Tag: PIRATEPARTY

One would think that the first place the Pirate Party would go to avoid the authorities would be international waters, but the copyright-flouting movement is thinking of ditching the sea for the clouds. According to Forbes's Andy Greenberg, the Pirate Party has announced its intention to launch a server via weather balloon in order to escape any legislation threatening its operation on the Earth's ...

Highlights from this morning's big tech headlines... The Peek 9 device drops the line's unitasking roots to add Facebook, Twitter, weather and Exhange e-mail support. [From: Engadget] TechCrunch speculated that Facebook is building its own phone, lighting up the Web this weekend with rumors and a quick denial from Facebook. [From: Reuters and TechCrunch] Sloppy typists can continue ...

For over a year, France has been considering plans to ban illegal downloaders from the Web. In the U.S., the FCC may actually begin regulating the Web by forcing providers to charge various fees. But neither of those disturbing developments compare at all to the rumors gathering momentum in England. Various outlets are reporting that the U.K. Secretary of State Peter Mandelson, referred to ...