Leaked Cable: China Ordered Hacking on Google
A cable released by WikiLeaks quotes a contact as saying that high-ranking political and military officials oversaw the hacking of Google last year. A separate cable released by WikiLeaks says that another high-ranking Chinese official demanded action against Google after looking for his own name on the search engine and finding criticism of him.
Top smartphones of 2010
In the market for a new cell phone? Here are some of the best ones that might help you with your decision. Hint - pick your carrier first then the phone.
iTunes alternatives: how do Amazon and other digital music services compare?
Is iTunes still the most expensive digital music service? Which iTunes alternative offers the best deal for music lovers? Are digital albums a better deal than CDs? And just how much are you overpaying if you buy by the track instead of by the album?
Google eBooks: The good, the bad, and the ugly
Google launched its e-books site this morning. No longer called Google Editions, the site is now called Google eBooks. Can the Kindle and Nook can survive in the face of Google’s entry into the market (I think the answer is yes), I’d suggest that Google will most likely just make platform-agnostic eBooks more mainstream than Amazon has with its Kindle apps for various platforms.
Add 'do not track' to Firefox, IE, Google Chrome
With just a little effort, you can set Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, and Google Chrome to clear out and block the cookies most online ad networks and other Web trackers rely on to build their valuable user profiles.
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