Security
From Google Search to Google Earth, every move you make can be tracked by some feature of Google -- and intelligence agencies are drooling over the data.The More You Use Google, the More Google Knows About You an Investigation over at Alternet
From Google Search to Google Earth, every move you make can be tracked by some feature of Google -- and intelligence agencies are drooling over the data.In War Against the Internet, China Is Just a Skirmish
PARIS — In the beginning, there was one Internet, born from American research and embraced by academics around the world. It was in English and homogeneous, operating according to Western standards of openness.As the Internet grew, it became fragmented and linguistically diversified. It developed borders, across which it now works in different ways.
In Spain, for instance, you can share music and movies with virtual impunity; in France, doing that is likely to cost you your Internet connection.
Should you dump Internet Explorer, NOW?
D`oh, now there's a redundant question.
Yesterday, ZDNET blogger Ed Bott asserted that "it's time to stop using IE6." I s-o-o-o-o disagree. For many organizations and all consumers, it's time to stop using any version of Microsoft's browser -- IE6, IE7, IE8 and forget someday releasing IE9. Less than a week ago, the German government told its citizens to switch from Internet Explorer. This is good advice for you, too.
