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		<title>The Case Against Letting the U.N. Govern the Internet</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerry Brito</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All this year, and culminating in December at the World Conference on International Telecommunications in Dubai, the nations of the world will be negotiating a treaty to govern international telecommunications services between countries. It is widely believed that some countries, including Russia and China, will take the opportunity to push for U.N. control of Internet governance. Such a turn of events would certainly be troubling.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=118649&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FBI Hacked While Congress Ponders Cybersecurity Legislation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerry Brito</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a rare open hearing of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence last week, FBI Director Robert Mueller testified that threats from cyber-espionage and cyber-attacks will surpass terrorism as the number one threat facing the United States. Not three days later, hackers released a recording of an intercepted call between FBI agents and their U.K. counterparts investigating the Anonymous and LulzSec collectives.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=117523&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Europe&#8217;s &#8216;Right to Be Forgotten&#8217; Has in Common with SOPA</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerry Brito</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In George Orwell’s 1984, the Ministry of Truth employs a “memory hole” to eliminate inconvenient facts. If a previously published photo or record later proves to be embarrassing for the government, it is thrown down the hole. The facts are erased from the face of the earth and the world is led to believe that something that happened never actually happened. The European Commission last week sought to give citizens their own personal memory holes.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=116448&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why We Won&#8217;t See Many Protests like the SOPA Blackout</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerry Brito</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The SOPA blackout protest last week was an unprecedented event. Its massive success surprised even the activists who spurred the protest. So does this mean that we are entering the much-heralded era of Internet-powered citizen democracy? The answer is yes. And no.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=115624&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Google&#8217;s Biggest Problem with &#8216;Search Plus Your World&#8217; Isn&#8217;t Antitrust</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/01/17/why-googles-biggest-problem-isnt-antitrust-with-search-plus-your-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerry Brito</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some claim that Google Search Plus Your World, which tightly integrates results from Google+ into organic search, violates antitrust laws. Google does have a big problem on its hands, but it’s not an antitrust problem. It’s market reaction.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=114455&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>At the Top of Congress&#8217; New Year Agenda? Regulate the Net</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/01/09/at-the-top-of-congresss-new-year-agenda-regulate-the-net/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerry Brito</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Congress gaveled for the year in December, opponents of two Internet-censoring piracy bills cheered. Their efforts seemed to have blocked the legislation’s movement. But when Congress comes back later this month, it already has a first order of business: regulate the net.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=113100&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>First Privacy, Now Censorship: Will Twitter Continue to Stand Up for Its Users&#8217; Rights?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/01/02/privacy-and-censorship-will-twitter-continue-to-stand-up-for-its-users-rights-this-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerry Brito</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the face of legal pressure last year, Twitter fought for user privacy. This year, its new challenge will be censorship—and a repeat performance would be welcome.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=112344&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Should We Ban Apple&#8217;s Siri While Driving?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerry Brito</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There's no doubt that distracted driving can lead to car accidents that injure or kill, and the recommended ban is certainly well intended. But the NTSB may not be doing the right thing. An educational campaign to change driver's habits would be a much better approach.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=111061&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Face Recognition Technology Comes to Malls and Nightclubs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The privacy concerns around the tracking of consumers and targeted advertising online may be coming to the physical world. At a Federal Trade Commission workshop about the privacy implications of face recognition on Thursday, all eyes were on the new “Find My Face” feature in Google+, announced at the conference. The event, however, also focused on how face detection is being used offline in “smart sign” technology and other applications.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=109334&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Case Against More Wireless Spectrum for First Responders</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/12/05/the-case-against-more-wireless-spectrum-for-first-responders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerry Brito</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the Supercommittee's failure, some in Congress are trying to revive spectrum auctions to raise revenue and to make more airwaves available for mobile broadband. One sticking point: Should we give away more spectrum to public safety agencies? It may sound like a no-brainer, but it's not.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=108530&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hackers Blow Up Illinois Water Utility&#8230;or Not</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/11/28/hackers-blow-up-illinois-water-utility-or-not/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerry Brito</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month hackers accessed the control system of a water utility in Springfield, Illinois via a Russian IP address and caused a water pump to malfunction and eventually fail, according to reports. This would have been the first known kinetic cyberattack on U.S. soil except for one catch: It didn’t happen.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=107706&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How the Internet Evolves to Overcome Censorship</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/11/21/how-the-internet-evolves-to-overcome-censorship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerry Brito</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While Congress mulls an Internet blacklist, there are efforts underway to reengineer parts of the Net to make communications more decentralized and censorship-proof.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=105902&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Consequences of Apple&#8217;s Walled Garden</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/11/14/the-consequences-of-apples-walled-garden/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerry Brito</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the SysCan conference in Taiwan this week, security researcher Charlie Miller will describe a flaw he discovered in the iPhone’s web browser that allows a malicious app installed on the phone to download executable code from a remote server. Miller is well-known for finding security flaws in Apple software, and this latest instance could be the most serious flaw he’s uncovered yet.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=104816&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Congress&#8217;s Piracy Blacklist Plan: A Cure Worse than the Disease?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/11/07/congresss-piracy-blacklist-plan-a-cure-worse-than-the-disease/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerry Brito</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month, Yahoo quit the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, one of the most powerful lobbies in Washington, over the Chamber’s support of a Senate anti-piracy bill known as the PROTECT IP Act. Now Google is considering doing the same over the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), a companion bill recently introduced in the House. These high-profile walkouts are a sign of what’s at stake. For the content industry—including Hollywood and the recording industry—SOPA and PROTECT IP are necessary to fight foreign copyright infringers that usually stand outside the reach of U.S. law. Domestic domains, such as those ending in .com or .net, can already be seized by the government with a court order. However, U.S. authorities don’t have the power to seize foreign domains, and such domains are often used by sites that illegally stream movies and sports or offer music for free downloads. (MORE: Verisign Seeks Authority to Shut Down Websites Without Court Orders) SOPA and PROTECT IP allow the government to target foreign sites by essentially disappearing them. How the bills accomplish the disappearing act is among the issues that rankle the Internet companies. The Domain Name System (DNS) is what translates easy-to-remember website names, like TIME.com, to their true numerical Internet addresses, like 216.35.74.104. When you type in a website name, your computer queries a DNS server to get the numerical address. Most consumers use a DNS server provided by their ISP, though some use third-party servers like the Google Public DNS. SOPA and PROTECT IP would allow prosecutors to get a court order declaring a foreign site as infringing, and the order could then be used to require DNS service providers to block the allegedly infringing sites. This means they will essentially be required to keep a blacklist of rogue foreign sites, and when a user tries to get the numerical address for a blacklisted site, the server would have to return either nothing or an error page. As far as the user is concerned, the site will have disappeared. (MORE: New U.S. Post Office Ads<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=102057&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Will Amazon&#8217;s Kindle Fire Web Browser Spy On You? The EFF Gets Answers</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/19/will-amazons-kindle-fire-web-browser-spy-on-you-the-eff-gets-answers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerry Brito</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Electronic Frontier Foundation has found that the new Silk browser in Amazon’s forthcoming Kindle Fire tablet, which speeds browsing by routing users&#8217; traffic through Amazon’s cloud servers, does not pose a privacy threat to users. “We are generally satisfied with the privacy design of Silk, and happy that the end user has control over whether to use cloud acceleration,” said EFF technologist Dan Auerback in a statement. The finding couldn’t have come at a better time for Amazon, which was facing some tough questions from Capitol Hill. Last week, Massachusetts Democrat Ed Markey sent Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos a letter demanding to know what the company will do with data collected from Silk users. And at a privacy hearing on Thursday, Congressman Joe Barton (R-TX) expressed outrage at the thought of Silk collecting user data. (MORE: Amazon&#8217;s Services, Not Pricing, Is Why the Kindle Fire Is Disruptive) “My staff yesterday told me that one of our leading Internet companies, Amazon, is going to create their own server and their own system and they’re going to force everybody that uses Amazon to go through their server and they’re going to collect all this information on each person who does that without that person’s knowledge,” he said. “Enough is enough.” Barton’s staff, however, must have been misinformed. In its investigation, EFF found that Silk users will not be forced to use its split browsing mode. “Cloud acceleration mode is the default setting, but Amazon has assured us it will be easy to turn off on the first page of the browser settings menu,” Auerback said. “When turned off, Silk operates as a normal web browser, sending the requests directly to the web sites you are visiting.” Additionally, Amazon will not intercept any encrypted traffic, so any communications over HTTPS–popular on Gmail, Facebook, and Twitter, among other services–will not be recorded. The EFF did say that as companies create innovations that push more of our data to the cloud, it’s important that laws keep up with the technology, and they advocate an<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=100263&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Verisign Seeks Authority to Shut Down Websites Without Court Orders</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/12/verisign-seeks-authority-to-shut-down-websites-without-court-orders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerry Brito</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Verisign, the company that manages all .com and .net domain registrations, is seeking the authority to cancel the registrations of “non-legitimate abusive sites” when asked by governments—with or without a court order. Law enforcement in the U.S. have recently begun using domain name seizures to shut down sites that allegedly host piracy or child pornography. Such seizures have been controversial. Although they require a court order, the targeted website owners are not notified before the seizure and don’t have an opportunity to present their side of the story to the judge. Additionally, thousands of sites have been mistakenly seized. In a filing with ICANN, the nonprofit that oversees the Internet’s domain name system, Verisign said this week that it wants to set up a system that would &#8220;allow the denial, cancellation or transfer&#8221; of domain name registrations to comply not just with court orders, but also &#8220;laws, government rules or requirements, requests of law enforcement or other governmental quasi-governmental agency, or any dispute resolution process.&#8221; (MORE: Veteran Hacker Hired to Keep an Eye On Every Internet Address) A literal reading of that language suggests that a simple request from law enforcement will suffice to take down a website. In the filing, Veirisign notes that domain owners &#8220;may be concerned about an improper takedown of a legitimate website&#8221; and says it will offer &#8220;a protest procedure to support restoring a domain name.&#8221; The focus of Verisign’s filing are sites that maliciously host malware or that have been infected without their knowledge. However, there is no indication that the proposed domain takedown policy would be limited to such sites. The filing notes only that “The suspension service is offered to address non-legitimate sites that are abusing domain name services.” Verisign did not respond to a request for comment. “This proposal is either confused or deliberately misleading,” says Syracuse University School of Information Studies professor and ICANN expert Milton Mueller. A voluntary malware detection program may be a good idea, Mueller said. “On the other hand, the so-called anti-abuse policy embedded in the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=99632&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New U.S. Post Office Ads Warn Us About the Dangers of Email</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/09/30/new-u-s-post-office-ads-warn-us-about-the-dangers-of-email/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 20:19:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerry Brito</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Postal Service, near bankruptcy and losing billions of dollars every quarter pushing a product no one wants, unveiled today its new strategy to regain some relevance. That strategy involves scaring consumers about the dangers of email and online bill payment in several new 30-second TV commercials. The ads tell consumers that unlike email and online services, paper mail delivered door to door can’t fall prey to a virus. (Lets not count the anthrax scare of 2001, since anthrax is technically a bacteria.) “A refrigerator has never been hacked,” the ad’s voiceover says as a happy mail recipient pins a paper bill to her fridge. Another ad tells us that USPS customers can be sure that “important letters and information don’t get lost in thin air, or disappear with a click.” For the record, security researchers have hacked fridges since at least 2005. But more to the point, the ads are a pathetic attempt to stem the tide of digital innovation and convenience that is washing away the Post Office’s dead tree business model. It’s like buggy-whip makers warning about the dangers of those newfangled horseless carriages. And lest we forget, while the Post Office is now trying to convince us that e-mail is unsafe, in 2000 it proposed a plan to assign everyone in the U.S. an email address based on your postal street address. Mail sent to that address would have been printed out–limit two pages–and hand delivered at a higher(!) rate than first class mail. With that kind of innovative pedigree, it’s a wonder the service hasn’t gone bankrupt sooner. [via Washington Post] MORE: Ask Techland: How Can I Clear Up Space in Gmail? Jerry Brito is a contributor to TIME. Find him on Twitter at @jerrybrito. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=98701&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can Devices like the Kindle Fire Finally Pave the Way for a la Carte Cable?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 19:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pundits asking whether the new Kindle Fire will be an “iPad killer” are way off the mark. It’s a killer alright, but the victim is not who you think it is. “We don’t think of the Kindle Fire as a tablet. We think of it as a service,” says Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. And the main competing service in his sights is cable TV. The Fire, of course, is not the only killer gunning for cable. Amazon’s streaming video service is available on dozens of TV-connected devices, including TiVos and Roku boxes. So is Netflix, which although it has stumbled a bit recently, is clearly positioning itself as a streaming alternative to cable. And of course let’s not forget Apple, with not just its iTunes movie and TV offerings, but also Netflix on all its devices, including the Apple TV. (IMAGES: Amazon&#8217;s Kindle Fire and New Kindle E-Readers) Cable operators are feeling the heat. Comcast and Time Warner, the two largest operators, have reportedly lost 1.2 million cable TV subscribers in the 12 months ending June 30. Many of these are said to be “cord cutters” who prefer the flexibility of online video, such as Amazon Instant Video, which lets them choose a la carte what they want to watch whenever and wherever they want. Yet cable prices continue to rise. One reason is the climbing cost of programming itself. Cable companies (like Cox or Charter) pay programmers (like Disney or Discovery) to carry their networks, and in turn they charge consumers. Programmers have been hiking prices for their content, often as a result of access to sports content. ESPN, for example, recently signed a $15 billion, eight-year TV rights deal with the NFL, a 73% increase from their last agreement. That’s one reason why the sports network is the most expensive channel to operators, at about $4 per subscriber. Yet the more prices go up, and the more choices like Amazon and Netflix are available, the more we can expect viewers to cut the cord. article continues on next<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=98592&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eric Schmidt to Senators: Google Is Nothing like Microsoft</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/09/21/eric-schmidt-to-senators-google-is-nothing-like-microsoft/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 21:06:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerry Brito</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt testified today before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee, making the case not only that Google is not evil, but also that it&#8217;s not Microsoft. Thirteen years ago, Bill Gates testified before the same panel to defend Microsoft from allegations that it abused its market dominance. His performance has been described as elusive and defensive, and two months later the Justice Department filed its antitrust suit. (LIST: A Brief History of Google&#8217;s Social Networking Flops) Schmidt, pundits have been saying, needed to avoid a similar performance, and the Google chairman seems to have taken the advice not just to heart, but literally. At every turn, Schmidt’s message seemed to be: We’re nothing like Microsoft. In his opening statement, Schmidt brought up Microsoft right off the bat, saying, “Twenty years ago, a large technology firm was setting the world on fire. Its software was on nearly every computer. Its name was synonymous with innovation. But that company lost sight of what mattered. Then Washington stepped in.” Schmidt said he and others in Silicon Valley had learned the lessons of the Microsoft antirust saga. “We get it. By that I mean that we get the lessons of our corporate predecessors,” Schmidt said. He didn’t mention exactly what that lesson was, but we can be sure one aspect of it is that if “Washington steps in,” it can demolish a thriving business. So in several instances he sought to distinguish today’s Google from the Microsoft of the late &#8217;90s, which was accused of using its market power in operating systems to force users to use its Internet Explorer web browser. (MORE: 50 Windows 8 Screenshots, Hardware Photos and More) “I ask you to remember that not all companies are cut from the same cloth, and that one company’s past need not be another’s future,” he said. “We live in a different world today, and the open Internet is the ultimate level playing field.” “Open” and “Internet” are the key words there. article continues on the next page&#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=97909&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stronger Online Privacy Regulation Comes with Tradeoffs</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/09/16/stronger-online-privacy-regulation-comes-with-tradeoffs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 09:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerry Brito</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As calls for comprehensive online privacy legislation get louder, Congress is looking to the experience of our cousins across the Atlantic where the European Union has had strict privacy regulations for over 15 years. What they’re finding is that privacy protections come with tradeoffs. At a House hearing yesterday, M.I.T. Professor Catherine Tucker told lawmakers that her research shows that the E.U.’s privacy standards are associated with a 65% decrease in the effectiveness of online advertising. Why does this matter? Because advertising is how services like Facebook, Twitter, Gmail and the rest pay for themselves. If privacy regulations diminish how well web services can track your interests, then it’s more difficult for them to pitch ads to you that match those interests. Advertisers are less willing to pay for ads that are less relevant to users. And that, of course, would mean less cash for the services. (MORE: Facebook Adds New Google Plus-like Privacy Features) For example, Twitter is right now trying to figure out how to target its “promoted tweets” to the tweet streams of users who will care (a paid tweet from Oprah’s Book Club probably isn’t relevant to a 20-year-old male football fanatic). In order to do that, it might have to keep track of who you are. Some folks find such tracking creepy or risky, and would like to see it limited. What the EU experience shows us is what we might have to give up to have strict limitations on data collection. Facebook, Google Search and even sites like Techland are not really free services. You don’t pay for them with money, but you do pay with a little bit of your privacy. If you limit the ability of users to pay with privacy, as the EU has done, then you might find that a service like Facebook will have to charge users something like $20 a month. More likely, it might never get built. Looking at innovation in the social web, what you see is that almost all of it comes from the U.S.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=97180&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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