All of Us, the Arbiters of News

Arbiter: 1.    a person empowered to decide matters at issue; judge; umpire.2.    a person who has the sole or absolute power of judging or determining.This is an article about how human nature and the Network Age are forcing the corporate media to bend to our will, and...

Aussie science to make net 100 times faster

Considering the number of otherwise credible sources that have reported on this, it would seem it's not a hoax, and if it works should end big telco's profit and greed-driven and already debunked fear-mongering about a coming "internet clog""COMPUTER users frustrated by slow...

Questioning the coming Internet clog by Ed Gubbins

"One of the nation’s top authorities on global Internet traffic growth says his latest data show no reason to fear network capacity shortages, as traffic growth may even be slightly decelerating. Updating data collected from Internet exchanges around the...

WhoseSpace? Facebook Rules the Social-Networking Roost

Maybe it's a trend issue, maybe it's all about page appearance and usability. Maybe tastes have fundamentally changed. Whatever the cause, Facebook is now more popular than MySpace, with over 15 million more...

Newly released files show Julia Child was a spy

"By BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE and RANDY HERSCHAFT, Associated Press Writers 1 hour, 51 minutes ago ...

Tube workers to stage two strikes

It looks like next week is going to be a nightmare for commuters in London.The underground network is going to be thrown into chaos by two transit worker strikes at the same time as the system is undergoing some...

Bollywood Unplugged on Fox Business TV with India EU Film Initiative

"With 1000 films and about 4 billion cinema tickets per year, Indian film industry is attracting world's attention for another reason; it's phenomenal growth, about 17 per cent, during the last two years. On...

New '90210', Minus the 'Cheese-fest'?

Is a hip, angsty, edgy version of 90210 even possible? Isn't the whole point of its Beverly Hills zip-coded teen drama existence for it to be a preachy cheese fest? The show's producers have managed to wrangle...

Defcon 16: Hacking and Publicity- How Far is Too Far?

Update: still the blockade continues..."he EFF tried to get the gag order lifted off the three MIT students who had planned a presentation on how Boston's subway system was vulnerable to some hacks. However, a...

A word of warning about 'free' public Wi-Fi

"I recently found myself in an airport terminal with a laptop and time to kill. Not knowing what the Wi-Fi options were, I let Windows XP search for available wireless networks. As you can see below, one of the...

Reporters booted from conference for hacking

"With thousands of hackers milling around the Black Hat convention here, and widespread snooping on the public WiFi network, one place was supposed to be off limits: the press room.But in a case of reporters spying on other reporters, three journalists working for the French...

Daydreaming Brain Reveals Secrets of Comas and Consciousness

"Daydreaming Brain Reveals Secrets of Comas and Consciousness Options   Edit Add to group Delete Viewable by...

Christina Applegate battling breast cancer

"LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Actress Christina Applegate reportedly is undergoing treatment for breast cancer. ...

Beware Your Friends: Worm targets Facebook, MySpace

Leave it to malware creators to turn your Facebook session into a remake of The Thing. In this case, a new work replicates by nesting in a Facebook or MySpace account and then sending out copies of itself via the...

Bell moves to limit internet downloads of competitor ISPs

I wonder what gets Bell employees up in the morning?  Its hard to imagine feeling good about working for a company that does this."Bell Canada Inc. is moving to impose download limits on customers of independent internet providers, an act the smaller firms say is...

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