According to Jakarta Globe report, Indonesia’s Communication Minister Tifatul Sembiring after blocking access to almost one million pornographic Web Sites, is looking out to clean the country of anonymous Twitter accounts users that often use insults to attack other people. “We are now studying it. Because if they really violate [laws] and insult people, they could be reported as spam. Then their [accounts] could be closed by Twitter officials,” he said. Complaints can be filed against Twitter users that disturb the public or attack...
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According to Agency O Globo, the Attorney General of the Union (AGU) has filed a lawsuit in Federal Court of Goiás, a preliminary injunction to block suspension and Twitter profiles that warn drivers about the location and timing of traffic blitzes conducted in the state. The request was made by the attorney of the Union of Goiás (PU / GO), a unit of AGU in the state asking the micro-blogging site a daily fine of $500,000 in case of breach of the injunction. The Chief Prosecutor of the Union in Goiás, Celmo Ricardo Teixeira da Silva,...
With Apple recently accounted its highest quarterly earnings of record $46.3 billion in revenue, the company is still finding itself somewhere in reports of labor abuses among its suppliers – first NY Times reported Apple’s harsh working conditions at company’s component suppliers in China – and now, CNN published a video of journalist Stan Grant who recently...
With earlier protests against US SOPA and PIPA – in which we see thousands of websites – both small and large protested against the act – in the similar way protests are taking place but this time in Europe and it is against Anti-Counterfeiting Trademark Agreement (ACTA) – the protest is spreading like a fire – and even February 11 decided as a total turnout...
Nokia announced today that the Lumia 800 will be available in white, beginning later this month in most of the European countries including UK and Nokia’s home nation of Finland will be among the first to receive stock. “Since we began selling it late last year, the Nokia Lumia 800 has received rave reviews around the world,” said Ilari Nurmi, Vice President...
According to Sydney Morning Herald, Apple has moved again to protect the use of its “i” brand, this time in New Zealand where it is fighting a trademark application for a smartphone case with the name ‘driPhone’. Hayden Crowther, of Hamilton, New Zealand created the driPhone as a sturdy, waterproof case for smartphones of all varieties but Apple is opposing...
BTJunkie, a popular BitTorrent search engine, has voluntarily shut down after seven years in existence – the recent seizures of Megaupload and several hundred other broadcasting websites likely had a significant impact over the move to voluntarily shut down. It’s yet to be seen if BTJunkie will go completely inactive or whether they will follow in the footsteps...
According to C News, MegaFon customers that bought a 3G modem were asked to download as much as data they physically could between the three months period – November 1, 2011 to January 31, 2012 – rewarding the person a price of 150,000 ruble (around $5,000) holiday overseas courtesy of Russian travel agency Neva – resulting the winner of the contest managed...
According to San Francisco Chronicle, several hundred women around the world are upset with Facebook for removing their breast-feeding pictures from the social networking site – to voice against this the women will be protesting Monday by staging “nurse-ins” – in which they will be breadt feed their children’s outside the social media giant’s office worldwide...
Wikipedia is a free, collaborative, multilingual Internet encyclopaedia supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation – wait yes it is non-profit – but half of its users do not know it is. The site consists of 20 million articles (over 3.8 million in English alone) have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world. According to Mani Pande, Head...
