Passengers on Sydney’s M10 buses will now have access to free Wi-Fi as part of a trial of the technology, the New South Wales Government announced on Friday — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Twitter can be used in courtrooms in England and Wales, the top judge said in a landmark decision, following debate over the issue at previous hearings involving WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange — via The New Zealand Herald
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) says it has not found any breaches of Australian law by Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks organisation — via redwolf.newsvine.com
All your communication is split between multiple services and inboxes—between your phone and your computer. Here’s how to turn Gmail into the central hub of all your SMS messages, phone calls, instant messages, voicemail, and more — via lifehacker
In research that further bridges the biological and digital world, scientists at the University of California, San Francisco have created bacteria that can be programmed like a computer — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Les échanges ont été tendus à l’Assemblée, mercredi soir, où l’atmosphère rappelait celle entourant l’adoption de la loi antipiratage Hadopi. Dans un hémicycle peu garni, quelques députés technophiles de tous bords se battaient contre une machine législative qui leur semble s’être quelque peu emballée. L’article 4 du projet de loi Loppsi 2, texte fourre-tout sur la sécurité intérieure, a finalement été adopté. Il permettra au gouvernement de filtrer Internet au moyen d’une liste noire établie par le ministère de l’Intérieur, sans intervention du pouvoir judiciaire. Une mesure que le gouvernement justifie par la nécessité de mieux lutter contre les sites pédophiles et la cybercriminalité en général.
via Google Translate: The exchanges were stretched to the Assembly on Wednesday night, where the atmosphere was reminiscent surrounding the adoption of anti-piracy law Hadopi. In a packed chamber just a few technophiles MPs from all sides were fighting against a legislative machine that seems to have somewhat excited. Section 4 of the Bill Loppsi 2, text tote on Homeland Security, was finally adopted. It will allow the government to filter the Internet using a blacklist issued by the Ministry of Interior, without the intervention of the judiciary. A measure that the government justify the need to better fight against child pornography sites and cybercrime in general — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The UK Government is to combat the early sexualization of children by blocking internet pornography unless parents request it, it was revealed today.
The move is intended to ensure that children are not exposed to sex as a routine by-product of the internet. It follows warnings about the hidden damage being done to children by sex sites — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The road traffic information feature in Maps, available previously in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and surrounding areas is now also available in Perth and Adelaide — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Facebook, the world’s most popular social networking site, is giving companies access to some of its members’ private information without their knowledge.
Firms can override members’ privacy settings to gather their work history, hobbies and social activities, date of birth and photographs — via redwolf.newsvine.com
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says the website will stay strong and keep publishing diplomatic cables despite another funding blow — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Metamaterials that can bend light in nearly any direction may hold the key to future military camouflage based on the chameleon-like photosensitive skin of the squid. Marine biologists collaborating with engineers and scientists at Rice University will develop the new metamaterial with a $6 million grant from the Office of Naval Research — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Few devices know more personal details about people than the smartphones in their pockets: phone numbers, current location, often the owner’s real name—even a unique ID number that can never be changed or turned off.
These phones don’t keep secrets. They are sharing this personal data widely and regularly, a Wall Street Journal investigation has found — via michaelsautter.newsvine.com
Like a scene from a TV crime show, Victorian police have used an iPhone GPS app and a helicopter to track down a thief.
His crime? Stealing the mobile phone — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The trend towards online shopping will be examined in a Federal Government inquiry into the retail industry.
The Productivity Commission will examine the structure of the industry, including the $1,000 tax-free threshold that applies to goods bought from overseas — via ABC News
If you were going to compose a list of the ten greatest technology products ever, it would be a plausible contender. If you were compiling a list of the ten greatest Web services and didn’t include it, I’d tell you your list was wrong.
It’s AltaVista-the first great search engine. Probably still the second greatest one ever, after you know who. And as Liz Gannes of All Things Digital is reporting, it’s apparently going away due to downsizing at its current owner, Yahoo. (Other victims of Yahoo’s death panel include the once-great Delicious and AllTheWeb, the bland Digg clone Yahoo Buzz, the could-have-been-neat MyBlogLog, and stuff I can’t identify, such as Yahoo Picks) — via redwolf.newsvine.com
That enormous sigh of relief you heard yesterday was likely from 5,400 unidentified porn downloaders reacting to a West Virginia judge’s ruling that an adult-film producer cannot force their unmasking in an effort to sue them for copyright infringement.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is calling the judge’s decision a big victory in the fight against copyright trolls
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Watch out, TSA: Google’s getting into the game of exploring the human body.
Hang on, though — there’s no groping going on here. Google’s approach is a new educational tool called Google Body Browser. Launched on the Google Labs website today, Google Body Browser uses HTML5 technology to let you examine the human body in fully layered, three-dimensional detail — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Foss Patents reports that a joint venture company involving Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, and EMC has acquired 882 patents from Novell for a sum of $450 million. Novell is undergoing a transition as it has been acquired by software company Attachmate, and the patent sale is part of the acquisition deal — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Many of you have read the news stories about Delicious that began appearing yesterday. We’re genuinely sorry to have these stories appear with so little context for our loyal users. While we can’t answer each of your questions individually, we wanted to address what we can at this stage and we promise to keep you posted as future plans get finalized — via redwolf.newsvine.com
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says he fears the US is preparing to indict him, as he spends his first day on bail on an English country estate — via The Independent
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