Playlists: Music for the Credit Crunch?

Laura Barton offers her picks, hits and misses on Music to help you get through the credit crunch (The Guardian, July 21).She first mentions The Filter (a recommendation site with Peter Gabriel amongst its founders. As the name suggests they filter music for you) who she says...

Sweden approves wiretapping law

In one of most far reaching eavesdropping plan and threatening civil liberties plan Swedish parliament has passed this draconian law which will allow government to record all electronic conversation."Sweden's parliament has approved controversial new laws allowing authorities...

Record firms seek to ban illegal downloads

"Four major record companies have brought a High Court action to compel broadband service provider, Eircom, to prevent its networks being used for the illegal downloading of music. The case is being taken against Eircom as it is the largest broadband internet service provider...

Activated Lignite (HOK) for clean drinking water in Ruhr region

"The "Mulheim process" uses HOK as a high-quality filter material. In the Mulheim process, the treated HOK performs various functions. Besides the actual filtration, it eliminates substances on the grain surface such as iron and manganese which have oxidized after ozone...

ARS TECHNICA sounds a warning.

Somehow, I don't EVER want AT&T flltering content I send or receive over the Internet. Do you? I don't think NBC would be any better. Common carrier means that the owner of the "tube" or highway or phoneline does not regulate or mess with its content. "It's no secret that...

Australian Prime Minister vows to clean up Internet

Australia's right-leaning prime minister John Howard has promised to spend $189 million on censoring certain parts of the island nation's internet.  The announcement was made as part of Mr Howard's  federal  election campaign. It targets "chatroom sex...

Flickr Filtered in Iran ,UAE: Resistance

Internet users in the United Arab Emirates and Iran discovered some time ago that their access to Flickr, the popular social networking-photo archive site had been blocked yet again, for the third time. In the UAE, the major Internet service provider, Etisalat, is the...