Remote control of free choice?

By Ursula Tillmann    We are informed and see the world through our eyes as it presents itself. So we think. Our opinions are based on information of choice. So we believe. We can differentiate...

Celltick to manage interactive mobile media marketing in India

"Celltick's managed service team will use their global expertise to refine the targeting and content used in FLASH! to contribute directly to raising revenues for the service. The team's core competency is utilising LiveScreen(TM) Media to build a relevant, high quality user...

Virus Alert: You Tube Email virus

Hackers "Storm Botnet" are up to no good."San Francisco - A new email urging recipients to watch a video of themselves on YouTube actually directs them to a fake site that infects their computers and turns them...

Why I'm Happy with my U.S. Senators

Visualization of complex or even just large data is one of the real strengths of computers. The Sunlight Foundation's Sunlight Lab brings visualization to bear on how your (tax) money is allocated. If you want your senator to be corrupt as long as he or she gets a hog-sized...

13 Days to Save Net Radio

I'm a big fan of Pandora and similar sites so I was interested to see this appeal: The future of Internet radio is in immediate danger. Royalty rates for webcasters have been drastically increased by a recent ruling and are due to go into effect on May 15 (retroactive to Jan...

AdWords Lure Users to Malware; Google Steps In

This is bad news for legitimate users of AdWords. Love them or hate them, those lil' web ads make possible so many of the sites we like to visit each day. By linking to a few bad apples, those little AdWords may...

Robot Photo Science Discovery - Water On MARS :: MAXINE

"A man and his robot satellite and camera - it is just amazing what one can find clicking pictures. After circling around MARS a few years, while photo mapping the surface, NASA's satellite turns up evidence of a...

Google unveils election mashup

"The Google Earth 2006 election resource tool, unveiled early Monday, indicates the country's 436 congressional districts with stars on the popular 3D map of the country. Clicking on a star pops open a bubble...

Ad Clicking Jobs Outsourced to India: Advertisers Frustrated

"Pay-per-click advertising is the primary revenue source for Google and a big revenue contributor for Yahoo [Overture]. Two years ago, Times of India reported that a large number of Indian housewives, college...

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