Extensive Torture Kills Iranian Blogger in Prison from The Blog Iranian netizen Sattar Beheshti is believed dead six days after he was arrested and taken into custody in Tehran. Beheshti was believed to have died under torture while he was being interrogated. Iranian blogger who was tortured and died in custody is buried from Boing … Read more
Pirates are the biggest spenders: US P2P users buy 30% more music than their non-P2P counterparts by Emil Protalinski Various studies over the years have shown that the biggest music pirates are also the biggest spenders on recorded music. The latest one from The American Assembly goes as far as quantifying the difference between a … Read more
Brands: Apple the biggest winner in 2012, BlackBerry the biggest loser, Google passes Microsoft Between Facebook and Sex, Facebook Wins by Sarah Mitroff You do it in the morning in bed, at night on the couch, and occasionally at work. Turns out, it’s one of the hardest activities to resist. It’s not smoking a cigarette … Read more
If Google yanks “Innocence of Muslims,” will it lose its DMCA Safe Harbor? from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow Robert Cringely speculates on the reasoning behind Google’s decision to continue hosting the controversial “Innocence of Muslims” clip despite a request from the State Department to remove it. Cringely believes that Google worries that if it … Read more
William Gibson on Twitter, Antique Watches and Internet Obsessions from Wired Top Stories by Geeta Dayal William Gibson once spent nearly five years studying the complexities of watchmaking, indulging in the accumulation of knowledge for its own sake. “I wanted to grow my own otaku-like obsession,” he said in a phone interview with Wired. Part … Read more
Pirate Bay Founder Arrested in Cambodia from TorrentFreak by Ernesto Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm was arrested by Cambodian police on Thursday in Phnom Penh, the city that he made his home several years ago. According to local sources he was arrested in an apartment above the Cadillac Bar on the riverfront, a place where … Read more
This Week in Review: Twitter?s ongoing war with developers, and plagiarism and online credibility from Nieman Journalism Lab by Mark Coddington [Since the review was off last week, this week’s review covers the last two weeks.] Prominent Academics Respond to the TPP from EFF.org Updates by Carolina Rossini We asked several academics to let … Read more
Google distances itself from Apple-Samsung ruling: Most claims don?t relate to core of Android from The Next Web by Jon Russell Apple vs. Samsung Head Juror: ?Evidence Was Overwhelming? from Mashable! by Emily Price These Apple Products Have Samsung Parts from Mashable! by Samantha Murphy Will Samsung Smartphone Sales Be Banned in the U.S.? We … Read more
WikiLeaks Timeline: Key moments in WikiLeaks history GlobalPost Wikileaks founder Julian Assange speaks to demonstrators from the steps of St Paul’s Cathedral in central London on Oct. 15, 2011. … May 2010: US Army soldier Bradley Manning is arrested on suspicion of providing WikiLeaks with classified material. Ecuadorians weigh in on Assange ‘Colonial times are … Read more
I never search google to download stuff. I know where I should go. I guess like porn sites, torrent people directly go to the addresses they already know. A different dynamic… Not the pirates but Google loses here… I hope… Google Starts Punishing ?Pirate? Sites In Search Results from TorrentFreak by Ernesto For years entertainment … Read more
WSJ reporter responds to Erdoğan’s remarks from Hurriyet Daily News Wall Street Journal reporter Joe Parkinson has taken a recent conflict between the newspaper and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to the microblogging website Twitter. Prime minister?s media attack strategies from Hurriyet Daily News For Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, making a speech without … Read more
Declaration of Internet Freedom by Cory Doctorow I’ve signed the Declaration of Internet Freedom, a short, to-to-point manifesto for a free and open Internet. It’s attracted some very august signatories, including Amnesty International, Hackers and Founders, Global Voices, Mozilla, the NY Tech Meetup, Personal Democracy, Fight for the Future, Yochai Benkler, danah boyd, Neil Gaiman, … Read more
The European Parliament rejects ACTA, with a 478 to 39 majority from The Next Web by Paul Sawers Back in January, 22 European Union states, and the EU itself, signed the controversial ACTA treaty, which many argued could lead to severe restrictions on freedom and civil liberties on the Internet. Whilst protests did follow, and … Read more
Nexus Q media streaming ball from Boing Boing by Rob Beschizza Google Gives Apple a Lesson in Showmanship by Chris Taylor It?s Not an Entertainment Gadget, It?s Google’s Bid to Control the Future from Wired Top Stories by Fred Vogelstein Google’s Nexus Q is not just a gleaming, consumer electronics device. It’s also Google’s … Read more
U.S. Still Requests More Google User Data Than Any Other Country from Mashable! by Alex Fitzpatrick Alan Turing?s 100th: 12 Celebratory Images From Across the Web from Mashable! by Allegra Tepper HOWTO think like Alan Turing from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow In early celebration of the Turing centenary this week, Ars Technica’s Matthew Lasar … Read more