Tag archive: Barbados

It’s a major discovery, a cyber spy network that’s infected 1,295 computers in 103 countries, according to the Information Warfare Monitor (IWM), which is made up of researchers from Ottawa-based think tank SecDev Group and the University of Toronto's Munk Centre for International Studies. That might not seem like a lot of computers, but those machines are in foreign ministries and embassies. The discovery occurred after… Read More

In a bit of a blow to Microsoft's efforts to have its Open Office XML (OOXML) document format ratified as an international standard, members of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) failed to turn in enough "yes" votes to fast-track OOXML's approval process. Of the 41 participating and observing members eligible to vote on the Joint Technical Committee 1, 17 voted in favor of fast-tracking OOXML,… Read More

In what may be an important move to reconcile modern Western society with its slave-owning past, genealogy and family history site Ancestry.co.uk has launched an online archive with the historical records of nearly 100,000 slaves owned by British colonists in Barbados during the early 1800s. “With few relevant collections online, it has not been easy for those with ancestors from former British colonies or territories to research… Read More