In order to remain on the offensive against repressive regimes, nonviolent civil resistance movements need to ensure they are up to speed on digital security, if only for defense purposes. [this list will humble you]
"Chris Matthews is a shill for the administration. He favors state control over individual choice and thereby fails to understand his immoral position."
Iqbal Quadir tells how his experiences as a kid in poor Bangladesh, and later as a banker in New York, led him to start a mobile phone operator connecting 80 million rural Bangladeshi -- and to become a champion of bottom-up development.
Erik Hersman presents the remarkable story of Ushahidi, a GoogleMap mashup that allowed Kenyans to report and track violence via cell phone texts following the 2008 elections, and has evolved to continue saving lives in other countries.
I've been telling people that their cell phones can be activated and their conversations in the room with a cell phone (even if it's not being used) CAN BE MONITORED! I was in communications in the Army...
It's a race to turn a relatively benign symbiote (the original Napster, which offered to pay for its downloads if it could get a license) into vicious, antibiotic resistant bacteria that's dedicated to their destruction.
Vandals cut fiber-optic cable lines at two locations early today, knocking out phones and access to 911 emergency services to thousands of California customers. [buried lede of the year nominee - the real meat is at the end.]
Dear President Obama. We write to you today because we wish to save you from the significant negative health consequences that have occurred here in Germany.
At midnight, more than 400 broadcasters across the country plan to permanently shut off analog signals and air only digital programming. The change could potentially confuse television viewers who were expecting to have 4 more months to make the tran
The worldwide mobile phone market experienced an unusual downturn in the normally robust fourth quarter of 2008. "A combination of weak end-user demand, currency volatility, and limited credit availability prevented the market from experiencing
A powerful US lobbying group wants to ban the use of cell phones while driving - all cell phone use, including hands-free operation. The National Safety Council - a 94-year-old, congressionally chartered non-profit organization with 55,000 member com
working with credit-reporting company Equifax Google offer shows to advertisers that can target people with household incomes greater than $100,000. it certainly won't be possible to target specific households (YET!)
The project is being led by Google's vice president and chief internet evangelist, Vint Cerf, who designed many of the networking protocols that launched the Internet in the 1970s.
Over the objections of television broadcasters, federal regulators approved use of a disputed slice of radio spectrum for public use Tuesday in hopes that it will lead to development of new wireless communications.
Let’s suppose that you want to send somebody an message that contains sensitive information which you want only the person getting the message to see — say an important password or an account number or a transaction that you’d rather keep on the down
Having designed the networking protocols that launched the Internet, Vint Cerf now wants to put the same kind of robust communications network in outer space.
With the 50 Mbps connection users will be able to download a high-def movie (about 6 GB) in 16 minutes and a standard-definition movie (about 2 GB) in 5 minutes, says the company.
It said that plans to co-operate with the US on "extremely controversial" techniques and technologies of surveillance and "enhanced" co-operation. The group is accused of trying to harness a "digital tsunami" to aid law
The Federal Trade Commission essentially banned robocalls Tuesday--creating new rules that telemarketers may only send the prerecorded sales pitches to people who actually want to receive them.
Long lines of disgruntled customers wrapped around city blocks across the globe today as Apple scrambled to fix a glitch in iTunes that prevented iPhone acolytes from activating the next-generation phones they had waited hours, even days, to buy.
Two civil liberties groups filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government yesterday, seeking records related to the government's use of cellphones as tracking devices.
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