Google Goes Evil, AT&T, Syntax Error, Passwords and Security, Swindle, Phones, Printers

Google Goes Evil

• Gmail users accuse Google of sending e-mails in their name
• Google leans on developers to use payment service
• Google, Please Stop Prefilling My Email Into Ad Widgets
• Why I left Google--"The Google I was passionate about was a technology company that empowered its employees to innovate. The Google I left was an advertising company with a single corporate-mandated focus." And it became all about social.
• Google exec: We won't break users' trust

AT&T

• AT&T's Dual-Sided Pipe is Bad for Developers--Should they be investigated for double-dipping?
• Guess who'd like to 'throttle' AT&T now?
• AT&T Clarifies Data Limitations on "Unlimited" Data Plans
• AT&T offers to settle quietly with iPhone user who won small-claims case over data slowdown--But they want to make sure to keep him quiet about it.
• How Filipino phreakers turned PBX systems into cash machines for terrorists--"A quartet of hackers based in the Philippines have allegedly bilked AT&T and possibly other telecommunications companies out of millions, which they channeled to their own bank accounts and to accounts associated with a terrorist organization. And apparently, AT&T helped them collect the money."

Syntax Error

• The BSA's "nauseating" anti-piracy tactics
• Sorry, you can't buy our time from shifty startup Allthis
• Americans more susceptible to online scams than believed, study finds
• For $2 a Star, a Retailer Gets 5-Star Reviews NYT
• Verisign hacked, data stolen

Passwords and Security

• Teenagers Sharing Passwords as Show of Affection NYT
• Parents' snooping teaches kids to share their passwords with each other
• Password Check NYT
• Electronic Security a Worry in an Age of Digital Espionage NYT
• Four year olds used to steal their parents' data
• Passphrases suck less than passwords, but they still suck
• SMBC: Password hacking

Swindle

• Not wasteful, but unethical: why we hate crippled products
• Dell’s misleading graphics card buying advice--Dell apologises for misleading graphics card advice
• Cnet Apologizes for Nmap Adware Bundling

Phones

• Violinist interrupted by Nokia ringtone, plays the ringtone
• Mahler marimba man: The iPhone has an alarm?
• Rider Jams Cell Phones on SEPTA Buses

Printers

• The Best, Most Disgruntled Ink Cartridge Description You'll Ever Read
• The laser unprinter
• College Humor: Your Printer is a Brat