February 23, 2010 |
Digital Rights
As you might have heard, Georgian luge slider Nodar Kumaritashvili died in luge training at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver on February 12.
The International Olympics Committee has been using copyright to suppress videos of the event.
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February 10, 2010 |
Digital Life
Google introduced what they’re calling Safety Mode for YouTube. YouTube’s community guidelines are already pretty strict, but Safety Mode takes it a step further.
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February 5, 2010 |
Digital Security
I wrote the other day about social media backup with a new service called Backupify.
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January 30, 2010 |
Digital Security
These days many people prefer to have their applications in the cloud, instead of hosting them by themselves.
For example, people who use Gmail prefer accessing e-mail through a web browser instead of downloading their e-mail and viewing it with an e-mail program.
But what happens if Google loses your e-mail? The answer, for some, might be Backupify, a new cloud backup service.
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January 19, 2010 |
Digital Life
So who needs a time slot?
After being pushed out by NBC to make room for Jay Leno, what will Conan O’Brian do next?
How about a radical move of going web-only?
That’s what the New York Times Bits Blog surmises.
With the $40 million dollar settlement, I think it’s certainly a possibility. (OK, much of that money is [...]
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