Friday, November 20, 2009
Google Removes Offensive Obama Image; Was It Justified?
Saying the host site was serving malware to users, Google has removed a controversial photo of First Lady Michelle Obama from Google Image Search.
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
China’s Cyberwars
China’s military is under attack. At least its Web site is…from hackers.
In a sign that China’s Ministry of National Defense faces the same kind of Internet security challenges that militaries around the world have reported, its new Web site was attacked more than 2.3 million times within a month of its August launch. The state-run People’s Daily newspaper reported that revelation Wednesday in an interview with the editor-in-chief of the Chinese defense department’s site, Ji Guilin.
Congress Cracks Down on (Its Own) File-Sharing
The use of peer-to-peer networks for sharing files has come under fire during recent months, including the dismantling of Swedish BitTorrent site Pirate Bay, but it turns out even members of Congress need to be kept in check over their file-sharing practices.
New California Rules to Make TVs Greener
California created the nation’s first energy-efficiency standard for television sets, arguing that it needed to act because federal energy officials have been slow to confront the issue.
Under the standard adopted Wednesday by the California Energy Commission, no TV with a screen size less than 58 inches may be sold in the state after 2011 unless it meets limits on energy consumption.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Feds Mull Rules, Fees to Spur Net Access
Federal regulators are considering whether the government should take greater control of the Internet and ask consumers to pay higher phone charges in order to provide all Americans with cheaper access to broadband Internet service.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
China Needn’t Surpass U.S., Intel CTO Says
China’s factories have long churned out high tech products. A big question facing Silicon Valley–underscored in a survey released Monday by Intel and Newsweek–is how big a role the country will play in dreaming up those gadgets.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Egypt Grabs First Arabic Domain Name
On the first day that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers opened registration for non-Latin script domains, Egypt says it has seized the opportunity to register the first all-Arabic domain name.
Friday, November 13, 2009
A Blogger Briefing Ahead of Obama’s China Trip
China’s bloggers are a focus of organizers of the President Barack Obama’s upcoming visit, echoing similar efforts by the administration to use social-media tools to communicate with Americans.
IT Spending’s Role in the Economy
Efforts to reform the U.S. health-care and bank lending systems are likely to lead to an increase in information-technology spending, said one potential beneficiary, Sudhakar Ram, chairman of IT firm Mastek.
Overhauling the country’s IT systems could cost as much as $250 billion to $300 billion over five to seven years, he said in an interview.
Apocalypse Then
In 1993, a tech consultant named Peter de Jager wrote an article for Computerworld with the headline “Doomsday 2000.”
Thursday, November 12, 2009
As Alternative Energy Grows, NIMBY Turns Green
Painting the Golden Gate Bridge yellow might cause less fuss than trying to install a wind farm off Cape Cod’s historic coast.
Convicted Murderer to Wikipedia: Shhh!
In 1990, Bavarian actor Walter Sedlmayr was brutally murdered.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
From EFF’s Secret Files: Anatomy of a Bogus Subpoena
Can the U.S. government secretly subpoena the IP address of every visitor to a political website? No, but that didn’t stop it from trying.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Yahoo Lands on China’s “Vulgar Content” List
The China Internet Illegal Information Reporting Center has released the latest list of “vulgar content” offenders (in Chinese). This time, Google escaped mention–but Yahoo China and a popular real-estate portal, Soufun, did not.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Wireless Tech Taking a Toll on Earth Science and Astronomy
Nearly lost amidst the breathless anticipation of all things wireless–whether it’s the latest smart phone, free Internet hot spot or GPS navigation system–is the potential impact these gadgets may have on scientific instruments that likewise need access to the electromagnetic spectrum.
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