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Any people wanting to explore Britain from the comfort of their office chairs are in luck; the Information Commissioner's Office has concluded…
Google's Street View photography of a Pennsylvania residence drew a lawsuit from the owners, but Google dismissed the plaintiff's opinion as being out of touch with the real world.
Google plans to start placing links to more details on how they have customized a given set of search results for visitors, in the name of demonstrating why they chose those results.
Internet access for reporters covering the Summer Olympics in China suffers the usual blocking instead of the open surfing the press expected to find; they can thank Olympic Committee members for this.
All the big newspapers have an editorial about Net Neutrality today, and the New York Times seems to be the only one running anything on the pro-side. Net Neutrality visionary (he coined the phrase) Tim Wu's editorial, entitled OPEC 2.0, compares bandwidth to oil—a necessary good tightly controlled by a few powerful entities. Wu's thesis:
A higher percentage of people are going online to watch primetime TV shows, according to a new report from Integrated Media Measurement Inc. (IMMI).More than twenty percent of people view some amount of primetime television online. Within the group of online viewers, 50 percent are watching programming as it becomes available and are using the computer as replacement for the television set. The other 50 percent…
