Private Sector Archive

  • Fandango comes to Android, Babylon makes its way to BlackBerry

    Fandango comes to Android, Babylon makes its way to BlackBerry

    We're rolling two separate announcements into one post, if you don't mind. Fandango this morning announced the official release of its free app for the Android platform, enabling owners of Google's Nexus One and other devices that run Android to check out movies showtimes and more on the go. The news comes a couple of weeks after the company put out a beta release of the Android app. Translation and dictionary software maker Babylon, on the other hand, has today released its application for BlackBerry.

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  • Proposed law would give White House ‘cybersecurity emergency’ powers over the Internet

    Proposed law would give White House ‘cybersecurity emergency’ powers over the Internet

    Internet King and America's news editor Matt Drudge is freaking out right now, complete with his trademark scare quotes. (I swear, you could probably write a thesis about how Drudge influences the American media.) There's a bill that's currently floating around the U.S. Senate that would, in times of emergency, put the Internet, in a sense, in control of the White House. And then the government will make you eat fruits and vegetables! Tyranny!

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