Developers upset by opaque Apple App store criteria
Yahoo!Tech has an interesting article on the mysterious criteria used by Apple’s App store to approve or reject an application, and on a movement “growing within the developer community” to [...]
Republicans want sweeping new data retention requirements
CnetNews.com reports that “Republican politicians on Thursday called for a sweeping new federal law that would require all Internet providers and operators of millions of Wi-Fi access points, even hotels, [...]
Yahoo introduces new type of search advertising
The New York Times reveals that “Yahoo is introducing a new type of search advertising that integrates images and video in paid listings. […] Search advertising typically shows only text [...]
TiVo and EchoStar return to court
According to Yahoo!Tech, “[d]igital video recorder maker TiVo Inc and EchoStar Corp [returned] to a Texas court [today]in the latest round of a longstanding fight over a television recording technology [...]
FTC issues new privacy guidelines
Yahoo!News reports that “Federal regulators tweaked recommendations for how websites should collect, save and share information about users, extending them to Internet service providers and mobile users. The Federal Trade [...]
The Key to Open Government is Through Processes, not Products
"Open government" can mean various things to different people, but a couple of articles I've recently read suggest that solutions for opening the government vault of information should focus on [...]