Social Censorship in India: Much Ado About Nothing

Another year, another attack on the Internet. Lately, though, it’s not a loose collective of individual hackers sitting in dark rooms trying to wreak havoc. This time, stronger forces and vested interests are stepping into the game.

In a matter of a few weeks, the world’s most powerful democracy and

SkyDrive and Windows Phone cozy up, apps can now directly integrate with the cloud

Microsoft, in an effort to continue integrating SkyDrive into Windows Phone, made a few changes to the cloud service’s API this week. The new adjustments now give third-party Windows Phone apps full access to SkyDrive, complete with the ability to upload and share pictures, videos and docs. These changes

¿Por qué no existe una aplicación que permita una mayor transparencia sobre la transmisión de datos privados?

Se pide software para teléfonos inteligentes que permita a los usuarios ver qué datos envían sus terminales.

Una start-up usa tu número de teléfono móvil para averiguar dónde estás

Loc-Aid es capaz de rastrear casi cualquier dispositivo móvil en Norteamérica

Silverlight hits 5.0, Microsoft silent as to its future

Last we heard, there were whispers that Redmond’s favorite runtime / framework / Flash-killer was due for a fresh release "soon." Confirming those rumors is version 5.0 of Microsoft’s cross-platform Silverlight, now available for download. Headlining the release is hardware decoding of H.264 streams,

Top 5 Mashable Comments This Week

Another week has come to a close, which means it’s time for a look at the top Mashable comments of the week.
In this weekly roundup post,…

The $99 TouchPad Sale Overwhelms Ebay As Consumers Snatch Up The Discontinued Tablet

And like that they’re gone. $99 TouchPads hit ebay right on schedule and were gone within minutes. But that’s to be expected, really. It’s not often that a solid piece of hardware like the TouchPad is available for so cheap. And thanks to HP’s recent moves, the tablet’s operating system, webOS, will

Caption Contest: Blue shells can’t slow Miyamoto down

Monumentally important game designer and producer Shigeru Miyamoto made waves this week by saying he was / wasn’t retiring from duties at Nintendo. There’s been plenty of confusion regarding what his new duties at the company will entail, but this image makes it pretty clear. All hail Nintendo’s new

Inhabitat’s Week in Green: 5 megawatt solar roof, driverless electric cars and ten of the world’s craziest Christmas trees

Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week’s most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us — it’s the Week in Green.

Solar-powered buildings heated up this week as Inhabitat reported that Apple will crown its new Cupertino headquarters with a 5 megawatt solar roof, and we

Eight-jet Google execs fear $33m Hangar One refurb NASA snub

Google‘s top three execs have offered NASA $33m to refurbish NASA’s historic Hangar One, though parking provisos for an eight-strong fleet of private jets suggests both self-interest and altruism are in play. Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt made the offer via their H211 airplane