The Unleveling of Play: Internet Surveillance & Governmental Intrusion November 28, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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It is estimated that around 25 countries place restrictions on content for citizens utilizing the Internet. Citizens Lab has published a guide for world-wide users to by-pass censors. Additionally, the Lab introduces Psiphon ... | |
Experimental phone network uses virtual sticky notes June 19, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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The rapid convergence of social networks, mobile phones and global positioning technology has given Duke University engineers the ability to create something they call "virtual sticky notes," site-specific messages that people ... | |
 Circuit behind the Internet Age turns 50 years old September 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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The computer chip industry on Friday celebrated the 50th birthday of the integrated circuit, a breakthrough that set the stage for the Internet and the Digital Age. A half-century ago a young engineer named ... | |
System thwarts Internet eavesdropping August 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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The growth of shared Wi-Fi and other wireless computer networks has increased the risk of eavesdropping on Internet communications, but researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science and College of ... | |
Sites that allow visitors to share tales of kindness popping up on the Web September 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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One afternoon in mid-July, Melissa Morris-Ivone was on the receiving end of one of those infinitesimally small acts of kindness that put you in a good mood. | |
Scientific wiki solves the 'who wrote what' problem August 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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Reporting in Nature Genetics, and working in conjunction with Society in Science, the ETH Zurich-administered fund that is dedicated to exploring new avenues in the relationship between science and society, scientist ... | |
 The Day the World Changed July 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Twenty years ago, a network engineer named Hans-Werner Braun started an e-mail message to the users of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) fledgling NSFNET project with that sentence to announce that the ... | |
 Infovell's 'research engine' finds deep Web pages that Google, Yahoo miss September 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 57 vote(s)
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According to a study by the University of California at Berkeley, traditional search engines such as Google and Yahoo index only about 0.2% of the Internet. The remaining 99.8%, known as the "deep Web," is ... | |
Why Encryption Didn't Save TJX March 31, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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TJX: It's the target of the largest known customer record theft of all time, and it's a case in point that encryption is not a silver bullet. | |
Phishers Use Call Forwarding to Mask Fraud April 28, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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A phishing attack uncovered by SecureWorks tries to entice victims into forwarding their telephone calls in order to thwart out-of-band authentication by banks. | |
Online library gives readers access to 1.5 million books November 27, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 147 vote(s)
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The Million Book Project, an international venture led by Carnegie Mellon University in the United States, Zhejiang University in China, the Indian Institute of Science in India and the Library at Alexandria in Egypt, has ... | |
 Probing Question: What is Net neutrality? May 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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"Internet Freedom, under attack. What do we do? Stand up, talk back," shouted a group calling themselves the Raging Grannies, outside the Dinkelspiel Auditorium at Stanford University. Inside, the Federal ... | |
Abandoning net neutrality discourages improvements in service March 07, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Charging online content providers such as Yahoo! and Google for preferential access to the customers of Internet service providers might not be in the best interest of the millions of Americans, despite claims to the contrary, ... | |
Web 2.0: Opening up, or dumbing down? April 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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Are Google, Wikipedia, YouTube, and other Web 2.0 giants the scourge of American culture, laying waste to its 20th-century institutions and dumbing down society? | |
 Latest weapons in spam battle are images May 23, 2006 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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Like all wars, the campaign against junk e-mail -- spam -- is marked along the way with victories and casualties. It's an "ever-escalating battle," the senior director of marketing at anti-spam company Commtouch, ... | |
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