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Facebook, RIM To Meet With UK Government Over Proposed Social Media Ban

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13 Aug 2011

Facebook and BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) are set to meet with Home Secretary Theresa May and other UK officials as the government investigates what roles the platforms played in organizing recent riots in London. Twitter, a service used by rioters and victims alike, said in a statement that it would not be joining [...]

London, Riots & Social Media: This Week in Online Tyranny

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11 Aug 2011

London riots feature social media policing and Blackberry Messaging. London’s Metropolitan police told reporters they were delving into Twitter and other social media as part of their investigation into looting. For the better part of a week, many parts of London, centering on Tottenham, have erupted in fire and looting. Attention has also been focused [...]

London, Riots & Social Media: This Week in Online Tyranny

In: web resources

11 Aug 2011

London riots feature social media policing and Blackberry Messaging. London’s Metropolitan police told reporters they were delving into Twitter and other social media as part of their investigation into looting. For the better part of a week, many parts of London, centering on Tottenham, have erupted in fire and looting. Attention has also been focused [...]

Intelligence Agencies Keep Getting Dumber

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19 Jul 2011

I’m in Mumbai. A few days ago, homemade bombs killed nineteen(1) people only blocks away from the Internet cafe in which I’m writing this, the latest in an eighteen-year string of terrorist attacks on India’s busy commercial capital. And how have the authorities reacted? With sheer idiocy. Today, highway signs advised Mumbai’s population: PLS. AVOID [...]

RIM Employee Begs Co-CEOs to Re-Focus on End Users

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1 Jul 2011

An anonymous Research in Motion employee today published a letter to the company’s senior management team begging them to change the companies direction by refocusing on end-user experience, among other things. The letter was published by The Boy Genius Report. While it might be easy to dismiss it as the bitter rantings of a disgruntled [...]


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