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Owners of the iPhone and the iPod Touch can now access Wikipedia at any time. Independent of connectivity or wireless signal, nearly three million articles are being boasted to fit into Encyclopedia the mobile app. - http://transnets.tumblr.com/post...
Our digital security problems start with ordinary computer users who do not take security seriously. Their computers can be infiltrated and used as vehicles for attacks on military or corporate systems. They are also often the first place that adversaries go to steal credentials or identify targets as a prelude to larger attacks. President Obama... - http://participolis.tumblr.com/post...
Today Apple pulled an application from its iPhone App store that was reported to include a nude photo of a fifteen year old girl. Prohibited content is feared to be a major weakness in Apple’s App Store, and this incident has effectively placed that fear in the spotlight. The app is BeautyMeter from Braun Software, and users upload images of... - http://transnets.tumblr.com/post...
Facing strong resistance at home and abroad, China on Tuesday delayed enforcement of a new rule requiring manufacturers to install Internet filtering software on all new computers. The delay by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology was announced through Xinhua, the official news agency, one day before the July 1 deadline for the... - http://transnets.tumblr.com/post...
Bing, launched on June 3 but available to some users a few days earlier, took 8.23 percent of U.S. Web searches in June, up from 7.81 percent for Microsoft search just prior to its rollout and 7.21 percent in April, said Internet data firm StatCounter. Google lost share slightly, dipping to 78.48 percent from 78.72 percent before Bing. Yahoo Inc,... - http://transnets.tumblr.com/post...
Software company Global Gaming Factory X (GGF) says it is in the process of acquiring The Pirate Bay and file-sharing technology company Peerialism. GGF claims to have the biggest network of internet cafés and gaming centers in the world. The changeover of ownership is scheduled for August 2009, whereby GGF will take over the operation of the... - http://transnets.tumblr.com/post...
Check the source” may be the first rule of journalism. But in the coverage of the protests in Iran this month, some news organizations have adopted a different stance: publish first, ask questions later. If you still don’t know the answer, ask your readers. CNN showed scores of videos submitted by Iranians, most of them presumably from protesters... - http://transnets.tumblr.com/post...
Steve Jobs is back at work at Apple Inc., returning to his job as chief executive officer as planned after taking medical leave in January. “Steve is back to work,” said Steve Dowling, a spokesman at the Cupertino, California-based company. Jobs is at Apple a few days a week and working from home the rest of the time, he said. “We are very glad to... - http://transnets.tumblr.com/post...
In any debate on the importance of the free flow of accurate information, even in the face of resultant problems, you’d expect the New York Times and Wikipedia to line up on the same side, strongly pro flow. Now we have an idea of the circumstances required for them to make an exception. - http://transnets.tumblr.com/post...
Shortly after Neda Agha-Soltan bled her life out on the Tehran pavement, the man whose 40-second video of her death has ricocheted around the world made a somber calculation in what has become the cat-and-mouse game of evading Iran’s censors. He knew that the government had been blocking Web sites like YouTube and Facebook. Trying to send the... - http://participolis.tumblr.com/post...
Traditional search engine marketing seeks to draw the attention of people searching for particular terms in Google, Yahoo, or other search engines. And that’s going to continue to be useful for a long time. But the rise of Facebook creates a growing segment of the web that’s completely invisible to search engines - most of which, Facebook blocks -... - http://transnets.tumblr.com/post...
The adoption cycle for Twitter is a bit strange. It goes something like this: Ever-increasing waves of hype, links, and attention bring in the newbies to Twitter.com where they get their first taste of Twitterdom. Some portion of those set up an account out of curiosity or a fear of being left behind. They try sending out a few Tweets, look... - http://transnets.tumblr.com/post...
Mr. Moussavi does not have a political organization to rally, and during the height of the unrest he attracted a large following more because of whom he opposed — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — than because of what he stood for, political analysts said. - http://participolis.tumblr.com/post...
After years of predictions that online communication would empower a free flow of information no authoritarian government could control, world events in recent weeks have underscored that is not always true. The weapon of those who oppose repressive regimes is also one governments can use to silence opponents. Silicon Valley tech companies, widely... - http://participolis.tumblr.com/post...
The government can confront demonstrators with four layers of security forces, all of them answering to the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The first two rings are police officers and the Basij militia. The Basij, a paramilitary militia whose members have varying degrees of military training, is estimated to number about three million... - http://participolis.tumblr.com/post...
Russia favors an international treaty along the lines of those negotiated for chemical weapons and has pushed for that approach at a series of meetings this year and in public statements by a high-ranking official. The United States argues that a treaty is unnecessary. It instead advocates improved cooperation among international law enforcement... - http://participolis.tumblr.com/post...
Skeptics note that only a small number of people used Twitter to organize protests in Iran and that other means — individual text messaging, old-fashioned word of mouth and Farsi-language Web sites — were more influential. But Twitter did prove to be a crucial tool in the cat-and-mouse game between the opposition and the government over enlisting... - http://participolis.tumblr.com/post...
Ask a question. Get an answer. This has been the promise of Google and countless other Web sites that have tried to turn computers into digital librarians, with limited success. Hunch.com, a Web site that opened its doors last week is taking a new approach. Visitors ask a question, and Hunch responds with a few of its own. The idea is to mimic... - http://transnets.tumblr.com/post...
Of all the misguided schemes put forth lately to save newspapers (micropayments! blame Google!), the one put forth by Judge Richard Posner has to be the most jaw-dropping. He suggests that linking to copyrighted material should be outlawed. - http://transnets.tumblr.com/post...
MagicJack works by hooking a standard home phone up to an Internet calling service via a $40 USB jack, which sells via stores like Best Buy, RadioShack, and Walgreen’s. It lets you place and receive unlimited phone calls over the company’s Internet phone network for $20 a year. (First year free.) - http://transnets.tumblr.com/post...
The following is a timeline of how the news of the Prince of Pop’s death traveled across the internet. […] From an internet marketer’s perspective, I found this story fascinating to watch unfold. I was impressed by the speed of information distribution and very surprised to see which site posted the news first. Wikipedia is still the fastest news... - http://transnets.tumblr.com/post...
For the first time, television series with the most viewers are commanding higher advertising rates at TV-viewing Web sites than they are on prime-time TV. Nielsen Co. ranks “The Simpsons” and “CSI” among the highest viewed shows online. Fox TV shows as well as content from NBC, ABC and elsewhere stream for free on Hulu and has popularized the... - http://transnets.tumblr.com/post...
Overall, I am skeptical about the claims that Twitter has been instrumental in organizing the protests. I grant that it may have been very influential in publicizing them. But I’d like to see tangible evidence that 10 random Iranians found each other via Twitter and – communicating in Farsi –actually planned a rally. I think we are still short of... - http://participolis.tumblr.com/post...
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