In 2006, Thailand announced it was blocking access to YouTube for anyone with a Thai I.P address, and then identified 20 offensive videos for Google to remove as a condition of unblocking the site. - Michael McGimpsey
In reality, today's bulky and expensive solar panels capture only 10% or so of the sun's energy, but rapid innovation in the US means that the next generation of panels will be much thinner - Michael McGimpsey
If you thought Randall Stross’ attack on Tesla yesterday was in poor taste, wait until you read what Michael Wolff has to say about MySpace. - Michael McGimpsey
A couple of weeks ago we celebrated the first birthday of Google's OpenSocial project, an open API framework for social networks and websites. Google's OpenSocial Blog recently presented ... - Michael McGimpsey
Bob Nicholls hadn't expected to have his skills and experience tested so early in Mumbai. The South African security consultant and his team had arrived in the city last Wednesday to work on security arrangements for the forthcoming Indian Champions Leagu - Michael McGimpsey
If the initial development race of Web 2.0 centered around "building a better social network" then the next phase will certainly focus on extending the reach of existing social networks beyond their current domain. How? By using the elements of the social - Michael McGimpsey
Fast Interview: Giving up the CrackBerry will make the president-elect more productive, but neuroscientist Sam Wang says that he shouldn’t give it up completely. Here’s why… - Michael McGimpsey
I was playing Texas Hold’em on the iPhone the other day when it struck me: If Apple allowed one-touch financial transactions inside apps — in the case of Texas Hold’em, for example, to buy $1,000 of poker chips for $1 — the consequences could be h - Michael McGimpsey
Amazon is using the Thanksgiving break to quietly release some bad news - they’re shutting down one of its web services - Alexa Web Search. The service, which we first covered way back in 2006, is already closed to new customers, and existing users have - Michael McGimpsey
We told you Umbrella Today is the simplest weather site ever made. We were wrong. Now that ingenious idea - entering a zip code to find out whether you’ll need an umbrella today - has been one-upped. Or, one-downed. - Michael McGimpsey
One year ago link shortening service TinyURL experienced an extended period of down time and we argued that the outage illustrated serious risks associated with the service. One ... - Michael McGimpsey
Google Mobile uses undocumented techniques that are supposed to be off-limits to iPhone developers in order to make its verbal search feature work with an iPhone sensor. Read this blog post by Tom Krazit on Apple. - Michael McGimpsey
Lunascape is a new web browser that handles all three major web rendering engines — Firefox’s Gecko, Internet Explorer’s Trident and WebKit (which is used by Safari and Chrome). - Michael McGimpsey
The search category of the Open Web Awards is seeing some interesting results so far, with a number of upstarts outpacing the world’s #1 search engine in voting. Of course, the criteria here is objective – some people vote for what they see as the coo - Michael McGimpsey
Google Maps underwent a major redesign today and the new street view is pretty fantastic. Now users can drag a little human figure named "Pegman" over any streets that light up blue and get a preview of Street View for that location. When Pegman lands, th - Michael McGimpsey
Ever since the Breast Cancer Support group on AOL got shut down by the parent company for using the word "breast," it's been clear that women's health, bodies, and sexual politics are "Not Safe for Work," and beyond the pale of decent conversation and dis - Michael McGimpsey
Is your video game console a green console? A new study by the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) shows the Nintendo Wii to be the greenest of the next-gen consoles. - Michael McGimpsey
President-elect Barack Obama's use of YouTube to deliver his weekly address raises serious issues--due to the privacy-invading cookies that are sent to Google servers. Read this blog post by Chris Soghoian on Surveillance State. - Michael McGimpsey
Social networking is a popular way to reconnect with old friends and make new ones online. But it's not always easy to know whether the people with whom you're connecting are the people they claim to be. - Michael McGimpsey
The hot rumor today is that Facebook and Twitter held “several weeks of serious talks” about an acquisition recently, which have since come to an end after the two were unable to reach an agreeable price for the microblogging service. - Michael McGimpsey
Late last week Google unveiled the first major change to its search interface since the introduction of multi-media ("Universal") results into the search results page. They called it Google SearchWiki. - Michael McGimpsey
