| October 1 |
- What hath Spore spawned?
- More DRM, rampant piracy and possibly fewer games to come?
- Cyrus Farivar
- V.C.s see more green in clean tech
- Previous quarter saw $2.6 billion in new investments.
- Cyrus Farivar
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| October 2 |
- Skype sells out to China
- New study reveals an extensive filtering and surveillance program.
- Cyrus Farivar
- Txteagle pays mobile phone users for short tasks
- MIT researcher turns to entrepreneurialism.
- Cyrus Farivar
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| October 3 |
- Microsoft doesn't matter anymore
- "Tickets" for Live Search? Huh?
- Cyrus Farivar
- UCLA study suggests most kids suffer from cyber-bullying
- And they don't tell their parents about it.
- Cyrus Farivar
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| October 6 |
- Economic meltdown explained, satirized online
- Why isn't this required reading on Wall Street?
- Cyrus Farivar
- CNN's iReport perpetrates false Steve Jobs rumor
- Thanks, citizen journalism!
- Cyrus Farivar
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| October 8 |
- Zooming to the future
- What the cars we buy say about our society.
- Cyrus Farivar
- National Research Council on data mining for terrorists
- "No invasion of privacy is justified if the program doesn't work."
- Cyrus Farivar
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| October 9 |
- New GeoEye satellite to improve Google Maps to 50 cm resolution
- You'll now be able to easily spot a car.
- Cyrus Farivar
- Palin's e-mail hacker indicted, to be kept offline
- How do the feds prevent someone from using the Internet?
- Cyrus Farivar
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| October 10 |
- Criminals use the Internet too
- Or, why online-presence Web 2.0 sites won't increase your likelihood of getting robbed
- Cyrus Farivar
- Obama drops nearly $2 mil on prime-time TV airtime
- He uses new media outlets to buy time on old media.
- Cyrus Farivar
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| October 13 |
- Company gives computers to its employees -- for keeps
- Florida-based Citrix Systems offers a $2,100 stipend.
- Cyrus Farivar
- German chatbot almost passes the Turing Test
- "Elbot" fools 25 percent of judges.
- Cyrus Farivar
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| October 14 |
- Apple laptop rumors abound
- In the final hours before Tuesday's event, new aluminum machines are predicted.
- Cyrus Farivar
- President Bush signs into law new "Pro-IP" bill
- But how pro-intellectual property is it, really?
- Cyrus Farivar
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| October 15 |
- Need a ticket to a game tonight? Check out FanSnap
- The new start-up is the third site to offer aggregated online search for event ticket sales.
- Cyrus Farivar
- Obama campaign brings ads to video games
- One professor dubs the strategy "San Andreas Populism."
- Cyrus Farivar
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| October 16 |
- Is your cellphone making you itch?
- Some 30 percent of Brits are suffering from "mobile phone dermatitis." Blame nickel.
- Cyrus Farivar
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| October 17 |
- Can flying cars finally take off?
- One Massachusetts start-up will showcase its first test flight next month.
- Cyrus Farivar
- New EFF brief argues telecom immunity law is unconstitutional
- The San Francisco nonprofit challenges the FISA Amendments Act of 2008.
- Cyrus Farivar
- Death to FireWire 400
- How Apple sets the industry standard -- again.
- Cyrus Farivar
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| October 20 |
- Sony recalls LittleBigPlanet over Quran quote in music
- The soundtrack comes from a famous Malian singer who's Muslim.
- Cyrus Farivar
- U.K. proposes massive database to monitor cell and Net communications
- Passports may be required to purchase prepaid SIM cards.
- Cyrus Farivar
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| October 21 |
- What does its CEO's endorsement of Obama mean for Google?
- Eric Schmidt may just be angling for a Cabinet job.
- Cyrus Farivar
- Where are Obama and McCain off to today?
- How to track the candidates' locations online.
- Cyrus Farivar
- Ericsson says global mobile market is "flattish" in 2009
- But losses in the North are offset by growth in the South.
- Cyrus Farivar
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| October 22 |
- Muxlim Pal to be world's first Muslim-themed virtual world
- Muxlim.com says the electronic "umma" will have its own Second Life in a few months.
- Cyrus Farivar
- What ever happened to vote pairing?
- It's still around, just not in the 2008 American elections.
- Cyrus Farivar
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| October 23 |
- Why all of us need to be "search literate"
- Even the next president should know how to get beyond Google to evaluate information.
- Cyrus Farivar
- How you can conduct a voter-verifiable election online, right now
- Cryptographers around the world have come up with new theories about how to improve elections.
- Cyrus Farivar
- Gmail adds two new semi-ridiculous features
- Apparently the Gmail engineers have a little too much time on their hands.
- Cyrus Farivar
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| October 24 |
- FCC vote on "white spaces" to be delayed?
- Old media and new media are throwin' down.
- Cyrus Farivar
- When the online world affects the offline world
- Two cases this week in the U.K. and Japan show the insanity of cyberspace's impact on real life.
- Cyrus Farivar
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| October 27 |
- Early e-voting results in vote flipping in three states so far
- Voters in West Virginia, Tennessee and Texas all report problems with ES&S voting machines.
- Cyrus Farivar
- Germany refuses full-body scanners for its airports
- E.U. lawmakers vote to study the effects of the scanners on "health and privacy."
- Cyrus Farivar
- Consumers slowly switching from laptops to smart phones
- But where's the external keyboard for the iPhone?
- Cyrus Farivar
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| October 28 |
- What YouTube tells us about our political conversation
- A new online analysis firm figures it out.
- Cyrus Farivar
- Christian Science Monitor moves almost entirely online
- Why won't other major papers do the same?
- Cyrus Farivar
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| October 29 |
- Election 2008: An online resource guide
- How the Internet can help you vote with wikis, Twitter, YouTube and plain-vanilla Web sites.
- Cyrus Farivar
- Global initiative promises to harmonize ICT and human rights
- But how much leverage will the GNI actually have?
- Cyrus Farivar
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| October 30 |
- Microsoft to move Office apps to "the cloud"
- And why I won't be using them.
- Cyrus Farivar
- WePC.com to crowdsource laptop design
- But will any of these computers actually come to market?
- Cyrus Farivar
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| October 31 |
- Silicon Valley leaders back No on Proposition 8 campaign
- Measure would overturn gay marriage in the Golden State.
- Cyrus Farivar
- London to get high-tech trash bins next year
- Media Metrica plans to bring them to New York, Dubai.
- Cyrus Farivar
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