Posts Tagged ‘internet’
Thursday, February 9th, 2012
I t’s easy to frame the fight over SOPA and PIPA as Hollywood vs. Silicon Valley — two huge industries clashing over whose voice should dictate the future of Internet policy — but it’s absolutely wrong. The bills are dead , thanks to widespread protest. But the real architects of the bills’ defeat don’t have a catchy label or a recognized lobbying group. They don’t have the glamour or the deep pockets of the studios. Yet they are the largest, most powerful and most important voice in the debate — and, until recently, they’ve been all but invisible to Congress. Read full article > >

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We are the media, and so are you
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Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
Media and Internet giants at odds over dealing with purloined content on the Web may need to agree first on exactly how bad the problem is.
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In Piracy Debate, Deciding if the Sky Is Falling
Tags: agree-first, border, giants-at-odds, internet, irs, law and legislation, Media, nee, netflix inc|nflx|nasdaq, time warner inc|twx|nyse, web
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Tuesday, February 7th, 2012
Yahoo has shaken up its board , with four of its top board members headed for the door. In a release Tuesday, the Internet firm announced that Chairman Roy Bostock, Hewlett-Packard executive Vyomesh Joshi, Gary Wilson and Arthur Kern will leave Yahoo’s board. Combined with the resignation of Yahoo founder Jerry Yang , that will leave the company with a majority of new board members. With the new changes, all of Yahoo’s directors will have joined the board after 2010. Read full article > >

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Yahoo shakes up its board
Tags: arthur-kern, chairman, cut, Facebook, full-article, internet, jerry-yang, Reddit, resign, twitter, Video, vyomesh-joshi
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Tuesday, February 7th, 2012
Thousands of Trendnet security camera webfeeds have been breached and shared on the internet, including video from children’s rooms.

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Trendnet flaw hits home net cams
Tags: Children, from-children, including-video, internet, red, sec, Security, security-camera, the-internet, usa, Video, web
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Friday, February 3rd, 2012
A virus has infected the computer network of a job-development agency in the Commerce Department , forcing it to block employees from the Internet for 10 days. The attack, discovered two weeks ago, targeted computers at the Economic Development Administration , which is responsible for making business-development grants to distressed communities to help them create jobs. Read full article > >
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Commerce agency’s system infected by virus, may be victim of cyber attack
Tags: attack, commerce-department, development, distressed-communities, economic, economic-development, employees, from-the-internet, full-article, infected-the-computer, internet, jobs, Politics
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Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
Attention has swaddled Lana Del Rey for the past few months. Her 15 minutes of fame began last summer when “Video Games” — an anemic ballad sung in a pouty-torchy contralto somewhere between Britney Spears and Fiona Apple — won accolades acro ss the Internet. Read full article > >
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Lana Del Rey has the voice, but not the emotion
Tags: art, britney, britney-spears, Cola, epa, fame-began, fiona, fiona-apple, full-article, internet, past-few, Video, video-games, won-accolades
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Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
I miss the old Google. I miss the old Internet. I don’t miss Hamster Dance (see it once, you’ll have it stuck in your head for the next 10 years) or AOL (skreeeeee-onk, skreeeeee-onk, kcck, kssssh, kllissssh, shhhhhhs) or the dial-up speeds that required a full day to download the minute-long trailer for “ The Phantom Menace .” Read full article > >
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Alexandra Petri: Google’s no-opt-out privacy changes and the end of the anonymous Internet
Tags: ama, amazon, art, border, change, epa, internet, Media, minute, miss-the-old, phantom, phantom-menace, red, the-dial-up, your-head
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Monday, January 23rd, 2012
Bodies found in Internet café.
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Cruise-Ship Death Toll Rises to 15
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Saturday, January 21st, 2012
Teenagers’ access to the Internet should not be restricted, says an expert on social research who says she benefited from it herself when she was young.
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Danah Boyd: Cracking Teenagers’ Online Codes
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Friday, January 20th, 2012
The main sponsor of a House bill targeting online piracy announced Friday that he will postpone further action on the measure that has triggered fierce protests, blackouts from Internet sites and some rethinking among lawmakers. Read full article > >
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SOPA action delayed in House until ‘wider consensus’
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Friday, January 20th, 2012
The main sponsor of a House bill targeting online piracy announced Friday that he will postpone further action on the measure that has triggered fierce protests, blackouts from Internet sites and some rethinking among lawmakers. Read full article > >
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SOPA action delayed in House until ‘wider consensus’
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Friday, January 20th, 2012
The main sponsor of a House bill targeting online piracy announced Friday that he will postpone further action on the measure that has triggered fierce protests, blackouts from Internet sites and some rethinking among lawmakers. Read full article > >
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SOPA action delayed in House until ‘wider consensus’
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Friday, January 20th, 2012
The main sponsor of a House bill targeting online piracy announced Friday that he will postpone further action on the measure that has triggered fierce protests, blackouts from Internet sites and some rethinking among lawmakers. Read full article > >
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SOPA action delayed in House until ‘wider consensus’
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Friday, January 20th, 2012
Senator Harry Reid, the majority leader, on Friday called off a scheduled vote on the anti-Internet piracy bill that had rallied the Web, and House leaders took steps to slow legislation as well.
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Senate Postpones Vote on Internet Anti-Piracy Bill
Tags: friday, harry, harry-reid, house, internet, nato, reid, scheduled-vote, senator-harry
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Friday, January 20th, 2012
Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) announced Friday he would delay consideration of measure to combat online piracy, bowing to pressure from a coalition of Internet companies, including Google and Wikipedia, that rallied consumers to their side by saying the legislation could lead to the censorship of popular sites. Read full article > >
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PIPA Senate vote to be delayed, Reid announces
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