"Thanks to both Google and Facebook, we have all the elements of a perfect privacy storm," said Jeffrey Chester, executive director of privacy group, the Center for Digital Democracy. "There are organized and spontaneous consumer protests; investigations by officials on both sides of the Atlantic, and a Congress finally waking up to this issue.
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ICANN introduces the first four IDN ccTLDs - 0 views
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It will be considered as a technical achievement in the history of the internet: the introduction of non-latin top level domain names. To date United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Russian Federation, and Egypt will now be able to view a complete domain name in arabic script. Western society probably failed to consider, until recently, the limiting effect of the internet's architecture for speakers of non-latin derived languages. In the same way technically disconnected rural communities form part of the digital divide, so to do inhabitants of countries that had no education in latin based languages. How does a browser support arabic script? The brower itself must support both the character sets of the language. Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera and Safari all support arabic script.
Gold and diamond encrusted iPad available for the mega-rich - 0 views
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"The ultimate iPad - for $200,000" so, this is really nuts, but kind of funny so thought I would share. Available in the UK, encrusted with 25.5 carats of flawless diamonds, 53 of the gems "dwell beautifully in their solid 22ct Apple logo". Have just placed my order...better hurry, only 10 available.
The Pain Game - 0 views
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An interesting article about virtual reality games being used in health care. It's good to see that interactivity in games helps patients in their recovery process.
Blog post #5 - update to the BBC6 Music protest situation - 0 views
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A follow up to my first post about the protest movement to save digital-only radio station BBC6 Music. A second day of protest was held in London and royalties organisation PRS for Music publishes stats showing the station is more supportive to a wide range of musicians than other stations.
Post Tech - Internet privacy comes to head; Facebook to change tools, Google accused o... - 0 views
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He has complained that regulators and lawmakers haven't been tough enough on Internet search engines, social networks and publishers for scarfing up user information to monetize into ads.
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Article sums up the news around Facebook and Google Street View of the last weeks. The sleeping issue of privacy is said to have woken up. The U.S. Congress as well as the Federal Communications Commission and a Federal Trade Commission are asked to take action.
New media death watch: New Matilda to fold - Crikey - 0 views
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Alternative online outlet New Matilda will shut down operations due to poor revenue from advertising "in the current media environment". Sad.
ABC Radio Australia News:Stories:Australia's broadband plan - 0 views
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The initial announcement last year about the federal government's proposal of a National Broadband Network was met with a lot of scepticism. I think that despite its flaws, the network seems quite necessary considering the inequality of access experienced by thousands of Australians due to the broad geographical scope of the country.
Bloggers to donate their time in Bangladesh to teach Bangladeshis to blog - 0 views
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Two Australian bloggers were selected in an online search and will now spend two weeks educating Bangladeshis on how to source content and publish a blog. Working with group ActionAid, their aim is to give poverty a voice.
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