Four of every five adults believe access to the Internet is a fundamental right, and more than half believe it should never be regulated, according to a new survey. In a BBC World Service poll of 27,000 adults in 26 countries, 78 percent of Internet users believed the Internet is a fundamental right–with particularly strong response
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BBC survey: Net access is basic right
The iPhone hit China in October, but sans Wi-Fi. Chinese regulations had prohibited the sale of any Wi-Fi device that does not use the country’s own wireless standard known as WAPI (Wired Authentication and Privacy Infrastructure). As a result, Apple was forced to introduce the iPhone with Wi-Fi disabled in order to enter the Chinese
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Report: China Unicom preps iPhones with Wi-Fi
Share3 As the Apple iPad and its A4 chip get ready to ship on April 3, the competition is not standing still–and, by all appearances, there’s plenty of it.
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Apple A4 chip, iPad vs. the competition
He wasn’t lining up for an interview with Ryan Seacrest about what designer made his suit, but a few eagle-eyed bloggers on location at the 82nd Academy Awards on Sunday evening say that Apple CEO Steve Jobs was in attendance. In a tux, not a black turtleneck.
A vast number of people will be seated Sunday evening, desperate to hear a good joke while the movie industry pats itself on its behind. I am sure you have your favorites.
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The illegal downloaders’ Oscar winners
BOSTON–The MIT Energy Conference on Saturday covered a little bit of everything–”China speed,” climate change, financing gaps, government policy, nuclear and natural gas, and, of course, science experiments–as entrepreneurs, business people, and academics tried to get their arms around big-picture energy challenges. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has become a hotbed for clean-energy innovation over the
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Tuning the energy innovation engine at MIT
The Android mobile app for game-like “check-in” app Gowalla is now live, as Mashable noted over the weekend. Launching its first non-iPhone app is an important step for the start-up as it competes fiercely with several other location-based mobile companies that are all trying to break away from the pack
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Gowalla debuts Travel Channel deal, Android app
Google is building on its partnership with the World Bank and other statistics gatherers to present an array of data in visual form within Google Labs. Google Public Data Explorer went live Monday, accompanied by the requisite blog post.
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Google launches tool for searching public data
Software that can be downloaded for use with the Energizer Duo USB battery charger contains a backdoor that could allow an attacker to remotely take control of a Windows-based PC, Energizer and US-CERT is warning. “The installer for the Energizer Duo software places the file UsbCharger.dll in the application’s directory and Arucer.dll in the Windows
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Backdoor found in Energizer Duo USB battery charger
Bayern Munich chief executive Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has re-iterated the club’s intentions to keep hold of star man Franck Ribery and promising youngster Toni Kroos at the end of the season.
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Rummenigge: Ribery staying at Bayern, Kroos to return