Archive for July, 2008

Last week Google made front page news with the revelation that its StreetView mapping cars had hit the roads of UK cities.
For those of you who don’t know what Google StreetView is, it is the 360 degree photographing of urban layouts to produce a complete online photographic record of any given point within the [...]

It is a familiar scenario: we need more space, so we will add more space, then we expand our habits to fill it and once again we need more space. This is a problematic circle that can be attributed to a number of different areas of life, consider home buying or motorway construction, but [...]

This week a US court delivered a landmark ruling that raises questions about internet users’ rights to privacy. The ruling comes from the high-profile and very bitter legal dispute between YouTube and Viacom.
In case you are not familiar with the case here is the background.
US broadcasting company Viacom alleges that YouTube infringes its copyright law [...]