Startpage – the new privacy engine pits speed versus need
Web users looking for greater privacy in their web browsing have a new search engine to choose from, Startpage. Operating as an Internet middleman, the engine keeps no records of searchers and filters queries through its own scrambler, so-to-speak, before passing the information to the anonymous user. The media frenzy surrounding China’s state surveillance of […]
The future is here
If you have been watching late night news in the past few days, you no doubt will have encountered some type of coverage of Apple’s latest device, the iPad. Naming problems aside (I am reminded here of Mad TV’s skit involving an iRaq, a shelf, and an iRan, a shoe) the question is will this […]
Hacking Row Continues – Yahoo joins the gallery
As this row enters its second week, I wonder when, or if, the teeth of Google will ever show and their words turn to action. Everyone from Yahoo to the US government has denounced the overuse of China’s spy ware on American based search engines, but little has been done in terms of censuring the […]
Google Tax: France considers promoting culture by taxing search engines outside of France
Video killed the radio star and the Internet killed print news. But not necessarily. The French may have an answer to Canada’s print media’s revenue woes. While CRTC regulations about ownership in Canada continue to be challenged by media conglomerates alleging they cannot compete, the government of France is proposing a new tax, a public […]
Google threatens to leave China over hacking
No one likes having someone read over his or her shoulder. While it most often amounts to little more than an annoyance and a sour ‘excuse me’, when that reading involves personal information or the information of people at risk, there is need for concern. This past week the BBC revealed that several web addresses […]
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