Internet filters in schools often compromise a teacher’s ability to teach, yet at the same time are easy for tech-savvy students to get around, a parliamentary committee on cyber bullying has heard — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Nokia’s new CEO has sent an outspoken and frank memo to his staff that suggests the phone giant is in crisis.
Stephen Elop describes the company as standing on a burning platform
surrounded by innovative competitors who are grabbing its market share.
In particular, he said, the firm had been caught off guard by the success of Google’s Android operating system and Apple’s iPhone — via richardfarner.newsvine.com
— via The Oatmeal
Mobile number portability has not taken off in India, with only about 1.7 million users applying for change of operator in the 15 days since the program was introduced, according to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.
India had about 730 million mobile connections at the end of November last year, and it was expected that a large number of subscribers would rush to take advantage of the option that allows them to change operators while retaining their mobile numbers — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Since Google Reader added custom “Send To” controls to its feed reading prowess last week, we’ve been looking for the most useful links to feed it. Here are nine excellent send-to tools you can add to Reader, with more on the way — via Lifehacker
Last month Google came out with some new synthesized voices for Google Translate, and now the Google Mobile Blog has announced the availability of an iOS version of Google Translate, complete with voice-to-text data entry and synthesized speech. There’s support for 15 languages via voice entry, but you can listen to the translation of 23 languages via those synthesized voices. Tapping a zoom icon makes the translated text bigger, handy when you want to just point and ask “where is the bathroom?” in Greek (or dozens of other languages) — via TUAW
Get your sea legs ready. Google’s latest interactive logo, to go live on Tuesday, celebrates Jules Verne’s 183rd birthday, and it may induce seasickness. In honor of Verne’s most famous novel, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
, the logo has been transformed into the portholes of a submarine. A driving panel allows the viewer to take on the vaunted role of Captian Nemo and dive the submarine to the depths of the digital ocean, where shipwrecks and a giant squid dwell. The logo duplicates the swaying of the sea so accurately, wooziness may ensue — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Australia and the United States have begun a partnership to share top-secret intelligence from spy satellites as Australia moves to acquire its own satellite to boost surveillance of Asia and the Pacific — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Who needs Unix In A Nutshell when you’ve got LSD in a sugarcube — via Boing Boing
A prestigious economics think-tank of the Japanese Government has published a study which concludes that online piracy of anime shows actually increases sales of DVDs. The conclusion stands in sharp contrast with the entertainment industry’s claims that illicit
downloading is leading to billions of dollars in losses worldwide. It also puts the increased anti-piracy efforts of the anime industry in doubt — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Quadrature du Net’s repository of #cablegate cables related to ACTA, the secretive copyright treaty reveal that governments all over the world were pissed off that the USA and Japan wouldn’t let them discuss the treaty with their citizens and industry — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Mobile phone firm Vodafone has accused the Egyptian authorities of using its network to send unattributed text messages supporting the government — via redwolf.newsvine.com
By pressing the Option
key while opening the Time Machine menu bar icon you see two new options, Verify Backups
and Browse other Time Machine Disks
.
The Second option is from 10.5 but as far as I can tell the Verify Backups option is new — via Mac OS X Hints
How does a unknown dating site, with the absurd intention of destroying Facebook, launch with 250,000 member profiles on the first day?
Simple.
You scrape data from Facebook — via jedipunk.newsvine.com
The phenomena of path dependence and lock-in can be illustrated with many examples, but one of the most vivid is the gear we use to launch things into space. Rockets are a very old invention. The Chinese have had them for something like 1,000 years. Francis Scott Key wrote about them during the War of 1812 and we sing about them at every football game. As late as the 1930s, however, they remained small, experimental, and failure-prone — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Whatever you think about Internet porn, if you have any sympathy for online commerce you will be glad to know that this lawsuit failed. A California Appeals court has dismissed the case as a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SLAPP) suit—an action designed to censor free speech.
The publication of a video on the Internet, whether it depicts teenagers playing football or adult entertainment qualifies as ‘conduct in furtherance of… free speech,
the court ruled last week. …All of Cammarata’s causes of action arise from Bright’s conduct of placing speech on the Internet where it can be viewed for free by the public. This is the ‘predatory pricing’ that Cammarata complains of.
The judges also took a look at the Redtube business model, and after a fascinating review of the history of broadcasting and the Internet, rejected the plaintiffs unfair competition claims — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Microsoft knows you’re making throwaway e-mail accounts, and wants to make that process easier.
Today, Hotmail is getting a new feature aimed at e-mail enthusiasts
, which lets anyone create multiple e-mail accounts that can be read, replied to, and managed from their everyday e-mail inbox. These additional e-mail addresses can be had in the same manner as signing up for new accounts, but they require no extra log-ins or upkeep — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Health-care facilities in two states have begun exchanging data with each other and public health agencies over the Internet as part of a pilot program that standardizes the way patient information is transmitted. The goal is to speed up data transmission and to track public health trends, the US Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) announced today.
The new electronic data transfer model replaces the sharing of patient information through traditional fax machines and US mail — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Amongst all of this our own government’s response has been tepid, confused and contradictory. The response to Clinton’s speech, as we have noted before, was cringeworthy in its brazen twisting of her words to support a pro-censorship agenda. The reaction to the Wikileaks developments should have been a principled stand on free speech and the rights of an Australian citizen, but turned into a posturing witch-hunt.
And today, Senator Conroy has was asked about the crisis in Egypt, where a desperate government cut internet access in order to hinder protestors. The minister in response declared his undying love for an Internet free of government control and assured us that such a thing could never happen in Australia — via redwolf.newsvine.com
How much privacy does an employee have when using a work laptop at home?
Not much, it seems, after a senior public servant was sacked after googling the word knockers
and looking at legal pornography. That was despite the access being out of work hours and the public servant using his own internet service provider.
The public servant, from the Commonwealth Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism, was sacked after a software program, called Spector360, was set up by the department to catch any use of the word knockers
.
The program, which takes a snapshot of a user’s desktop every 30 seconds, was then used to unearth the internet history of the man with a 25-year career with the public service. It uncovered his usage despite him having deleted his browser history — via richardfarner.newsvine.com
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