Twitter blocks its first account and hospitals get more malware
Friday, October 19, 2012 - 04:33 NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images Twitter flipped a switch this week and bam: Users in Germany could no longer see the tweets of a banned neo-Nazi group. Twitter flipped a switch this week and bam: users in Germany could no longer see the tweets of a banned neo-Nazi group. German cops wrote Twitter trying to get the account shut off completely ; Instead the company confined the blackout to Germany. How did they do that? The microblogging social network had already engineered its own system to block content country by country. Emma Llanso at the Center for Democracy and Technology sees Twitter's response as limited and appropriate. "If Twitter or other companies start responding to less formal requests from governments that doesn't go through a full court or administrative process," says Llanso, "and is just the government saying 'we don't really like this, can you make sure this is inaccessible in our country,' that would raise a concern." The head of the ...
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Newsweek magazine calls it quits
Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 16:12 Nathan Harrison / Creative Commons Newsweek magazines. Today it was announced that soon to be 80-year-old Newsweek magazine will cease its print edition by year's end. "We are announcing this morning an important development at Newsweek and The Daily Beast. Newsweek will transition to an all-digital format in early 2013. As part of this transition, the last print edition in the United States will be our Dec. 31 issue," wrote Newsweek and Daily Beast editor-in-chief Tina Brown in her online announcement . "It is important that we underscore what this digital transition means and, as importantly, what it does not," Brown continued. "We are transitioning Newsweek, not saying goodbye to it. We remain committed to Newsweek and to the journalism that it represents. This decision is not about the quality of the brand or the journalism -- that is as powerful as ever. It is about the challenging economics of print publishing and distribution." The news shocked ...
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Ohio governor considers privatizing state turnpike
Monday, October 15, 2012 - 12:24 jimmywayne / Creative Commons Speculation continues about Gov. John Kasich's proposal to sell or lease the Ohio Turnpike to investors. The governor of Ohio, John Kasich, has said he wants to privatize the Ohio Turnpike, a 241-mile road that stretches across the Buckeye State. The governor claims the state stands to make more than a billion dollars on a deal. Joshua Schank, the president and CEO of a think tank called the Eno Center for Transportation, says it gets a lot of traffic. “Companies have made location decisions on that basis,” Schank says. “Freight has made logistics decisions on the basis of the Ohio Turnpike existing.” If the Turnpike does go private, drivers would still use it, which is why this kind of deal is so attractive to investors. But it doesn’t mean those drivers wouldn’t be upset. “I think it’s safe to say that many residents in northern Ohio are skeptical, because they fear higher tolls and potentially more potholes,” ...
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How parents should handle their child's student loans
Friday, October 12, 2012 - 14:03 iStockPhoto When you're a parent helping your kids pursue their dreams and paying for their college education, what do you do when your debt suddenly skyrockets? When you're a parent helping your kids pay off their student loans, what can you do to alleviate the debt you accrue? That's a problem facing Catherine, 54. She encouraged her daughter to pursue her dream of becoming a fashion designer. Catherine helped pay for her daughter's tuition at Savannah College of Art and Design by taking out Parent PLUS Loans -- a decision she now regrets. Nine years later, she pays $900 a month on the loans and owes $130,000. She still hasn't touched the principal even though her daughter graduated five years ago. The interest rate on her loan is 6.5 percent. Catherine says her daughter has about $20,000 in student loans of her own and works as a denim designer in New York City. She worries that she won't finish off paying the loans until she's 75 and will end up paying ...
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Twitter CEO Dick Costolo on Jack Dorsey, ad revenue, going public
Friday, October 12, 2012 - 03:00 Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Twitter CEO Dick Costolo. Corner Office Interview: Biz Stone and Evan Williams Twitter unveils advertising platform Twitter and your privacy Twitter may block tweets in certain countries Listen: Twitter solves mobile ad riddle Twitter CEO Dick Costolo rarely gives interviews. But just a week after the Silicon Valley executive made headlines in The New York Times for alleging that Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s role in the company was diminished, Marketplace Morning Report host Jeremy Hobson got more than 140 characters worth of answers from Costolo in a one-on-one interview. He answers questions about Dorsey’s current involvement with the company, Twitter's position on censorship, the company's advertising business, and he responds to rumors about Twitters plans to go public. Jeremy Hobson: It was created in 2006, it is the home of 140 character tweets and it now has hundreds of millions of users. I am talking, of course, about ...
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