year.

From the post of the whistle-blowing site, Wikileaks told how much they’ve lost and companies who were pressured by Washington not to provide access to money-transfer services.

For six months now, five major US financial institutions, VISA, MasterCard, PayPal, Western Union and the Bank of America have tried to economically strangle WikiLeaks as a result of political pressure from Washington. The attack has blocked over 90% of the non-profit organization’s donations, costing some $15M in lost revenue. The attack is entirely outside of any due process or rule of law. In fact, in the only formal review to occur, the US Secretary of the Treasury, Timothy C. Geithner found, on January 12, that there were no lawful grounds to add WikiLeaks to a financial blockade.

Cut-off from donation and money-transfer services were not just one of their problem last year, one of those are being dropped by Amazon its webhost and even lost their domain name Wikileaks.org which then became inaccessible for a quite long time. (I just learned today that their domain just returned.)

Paypal and Amazon was not mentioned in the case filed by Wikileaks.

Whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks holds that the PayPal and Visa blocks count as “anti-competitive” and violate Article 101 (1) and 102 of the EU competition laws, seeking to file a complaint in the Danish Maritime and Commercial Court.

The complaint papers is yet to be filed.

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Kathryn Bigelow, the Oscar-winning director of The Hurt Locker, has revealed that she is working on a movie about the hunt for Osama bin Laden and has, in fact, been for some time.

While it was known that Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal – who also worked on ‘The Hurt Locker’ – had been planning a film about the hunt for the elusive fugitive for some time, news that they were honing in on the elite unit has come as a surprise. Boal has been following the unit for some time and is said to be writing a script based on their activities.

Whether this will be the ‘difficult second film’ no doubt depends on whether the critics continue their patriotic feelings towards last weekend’s events into next year. Shooting is expected to mobilise this summer with the 2013 Oscars in mind.. According to Deadline, he is now planning a rewrite to include detailed minutiae of the successful raid on the Pakistan compound where Bin Laden was eventually killed.Talk about spectacular timing. The film, currently casting under the working title ‘Kill bin Laden’, is based on an earlier unsuccessful mission to assassinate the Al Qaeda leader who was killed by Navy SEALs (Sea, Air and Land) in Pakistan on Sunday

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Criminals web domains may be counting days as Serious and Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) will place a public debate with stakeholders pertaining to website shut down.

Last year, SOCA have planned to authorized Nominet in shutting down alleged website used by criminals for their operation. Nominet is currently responsible in overseeing the .uk domains.

In the upcoming public debate, SOCA wanted to formally authorized the Nominet in shutting down websites. Public will be given an opportunity to suggest names until February.

SOCA, Nominet and the balanced group of stakeholders that will be formed would discuss the policy and its implications and will be finalized by March 2, 2011. The head of the organized group will be targeting seller of fake goods or which were engaged in other criminal activity.

The formed group will debate whether domain registrars can make money or analyze traffic to sites that are defunct.

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Hewlett-Packard, launched their WebOS powered tablet and joined the bandwagon of mobile market with a slew of products based on its own operating system.

One of the leading technology companies have joined the increasing number of companies battling with Apple’s iPad, Google’s Android-powered machines and RIM’s Playbook.

HP TouchPad to compete with Apple's iPad

Since HP considered Google a competitor in this market, HP developed the TouchPad based on the webOS operating system which was developed by Palm and bought by HP last year for $1.2bn (£745m).

Todd Bradley, executive vice president of HP’s personal systems group, told during interview,

“Our intention with webOS devices is to transform how people think, how they feel and how they connect,”

Aside from TouchPad, there are also two phones that will also powered by webOS. The Veer, which was billed as an alternative to “jumbo phones”, is about the size of a credit card with a 2.6 inch screen and 8 gigabytes of storage.

Charles Golvin with Forrester research says,

“HP is unique now in that it owns a software platform they can add today as an addendum and tomorrow as a substitute for Windows, but that is not true for a host of others from Toshiba and Sony to Dell and Lenovo.

“But it does mean that, in the long term, Microsoft’s ability to dictate the experience on PC’s is going to be weakened for its vendors for the foreseeable future.”

With the increasing competition, there has been a rumor that Apple will be launching iPad 2 in the coming months.

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Former Pres. Joseph “Erap” Estrada expressed his condolence to the family of former Defense secretary Angelo Reyes, the man who have a huge contribution for his depose as the President in 2001.

Erap remembers Reyes as a 'good general'

Estrada says,

“I extend my deepest condolences to the family of Gen. Angelo Reyes. In spite of what happened at EDSA Dos, I will always remember him as a good general,”

“I pray for the eternal repose of his soul,”

Estrada’s administration was responsible for assigning Reyes as chief of the Armed Forces in July 1999 and also stood as a principal sponsor at the wedding of Reyes’ son Jett in 2000.

The controversial former AFP Chief held various cabinet positions during the former Pres. Arroyo administration. Reyes, held four Cabinet positions during nine-year Arroyo administration. Reyes, took his own life Tuesday in an apparent suicide in front of his mother’s grave at the Loyola Memorial Park in Marikina City.

The former AFP Chief and Secretary of National Defense was accused of amassing millions of pesos while serving as chief of staff and even upon his retirement from the service in March 2001 which he categorically denied.

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The recently concluded UFC 126 fight’s main event was sealed by Anderson Silva leaving his most dangerous threat with a kick. Vitor Belfort just said “He caught me with a great kick,” said Belfort. “Anderson Silva is a great fighter. I’ll be back.”

Anderson Silva retains title after defeating Vitor Belfort in UFC 126 main event

In the main event fight between Anderson Silva and Vitor Belfort, Silva immediately knocked out Belfort in the first round to keep his title for the eighth time. The UFC 126 was held at the Mandalay Bay Events Center.

In Silva’s post-fight interview, he says, “That’s just one of the tricks I was working on,” who ended his fight with Belfort with a spectacular front kick to the chin.

“He caught me with a great kick,” said Belfort. “Anderson Silva is a great fighter. I’ll be back.”

Aside from the main event, here are also the results of  preliminary UFC 126 fights Forrest Griffin def. Rich Franklin via unanimous decision, Jon Jones def. Ryan Bader via submission (guillotine choke), Jake Ellenberger def. Carlos Eduardo Rocha via split decision and Miguel Torres def. Antonio Banuelos via unanimous decision.

Meanwhile, you can still check the from the UFC website the UFC 126 post fight conference videos below.

There were also Fight of the Night bonuses which are:

$75,000 fight-night bonuses:

- Fight of the Night: Donald Cerrone and Paul Kelly
- Submission of the Night: Jon Jones
- Knockout of the Night: Anderson Silva

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