The US government’s attempt to subpoena the search records of Google and other search engines has drawn a lot of attention from the press and internet users over the last week. While the story has major implications for the search engine industry, the […]
Canadian researchers are developing a tool to detect the amount of spin politicians use in their political campaigning.
According to their site, the tool is being developed to analyse the volume of words in a speech that would indicate that the speaker was insincere […]
A Malaysian Senator has been fined by a Sharia court for divorcing his wife by SMS text message.
In 2001, Kamaruddin Ambok sent his wife a text telling her that it was all over - an action that has cost him a grand total […]
An American online gaming fan committed suicide live on webcam ealier this month.
21 year old “Mitchell S.” supposedly turned on his webcam and swallowed a concoction of pills and anti-freeze after logging onto his favourite site at http://www.metalgearsolid.org
Fellow gamers thought the man was […]
It seems that the big search engines might now be taken to task over their terrible behaviour in China.
You will remember our article on MSN’s recent selling out of Chinese blogger Zhao Jing, which was just the latest in a series of misdemeanours involving the search engines bowing to the anti-free speech whims of the […]