Whistleblowers are a breed that do a valuable service for society even if what they do is controversial. A whistleblower spills the beans about what is going on inside a company, a government or a political campaign so people who like to cover up their dirty little secrets can’t get away with it.
One of [...]

The one thing you can say about Google is that if someone has a great idea, they will try to get in on it. This is not to say that Google is an evil empire. They do a lot of cool stuff for everybody on the internet. But like most huge companies, if someone [...]

The Apple App Store for its IPhone has become a serious new kind of cyberspace marketplace. So when the lords of that marketplace, Apple Computers decided to carve out a segment of it just for themselves, that smells of dirty pool. The niche that Apple has carved out for themselves is the GPS location [...]

You would think one of the advantages of mobile computing is that you could get away from the onslaught of spyware and other nasty cyberspace viruses that are the curse of using the internet. But spyware makers are perfectly capable and willing to create ways to download spyware even to your Blackberry.
In a way, [...]

There was a time when Microsoft and Internet Explorer ruled the internet world. They had it made in the shade, as we used to say. If you used the internet, you quite simply did so using Internet Explorer. In terms of technology, that was a long time ago. Or it was, as Microsoft might [...]