This week Apple rolled out its next generation iPods including an iPod Touch with cameras to support Facetime, which you may recall is Apple’s video phone software for WiFi networks. The new iPod Nano is half the size of the old Nano and features a touchscreen and an FM radio. An upgrade to iTunes includes [...]
Google has closed the doors on its search engine in China, following through on its promise to leave unless it was allowed to provide uncensored search results. But, rather than eliminating its filters on google.cn, and risking the arrest of its China-based employees, Google has redirected requests for google.cn to its Hong Kong search engine, [...]
This past week, the Federal Communications Commission released its National Broadband Plan. The 360 page document is the first step in extending broadband Internet service to millions of U.S. residents. The Plan intends to influence U.S. broadband access in four ways: First, in designing policies to ensure competition among Internet service providers in order to [...]
The FCC has proposed the formation of a National Digital Literacy Corps, to assist individuals and communities without Internet access in becoming connected. Like Americorps, the Digital Literacy Corps, would target communities in the U.S. with low numbers of broadband subscribers to assist them in getting online and reaping the benefits provided by the Internet. [...]
This past week Google unveiled its own social network: Google Buzz. This isn’t Google’s first attempt at being social, Google Orkut, Open Social, and Latitude, are previously released applications designed to support online social engagement, but none have garnered much attention. Google Buzz, on the other hand, has made quite a splash in its first [...]
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has discovered a new way for Web hosts to track user’s movements around the Internet without using cookies or IP addresses. Each web page request that arrives at a server contains detailed information about the user’s computer such as browser type and version, and the plugins that are installed. That information [...]
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