Free Talk Live

Yan Huang speculates about the future of the internet. Google walks forward in full stride towards total web domination.

On a recent episode of Free Talk Live, Ian Freeman stated that he agreed with a caller that gas prices were too low. In a truly free market, gas wouldn't need to be used currently. Think to yourself, has internal combustion technology kept pace with all other fields of technology.

If 43 Apple iPads equal one Apple Lisa adjusted for inflation, the answer is clearly no.

Fans at concerts and sports games may soon be stopped from using their iPhones to film the action —as a result of new technology being considered by Apple, The Times of London reported Thursday.

Sen. John Rockefeller and others in Congress wonder whether the company has more than technological innovations to hide. When Apple didn’t participate in an April hearing on children’s online privacy, the West Virginia Democrat who chairs the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, gave voice to his suspicions. “When people don’t show up when we ask them to ... all it does is increases our interest in what they’re doing and why they didn’t show up,” Rockefeller said of Apple and Google, which both declined to testify.

Apple recently registered a patent for a device that would prevent an iPhone's camera from working upon transmission of an infrared beam. Ostensibly this is to prevent unlicensed recordings of live concerts and other events, but it's easy to guess at an even worse application: Police using this technology to prevent "illegal" photography of their activities. The moral is clear: If you want to be able to use your own camera, wherever you want, don't buy an iPhone!

FTC scolds Apple, Google and developers over (lack of) kids' privacy

Parents still aren't given the guidance they need to determine whether or not kids' apps are safe, the Federal Trade Commission said Monday.

Google and the Google-owned YouTube received more than 10,000 requests for user data from government agencies in the six months ending Dec. 31, 2009, according to newly released data.

"Like other technology and communications companies, we regularly receive requests from government agencies around the world to remove content from our services, or provide information about users of our services and products," Google says on a new site that sheds more light onto government demands for user information and requests to take offensive material off the Web.

Now that Apple has announced that an outside organization, the Fair Labor Association, will audit the working conditions at most of the plants that build Apple products, will the growing protests over the exploitative practices at those plants start to die down?

Yan Huang discusses: Research in Motion, RIM, BlackBerry is now making it mega easy to surf the Internet on your phone. They have implemented the WebKit core that Safari and many other web browsers are based upon. It will now support JavaScript, jQuery, HTML5 and everything that the new web 3.0 is throwing at it.