AT&T won’t stop Black Hat demo of cell phone eavesdropping | Security Central – InfoWorld.

Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange talks about the leaking of Afghanistan documents to his site. Wikileaks (http://www.wikileaks.com) is an interesting model. It’s content is routed thru ISP’s in country with a high level of privacy protection and the path is said to be roundabout to prevent tracking leakers. Assange himself keeps mobile as he feels that he is personally tracked by intel agencies.

In this panel excerpt from Copyright and Technology 2010, panelists discuss how patterns are beginning to emerge from the chaos of multiple video formats playing on multiple video systems. There is still no standard but the dust may be beginning to settle.

Panel:

Moderator, David Leibowitz Managing Partner, CH Potomac

Mitch Singer CTO, Sony Pictures Entertainment and President, Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem

Dave Habiger CEO, Sonic Solutions

Florian Pestoni Principal Product Manger Adobe Systems

Sheau Ng VP Technology R&D, NBC Universal

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The Bible is the second top selling book for iPads, just behind Dr. Seuss’ Green Eggs and Ham. This is an indication that iPad ownership is not limited to urban hipsters.

Growing Bible App Sales Hint at Shifting iPad Demographics – Science and Tech – The Atlantic.

For all of you flying the friendly skies this summer. Here’s an interesting take on boarding passes.

Redesigning the Boarding Pass – Journal – Boarding Pass / Fail.

A new study by USC’s Annenberg Center for Communication and Journalism finds that O% of Twitter users would pay for the service. Pretty remarkable ramifications for social media paywalls, especially since 49% of those polled said that they have used microblogging services like Twitter. The study also finds that 50% of respondents never click on Internet advertising and that 70% find it annoying.  Who’s going to pay the piper.

Coca-Cola social media stunt backfires on Facebook in UK. Posts reference to a porn film on an underage girl’s “wall.”

Coca-Cola accused of using porn to target children on Facebook – Telegraph.

Apple leads the software pack in software security flaws for the first half of 2010, according to a study conducted by Secunia, a software security company. The study does not indicate the severity of the flaws and points out that the problem is not in the operating system, OSX, but in related software like Safari, QuickTime, iTunes. Others have been introduced by third party vendors like Mozilla. Microsoft is in third place.

Warren Berger, author of “Glimmer,” speaks about what distinguishes innovation and design from invention. Invention is essentially “coming up with new stuff.” Innovation and design involve figuring how best to incorporate and products and processes into the lives of users.

This month, Gotham Media launched its GreenTECH series with a panel on the business of GreenTECH. Among the topics discussed by a panel of innovators and investors was the importance of creating a business plan (and a business) not dependent on government subsidies. The business has to stand on its own.

Moderator

Richard Nachmias Audit Partner, Technology Sports Media Practice, Eisner LLP

Panelists

Ron Gonen Founder and Chairman, RecycleBank

Howard Morgan Partner, First Round Capital

Micah Kotch Director of Operations NYC Acre

Nilda Mesa Assistant VP, Environmental Stewardship, Adjunct Professor Columbia University

Pat Sapinsley Principal, Good Earth, Inc.

Uri Zucker Manager, GreenDesk

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