Two decades after its birth, the World Wide Web is in decline, as simpler, sleeker services — think apps — are less about the searching and more about the getting. Chris Anderson explains how this new paradigm reflects the inevitable course of capitalism. And Michael Wolff explains why the new breed of media titan is forsaking the Web for more promising (and profitable) pastures.
Read more »The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet
Apple's Worst Security Breach: 114,000 iPad Owners Exposed
Apple has suffered another embarrassment. A security breach has exposed iPad owners including dozens of CEOs, military officials, and top politicians. They—and every other buyer of the cellular-enabled tablet—could be vulnerable to spam marketing and malicious hacking.
Read more »Second (Small) Gulf Oil Spill Confirmed
Leaking is Just What Oil Wells Do...Second "small" gulf oil leak from Ocean Saratoga rig may have spilled more than 30,600 gallons since 2004.
Read more »Do Canada's Newspapers Have a Future?
Can a Canadian industry that has been abused for more than 15 years by speculators, incompetents and in some cases, outright thievery, reinvent itself to occupy a meaningful place in a fast-changing media world?
Read more »When you buy an Apple iPhone - iPad think of those who died making it.
Taiwan's Foxconn Technology, a contract maker of the iPhone and other consumer electronics, insisted Wednesday its treatment of workers is world class after a female employee became the company's eighth Chinese worker to commit suicide this year.
Read more »Kenney denies removing gay references
OTTAWA — Canada’s immigration minister is apparently denying any role in the removal of references to gay rights from a citizenship study guide released last fall.
Asked Wednesday why he blocked any information about same-sex marriage and charter rights protecting sexual orientation, Jason Kenney said: “I did not do such a thing. No, no, you are wrong.”
Read more »Tom Brokaw Explains Canada To Americans
Tom Brokaw explains the relationship between Canada and The United States, in a pre-recorded short film that aired on NBC prior to the Opening Ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver.
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The Olympic skier known as 'spam king'
Winning a medal at the Vancouver Olympic Games doesn't normally make you a target of derision from your fellow countrymen.
Then again, most Olympic athletes don't have the colorful background of Dale Begg-Smith, the former world-champion mogul skier who is almost as well known for reports about his involvement with adware, browser pop-ups, and other detritus of the seamier side of the Internet.
Pride House starts a new Olympic tradition
The Whistler Pride House, sitting inside the Pan Pacific Whistler Village Centre Hotel, is the first house in the history of the Olympics to pay tribute exclusively to gay and lesbian athletes, coaches, family, friends and allies.
Read more »British judges: MI5 complicit in torture
MI5 faced an unprecedented and damaging crisis tonight after one of the country's most senior judges found that the Security Service had failed to respect human rights, deliberately misled parliament, and had a "culture of suppression" that undermined government assurances about its conduct.
Read more »China Closes Hacker Training School, Arrests 3
China officials have shut down Black Hawk Safety Net, the country's biggest hacker training Website, and arrested three people for making hacker tools available online.
Read more »Canadians going prorogue
Harper's move called affront to democracy.Yesterday's rally to protest against the prime minister's year-end move to shut down Parliament until March went peacefully, even as it gave Stephen Harper a sound hammering.
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Federal Gov't misses opportunity to lead digital economy
A recent decision by the CRTC has the potential to cause major disruption in the internet service marketplace. Fortunately, the decision can be reversed by the federal cabinet, if voices like yours are heard. Here's the issue in a nutshell.
Read more »Portugal parliament votes to permit gay marriage
LISBON, Portugal – Portugal's parliament passed a bill Friday that would make the predominantly Catholic nation the sixth in Europe to permit gay marriage.
Read more »Judge Bans Microsoft from Selling Word
U.S. court of appeals on Tuesday upheld a $290 million jury verdict against Microsoft for infringing a patent held by a small Canadian software firm..
Read more »New libel defence allowed: Supreme Court - Journalists, Bloggers
The Supreme Court of Canada has opened the door for journalists to use the defence of "responsible communication" against libel suits.
Journalists across Canada, as well as bloggers, can now use the defence of "responsible communication on matters of public interest" as a defence against libel.
Turn over Facebook history, judge orders
A New Brunswick judge has ordered a Miramichi woman to reveal how often she uses the social-networking website Facebook to a man she's suing after a 2004 car crash.
Rosemary Carter is fighting Herbert Connors for damages after the two were involved in a collision in the northern New Brunswick community five years ago.
Read more »A Glimmer of Justice for Wrongly Detained Terror Suspects
Benamar Benatta was mysteriously handed over by Canada to U.S. authorities the day after the 9-11 terrorist attacks, and spent nearly five years in American jails without ever being convicted of a crime.
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HIV Travel Ban Lifted By President Obama
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Friday the U.S. will overturn a 22-year-old travel and immigration ban against people with HIV early next year.
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Andrew Struthers Creates a First in Film
Struthers has created a feature-length film called Americanface that is broken up into 64 YouTube clips of 90 seconds, each of them designed to work on their own as a discrete episode.
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