By Yvette Wohn
The Wii game console is a perfect example of what the book describes as tethered technology. In designing the architecture of the Wii, Nintendo did not want users to use the Wii for purposes other than playing Wii games. It took a step even further, creating different regional and country codes and segmenting [...]

Herdict Web offers two ways to report inaccessible web sites.  The first is, of course, the Firefox/IE add-on.  Of course, you may not want to download an add-on…maybe you’re using a public computer, or maybe you’re just concerned about the software.  Whatever the reason, we have a solution: The Herdict Reporter!
The Herdict Reporter is a [...]

Addressing the Herd
Herdict Web is a project with global appeal and global reach.  Ideally, our hope is for Herdict to be available to folks all over the world, with translation into many languages and dialects.
Of course, we can’t reach everyone…not yet, anyway!  Thus, the Herdict team (which includes the OpenNet Initiative team) has thought long [...]

Readers of FOI may recall the introduction’s focus on the iPhone as the book’s first example of a tethered appliance.  The release of Android was viewed with some excitement as a challenge to Apple, in more ways than one.
Google, and later the Open Handset Alliance, have touted Android as an open source alternative to the [...]