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Google acknowledged Friday that it inadvertently collected private information from the Wi-Fi networks inside people's homes. Google isn't the only company that uses cars to photograph neighborhoods for its mapping service, but it acknowledged its vehicles also contain receivers that pick up Wi-Fi signals. The receivers were supposedly just collecting the names and addresses of Wi-Fi networks to use in mapping programs for smart phones.

To mark the 40th anniversary of the Internet, DARPA has announced the DARPA Network Challenge, a competition that will explore the roles the Internet and social networking play in the timely communication, wide-area team-building, and urgent mobilization required to solve broad-scope, time-critical problems. The challenge is to be the first to submit the locations of 10 moored, 8-foot, red, weather balloons at 10 fixed locations in the continental United States. The balloons will be in readily accessible locations and visible from nearby roads.

This article discusses the US ad South Korean research into suspected cyber attacks from North Korea on private and govt websites in the two countries. It discusses the programs used, the impacts and effects and how the attack takes place from one computer, creates a network through botnets and installs malware into thousands of computers which then send repeated requests, simultaneously to the same website, attacking it.

Great article Chalana. :)

This article talks about the panic button itself. how it is useful and how it really isn't. It basically, as the title itself states, talks about the protection of kids from online social networking sits like facebook.

This website basically discusses the way in which a panic button is involved and installed onto social networking sites. 

A leading privacy group has urged US regulators to investigate Google's new social networking service Buzz, one week after its launch. The Electronic Privacy Information Centre (Epic) has made its complaint to the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) It says that Buzz - which is part of Google's Gmail service - is "deceptive" and breaks consumer protection law.

Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO), is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet.

"WATCHING STEVE JOBS unveil the Apple iPad, what came to mind was something that Neil Postman, the most influential media critic since Marshall McLuhan, once said. Our future possibilities, Postman thought, lay on a spectrum bounded by George Orwell at one end, and by Aldous Huxley at the other: Orwell because he believed that we would be destroyed by the things we fear; Huxley because he thought that we would be undone by the things we love. As the internet went mainstream, the Orwellian nightmare has evolved into a realistic possibility, because of the facilities the network offers for the comprehensive surveillance so vividly evoked in 1984. Governments everywhere have helped themselves to powers to read every email or text you've ever sent. And that's just the democracies; authoritarian regimes are far more intrusive."

Article about the technology behind using twitter from a scell phone.

About the API (application programming interface) used in twitter and other IT background