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Apple: Poor working conditions inside the Chinese factories making iPads

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Daily Mail - Jan. 29 (News) - Staff and safety experts have spoken out about the conditions in Chinese factories, with banners in one giving a warning of: 'Work hard on the job today or work hard to find a job tomorrow'.

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Support for Internet Bill Wanes as Protests Spread

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Jonathan Weisman - Jan. 18 (News Report) - Senator Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida, announced he would no longer back the anti-Internet piracy legislation he had co-sponsored. Senator John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, quickly followed suit.

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Web Piracy Bills Invite a Protracted Battle

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Jenna Wortham, Somini Sengupta - Jan. 16 (News Report) - The Obama administration’s statement of opposition to antipiracy legislation let the technology industry claim a victory, but few in Silicon Valley or Hollywood consider the battle over.

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Powerhouse Websites Consider Internet Blackout

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Fox News - Dec. 30 (News) - Anti-SOPA pop-up banners online protest a law that many argue will dramatically alter the Internet. In the growing battle for the future of the Web, some of the biggest sites online -- Google, Facebook, and other tech stalwarts -- are considering a coord

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Stop Online Piracy Act Vote Delayed

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Wired - Dec. 16 (News) - The House Judiciary Committee considering whether to send the Stop Online Piracy Act to the House floor abruptly adjourned Friday with no new vote date set – a surprise given that the bill looked certain to pass out of committee today. The committee’s ch

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Net founders oppose piracy laws

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - Dec. 16 (News) - Some of the founding fathers of the modern web have signed a strongly-worded letter opposing US piracy laws.

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The Apologies of Zuckerberg: A Retrospective

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By Liz Gannes - Nov. 29 (News Analysis) - At this point, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s pattern on privacy is clear. Launch new stuff that pushes the boundaries of what people consider comfortable. Apologize and assure users that they control their information, but rarely pull back entirely, and

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Sandia Labs: SOPA will 'negatively impact' U.S. cybersecurity

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

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Is Lying On The Internet Illegal?

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

NPR - Nov. 16 (Special Report) - Under a Department of Justice interpretation of existing law, it's possible for the government to bring charges against Internet users who for example lie about their weight on Match.com.

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Wall Street Protest Spurs Online Conversation

Sat, 08 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Jennifer Preston - Oct. 08 (News) - What began as a small group of protesters expressing their grievances about economic inequities last month from a park in New York City has evolved into an online conversation that is spreading across the country on social media platforms.

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Press Widely Criticized, But Trusted More than Other Institutions

Sat, 24 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Pew Research - Sep. 24 (Special Report) - Negative opinions about the performance of news organizations now equal or surpass all-time highs on nine of 12 core measures the Pew Research Center has been tracking since 1985. However, these bleak findings are put into some perspective by the fact that news organizations are more trusted sources of information than are many other institutions, including government and business.

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Women! Wikipedia needs you

Mon, 08 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Jemima Kiss - Aug. 08 (Special Report) - In a revealing glimpse inside the Wikipedia kimono at its annual conference in Haifa at the weekend, co-founder Jimmy Wales described the typical Wikipedia editor as a 26-year-old geeky male with a PhD. Eventually he'll get married, go on to some other project and leave the site, said Wales. And Wikipedia's own research found that 90% of editors are male. This imbalance has meant that while technology and science are covered comprehensively, other subjects are left wanting. "The main thing is to bring in people of all different backgrounds," Wales told the event, reports the Independent. "If you do that, you increase the knowledge base of the site, which can only be a good thing. At the moment, we are relatively poor in a few areas; for example, biographies of famous women through history and issues surrounding early childcare."

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Report: Global Cyberattack Under Way for 5 Years

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Mark Hamrick - Aug. 04 (News Report) - A computer security firm says cybercriminals have spent at least the past five years targeting more than 70 government entities, nonprofit groups and corporations around the world to steal troves of data.

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Sidestepping Apple: Companies rethink app strategies

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By Tim Carmody - Jul. 26 (News Report) - We all knew that once Apple starting enforcing new rules for in-app purchases, it would change how media companies do business on the iPhone and iPad. Now, we're beginning to see just what that looks like for companies trying to avoid giving a 30% cut to Cupertino. Amazon, Kobo and Barnes & Noble all removed the stores from their iOS applications on Monday, as well as any hyperlinks to or mentions of their online stores.

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TED's Chris Anderson: the man who made YouTube clever

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Carole Cadwalladr - Jul. 16 (Special Report) - With his TED Talks series, the former magazine mogul Chris Anderson has racked up 500 million web video views for speeches by academics and technological experts. But that, he says, is only the start of an educational revolution

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How Twitter tracked the News of the World scandal

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Jonathan Richards, Alex Graul, Martin Shuttleworth, Mariana Santos, Ranjit Dhaliwal, Alastair Dant - Jul. 14 (Special Report) - The Murdochs' decision to close the News of the World was greeted with a frenzy on Twitter. The Guardian has analysed half a million tweets sent with the #notw hashtag over the past four days to capture…

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Judges in US, Canada approve Nortel patents sale

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Business Week - By Randall Chase - Jul. 11 (News) - U.S. and Canadian judges on Monday approved a $4.5 billion cash bid from a consortium that includes smartphone makers Apple and Research In Motion for thousands of patents held by bankrupt telecom-equipment maker Nortel Networks Corp.

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Another Try by Google to Take On Facebook

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Claire Cain Miller - Jun. 29 (News) - Remember Google Buzz? What about Orkut, or Google Wave? Google has tried several times, without much success, to take on Facebook and master social networking. Now it is making its biggest effort yet.

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Hacker attack cripples al-Qaida on web

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

MSNBC - By Pete Williams - Jun. 29 (News) - Computer hackers shut down al-Qaida's ability to communicate its messages to the world through the Internet, interrupting the group's flow of videos and communiqués, according to a terrorism expert.

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Tech Investors Feel an Aura of Hope, a Touch of Dread

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Claire Cain Miller - Jun. 28 (News) - Color, meanwhile, spent $350,000 to buy the Web address color.com, and an additional $75,000 to buy colour.com. It rents a cavernous office in downtown Palo Alto, where 38 employees work in a space with room for 160, amid beanbag chairs, tents for napping and a hand-built half-pipe skateboard ramp.

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Google and antitrust: Searching for evidence

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Economist - By Schumpeter - Jun. 25 (News Analysis) - When it comes to forging high-level political connections in Washington, DC, Google is something of an expert. Eric Schmidt, its executive chairman, sits on the President’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology. Marissa Mayer, a Google executive, has hosted a fundraiser in Silicon Valley for Barack Obama. And the company spends millions of dollars on high-powered lobbying firms. But such links have not deterred policymakers and competition watchdogs in America’s capital from looking into whether Google is abusing the clout that it has in certain markets.

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PBS says its website has been hacked for the 2nd time in a month, with little data stolen

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - Jun. 25 (News) - PBS says its website has been hacked for at least the second time in a month — the latest in a string of intrusions into such sites as Sony, Lockheed Martin, Nintendo and others.

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Dark corners of the net

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - By Jane Wakefield - Jun. 15 (Investigative Report) - Hackers are secretive but they are also social. What can we learn about hackers from the conversations they have online?

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Social Media Join Toolkit for Hunters of Disease

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Bronwyn Garrity - Jun. 14 (News) - Social media — Facebook, Google, Twitter, location-based services like Foursquare and more — are changing the way epidemiologists discover and track the spread of disease.

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‘A Gay Girl in Damascus’ comes clean

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Melissa Bell, Elizabeth Flock - Jun. 13 (News Report) - The persona Tom MacMaster built and cultivated for years — a lesbian who was half Syrian and half American — was a tantalizing Internet-era fiction, one that he used to bring attention to the human rights record of a country where media restrictions make traditional reporting almost impossible.

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