Archive for 2011/04/26
So much of my daily life is hosted in the cloud – websites, finances, news, entertainment, social interactions, family connections, schedules, notes, memories, business transactions – and yet I have no real control over any of it
Posted: 2011/04/26 in Education / Awareness, Tech Evolution, The CloudApple signs cloud deal with Warner Music
Posted: 2011/04/26 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, The CloudMainstream Movie Rentals Are Coming to YouTube…Legally
Posted: 2011/04/26 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech EvolutionCase study: How the USA PATRIOT Act can be used to access EU data
Posted: 2011/04/26 in Education / Awareness, The CloudEuropean universities are risking their students’ security by outsourcing to the cloud. A case study.
ISP Entanet UK Slams Failure of the Digital Economy Acts Judicial Review
Posted: 2011/04/26 in Education / Awareness, Three StrikesThe government (and now the courts) seem determined to get this controversial and poorly considered Act implemented no matter what and seem to have little consideration for the views of one of the two main industries to be affected by it
Sony Told To Pay Finnish Man 100 Euros For Removing OtherOS
Posted: 2011/04/26 in Education / Awareness, LitigationDropbox Tries To Kill Off Open Source Project With DMCA Takedown
Posted: 2011/04/26 in Copyright, Education / AwarenessDropbox’s CTO and cofounder, Arash Ferdowsi, did not like Dropship. His reaction was swift. According to the project’s creator, Wladimir van der Laan, Ferdowsi contacted him soon after and requested “in a really civil way” that he take the project off of github. van der Laan complied.
Homeland Security Complains To USTR That ACTA Is A Threat To National Security
Posted: 2011/04/26 in Education / Awareness, Public PolicyDHS explicitly note that it wants to make sure that ACTA doesn’t lead other countries to “devote resources to IPR enforcement at the expense of more important anti-terrorism efforts.”
Iomega Home Media Network Cloud Edition 1TB drive
Posted: 2011/04/26 in Education / Awareness, Tech EvolutionAmazon gets ‘F’ for communication amidst cloud outage
Posted: 2011/04/26 in Education / Awareness, The CloudBTjunkie Starts Proxy to Bypass Italian Blockade
Posted: 2011/04/26 in Blocking, Education / AwarenessFBI child porn raid a strong argument for locking down WiFi networks
Posted: 2011/04/26 in Education / AwarenessFBI raids apartment of alleged King’s Speech uploader
Posted: 2011/04/26 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Illegal File Sharing6 important things about the ongoing PlayStation Network outage that Sony won’t reveal
Posted: 2011/04/26 in Education / Awareness, Network Security, Privacy / Data ProtectionThe network is used by owners of PS3 and PlayStation Portable machines to download games, films and music, as well as to play online with friends.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13193891
Will the ‘Age of America’ end in 2016?
Posted: 2011/04/26 in Education / Awareness, Future Developments?, Public Policy, Stats / reportsAccording to the figures, the Chinese economy would grow from $11.2 trillion in 2011 to $19 trillion in 2016. Over the same period, the U.S. economy will rise from a dominant $15.2 trillion to a trailing $18.8 trillion.
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/BUSINESS/04/26/us.china.economy/index.html?hpt=C1
