Archive for June, 2010
Google walks a fine line on China censorship
As Google waits for word from the Chinese government whether it will be allowed to continue running a Web business in that country, the company says it didn’t surrender to Chinese censorship demands — it stood up to censorship.
Google stops redirecting Chinese search traffic to Hong Kong
In today’s podcast: Google stops redirecting Chinese search traffic to Hong Kong; Cisco announces Atom-powered tablet; and Verizon to start selling iPhone 4 in January?
Cool iPhone app gives lowdown on any neighborhood
Targeted at real estate agents, ESRI’s free Business Analyst Online app for the iPhone reveals local demographics for any address, and lets you compare areas and find neighborhoods that meet your criteria.
10 ways spam is like vuvuzelas (the World Cup horns)
If you’ve been glued to the World Cup, you’ll know that there’s more to the matches than soccer (football for our international audience). I’m talking about those incessant horns — the vuvuzelas. They’re really catching people’s attention, for all the wrong reasons. It got me thinking… In this week’s Security Levity, how is a vuvuzela just like spam? Vuvuzelas and spam? Have I gone mad? Never fear, dear reader, let me count the ways…
Google surrenders to Chinese censorship demands
Google said this week it plans to stop redirecting Chinese searchers to an uncensored portal in Hong Kong. In so doing, the search giant replaces it’s famous “Don’t be evil” slogan with, “It’s okay to be a little bit evil.”
Remove Ads from Windows Live Messenger Wave 4 Beta
Windows Live Messenger Wave 4 Beta contains advertisements. If you don’t get annoyed with these ads, then perhaps you don’t need this tool. But if you want to remove the advertisements, there is a small utility that can clean them. It’s called as A-Patch for Windows Live Messenger Wave 4. (…)Read the rest of Remove [...]
Sexual assault by Internet
A hacker is accused of breaking into women’s computers — not to plant malware or to steal credit card information, but to extort sexually explicit videos from them.
