Topic: Lauren Weinstein

Five Reasons Not to Go Crazy with Domain Names

CIO Magazine - 236 days ago
PC World - At first glance, the new Internet domain name system announced by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) on ...

Facebook's New Messaging Plan Worries Some Privacy Advocates

Investors Business Daily - 447 days ago
A modern messaging system should be simple and not centered on e-mail, says Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook.. A spat recently arose on the latter, because Facebook had refused to let users export contact details to Google (GOOG), while Google allowed exports ...

Open only wins with a business model

ZDnet - 454 days ago
Open wins, crowed tech activist Lauren Weinstein recently, on his personal blog, recounting how hackers " rooted" the HTC Vision, an Android phone sold by T-Mobile as the G2. There are readers of ZDNet who are fine with T-Mobile's attitude. The reason ...

Sirius XM passing $2 royalty fees to subscribers

AP News - 867 days ago
Sirius XM passing along $2 performance fees to subscribersListeners of Sirius XM Radio Inc. are getting $2 fees added to their monthly satellite radio bills, in what's effectively a price increase for consumers.Sirius XM, whose talk show celebrities include Howard ...

Panel discussion

Time Out New York - 1238 days ago
not only aroused readers with its lascivious sexcapades but also tried to predict how dysfunction might look in the 21st century. The book is written with tons of media savvy, hilarious cynicism and cutting-edge draftsmanship, as Chaykin fuses bebop cool, cowboy swagger ...

Google's mapping feature includes unwitting subjects

MIT Technology Review - 1717 days ago
Google Inc. calls the latest change to its online maps ''Street View,'' but it looks a bit like ''Candid Camera.''. Google also is offering a ''help'' button on all the street-level photos to provide a link for users to request the removal ...

Google hits the streets, raises concerns

AP News - 1717 days ago
Caught in Google's Cross-Hairs: Mapping Feature Includes Unwitting SubjectsGoogle Inc. bills the latest twist on its online maps as "Street View," but it looks a bit like "Candid Camera" as you cruise through the panorama of pictures that captured fleeting moments ...

Caught in Google's cross-hairs: Mapping feature includes unwitting subjects

AP Features - 1719 days ago
Google Inc. bills the latest twist on its online maps as "Street View," but it looks a bit like "Candid Camera" as you cruise through the panorama of pictures that captured fleeting moments in neighborhoods scattered across the country.In San Francisco ...