By Chris Buckley and Lucy Hornby BEIJING (Reuters UK) – China told companies to back state control of the Internet on Thursday, showing no sign of giving ground on censorship after U.S. Internet giant Google threatened to quit the country. Minister of the State Council Information Office, Wang…
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China Backs Censorship After Google Threat
Today morning when I logged into my Facebook Account, I saw this new thing at the top of the News Feed on the main page titled as the “Automatic Friend Finder”. I was pretty impressed when I saw the word automatic as I thought, this would help me to find out more friends on Facebook (whom I haven’t added yet) with just a click.
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Now Facebook ‘Lies’ To Make You Add More Friends!
From the now we’ve heard everything department, an analyst is “predicting” that the 4th generation iPhone ’s plastic casing will be multitouch enabled, just like Apple’s new Magic Mouse . Not “predicted” of course is how it would work, and how it would filter out things like holding the iPhone for normal use vs
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Do You Want the 4th Gen iPhone Case to be Multitouch like Magic Mouse?
Challenging Google in the cloud computing market for messaging and collaboration software, IBM landed Panasonic as a customer for its LotusLive SAAS programs. More than 150,000 workers at the Japanese electronics maker will use IBM’s hosted e-mail, social networking Web conferencing, file..
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IBM LotusLive Snags Panasonic to Challenge Google in the Cloud
The Loop points out that the Winter 2010 semester of Stanford University’s popular iPhone Application Development Course is now being posted to iTunes U . “We’re getting the videos closed captioned this time, so they’ll be even more accessible,” said Julie Zelenski, a Stanford computer science lecturer who helps coordinate the class
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Winter 2010 Stanford iPhone Application Development Course Now on iTunes U
From the EFF – 12 Trends to Watch in 2010 , Tim Jones writes – It’s the dawn of a new year. From our perch on the frontier of electronic civil liberties, EFF has collected a list of a dozen important trends in law, technology and business that we think will play a significant role in shaping online rights in 2010. In December, we’ll revisit this post and see how it all worked out
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From the EFF – 12 Trends to Watch in 2010
The TV Network scheduling conflicts, ratings wars and analysis methods of the last five decades will be made obsolete by DVR ubiquity and On-Demand viewing technology. With one of the worst natural disasters in modern history claiming untold amounts of human lives unfolding in front of us all… Silicon Alley Insider – The Numbers NBC Faced Before The Late Night Experiment Exploded Silicon Alley Insider – NYT: Conan Is Toast Wall Street Journal – Didn’t See Conan O’Brien Insult NBC Last Night
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Conan vs. Leno: The Last Great TV Scheduling War
The law firm representing a U.S. company involved in a legal dispute over China’s Green Dam censorship software says it was targeted with a sophisticated online attack this week, similar to the one reported by Google Tuesday. Gipson Hoffman & Pancione, a Los Angeles law firm, says employees began…
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Law Firm in Green Dam Suit Targeted With Cyber-attack
By Gabriel Madway SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters UK) – Google Inc’s potential departure from China may not prompt others to follow suit, but its high-profile declaration could help shine a light on the business environment in the world’s third-largest economy. Google said on Tuesday that it might stop… Reuters – Companies watch, wait as Google mulls leaving China
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Companies Watch and Wait as Google Mulls China
Sony, the Japanese electronics giant, was a pioneer in the current wave of electronic book readers, introducing its first Sony Reader model back in 2006. But, it has been overtaken by Amazon.com, whose Kindle e-book reader, introduced in 2007, has become almost synonymous with the category
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Sony’s E-Reader Opens New Chapter in Kindle Rivalry [Personal Technology]
IDG News Service – The policy of random laptop searches and seizures by U.S. government agents at border crossings is under attack again, with a pair of civil rights groups seeking potential plaintiffs for a lawsuit that challenges the practice. The American Civil Liberties Union is working with..
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Groups seek to challenge U.S. gov’t on seized laptops
Cornucopia: Digital Gastronomy is a project by two grad students working in MIT’s Fluid Interfaces Group. The goal: a consumer-friendly machine that prints food. (Spork not included…) Cornucopia is a concept design for a personal food factory that brings the versatility of the digital world to the realm of cooking
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MIT’s food printer
From what I’ve read throughout the day cash is desperately needed by the aid organizations heading up relief efforts in Haiti after the devastating earthquake that rocked the small island nation. This cash will be used for everything from medical supplies to food. I found a list of reputable organizations that are taking donations on a Fox news site: -The Red Cross is asking the public to make financial donations to the International Relief Fund by calling 1-800-RED-CROSS or online at http://www.redcross.org -Donors may also text “HAITI” to “90999″ and a donation of $10 will be given to the American Red Cross to help with relief efforts.
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BloggersUnite for Haiti: Cash Needed For Relief Efforts
In the Make: Online Toolbox, we focus mainly on tools that fly under the radar of more conventional tool coverage: in-depth tool-making projects, strange or specialty tools unique to a trade or craft that can be useful elsewhere, tools and techniques you may not know about, but once you do, and incorporate them into your workflow, you’ll wonder how you ever lived without them.
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Toolbox: Parts storage (excerpt from Make: Electronics)
Who would have thought the government of China would be responsible for tightening security across the Internet? Google not only is getting involved in the politics of blocking censorship in the People’s Republic but moreover has now changed their default email protocol to https . Tags: china , gmail , google , https , security Follow me: Facebook Profile Google Reader Profile Twitter Profile Related Entries Will Silicon Valley go to War with China
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Response to China Hacking – Increase Security
The Supreme Court on Wednesday blocked cameras from a federal civil trial in San Francisco concerning the legality of same-sex marriage. The decision came two days after the court tentatively sided with same-sex marriage foes who told the court they would be harassed and intimidated if their testimony was disseminated on such a grand scale
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High Court Bars Cameras in Gay Marriage Trial
While small lathes are of relatively limited value in my opinion, I’ve gotta give it up to Thingiverse user cathalgarvey for designing and uploading the parts to print this motor-tool-powered, printable micro-lathe . Would love to see some video of it in operation! More from cathalgarvey: Dremelfuge is a 3D printable centrifuge Laboratory centrifuge attachment for your Dremel tool Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in 3D printing | Digg this!
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Tiny printable Dremel-powered lathe
At the last ITEXPO I received many comments from attendees who came to my blog to see videos and could not. You see, for large videos I am forced to compress them and upload them to a Flash player because they are just too large for posting as a traditional iPhone file. It’s that dreaded no Flash support Apple tax I keep talking about
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TMCnet iPhone Site Now Does Video
ZAGG, the makers of Invisible Shield, have diversified in a big way with their ZAGGbox video recorder, ZAGGsparq battery charger, and AppSpace service. ZAGGbox pulls in all your analog video (including HD via component), gives you fast switching via a unified remote, and renders iPhone-compatible video you can send right to your device. ZAGGsparq is a massive battery charger that re-charge an iPhone 4 times before it runs out of juice, and since it has 2 USB ports, it can charge your Bluetooth or any other compatible gadget at the same time
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ZAGGbox, ZAGGsparq, App Space — TiPb @ CES 2010
James, Kevin, and I recently returned from CES 2010 in Vegas and kicked off MobileTechRoundup show #194 talking about some of our impressions of the show. I was quite pleased with CES this year, even though there wasn’t a ton of mobile phone news and stayed very busy
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MobileTechRoundup show #194, CES wrap-up, Nexus One, & N900
While speculation about Apple’s planshetnika multiply and public attention focused on this device, rumors about the next generation iPhone is paid relatively little attention. Nevertheless, the probability of occurrence of this device on the market in the near future is very high.
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fourth-generation iPhone in June?
Many of the latest rumors about the Apple iTablet /iSlate involve it being a large iPhone, or as Daring Fireball points out, the iPhone being a smaller version of an older Apple tablet project. Way back in June of 2007, the New York Times mentioned just that, and the tablet project was Safari Pad: Mr.
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From Safari Pad to iPhone and Back Again
Google is now encrypting all Gmail traffic from its servers to its users in a bid to foil sniffers who sit in cafes, eavesdropping in on traffic passing by, the company announced Wednesday. The change comes just a day after the company announced it might pull its offices from China after discovering concerted attempts to break into Gmail accounts of human rights activists .
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Google Turns on Gmail Encryption to Protect Wi-Fi Users
Here’s the latest project from YesYesNo, this time in Auckland, NZ! It’s called Night Lights : In this installation YesYesNo teamed up with The Church, Inside Out Productions and Electric Canvas to turn the Auckland Ferry Building into an interactive playground. Our job was to create an installation that would go beyond merely projection on buildings and allow viewers to become performers, by taking their body movements and amplifying them 5 stories tall
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Night Lights projects actions five stories tall
Posted by Mistique Cano, Public Policy Communications Manager This past Monday, our Washington office hosted a Google D.C. Talk on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA. Panelists included Jonathan Band, Ryan Clough, James Love, and Steve Metalitz, and the talk was moderated by Washington Post Consumer Technology Columnist Rob Pegoraro .
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Video from Monday’s Google D.C. Talk on ACTA
Here’s an interesting, if possibly questionable idea. The folks over at Flowering Elbow converted a sewing machine into a scroll saw . If you’ve got an old sewing machine, it could be just what you need for cutting thin pieces of wood! More: Pedal-powered Scroll Saw Sewing machine jigsaw The Tico-tico Singer Pedal-powered hacksaw Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in hacks | Digg this!
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Make a scroll saw from a sewing machine
Here in the great state of Illinois we kicked off the new year with a law that prohibits anyone talking on their cell phones (including the iPhone) while driving a vehicle — unless they use a Bluetooth device. Now I am not not sure about your state laws but if you are in the same boat as I am, why not take a look at the Motorola Bluetooth Car Speakerphone T305
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Motorola Portable Bluetooth Car Speakerphone T305 for Hands-free iPhone 3G/3GS Talking
Pop Tarantino's latest into select Blu-ray players, and Pocket BLU instantly delivers bonus content to your iPhone. (Credit: Rick Broida) Here’s a neat idea: an app that links your iPhone or iPod Touch to whatever Blu-ray movie you’re watching and serves up extra content, a remote control, a soundtrack listing, and even Facebook integration so you can tell friends about the movie
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Hands on: Pocket BLU app serves up Blu-ray extras
On Sunday we spotted the HTC HD2 on the Virgin Mobile website . Today, just a few (ahem) days later it’s officially announced. We’ve just had a full press release from Virgin Media and, although it’s the first ever HTC phone they’ve carried, there’s more “high-end handsets” to come
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HTC HD2 on Virgin – The official word
Tata Docomo offers calls at 1p per 6 sec through BuddyNet NEW DELHI: Tata Docomo, the GSM brand of Tata Teleservices Ltd (TTSL), today launched its ‘BuddyNet’ community, as part of which locals calls to members will be offered at one paisa for six seconds. The offer, valid for all prepaid subscribers, will provide tariffs as low as one paisa for six seconds on local calls and one paisa for two seconds on STD calls made to other BuddyNet users, TTSL said in a statement
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Tata Docomo BuddyNet