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Fallen soliders MySpace profiles serve as everlasting voices

In yet another way the Internet has changed the way Americans view the Iraq war, fallen soldiers memories are preserved in their MySpace profiles and blogs reports the Associated Press.Army Pfc. Johnathon Millican of Trafford, Ala., wrote on his MySpace page before he was killed in Karbala, Iraq:"You don't have...

Tags: Government technology

Blog posts 2007-05-29

DOD turns off access to YouTube, MySpace, Pandora

Soldiers stationed overseas wont be watching their favorite YouTube videos anytime soon. The Department of Defense has announced it will begin blocking 12 popular websites in order to protect information and reduce drag on the departments networks, reports the Associated Press. "This recreational traffic impacts our official DoD network...

Tags: Defense, Government technology

Blog posts 2007-05-14

Good intentions aside, lawmakers are stymied by kids who lie about their ages

The Web is a lawless country. Try as politicians might, they just cant put regulations that really work to keep pedophiles and other ner-do-wells from contacting minors on MySpace - because they they havent found a way to keep minors from lying about their ages. The New York Times...

Tags: State &, Local Govt, Government technology

Blog posts 2007-05-07

Obama campaign in cyberspat over supporter's MySpace page

In the latest development in the MySpace wars, Mr. Clean, Barack Obama, has been a litle dirtied over his campaigns handling of a pro-Obama blogger looking for a little support. TechPresident reportson what happened when an Obama devotees MySpace page soared beyond his wildest dreams and sadly spun out of...

Tags: Government technology

Blog posts 2007-05-02

MySpace will run mock election in 2008

New Hampshires primary will no longer be the first election in the 2008 presidential race. MySpace announced plans to hold its own virtual election January 1 and 2, 2008, reports News.com. "Iowa and New Hampshire may be selecting delegates, but the MySpace vote will be the first test...

Tags: Government technology, Elections

Blog posts 2007-04-03

FL considers expanding AG's power to prosecute net crimes

The chief security officer of MySpace.com, Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum and Florida legislators testified before a state House committee on a proposal to expand McCollums power to prosecute Internet-related crimes, the Tallahassee Democrat reports. The bill is chiefly aimed at prosecuting child predators. Hermanshu Nigam, chief security officer...

Tags: Government technology, State &, Local Govt, Law enforcement, MySpace, Bill McCollum, McCollum

Blog posts 2007-02-07

Inmates sue for right to printouts

Is allowing inmates access to the Internet - even in the ultimate in slow access: receiving printouts of websites through the mail - a proper restriction or a fundamental violation of free speech? Its a question the federal courts will address in an inmate lawsuit, USAToday reports. Even MySpace is...

Tags: MySpace, Internet

Blog posts 2006-11-24

Additional Resources

End the carrier veto over mobile technology

Their control over mobile technology has hampered the market for years, and here AT&T is bragging that they're going to intensify that control, and unilaterally decide which Internet technologies will live and which will die. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Mobile, AT&T Corp., Carrier, Mobile Service, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-12-05

UK plans lunar phone network

The UK is planning mission to put a satellite in orbit around the Moon which could one day enable lunar colonists to use mobile phones to communicate with each other A UK-led mission to put a satellite in orbit around the Moon which could one day enable lunar colonists...

Tags: Phone, Mission, Phone Network, Orbit, Satellite, British National Space Centre, Network Technology, Networking, moon, NASA, network, communications, Natasha Lomas silicon.com

News items 2008-12-05

Intel maintains commitment to education

Despite dismal economic times, Intel, creator of the Classmate PC, an associated software stack, and a pedagogical model for its use in schools, has reaffirmed its commitment to education. Today, the company announced that it had achieved its goal of 1 million volunteer hours from its employees. According...

Tags: Education, Intel Corp., Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-12-05

Students and the Internet censorship problem

Internet censorship is control or suppression of the publishing or accessing of information on the Internet. The legal issues are similar to offline censorship, and the controversy will naturally erupt once a government steps in. by Zack Whittaker

Tags: Censorship, Zack Whittaker, Internet Censorship, Pages, Internet

Blog posts 2008-12-05

CRM 2009 - Part 2.1 - Can't Believe I Forgot These

I forgot to write in two of my forecast segments yesterday. I think for the purposes of blaming something else, I'll blame my car accident last August for the memory loss.  I have to say that because I don't think I can use the term I want to about what happened...

Tags: Customer, Tool, CRM, Productivity, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2008-12-05

News to know: Layoffs at AT&T, Adobe, Real; AMD warns; $99 iPhone

Larry Dignan: AT&T cuts 12,000 jobs, will cut capital spending Jason D. O'Grady: Adobe lays off 600; skips Macworld Expo Sam Diaz: Next up for layoffs: Real Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: AMD warns of 25% drop in Q4 sales Larry Dignan: AMD:...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Layoff, Larry Dignan, AT&T Corp., Health Care, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-05

Harden Facebook? Sure, but where to start?

* Ryan Naraine is traveling. Guest editorial by Paul F. Roberts You may have heard the news that everybody's favorite social network, Facebook, won a big legal settlement on Monday against spammers who were using the 100 million strong network to distribute what the...

Tags: Facebook, Application, Network, Attack, Social Networking, Networking, Security, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-12-05

Pepsico Saved from Suicide Campaign by Twitter?

It's not easy to push consumer products these days as discretionary spend dries up and advertising channels become ever fragmented. Understandable then when corporations are seduced into more edgier terrain by their creative agencies. And yet where trust and sustainability is at a premium, its hard to figure how BBDO convinced Pepsico to cross the line...

Tags: Advertisement, PepsiCo, Suicide, Twitter, BBDO, Christine Lu, TBWA, James Farrar

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Buffalo Technology moves closer to returning to U.S. Wi-Fi router market

Wireless watchers may have noticed that Buffalo Technology disappeared from the router game some time back, due to a successful suit brought against it by an Australian company. But Buffalo may be getting back in the market, due to a new court decision that stayed the injunction against it selling...

Tags: Buffalo, Buffalo Technology, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Wireless LANs, Routers & Switches, Games, Networking, Storage, Hardware, Personal Technology, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2008-12-04

American auto industry low on fuel and popular support

After today's Senate hearings the Detroit Big Three are nowhere nearer getting any federal aid than they were after their last visit. Whatever you may think of the automakers "plan" to change and become viable, there is no plan in the Senate itself that would lead to a bill that...

Tags: Car, Automobile Company, Detroit, Industry, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-12-04

CRM 2009 Forecast - Part 2 - Sticking My Hands Out To Be Slapped

Last week at this time I was throwing my neck out there forecasting some of CRM's moves in 2009 - and no one chopped it off, thank goodness. So, now, in the same spirit, I'm going to do part 2 of three and stick my hands out to be slapped...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, PaaS, CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Emerging Technologies, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Vintage gadgets on display in NYC

From the Blickensderfer Portable Typewriter to the Apple Tablet Prototype and every Dyson G-Force Vacuum and Polaroid Land Camera in between, the temporary Gizmodo gallery installation at Reed Annex in New York was the place to see vintage gadget milestones alongside the newest technology of today. by Andrew Nusca

Tags: product photos, Gizmodo, gallery, vintage, gadgets, New York, event photos, Apple, Andrew Nusca

Image galleries 2008-12-04

Study: Google uses 21X more bandwidth than it pays for

Google is by far the largest user of Internet bandwidth, its share of bandwidth usage is rising rapidly, and its bandwidth use is orders of magnitude greater than its payment for its cost, according to a new study by NETCompetition.org, a site committed to Net Neutrality "pro-competition Internet forum funded...

Tags: Consumer, U.S., Google Inc., Bandwidth, Study, Broadband, Precursor LLC, Internet, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-12-04