Copyright, Google and antiquity
A recent story in the European press has revealed that some of the oldest works in the human quiver of knowledge will be added to the e-shelf. Italy’s national library has slated up to one million titles for the scanner box, many of them the original works of philosophy and science pioneers. [linebreak] Standard copyright […]
New media is bad for the brain
While a lot of our site is dedicated to protecting your personal computer, managing your on-line identity, and using the internet to your advantage, we have yet to tackle in depth a growing issue in the on-line world: the impact of internet technologies on your health. [linebreak] A new study has shown that children and […]
New publishing precedent
I don’t think it is the end of Youtube, but it is certainly a bit of a scare. An Italian court made the precedent setting decision to hold three Google executives responsible for invasion of privacy because of video hosted on the popular site. Up until now, web hosts have been exempt from privacy and […]
Thieves follow Twitter too
If you’re leaving your home for the weekend and are thinking about tweeting it you might want to reconsider that it is not only your friends who are savvy on your unprotected castle. There is a website out there, PleaseRobMe.com, that greets visitors with the following: “listing all those empty homes out there.” [linebreak] It […]
Five year-olds given Internet training
I wanted to write about another Google row, (this time between the search engine and Iran), but as I surfed the BBC’s technology website I encountered the following headline: “Online safety push for five-year-olds.” Sure there were other stories about government surveillance, web hacking, hi-tech gadgets, and third world countries laying broadband track – but […]
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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