Even If It Doesn’t Move… Regulate It
I can’t believe that I’ve let a whole week go by without posting this article from the Wall Street Journal. I hadn’t seen this reported elsewhere, but Treasury Secretary Geithner [...]
Good Riddance, Pirate Bay! Long Live BitTorrent!
The Pirate Bay guys are going to jail (well, maybe… if and when they lose their legal appeals to today’s ruling). As to be expected, the content people are cheering [...]
Will CNN-Kutcher contest lead to Twitter business plan?
Internetnews.com has an interesting article on how the battle between CNN and Ashton Kutcher for Twitter followers may spur Twitter to “adopt its long-awaited business plan.” The Register reports that [...]
ACT Event: Moving from e-Government to We-Government
Washington, DC – On Wednesday, ACT hosted an event entitled “Moving from e-Government to We-Government: Creating Processes for Transparency and Openness” in Washington, DC. The event focused on the practical [...]
Spam wastes enough electricity to power 2.4 million U.S. homes for a year
Yahoo!Tech writes that “[t]here are plenty of reasons to hate spammers. Add this to the list: They're environmentally unfriendly. A report [released today] by security company McAfee Inc. finds that [...]
EU sues UK over Phorm
According to Yahoo!Tech, “[t]he European Commission began legal action against the U.K. Tuesday over its failure to protect Internet users from Phorm -- a covert behavioral advertising technology tested by [...]