I do see how this makes sense to catch child pornographers and the like.
The FBI is pressing Internet service providers to record which Web sites customers visit and retain those logs for two years, a requirement that law enforcement believes could help it in investigations of child pornography and other serious crimes.
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FBI Director Robert Mueller supports storing Internet users’ “origin and destination information,” a bureau attorney said at a federal task force meeting on Thursday.
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Recording what Web sites are visited, though, is likely to draw both practical and privacy objections.
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If logs of Web sites visited began to be kept, they would be available only to local, state, and federal police with legal authorization such as a subpoena or search warrant.
Read more at news.cnet.com |
The new tool, which was announced earlier this week, and is so far available
only Google Android mobile phones, enables users to search using pictures
instead of words. Users focus their phone’s camera on an object, and Google
compares elements of that picture against its database of images. When it
finds a match, Google will tell you the name of what you’re looking at, and
provide a list of results linking through to the relevant web pages and news
stories.
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However, it has been unclear until now, whether users could use the tool to
take a photo of people in order to find out more about them. Marissa Mayer,
vice president of Google’s Search Product and User Experience, revealed to
The Telegraph exclusively at LeWeb 2009 in Paris, that the search giant had
taken the decision to blur out people’s faces if people tried to apply the
same technology to identify individuals rather than places or objects.
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“Sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words,” said Shailesh
Nalawadi, product manager for Google Goggles. “For many search queries,
using an image to search is easier and more useful than text alone,
especially on a mobile phone. Computer vision technology is still in its
infancy, but Goggles demonstrates its potential.
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Google also announced that it had extended its ‘personalized search’ this week
to include everyone and not just those with Google accounts. This means that
if people do not opt out, they will be served customized results based on
their previous searches. Google will store up to 180 days of a user’s search
activity in their cookie and deliver search results that reflect their
browsing history.
Read more at www.telegraph.co.uk |
I am assuming they mean that it would just be included in the montly payments current Cable customers already pay. If its an added subscription on top of the already high monthly packages that would be ridiculous. Several major cable networks and subscription-TV providers are readying systems that will let only paying subscribers watch cable shows on the Web, part of an effort to counter the growing amount of free TV shows available online. |
While limited, the new tests represent part of an industry-wide push to preserve and possibly expand the cable-TV business’s lucrative subscription model in a digital world. The move also come as media companies are struggling to make money from online video. |
“The vision is you can watch your favorite network’s programming on any screen,” said Time Warner Chief Executive Jeff Bewkes, one of the plan’s most ardent proponents, at a press conference Wednesday. He added that the plan is “not defensive.” Read more at online.wsj.com |
 HP just announced their new HP Photosmart Premium with Touchsmart Web, which has a web-connected touchpanel on the front, allowing you to print out content such as maps and coupons, straight from your printer.
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The Touchsmart Web UI has a widescreen panel about 4″ in size which has a series of thumbnails that you flick through to access web content. In addition, the printer will come with an open API, letting any web content developer create widgets for the printer. Read more at gizmodo.com |
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AddATweet: New Commenting system for the web.
ah love it. This is much better than having to create a login for every single site in order to comment! I bet this will catch on quickly.