Kuripotxt - Free International Text Message, Free SMS Worldwide
The service is being offered by a company called Adobe Labs, which has this service at an experimental stage and does not mention how long it will therefore have to use it while it lasts. The service is called SMS sent KURIPOTXT, which does not havea...

What Does a World With 1 Billion Facebook Users Look Like?
Facebook started the year with just under 150 million active users worldwide, crossed 300 million in September, and we estimate it’s on track to end the year with just over 375 million. It’s hard to comprehend that kind of growth, but to put it in...

UK to spy on every phone call, email and web search
All telecoms companies and internet service providers will be required by law to keep a record of every customer’s personal communications, showing who they have contacted, when and where, as well as the websites they have visited.Despite widespread...

Whistleblowers: We're at Peak Oil
"Drill, baby! Drill!" doesn't sound so good now, does it?

Daily Mail (UK): Army of ‘citizen snoopers’ recruited by council to spy on neighbours
The Daily Mail has a story that reminds me of Operation Terrorism Information and Prevention System, the TIPS program proposed by US Attorney General John Ashcroft in 2002 (read more about TIPS after the jump). The Daily Mail reports:A council is...