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From Forbes: If Jonathan Ive were dead, which he’s not, he’d be spinning in his grave. Instead, Apple’s chief designer is probably vomiting in his wastebasket. In an effort by the staid, slumping computer maker to break its bland streak, Dell rolled out new laptops Tuesday cloaked in eight different colors, including “sunshine yellow” and …
From Technology News Daily: The government must have a search warrant before it can secretly seize and search emails stored by email service providers, according to a landmark ruling Monday in the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The court found that email users have the same reasonable expectation of privacy in their stored email …
From the BBC: Half of Britons could not exist without e-mail – with 30 or 40-somethings more addicted than teens, a survey finds. Fifty per cent of 25 to 34-year-olds told ICM researchers they would not be able to carry on without e-mail. Forty one per cent of teenagers said they relied on e-mail, while …
From eWeek: No one ever said policing the Internet was easy. Bot herders control networks of compromised computers sometimes numbering into the thousands. Already, an FBI-led initiative dubbed “Operation Bot Roast” has identified 1 million compromised computers. On Wednesday, FBI officials laid out charges against three men—Robert Alan Soloway of Seattle, James C. Brewer of …
From eWeek: Google’s continuously raked over the coals regarding the massive amounts of PII (personally identifiable information) it collects, what it does with it, how long it retains that data and what the company might do with it if its merger with DoubleClick goes ahead. That’s all been ratcheted up to fever pitch over the …
From Yahoo! News: Eastman Kodak Co. said on Thursday it has developed digital camera technology that nearly eliminates the need for flash photography, part of the company’s effort to make money from its deep patent portfolio. The world’s biggest maker of photographic film says its proprietary sensor technology significantly increases sensitivity to light. Image sensors …
From Yahoo! News: When Will Nickelson and his daughter want to spend some quality time together, they fire up Nintendo Co.’s Wii and play a few rounds of “Wii Sports” or “Mario Party 8.” “It’s kind of difficult picking a game for a 7-year-old girl, but she really likes to beat her dad at bowling,” …
From ZDNet News: One lazy afternoon, Maer Israel and a colleague ducked out of work to have a double espresso at a nearby cafe in San Francisco. Several weeks later, the information technology manager at the French American International School was alerted that a picture of him sitting at the cafe could be found on …
From BBC News: Internet video site YouTube is to test a new video fingerprinting technology to address copyright concerns. The software will identify unique attributes in video clips and could be used to prevent copyrighted clips from being uploaded without permission. YouTube executive Chris Maxcy told news agency Reuters that the tool would be tested …
From the New York Times: Presleigh Montemayor often gets home after a long day and spends some time with her family. Then she logs onto the Internet, leaving the real world and joining a virtual one. But the digital utopia of Second Life is not for her. Presleigh, who is 9 years old, prefers a …