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The crazy, chaotic, idealistic days of the Internet are ending. Once, the Prairies were open and shared by everyone. Then the farmers arrived and fenced them in. The same is happening to the Internet: Apple, Amazon and Facebook are putting up fences — and Google is increasingly being left outside.
~ Google is powerful now, but Amazon, Facebook, and Apple are taking over | Business | TIME.com -
Facebook ou Google soulèvent, quant à eux, d’autres problèmes. Ils centralisent plus de données qu’aucun état dictatorial n’oserait jamais imaginer. Facebook surveille notre navigation internet, fait de la reconnaissance de visages sur nos images et bien sûr, garde toutes nos données. Cela pose de grands problèmes aux États-Unis et de plus grands encore pour ceux qui ne résident pas au États-Unis : vers quelle juridiction allez-vous vous tourner en France si Facebook abuse de vos données aux États-Unis ? Et puis, il y a aussi les caméras de surveillance et les téléphones portables, qui peuvent maintenant se transformer en dispositif d’écoute ou transmettre des coordonnées GPS. Le téléphone portable, c’est le rêve de Staline.
~ Richard Stallman : « Je ne veux pas suivre les ordres des riches » - Regards.fr -
Tant qu’on ne se rendra pas compte qu’Apple est comme Monsanto, que Google est à l’image de Novarti, que l’apologie d’une firme est la pratique narrative la plus toxique qui existe, qu’il s’agisse de Google, de Fiat, de Facebook, de Disney ou de Nestlé… tant qu’on ne se rendra pas compte de cela, nous resterons pris dans la Toile comme dans un filet.
~ Fétichisme de la marchandise digitale et exploitation cachée : les cas Amazon et Apple - Article11 -
Unless you’re an early-adopter masochist with money to burn, you probably shouldn’t buy a Chromebook.
~ Chromebook From Samsung Has Its Head in the Cloud - NYTimes.com -
It is true that some of the dispatches confirmed what we already knew: that there was deep animosity between the Arab Gulf states and their Iranian neighbour, for instance, or that the Russian prime minister, Vladimir Putin, sat astride a virtual mafia state. Some stories broke new ground – the CIA instructions to spy on the UN being one example. China’s willingness to see the Korean peninsula reunited under a government in Seoul changed the way we saw an old conflict; and the revelation that a senior Chinese official had co-ordinated the assault on Google took that story into new territory. Yemen’s private willingness to admit that US bombs were their bombs, and the extent to which the US had lost control of policy in Pakistan, also opened eyes.
~ WikiLeaks: The man who kicked the hornet’s nest | Editorial | Comment is free | The Guardian -
In the period from January 2010 to June 2010, the United States government asked Google about user info on 4287 occasions, and asked it to remove content on 128 occasions. Other countries that have put in a lot of such requests (over 1000) during this time frame are Brazil, France, India and the United Kingdom. (via Google Fights Censorship with Transparency Report)
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~ Sayonara, iPhone: Why I’m Switching to Android - Techtonic Shifts Blog - Newsweek.comAs sick as I am of my iPhone’s dropped calls, I’m even more sick of Apple treating us all like a bunch of idiots, stonewalling and bullying and feeding us ridiculous explanations for the shortcomings of its products—expecting us to believe, basically, that its flaws are not flaws, but strengths.
Steve Jobs has created his own precious little walled garden. He’s looking more and more like Howard Hughes, holed up in his penthouse, making sure he doesn’t come in contact with any germs.
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These speed tests were filmed at actual web page rendering times.
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Et si c’était Google qui lançait Skynet, l’intelligence artificielle qui se retourne contre son créateur dans la série de films Terminator ? Voici comment le projet serait présenté.
