Internet Companies' Privacy Policies Best Understood By College Grads, Senate Investigates
Region: United Statesby Matthew L. Schafer Note: This report originally appeared on the media blog Lippmann Would Roll. On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Technology held a hearing on Internet privacy. The ... more
Views: 2446Who Controls the Internet? Censorship: from China to Naguib Sawiris
Region: Egypt“The Internet is out of control!” For years, this sentence has been the leitmotiv of every government’s opposition to the Web. Politicians don’t like citizens being empowered and actually us... more
Views: 1415China Never Changed its Coat
Region: China
Having tried to outdo one another in our mercantile exuberance in sharing the bed with China over 20 years, we wake up to find a stranger. A stranger who we had readily accepted, warts and all, in our quest for a sizeable ... more
Views: 1651Microsoft outshines Google
Region: IndiaAccording to annual Business Superbrands Top 500 survey, conducted by The Centre for Brand Analysis (TCBA), Microsoft replaces Google at number one as the leading business brand in the world. Google has slid down to a numb... more
Views: 1021Google Buzz: The Twitter-Yelp-Foursquare-iPhone-Facebook-Killer
Region: California
Today Google unveiled Google Buzz, their latest foray into the increasingly competitive social web. Touting it as a 'new way to share updates, photos, videos and more," Google Buzz looks at first like Google's answe... more
Views: 4423TERROR ATTACK! CIA Tells Congress al-Qaeda to Attack in Three to Six Months…100%
Region: United StatesCIA boss Leon Panetta told Congress today that “homegrown extremists” working for al-Qaeda will strike America in three to six months. The recruits will be “clean” and have no traces to the ... more
Views: 1213Google Tradeoff Between Commercial Gain And Censorship Assistance
Region: United StatesGoogle has been “cooperating” with law enforcement and security agencies all over the World. To perform its cooperating task more adequately it is making every possible effort to get the relevant data of its us... more
Views: 1502Twitter Rank: The Natural Evolution of Twitter Search
Region: United States
In some ways, Twitter search is the blasphemous opposite of Google search. Google analyzes the number of incoming links to a source, and the number of incoming links to those incoming links, and estimates authority based ... more
Views: 2520Is Google Against Privacy And Anonymity Of the Users?
Region: United StatesEric Schmidt recently commented that “If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place. If you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search ... more
Views: 2652Google Set to Join E-Book Fight
Region: United StatesGoogle has revealed its plans to launch Google Editions, an online store to sell e-books. The company says the store will launch in the first half of 2010 with about half a million e-books. The startup e-book store will s... more
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