Archive for 2011/04/10

The white light technology that could finally make 3D awesome – without glasses

Posted: 2011/04/10 in Education / Awareness, Future Developments?

http://gizmodo.com/#!5790289/the-white-light-technology-that-could-make-holograms-awesome

The total contents of the web is actually smaller than the sum of the sizes of the contents of everyone’s gmail

Posted: 2011/04/10 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reports

http://gizmodo.com/#!5790161/why-google-searches-the-entire-internet-faster-than-they-do-your-gmail

How to Get Books Into Your iPhone or iPad Without Using iTunes

Posted: 2011/04/10 in Education / Awareness

http://gizmodo.com/#!5790168/how-to-get-books-into-your-iphone-or-ipad-without-using-itunes

All Those Star Trek Episodes Are Coming to Netflix in July

Posted: 2011/04/10 in Education / Awareness

http://gizmodo.com/#!5790422/all-those-star-trek-episodes-are-coming-to-netflix-in-july

Silent Film Director for iPhone Is the Surpising Intersection of ‘Fun’ and ‘Silent Films’

Posted: 2011/04/10 in Education / Awareness

http://gizmodo.com/#!5790409/silent-film-director-for-iphone-is-the-surpising-intersection-of-fun-and-silent-films

Inside Facebook’s Gleaming Green Data Center

Posted: 2011/04/10 in Education / Awareness

http://gizmodo.com/#!5790445/server-porn-inside-facebooks-gleaming-green-data-center/gallery/1

Apple Beefs Up On Gaming PR with Alleged Nintendo, Activision Hires

Posted: 2011/04/10 in Education / Awareness

http://gizmodo.com/#!5790446/apple-beefs-up-on-gaming-pr-with-alleged-nintendo-activation-hires

An emerging dispute over electronic privacy is testing whether President Obama will live up to his promise to protect Americans’ online rights

Posted: 2011/04/10 in Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data Protection, Public Policy

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20051982-281.html

A leading music industry expert is claiming that the RIAA is for some odd reason promoting illegal music services, against the wishes of the major labels

Posted: 2011/04/10 in Education / Awareness

http://torrentfreak.com/riaa-promotes-illegal-p2p-services-expert-claims-110409/

The US Postal Service has pulled down a site hosting malicious code that was earlier used in a sophisticated multi-stage attack featuring the Blackhole Exploit kit

Posted: 2011/04/10 in Cybercrime

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/08/us_postal_service_exploit/

Sony has announced that PSP owners will soon be able to stream unlimited amounts of music to their handheld, as it will begin supporting the Qriocity cloud-based music service starting next week

Posted: 2011/04/10 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech Evolution

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/reviews/2011/04/psp-to-get-streaming-music-next-week-powered-by-qriocity.ars

Time Warner, Viacom aim legal guns at each other over iPad app

Posted: 2011/04/10 in Education / Awareness, Litigation

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/04/time-warner-viacom-aim-legal-guns-at-each-other-over-ipad-app.ars

The US Justice Department has proposed a set of rules that Google must follow if it wants to acquire airline booking software maker ITA. So far, those who use ITA’s software are pleased with the proposal, though they say more investigation into Google’s search dominance is needed

Posted: 2011/04/10 in Education / Awareness, Google, Public Policy

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/04/doj-green-lights-google-takeover-of-ita-with-several-conditions.ars

A source at the hosting provider for many of Sony’s websites says that recent Anonymous attacks have been a “medium strength” annoyance—time-consuming to block, but not terribly sophisticated

Posted: 2011/04/10 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/04/source-anonymous-attacks-on-sony-annoying-not-much-more.ars

 

YouTube Live will integrate live streaming capabilities and discovery tools directly into the YouTube platform

Posted: 2011/04/10 in Education / Awareness, Google, Tech Evolution

http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2011/04/youtube-is-going-live.html

How to Build a Nuclear Bomb – And Other Weapons of Mass Destruction

Posted: 2011/04/10 in Education / Awareness

http://www.nationbooks.org/book/136/How%20to%20Build%20a%20Nuclear%20Bomb

See also:

Taking Apart a Nuclear Bomb
http://cryptome.org/0003/nuke-disassembly.zip

Facebook Is Said to Have Discussed Entering China With Partners

Posted: 2011/04/10 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-09/facebook-is-said-to-have-discussed-entering-china-with-partners.html

Zynga, Facebook Spark 51% Jump in Value of Top Web Startups
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-07/zynga-facebook-spur-51-jump-in-private-market-valuations-of-web-startups.html

Riskiest Places to Use Your Credit Card

Posted: 2011/04/10 in Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data Protection

Non-bank-owned ATMs, Flea Markets, Small Shops/Cafes in Foreign Countries, Non-Secure Online Checkout, Wi-Fi Hotspots and Public Computers, Recurring Bills/Subscriptions, Purchases on Smart Phones, Unsolicited E-mail Offers, Strange and Foreign Domain Extensions, Suspect Swipe Terminals

http://www.cnbc.com/id/41005646