Julian Assange, founder of the Wikileaks whistleblowing site, has agreed a deal with British newspaper The Telegraph to publish cables that have been sent to the website after suffering a breakdown in his collaboration with The Guardian. At the end of last year, Assange met with Rudolf Elmer, a former senior executive at Swiss bank Julius Baer, to take possession of secret documents that would expose a number of high-profile banks that are thought to have engaged in tax evasion, using offshore schemes and money-laundering....

Saturday saw over 1,000 cities worldwide swept by Occupy Protests, as the movement has gone global, and London was certainly no exception. London’s financial district attracted over 3,000 protesters, among them none other than Julian Assange, taking part in Occupy London Stock Exchange, or OccupyLSX. Your Anon Newsposted images of Julian Assangearriving at the protest sporting an Anonymous mask, along with images without, proving that it was in fact the Wikileaks founder....

Julian Assange is to be extradited to Sweden for further questioning on allegations of sexual offences, a London judge has ruled. Howard Riddle, the chief magistrate, delivered his ruling at at Belmarsh magistrates court hearing in London. Assange will have seven days to appeal the decision or face extradition in ten days. Assange’s case was adjourned until today, after Assange attended Belmarsh magistrates court on January 11. He was granted a slight amendment to his bail conditions, allowing him to reside at a different address in London, not the Norfolk mansion where he had been staying during the course of his bail....

Apps dominate the pitches here at the Techonomy conference today, which makes one startup’s brightly coloured gadget stand out all the more. TheJumboardis a USB keyboard sporting just four large buttons, designed to make computers easily accessible to very young children. Accompanied by a Web app that provides educational games designed specifically for use with the keyboard, it’s designed to transform your computer into a pre-schooler’s favourite hi-tech toy. Aimed at ages 1 to 4, the Jumboard has been developed by a husband and wife team from Israel....

Apple’s ‘advertising app within an app’ format, iAd hasn’t quite taken off in the manner it might havejust yet, but a new offering from Switzerland’sKooabacould help make the format a bit more useful by linking iAds to print ads. Kooaba’sPaperboy appuses image recognition to identify a page in a magazine or newspaper, before displaying relevant content as determined by the publisher. Now the Swiss startup has integrated iAd support, meaning that advertisers can direct people from their print ads straight to an interactive iAd simply by means of taking a picture with Paperboy....