How not to impress your boss
Information spreads fast in the social media era. So if you are going to show off your new top-secret prototype gadget like show and tell at elementary school, you might want to think twice about taking it to the local tavern. Apple’s, Gray Powell, found this out the hard way after losing his precious iPhone […]
Knowing what they don’t want others to know
A recent development in Internet openness by a major search engine may forever change the partnership of secrecy between state searches and net giants. Google recently published a list of government requests for information and pages to be censored from the Internet. This list includes over 40 countries writes the BBC, with Brazil leading the […]
The First Tweet and the American Declaration of Independence
You know you are in the Information Age when a historical infant, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s first tweet from 2006, is shelved next to a historical giant, the American Declaration of Independence, at the US Library of Congress in Washington D.C. The revelation of Twitter’s rapid rise through history has been covered in media outlets […]
Work and browse without getting caught
Anyone who has been busted surfing the net at work will surely find some value in this. While we don’t want to encourage any substandard work behavior at DT, a new program, Decreased Productivity, gives browsers the technology to stay one step ahead of an overzealous over-the-shoulder looking employer, and gives us an interesting cultural […]
Facebook copyright nearly settled
For all those arguing for an Internet free of copyright and a utopia of knowledge, think how you would feel if one of your bright ideas was turned into billions of dollars and you didn’t receive a penny. That’s how the Winklevoss brothers, Cameron and Tyler, use to feel but not for much longer. [linebreak] […]
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