The Open Market Blog

• By: Lee Doren
• 03/01/2011

Tech: Windows Intune hits the street March 23: “Microsoft said today that the final version of its Windows Intune cloud-delivered PC management…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 02/28/2011

Tech: Gmail accidentally resetting accounts, years of correspondence: “If you've got a working Gmail account, you might want to back it up every so…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 02/25/2011

Tech: London Stock Exchange Hit by Technical Glitch: The London Stock Exchange suffered a second embarrassing system glitch in a week on Friday…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 02/24/2011

Tech: Google launches Apps certification program for IT pros: “Google has launched a program to certify that staffers at Google Apps resellers have specific…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 02/23/2011

Tech: Amazon Rolls Out Instant Streaming for ‘Prime’ Members: “Amazon.com (AMZN: 180.45, 0.00, 0.00%) on Tuesday announced its highly-rumored video-streaming service for customers subscribing…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 02/18/2011

Senator James Inhofe was recently ambushed by a few Global Warming alarmists. They wanted to know why he opposed their legislative agenda. Unfortunately for the…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 02/18/2011

Tech: Meet the Android Malware That Sucks Your Bandwidth: “Mobile malware is still a fringe development, but it’s not inconceivable that you’d run…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 02/17/2011

Tech: ‘Watson’ the computer creams human ‘Jeopardy!’ champs: “An IBM computer creamed two human champions on the television game show “Jeopardy!” today in…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 02/16/2011

Tech: Computer crushes the competition on ‘Jeopardy!’: “The computer outsmarted its human competition in Game 1 of the Man vs. Machine competition on…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 02/15/2011

Tech: Google Launches Site-Blocking Extension Against Content Farms: “Aimed at stripping search results of pages from “low-quality” sites, a new Google Chrome extension…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 02/14/2011

Tech: FTC Warns About Public Wi-Fi Hotspot Dangers: “The OnGuardOnline.gov website, operated by the Federal Trade Commission, Justice Department, Homeland Security, Commerce Department…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 02/09/2011

Tech: 1Gbps Wi-Fi Soon Coming To a Billion Devices: “Not only is 1Gbps heading for your Wi-Fi network by next year, it will…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 02/08/2011

Tech: China building a city for cloud computing: “China is building a city-sized cloud computing and office complex that will include a mega…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 02/07/2011

Tech: Internet is easy prey for governments: “For all that the revolution in Egypt tells us about the power of…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 02/04/2011

Tech: A Shortage of Power in Data Centers?: “You don’t know what you have until it’s gone, right? If you’ve ever experienced a…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 02/03/2011

Tech: News Corp. Launches Digital Daily: “News Corp. on Wednesday unveiled The Daily, a tablet newspaper that Chairman Rupert Murdoch described as “the…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 02/02/2011

Tech: Google accuses Microsoft on search data: “Google has accused arch-rival Microsoft of plagiarising its internet search results in an attempt to narrow…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 02/01/2011

Tech: 200GB to 25GB: Canada gets first, bitter does of metered Internet: “Metered Internet usage (also called “Usage-Based Billing”) is coming to Canada,…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 01/31/2011

Tech: Without Internet, Egyptians find new ways to get online: “”When countries block, we evolve,” an activist with the group We Rebuild wrote…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 01/28/2011

Tech: Facebook posts mined for court case evidence: “It’s the latest litigation tactic in the online age: U.S. lawyers are trying to mine…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 01/27/2011

Tech: Facebook phones to be unveiled next month: “London-based City A.M. is reporting that Facebook, in conjunction with Taiwanese phone manufacturer HTC, will…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 01/26/2011

Tech: DOJ seeks mandatory data retention requirement for ISPs: “The U.S. Department of Justice and an organization representing police chiefs from around the…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 01/25/2011

Tech: Two-thirds of U.S. Internet users lack fast broadband: “Two-thirds of U.S. Internet connections are slower than 5 Mbps, putting the United States…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 01/24/2011

Tech: Opps: No copied Java code or weapons of mass destruction found in Android: ?Sometimes the sheer wrongness of what is posted on…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 01/21/2011

Tech: Gov will spend 400k pounds to destroy ID card data: “The cost of destroying the personal data collected under the ill-starred programme…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 01/20/2011

Tech: Starbucks launches largest mobile payment program in the US: “Starbucks has started accepting mobile payments. Customers can use the Starbucks Card Mobile…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 01/19/2011

Tech: FCC signs off on Comcast’s bid to control NBC Universal: “Federal regulators signed off on Comcast Corp.’s bid to control NBC Universal,…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 01/18/2011

Tech: Facebook: Goldman Sachs excludes US investors from deal: “Investors from outside America will be able to take part in…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 01/14/2011

Tech: Google Release Chrome 8.0.522, Pays $14,000 in Bug Bounties: “Google has released version 8.0.552.237 of its Chrome browser, which includes fixes for…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 01/13/2011

Tech: Person Tweeting Death Wish for Palin Now Wants Privacy: “Now YouTube is threatening to pull the video because one of the people…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 01/12/2011

Tech: Verizon iPhone Could Double U.S. Mobile Games Industry This Year: “Earlier today, Verizon and Apple finally confirmed what everyone knew was coming:…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 01/11/2011

Tech: Iceland protests to U.S. over Twitter data demand: “Iceland called in the U.S. ambassador in Reykjavik on Monday to register its displeasure…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 01/10/2011

Tech: Twitter endorsements face OFT clampdown: “How does a celebrity declare their affiliations to certain brands in fewer than 140 characters? Many may…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 01/07/2011

Tech: Hackers find new way to cheat on Wall Street – to everyone’s peril: “High-frequency trading networks, which complete stock market transactions in…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 01/06/2011

Tech: HHS is Paying Google with Taxpayer Money to Alter ‘Obamacare’ Search Results (Updated): “The brazenness of the Obama administration never ceases to…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 01/05/2011

Tech: CES 2011 Predictions: 7 Trends To Watch At The World’s Biggest Tech Show: “Las Vegas is currently gearing up for the Consumer…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 01/04/2011

Tech: Court OKs searches of cell phones without warrant: “The California Supreme Court allowed police Monday to search arrestees’ cell phones without a…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 01/03/2011

Tech: The 10 best Android hacks: “The web’s massed fanboy armies will debate the relative merits of iOS and Android until the apocalypse,…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 12/30/2010

Tech: Apple Sued Over Apps Privacy Issues; Google May Be Next: “Two separate groups of iPhone and iPad users have…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 12/29/2010

Tech: Earth project aims to ‘simulate everything’: “An international group of scientists are aiming to create a simulator that can replicate everything happening…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 12/28/2010

Tech: Top Chinese blogger shuts down country’s first pvt magazine: “China’s first private magazine, which was launched by famous blogger Han Han in…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 12/27/2010

Tech: Top 10 Tech Disasters That Haven’t Happened… Yet: “Congratulations: You’ve survived another year, and 2010 was quite an eventful one. For…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 12/23/2010

Tech: Skype Outage hits users worldwide: “Millions of Skype Internet phone users worldwide couldn’t make calls — or were dropped in mid-conversation —…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 12/22/2010

Tech: E-Mail Gets an Instant Makeover: “Signs you’re an old fogey: You still watch movies on a VCR, listen to vinyl records and…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 12/21/2010

Tech: FCC to Vote on Internet Regulation Plan Despite Economic Warnings: “Lawmakers are on high alert as the Federal Communications Commission prepares…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 12/20/2010

Tech: Chavez defends plan for Internet regulations: “Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez defended plans for a law that would impose broadcast-type regulations on the…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 12/17/2010

Tech: FCC’s net neutrality plan faces growing chorus of bipartisan opposition: “As the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) prepares to vote next week on…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 12/16/2010

Tech: Approval of Internet traffic rules likely-analysis: “Contentious Internet traffic rules facing a vote next week are likely to be adopted without radically…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 12/15/2010

Tech: Air Force Blocks Media Sites: “The U.S. Air Force is blocking its personnel from using work computers to view the websites of…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 12/14/2010

Tech: Gawker Media Hacked, Warns Users to Change Passwords: “E-mail addresses and password details for 200,000 registered users of Gawker…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 12/08/2010

Tech: Anonymous’ Operation : Payback campaign defends Wikileaks, downs MasterCard website: “Online supporters of whistleblowing website Wikileaks are fighting back…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 12/07/2010

Tech: Sharpton: FCC should threaten radio stations carrying Rush [Video]: “If the left can’t get Rush by reviving the Fairness Doctrine, maybe the…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 12/06/2010

Tech: Wave Goodbye to Internet Freedom: “The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is poised to add the Internet to its portfolio of regulated industries.

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 12/03/2010

Tech: WikiLeaks switches to Swiss domain after attacks: “WikiLeaks was forced Friday to switch over to a Swiss domain name, wikileaks.ch, after a…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 12/02/2010

Tech: Google To Punish No-Good Sites With Revised Search Ranking: “Google’s method of ranking of search results took a hit last week in…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 12/01/2010

Tech: FCC chairman to propose plan for net neutrality: “The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission plans to announce Wednesday…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 11/30/2010

Tech: Christian group asks Apple to reconsider app suspension: “A Christian organization that recently had its Apple iPhone app removed from Apple’s…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 11/29/2010

Tech: Comcast: Internet service restored after regional outage: “Officials at Comcast Sunday night said they did not know what caused disruptions in its…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 11/24/2010

Tech: Wipeout: When Your Company Kills Your iPhone: “A few weeks ago, Amanda Stanton’s iPhone suddenly went black.” 34% of all malware…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 11/23/2010

Tech: Facebook censors, cracksdown on breastfeeding photos: “In one of the photos that keeps getting Emma Kwasnica’s Facebook account suspended, the Montreal-based mother…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 11/22/2010

Tech: FCC chief on net neutrality: Trust me: “FCC chairman Julius Genachowski now finds himself caught between unfulfilled promises made to the tech…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 11/19/2010

Tech: House bill would give DHS authority over private sector networks: “A new bill unveiled Wednesday by House Homeland Security…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 11/18/2010

Tech: Sen. Rockefeller: FCC Should Take Fox News, MSNBC Off Airways: “SEN. JAY ROCKEFELLER (D-WV): “There’s a little bug inside of me which…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 11/17/2010

Tech: Internet Explorer 9 Caught Cheating in SunSpider Benchmark?: “A Mozilla engineer has uncovered something embarrassing for Microsoft – Internet Explorer is cheating…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 11/16/2010

Tech: 2 Dems claim Arianna Huffington stole website idea: “Two Democratic consultants are accusing Arianna Huffington and her business partner…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 11/15/2010

Tech: University Begins Reporting All P2P Users to the Police: “Georgia’s Valdosta State University has updated its network with software that can…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 11/12/2010

Tech: Cubans upset at video game that aims to kill Fidel Castro: “Cuba’s state-run media and bloggers are not amused at “Call of…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 11/11/2010

Tech: Brumby promises every doctor in public hospitals an iPad: “Victorian Premier, John Brumby, yesterday promised every doctor in the…

Energy and Environment

• By: Lee Doren
• 11/10/2010

Tech: Dear Starbucks: The skinny on how you can be a security hero: “The recent hubbub around Firesheep has provided me with a…

Energy and Environment