Tasha Sangha's blog

After several high-profile conflicts regarding Facebook's use of personal user information, the Facebook Union has been developed to protect our personal data and provide one "off-Facebook hub for discussion." Though composed of only nineteen people, the Union is optimistic that this concept could soon turn into a movement.

Richard Buchanan, a freelance and creative, explains that he wants to see each Facebook user given a value based on how much revenue Facebook - or any social networking website — generates from placing advertising next to his or her information.

For the first time ever, the Google Android has outsold Apple iPhones to gain 27 percent share of American smartphone sales. Apple currently holds 23 percent of the market.

While the Android is nearly two years old, many argue that it has only recently become a competitor with the development of Android 2.1. Thus, much of its success is accredited to the tremendous growth commonly seen in the beginning of a product cycle.

Democratic Senator Al Franken spoke at the Netroots Nation Conference in Las Vegas on July 24th and urged the audience to look at the implications of the looming merger between Comcast and NBC.

If no one stops the Comcast and NBC merger, Franken asked: “How long do you think it will take before four or five mega corporations affectively control the flow of the information in America not only on television but online?”

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission issued the annual Communications Monitoring Report today, presenting growth figures for Canada's telecommunications and broadcasting industries in 2009.

General trends indicated a continuous increase in mobile and broadband internet usage, while conventional television and radio stations saw a decline in revenue last year.

The deadline is only 14 months away, and the chair of the CRTC warned broadcasters at the Banff World Television Festival on Monday that they need to be proactive in making the switch from analog to digital television.

“The whole world ... has converted and we are behind,” Konrad von Finckenstein told a packed room. “It’s time we catch up.”

In early May of this year, York University held a conference entitled "Making Media Public: Global Crises, Local Opportunities." Academic, activists, media makers, and society groups were a few of those in attendance at the public conference.