http://goldsteinreport.com/ General RSS feed for Goldstein Report en-au Wed, 16 May 2012 23:44:20 -0400 Copyright: Goldstein Report 2005-2006 http://goldsteinreport.com/page?id=rss 120 http://goldsteinreport.com/images/site/rsslogo2.jpg http://goldsteinreport.com/ http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=17742 Experian Hitwise, which measures all sorts of traffic and activity on the Web, has released a new batch of stats around Facebook, helping to fuel all the hoopla in the run-up to Friday's IPO. For all the debate over its business model, Facebook obviously isn't hurting for traffic. In the U.S., one in every five page views was to Facebook. http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=17742 Thu, 17 May 2012 00:43:28 -0400 Internet Use/New Technologies http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=17741 Google has long sought to index the world's information -- and it's now taking things a step farther with an effort to create "a database of everything in the world." And it's bringing this effort to your search results pages. http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=17741 Thu, 17 May 2012 00:42:33 -0400 Internet Use/New Technologies http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=17740 When it comes to the underlying technology providers that matter for mobile app developers, there's Google, Apple and everyone else. Microsoft is one of the companies trying to claw its way out of the everyone else category. http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=17740 Thu, 17 May 2012 00:39:22 -0400 Online TV/Music http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=17739 Google will meet with France's data protection watchdog next week to answer questions about its new user privacy policy as part of a Europe-wide investigation being led by the French regulator. http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=17739 Thu, 17 May 2012 00:37:47 -0400 Legal, Privacy & Security http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=17738 A team of researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology have transmitted data on the terahertz range of spectrum using a wireless radio no bigger than a 10-yen coin (roughly the size of a penny). http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=17738 Thu, 17 May 2012 00:33:44 -0400 Miscellaneous http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=17737 Ahead of a nationwide deadline over regulating the use of cookies, the BBC has learned that the "majority" of the UK government's own websites will fail to comply in time. http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=17737 Thu, 17 May 2012 00:18:22 -0400 Legal, Privacy & Security http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=17736 File-sharing website The Pirate Bay (TPB) has been hit by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=17736 Thu, 17 May 2012 00:02:23 -0400 Online TV/Music http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=17735 Online pedophiles are paying to have children in overseas countries sexually abused according to their preferences in an alarming development police have dubbed "made-to-order" child abuse. http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=17735 Thu, 17 May 2012 00:01:08 -0400 Child protection http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=17734 Research summarized in a study "The Relationship between Local Content, Internet Development and Access Prices" released this week at the WSIS Forum 2012 in Geneva shows a strong correlation between the development of network infrastructure and the growth of local content, and a connection between developed local Internet markets and lower reported prices for international bandwidth. http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=17734 Thu, 17 May 2012 00:00:41 -0400 Government & Policy http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=17733 Apple and five major book publishers have failed to persuade a US judge to throw out a lawsuit by consumers accusing them of conspiring to raise electronic book prices two years ago. http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=17733 Wed, 16 May 2012 09:22:44 -0400 Legal, Privacy & Security