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China Without Google: A Lose-Lose Scenario
No maps, less music: China without Google could see loss for surfers, industry. China without Google -- a prospect that looks increasingly likely -- could mean no more maps on mobile phones. A free music service that has helped to fight piracy might be in jeopardy. China's fledgling Web outfits would face less pressure to improve, ...
Geeks Gang up on on Twitter at SXSW Again, Dis Interviewer of Twitter CEO
The South by Southwest crowd was the source of another public stoning on Monday when Harvard Business Review's Umair Haque, author of the The Awesomeness Manifesto," was anything but awesome. Geeks attending the widely anticipated interview with Twitter CEO and founder Evan Williams protested with their feet and their tweets, departing en masse and digitally broadcasting ...
Secret Document Calls Wikileaks Threat to U.S. Army
Wikileaks presents a threat to the U.S. Army and publishes potentially actionable information for targeting military personnel, according to a classified intelligence report posted Monday on the whistleblowing site. The 32-page report entitled Wikileaks.org An Online Reference to Foreign Intelligence Services, Insurgents, or Terrorist Groups? (.pdf) indicates the governments concern that current employees or moles within ...
Apple Details Super-Simple Ipad 3g Data Sign-Up
The trickle of new iPad information continues with these details of the contract-free 3G data plan. It looks about as painless as it could possibly be: you don't even have to deal with AT&T. Once you have your iPad with 3G, you can sign up from within the iPad settings: fill out your credit card details, ...
FCC Chief's Broadband Goals in His Words
Since Julius Genachowski became chairman of the Federal Communications Commission last year, his main priority has been overhauling the government's strategy for expanding high-speed Internet access. Genachowski, who has been an executive and investor in technology companies, argues that people who lack fast Internet connectivity have fewer economic opportunities. He also says the entire nation ...
China Warns Google over Search Censorship
Talks with China over censorship have reached an apparent impasse and Google, the worlds largest search engine, is now 99.9 percent certain to shut its Chinese search engine, the Financial Times said on Saturday. A Google spokeswoman would neither confirm nor deny the report to Wired.com, saying only, We cant confirm that story. Google also declined ...
Middle East: Iran and Arab Countries "Enemies of the Internet"
As of last week, the advocacy organization Reporters Without Borders counted nearly 120 bloggers, journalists and others behind bars for their online activities more than any other time since the creation of the Internet. On Saturday, that number went up by 30 when Iranian authorities announced the arrest of an alleged U.S.-backed “cyber network." Members of ...
You're Leaving a Bacterial Fingureprint on Your Keyboard
The bacterial communities that live on human skin may form a bacterial fingerprint on the items that you touch. In a new study led by microbiologists Rob Knight and Noah Fierer of the University of Colorado, Boulder, researchers swabbed three different keyboards and nine mice for bacteria, then compared the genomic variation between the communities to ...
SXSW: Twitter Ceo Launches @anywhere to Tepid Audience Reaction
Twitter CEO Evan Williams announced a new app platform Monday that will integrate the service into the rest of the web. Dubbed @anywhere, the simple script empowers sites to link web content to Twitter accounts that users can follow without leaving the site. Williams told a massive crowd at South by Southwest that participating sites can ...
Why Google Buzz Isn't Labeled 'Beta' and Why It Sort of is Anyway
For the latter half of the last decade, Google software was synonymous with the word “beta." Gmail, the company's Web-based e-mail client, carried the beta label for more than five years -- finally dropping the descriptor in July. What does it mean, and why do so few recent Google services start off with it? For a ...
