Erin Rose is a Bay Area ex-pat now geeking out in New Mexico, home of the atom bomb, the Spaceport, and other technological marvels. You can chat her up @rosieate.
We’re similar in lots of ways, so why do the US & Europe have such different attitudes towards Internet privacy? “Hackerville” – a sleepy town in Romania filled with cybercriminals…
The Google-Bing battle over copied search results gets raucous. And now Microsoft’s calling out Google on… web video formats. Yawn. The US government is still seizing file-sharing domains. The iPhone on…
The Chinese government is blocking search results on the protests in Egypt. Speaking of which, what’s actually inside those Made-In-USA tear gas canisters being used by Egyptian police? The FBI…
The Egyptian government has shut down the country’s Internet. Compliant providers made it surprisingly easy to drop traffic to almost nothing in less than two hours. But stateside, over 25%…
The President pledges high speed wireless internet for 98% of Americans in 5 years. If anyone doubted that we live in a culture of excess, more proof: Mobile app revenue to…
Facebook creates a system to stop hacks of protester pages by Tunisian censorship authorities. Value your marriage? Watch your updates. 80% of divorce lawyers report social media evidence in their…
It’s a week for CEO shuffle. Eric Schmidt is no longer heading up Google. And speaking of Google, they’re releasing a Groupon competitor, Google Offers. Wondering how much it costs to…
Android? iOS? Pssshaw. HP is working on two PalmOS tablets. You can in fact run out of space in your GMail account. If you don’t think the government should have…
Happy 10th Birthday Wikipedia! Sage advice of the week: encrypt your smartphone. Steve Jobs is taking medical leave from Apple. Print magazines and the iPad: can’t live with it, can’t…
It’s Friday . . . let’s have some frivolity. Hug your closest factory, ’cause it’s real hard to make a toaster from scratch.. Modern kids make it clear how obsolete…
Kudos to Twitter, the only company to bring secret Wikileaks subpoenas out into the open. Microsoft is fighting Apple’s attempt to trademark the term “App Store.” Everybody wants to make…
Verizon is getting the iPhone at last . . . and AT&T is not pleased. Big brother is upon us: Obama approves unique online ID number for all Americans. Japanese…