March 2009
Online Advertising:
The EU signals new rules to protect privacy against online advertisers (31st March): http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/31/online-adverts-eu-privacy-law
Surveillance:
The government is backing a project to install a ‘communication box’ in new cars to track their whereabouts anywhere in
Music:
Google launches a free music site in
Social Networking/Crime:
Police warn that a Facebook page showing CCTV images of a rape suspect could affect a prosecution. The woman’s partner put the images online in an attempt to identify the rapist (30th March):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/mar/30/rape-suspect-facebook-police-warning
Social Networking:
Myspace shrinks as rivals grab its users (29th March): http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/mar/29/myspace-facebook-bebo-twitter
Music:
An article praising the virtues of the 45rpm vinyl single (27th March): http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/mar/27/45rpm-vinyl-singles
Newspapers:
The creator of the TV show The Wire warns about an explosion of corruption by politicians if the newspaper industry and journalism is allowed to collapse (27th March): http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/mar/27/david-simon-wire-newspapers
Future Technology:
An article on
Education:
In a shake-up of the primary school curriculum children will no longer have to study the Victorians and WWII but will be required ‘to master Twitter and Wikipedia’ (25th March): http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/mar/25/primary-schools-twitter-curriculum
Surveillance/Security:
On the use of virtual border patrol deputies on the US-Mexico border. With cameras that can be watched from any internet connection (23rd March): http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/23/texas-mexico-patrol-webcam-australia
Surveillance:
The right to privacy is being broken by a quarter of the public databases, according to a new report (23rd March): http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/mar/23/dna-database-idcards-children-index
Newspapers:
A good article on the problems faced by the newspaper industry (23rd March): http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/mar/22/newspapers-layoffs-online-advertising
Television:
BSkyB is granted leave to appeal against the court ruling against its stake in ITV (21st March): http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/mar/21/bskyb-itv
Mobile Phones:
Sony Ericsson issues a profit warning due to a slump in mobile phone sales with the recession (21st March): http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/mar/20/sony-mobilephones
Bloggers:
An Iranian blogger dies in prison from an overdose a month after receiving a two and a half year sentence for insulting the country’s religious leaders (20th March): http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/20/omidreza-mirsayafi-iran-blogger-rouznegar
Google Street-View:
Google launches street-view in the
(20th March): http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/mar/20/google-street-view And (21st March): http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/mar/21/google-street-view-privacy-images
Virtual Worlds:
The UK Home Office has defended its use of taxpayer’s money to set up an ‘innovations centre’ on Second Life (19th March): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7952213.stm
Google:
Google’s legal fight with Louis Vuitton over the selling of trademark terms in its advertising continues (17th March): http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/mar/17/google-louis-vuitton-legal-battle
Mobile Phones:
Vodafone and O2 plan to pool their networks in the biggest shake-up of the
Youtube:
A sandwich bar worker was filmed by a friend at work stuffing lettuce up his nose and the video was seen by a customer on Youtube. He avoided a jail sentence but was ordered to do 300 hours unpaid work (11th March): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/7937945.stm
Social Networking:
Facebook launches an Arabic version (11th March): http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/mar/10/facebook-launches-arabic-version The BBC reports new versions in both Arabic and Hebrew (12th March): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7939375.stm
File-Sharing:
The French government plans an anti-piracy bill that will punish downloaders by cutting off their internet access (11th March): http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/11/france-internet-anti-piracy
Youtube/Music:
Youtube refuses to reverse its decision to block music videos for UK users after failing to reach a new licensing agreement with the performing rights society (10th March): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7933565.stm
Security:
A police force loses a memory stick containing information on hundreds of police investigations (9th March): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7932228.stm
Video Games:
An article about the thousands of Chinese ‘gold farmers’ working in virtual worlds for a living (5th March): http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/mar/05/virtual-world-china
Television:
ITV announces job cuts and changing plans as the recession and its economic position causes problems (5th March): http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/mar/05/itv-television-recession-michael-grade
Future Technology:
An article about the Pentagon’s investment in research into nanotechnology (5th March): http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/mar/05/micro-darpa-microchips
Future Technology:
A man who lost his sight 30 years ago can now see flashes of light after being fitted with a bionic eye (4th March): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7919645.stm
Youtube/Crime:
A man has been fined £200 after posting a video on Youtube of the cannabis plants he was growing (4th March): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/7922737.stm
Twitter:
A young British man dies snowboarding in the
Music:
Virgin Megastores announces it is pulling out of the
Mobile Phones:
How mobile phones have transformed
Mobile Phones:
Mobile phone use passes a mile-stone as a UN report reveals that half the globe now pays to use one (3rd March): http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/mar/03/mobile-phones1
Crime/Social Networking:
Facebook is targeted by malicious hackers trying to steal data from its members (2nd March): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7918839.stm
Surveillance:
An article about
February 2009
Newspapers:
An article on the problems newspapers face and the possibility of charging for online content (29th Feb): http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/feb/23/newspapers-online-content
Privacy:
The DNA details of 1.1m children are on the National DNA Database (27th Feb): http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/feb/27/dna-database-children-criminal-record
Social Networking:
A 16 year old from
Mobile Phones:
O2 reports it has sold over a million iPhones in the
Surveillance:
An article about Sir David Omand’s new
A related piece the same day traces the modes of surveillance we are moving towards: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/feb/25/data-surveillance-identity
Video:
A young Indian woman is given police protection after a video clip of her undressing in a bedroom was circulated on the internet becoming India’s most searched item on Google (23rd Feb): http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/feb/23/privacy-law-internet-phone-video-india
Google:
Google scotches claims that users of its Google earth program have discovered Atlantis… (21st Feb): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7903169.stm
Future Technology:
The iCub robot makes its
Privacy:
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Mobile Phones:
Two of the world’s largest mobile phone companies – Telefonica (owners of 02) and the
Privacy:
Facebook backs down on changes to its terms of service after outrage online (18th Feb): http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/feb/18/facebook-u-turn-on-privacy-changes and http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/feb/19/facebook-personal-data
Mobile Phones:
Vodafone wins the race to sell the next generation of ‘Google phones’, planning to launch the ‘Magic’ phone in the spring (17th Feb): http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/feb/17/vodafone-google-phone
Music:
BSkyB announces its plans to launch a music download store to rival iTunes (16th Feb): http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/feb/16/bskyb-digital-music-service
Mobile Phones:
With sales of mobile phones down in the recession the only section of the industry showing growth is the ‘smart phone’ (16th Feb): http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/feb/15/mobile-world-congress-report-fewer-delegates
Television:
ITV puts Friends reunited up for sale as part of its cost-cutting drive in the face of the worst advertising downturn for a decade (15th Feb): http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/feb/15/itv-sells-friends-reunited A few days earlier an article discusses the problems ITV is facing (13th Feb): http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/feb/13/itv-staff-hundreds-job-cuts
Advertising:
How companies are using TV spots to launch their adverts online and how ads are becoming ‘cult’ videos (15th Feb): http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/feb/15/tv-ads-internet
File Sharing:
The trial is due to start in
Social Networking:
Facebook pays $65m (£45m) to settle a rival’s claim that the site was its idea (13th Feb): http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/feb/13/facebook-inventor-claim-payout
Video Games:
An EU report suggests video games are good for children (12th Feb): http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/feb/12/computer-games-eu-study
Wikipedia:
Following a dispute at Prime Minister’s questions as to the date of Titian’s birth a Tory party worker at Conservative Central Office amended his Wikipedia entry to reflect David Cameron’s claims (12th Feb): http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/feb/12/gordon-brown-david-cameron-titian
Music:
An article on the
Crime:
Police are bing equipped with a new generation of data extraction devices to accelerate the downloading of information from seized mobile phones (10th Feb): http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/feb/10/police-checks-mobile-phones
Newspapers:
A discussion of the rise of online ‘comments’ sections at the end of articles and their ‘abuse’ by the public (9th Feb): http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/feb/09/newspaper-comment-pages
Privacy and Surveillance:
A series of articles on a new House of Lords report on surveillance in
Social Networking:
A woman discovered her marriage was over when her husband announced it on Facebook (6th Feb): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/7874273.stm
Cyberwar:
A report on cyberwar following the DDoS attack on
Mobile Phones:
Mobile phone sales are falling as customers hold on their handsets and trade-down to cheaper deals -although the article doesn’t make the point that the ‘smart phone’ market is the one part of the industry holding up well (4th Feb): http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/feb/04/vodafone-nokia-mobile-phones
Economics:
Time Warner reports a $16bn loss in the fourth quarter of 2008, with cable subscription losses in the downturn being blamed for more than half of the loss (4th Feb): http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/feb/04/time-warner-loss-16bn
Privacy:
Facebook intends to capitalise on its wealth of information it has about users by offering its 150 million-strong customer base to corporations as a research tool (1st Feb): http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/feb/01/facebook-seeks-to-exploit-user-information
Google:
Google announces an extension of its Google earth project that will map the world’s oceans and offer underwater imagery (1st Feb): http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/feb/01/google-earth-oceans-project
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