Category «Internet»

Advocacy Group Releases Badware Reports

“Thousands of visitors to StopBadware.org have shared their badware experiences with us since we launched. From their stories, we’ve identified and tested four applications that contain annoying or objectionable behaviors. To find out what we think of Kazaa, MediaPipe, SpyAxe, and Screensaver.com, read our reports (all in PDF):” Kazaa Mediapipe SpyAxe Waterfalls 3 “Before we …

Subjects: Cybercrime, ID Theft, Internet, Privacy

Americans Increasingly Go Online for News

Pew Internet and American Life: “By the end of 2005, 50 million Americans got news online on a typical day, a sizable increase since 2002. Much of that growth has been fueled by the rise in home broadband connections over the last four years. For a group of “high-powered” online users – early adopters of …

Subjects: Internet

CATO Study Challenges Courts’ Role in Digital Rights Management

Circumventing Competition: The Perverse Consequences of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (PDF, 28 pages), by Timothy B. Lee “The courts have a proven track record of fashioning balanced remedies for the copyright challenges created by new technologies. But when Congress passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in 1998, it cut the courts out of this …

Subjects: Copyright, Courts, Digital Rights, Intellectual Property, Internet, Legislation

CDT Report Identifies Large Corporate Adware Funders

Press release: “Large well-respected companies are helping to fund the virulent spread of unwanted and potentially harmful “adware” by paying for advertisements generated by those programs, a new report by CDT finds. In “Following the Money: How Advertising Dollars Encourage Nuisance and Harmful Adware and What Can be Done to Reverse the Trend,” (10 pages, …

Subjects: E-Commerce, ID Theft, Internet

Google Finance Is “Early-Stage Beta Product”

According to the Official Google Blog, Google’s newly released Finance service is in beta, with additional content and features to be added in future. Currently, users are offered data in the following categories: Market Summary, Today’s Headlines, Company Facts and Financials, Related company data, a Company Summary, Management info, blog posts and links to topical …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

Comparison of Web Browsers

Wikipedia has published an extensive comparison of over two dozen web browsers. Included is information on each respective browser’s general history, features, operating system support, web technology support, languages in which the brower is available, and technical vulnerabilities. Readers note that all data is subject to verification, as this is a collaborative, open source publication.

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines

Terrorist Surveillance Act of 2006 Introduced Today

The introduction of the Terrorist Surveillance Act of 2006 today has raised concerns for reporters, bloggers and advocates for civil liberties. The bill “authorizes the President to conduct an electronic surveillance program, without court order, for up to 45 days…” ACLU Letter to the Senate Expressing Strong Opposition to the Terrorist Surveillance Act of 2006, …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Congress, E-Government, Government Documents, Internet, Privacy

Website Tracks Censorship in Search Results

“Welcome to CenSEARCHip! This is a tool developed by Mark Meiss and Filippo Menczer at the Indiana University School of Informatics in March of 2006 to allow you to explore the differences in the results returned by different countries’ versions of the major search engines. We currently work with the Web search and image search …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Freedom of Information, Internet, Search Engines