After reviewing articles from many sources in the media, I have compiled a list of certain facts and figures regarding the recent cyber attacks from China and the subsequent stunning announcement from Google. Some of these are surprisingly under-reported in the media so you may or may not know them. Here they are …
15 Facts You May Not Know About the Google China Incident Read More »
Google’s bombshell announcement yesterday about its “new approach” to China is still reverberating across the media and the blogosphere. Everyone is trying to put this in perspective, assessing its impact and figuring out Google’s true motivations and rationale for this drastic action. However, most blogs and analysis focused on two important aspects of …
In what will surely be remembered as a pivotal and defining moment in Internet history, Google today took a brave stand against China which has so far dictated how Google conducts business in that country. In a post on their blog titled “A New Approach To China”, Google stated that it had detected an unprecedented …
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“Isn’t is time Twitter changed their tagline “What are you doing? ” to something that reflects what most tweets are about ?”
By now thousands of articles and blog posts have analyzed the reasons for the appeal of Twitter. They have sliced and diced it neatly into its various components – simplicity, brevity, openness, immediacy, transparency etc. But if you have ever tried to explain Twitter this way to someone who has never used Twitter, you most …
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“Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh only 1.5 tons” – Popular Mechanics article, March 1949 The above quote amply demonstrates the problems with predicting the future. This is because the future does not always evolve linearly from the past – there are often unforeseen quantum leaps in technology …
“Computers in the future may have 1000 vaccum tubes…” Read More »
Microsoft, Google sparring over Twitter? Should be interesting… http://bit.ly/9JbJb The explosive growth of Twitter has evoked great interest among both Google and Microsoft to acquire the company. For Google this would immediately fill the gap in their search of real-time results and give them an even bigger share of the search market. For Microsoft, this …
In news today China Denies Involvement in Hacking U.S. Power Grid – http://bit.ly/Vtab5 The Chinese govt official position is always complete denial – but can you really trust anything that Beijing says or denies ? The ambitions of the chinese is nothing short of “electronic world domination ” as per this article : http://www.cnn.com/2008… And http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol… Americans …
College too expensive? Try YouTube http://bit.ly/uFFbo This is a glimpse of the future of college education and education in general. The convergence of digital multimedia and broadband together with global connectivity is paving the way for a new way to disseminate learning – 24 hour, on-demand learning on any topic that may be of …
Would you reveal your password for a chocolate bar ? Apparently 70% of people surveyed in UK did ! http://bit.ly/6wkYJ
