Egypt Independent reports that the government is taking a step further to completely block internet pornography in the country. According to Minister of Telecommunications and Information Technology Mohamed Salem, the National Telecommunications Regulation Authority will form a committee is working on to form the technical methods in order to control adult websites, which he estimated to be about millions in numbers. Salem in a briefing on the sidelines of a conference for people with special needs said: “Parliament will be represented...
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The report last week that states some private and public agencies around the country are asking job seekers for their social media credentials. US senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) have both requested that Attorney General Eric Holder investigate claims that some employers have started asking job applicants for their Facebook login details. The...
French President Sarkozy announced that France from now onwards would seek to punish frequent visitors of extremist websites in order to fight its homegrown terrorists, reports Reuters. The announcement was made following the death of a 23-year-old gunman Mohamed Merah who said al Qaeda inspired him to kill seven French people “From now on, any person who habitually...
A law passed this week in Israel according to which the country is not only banning underweight models from appearing in local advertising but also asking the publication to disclose when models have been digitally edited to appear thinner than they actually are. There is no proper indication that when this law will actually come into effect or how it will be enforced....
Have you ever wondered how it would be feel like to tweet, send mails or chat from 30,000 feet, seems confusing to you that how it would be possible. Well, here is what the news rounding up a deal with an in-flight WiFi provider Gogo will see US Airways expand the service to 90 percent of its domestic fleet. The rollout is expected to begin this summer and will be added to the airline’s Airbus A319, A320, and Embraer 190 planes, as well as Embraer 170 and 175 crafts operating under US Airways Express. All the Airbus planes will be equipped...
UK Chancellor George Osborne named 10 cities in the 2012 budget to benefit from a £100 million investment to deliver “ultrafast broadband coverage” to 1.7 million households and 200,000 businesses by 2015. There is also a provision included for £50 million to fund 10 smaller “super-connected” cities. The new budget also calls for extending...
Remember Megaupload, the site which was knocked down by the feds in January, but its users are reportedly facing fake settlement requests. The latest to add the MPAA has petitioned Carpathia, which is hosting around 25 petabytes of files of Megaupload in an urge of using the user data and other information as part of lawsuit against the company. “The Studios...
China which we known for its huge population but do we also know that it caters one of the world’s largest market for smartphones. According to new data from Flurry, it has been revealed that some 109 million users already and some 122 million customers are in the span to buy new smartphones showing an ability to adopt Android and iOS devices at the fastest rate...
With an urge to increase the usage of free and open source software, the Icelandic government has recently launched a one year project that will build a foundation using free and open source software in its institutions. “The goal of the project is not to migrate public institutions to free and open source software in one single year but to lay a solid foundation...
With London Olympics just round the corner, it is expected that the gaming event may cause a “massive hit” on London’s internet infrastructure. The major concern that is rounding up with the authorities, data and mobile vendors and lots other people who are related to it that how London’s internet and mobile phone networks will hold up the huge streaming...
