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Supreme Court Takes 'Informational Privacy' Case
The U.S. Supreme Court is agreeing to decide how much personal information the federal bureaucracy may acquire on its workers. The justices, without comment, decided Monday to review a lower-court decision surrounding the concept of so-called “informational privacy." The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco struck down intrusive background checks last year on ...
10 Years After: A Look Back at the Dotcom Boom and Bust
On March 10, 2000, the Nasdaq peaked at 5,048.62. Then it promptly nose-dived, never to see that level again. Here's a look back at the era that launched -- and crushed -- a million dreams. No ecommerce company has ever made a profit. Certainly we will, and the analysts have us making a profit in 2001. ...
Watch Rip: A Remix Manifesto Free Online
Snag Films is an innovative site that offers 1000+ documentaries available for free streaming and RIP: A Remix Manifesto has just been added to an extensive collection of music related films. In RIP, filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and ...
Is Apple Getting Ready to Boot "Cookie-Cutter" Apps out of the App Store?
Is Apple prepping a heavy hand to combat lookalike applications on its App Store? That's the rumor being put forth by sharp-eyed readers who took note of a rather interesting blog post by Mobile Roadie founder Michael Schneider. Mobile Roadie is a service based on one simple tagline, “The simple and inexpensive way for anyone to ...
WBGO Launches iPhone Application
WBGO Jazz 88.3FM has just launched an iPhone application that will allow jazz fans to enjoy WBGO's classic jazz, blues and R&B 24-hours a day, where ever they may roam. Available online at the iTunes Music Store at no cost, the application connects listeners to the live stream from the premier jazz station, member supported radio ...
Music Could Mean $300 Million to Isp's Says Study
A new study titled “Is There A Commercial Argument For ISP Music Services" commissioned by the BPI and carried out by industry analyst Ovum, concludes that if the if the top ISPs in the UK embraced music subscriptions, they could generate new revenues of 103 million ($106M US) by 2013. The study used a medium adoption ...
Four in Five Consider Web Access a Fundamental Right
Four in five adults believe access to the Internet is a fundamental right with those feelings particularly strong in South Korea and China and half believe it should never be regulated, according to a global survey. A poll of 27,000 adults in 26 countries for the BBC World Service showed 78 percent of internet users believed ...
China Will Punish Hackers if Complaint Filed
China has pledged to punish hackers who attacked Google if there is evidence to prove it, but said it has yet to receive any complaint from the world's top search engine. Google sent shockwaves across business and political circles in January when it declared it would stop censoring Chinese search results, and threatened to pull out ...
The Echo Nest Gets $500,000 Grant from National Science Foundation
Music recommendation platform The Echo Nest has been awarded a $500,000 Phase IIB SBIR grant from the National Science Foundation. Since 2005, The Echo Nest has been indexing and analyzing music fan activity across the web. The NSF-funded project, entitled “Automated Community and Sentiment Mining for Global Media Preference Understanding" will augment the company's existing “Fanalytics" ...
