A U.S. federal court decision Wednesday gave fresh support to a new technology that helps consumers avoid a basic irritant of television viewing — the commercial. Dish's Hopper service, which automatically removes ads before consumers view recorded shows, is the latest technology to worry broadcasters. These ...
Apple Inc.'s developer site has been unavailable for software engineers after a hacker tried to steal personal information, the company said Sunday. Apple took the website, used by programmers who write applications for iPhones, Macs and other products, offline on Thursday to fix the issue, ...
About 10 percent of the nation's voters said they made use of information that Upper House candidates posted on the Internet in deciding how to vote, according to exit polls. In post-voting comments, 86.1 percent said they didn't go online to help them with election ...
Trolls or media watchdogs?: Japan's foreign-born defenders
Have the foreign media got it in for Japan? Do they unduly focus on, and sensationalize, Fukushima radiation leaks, alleged racial intolerance and the self-aggrandizing policy pronouncements of the reborn Liberal Democratic Party?
Only 19% of young voters go online for election info: survey
Only around a fifth of the nation's younger voters are using the Internet to get information on political parties and their candidates, a survey said Sunday. The upcoming House of Councilors election is the first in which online campaigning has been permitted, but the results ...
Somali-American is caught up in U.S. counterpropaganda campaign
Two days after he became a U.S. citizen, Abdiwali Warsame embraced the First Amendment by creating a raucous website about his native Somalia. Packed with news and controversial opinions, it rapidly became a magnet for Somalis dispersed around the world, including tens of thousands ...
Due to an oversight, a mailing list set up by the Environment Ministry was publicly accessible, enabling anyone to read internal emails on international negotiations held in January.
Osaka tax official arrested for inciting another man to grope a commuter
A man who allegedly incited another man to grope a woman on a train is arrested in Wakayama Prefecture.
U.S. Web-monitoring devices in Iran, Sudan
American-made devices used for Internet monitoring have been detected on government and commercial computer networks in Iran and Sudan, in apparent violation of U.S. sanctions that ban the sale of goods, services or technology to the autocratic states, according to new research. Several of the ...
There is no going back to the pre-Internet era. So we must work to ensure that freedom of information is not significantly undermined by cyber censorship.
Beware the Internet and the danger of cyberattacks
Economics columnist Robert J. Samuelson has had it with the Internet. He says its astonishing capability to access information is not worth the dangers from cyberwar.
