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Google, Microsoft Push Feds to Fix Privacy Laws
A coalition of the net's biggest online service providers, including Google and Microsoft, are joining with the top internet rights groups to demand Congress modernize the nation's privacy laws. Among the reforms pushed by the so-called Digital Due Process coalition is a requirement that law enforcement get warrants from a judge when they want to force ...
Buyers Guide: Choose the Right Ipad
If you're planning on buying an iPad when it goes on sale this Saturday, you have some deciding to do. Unlike the iPhone, there are six different versions of the iPad, ranging in price from $500 to $830. The three models shipping this weekend are Wi-Fi only, while another three shipping late April include both Wi-Fi ...
Verizon Report Sends Apple Shares to All-Time High
Apple Inc. shares have hit another all-time high now that it appears the iPhone could find a new sales outlet through Verizon Wireless. The Wall Street Journal reported that Apple plans to release an iPhone this year that would work on the network technology used by Verizon Wireless. For now the phone is available only to ...
Lawmakers Ask FTC to Investigate Google Buzz
Lawmakers are urging the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to investigate complaints that Google's Buzz social networking service breached consumer privacy. In a letter to FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz, 11 lawmakers from the House Energy and Commerce Committee asked the agency to look into allegations that Google Inc. disclosed personal information without the consent of its users ...
Apple to Produce Verizon iPphone in September
As many would expect, Apple is developing an iPhone upgrade to debut this summer, according to The Wall Street Journal, but more surprising is the rumor that a Verizon iPhone is in the works as well. WSJ cites sources who were briefed on a CDMA-compatible iPhone being manufactured by Pegatron, a Taiwanese manufacturing subsidiary of Asus. ...
US Concerned over Australia's Internet Filter
The United States has raised concerns with Australia about the impact of a proposed Internet filter that would place restrictions on Web content, an official said Monday. The concerns of Australia's most important security ally further undermine plans that would make Australia one of the strictest Internet regulators among the world's democracies. “Our main message ...
HTML5 for iPad Won't Kill Flash, but Could Change Apps
Publications, media companies and web developers have a new way to provide video on the Flash-free zones that are the iPhone and the impending iPad: using HTML5 to stream video within the Safari browser. Brightcove, which provides an online video backend system for several websites including Wired.com, said Monday that it will help media companies and ...
Browse Apple's App Store in Facebook
iPhone owners hoping to make the process of browsing applications more social will be happy to know that an Apple App Store apphas launched on Facebook. The app, which was developed by social-media company Virtue with some help from Apple's iTunes team, allows users to browse the App Store's entire 170,000- plus application directory from within ...
Analysts Ask if the iPad Can Live up to its Hype
When the Apple iPad goes on sale on Saturday, most of the major questions surrounding the device will have been answered, save for one: can it live up to the hype? Apple fans have breathlessly awaited Apple's entry into the tablet computer market. Since the company unveiled the iPad in late January, investors have jumped on ...
In Spain Internet Piracy is Part of the Culture
Picasso and bullfighting are cultural touchstones in Spain. Now add Internet piracy. The unauthorized downloading and streaming of movies and television shows from the Web is a growing problem for the entertainment industry around the world. In a few key countries such as Spain, however, it has become an epidemic that is forcing movie studios to ...
