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What if your Internet service provider told you what kind of computer you could use and what kind of software you could run on it? Would you stand for it? It’s not a theoretical question. Verizon Wireless and other mobile carriers, with Google’s help, are blocking Android applications they don’t like from the Android...
Reuters Jun 8, 2011 By Emily Kaiser (Reuters) – Republican lawmakers are “playing with fire” by contemplating even a brief debt default as a means to force deeper government spending cuts, an adviser to China’s central bank said on Wednesday. The idea of a technical default — essentially delaying interest payments for a few...
Video describing the torture this boy endured before he was killed. WARNING: EXTREME GRAPHIC CONTENT.
When Seattle’s Reel Grrls – an award-winning program that teaches teenage girls to make their own media – criticized Comcast on Twitter for its outrageous hiring of FCC Commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker, Comcast came after them. A Comcast VP immediately fired off an email saying the company was cutting off $18,000 in funding it had...
Outrageous! FCC Commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker is leaving the FCC to become a lobbyist for Comcast – just four months after she voted to approve the Comcast-NBC merger.1 This is just the latest – but perhaps most blatant — example of so-called “public servants” cashing in on companies they are supposed to be regulating....
PC World By Mike Elgan, Computerworld May 2, 2011 6:28 pm Dear Apple, Google, Microsoft, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon, app makers, Congress and President Obama (or current resident): Enough! We, the smartphone-using people of the United States, are being taken advantage of, stolen from and blackmailed. It’s got to stop. The smartphones we carry...
The New York Times May 1, 2011 Doug Mills/The New York Times WASHINGTON — Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the most devastating attack on American soil in modern times and the most hunted man in the world, was killed in a firefight with United States forces in Pakistan, President Obama announced on Sunday...
This story is incredible. Send this touching two-minute video about World War II veterans to FIVE friends and family to remind them that every day alive in this great, free country is truly a bonus. Let’s get 50,000 views for the video by Memorial Day (May 30th) to show these living heroes, one last...
PC World Apr 12, 2011 11:43 am By Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Law enforcement organizations are making tens of thousands of requests for private electronic information from companies such as Sprint, Facebook and AOL, but few detailed statistics are available, according to a privacy researcher. Police and other agencies have “enthusiastically embraced” asking for...
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