Google Will Offer Free Wi-Fi at Starbucks

The tech giant recently announced its plans to roll out faster, free Wi-Fi connections to all Starbucks stores in the US over the next year and half with speeds up to 10x faster than now. Google agreed that the Internet has become as vital to our lives as other utilities, being used by people to plan their day, stay connected with family and friends, stay informed, and a whole slew of important activities that everyone sometimes takes for granted. This is why Google believes that a fast and reliable connection is a constant cause for concern.

Apparently, the tech giant is continually doing its best to ensure that people are online more frequently in order to increase its advertising revenue. Now Google has realized that the easiest way to do so is to directly offer consumers cheap and fast Internet connections.

The company announced that coffee shop plus Internet is a pairing that many of people have come to rely on. Wireless access to the Internet makes work time, downtime and travel time more enjoyable. Now Google is teaming up with Starbucks to deliver faster, free Wi-Fi connections to all 7,000 stores in the US. The company promised that when 

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Bradley Manning to Face 136 Years in Jail

Pfc. Bradley Manning, known for handing 700,000 secret documents to whistleblower website WikiLeaks, has recently been cleared of “aiding the enemy” charges, but still faces a maximum sentence of 136 years in military custody.

A few days ago Manning was convicted for 19 of the 21 charges he was charged, including 5 counts of espionage and 5 of theft. In court, he was declared “guilty” over and over again with the charges being listed. In the meantime, the guilty verdicts included 7 out of 8 counts brought under the Espionage Act. Manning was accused of disclosing Afghanistan and Iraq war logs, files on Guantanamo, and embassy cables, with the government claiming that he had reason to believe such data could be used to the injury of the United States or the advantage of any foreign nation. The Manning is also known for disclosing a “Collateral Murder” video, which showed American military forces killing journalists and unarmed civilians in Iraq.

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Australian Teenager Exposed Apple

The tech giant is trying to plug the source of a leak exposed by an Aussie teenager. A boy named Sonny Dickson seems to be causing Apple serious problems by leaking prototypes of the company’s products online long before they are officially revealed. However, Apple can’t find the way to silence the boy.

In addition, the teen has also been making money by selling off some of the kit he gets his paws on. For instance, Sonny published a snap of an iPhone 5 battery before the launch of the device, and both the battery and specifications listed on it later turned out to be real. Local media reported that the tech giant fails to stop him simply because the guy is neither an employee nor a worker from one of its suppliers’ plants.

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EFF Claimed War on Patent Trolls

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has recently issued a statement, saying that it was leading a group of entities and law schools to start a new online resource called Trolling Effects. The idea is to crowdsource information, including demand letters, in order to help people fight patent trolls.

According to EFF activist Adi Kamdar, patent trolls should no longer manage to hide under a cloak of legal darkness. The new service is expected to shine a light on entities which abuse the patent system to shake down innovators. The problem is that patent trolls use the threat of expensive and lengthy patent litigation in order to extort settlements from innovators of any size. However, most of these threats never evolve into lawsuits, so most of the threatening letters never show up in public dockets.

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No Google Glass behind the Wheel in Britain

Unsurprisingly, the UK Department of Transport revealed that it favors a ban on Google Glass behind the wheel. Its representative claimed that drivers need to give their full attention to the road, so they can’t behave in a way which may stop them from observing what is happening on the road.

The UK Department of Transport is aware of the impending rollout of Google Glass and is currently in discussion with the police forces to make sure that people don’t use it while driving. The authority views Google Glass as something from the category of “careless or distracted driving”.

In the meantime, lawmakers across the pond are pondering the same problem. Nevertheless, since the United States cares about personal freedoms, banning normally doesn’t go down well with the public, particularly in parts of the country where you are able to purchase a confederate flag at any petrol station.

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UN Accused Facebook of Helping Pirates

Facebook normally has no troubles with anti-piracy outfits, as it doesn’t allow streaming of copyrighted content like other networks. But now it is not about digital piracy. The United Nations wants social network to walk the plank for refusing to answer questions about Somali pirates. The UN believes that Long John Silver and his ilk have been coordinating their raids on maritime shipping through Facebook.

A UN commission on sanctions stated in its report to the UN Security Council that Somali pirates have been supported by a network of accomplices, which involves bankers, businessmen, politicians and aid workers. Investigations confirmed that all those facilitators 

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Cameron’s Adult Content Filter Officially Failed

David Cameron had to admit that his campaign against online porn proved ineffective. Media reports reveal that Cameron is getting much mockery over his plan to save kids from the perils of porn. However, he is still intended to press ahead with it anyway.

Cameron’s plan was build on the idea that Internet service providers had agreed to introduce family-friendly filters which automatically blocked porn unless clients chose to opt out. It was no surprise that the ISPs didn’t do so, with some of them lobbying the government to tell it to sling its hook.

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