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Please Rob Me: The Dangers of Online Oversharing
The Dangers of Online Oversharing. Think before you tweet. You might not be aware of how much information you're revealing. That's the message from the founders of Please Rob Me, a website launched on Tuesday that illustrates just how easy it is to rob people blind on the basis of the information they're posting on the ...
It's Official: Google Can Sell Power Like a Utility
The Federal Regulatory Energy Commission has granted Google Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary of the search giant, the right to behave like a utility. The order grants Google Energy the power to sell energy, capacity and services at market rates. Why does Google want to do this? Right now, the company rakes in billions of dollars ...
Glimpse the Wireless Future of Transportation
The coming convergence of how we communicate and how we travel is spawning technologies that will change how we get around and make transportation safer and more efficient, at the same time. The promise of vehicles communicating with each other and with the road, coupled with advancements in transportation infrastructure, has planners, technocrats and futurists creating ...
Survey: 30% of U.S. Never Use the Net
Can the music industry afford to ignore 30% of its potential customer base? A new survey by The Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration shows that 30% of U.S. consumers do not access the internet, but for most it's not because they don't want to. When asked why they have no Internet connection at ...
Adobe Photoshop Celebrates 20 Years
Hard as it may be to believe today, once upon a time you had to take your pictures carefully and develop them with even greater care; a lost memory then was truly lost. But all that started to change 20 years ago on Friday, when the first version of Photoshop was released, and began to usher ...
Feds Can Search, Seize P2P Files Without Warrant
The authorities do not need court warrants to view and download files traded on peer-to-peer networks, a federal appeals court says. Wednesdays 3-0 ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals concerned a Nevada man convicted of possessing child pornography as part of an FBI investigation. Defendant Charles Borowy claimed the Fourth Amendment required court ...
Musicians Slowly Migrate to Mobile
In an effort not to get left behind in the next digital shift from desktop to mobile (like they almost were in the shift from CD to MP3), musicians are starting to proactively look at ways to get onto cell phones. MySpaces iLike built tools for artists to easily design their own iPhone apps. The concept ...
Shazam Adds Tour Dates, Pandora, Last.FM
Mobile music discovery provider Shazam announced enhancements to its popular Shazam Encore and RED Apps on the iPhone App Store. With the enhanced version users can access tour information for tagged artists, the Shazam Blog and the ability to use Pandora and Last.fm to create Internet radio stations. With Pandora or Last.fm, Shazam users can create ...
Privacy Watchdog Files Complaint with FTC over Google Buzz
The Electronic Privacy Information Center has filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, alleging that Google Inc.s new social networking service Buzz violates federal consumer protection law. It is urging the FTC to open an investigation into the service because it “violated user expectations, diminished user privacy, contradicted Google's privacy policy, and may have violated ...
The Wired iPad App: A Video Demonstration?
[Editors note: I find it odd, interesting that Wired magazine in all their zeal to announce their new Apps for the Apple iPad, present this article in a video demonstration written in Flash, while all the while Flash won't play on any Apple mobile, as this would not open on my iPhone. Seems the battle between ...
