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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…
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Tech: Person Tweeting Death Wish for Palin Now Wants Privacy: “Now YouTube is threatening to pull the video because one of the people…
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Tech: Verizon iPhone Could Double U.S. Mobile Games Industry This Year: “Earlier today, Verizon and Apple finally confirmed what everyone knew was coming:…
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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…
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Tech: Twitter endorsements face OFT clampdown: “How does a celebrity declare their affiliations to certain brands in fewer than 140 characters? Many may…
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Tech: Hackers find new way to cheat on Wall Street – to everyone’s peril: “High-frequency trading networks, which complete stock market transactions in…
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Tech: HHS is Paying Google with Taxpayer Money to Alter ‘Obamacare’ Search Results (Updated): “The brazenness of the Obama administration never ceases to…
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Tech: CES 2011 Predictions: 7 Trends To Watch At The World’s Biggest Tech Show: “Las Vegas is currently gearing up for the Consumer…
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Tech: Court OKs searches of cell phones without warrant: “The California Supreme Court allowed police Monday to search arrestees’ cell phones without a…
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Tech: The 10 best Android hacks: “The web’s massed fanboy armies will debate the relative merits of iOS and Android until the apocalypse,…
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Union Snow Cleanup
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Tech: Apple Sued Over Apps Privacy Issues; Google May Be Next: “Two separate groups of iPhone and iPad users have…
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Tech: Earth project aims to ‘simulate everything’: “An international group of scientists are aiming to create a simulator that can replicate everything happening…
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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…
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Tech: Top 10 Tech Disasters That Haven’t Happened… Yet: “Congratulations: You’ve survived another year, and 2010 was quite an eventful one. For…
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Tech: Skype Outage hits users worldwide: “Millions of Skype Internet phone users worldwide couldn’t make calls — or were dropped in mid-conversation —…
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Will Net Neutrality Save the Internet?
Reason.TV created an excellent video explaining Net Neutrality and arguing against it. I’ve heard too many people irrationally claim that big corporations are going to…
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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…
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Tech: FCC to Vote on Internet Regulation Plan Despite Economic Warnings: “Lawmakers are on high alert as the Federal Communications Commission prepares…
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Tech: Chavez defends plan for Internet regulations: “Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez defended plans for a law that would impose broadcast-type regulations on the…
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Tech: FCC’s net neutrality plan faces growing chorus of bipartisan opposition: “As the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) prepares to vote next week on…
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Live Blogging: “Fixing The World Economy: Stresses And Solutions”
This is a Live Blog of a Thomson Reuters Event on “Fixing the World Economy.” The speakers are Dominique Strauss-Kahn, International Monetary Fund and Chrystia…
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Tech: Approval of Internet traffic rules likely-analysis: “Contentious Internet traffic rules facing a vote next week are likely to be adopted without radically…
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Tech: Air Force Blocks Media Sites: “The U.S. Air Force is blocking its personnel from using work computers to view the websites of…
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Tech: Gawker Media Hacked, Warns Users to Change Passwords: “E-mail addresses and password details for 200,000 registered users of Gawker…
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Tech: Anonymous’ Operation : Payback campaign defends Wikileaks, downs MasterCard website: “Online supporters of whistleblowing website Wikileaks are fighting back…
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Tech: Sharpton: FCC should threaten radio stations carrying Rush [Video]: “If the left can’t get Rush by reviving the Fairness Doctrine, maybe the…
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Tech: Wave Goodbye to Internet Freedom: “The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is poised to add the Internet to its portfolio of regulated industries.
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Tech: WikiLeaks switches to Swiss domain after attacks: “WikiLeaks was forced Friday to switch over to a Swiss domain name, wikileaks.ch, after a…
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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…
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Tech: FCC chairman to propose plan for net neutrality: “The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission plans to announce Wednesday…
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STREET SIGNS WITH ALL CAPS ARE GIVING LOCAL GOVERNMENTS A HEADACHE
The federal government has managed to create a new regulation that will put even more local governments in the red. Apparently, bureaucrats have determined…
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Tech: Christian group asks Apple to reconsider app suspension: “A Christian organization that recently had its Apple iPhone app removed from Apple’s…
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Tech: Comcast: Internet service restored after regional outage: “Officials at Comcast Sunday night said they did not know what caused disruptions in its…
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Tech: Wipeout: When Your Company Kills Your iPhone: “A few weeks ago, Amanda Stanton’s iPhone suddenly went black.” 34% of all malware…
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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…
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Entitlement America? Who Has More Disposable Income?
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Tech: FCC chief on net neutrality: Trust me: “FCC chairman Julius Genachowski now finds himself caught between unfulfilled promises made to the tech…
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Tech: House bill would give DHS authority over private sector networks: “A new bill unveiled Wednesday by House Homeland Security…
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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…
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Tech: Internet Explorer 9 Caught Cheating in SunSpider Benchmark?: “A Mozilla engineer has uncovered something embarrassing for Microsoft – Internet Explorer is cheating…
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Milton Friedman on Other People’s Money
Milton Friedman always had a way with words. His brilliance in the following video not only explains the moral problem with using other people’s money,…
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Tech: 2 Dems claim Arianna Huffington stole website idea: “Two Democratic consultants are accusing Arianna Huffington and her business partner…
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Quantitative Easing Explained (Video Comedy)
Sometimes humor is better at explaining economic concepts than wonkish theory. Below is an interesting video regarding quantitative easing. Although it may place too much…
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Tech: University Begins Reporting All P2P Users to the Police: “Georgia’s Valdosta State University has updated its network with software that can…
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The Market Works as Shop Closes
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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…
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Tech: Brumby promises every doctor in public hospitals an iPad: “Victorian Premier, John Brumby, yesterday promised every doctor in the…
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How Much Does Government Spending Cost You?
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Tech: Dear Starbucks: The skinny on how you can be a security hero: “The recent hubbub around Firesheep has provided me with a…