House Committee Questions Google, Microsoft On Tracking
How major Internet players follow their users and utilize their activity became the focus of a letter of inquiry sent by the…
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How major Internet players follow their users and utilize their activity became the focus of a letter of inquiry sent by the…
The last time Representative John Culberson staged a Twitter riot (a twiot?), he set flame to a strawman. That same strawman, though, became the Guy Fawkes of the "LetOurCongressTweet" movement. Today's actions may also be some fine Texas grandstanding, but it sure is fun to watch.
A New York man who posted videos on YouTube claiming he had persuaded others to poison millions of bottles of Gerber baby food, with the intent to kill babies was arrested on Thursday, federal prosecutors said.Anton Dunn, 42, calling himself "Trashman," anonymously posted a series of videos of himself titled "gerbersbabyfoodalert" on YouTube. In one of the videos Dunn wears a black mask and says…
It's official, as far as the FCC is concerned, that Comcast's throttling of peer-to-peer traffic was illegal and in violation of the FCC's network neutrality principles. The highly expected ruling came down today, with Chairman Kevin Martin crossing the political aisle to join commissioners Copps and Adelstein, serving Comcast with a cease-and-desist order.
They aren’t monkeying around at Yahoo Search, but they are SearchMonkeying with more universal content in the search results.
Cuil, the search engine launched at the beginning of the week with brassy fanfare and progressive decrescendo on Monday, still looks about the same on Friday. It's faster, at least, without 50 million—seriously—queries hitting its categorized servers. The images are still a bit out of whack, the categories still odd, the results certainly alternative.