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US Investigates Voting Machines' Venezuela Ties
 Tim Golden
The US federal government is investigating the takeover last year of a leading American manufacturer of electronic voting systems by a small software company that has been linked to the leftist government of President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela.
A New Campaign Tactic: Manipulating Google Data
 Tom Zeller Jr.
Fifty or so Republican candidates have been made targets in a sophisticated "Google bombing" campaign intended to game the search engine's ranking algorithms.
It's All About the Internet
 PVNN
After enjoying three years of success in the Banderas Bay area, the Puerto Vallarta based full-service video company, Video Diva Productions, is gaining recognition in the United States via the Internet.
Yahoo! Time Capsule Site Moved To New Mexico
 Reuters
Yahoo! will showcase select contributions from the Yahoo! Time Capsule on the canyon walls that cradle one of the world's oldest known communities at the ancient pueblo of Jemez in New Mexico.
Alaska Airlines Now Habla Espanol
 John Gillie
The Seattle-based carrier's business, while still heavily tilted toward flying Americans on vacation to Mexico's traditional beach resorts such as Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlan, Cabo San Lucas and Cancun, in the last two years has begun serving such Mexican business centers as Guadalajara and Mexico City.more »»»
Bush's Former Elections Chair: E-Voting Ripe for Fraud
 Bradblog
The BRAD BLOG has obtained an exclusive partial transcript from a recent, unaired interview by a major broadcast network with former U.S. Elections Assistance Commission chair Rev. DeForest Soaries.more »»»
Mexico Out to Develop Own Technology Firms
 Associated Press
The government is setting up an international network of Mexican professionals to combat a brain drain to the United States and create homegrown technology companies.more »»»
The Paranoids Are Right
 E.J. Dionne Jr.
Sometimes, paranoids are right. And sometimes even when paranoids are wrong, it's worth considering what they're worried about. I speak here of all who are worried sick that those new, fancy high-tech voting systems can be hacked, fiddled with and otherwise made to record votes that aren't cast, or fail to record votes that are.more »»»
Yahoo Cancels Mexican Time Capsule Ceremony
 AFP
Yahoo cancelled plans for a "time capsule" ceremony at pyramids in Mexico, citing concerns regarding possible damage to the ancient site. Yahoo continued collecting pictures, videos, songs, ideas, drawings or anything else they could digitize for a "first-ever electronic anthropology project" to document human life.more »»»
Google is Said to Set Sights on YouTube
 Andrew Ross Sorkin & Peter Edmonston
YouTube, the popular video-sharing Web site that has yet to celebrate its first anniversary or its first profit, is quickly becoming the must-have prize for media and technology giants.more »»»
Mexico Approves 'Triple-Play' Communications
 Cyntia Barrera Diaz
Mexico gave final approval this week for a “triple play” plan to let telephone companies enter the television market and for cable and other media firms sell phone services.more »»»
Verizon to Sell Latin American Ops
 Peter Svensson
Verizon Communications Inc. this week said it has agreed to sell its Caribbean and Latin American telecommunications operations, including a stake in the largest telephone company in Venezuela, to two Mexican companies for $3.7 billion.more »»»
The Militarization of MySpace
 Nick Turse
If you're between your early teens and your mid-twenties, you may already be making "friends" in the cozy cyber-confines of MySpace.com, the social networking website which bills itself as "an online community that lets you meet your friends' friends."more »»»
Mexican Border Security Goes High-Tech
 Paul Sisco
It's a new approach to the crackdown. With border security and illegal immigration a major concern in the United States, the U.S. government is investing in a high technology plan to help secure America's southern border.more »»»
Mexican Electoral Officials Post Tally Sheets from Presidential Race on Internet
 Associated Press
The Federal Electoral Institute on Tuesday posted 300 tally sheets from July's disputed presidential election on the Internet in an effort to win back public confidence.more »»»
Rocket Launch in New Mexico Ushers in Cheap Space Flight
 Tim Gaynor
A rocket packed with cargo is set to blast off into space from a desert launch range in New Mexico, ushering in what its backers say is a new era of cheap public access to the stars.more »»»
Web Dreams, Wedding Realities
 Barbara Ferry
Internet marriage brokers, the digital, globalized incarnation of the old mail-order bride business, have proliferated during the last decade with the growth of the Internet.more »»»
FCC Ignores America's Broadband Woes
 freepress.net
Contradicting the rosy picture painted by the Federal Communications Commission and Congress, Broadband Reality Check II exposes the truth behind America's digital decline: A failed broadband policy that has left Americans with higher prices, slower speeds and no meaningful competition for high-speed Internet service.more »»»
The Hollow Media Promise of Digital Technology
 Norman Solomon
This is the time of year when media campaigns for the latest digital products are apt to go into overdrive. For the latest computerized gizmos, that means an escalating media drive - revving up news coverage, PR hype and advertisements.more »»»
Gonzales Wants Law to Force Internet Companies to Save Customer Info
 Hope Yen
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Tuesday that Congress should require Internet service providers to preserve customer records, asserting that prosecutors need them to fight child pornography.more »»»
Boeing May Help Catch Illegal Immigrants
 Lara Jakes Jordan
Boeing Co. has won a big government contract to provide new high-tech ways to catch illegal immigrants trying to enter the U.S. along the Mexican border, a congressional aide said.more »»»
Princeton Scientists Create Vote-Stealing Program for Diebold AccuVote-TS
 t r u t h o u t
In a paper published on the Web last week, a group of Princeton computer scientists said they created demonstration vote-stealing software that can be installed within a minute on a common electronic voting machine. The software can fraudulently change vote counts without being detected.more »»»
Cuban Five Website in Mexico
 Prensa Latina
Mexico opened a website to support the international fight for the release of five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters unlawfully jailed in the US for eight years. The portal was developed by members of the Mexican Movement in Solidarity with Cuba.more »»»
AMD takes Internet to Mexican Students
 Austin Business Journal
The International Center of Austin is leading a local team to donate 80 of AMD's low-cost Internet devices to a university in Mexico. Advanced Micro Devices Inc. rolled out the personal Internet communicators in 2004, aiming at underserved markets around the world.more »»»
Mystery Fuels Huge Popularity of Web's Lonelygirl15
 Richard Rushfield & Claire Hoffman
Lonelygirl15 appears to be an innocent, home-schooled 16-year-old, pouring her heart out for her video camera in the privacy of her bedroom. But since May, her brief posts on the video-sharing site YouTube and the social networking hub MySpace have launched a Web mystery eagerly followed by her million-plus viewers.more »»»
Fight for the Internet Freedom Heats Up
 John Nichols
Congress is about to return to Washington this week after taking a long summer break and before taking a long fall break. During the brief period of governing that will be wedged into the month of September, a lot of damage could be done - particularly to "The First Amendment of the Internet": the principle known as "Net Neutrality."more »»»
Analysts: Cable Firms will Help Cut Rates
 Fernando Pedrero
Sometime in the first trimester of 2007, cable television companies will be allowed to begin offering telephone service in direct competition with Telmex - a development analysts and authorities say should significantly push down phone rates.more »»»
Learning to Love a Cable Guy
 Ken Belson
When workers from AT&T and Verizon visit homes to install their new television services, they come with blue hospital booties that they slip over their shoes before going inside. The sight of burly installers in dainty slip-ons might induce snickers. But the booties are just one of the many ways in which phone and cable companies are trying to reverse their reputations for shoddy service and win over customers.more »»»
Wiretapping in America: The Moment of Decision Is Near
 Bill Simpich
When the Bush administration admitted to wiretapping, the claim was that "it was wiretaps for surveillance between domestics and people overseas." Now, they've admitted it's the wiretapping and investigation of people within the Unted States, domestic calls to domestic calls.more »»»
Segway Launches 2 New Scooters
 Michael P. Regan
Riding on the new version of Segway Inc.'s self-balancing electric scooter is "very similar to skiing," according to the company's chief technology officer. That's because a new batch of technology in the second generation of the Segway allows users to steer the device simply by leaning in the direction they want to go.more »»»
Pull the Plug
 Aviel Rubin
While computers are very proficient at counting, displaying choices and producing records, we should not rely on computers alone to count votes in public elections. The people who program them make mistakes, and, safeguards aside, they are more vulnerable to manipulation than most people realize.more »»»
Agency Wants Banks to Boost Online Security
 Romina Román Pineda
The National Banking and Stocks Commission (CNBV), which regulates Mexico’s financial industries, has turned its sights on the online banking sector, which has been plagued by fraud in recent years.more »»»
Disposable Cell Phones Raise Red Flags
 Mobile Video Tapes
At about $20, they're easy to buy and hard to trace. Disposable cell phones have raised red flags with the federal authorities, because they're popular with criminals and terrorists.more »»»
Passports Go High-Tech
 Kirit Radia
The US State Department this week rolled out the next generation of U.S. passports. The new electronic passports (e-passports) contain a small computer chip and antenna in the corner of the back cover that the government says will not only speed up lines at ports of entry, but will also make the passports more secure and harder to counterfeit.more »»»
Banned Airport Items Auctioned on eBay
 AP
A man-sized artificial palm tree and a sausage grinder share space in a state government warehouse with piles of Swiss Army knives and chain saws. These are just a few of the things travellers have had to give up at airport security checkpoints.more »»»
The Battle for the Sex.com Domain Name
 Kieren Mccarthy
The tale of sex.com is about more than property and money. It is a modern retelling of an ancient tale - a Trojan war for the digital age, except with Helen, the most beautiful woman in the world, replaced by the world's most seductive Internet address.more »»»
Navini Powers Pre-WiMAX Launch in Mexico
 wlancentral.com
Navini Networks' pre-mobile WiMAX 802.16e wireless broadband solutions are enabling a commercial pre-WiMAX service launch in Mexico. The provider of portable wireless broadband network solutions secured the contract with Mexico's Ultranet2go.more »»»
Magnetic Gizmo Aims to Mellow Young Wine
 Michelle Locke
A new wine gadget promises to save pennies and palates by using magnets yes, magnets to give brash young wines some polish. Skeptics scoff, but the Bev Wizard, retailing at $30, is attracting attention in wine circles.more »»»
How the Web Was Won
 Leslie Walker
The Internet is transitioning to a new era, and so am I. Nearly eight years have passed since I started this column chronicling business on the Web. While dot-coms came and went, and the Internet passed through periods of boom, bust and rebirth, the trends I wrote about in 1998 are surprisingly alive and intact today.more »»»
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