WikiLeaks site comes under attack
By CASSANDRA VINOGRAD and MATTHEW LEE LONDON (AP) – The WikiLeaks website crashed Tuesday in an apparent cyberattack after the accelerated publication of tens of thousands of once-secret State Department cables by the anti-secrecy organization raised new concerns about the exposure of confidential U.S. embassy sources. “WikiLeaks.org is presently under attack,” the group said on … Read more
AP source: Government blocks AT&T-T-Mobile merger
By JOELLE TESSLER WASHINGTON (AP) – The Justice Department is blocking AT&T’s $39 billion deal to buy T-Mobile USA, saying the acquisition of the No. 4 wireless carrier in the country by No. 2 AT&T would reduce competition and raise prices. That’s according to a person familiar with the matter. The person spoke on condition … Read more
Facebook Aims to Simplify Privacy Settings
The New York Times By SOMINI SENGUPTA Facebook is simplifying privacy controls for posts. Didn’t mean for your boss to see a picture of you on the beach that day you called in sick? Maybe you hadn’t meant for the police to know you were mobilizing your friends to join a public protest? Had you … Read more
Introducing Denise – Radio’s AI
Radio-Info.com Artificial intelligence has been a topic that has intrigued technology enthusiast for decades. While such a concept was considered nothing short of science fiction in the latter half of the 20th century, today it has become very real and now a very practical technology. In early 2011 I stumbled across a computer program made … Read more
Chinese site bans Web tools used to evade filters
By JOE McDONALD BEIJING (AP) – A major Chinese online commerce site has banned sales of software used to bypass Internet censorship amid Beijing’s efforts to block the development of a Middle East-style protest movement. But Taobao.com, part of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, said it took the action on its own and received no official … Read more
High-Tech Product, Low-Tech Pitch
The New York Times By RANDALL STROSS ZERO percent financing on a new car. A mattress sale blowout. Storewide discounts at the local hardware. These are the types of pitches that people expect to hear on the radio. Not commercials for the Barracuda Load Balancer, which sounds vaguely automotive but is actually software related to … Read more
Google to Buy Motorola Mobility for $12.5 Billion
The New York Times By EVELYN M. RUSLI and CLAIRE CAIN MILLER Jin Lee/Bloomberg NewsThe Motorola Droid X. In a bid to strengthen its mobile business, Google announced on Monday that it would acquire Motorola Mobility Holdings, the cellphone business that was split from Motorola, for $40 a share in cash, or $12.5 billion. The offer — by far Google’s largest ever … Read more
Pay TV industry loses record number of subscribers
By PETER SVENSSON NEW YORK (AP) – The weak economy is hitting Americans where they spend a lot of their free time: at the TV set. They’re canceling or forgoing cable and satellite TV subscriptions in record numbers, according to an analysis by The Associated Press of the companies’ quarterly earnings reports. The U.S. subscription-TV … Read more
Facial recognition in use after London riots
LONDON (AP) — Facial recognition technology being considered for London’s 2012 Games is getting a workout in the wake of Britain’s riots, a senior police chief told The Associated Press, with officers feeding photographs of suspects through Scotland Yard’s newly updated face-matching program. Chief Constable Andy Trotter of the British Transport Police said Thursday the sophisticated software was being … Read more
Verizon workers hit picket lines from Mass. to Va.
By JIM FITZGERALD NEW YORK (AP) – Striking Verizon landline workers say they laid the foundation for the company’s booming wireless business and shouldn’t be expected to give up contract benefits just because they work on a less profitable side of the business. But management says the company has to change to stay competitive and … Read more
