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“CDT has created a list to alert consumers about music download Web sites that charge fees and claim a large selection, but do not appear to have obtained licenses to ensure that users’ downloads from the site are legal. Consumers looking to download music lawfully for the new computers and MP3 players they receive this …
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Clay Johnson III, OMB: “I am announcing the Trusted Internet Connections (TIC) initiative to optimize our individual network services into a common solution for the federal government. This common solution facilitates the reduction of our external connections, including our Internet points of presence, to a target of fifty. Additionally, the role of the US-CERT will …
Online Journalism Review: As the U.S. approaches the 2008 Presidential voting, website journalists are using interactive graphics to provide coverage at a glance, by Robert Niles: “Every election cycle inspires innovation at newspaper websites. This year, leading U.S. newspapers are offering some stunning online graphic tools to help their readers get an overview of the …
Official Google Blog: “Here’s a suggestion for everyone to save energy over the holidays (and at other times!): turn off your computer and monitor or put them into “sleep” mode when you’re not using them. Why? The typical desktop PC uses 100-200 watts even when it’s idle. That’s the equivalent of 1-2 bright incandescent (read: …
Washington Post: “The FBI is embarking on a $1 billion effort to build the world’s largest computer database of peoples’ physical characteristics, a project that would give the government unprecedented abilities to identify individuals in the United States and abroad. Digital images of faces, fingerprints and palm patterns are already flowing into FBI systems in …
The Inquirer: “Norway’s Government has mandated that its websites must use Open Document Format (ODF) for files published for use by the Norwegian public. “The government has decided that all information on governmental websites should be available in the open formats HTML, PDF or ODF. With this decision the times when public documents where only …
Press release: “…in a statement to the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, the American Library Association (ALA) addressed the critical yet unacknowledged role public libraries play in delivering E-government services to the American people. Increasingly, government agencies refer individuals to their local public libraries for assistance and access to the Internet …
Center for Social Development, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Surveying Internet Usage in China, and its Impact in Seven Chinese Cities, Report by Professor Guo Liang, CASS, November 2007 (126 pages, PDF) “According to the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), the number of Chinese Internet users had reached 162 million in June 2007, the …
IBM Reveals Five Innovations that Will Change Our Lives Over the Next Five Years: “Unveiled today, the second annual “IBM Next Five in Five” is a list of innovations that have the potential to change the way people work, live and play over the next five years. The list is based on market and societal …
Press release: “The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today concluded its quadrennial review of the broadcast ownership rules. The Commission amended the 32-year-old absolute ban on newspaper/broadcast cross-ownership by crafting an approach that would presumptively allow a newspaper to own one television station or one radio station in the 20 largest markets, subject to strict criteria …
The State of State Disclosure: An Evaluation of Online Public Information About Economic Development Subsidies, Procurement Contracts and Lobbying Activities by Philip Mattera, Karla Walter, Julie Farb Blain and Michelle Lee, November 2007, (Revised 11/19/07), Corporate Research Project of Good Jobs First. “The Good Jobs First study evaluates the quantity and quality of state government …
