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The Faces of the Digital DivideThe “digital divide” sounds so faceless, so placeless. Who are these supposed people without an Internet connection in today’s day-and-age? Where are these places that have been left behind? And ... Google Targets Microsoft With DocVerse DealStepping up its fight against Microsoft Corp., Google Inc. acquired DocVerse, a technology startup that allows people to edit Microsoft Office files online. ... 80% say 'Net access fundamental right, split on regulationAccess to the Internet is a fundamental right to nearly four out of five adults across the globe, and those in South Korea, Mexico, and China seem to have the ... Apple's New Stance On 'Cookie Cutter' Apps: Add More Features Or PerishIn the wake of Apple's sudden decision to remove nearly all "sexy" applications from the App Store, we've been hearing that the company is also clamping down on so-called "cookie-cutter" ... Apple Rolls Out TV Ad for iPadIt's lights, camera, and almost "action" for Apple's iPad tablet. During Sunday night's Academy Awards ceremony Apple trotted its iPad down the Hollywood red carpet (so to speak) launching a ... Energizer Jolts PCs With MalwareEnergizer has delivered something decidedly less cute than a little pink bunny with a bass drum. A piece of software designed to run with one of the company's battery-charger products ... Video: Boston Youth Want Net NeutralityYoung folks are starting to crank out videos in support of Net Neutrality. ... The Open Internet Debate: Redlining 2.0If you’re anything like me, the words “net neutrality” and “open Internet” don’t exactly get the party going on your computer screen at lunch. At a convening of ethnic journalists ... Shills Among Us? Just Say PShAWThe great thing about the open Internet is that it makes room for amazing sites like, well, this one.The Huffington Post has been successful because it has opened its platform ... Whistleblower Site Back After Microsoft Withdraws ComplaintCryptome, the secret-document-spilling site, is back online Thursday, after Microsoft withdrew a copyright complaint that shuttered the site the day before. ... Newer, Cheaper iPhone(s) To Debut In JuneJune and Apple's WWDC are approaching swiftly. Though we're still three-plus months out, reports of what Apple plans to announce are already taking shape. Morgan Stanley believes that new models ... Does Facebook's Newsfeed Patent Threaten Social Media?Facebook has been awarded a patent for "dynamically providing a news feed about a user of a social network." In the most basic terms, this means Facebook has patented technology ... Pixi discounts seen hurting Palm profitsNEW YORK (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel Corp started offering a 50 percent discount on Palm Inc's Pixi phone on the same day the handset maker cut its revenue target, raising ... I was feelingI was feeling kind of down after a workday cooped up at home, but then I read these two things and feel like I just drank a shot of clarity ... National Broadband Plan Must Address Digital DivideMore than 93 million Americans are not connected to high-speed Internet at home, according to a new survey from the Federal Communications Commission. We are hopeful a soon-to-be released National ... When Corporate Shills AttackThe Huffington Post just published an attack on Free Press from Patrick Maines, the president of a corporate front group called the Media Institute.The Institute's sole purpose seems to be ... Canadian Privacy Group Raises Key Concerns on Google, Doubleclick and Threat to our PrivacyWe urge everyone to read the CIPPIC petition filed yesterday in Canada asking for a investigation of Google and Doubleclick. Among the key questions raised is whether the two companies ... Google’s Mobile Search Advertising Ambition: Control the MarketFrom Online Media Daily [”Google’s Mobile Ad Move Gets Everybody Talking.” Tameka Lee. September 14, 2007] excerpt:
The search giant “is acting fast to take control of the mobile search ... Peter Fleischer, Online Advertising & Privacy: More than PR is RequiredMr. Fleischer made news yesterday when he presented Google’s call for “global privacy standards” at a UNESCO meeting. Google endorsed the weak (”flexible”) APEC proposal as a model framework. Really, ... Keep Your Eye on Mobile Advertising, Marketing & Privacy, esp. Google, Microsoft and the CarriersThe online mobile space will be hugely important to civil society, communities, and the public. We have concerns about how the mobile marketing “ecosystem,” as its called by the industry, ... Google: Cash, not Quality, Redefines Top Paid Search PlacementAs Google changes its policies so it can dramatically broaden its reach for advertisers, esp. the ones with the deepest marketing pockets, it’s key to understand what it means for ... Google’s Ad Industry-related Job Openings: help us become the “definitive source of marketing intelligence”These three job announcements from Google are too good to ignore. They say a lot about where Google–and global society–are headed. I’ve excerpted from the complete ad (but links are ... Google and Yahoo! Among Largest Donors of Ad CouncilIn a full-page ad in today’s New York Times “Week in Review” section, the Ad Council lists its `who’s who’ of media and big brand donors. Atop its list is ... Video Ads Likely to Appear on Searches from GoogleThe evolution of Google from a system designed to provide the public with information into a full-blown data–collection broadband video platform promoting the interests of brands and marketers will make ... Knight Foundation and a Grant for Viacom’s MTV: Funding a giant on its Journalism advisory committeeWe have long had concerns about foundations funding media conglomerates to provide public service content. So, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s recent award of $700,000 to MTV ... Yahoo!’s Electoral Ambitions: Behavorial Targeting and BeyondYahoo! has unveiled an online targeting ad category for elections–raising serious questions about privacy and potential voter manipulation. Now, in addition to fast foods and cars, marketers can use Yahoo!’s ... Yahoo! Swallows Blue Lithium to Expand its Behavioral Targeting EffortThe ever-growing consolidation of control in the online ad market continues (something CDD and USPIRG warned the FTC about in Nov. 2006). Yesterday, Yahoo! acquired ad network and behavioral targeting ... For Sale on Ebay: Your Online PrivacyeBay is working with behavioral targeting technologies, including a test “retargeting” users (that means electronically shadowing) as they visit AOL, MSN, clients of Yahoo’s RightMedia ad exchange and other sites ... 
