Health Nokia Phones to Aid Against Malaria Deaths This weekend millions of North American children diligently completed their homework, did their chores and stayed on their best behavior in the hopes that they'd attend Harry Potter and the Halfblood Prince in theaters. Meanwhile, half way around the world, thousands of children work for the magical protections of mosquito nets and running… Dana Oshiro View comments
NYT The Anti-trust Case That Could Be In the Works Against Google Google's market dominance in search and advertising, when combined with growing strength in a wide variety of online services like video, documents, telephony and more could be seen as the Internet equivalent of the monopolistic bundling that Microsoft faced government anti-trust action for in the late '90s. Fred Vogelstein wrote a long and… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Google Will Google Chrome OS Bring Us the Mythical GDrive? Last week, Google announced some interface changes to their Google Docs service that are designed to make finding your files easier. The changes are relatively minor - the "shared with" list has gone away, there's a new "Sharing" menu, and you now have the ability to save your searches - but that hasn't stopped some bloggers from theorizing that… Sarah Perez View comments
NYT This Message will Self-Destruct: New Tool Makes Online Postings Disappear On the internet, data lives forever. Once you post something to the web, you see, you simply can't take it back. Many people have had to learn this lesson the hard way, unfortunately, after discovering that the "delete" button doesn't really work to delete something from the internet as a whole. The embarrassing missive lives on and on, in the… Sarah Perez View comments
Analysis IBM and The Internet of Things In the Web world, you know that a trend has major traction when IBM is all over it. Like any large Internet company, Big Blue is careful about which trends it latches onto. It was a good couple of years before they were spotted at the Web 2.0 conference, for example. However in the case of Internet of Things, IBM is proving itself to be an… Richard MacManus View comments