Web content filtering company Netsweeper has supplied its products to Pakistan, even as some top IT companies have refused to supply gear for a controversial filtering project, a Canadian research group has disclosed. The new report ...
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Millions of mobile phone users across the European Union (EU) are set to benefit from fast-tracked reforms of telecoms regulation, which include an end to roaming charges. The 27 European Commissioners voted on Tuesday in Brussels to end ...
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Oil futures accelerated a bullish climb shortly ahead of the 2:30 p.m. EDT (1830 GMT) NYMEX market settle to close Thursday sharply higher amid rising equities and a weaker dollar. ICE July Brent expired up 76 cents at $104.25/b, after ...
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The New York State Assembly on Wednesday approved a measure that allows the New York City Board of Elections to replace state-of-the art optical scanning voting machines around the city with decades-old mechanical-lever machines for the ...
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With an eye on next year's European elections, Digital Agenda Commissioner Neelie Kroes on Thursday called on the European Parliament to support her longstanding plans to end roaming charges and guarantee net neutrality. Though contrary ...
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The U.S. government has lifted sanctions on the export of a variety of consumer communications devices, software and services including mobile phones to Iran ahead of elections in that country. The U.S. Department of the Treasury, in ...
Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde is planning to run for the European Parliament in 2014. The Pirate Bay co-founder wants to run as a candidate for the Finnish Pirate Party, he said in a blog post on Tuesday announcing his candidacy to ...
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Bangladesh has resumed piped natural gas connections to households from Wednesday -- after nearly three years -- amid increasing illegal connections and repeated pleas from affected stakeholders, including the real estate industry, Energy ...
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The number of government requests that Google has received to remove certain types of content, often politically charged, reached its highest level ever during the second half of 2012, the company reported Thursday. For the period between ...
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GOOGLE has released data showing that requests by governments to censor the internet giant's content have hit new heights, with Brazil and the United States leading the way. Google received 2285 government requests to remove content from ...
High unemployment and the continued slowdown in economic growth in the Southern European crisis countries in particular is still hampering economic development in the European Union (EU). While the countries moving towards recovery are ...
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Cement manufacturers in India are hopeful that the government will take the promised action to boost the country's industrial climate, according to a recent report. Cement demand was slightly subdued in the last financial year, forcing ...
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Following recent democratic elections in Burma, which have transformed the country into a democracy from an authoritarian State, UK's Sheffield Chamber of Commerce has joined an international pact aimed at reviving the Burmese textile ...
Recent fiscal changes in Venezuela could help state oil company PDVSA significantly cut its $16.4 billion debt to service providers this year, according to some economists and analysts. The changes, mainly to Venezuela's complicated ...
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The Kenyan government has said that it has no intention of censoring what citizens do online or of closing access to social media networks in the country, despite facing challenges of identifying and tracking down people behind online hate ...