The Impunity of the Pro-Noynoy SWS Survey Newsvine | HOW is it possible that, no matter that the current occupant in Malacanang is the son of Mama Cory and Papa Ninoy, he was able to get an amazing 88% trust rating amidst the HOCUS PCOS brand of poll fraud hoopla? According to the Social Weather Stations, Noynoy Aquino got "88% of adult Filipinos ha...
A Revival of Rural Craft, With a Modern Twist The New York Times | LONDON — Seeing villagers digging up clay and turning it into pots in Peru persuaded the Dutch designers Nadine Sterk and Lonny van Ryswyck to do the same in Europe. They planned to collect clay from several countries to show how it changes from place to place, but once they started digging ...
Far From Iran, a Struggle to Stay Involved The New York Times | A political tract hammered out by an Iranian feminist this spring presents a snapshot of activism from exile. | Incensed by an aging ayatollah’s pronouncement that women exposing excessive flesh cause earthquakes, the young lawyer, who fled t...
Internet Crooks Craft Creative Counterfeiting Scam The New York Times | Filed at 5:34 p.m. ET | SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Think of it as one more reason not to write checks. | Hackers believed to be operating out of Russia have figured out a high-tech way to carry out the decidedly low-tech crime of check fraud, a computer...
Judge on DRM: Non-Pirates May Hack Away TechNewsWorld | Hacking the technological protections built into copyrighted digital material in order to view or use the content does not necessarily contravene the provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), the Fifth Circuit Court in New Orleans ...
iPhone Jailbreak Police Aren't Going to Bust You TechNewsWorld | In the obscure world of copyright law, it is now technically OK to jailbreak an iPhone. That's according to a Library of Congress ruling, which has designated replacing the operating system of the phone with a less restrictive one to fall under the...
Internet warriors hone skills at Black Hat - DefCon Breitbart | A pirate flag is seen above a keyboard in 2002. Internet warriors are gathe... | Participants in the "Chaos Communication Camps 2007" work on their computer... | Internet warriors are gathering this week to explore chinks in the armors of computers...
Internet warriors hone skills at Black Hat - DefCon PhysOrg | Internet warriors are gathering this week to explore chinks in the armors of computers, bank teller machines, mobile phones, power grids, and other "smart" devices intrinsic to modern life. | Black Hat USA kicks off in Las Vegas on Wednesday with b...
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iPhone hacking becomes legalized Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Until this week, hacking an iPhone was like jaywalking for techies: easy, common and illegal. | But the Library of Congress has legalized this hacking -- known as "jailbreaking" ...
EU starts probe against IBM The Times Of India BRUSSELS: European Union competition regulators launched two anti-trust investigations against IBM, suspecting it of abusing its dominant position in the mainframe computer market....
Europe Starts Antitrust Inquiries Against I.B.M. The New York Times | BRUSSELS (Reuters) — The European Commission started two antitrust investigations on Monday against the American computer company International Business Machines Corporatio...
Internet warriors hone skills at Black Hat conference NZ Herald By Glenn Chapman 2:23 PM Monday Jul 26, 2010 Email Print | SAN FRANCISCO - Internet warriors are gathering this week to explore chinks in the armours of computers, bank teller machines, mobile phones, power grids, and other "smart" device...
A Revival of Rural Craft, With a Modern Twist The New York Times | LONDON — Seeing villagers digging up clay and turning it into pots in Peru persuaded the Dutch designers Nadine Sterk and Lonny van Ryswyck to do the same in Europe. They planned to collect clay from several countries to show how it changes f...
Road signs of the internet Gulf News | A funny thing happened to us on the way to the future. The internet went from being something exotic to being a boring utility, like mains electricity or running water, and we never really noticed. So we wound up being totally dependent on a system...
Review: Great iPad Games Are Worth the Search The New York Times | Filed at 10:35 a.m. ET | Apple's iPad has only been around since April, but since its release I've drawn two conclusions: | --It's a great machine for playing games. | --Game developers haven't come close to exploiting its potential. | Oh, there's ...
The scoop on unauthorized celeb books: fewer sales The Miami Herald | NEW YORK -- Put Angelina Jolie's face on a magazine cover and sales will surely rise. Get her to write a memoir and it would be worth millions. But write a book about her, without her cooperation, and you're taking a chance. | Coming a week after the release of her latest film, "Salt," a biography has been published. "Angelina," by Andrew Morton,...
Telecom group sues San Francisco over mobile phone law Breitbart | A man uses a cell phone in New York. A major US telecommunications industry... | A major US telecommunications industry group asked a federal court to block a law requiring mobile phone makers to warn customers that the gadgets are bathing them in radiation. | The unprecedented ordinance was passed by the northern California city's elected board ...
