Google out socialed Facebook with Hangout - it allows simultaneous video chat with multiple people and allows the group to watch a YouTube video and will probably soon allow sharing of stills and allow collaborative drawing or document editing, too.
Facebook's repost here is a feature that Google integrated into its chat product long ago. Maybe this explains Mark's obvious chagrin in his Google+ profile picture.

I'd like to think my VoIP provider doesn't have the latitude to publish my and my receiver's location in realtime, even anonymously.
Certainly the content of the calls is still private, but maybe a lot of chatter between let's say Redmond, WA and Espoo, Finland could have suggested the recent deal placing Windows Phone 7 on Nokia handsets.
Better read my terms of service...

More like Apple has implimented another annoying, eventually to be circumvented, impediment to downgrading.

So in your hypothetical examples is Apple also forcing you to upgrade or disabling prior versions of the software?

Except that in this case, any non-party member who participated in this, let's say, survey hasn't had their vote counted for solvency in their lifetime.
In the case of China, unless the technology to count these votes was proven anonymous, I'd bet this was intended to root out potential dissidents rather than to give power to the people.
Besides, look at the results of the actual vote versus the surveyed votes to get a sense of how important people's opinions are.

Space elevator

They should also include puns in their database if their intention is to create an archive of language in order to study how people understand the world around them.
Remember, dead languages need to be encrypted.

How did they get the message out?

Bird bath

How sad will it be when Milo bluescreens?

If the Pentagon couldn't prevent the leak of the documents, what makes them think they can track down Assange.

...then perhaps he should stop using words like paleolithic.
I think that Twitter or Twitter users have the linguistic right to choose the word that means to use the service. Considering the existing standard grammatical relationship between the words, any English speaker reading about Twitter as a company name would be able to deduce the in context definition of the word tweet.
Further, it becomes cumbersome to use the editor's suggested alternatives throughout an article heavily covering Twitter.

I really don't care.

Get a pet squid. Problem solved.