The European telecom companies are having a very rough go of it, with the harsh regulatory climate making them much less valuable.
States postpone dreams of international control of the Internet - TheDC
China, Russia and Arab states withdraw support after uproar
LightSquared doubles lobby efforts - The Hill
LightSquared is on pace to spend twice as much on lobbying in 2011
Trading barbs with Microsoft, Google accuses the software giant of cheating - TechCrunch
In a sting operation cooked up by Google, Microsoft allegedly copied search results for its search engine Bing
Egypt blocks Twitter, Facebook amid violent protests - TechCrunch
Inspired by the recent Tunisian demonstrations against corruption, protesters are filling the streets of Cairo
WikiLeaks: less 'leaks,' more data-mining? - Wired
A Pennsylvania firm asserts that WikiLeaks sucked up and published data-rich files from peer-to-peer networks
Facebook knows what you look like - WaPo
New Facebook technology will scan faces in photos to give tag suggestions for newly uploaded photos
Visited porn? Web browser flaw secretly bares all - AP
Websites have been secretly harvesting lists of places that their users previously visited online, everything from news articles to bank sites to pornography
Russian crackdown reduces world's spam by one-fifth - NYT
Igor A. Gusev, leader of SpamIt, investigated by Russian police
Google says whole emails, passwords picked up by Street View cars - Telegraph
Company apologized and said it wants to delete the information as soon as possible
iPad escapes AT&T prison, heads for Verizon Oct. 28 - Gizmodo
Release seems to lend even more credence to those early 2011 Verizon iPhone reports, which should make you as happy as it makes AT&T nervous
The five factors powering the Android revolution - ZDNet
Google Android has been riding a wave of staggering growth in 2010, going from barely a blip on the market share radar to the fastest growing mobile platform on the planet
Google's Android dominates Apple, defines future of smart-phones - Newsweek
Android’s open-source model gives Google an advantage over rivals selling closed systems, like Apple, which also operates its own online stores
Phone sex for nerds - TechCrunch
New take on internet dating allows users to challenge women to an online game, for 60 cents a minute
Pedophiles remain unchecked on Facebook - FOX News
Despite Facebook’s strict posting policy, groups dedicated to pedophilia use social networking to organize and prey on children
The day Twitter cried 'earthquake' - CNN
Natural disaster experts at San Diego State University tested how social media would be used to respond to a crisis Friday
AT&T plays world's smallest violin for iPhone users - TechCrunch
Boasting that 80 percent of iPhone users are stuck with AT&T, CEO not worried about defectors to Verizon
Censorship, as defined by Google - TechCrunch
Google issues ‘transparency report,’ equates countries that block access to site as censorship
Bill to freeze cell phone taxes gains ground - CNET News
Taxes on wireless services average more than 15 percent, compared with 7 percent on other taxable goods
Samsung spawns an iPad killer? - CNET News
Samsung president calls Galaxy Tab a ‘paradigm-shifter’
