Friday, February 18, 2011

Google Alert - internet

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Canada Hit by Cyberattack From Computers in China
New York Times
By IAN AUSTEN OTTAWA — A federal cabinet minister said Thursday that
hackers, perhaps from China, compromised computers in two Canadian
government departments in early January, leaving bureaucrats with little or
no Internet access for nearly two ...
<http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/18/world/americas/18canada.html>
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FBI Wants To Expand Internet Wiretapping
Huffington Post
Arguing that their efforts are being thwarted by new technologies
revolutionizing Internet communication, the FBI is calling for a push to
expand its capabilities in intercepting online evidence. But some groups
are saying that such actions have the ...
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/17/internet-wiretapping_n_824740.html>
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Bahrain Internet service starting to slow
msnbc.com
By Suzanne Choney Bahrain's a small country with a large Internet
population, and it hasn't hesitated before to smack down websites or
bloggers it doesn't like, long before this week's protests began. Internet
service, though, had remained somewhat ...
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Bruce Sterling parses Hillary Clinton on net freedom
Boing Boing
Bruce Sterling parses out Hillary Clinton's latest talk on Internet freedom
-- a kind of balancing act between defending her government's advocacy
against Internet freedom in the case of Wikileaks, and for Internet freedom
in the case of middle eastern ...
<http://www.boingboing.net/2011/02/17/bruce-sterling-parse.html>
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Got Broadband? Not Sure? There's a Map for That.
All Things Digital
by Arik Hesseldahl When President Obama came into office, one of his first
significant acts on the tech front was a $7.8 billion broadband stimulus
effort, aimed at handing out grants and loan guarantees for projects meant
to bring fast Internet ...
<http://newenterprise.allthingsd.com/20110217/got-broadband-not-sure-theres-a-map-for-that/>
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Viral Internet Campaign Aims to Put a RoboCop Statue in Detroit
ABC News
But when the mayor replied via Twitter that "There are not any plans to
erect a statue of Robocop," an Internet campaign was born. "I think it hit
the sweet spot of interest and curiosity of the mayor not only being on
Twitter, but responding to a ...
<http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/internet-robocop-statue-detroit/story?id=12943449>
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Redbox to Offer Digital Service
Paste Magazine
Coinstar Inc.'s Redbox, the ubiquitous movie-rental kiosk, will begin
offering an internet-streaming service to rival Netflix, according to The
Hollywood Reporter. Also similar to Netflix, the service will be combined
with DVD rentals in some fashion. ...
<http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2011/02/redbox-begins-digital-service.html>
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Obama hosts Internet summit in California
USA Today
By David Jackson, USA TODAY After President Obama lands in San Francisco
tonight, he'll meet with some of the titans of the Internet -- including
the subject of an Oscar-nominated film and a visionary whose health has the
tech industry anxious. ...
<http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2011/02/obama-hosts-internet-summit-in-california/1>
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